I gotta be honest with you. I”m not sold on the “hype”.

And I’m not coming from a non informed position. I’ve had great friend and successful marketers lament about how great twitter is. How they’ve sent out one Tweet and generated many leads for a few seconds of effort.

I’ve bought about just about every products that’s come out on twitter to inform myself on how to use it, and how other’s are using it.

BTW: If you don’t know what twitter is, it’s kinda like this blog, except you can only type 140 characters for each message. It’s called “micro blogging”. You can sign up for an account in a few second, start following people, in an attempt to have them follow you back to increase your exposure online and open you up to new markets.

All that’s well and good, and it sells.

Anything easy money and that’s completely free to get involved in sells. So, it’s no surprise that everyone coming out with the “I’ve cracked the code to twitter marketing” products are coming out of the wood works.

They’re just being good marketers. Where ever there is great curiosity, buzz, it’s simple to understand and use, there are going to be people who HYPE it up, and sell you on it being the next best thing in the world, and they’re smart for doing it from a profit standpoint. People will buy.

The reason I haven’t said a ton about twitter and social media personally is my own personal way of thinking about business.

Me, I think in terms of leverage and stability, and although there is a great argument for leverage in the USE of twitter, I’m not sold on the long term viability of the thing.

Not that I don’t think it will be around, but I think back to Myspace, no one’s really using it anymore. Why? It got trashy, filled with spammers, and lost it’s value. Up came Facebook.

Twitter is even simpler. Who’s to say a bigger better Twitter might come along? What happens to all the time you spend on Twitter?

And specifically . . .

I’m not sold on it in the home business space. Anyone that’s got a Twitter account can attest to how much spam goes out. Many many people’s profiles are filled with nothing but buy this buy that and twitter’s cool with it.

It’s like safelists and traffic exchanges all over again = permission spam.

I’m not saying don’t use Twitter, I’m just saying don’t spend all your time trying to grow your business solely with Twitter.

There’s potential for success no doubt, but at this point I’ve only seen it in spurts or by people selling you how to use twitter to get followers.

Now, there are few great things I do like about twitter . . .

You can find good quality “lead” in a quasi targeted manner and you can develop some great good “micro” friendships there.

You can get in contact with busy professionals and have short conversations and set up appointments.

A few weeks ago, I was on the way to a private mastermind meeting and Perry Marshall (The Google Adwords Guy) was going to the same meeting I Tweeted him to see if he was gonna be there for some Bad Ass Texas BBQ at Kreutz’s (probably spelled wrong) and few minutes later he said “I’ll see ya there”

That’s what Twitter is good at. Creating and having “micro” conversations.

What I fear is people are wasting their time thinking Twitter is going to make them rich. A few leads, maybe a recruit or two, but a full scale business - No.

And it’s the time factor that’s most alarming to me.

Just last week I spoke with a home business marketer and I asked him what he was doing to promote his business. He said “he was on twitter and using traffic exchanges”

That’s just not a good use of time.

If you want to use free media to grow your business, start a blog, write articles, create videos, but twitter ain’t it (in my opinion)

Most of what I see in terms of information about how to use twitter is “scheme like” at best.

“Use this tool to auto follow people, use this other tool to auto post stuff, use this other tool to unfollow people, etc”

And that’s not business building. That’s scheming. And it’s really NOT a way to add value.

I have yet to see a guide say something like . . .

Since Twitter is micro blogging, why not search out other blogs in your niche who’s publishers have twitter accounts, follow them, check their blog for new content and when they put out a new article lead a value added comment, and then tweet the article and your comment.

Maybe even direct message the blogger to let him know about your comment and tweet about his article.

Do this consistently with 20 0r 30 bloggers, and what’s going to happen?

You’ll create real relationships . . .

Why not next start your own blog and every now and then DM the other bloggers to comment and tweet you back to their circles of influences about their comment on your blog.

Now you’re leveraging their credibility with their follower base. You’re adding value to them first, and then your asking for a little reciprocation.

What happens?

You’re circle of influences grows in a meaningful way and so does theirs. You create hundreds of links back to your sites via your comments on the other blogger’s blog and their tweets.

Over time you’ll make some friends who will comment and add value to your blog and create links back to your via twitter in their circle of influence.

See that makes sense to me.

Not auto follow, auto unfollow, and blast your ad.

Bottom line is, I’m not totally sold on twitter, and I know I’m about to hear from more than a few people who think that I’m wrong, so . . .

My advice is simple, if you do use twitter as a lead generation method, just think of how you can add true and sustainable value first.

