News Flash! The Lead Conversion Kit is HERE!

January 4, 2010 by Lisa Hanfileti  
Filed under Hot Topics

“The Lead Conversion Kit” by Alicia Bausley and Lisa Hanfileti

“The Lead Conversion Kit”, formerly titled “Rich Network Marketer, Poor Network Marketer”, has been re-released with a brand new foreword from Sitesell, Inc. founder Ken Evoy.

Why did Ken Evoy decide to throw his enthusiastic support behind the book?  Because for the first time there is a “How To” book for Site Build It! (SBI! 2.0) users who want to build a successful independent network marketing business on the web.  We were so blown away by his support that we decided to rename the book and re-release it with his new words of wisdom!

Learn More Here:  The Lead Conversion Kit

Note: If you already purchased the book as “Rich Network Marketer, Poor Network Marketer” you do NOT need to repurchase the book.  In fact, please don’t! You can find your updated copy HERE.

If you never purchased the previous edition of the book then you can go ahead and purchase it now on our secure order form here:

http://www.empoweredbusinessentrepreneurs.com/tlck

Got any questions?  Post them in the “Speak Your Mind” section below.

Here’s to a Happy and Prosperous New Year!

Alicia Bausley & Lisa Hanfileti

Mindset Over Matter: How to Approach Online Network Marketing to Achieve the Best and Fastest Results

September 10, 2009 by Alicia and Lisa  
Filed under Attraction Marketing

If you are reading our 2010 network marketing book, “The Lead Conversion Kit” (formerly titled, “Rich Network Marketer, Poor Network Marketer”), it is because you are looking for a solution.  You know there is a better way to use the Internet to build an online network marketing business, but you just cannot seem to put all the pieces together to make it work.

Most likely you fit into one of these 3 categories:

A)    An enthusiastic Site Built It! owner who is investigating the best way to incorporate a MLM into your website’s monetization model.

B)    A Network Marketer who is trying to attract qualified leads and build a global downline using the Internet and you want to how SBI! will provide the answer

C)    A potential SBI!er and a potential network marketer who is wondering how these puzzle pieces fit together to create the perfect home business

Whichever category you are in, we can guarantee your success (and failure) based on one single factor… Your Mindset.

Let us explain.

The SBI! approach and the traditional network marketing mindset are at odds. (Don’t worry, there is a fantastic solution waiting for you up ahead.)  For now, determine which mindset is driving you so you can begin to make any necessary adjustments to ensure your success.

The SBI! Mindset

The mascot of SBI! is the Tortoise for a very good reason. Not because working fast is bad, or because we NEED to be slow.

“Slow and steady wins the race”

“Slow and steady wins the race”

The reason is because being methodical and doing proper research simply takes time.

When you try to save time by skipping such steps as researching your niche, planning your site concept, and developing a monetization model, then the result is not the high performing, income-generating website you envisioned, but rather a lonely, desolate website that just sits on the web without attracting visitors or producing income.

The time you spend in the initial stages of planning your website and doing keyword research, pays off (literally and figuratively) down the road.

Site Build It! is unique among website software companies. Most companies will show you the flashy templates and designs first, knowing that is what drives most people to make a purchase.  SBI! won’t even let you look at their hundreds of free design templates until you have developed a site concept that passes the profitability test.

Why would they do that?  Let’s face it, SBI! could sell a lot more sites if they let people see templates first and didn’t bother with a rigorous step-by-step guide.  Why on earth would SBI! force you to plan out your website as if you were starting a business?

It’s simple.  SBI! wants you to succeed in building a profitable business through your website. They are MORE interested in helping you build a sustainable and successful business with your website than they in selling a large volume of sites to people who do not stand a chance of making it on the web.

Building a business takes planning and hard work. SBI! hands you the “10-Day Action Guide” to walk you step-by-step  through the process of researching and planning not only your website, but your entire business.  They teach the proven “Content>Traffic>Presell>Monetize” process.  With the SBI! Mindset, your website IS your business.

