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Blogging to Grow Your MLM Business

By: Katrina Harris

If you?re looking for creative ways to generate interest in your MLM business, avoid wasting your money paying for leads and jump on the back of the latest hot trend ? blogging.

One of the most significant communication trends right now is ?blogging?. For those that aren?t familiar with a ?weblog? or ?blog? for short, it is simply an online message board where you can write your thoughts, ideas or opinions on any topic. By its very nature, as a place for like-minded people to share their opinions, a blog is a powerful tool for all entrepreneurs.

This article is designed to give the Network Marketer techniques to improve their networking, and ultimately grow their MLM business.

Remember, you are in the relationship building business, not the ?sales? business so any way that you can improve the way you communicate and network will give you a greater chance of building your business. A blog is a powerful communications tool and it is extremely suitable for social and business networks, like MLM. The other great benefit of having your own blog is that it establishes you as an authority in your field and can give you loads of credibility, which is great for Network Marketing.

So you?ve decided that you want to give blogging a go, so the first question you may have is, ?how do I get started?? Lucky for us not-so-tech-savvy entrepreneurs, setting up your own blog is relatively easy and quick. There are a number of online sites that will provide you with all the resources you need to start your own blog. The best part is that it can all be done for free! I have used both www.blogger.com and www.wordpress.com and comfortably recommend both of them.

Listed below is a quick action plan for establishing your blog and how to market yourself and your business opportunity:

? Sign up for a free blog on one of the above websites. I now use www.blogger.com and have found it easy to use. You don?t even need to have your own website.

? Decide on a theme. I recommend something as simple as your journey as a home based business entrepreneur. You can share both your business successes and challenges. Include useful tips and tricks that you have used in your business.

? If you are concerned about what to write about, just start brainstorming ideas with your team and you will find the list of topics are endless.

? Make the information interesting to the reader, and even add humor wherever possible.

? Add some content over a few weeks, including a couple of core articles along with short conversational, journal style entries.

? Send out the links to everyone in your downline and selected people in your upline. With this type of initial audience, you will find blogging a great way to share information and techniques amongst team members.

? Encourage your team to post comments on the blog and provide feedback to you about the content and usefulness of the blog. Make adjustments as required.

? Once you are happy with the character and theme of your blog, submit it to a number of blog directories (simply search on the term ?blog directory? and you should find plenty!).

? Become the distributor of the latest news and offerings from your company.

? Use alternate techniques like a video post. Simply record yourself with your computers webcam or digital camera and post away! Alternatively, you can take a video of interest from places like Youtube.com and place them in your blog. This will give your readers a great multimedia experience and reasons to keep visiting your blog.

? Tip ? I recommend that you do not try to sell your business opportunity on the blog. Build a relationship first and then you may be able to ask for expressions of interest.

? Tip ? you can refer network marketers from other companies to your blog to help them grow their business. When they see how helpful you are, they may even be encouraged to join your organization.

? Consider using Google Adsense on your blog as an easy income source.

? Be seen as the expert on the latest social networking technology (have you tried conference calls with www.skype.com yet? Watch out for a future article on this hot, free, communications method).

It?s important to keep up with technology and the latest trends, and blogging is a great way you can really take the lead and get ahead of the game. Being a leader means stepping up and providing a strong community amongst your team through the sharing of information. With a blog, you may find yourself being the entrepreneur that keen prospects want to get to know and be around. You are a leader and people want to be around leaders that provide them a better vision of the future. This will mean great success for you.

Looking at other ways to supercharge your MLM business? I recently gathered together 5 Superstars for a special MLM training seminar. Just follow the links below to find out more: www.SuperstarsofMLM.com

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Condo Buying Lessons

By: Jeff Hammerberg

Entering into a real estate transaction can be a rather intimidating proposition for anyone who is doing it for the first time. But even those who have owned, bought, and sold homes many times and are seasoned veterans when it comes to real estate can be baffled or uneducated when it comes to the purchase of their first condo. That?s because condominium ownership is different from ?ordinary? home ownership in ways that are significant and can affect your rights as an owner, as well as the resell value and long term outlook for your condo development or building.

Condos are Shared Ownership Properties

The major difference between condo ownership and that of conventional single family homes is that ? unlike ordinary home ownership ? you share part of the condo community with the other residents, and each of you has a portion of the ownership rights over those shared areas or assets. You might, for example, have full ownership of your two-bedroom condo ? but you only own a percentage of the roof above it and the plumbing system that services it because these items are also owned in part by other homeowners in your condo complex.

Shared Ownership Has Specific Limitations and Guidelines

What becomes particularly important is that partial ownership conveys only partial rights and control. If you don?t own the landscaping outright ? but instead share its ownership with other residents ? then you don?t have to assume full responsibility for taking care of cutting the grass and trimming the hedges. The responsibility is shared. At the same time, you don?t have the right to go and put in a cactus garden or cut down a tree without getting permission from a majority of the other owners, because the landscape doesn?t belong to you, it belongs to everyone who shares in the condo community.

Inspections

Because of shared ownership, any inspectors you hire prior to purchase should check your unit but also give you a written report on the condition of assets that are outside of your unit. These include any shared amenities or mechanical components like the building?s heating, plumbing, and electrical system; roof, foundation, parking lot, or basement.

Review the Association Bylaws and Deed Restrictions

The rules and regulations that govern such things as landscape maintenance, painting the outside of the building, sharing the swimming pool, and whether or not you can rent out your condo are all covered by covenants or condominium association bylaws. Before you buy, you should review all of these with a real estate attorney, to ensure that you know exactly what your rights and responsibilities entail.

For instance, you may want to buy a condo so that you can use it as a vacation rental for extra income. But the other residents may have already voted to make their condo development an owners-only project, with no rental units. Or you may have monthly condo maintenance fees of $150 to cover things like repairs, but the city requires that your building upgrade its sprinkler system and fire escapes, and those renovations will cost $150,000. In order to pay for everything, the individual owners need to divide the costs or take them from reserves. But if your condo association is well managed and professionally organized, it may have a large reserve fund for such capital expenditures. If that is the case, then you?ll get the benefit of those assets that have been set aside over the years to take care of unexpected expenses.

Condo Associations and Management

In other words, by buying into a good condo community you can automatically inherit some extremely valuable perks or assets. In fact, the covenants and management of a condo association may be the best selling feature because they add value to the quality of life for each owner. There might be rules against changing the valuable historical architectural features of the building you?re in, or the maintenance fees might entitle you to have full access to an exclusive club house and golf course. The point is that condo ownership is governed in part by regulations that should be understood before you sign on the dotted line, to avoid any unexpected surprises.

Condo Association Fees

Assessments or maintenance fees are usually mandatory and collected monthly, quarterly or annually. Failing to pay them could result in a lien being placed against your property. Find out what your fees cover and don’t cover, and then compare them to the fees for similar condo associations in the vicinity. Then talk to current owners to find out how satisfied they are with their condo management and quality of life at the particular project.

A condo can be a dream come true, because it allows you to eliminate all the routine headaches normally associated with home ownership. But at the same time it may let you enjoy luxurious or unique amenities you could not afford if you were to buy a conventional, traditional single family house.

For expert help with condo buying and selling, contact www.GayRealEstate.com and www.GayMortgageLoans.com, or call toll free 1-888-420-MOVE (6683). These professionals are devoted to serving the GLBT community.

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