Ohh, by the way let’s get a “micro” debate going on all this: http://twitter.com/daegan_smith

Bottom line is, always think in terms of leverage and stability and your business will grow. It’s really that simple.

If you’re unsure how to formulate a plan to build a business in leverage that becomes highly profitable and stable over time here’s how I do it every time.

The first time I figured this out, I not only created an income stream that’s still flowing strong today, but it got me out of my job, afforded me the opportunity to take my younger brother on a trip to Japan as a high school graduation gift to him, and now because I don’t work I get to go hang out at my grandparents house anytime I want.

Nothing fancy, just a stable and free lifestyle following a simple plan. Isn’t that really what all this mumbo jumbo’s about anyways?

To the top,
Daegan
“The King Of Never Calling A Single Lead”

P.S. Are you for or against Twitter as a lead generation tool for home business growth? Don’t be shy, let me know what’s on your mind.

If you didn’t read yesterday’s post and
follow up conversation you need to - because
today I’m going to spell out exactly how to
turn getting ripped off into free leads.

Key to this discussion is the comment made by
Cheree here, she certainly get’s the A+ for
the day.

Here’s how to turn getting ripped off into
leads for free.

There are several ways to do this, but for
simplicity’s sake I want to give you one
simple plan you can use right now if you like.

First, if you’ve feel like you’ve been ripped
off understand you’re not alone. The
important thing to understand here is this
feeling ties into a strong negative emotion
which conjures up mental images of being
wronged.

In other words if you share your story of
being ripped off it will instantly resonate
with your target market, so use it, but use
it in a specific way.

A simple example is you could create a short
report about how you’ve been ripped off. Give
all the gruesome details, and then (this is
the important part) use the second half of
the report to give your reader advice as to
how to NOT be ripped of again.

Then what you want to do is create a lead
capture page to offer this report
with a headline which gets attention,
conjures emotion, and leads to specific
action. That specific action is the person
who see the page requests your report by
opting into your lead capture page.

Then what you do is you go out and start
advertising that report for free using free
traffic generation methods.

An important point here is to understand
you’re getting their attention with a
negative emotion, so you’d ask yourself
“Where do people who like to bitch and
complain hang out where I can get this
information in front of them for free?”

Any ideas where this could be?

I’m going to tell you with full confidence if
you follow what I’m about to say it could
lead to 10 to 20 leads per day for free
tomorrow and it’s simple.

Go to forums where network marketers and home
business entrepreneurs hang out. These are places
where people bitch all day long and you can
get access and exposure free.

 You’ve now found your target market.

All you do now is sign up for several forums
in the niche. Use a short signature file
like: “If you’re been ripped off in the home
business industry you need to read this free
report: YOUR LINK”

Every time you make a post in the forums your
sig file will be displayed and people will
click your link out of curiosity and opt in
to get your free report.

That’s how to get 10 to 20 free leads from
getting ripped off in the next 24 hours.

But I think the question you may still have
is how do I turn these free leads into sales
and recruits?

If so . . .

Let me know what insights you’ve had today,
what actions you’re going to take, what
questions you still have, and tomorrow if I
think you’ve got this concept after reading
your feedback we’ll take the debate to the
next level of . . .

Turning those leads into recruits.

To the top,

Daegan
“The King Of Never Calling A Single Lead”

The Free Perpetual Lead System 2.0

Last night while conducting our regularly
scheduled training call for Power Prospecting
System my partner Mike said something I’d
never heard before.

So powerful and so true . . .

You’ve got to understand a few things about
Mike before I tell you what he said. This guy
has been in the home business industry for
over 17 years. He was growing large teams
back when there was no internet.

He was that guy sitting in the Diner late night
drawing out compensation plans on napkins to
grow his business.

Today he’s one of the foremost experts in the
world on network marketing systems. He’s been
the secret weapon behind some of the
internets top funded proposal system, team
systems, and even full network marketing
company system.

To say Mike knows network marketing industry
from all angles would be an understatement.

That’s why when he was talking about how
important it is learn the skill of lead
generation for yourself because if you don’t
“you’ll forever be enslaved to the lead
companies” . . .

It hit me kinda hard.

Sometimes other people put the words together

better than you can yourself. This was one of
those cases.

I immediately thought back . . . “What if I
hadn’t mastered lead generation?”

Would I really still be back buying and
calling leads?

The answer that hit me like a ton of bricks
was yes. I’d have no other option. I’d be
spending $500 to $700 a month on leads only
to still be getting rejected and maybe
recruit someone while putting little to no
money back in my pocket.

That was a little more than three years ago.

