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Transforming Your Baseball Field into a Winning Field A How-To baseball field maintenance guide to give your players the opportunity to play their best and make Your own field of dreams Transforming Your Baseball Field into a Winning FieldFundraising for your organization needs to be coordinated or else your efforts will be futile. Along with being coordinated your fundraising campaign needs continuity. What I mean is that there must be some connection from one fundraiser to another.
You are wasting your time if you look at a list of contacts and all you question is: How can I get their money?
You might get money from them, but you will not build a relationship with them nor will you get them to believe in your cause.
So, what do you do? There are five secrets to building and developing a healthy network.
Secret 1 - Be honest. If you are not being authentic or honest with someone you are speaking with they will be able to see it. If you care about your contacts, you need to be sincere and honest with your contacts. Anything less and you will lose that person for excellent (or until your are fired or quit).
Secret 2 - Stop trying to sell. When you network with people you are not trying to exploit them for your gain; you are trying to develop a list of people that will work with you to promote your organization's cause. If you want to network you need to give and once you have given the members of your network will be more than pleased to give in return.
Secret 3 - Networking is about more than finding qualified people. A lot of networkers like to believe that all they have to do is collect some business cards, get a business person, a lawyer and someone in PR and everything will magically come together. Guess what? They're incorrect. Networking is about building a system of interested, passionate people that are willing to get involved.
Secret 4 - Crack the introverts shell. In every network there is going to be people that are shy and introverted. Unfortunately, that is going to hurt your network. Promotion is about meeting people, presenting to groups and introverted people look awkward when they do these things. One thought is to host public speaking workshops or have team building activities designed to make the introverts more comfortable around groups of people.
Secret 5 - The world needs networks. The only way the problems in this world will get done will be through successful and effective networking. No matter how huge or small the problem your group wants to solve, it needs to leverage its network. While this may sound lofty, there are problems that need solvin' and they will only be solved when smart, dedicated and involved people network, get connected and start cooperating!
To succeed in your business, you need a system that consistently provides you with high quality leads or prospects. This means marketing your network marketing opportunity.
How do you market your network marketing opportunity?
1. Make A Professional Website
You can take advantage of the vast reach of the internet to promote your network marketing opportunity by having a well designed website with information on your opportunity and products, combined with lead generation pages and auto responders.
2. Generate quality Traffic to Your Website
Your website is useless without traffic. You can generate traffic to your website through a number of advertising mediums. Also you can participate in forums and have a link in your signature to your website. You can also have a link to your website in your email signature. You can write articles relevant to your opportunity with a link to your site in your article resource box and submit to ezine directories.
3. Advertise Your Network Marketing opportunity
There are various advertising mediums you can use: classified ads, pay-per-click, ezine ads, press releases, newsletters, direct mail, flyers, conventions and trade shows, television and radio commercials, banner ads, online malls etc.
4. Join Social Networking Sites
Social networking sites like face book, is a fantastic way to reach out to many people. Though some of these sites do not allow direct advertising, you can include your website link in your profile.
5. Form A Distributor Cooperative
Some advertising mediums like Television and Radio Commercials are beyond the reach of most distributors. But, forming a distributor coop, can enable a group of distributors take advantage of this medium to market their network marketing opportunity. You can choose with your team an amount that each new member pays to the distributor coop to support massive advertising. This usually makes momentum in the team.
These are a few tips to help you market your network marketing opportunity. For information on how to generate free network marketing leads and have prospects calling you instead of you pursuing them, click the link in my signature.
To your success,
