We live in the age of splintered time where 20 minutes is considered a pretty good-sized chunk of time. Luckily, if you run an online MLM business, there are lots of productive things you can do to support and grow your business in just 20 minutes. Here are 7 that come to mind. Ready? Here goes.
7 Online MLM Quickies
1. Locate Trouble Areas for Newbies to Online MLM
Whether you pick up the phone or zip out some emails, contact your folks who are new to online MLM and find out where they are having trouble. Jot these problem areas down in a list. You may want to do a training to help your newbies get over the hurdle, or you may want to write a blog series about it. You might even want to write an ebook about it.
2. Expand Your Twitter Circle
Assuming you already get on Twitter most days to answer direct messages, post tweets, answer tweets from others, and retweet others, you always need to spend at least 20 minutes a week expanding your circle of contacts. Using hashtags (#) is a simple way to locate people who share similar interests.
For example, I’m a horse addict and I’ve found 21 hashtags that relate to horses. These range from the most basic (#horse) to the more complicated (#naturalhorsemanship). To use hashtags, simply go to Twitter’s search feature and enter your hashtags. If you don’t know which hashtags to use, go with your best guess. Hashtags are kind of like keywords. They are the words people use most frequently relative to a particular topic. Learn more about hashtags here.
Once Twitter serves up the people using those hashtags, follow them. Also check to see who they are following and who is following them. You will find a wealth of people there who share your interests.
3. Surf the Web for Ideas for Your Online MLM Editorial Calendar
Writing day in and day out can get dull after a while, and if you are feeling dull your editorial calendar will show it. If you’ve been pretty bored recently with what you have been writing, it’s time for an injection of new ideas. Visit blog sites like Technorati or Alltop to see what other people are writing about. Visit Google’s blog search to do the same. Then jot down any fresh ideas. Since you only have 20 minutes, stick with writing down ideas. You can research them later.
4. Find 3 Amazing Facts Related to Your Online MLM Business
People love to read about weird, wacky, amazing, hard-to-believe facts. People love blog posts that start with “Did you know …?” People love to be amazed. If you’ve got 20 minutes, surf the web or drag out a book or read an ebook. Whatever. Find 3 amazing facts about your online MLM business, your company’s products, or the MLM industry that you can use to amaze your readers. Amazing facts always make for a good read.
5. Invite a Guest Blogger
Is there a blogger out there you really admire? Do you really like his message? Then email him a quick invitation and ask him to be a guest blogger on your site. If he’s got a well-known name, having him as a guest blogger will lend credibility to your blog. Be sure to include any specific topic that you would like him to write about, and tell him the focus of your blog. It never hurts to ask. Sometimes it can be as simple as posting a blog he’s already written on your blog, giving proper credit and a good intro, and pointing back to his blog.
6. Find Good Online MLM Resources for Newbies
Newbies to online MLM need all the help they can get. They need resources, inspiration, help with writing, motivation to write, and ways to stay organized. If you’ve being doing online MLM for a while, you’ve probably got a bunch of tools in your toolkit. Share these with your newbies, but also look for new resources. Your tools may be too advanced for a newbie, so see if you can find some simpler tools for them to use. Some examples include Google Keyword Search, blogs that instruct people on how to write blog posts (Chris Brogan, Problogger, Copyblogger), and Memo To Me (an online software that sends email reminders to help your newbies stay organized).
7. Comment on Other People’s Blogs
This is one way to spread the word about your own online MLM blog, and generate links that point back to your blog. Be sure to compose well-written thoughtful comments that add something informative to the conversation. Avoid just promoting your blog. Your goal is to demonstrate your expertise so that people will want to visit your blog, not just put up a sign pointing to your blog. If you can only write a single informative comment in 20 minutes, then do just that. One good comment is worth a million lousy ones.
See? You can do a LOT in 20 minutes if you know how. So if you’ve got 20 spare minutes, don’t twiddle your thumbs. Do something toward growing your online MLM presence instead.
If you do 20 minutes a day and the results will be shockingly good!
If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. Or contact me if you want to join our MLM team. We are teaching people to dive into online MLM head first … successfully! I’m holding out for a few good people. Really.
Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/uair01/ / CC BY 2.0
{ 0 comments… add one now }