Let’s just say to keep the math simple that’s
40 months ago. 40 X $700 is $28,000 out of my
pocket straight into the pocket of some lead
company.

I’d probably be more than bankrupt at this
point. Unless you’ve got almost $30,000 to
throw away consider you training on
generating leads yourself mission critical.

If you haven’t taken it seriously yet,
hopefully those number lend a little
perspective on why this is so important.
Get this now and you could very well save
yourself more than a years salary in leads.

To the top,

Daegan
“The King Of Never Calling A Single Lead”

Stay tuned . . .

Last night we held our first in a series of
webinars, which I have to say from the
feedback, was a smashing success. I told
everyone I was going to give up the goods and
that’s what I did.

Here’s what a few folks who attended had
to say about the live event. . .

“Value exceeded price . . .”

Thank you Daegan for tonight. Value exceeded
price.

It was very helpful. My biggest aha moment
was when you showed me how to mask my domain.
I didn’t know I had to mask the domain in
addition to forwarding the domain!

Again, tonight was appreciated! I was zipping
home trying to make sure I made it here on
time.

I can’t wait to reflect back on these
times…
Angelique Price

“One of the best trainings I have ever had
the pleasure to be a part of!”

Great call

One of the best trainings I have ever had the
pleasure to be a part of !

You broke the complete adwords procedure down
to a simple,easy to understand step by step
formula that even a person rolling out his
first campaign can easily understand.

I’ve listened to two of your trainings now
and have been completely impressed with your
ability to convey everything in an easy to
understand format

Well Done!
Mike McClain

“This webinar was definately worth the $20.00
. . . “

Hello Daegan, this is Carl Coffin. I enjoyed
your webinar this evening on Pay Per Click
Marketing. Daegan I learned so much, it’s
hard for me to list everything but what I
found the most valuable was how to create
google ads the right way.

I found focusing on Big hope and How to get
it, and Big frustration and how to end it was
extremely valuable.

I also loved the idea of separating the
broad, phrase, and exact keywords into
separate adgroups. I never thought of that.

This webinar was definately worth the $20.00,
thanks for spending 2 hrs. teaching me pay
per click.

Sincerely,
Carl Coffin

“Excellent webinar…..”

Excellent webinar…..I joined the Midas
Group on May 11th or so. All I can say is the
information you gave out on the webinar will
help me tremendously with setting up my
Google Adwords campaign correctly.

The resource for articles just took it way
over the top Not too many successful
marketers would give this information out.
Thank you!!!!!!

Please send the audio and/or video when
available.

Thank you,
Theresa Johnson

“What I liked most was your presentation
style.”

Thank you for such an informative webinar.
What i liked most was your presentation
style. This is what it is, this is what you
do, this why you do it and this is what it
means. All meat, no filler .

Thank you.
Eric Stark, Seattle

“I am so glad I took part in this webinar
tonight!”

Hey Daegan -

I am so glad I took part in this webinar
tonight! I have been so scared to break into
PPC due to the horror stories I have heard
about it being so costly & risky. But tonight
you made it very realistic for me to dive
into this and I can actually see attracting
more targeted prospects to me.

I have been a free web 2.0 chic for the past
9 months…but I am ready for some explosive
results and feel ready to do the PPC thing!

Thank you so much! $20? This call was worth a
lot more than that! Again..many thanks!

Your Partner in Prosperity,
Steph Perez

“I have to say that it was awesome!”

Hi Daegan

It was the first time for me to participate
in a webinar like this one but I have to say
that it was awesome. I’m unable to tell what
I liked the most of it because it was such an
amount of information and for such a low
price, just great.

Thanks again Daegan for the webinar it was
very late for me in Holland ( it is now 04:37
am Tuesday) but I’m very glad I did
participate.

Sincerely,
Luc Mattys

“You know your stuff… “

Daegan, I’ve been following your newsletter
and see you’ve become a “guru”. You know your
stuff..

This webinar was great, I learned a few
tricks, to make better my conversion rates
and how to get HOT keywords, thats what I
take from it. I recommend this for begginers
as well as intermediate PPC Users, 2 hours of
great EDUCATION.

Carlos Barahona

“The whole PPC process was valuable to me.”

Hi Daegan,

My name is Quintin and I’m a newbie so
watching the whole PPC process was valuable
to me. What sticks out for me was how you
went through the keyword research and the
thinking behind it.

Thanks for sharing,

Quintin

“You’re a true leader and it’s a real joy and
privilege to follow in your footsteps!”

Thanks Daegan, for a great webinar.