Now, let’s compare the SBI! Mindset, where the emphasis is on research, planning, and testing, to the traditional network marketer’s mindset.

The Network Marketer’s Mindset

If the SBI! mascot is the Tortoise, the network marketer’s mascot is the Hare.

“This is too slow! What’s the next best thing?!”

“This is too slow! What’s the next best thing?!”

Network marketers lack identity and purpose; they do not know if they are business owners trying to sell, or product-enthusiasts trying to share.

They are driven by trying to meet monthly product volume requirements and trying to desperately get more people interested in their business so they can make enough money to pay for their monthly products.

Sadly, many network marketers jump from one scheme to another trying to get their ‘business’ to take off, without ever sitting down and planning out a marketing strategy.  Most uplines, even if they are successful, do not develop a proven marketing process to teach their downline to help them succeed.  It gets worse for the network marketer when the Internet is added to the mix.   Because the hectic pace and speed on the Internet adds a false sense of time pressure that heightens the frantic Hare Mentality.

All too many network marketers turning to the Internet for help get attracted to one Get Rich Quick scheme after another.  It is a recipe for disaster.

You cannot build a successful SBI! website and online network marketing business with a Hare Mindset!.

There’s hope.

Shift your thinking.

Become a Renegade.

The Renegade Mindset

Thanks to Ann Sieg, author of,  The Renegade Network Marketer, network marketers have another option.  They can rid themselves of the Hare Mentality by adopting the Renegade Mindset.

In a nutshell, the Renegade Mindset is a marketing-centered mindset.  What that means practically speaking is that as a network marketer, you should no longer think of yourself as an employee of your MLM, but rather as an independent business owner.

You are your own boss and as such you must take responsibility for the identity (branding) and marketing of your business.

The Renegade Network Marketer teaches you how to shift your thinking so that you use the power of the Internet, to build YOUR credibility as an independent business owner. In this way you focus on teaching others valuable information, instead of leading with facts about your MLM products or compensation plan.

With this new approach, your MLM becomes one part of a very broad monetization plan.  You are not dependent solely on your MLM for revenue.  The Renegade marketing model expands your income sources to include an unlimited number of proven affiliate programs, joint ventures, and even your own products.

The key is, you are approaching your leads, prospects, customers, and clients as a credible expert and provide valuable information, resources, and leadership.  (Don’t worry, it is not as difficult as it sounds!)

In this marketing-centered approach, if you learn the fundamentals of marketing, you can apply them to building any successful business on the Internet.

The Powerhouse Combination of SBI! and The Renegade

The Renegade approach is very consistent and compatible with SBI!.  When you combine the two and add a dash of a little something we call the consultative selling process, then you have a powerhouse online network marketing business on your hands.

In “The Lead Conversion Kit” we even give you the secret formula in Chapter 12 and it goes like this:

Traffic + Solving Problem Live + Asking for the Sale = Cash Flow

You see, the part of the formula that most online marketers are missing right now is the part that happens after you attract the leads.  It’s called ‘lead conversion’ and if you do not know how to convert a lead into a buying customer, well, we hate to break it to you, but you don’t have a business.

How To Go From the Hare to the SBI!ing Renegade – And Become an Empowered Network Marketer”!

Here’s the deal…

The Lead Conversion Kit

If you bring your old network marketing mindset to SBI! and expect to succeed, you are in for a rude awakening.  Save yourself the anguish and start today with learning the mindset of the Empowered Network Marketer.

