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Well, throughout this blog I have written about how to choose the right network marketing company.  I have received several emails from readers asking me what I choose for a network marketing company.  So, I decided to write this post and do some self promotion J  Why not, I thought, it is my blog J

So here I go.

The company I chose about 8 months ago to be my permanent home in the Network Marketing Business is Max International.  First a little about my background.  I started online in the Internet marketing affiliate marking business about 3 – 4 years ago and have been very successful.  I was able to create a fulltime income and enjoyed working from my home office.  During this time, I had looked at an actually joined a couple Network Marketing Companies, not finding what I was truly looking for, basically because I was not following my own rules of Selecting the Right Network Marketing Company .

When I was first exposed to Max International I was already in a Network Marketing Company, but was not quite happy, so I decided to take a look.  And, I decided to use the principles I have taught to make my decision.

First step was to check the Company and its Owners.  I found 2 of the owners to be Steven K Scott and Guthy Renker . Well I was very impressed.  Two billionaires getting together to start a Network Marketing Company?  Something was up here.  So I investigated some more.

Watch Steven K. Scotts Vision Video

The only product this company had to odder was a product developed by a Dr. Robert Keller, called MaxGXL.  A one product company I thought?  I’m not sure about this.  But I did my research and what I found out was very interesting.  Stephen K. Scott and Guthy Renker and their other 2 partners, did not decide one morning to Open A Network Marketing Company and find a product to sell.  They found this incredible product, and the marketing genius’s they are, decided on network marketing as the avenue to market it, and developed Max International around this product. 

This was not just another health product, it was a category creator, with strong patents and no competition in the market places what so ever.  The company plans were to introduce other patented, unique category creating products into the company, and they have done just that.

Watch Dr. Robert Keller talk about Max GXL

Then I took a look at what has to be the most incredible Compensation Plan in the industry, put together by some of Network Marketing’s best masterminds.  Well that was enough for me, so I jumped right in.

Finally a business that I could lead with the incredible product or the company and its owners, and virtually every one I talk to is impressed.  This company fits absolutely all the critical elements of choosing the right network marketing company that I have taught in the past.

So whets happening now with my business and Max International?  This company and my business are growing like crazy.  We on the heels of a global expansion, new products, and I have never before had so much success in any business.  The owner’s vision or reaching 1 billion in sales in the fourth year of business (2 years from now) is becoming a reality which will make Max International the fastest company to reach that goal.  That is incredible and I am so excited to be a part of it.

The newest product just launched in MaxWLX, Weight Loss Accelerator.  Again, a breakthrough patented, product never before seen in the market place that actually does what it says with the clinical studies to back it. 

Watch the MaxWXL video.

We have a great duplicatible system set up for our members to receive the training and support they need to be successful in this business. 

Some of the great Network Marketing leaders today and joining forces with Max and we all get to benefit from their knowledge.  Some of these include, Ty Tribble, Bo Short and Mike Glaspie to name a few.

I am going to leave you with the following, the Max International Credo.  If any of you are interested in more information about the incredible opportunity or joining my team, give me a call at 206-973-0206 or send me an email .

Rod Larrivee

 

MAX INTERNATIONAL CREDO

1.  At Max, we genuinely care about helping people. We want to build an extraordinary company that makes a positive difference in the lives of people throughout the world.

2.  We believe that people can improve the course of their lives by adopting and living by truth; therefore we feel a responsibility to search for, live by, and teach correct principles.

3.  We believe that our products improve people’s quality of life. We are dedicated to bringing products to market that have science-based research, high manufacturing standards, and case studies that confirm that the products work.

4.  We believe in the principles of free enterprise, and that people should be paid well for their efforts.

5.  We believe that business relationships should benefit all the parties involved.

6.  We believe in being honest and in telling the truth.

7. We believe in having fun and in living life to the Max!

 

written by rodl13

I love the “Dummies” collection of books, and have read several of them myself. Advanced Computing for Dummies, The Internet for Dummies, eBay Power for Dummies, so I decided to write my own article on the 12 Do or Die Tips for Network Marketing Dummies when selecting a Network Marketing Company.