The one thing that really impressed me was
the way you worked to get your ads inserted
in searches for other ml-m people and/or
companies. It was pretty slick how you
attached your ad to those searches.

Again, thanks so very much for the way you
share all your research and results with the
rest of us. You’re a true leader and it’s a
real joy and privilege to follow in your
footsteps. And thanks also for making the
audio of your webinar available to us.

All the Best,
Erik Jorgensen
Minneapolis, MN

If you missed this event, don’t miss the
next. Our next event in the series will be a
powerful one. Be sure to check out the
“Events” page for all the details:
http://www.daegansmith.com/events.html

On a more somber note . . .

Late last week one of my father’s closest
friends passed away, so I’ll be off at a
funeral for the first half of the day. Life
is short. You really do have to live it to
the fullest. Give it all you’ve got.

This afternoon I’ve got a special video to
share with you, be on the lookout.

To the top,

Daegan
“The King Of Never Calling A Single Lead”

P.S. If you haven’t picked up a copy of the
FREE True ML’M Wealth CD yet what are you
waiting for? It’s the exact path I’ve
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A couple days ago I was sitting in my office
nervous and excited.

I had my headset on in anticipation of a
special call I was about to have with one of
my most influential mentors as far the
network marketing game is concerned.

I can’t express to you how much this guy has
meant to me over the years. In fact, it’s
kinda funny . . .

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I first heard of this guy after buying one of
his courses call “The ML’M Mastery Course”
and that’s exactly what it was for me.
And now . . .

Here I was, about to interview the guy on his
extensive 26 year track record of success,
which I’ll be exposing in a few . . .

See, one of my own personal secrets to
success isn’t really a secret at all, it’s to
lean on those who’ve been where I want to go.

Robert’s, course, the one I would listen to
as I drove around in my orange Mitsubishi
Eclipse “dreaming big” was like an exact
script for what I was going through on my run
to an organization of 7231+. All the ups, all
the downs, it was all there.

Needless to say, when I finally got a chance
to speak and grill this guy on the line I was
excited, nervous, scared, and nostalgic as to
how far I had come along. In just a few short
years there I was eye to eye with my mentor.

That’s why I love this industry, you know, a
little dogged determination, and the right
information and your dreams really really can
come true.

Onward to the call . . .

The conversation we had was filled with some
of the best brain food I’ve gotten in a long
time, but . . .

In this short episode I don’t have time to go
over everything because I promised my
girlfriend Kim I would take here on a  mid
day date to the movies, so I want to leave
you with one incredibly important insight
I’ll never forget from my talk.

Remember this: By Land, By Sea, By Air . . .

In other words, attack from all angles in your
follow up with your prospects for maximum
response. Here’s why . ..

As the stats go, it typically takes 7 to 12
interactions for your prospects to get to
know you and your company. Well, typically
people think of these interactions
sequentially as to mean . . .

“I’ve got to call my prospect X number of
times before I really get the result I want
or I’ve got to email them 12 times”

But, not really the case . . .

See 7 to 12 touches doesn’t mean over time.

It could mean simultaneously with the same
message, so one of the things Robert teaches
and preach as far as follow up goes, is to
make contact online, on the phone, and via
direct mail with the same message.

Why not get 3 touches in at the same time? In
fact, this approach is even more powerful and
efficient than spacing everything out.

Ohh . . .

Background on Robert - and as far as
experience, this is a guy who’s put 4000
people in a business in a few months, grown
several multimillion dollar downlines over
his 26 year career, and who’s earned
$12,000,000 growing one organization, so I’m
all ears. (And more than happy to share it
with you as a member of my inner circle here)

So maybe you understand what I’m saying, but
let me put it to you the way Robert made it
really hit home for me.

For the next week, check to see how many ad
type emails you get, check how many ads you
get in the mail, and check how many calls you
get . . .

You’ll see you get a TON more email than
anything else, and although I love emails,
you’ll quickly realize that if you just take
those two extra steps you step out of the
clutter and really start to make an impact
with your prospect.

(A lot easier to delete an email and not
read it than it is to throw away a postcard
without reading it.)

If you want to maximize your impact and start
recruiting on a new level the game plan is
right here.

Now what comes next?

See, if you’re smart, here’s what you realize,
most people reading this right now, not you
of course, will read this and do nothing, but
WILL think it would great to have if someone else
did it for them.

Hmm . . .

Do I smell opportunity?

If you’re one of the few who get the powerful
strategy behind today’s episode - YOU add that
piece to your business, and then you create a
“system” for your team where you do the grunt
work for them and they’ll all jump on board.

