subject: How "funded Proposal" Marketing Techniques Can Keep Your New Internet Marketing Business Afloat [print this page] Getting people to join your network marketing program before you run out of money to promote it can be a tough problem for newbie Internet marketers. Many find that it costs more to get people to join their systems than they receive in commissions generated by that new affiliate. This is especially the case at the beginning of an Internet marketer's career.
What is worse, the initial delight at finding a prospect who joins your business can be dashed when that person does nothing and drops out after just one or two months. It can be very disheartening to see your team start to grow and then suddenly collapse.
Many people who try Internet marketing never get further than this first step. Yet it is a well-known fact that there are others who do successfully build up active affiliate sales teams, and earn a very good income on both sales of products, and commissions generated from the activity of their downline.
So what can you do to improve your chances of getting into the successful second group? How can you keep yourself going until your Internet marketing program starts to generate a healthy income for you?
Well, for one thing, it is much easier to recruit affiliates to your system when you have already warmed up your prospects and generated an initial sale from them. It is a fact in any field of marketing that the first sale is always the most difficult to get. So it would make sense for network marketers to work out a way to generate an initial sale before they introduce their primary business proposal to the prospect.
That is exactly how a "funded proposal" system works. With a funded proposal system, a low-cost but useful product or service is promoted first. The prospect is only introduced to your primary business after purchasing a low-cost front-end product.
This serves two purposes.
1. It warms up the prospect of the idea that you are a trustworthy product or service provider.
2. It provides you with some upfront income that you can use to fund your primary business.
There are many types of funded proposal system available today. Indeed, a number of very clever Internet marketers have taken the funded proposal concept and turned it into a complete online business system in its own right.
Funded proposal systems offer Internet marketers a number of business-building services for a low one-time or monthly fee.
When you join a funded proposal system, you will receive a standard website and be able to add your own network marketing or affiliate marketing links to it. Then, instead of promoting your all of your different products and services, you can simply promote the funded proposal system via a single link or splash page.
Now, every time somebody joins through your link you will earn a small commission from the system, and the new member will be introduced to all your links and encouraged to sign up to them so as to be able to promote them on his or her own funded proposal system.
A professional funded proposal system will always give the customer the choice of adding his or her own links to the system, or simply joining the downline of the affiliate through whose link he or she joined.
Many people have found that it is much easier to work with the funded proposal system to earn some cash on the front end, and sell their main business on the backend to prospects who join the system. It is certainly a more intelligent way of promoting any online business as it gives you far more opportunities to make money. There is also a higher probability of making sales in your primary business because you do not promote it until you have a warm market to promote it to.
In short, a funded proposal model offers a lifeline to every struggling Internet marketer.