• 1) A Solid Background. The company you are looking into should have at least a 5 year history and this must be a positive history. If the company is newer, then the owners must have this positive history.
• 2) Great Leadership. If you have read Jim Collin’s book, Good to Great, you will understand this. You need to check out what the company owners have done in the past. Does your company have any high profile people endorsing their products? The owners of the company you are looking at, must already be “Great”
• 3) Re-usable Products. This really is a no-brainer, but very often overlooked. Consumable products are what are going to create your life long residual income. Without this aspect of the business, in my opinion, failure in imminent!
• 4) In Demand and Industry Growth Products. Is the company products in demand, and is the industry growing. A great example of this is the Health and Wellness industry, soon said by many to be the next trillion dollar industry following only automobiles and computers. This is a great place to start looking.
• 5) Solid Marketing Techniques. Does the company you are looking at have solid marketing techniques? Is their compensation plan fair and truly residual? You need to spend some time here. There are several models of how companies pay their associates and how they teach to recruit new associates.
• 6) Do Your Research. Oh, so important. In any business you need to take calculated risks, but you need to do your research. Look for dirt on the company and its owners, and if you do find some, check the validity of the sources claiming the dirt. You will find many failures out there claiming a company is a scam, where the real truth is, is that that person is a scam – meaning, they joined a Network Marketing Company, did not work, made no money then claimed it was a scam
• 7) How are the Products Delivered? Do you need to stock you garage full of products? Stay away from any company that makes you do this. The best company is one that ships direct to the distributor and direct to the customer, sending the distributor a commission check.
• Great Training. Is the company you are looking at going to offer you great training? Are their distributor support networks set up to train you?
• 9) Time. How many hours a week are you going to need to build your business? Do you have the time available, or are you willing to make it available?
• 10) Don’t Quit Your Job Just Yet! Remember, don’t do mistake of many Network Marketers by quitting your job too early. Find a Network Marketing Company that will not take all your time, so you can keep your current job and income source until a time when your new business income surpasses your job income.
• 11) Most Important. Learn how to dream and how to set goals. Read the book, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (Get your free copy here) You will find that 90% of this Network Marketing Business is mental. Everything starts with an idea. Conceive it, believe it, and achieve it.
• 12) Don’t Quit – Just don’t quit, and don’t expect success overnight. Many people have worked in their careers for 20 years, some went to school for 4 – 8 years, just to be in the position they are in today. Yet, still, in Network Marketing, so many people give up after 60 days, saying that this business does not work. The only failures in Network Marketing are those that quit.

Well, there is folks, my 12 Do or Die Tips for Internet Marketing Dummies J

Hope you enjoyed.

Rod Larrivee

written by rodl13

Here are Important tips when doing article marketing and Blogging for to be rated in the organic side of the search engines.

Key word research is the most important thing in article writing. Use the two free keyword tool provided under tools in this blog.

First get an idea for a key word. If you are targeting Business opportunity seekers then find a few words that people may type in when looking for a business opportunity.

You do not want it to be just business opportunity because if your type this into Google you will see the number of results for this word is in the millions.

You want to come up with words that the results are 10,000 or less.

When you have a few words with this rating plug them into the Google keyword tool and make sure under the search category that there is some green in the bar. It does not have to be much, just has to be searched.

Now you have your keywords your ready to write your article.

Type your keyword into Google search and look for some articles written on this topic if you need help.

Your Key word or phrase should be in your title, but it should not just be the title. Add some power words to it if you can. You can get free power words by typing power words into Google .

Start Writing the Body

For article marketing your article should be no less than 400 words and for Blogging no less than 200 words.

You want to have your exact keyword phrase that is in your title in your article at least 3 times. This goes for both types of articles.

The first should appear in the first paragraph,- but should not start with it.

The second should be in the middle.

The third is in the last.

You can use other similar words or phrases sprinkled in through out the article.

You want your paragraphs to only be 2 or 3 sentences, this is best to get the reader to stay and read your whole article with a line space in between each paragraph.

All these keyword will then become your tags for Blogging and keywords for article marketing.

If you wrote an article now you want to submit to article directories.

You can do this a few different ways. You can do it manually, you can set buy a directory submitter or you can have a company submit for you.

I would suggest just submitting manually to the10 best article directories with a high page rank.

You have to go into each of the article directories you chose and set up an account. Use the same user name and password; this will make it easier for you.

Here is one to get you started, Ezine Articles http://www.ezinearticles.com

You can have a submitter service do it for you and they send it out to many directories in your category.

The best service for a beginner is Isnare. You can purchase to send your article out in small quantities and for somewhere at a cost of 2-3 dollars an article.

But when using a service you have to follow their guidelines and with Isnare an article has to be at least 500 words.

You can also use your own article submitter.  Check the Recourses Section Below for great ideas:

Home Business Niche Article Club
30 fresh home based business articles a monthe for your blog or article writing efferts

ISnare Article Distribution
The best on the Net for Automatic Article Submission

Article Submitter Plus 
The Best Software for Self Article Distribution
© 2008, Rod Larrivee

 

written by rodl13

Are you ready to start blogging? That’s right! By the end of today you’ll be publishing your own blog using Google’s own Blogger technology.

What is a blog?

Here’s a direct description from the Blogger website: “A blog gives you your own voice on the web. It’s a place to collect and share things that you find interesting- whether it’s your political commentary, a personal diary, or links to web sites you want to remember. Many people use a blog just to organize their own thoughts, while others command influential, worldwide audiences of thousands. Professional and amateur journalists use blogs to publish breaking news, while personal journalers reveal inner thoughts.The blogging experience is about not only putting your thoughts on the web, but hearing back from and connecting with other like-minded folks.”

Why publish a blog?

Publishing a blog allows you to instantly create new content-rich web pages. These new pages can be linked to from the home page of your current website and/or promoted separately. By creating additional content-rich website pages and promoting them from your home page or through other means, you’ll be accomplishing two important things:

1) You’ll provide more value for your website visitors. This increases the “stickiness” of your website making people stick around longer and ultimately trust you more. On the Internet, trust translates to profits!

