This marketing is in simple terms an online referral system. It allows you, as the affiliate, to send a referral to a company and get a certain amount of money for doing so. Best of all it’s free for the affiliate. It doesn’t cost you a thing to sign up. A little while ago I was telling a friend of mine about affiliate marketing and she had a hard time believing it was free. She said to me “It must cost you somewhere along the way if you’re able to…

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Social media has revolutionized the world – the way we do business, and the way we go about our daily lives. Is it old news? Perhaps! Yet the fact remains that social media continues to shape and to redefine our lives in new ways every day. This became strikingly apparent during the 2012 elections, with its increasing importance in politics. Social networks are being used for everything these days – from keeping in touch with friends and family, to meeting new people and from shopping to finding new jobs or…

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Business networking is not about a closed shop where everyone gives each other work, it’s much more powerful than that. It’s fundamentally about the act referring business to people that you have grown to know, like and trust, and for them to do the same for you. Understanding how to give a quality referral is an art itself and something that I cannot cover today so for the time being let’s just consider the benefits of business networking. It is not a well known fact but 70% of new business…

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Network marketing is a multi-billion dollar business. As a business model, it is taught in major universities around the world. The Wall Street Journal stated, “…between 50% and 65% of all goods and services sold in this millennium will be through network marketing.” It is a business model that is perfectly suited to the “information age.” What is this “Business Model?” Network marketing is a way of doing business that is different from the “traditional” model used by most consumer packaged goods, food and drug companies. It is one of…

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