The great thing about a business like FreebieForce is there are no rules to success. You can make your mark however YOU see fit! The flexibility to work on this at anytime you like, however and whenever, you want to is the beauty of this business and we encourage you to challenge the norms of day to day working styles to find one that is most suitable to your personality.

However, for many people, just saying “You can do FreebieForce however you want.” is not guidance enough. We have written many articles on successful selling and marketing topics you can use to create discussion topics with potential customers and acquaintances.

This message is the first in a series of 7 we will be releasing entitled “7 Steps to a $500 Monthly Income with FreebieForce”

Step 1: Market Yourself

Allocate resources to marketing.

This may come as a surprise to you, but it is mandatory that you allocate some resources to learning how to market. Many people target getting a hold of your "warm market", your circle of family and friends. This will helpful to get you going and start building a downline but with an online business like FreebieForce you can tap into much more marketing power by utilizing the Internet and other marketing strategies. You need to learn how to gain access to large numbers of prospective customers. Define a strategy that you believe will work for you and begin to execute it. If that one doesn’t show results, tweak it and try something different.

Gather testimonials and build you personal story to craft a compelling message for your market.

Testimonials and your personal story are powerful ways to communicate with your potential customers. Gathering these testimonials does not cost you any money, and not much time. Listen to other distributors in the company, ask them for testimonials from their customers. Stay on top of company news on the benefits of your product as can be found on our blog site. As you are collecting these items, begin to write a message to your potential clients, that delivers a compelling benefit statement. While you are engaging in this first step of building your marketing campaign, you will also build confidence and leadership. These are the qualities that will make your customers want to buy from you.

Remember people are not buying just the products in FreebieForce they are buying YOU. If you inspire confidence in you and your abilities they will have no problem taking hold of any idea you may bring to their attention. We will discuss more on this in subsequent articles in this series of seven.

Set the Bar

Tell your prospective clients to start small, but dream BIG. Tell them to get just 3 personal sponsorships and instruct each of them to do the same. If each person does this your matrix will grow exponentially very quickly.

Passion in this sense simply means that you've researched and like the company and products or services. It is then that you translate that like (or Passion) into the education, excitement, and work that usually accompany Passion.

I will have to say that many online entrepreneurs are so good at what they do that they ignore passion because they can sell anything. But I'm concerned about those of you who are not so knowledgeable at working an online business successfully.

Now, I'm not trying to make anyone believe that Passion is the only thing necessary. Because to be successful you must also have a good website, good marketing, widespread advertising, company support, effective keywords, and etc. Those things are often learned from the company you join -- but sidestep Passion and you reduce your chances for success dramatically.

It therefore follows that, if you have no Passion for the company and the products and services provided by that company, again, you won't attempt to do the work you are being taught.

Internet affiliate marketing work is typically not all that difficult or time consuming
but it does take motivation caused by Passion to get you off and running with a sustained
effort so that you won't stumble.

You have a great resource in the Internet search engines to search about the Internet affiliate marketing industry for business opportunities -- USE IT!

Your research should uncover a company that you like and have confidence in. It should be solid, founded on great principles, and easy to understand with great products and services that are sell-able for which you can have Passion. If you don't find it move on... you can find the right opportunity containing the attributes identified above.

Comments like, well, that one sounds good and the compensation plan is excellent so I guess I'll start that business -- does not sound like a decision based on anything near Passion. And remember when you hear that an Internet "guru" does that, don't be tempted, because as I said earlier they are experienced and can sell just about anything, without being Passionate about the company products and services.

Note: By the way it's your goal to get to the point where you can sell just about anything online. That end skill and goal are worthy, indeed.

People tell us their biggest obstacle to success is this: Finding good people to talk to and, then getting that person to even LISTEN to the opportunity. Here are the five worst things you can say to a good prospect.

Everybody seeks those elusive, good people.

The kind who are committed to do what it takes to make it. Obsessed.

Resilient. Ambitious. Not easily influenced by others once they've made up their own minds, based on their own research and personal experiences. Fun people. Friendly, open-minded people, self-starters, hard working, will do WHATEVER it takes. And of course, they will have a major sphere of influence over other people just like them.

Shall we agree that this is a likely definition of a 'good person' for the business? Oh, and they're definitely not whiney or pukey towards new ideas and new things.

Let's say we agree who the 'good people' are. Did you realize the things they usually teach you to say from the front of the room typically turn these kinds of people right off? Oiy vey! Really?

Everybody knows that step one is attracting good people, and then, getting them to listen, yes?

Here are the 5 Worst Things You Can Say to a Prospect:

1. "It's easy. Anyone can do it."

Why would anyone tell a good, new prospect this? If it were really true, why do 90% plus of the people who sign up, cave?

Besides, whom do you actually attract when you say that? What do people who hear that expect they have to do to make it in the business?

While it may be true that cerebral brain power is not what one needs to make it big in networking, shouldn't we stop pretending that it's easy and anyone can do it? Otherwise, wouldn't EVERYONE be making it?

2. "You can/will make [big money/a fortune/$10k+/mo] almost immediately in this business."

Predicting the future like this for someone else is pure hype. Be it about the product (‘you will lose X lbs./you will feel like new’, etc) the potential income, or how others will feel about it (“You’ll love it!’ ‘Your friends will love it!”)

Good people don't fall for this nonsense. But guess who does? Sorry but it's those people who want something for nothing or next to nothing. Yahoo's Seth Godin calls them the "dreaded opportunity seekers…someone with more time than money, a non-consumer who focuses on low-margin items and is a less than ideal prospect for most products." (Permission Marketing, P.10

Is that who you want on your team? No it is not. Well then, please stop asking for them.

3. "Everyone will want this product/service."

While maybe true theoretically, this is what almost every network marketing company says about its services and product lines. In fact, it's what most every company out there says about their wares.

Picture this: New people going off, after the 'meeting' thinking that 'everyone' will want this, or that the stuff/service is for 'everyone.’ What happens when they go home and call a few people and hear the usual 'it's too expensive' and 'I can't believe you fell for that' types of responses?

Uh huh. They figure, either the people in the front were lying or, worse, ‘I'm not smart enough to do this, I guess. Better give the stuff back.’ And after the first few calls, it's over.

This doesn't mean the products or services COULD not be beneficial to the whole world. But does that mean that everyone WILL do the thing? Or will love it like you do?

You may believe in your heart of hearts that everyone SHOULD do ‘it’ (=whatever you’re selling that you believe in) or use it, or whatever, but doesn't McDonald's marketing team think the same thing? Or people who make Hondas?

They can't figure it out either. Why doesn't EVERYONE eat at McDonalds? Why doesn't EVERYONE drive a Honda? Or eat Snickers? Or buy Crest toothpaste? Or eat organically grown food? Or exercise when they know they should?

What’s wrong with all these people out there, anyway?

Smart marketing people are