The problem that many are running into when they venture online and immediately begin promoting their company is that most everyone is already in an MLM. Everyone thinks their company is the best and that their products are the best. Network marketers are a very loyal crowd. They only begin to look elsewhere after they have been severly disillusioned.

The beauty of online marketing is that there is a marriage going on between internet marketing, network marketing, and affiliate marketing. Ina for short. (check out my wedding photo! LOL)

The beauty of affiliate marketing is that you can make money now. There is a learning curve involved in bringing your business online. Why not learn to monetize?

Ann Sieg of Renegade Network Marketer fame chose Send Out Cards as her primary MLM simply because it was compatible with most every company. The achilles heel for most network marketers is follow up. This company will print your message in your own font, add your picture, even add a gift card and stuff, stamp and mail your card via snail mail.  If you are familiar with e-mail autoresponders, a postal auto-responder works much the same way.

As an affiliate it will get your business running in the black very quickly. It pays out a $120 coaching bonus when people sign up as either wholesale buyers or entrepreneurs.

It's a great way to tap your warm market while you are learning the ins and outs of coming online. People are more likely to pick up the phone or respond to your email if they have a card with your picture, your signature and message offering to help them grow their business. Where email can be deleted in a fraction of a second a card is a collateral marketing piece which is generally not thrown away.

Check out my hub for more on why I recommend Send Out Cards Ann Sieg style.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FqfunyCeU5g

To be successful in the 21st century we need to look at the internet in a new way. The potential of this vehicle is staggering. We are in a business paradigm shift. If you are unfamiliar with Web2.0 ask me!

The focus of upcoming newsletters is to help you make a shift in the way you think about business. I can also help you make a shift in the way you approach weight loss, time management, follow-up, shopping, discovering your sacred gifts.... For more information on how I can help in those areas email me your question at irene.paradigmshift@gmail.com. I'm not claiming to be an expert in all these areas but I can certainly point you in the right direction.

Understanding the difference between a ‘S’ quadrant business, self-employed, chief, cook and bottle washer and a ‘B’ quadrant business, semi-absentee ownership is critical. Are you on the right path? is what you're doing today bringing you closer to passive income or are you renting a job? If you have not read Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad, Poor Dad and Cashflow Quadrant stop reading right this minute and get yourself a copy. What Kiyosaki is teaching is essential for our very financial survival in the 21st century. There is no point in giving you a lot of content until you change your context.

Wow! What a journey! For any of you out there that have seen the ads for Ann Sieg and think: "Oh here’s another scam", think again, I almost missed this. This is a true win/win.

Last September I saw ads for The Renegade Marketer but past programming started the 'negative chatter' in my head. It was a very fine line that had me click on the ad. I then read The7 Great Lies of Network Marketing and bought The Renegade Network Marketer. Everything Ann Sieg said totally resonated with me. It was the best $67 I ever spent! I read testimonials from people that said she should have added a zero to the price and I totally concur! The amount of free training on the back end system of the Renegade is staggering. It was overwhelming in fact.

In December I listened to Ann & Ken Evoys webinars. Everything they said made complete sense. I entered the contest and joined the thread. (At which time the only thread I was familiar with was in my sewing box) It was here that someone explained that if you had read The Renegade Network Marketer  that Ann’s team members were following up with the leads. No one had contacted me. I almost fell through the cracks. I had sent tickets into 80/20 and they were very good about answering my questions but kept directing me back to the backend which just wasn’t making sense to me. I am what you would call a ‘technopeasant’. It wasn’t that long ago that I used to wait for my husband to come home from work to send my emails for me!

I finally asked a question that triggered them to realize that no one had contacted me. The reason was I had clicked on one of Ann’s personal ads and was linked directly to Ann! Being plugged into the top person is not necessarily the best thing. I’ve done it in the past and its wonderful for mentorship and encouragement but these people are either extremely busy or off travelling so they are unable to help you build your business. Ann too is very busy working to make things better for her team. The difference with being directly linked to Ann is that she has an incredible team and system in place to which I was plugged into. The wonderful Cyndi Williams came to my rescue and I am in no way connected to her! Could this really be true? Yes.

A word of advice; the first thing you need to do is get inexpensive long distance! There are so many live calls with Ann's Works Team which are free and are also recorded but you still have to pay for the call. Let’s just say I found that out the hard way!

I almost fell through the cracks again when I was trying to sell one of my  Site Build It sites from the 2 for 1 offer. The day before the contest ended a friend of mine wanted to buy a site. The SBI site is huge and I couldn’t find how to do it. Cyndi was in Jamaica. What to do? Ann had directed my question to Candace Hogan at 80/20 but in the mean time…along comes the Works Team. Wendy Mills and Cammy Stubbs have their phone #s on the webinar link. They were both very helpful. In my conversation with Wendy, the Renegade University and the amazing Mike Klingler came up. He is taking the giving before getting concept to a whole new level! I listened to the webinars and things started to make sense. I was going in so many directions before; I just didn’t know what to do next. I had a few affiliate links copied and pasted into the backend; I had bought a domain name; learned what the ball and chain icon were for and I had learned how to to insert a graphic on to my free blog and that was about it. Go to http://blog.escapetheratraceonline.com to see my feeble attempt. Just pieces of the puzzle; then along comes Mike Klingler and puts it all into a wonderfully simple step by step process. Click on this link for more information on online network and affiliate marketing. 2 weeks ago I had never heard of Mike; who would have thought he would be helping me take business online?! I had never heard of Traffic Swarm, or Digg and now I'm on both. I went from vaguely knowing about blogs to where I have actually written content thanks to Mike literally taking me by the hand via video. According to Mike I am already an expert! I have been in Network Marketing for years so I know very well how not to do it. And now Mike says if you have been doing this for 2 weeks you already know more than enough to help others!

What is so incredible is most of these people are in entirely different network marketing companies but they are all working together. Finally a way for all network marketers to work together for the benefit of all! "A rising tide lifts all ships"