Hi David,
You have asked a very important question here. By asking this question, you have given many of us the chance to explain to new affiliates the importance of sticking with it and logging in daily doing a little more each day to reach their goal.
Are you aware of the business funnel?
You can have 100 000 people coming in the top (people who see your site or people who you approach). Out of those people you may only get 10 people who sign up to your program. These 10 people are the ones who you focus on. The funnel works both ways also. From these 10 people you begin to build a downline and your funnel takes on an hour glass shape. This is a very crude concise view of the business funnel but I urge you to look it up and familiarise yourself with it. It will help you to become more comfortable with "rejection" (as you put it).
The word "rejection" brings me on to my next point.
Please don't look on it as rejection. Just because someone is not interested in your program it does not mean they are rejecting it as a negative thing. They simply are not interested or do not have the time to invest or the need to invest. There are billions and billions of people in the world and not all want to start their own on-line business and out of those who do, not all of those will be interested in this type of marketing. If you are dealing with a prospect face to face, simply Thank them for their time and move on to the next until you find someone who is interested. Persistence persistence persistence is the key to marketing. Now regarding advertising....be seen as often as possible, in as many places as possible, using as many resources as possible. You will start to see results when people start to see your ads more than once or twice.
Rather than viewing it as rejection over and over, maybe it would be better to see it as sifting through the masses until you find the people who are interested in this kind of enterprise. One way to increase the chances that the audience you're reaching out to are looking for work on-line and not the get-rich-quick schemes is to use targeting methods. I would suggest reading up on targeted ads and looking at the many tools out there that can help you to reach the right audience.
Finally...and for me, the most important part of internet marketing is relationship building. People don't like to be bombarded with offers no matter how great they are. Especially from someone they've never met. May I suggest that you invest in an autoresponder. This gives you the chance to work your way up to the sale through a series of emails. You could get people to subscribe to your blog for instance then slowly introduce them to the benefits of multi-level marketing. Maybe you could introduce them to one aspect of SFI and let them think about it for a few days. I always believe it is important to ask people what their interests are...what are their views on on-line marketing...would they be interested if I could show them how to start their own business with no start up costs and very little investment thereafter?
Remember...stick with it and you will start to see results. Log in daily and advertise as often as you can, in as many places as you can, in as many ways as you can. It is inevitable that there will be people who are not interested and the reasons for this are as many as there are people in the world. You deal with it by Thanking them for their time and maybe leaving them your contact details if they should change their minds and move swiftly on because the golden nugget could be the very next person.
I really hope I have been some help to you David and to anyone else that feels the same. The art is to learn from your experiences and use them to keep improving your strategies.
Stay long and prosper
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Hi David,
You have asked a very important question here. By asking this question, you have given many of us the chance to explain to new affiliates the importance of sticking with it and logging in daily doing a little more each day to reach their goal.
Are you aware of the business funnel?
You can have 100 000 people coming in the top (people who see your site or people who you approach). Out of those people you may only get 10 people who sign up to your program.
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