Unusual Networking in a Usual Way

So I've been thinking about the opportunities for networking that present themselves during my normal job as a traveling sales rep at conventions and expos and I'm realizing that there are Network Marketers making TONS of money as a result of their presence at simple shows and fairs.

Now, I've come to understand that it's rather costly to get a position at any of these shows or fairs as a vendor: it's certainly not just a matter of "signing up" as with most of the online network marketing that has been done either by Brian Bear or myself. However, the personal feel of the conventions, the ability to field questions on the spot and demonstrate exactly what you offer through a well thought out script and a flashy presentation that catches eyes could boost any business tremendously. I've been thinking about finding out what it costs to be a vendor for some of these shows. If you could get ten signups each weekend and walk with 40 new customer/affiliates in GDI per month, you'd have $800 coming to you in bonuses through GDI and also the residual 40 for all of your leads (which will grow progressively each month).

Convincing people to join GDI has been a long, drawn out process of reiterating a few things:

1) It's free to join
2) Anybody can make money
3) It offers free web hosting
and 4) It's a global opportunity

Well, I've been taking a different route because it sounds too much like a sales pitch. People who are told that GDI is free to join and that it can make you astronomical amounts of money are either going to be really excited, join and then quit when they can't duplicate the success of their upline right away... OR... they're going to say, 'hey, that's some kinda pyramid deal' and walk away with a bad taste in their mouths.

GDI is NOT a pyramid deal NOR is it a get-rich-quick.

Just like any other business, it takes work, time and planning. HOWEVER... Here's what you CAN present to the buying public:

GDI offers domains. Pure and simple. It's expensive but you're getting the best, and.. oh, yeah. I forgot to mention too. You can make a secondary or even primary income off of it.

THERE.

That way you're putting the reigns in the CONSUMER'S hands. What's the problem with marketing to business people? You get more business cards than you get signups!

If you market the legitimate product that GDI provides then anyone who decides to JOIN GDI will do so based upon the quality of the services and products and they will LAST LONGER in your business because they are SATISFIED with the product they've signed up for: domains.

If you tell people that you can teach them to make hundreds and thousands of dollars with an internet, part-time, work-at-home opportunity, you had better be able to coach them to do so. Otherwise, you will look like a fool and your empire will crumble to the ground!

Point and matter here is that you can have a hundred signups in a day and sure, you'll get the bonuses and you may get the residual earning on their signups for a while, but if those 100 people decide that they're not getting what you said they'd get, they're going to leave! Thus, I've decided that it's more important for my business and my customer/affiliates to have access to information on how to get the ball rollin' with referring people to GDI but first to APPRECIATE THE PRODUCT ITSELF.

Here's a flow chart.

Say a company has a GoDaddy domain for 10 bucks a year. Woo. They think they're getting the cream of the crop deal because GDI is 120 a year for a .WS extension and they're getting a .com extension for 10 bucks! THERE'S NO QUESTION!!

Or is there?

Well, GoDaddy doesn't include web hosting. For basic web hosting, it's going to run you 5 dollars more a year. Ok? Big deal.

Now it's 15 dollars a year versus 120. STILL A MUCH BETTER DEAL.

This is where it gets dicey... GoDaddy HAS a network marketing program that they call their "ReSeller Program". For basic membership, it costs...

99 dollars a year.

So all in all, to get EVERYTHING that GDI offers in one lump package while MARKETING the idea of making a few bucks while ALSO getting great domains, GoDaddy saves you seven dollars a year and you're not getting the solid video presentations, the step-by-step "Wealth Guide" or the Forum where you can ask questions to other Affiliates!

The next step up with GoDaddy is their "Pro-Reseller Plan" and it costs 200 dollars a year. Given the comparison, it's obvious why GDI works. Everything that GoDaddy offers, bundled together all at once with instructions on how to get it up and running, PLUS all the support of your upline AND all of the resources GDI offers including the invite system, the 10 email accounts you can associate with your domain, and more.

Next time someone asks, "why would I pay that much when I can get it cheaper somewhere else", just refresh them on the old addage, "you get what you pay for."