Your advertising budget will soar to new
heights if you just pool your funds into a
massive co-op and make it easy for your team
and you’ll have a massively larger downline
in the future for it.

All it takes is to think a little bigger, get
going before you know exactly how, then reach
back and offer others the opportunity to come
along. You groom the generals to be stars
and those that want to take it slower can
participate in your advertising pool.

I think I’ve shared enough. Off to the movies
for me!

To the top,

Daegan
“The King Of Never Calling A Single Lead”

P.S. 429+ personal push button recruits and
an autopilot downline of over 7071+ means two
things what I’m doing works like crazy and
it’s rabidly duplicable. Crush your phone, do
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I get asked all the time what’s the best way
to generate leads and recruit people into my
business on a shoestring budget, so today
we’re going to review the three most powerful
ways to do just that.

1. Funded Proposal:

The best way to increase your probability of
success in your business is to turn your
little budget into a much larger one while
generating leads and a profit in the process.
If you don’t have much money to promote your
business then the first thing you should
think about is how to make your budget
larger, not how to get by solely on free
traffic.

Why?

Free traffic is great, but to win in the end
you want to have the ability to generate
traffic from as many different places as
possible and well, most high yield
advertising does cost money, so it’s a
reality to understand and overcome, not try
to maneuver around.

A funded proposal gives you the opportunity
to generate leads and have those leads pay
for themselves through the sale of the
products in your marketing system.

So the most important strategy is to think
about how you can afford to pay more for
advertising instead of trying to do
everything free and using a funded proposal
system is by far the most powerful way to do
this.

2. Article Marketing:

After returning from an extremely informative
seminar this weekend the power of article
marketing has been reinforced in my mind in a
big way. I personally have written some 350
plus articles that has lead to over 80,000
references to my name in Google. That’s
powerful.

This past weekend I listened to the
strategies of an article marketing specialist
and this method alone had yielded him over
$12,000 a month all via free traffic.

If those two things aren’t proof enough that
article marketing is powerful then I don’t
know what is.

It’s free, it’s viral, and produces the
highest converting leads of all traffic
sources I’ve tracked, so I suggest you use
this strategy and use it in a big way.

An article a day keeps the J.O.B. away!

3. Blogging:

This one may surprise you, but blogging is
not only a powerful tool to use in your
prospecting efforts, but it’s a highly
targeted free traffic generator as well.

In fact I was extremely surprised to see that
one of my blogs that I use solely for
prospecting and as a meeting place for my
team after checking my server stats to this
day generats over 2000 unique visitors a
month and all I do is write stuff and add it
to the blog.

Don’t expect blogging to bring you big
traffic today or tomorrow, but six months
down the line when you have over 100 post or
so on your blog mark my words the search
engines are going to be sending you some
significant traffic just for you having put
that content out there.

That’s proof enough for me.

So that’s it.

The last thing to say is this, don’t think
about using just one of these methods use
them all together and you’ll soon not only
have high quality targeted free traffic and
leads coming your way, but you’ll find you
have an ever growing marketing budget to go
along with it.

Now all that’s left do is get to work!

For my exact strategies on how to use these
methods for quickest and easiest results and
success you can learn more over here:

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To the top,

Daegan
“The King Of Never Calling A Single Lead”

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young bike courier with sever asthma used to
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in a single month, and just two short years
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Gone are the days where you can cold call
your way to success. Gone are the days where
you can build your business entirely through
your warm market.

It’s not because it’s an impossibility,
rather it’s because it’s not what people want
to do.

I’ve never seen anyone excited about the
prospect of calling hundreds of people they
don’t know to give them a short business
presentation and paying for it every step of
the way. We do it because we THINK that it’s
the only way and if it worked for the guy
before me then it’s gotta work for me to.

The same thing with home meetings.

The problem is people don’t buy into doing
these things anymore. One thousand other
options are just a Google search away and
what are people if they’re not curious? So
you know no matter what you tell them they’re
looking out there for the quicker easier
faster way to do it.

So what this means is, as in days past, if
you really wanted to excel in network
marketing you had to know how to do the warm
market stuff and the cold market calling
stuff. Not because you had to be a pro at
them, but so you could teach them and be the
best sponsor you could be.

Today you have to expand and add internet
prospecting tactics to the mix.

Why?

Because if you don’t know them there is
always someone a click away who does.

To the top,

Daegan
“The King Of Never Calling A Single Lead”

P.S. What if you could learn the secrets a
young bike courier with sever asthma used to
go from broke to recruiting over 289 people
in a single month, and just two short years
later be earning more in a day than he used
to in a month? Would you use them? Here’s
your chance to find out - Go here now:

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