2) Search engines LOVE fresh content created through blogs. By publishing your own blog and adding fresh content to it on a regular basis, you’ll attract the attention of the major search engines who will list your website in their directories for FREE. That’s right! As soon as you have pages of your blog in the search engines, you’ll start attracting free qualified traffic to your site without paying a dime for it.
Are you ready to get started?Come on… it’s EASY, it’s FREE and it’s FUN! In fact, you’ll have your own blog setup in 3 easy steps.Let’s get started…

Click here to visit the Blogger website.

Once you arrive and look things over, click the “CREATE YOUR BLOG NOW” arrow.

Next, you’ll arrive at the “Create an account” page. Complete the 5 simple fields on that page.

TIP: For your user name, I suggest using your first and last name combined OR or a word or phrase related to the Max International Business.Check the “Terms of Service” box and click on the “CONTINUE” arrow.The next page is the “Name your blog” page. Enter a title Example: Your Name’s Home Business Blog or Your Name’s Work at Home Journal or something like that… Be creative! Now enter your blog address. Again, I suggest using your first and last name combined OR or a word or phrase related to the Max International Business. If the name is taken, try the characters of your first and last name combined or anything else you want to be your blog address. Whatever name you decide upon will create your blog URL such as: www.YOURBLOGGERUSERNAME.blogspot.com

Next, complete the word verification field by typing the characters you see in the picture above the field.Click the “CONTINUE” arrow.Next, you’ll arrive at the “Choose a template” page. This page allows you to choose a custom look for your blog.Take a look at the designs available and select one by marking the selection circle inside the blog template image. You can easily change the template later, or even create your own custom template design once your blog is set up.Once you’ve selected your blog template, click the “CONTINUE” arrow.Congratulations! Your blog has been created!

Now it’s time to add some content to your blog… Now that you have your blog setup, it’s time to make a post to it. OK, here’s the format for your article:

Enter the Post Title First.(POST CONTENT GOES HERE)

After your post enter:About the Author
———————-
To find the best home based business ideas and opportunities so you can work at home visit: (Don’t use these words exactly, get creative, make something up to encourage your readers to click on your link below.ENTER A KEY WORD PHRASE HERE Highlight the above keyword phrase, click on the hyperlink button, then enter your web site address.  This will make the keyword phrase clickable, and direct those who click on it to your web site.Copyright © Your Full Name Here
———————-

Labels - Now enter a keyword, or keywords that best describe your post, including the main keyword in your title

Click on Publish Post
Congratulations! 

You’ve just published your post on your own blog! Now, every time you have new content to post, simply repeat the process described above.At this point, you have the option to view your blog or simply move on and continue adding posts. If you decide to view your blog first, click the (in a new window) link.Give yourself a pat on the back. You are a blog publisher now!

Now it’s time to tell people about your new blog.Before we get into the action of marketing your blog, allow me to share with you the philosophy of why blogging and publishing content online is so important and profitable…

First, most people surfing the Internet are looking for information. In other words, most people are not actively seeking to buy a product. And nearly everyone expects to get the information they are seeking for free… Speaking specifically about the marketplace of people who are “interested” in having a home business and/or making money online, most of these people want to find good information about the subject FIRST.

Therefore, becoming a provider of trustworthy information about home businesses, work at home opportunities and online money making ideas positions you as the source for what people are actually looking for in the first place. Also, blogs are the most search engine friendly Internet publishing tool in existence.

This means that the pages of your blog can start being indexed by the search engines almost immediately and some of the your blog content pages will start showing up in the FREE listings of the search engines when people search for various key words. Therefore, adding quality content to your blog on a regular basis can generate free targeted traffic to your website potentially forever.

Now we’re getting into some extremely powerful FREE Internet marketing techniques… These techniques take more time and effort to implement than paid advertising, but they are completely FREE and they do work.OK, let’s get to work… You want to start by “pinging” your blog to get the automated traffic machine started.

First, click here to visit the Ping-o-Matic website.Once you get to the Ping-o-Matic website, type in the name of your blog in the first field.In the second field, type in the complete URL of your Blogger blog. Example: http://www.YOUR~BLOGGER~USERNAME.blogspot.com 

NOTE: Replace YOUR~BLOGGER~USERNAME with your actual Blogger username!

This is very, very important!!!

Next, select (check) ALL available “SERVICES TO PING”.

Now, click the “Submit Pings” button.A status report will appear on the next page indicating the status of your blog pings. What this does is notify a bunch of blog listing services about YOUR blog. Now they will send spiders over to your blog to index the content and link it to their network!

Congratulations!

You’ve completed the first important step in marketing your new blog. Now, anytime you update the content of your blog by adding new articles, publishing your thoughts, etc., re-visit the Ping-o-Matic website and ping your blog!Let’s move to the next step of promoting your blog…

IMPORTANT: To make your blog work for you, you *MUST* add fresh and original content on a regular basis. You can start making posts every day or two about your own online marketing experiences and/or you can update your blog with fresh articles. If you do not know what to write about, use Home Business Article Niche Club.  They will provide you with 30 articles a month that you can modify and post to your Blog.
Congratulations again!

© 2008, Rod Larrivee 

 

written by rodl13