Now is your chance to help a Marketing Professional

by TheMarketingProfessional

I recieved an e-mail from my long time friend and fellow marketing professional Ken McArthur.

He asked me for a favor and I saind “sure, no problem!”

I am writing this post to request the same thing from you only by helping me you will be helping Ken and potentially thousands of marketing professional’s all over the world.

So here’s the deal, in the course of my conversations with marketers of every kind, many of them say, “Mark, if I can ever do anything for you, just let me know.”
Ken shared the exact same sentiment with me and here is some more of what he shared with me:
 
For the most part, I thank them and we go on with life.  Thousands SAY they will do something for you and the actual friends who do something is much lower.
 
The number who will do something for you expecting NOTHING in return is MUCH lower.
 
That’s completely understandable.
 
We are all busy and EVERYONE has hundreds if not thousands of people who we would like to help … and only so much time or so many resources to share.
 
Bing Crosby said this about his relationship with Bob Hope:
 
“There is nothing in the world I wouldn’t do for (Bob) Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn’t do for me … “

“We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.”
- Bing Crosby

 
That’s the way most of us are with our friends.
 
Right now, Ken is in the middle of launching the beta version for Tobri and like a thousand of your other friends, acquaintances and loved ones he and I could use your help.
 
We want to quickly get the word out to other people about Tobri and I know that MANY of my friends could tell thousands if not tens of thousands of people in an instant if they wanted to.
 
ALL of my friends know someone who they could invite.  
 
BUT THEY WON’T
 
Don’t get me wrong, they could!
 
Tobri is NOT about internet marketing.  It’s about connections.
 
It’s for anyone who wants to make great connections or just stay in contact with you.
 
People can create their own groups, events, play games and just enjoy the wonderful community.
 
It doesn’t cost Tobri beta members anything to join or spread the word.
 
HERE’S SOMETHING INTERESTING …
 
If all of my friends told just the people on their mailing lists about Tobri today, there would be a million users on the Tobri Beta today.
 
Heck, if just the people who told me to let them know if they could do anything for me would just send out a mailing today, I’d have tens of thousands of people on Tobri by the end of the day.
 
SO WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU IF YOU DID …
 
How about an affiliate program that will be focused on selling Business memberships, but most of the people we are looking for right now to make up the Tobri Community aren’t going to buy a business membership — because they aren’t in business!
 
Most people in Facebook or on Twitter aren’t buying business premium services and most of the people in Tobri won’t be either.
 
Tobri isn’t an Internet marketing site.  It’s a social network and amazing connection engine.
So right now we just need ordinary PEOPLE.
 
Soon we will target businesses and give you opportunities to make money from that and Tobri is certainly a great place to find customers, clients, friends and to gain credibility and visibility.
 
SO HERE’S THE QUESTION …
 
How many people would you be willing to invite to Tobri? — for nothing — just based on our relationship.
 
I’m talking about sending out a simple message like:
 
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Hi (FirstName),
 
Ken McArthur has a new beta site for graphing
and making great connections that I’m really
loving.  Check out the video and connect with 
me there.  I really want you in my network!
 
http://tobri.com/
 
It doesn’t cost a cent and there are some amazing
people in there.  Lots of buzz on this one!
 
Thanks!
 
[YOUR NAME]
 
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Would you send it out to a hundred, a thousand, a hundred thousand?
 
I’m not expecting anything and I’m not going to think less of you if you do nothing or if you only know two people in the world.
 
I’m really writing this to a very select minority of people who have come up to me over the course of years and years of being together and said, “If there is ever anything I can do for you …” — and meant it.
 
If that’s you, I don’t care if you mail to 100,000 or one person, I’d just love to know that you did.
 
Whether it’s me or anyone of the thousands of people who need you right now.  Do something for nothing for someone today.
Here’s to Ken, Tobri and all the great folks I am going to meet there,
The Marketing Professional

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How To Build Your Own Home Business Today

by TheMarketingProfessional

Has the recession struck the world as badly as the news is making out to be?  Are businesses going to continue to close faster than they have up till now?   Is this a worldwide phenomenon?

One of the solutions that folks are talking about is home based businesses.  Experts are predicting that home businesses could reach greater prominence than even the simple news paper route that some of us had when we were kids.

The great thing about working at home is that there are no big corporate entities running the show and no boss telling you what to do.  The concept of having your own home business is a minimum-expense start up compared with the price to start a franchise.  There is also the fact that the internet itself is gaining prominence because it is easily accessible to everyone.  People are looking for job opportunities on the internet all the time and certainly the home business niche is virtually impossible to resist.

So what does The Marketing Professional recomend?  I recomend I Click University because you can do everything you need to do from the comfort of your own home with only your computer.

Here’s to Your Successful Home Business,

The Marketing Professional

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Free To Low Cost Internet Marketing Methods

by TheMarketingProfessional

Instead of spending big bucks to advertise in print publications and participate in other costly offline marketing venues, many businesses of all sizes are turning to free to low cost internet methods and strategies to invest their time, effort and branding for a greater outreach. Because for much less than the price of one print classified ad, a company can generate many more leads, targeted leads, with methods that are free to very low cost on the Internet, while responses from print campaigns, if any, are often not worth the return on investment (ROI) in comparison.

Some of the more popular free to low cost internet marketing methods out there today follow.

1) Free Press Release and Article Directories – Well written articles and press releases help draw targeted Internet traffic to websites. Simply insert a link in the body of the press release that invites readers to visit a website for a free report or other offer in the last paragraph, and add a similar call to action in the resource box or byline or an article. Then submit the press releases and articles to free online article directories and press release sites. Find them by entering keywords like, “free article directory,” in Google or other top search engine.

2) Hire Ghostwriters – Hiring someone to write content for your blog, website, article and press release submissions work is easy to day and inexpensive when you outsource your work to ghostwriters. Find experienced, qualified writers on freelance bid sites like Elance.com and on forums in your niche and in the Internet marketing arena, like at WarriorForum.com.

3) Establish a Presence at Free Social Networking, Bookmarking and Other Sites – There are many places online where you can register for a free account, set up a web presence there, often with the ability to upload digital media to share with others, post on a blog and more, while also networking with fellow members and / or visitors to the site, as they make comments on your content, share their info and more. Some of these sites are:

Squidoo
Hubpages
Blogger
Wordpress
MySpace
Twitter

Find many more by searching Onlywire.com for starters. And sign up there to bookmark all your content for sharing with multiple sites and to learn more.

A couple points to keep in mind with these sites are: follow the rules at each, don’t spam and don’t go over board there. For example, Hubpages only allows two links to your sites, at the time of this writing. Don’t add three, trying to fake them out with an affiliate link. And don’t spam comments all over on other Hubs just to get links. This type negative activity can get you banned, your account closed.

4) Free Classified Online Ads – Search for “free classified ads” in Google and many sites show up. Some of the more popular places to submit your ads are:

a) craigslist
b) backpage
c) kijiji
d) gumtree
e) loquo
f) classifieds.myspace
g) expo.live
h) adlandpro
i) usfreeads
j) oodle

For help writing your ads and even submitting them and keeping them up to date on each site, consider hiring help, outsourcing with a ghostwriter experienced with sales copy, and a virtual assistant who can open accounts at each place, submit your ads and follow up as they expire to renew them, revise them, etc.

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To Your Continued Success,

The Marketing Professional

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