Rid yourself of the hare mentality and become a strong and steady tortoise walking the proven path of success.  This is a process and it will take some time to make the ‘shift’.  But you can do it!  Here are some real life practical tips to get you started:

  • Get out a calendar. Write down your goals for 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year.  It is very do-able to have your website up and 30-pages of keyword focused content written in 3 months.  Depending on your current knowledge of the web and how much time you have to devote to your SBI! website, you may be able to have your 30 pages up sooner.
  • Set a Schedule. Consistent action is the most important component of your schedule.  Working on your website one day a week is not enough.  It is better to work for an hour a day than 7 hours one day a week.  Ideally you can work a couple of hours every day or every other day.  Whatever you decide, schedule the exact days and the hours of the day you will be working on your SBI! website and stick to it.  Example:
  • Lisa: When I started, I got up at 5 a.m., worked for 2 hours before work and then limited watching television in the evenings so I could use an hour of that time too.
  • Alicia: I took a 10-day chunk of my Christmas vacation time and worked for 4 hours every morning, determined to get the framework of my SBI! site “up”.
  • Do not get distracted: Turn off your IM, email alerts, phone.  Unsubscribe from mailing lists, especially affiliate marketing lists.  Any email that says “act now!”, “only 24 hours left”, etc are marketing techniques that are extremely effective at grabbing the “hares”.  These will waste your time and money.  You can always file these emails away and come back to them in a few months.
  • Learn effective ways to deal with frustration and overwhelm. Exercise routines, healthy eating, regular breaks, fresh air, and laughter.
  • Be accountable: Use the SBI! 10-Day Action Guide checklist, find a study buddy, participate in regular training tutorials, and write out your goals and the timeframe (even the date!) within which you want to accomplish each.
  • Make it FUN! This is your business!  Celebrate milestones, Selecting a domain name, putting up your homepage, submitting your sitemap, 10 pages of content, 30 pages of content, adding RSS, each step is getting you closer to your ultimate goal of building a successful business.

To learn more and stay focused on building your successful online network marketing business, be sure to read our introduction in “The Lead Conversion Kit” where we outline the “7 Proven Steps To Turning Online Leads Into Paying Customers And Downline Members.  We even recommend printing out the graphic and hanging it where you can see it every day.

It is your road map to building a successful independent business on the Internet.  And it is also what separates the desperate network marketer from the empowered network Marketer.

Keep up the great work!

Alicia and Lisa

P.S. Here are the 3 essential tools you need to start building your online business today:

  1. Site Built It! (SBI! 2.0) – your internet marketing platform, or home base.  (Yes, you can still apply ALL the techniques we teach you by using a different website or blogging platform.  But if you do not already have a preference or you are new to online business, then we highly recommend SBI! 2.0.
  2. The Renegade Network Marketer – your guidebook and resource guide.
  3. The Lead Conversion Kit – the marketing, sales, and lead conversion training manual for you and your team.

Go get ‘em!

Alicia Bausley and Lisa Hanfileti


How the Internet Guru and Sales Queen Met

September 3, 2009 by Alicia Bausley  
Filed under Hot Topics

Quite deservingly, Ann Sieg has acquired an elite Internet guru status with her breath taking success of “The Lead Conversion Kit”.   She’s a force to be reckoned with, too!  Her attraction marketing and multiple streams of income philosophies are teaching thousands how to make money in business.

I chuckle when I hear how Ann refers to me in the Foreword she has written for our new soon-to-be-released book, “The Lead Conversion Kit”.  Actually she explains that her own network marketing team fondly calls me the Queen because of my high sales conversion ratio with leads.
What does this mean for you, though, in regards to building a profitable business?  The answer in a moment! First, let me tell you a little story when the Internet guru and the sales conversion queen first met.

A few years ago when Ann was just starting to build an amazing presence on the Internet, I called and left her a message.   She called me back at my home.  I was lucky.  Her status no longer allows her the luxury of calling people back who want to ‘pick her brain’ for help.

Ann and I spent considerable time talking on the phone and I listened intently while she advised me on what I could do to solve my own problem of building a network marketing business.

It seems I had the answer already, but was not implementing it into network marketing.  It had to do with picking up a phone, calling people, and addressing their needs with a solution .  Heck, I’d been doing that successfully for years and bringing in an insane income as a result.  Geez!  This was going to be a no-brainer.

Based on Ann’s direction, I started using a sales approach called consultative selling in my network marketing business.  Immediately, I began building a cash flow.  Seriously, I was using some old leads and still converting them rapidly by approaching my prospects and solving their greatest challenge.

