The Power of Networking…

 

Hi Fellow Marketers – Here’s this week’s blog post coming all the way from sunny Portsmouth in the UK!

And apologies as it’s my 2^nd contact with you today – following my earlier email about today’s free site launch which you should definitely check out if you want some great freebies:

www.johnhillage.com/viralmarketinggiveaway12.html

So far today’s been a great day for me – my baby (Honey’s) first birthday so we’ve been unwrapping presents and playing by the sea all day.

And as with all kids that age the wrapping paper and envelopes are just SO much more fun that the actual presents!

But anyway we’ve got chocolate cake tonight so today just gets better!

This post follows on from the newsletter last week on the subject of networking; where I gave a few examples of how important it’s been to my online business.

Now last week’s newsletter was my first in the internet marketing niche (although I have been doing newsletters in other niches for nearly 2 years now!)

And I got one or two people moaning that it was just too long for them.

For me personally I like a newsletter that I can get some real value out of – not just a few lines of hype followed by “click here to buy!”

But let me know – because if many of you are in the “short is good” camp then I can change the format for the next one.

Anyway on to networking…

As many of you know I launched The Proven Internet Profit System last month and did it largely through a select few JV deals.

And the JV partners that came through for me and ran promotions that actually sold product – were all folk that I had met in person.

The main one being Mr. Martin Avis (of Kickstart daily fame) whom I met about 2 years ago – and have been in sporadic contact with via email over that period.

I have had little joy with contacting other marketers “cold” via email – so face-to-face contact is so important (ironic when you think of the whole “work at home alone on your pc” nature of online marketing).

So I plan to get to more offline events this year as they are just so valuable, and you should too.

In fact if any of you live near the South Coast of England I have been trying to set up an online marketing group for a little while via The Warrior Forum.

If you are interested go to the post at http://www.warriorforum.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=250081 and add your thoughts – so that I can look at getting this off the ground.

And whilst we are talking about the Warrior Forum – it’s a great place online to go and network and “meet” people.

I am really into the Warrior Forum and regularly post on there – both to help others and also get a little bit of direction myself at times.

I am also building up contact with some great marketers which I know will pay dividends further down the line for them and me – with cross-promotional activities.

But if you do check it out, remember that forums are places to give and receive information first and foremost.

A great by-product of this is that you can build contacts with people and build your list through your signature file etc.

But DON’T go there looking to just “sell” to people as you will quickly (and ruthlessly) be exposed, especially in the Warrior Forum!

The basic rules that I use for successful networking and marketing on forums I learned from George Katsoudas who is one of my favourite no-BS online marketers.

If you want to learn more about his very inexpensive guide to forum marketing you should check out http://johnhillage.com/forummarketing.html

But even without this guide - just be respectful, polite , offer genuine help to people and add an effective signature file, and you won’t go far wrong (it’s not rocket science!)

Well that’s all for now, and I’m about to start giving away my latest internet marketing product for free this week.

So be sure to watch for an email on how you can get your copy in the next 7 days.

Happy marketing

John Hillage