Within the first few weeks, I had made nearly $1,000 in commissions. Not a lot of money, but a great start.  And I wasn’t putting any cash OUT.  I was just picking up the phone and bringing cash IN.

Within a few months, I became the top performer on Ann Sieg’s network marketing team.  I still maintain that position today, even though I work two other home businesses, and while I focus on building an information product line for the business community.

I’m getting ready to introduce a new book to our industry with the support and backing of our famed Internet guru, Ann Sieg.   It’s called “The Lead Conversion Kit”.  I had the pleasure of writing it with my business partner, Lisa Hanfileti.  It’s been a labor of love for the last six months.

It’s based on Ann Sieg’s philosophy of attraction marketing, multiples streams of income and my high lead conversion ratio for creating a cash flow fast.  It’s actual hands on sales training from an experienced sales person using a comfortable and easy approach to selling!

What does this mean for you?

It’s a comprehensive training manual for you, your team, and it’s an affiliate program.  It walks you through the process of lead conversion from A to Z.  No college education required.  No special degrees.  All you need is to read the book, follow our direction, scripts, and take some action.  The results?  High lead conversions will provide you substantial cash flow in your business (and with just a small number of leads).

Ann doesn’t place her stamp of approval on just anybody.  You’ve got to earn the status to get her respect and admiration.  I’m grateful for that first day when we spoke on the phone and saw the light, from which I earned the friendship of a very special lady.

This book is so complete, so comprehensive, that Ann Sieg has written a foreword to the “The Lead Conversion Kit”.  And Ken Evoy also contributed his own foreword.

Take a look at just a few paragraphs of Ann’s written Foreword within the book.  Then look for our next email, where we’ll tell you exactly why you need to get your hands on this book as soon as possible.

To be notified of the announcement of the release date (less than a week!), click on this link below:

http://www.empoweredbusinessentrepreneurs.com/early-notification-bonus.html

In Ann Sieg’s own words . . .

Ann Sieg

Ann Sieg

. . . This book is about learning and implementing attraction marketing and using the entire sales funnel, which of course happens to include working the phone.  This is totally possible when you generate your own leads via attraction marketing.  The good news is that when you develop the right sales skills you don’t need an insane amount of leads to develop a thriving downline.  Lisa and Alicia explain all this in their 7 Proven Steps To Turning Online Leads Into Paying Customers And Downline Members right inside this book!

Alicia and Lisa call it consultative selling.  Selling is what you’re going to be doing and doing it proudly and comfortably knowing that you are genuinely and authentically serving your prospect with a true win/win solution.

While Alicia and Lisa cover an enormous amount of ground including the all important lead conversion process the most important part is that this is about becoming a rich network marketer.   Not a poor network marketer.  Let me explain.

In the spirit of the Renegade Network Marketer and Site Build it! their goal is to systematically help move you out of a state of dependency and increasingly towards a state of independence.  That’s why they chose the powerful symbol of the flag of the United States, along with the title of their book “The Lead Conversion Kit”.

Alicia and Lisa put it this way, “One of the most important lessons we hope you understand now is that sales do not begin and end with your network marketing company.”

Let me share with you why they tell you this. It’s because they care.  You see it’s about being truthful and honest with you so that you can make the most well informed decisions for your business and your future.

It’s great if you’re in love with your network marketing company.   Many distributors are.  But don’t become so starry eyed that you don’t protect yourself.  Through all your hard work you owe it to yourself and your family to develop multiple streams of revenue (not just a network marketing income).

We need to remove the emotional aspects of owning and running a profitable business and look at the hard facts of business management.  It simply is not smart business to put all your eggs in one basket.

I hope you’re as excited and eager to get going as I was when I read this book. . .

That’s just the beginning of where this book will take you in your business. This is not an ordinary book.  This is a comprehensive training manual to expand your mind so you can realize the FULL potential of your business!

Warm regards,

Alicia Bausley