We are Nick Securio and Ann Van der Linden, authors and creators of OnlineMoney4U and we have a real passion for coaching and training others (especially when it comes to anyone who is 'entrepreneurial' and is looking to build a successful business online). We created a series of Hubpages to give people a chance to learn how to build a successful GDI home business. If you follow this 1-2-3 step by step 'to-do' list as we will describe it on this pages, you will make money...period! If you are already a GDI affiliate this hubpage is going to be very usefull for you and all the people in your downline. If you're not? Then now is your chance to join the best home business opportunity the internet has ever seen and start using this 1-2-3 step by step 'to-do' list to become a successful GDI affiliate with the potential of earning thousands of dollars each month. If you are in our downline and have questions during this course, we will give you the support you need to get to whatever problem you come across in your business. you can contact us here (be sure to provide us your GDI username). But before we'll get into that let's start with an introduction video on what GDI really is and what it can do for you.

The reason why we created this series of HubPages is to help people to setup a successful GDI campaign without spending hundreds or even thousands of dollars in advertising, pay per clicks, buying company leads or whatever. The meaning of this page is to show you how to use the 3 most important keys that will lead you to success!

MyStory Marketing

Leadership

WEB 2.0

Now unlike other training courses we’re not going to write endless lectures on what these three terms really mean, you can find that all over the internet. By going through the different steps that we will show you on this page, you will learn about these terms as you go along. This course is a practical 'to-do' course so you can start immediately with building your GDI campaign and learn while you’re doing it!

Now just to show you that our strategies are really working take a look at this example here. Have you ever been found in the Google search results in less than 10 hours? Well...we've managed to get listed in the Google results in only 9 hours! In fact...we were still working on this course when that happened! So sign up with our GDI team today and start building your home business right away with this E-course! 

Launching your own website

• Easy creation of your own professional website

web page strategy

• Home or landing page
• About me (us) page
• Product page
• Html code to embed the GDI video on your page
• Html code for the GDI income calculator
• Register form (list building)
• News, tips, articles...

MyStory Marketing on MySpace

• Why choose MySpace?
• Making money out of MySpace
• FriendBlaster Pro
• Creating a MySpace account and profile
• MyStory Marketing worksheet

List building

• Building your list the right way
• How to build a list
• Make your home page interesting
• It's all about trust
• Video on how to build a good opt-in list
• Fulfill your subscribers needs
• List building 'not-to-do's

How to write and publish articles

• Writing articles, a free marketing methode
• Benefits of writing articles
• Things articles must have
• Free article software
• Viral Article Publisher (free for the people in our downline)

Video Marketing

• Going into YouTube
• What type of videos work
• Case studies
• Equipement
• Video editing software
• Uploading video
• How to use Tube Mogul to get a high ranking in Google
• Tactics for video marketing
• Video sites

Banner Marketing

• The right way to place banner adds

E-mail marketing

• With optimized pre-written emails for GDI 

Blogging

• How to create a good Squidoo lense
• How to create a good Hubpage
• Squidoo marketing strategies
• How to create a good Blog

Podcasting

• How to use Podcasting to broadcast your home business

Getting Traffic

• How to use keyword sniping to get a high ranking in Google
• Instant traffic tricks for Squidoo and Hubpages
• Optimize your site for the search engines
• Link strategy

Software

• BannerBuddy
• Camstudio
• Viral Article Publisher
• MyFriend Blaster pro
• ReadyMade Joomla
• Video Webwizzard

So let's start with building your business website. Now building your business website is a part of “branding yourself”. When people visit your website they will evaluate the credibility of your site. Research tells us that people not only judge website-credibility by it’s content but also by the design look of the site. When you are starting to build an internet business, you have to make sure that your website shows a high level of professionalism. Now you can use the GDI Site Builder Wizard (screenshot) and you can create a good informational website with it but as a former web designer I have to tell you that it’s not going to deliver the professional “business” effect that gives your website credibility it needs in order to attract people.

Now if your design skills have not yet caught up to your business needs but you still want to create a professional website, you will need to look at available alternatives.Maybe you can hire a professional designer to create a website or a template but I think that for many MLM’ers just starting, this is not an affordable solution. We recommend you take a look at “Ready Made Joomla”, these are already made websites created by professionals witch will able you to setup your own professional website in no time. You can choose out of 500 professional templates from various sources and get a whole bunch of cool stuff like video tutorials, a collection of over 500 extensions and so on, you can purchase the whole package for only $48. It’s the cheapest solution we could find for professional web design (screenshot).

Anyway...whether you are using the GDI Site Builder Wizard, Ready Made Joomla or your own web design software, if you want to build a good business website, then make sure that the following sections are in your site :

- Home page (home or landing page) - About me (us) page - Product page - Contact page - Register form on the homa page - Tips, news, articles...

This is the page where you want to let your visitors know what your website is all about. On the top of this page you want to show a picture of you because that’s the first thing people will see when they visit your site. It immediately will give your visitors the feeling that they’re dealing with a person and not with some automated website. It’s also important that you have an opening statement that will grab the attention of your visitors. Take a look at our website as an example. We used the opening statement : 

what? ...you expected a capture page with a pre-heading in black followed by another long winded heading in Tahoma red size 18 with all kinds of testimonials and we standing by a ferrari telling you how we quit our jobs in 2 minutes and are now rolling in money?..............................WRONG!! 

With such an opening statement you immediately will grab the attention of your visitors and they automatically want to read more. So just do a little test…be creative and write an opening statement for your site and let some people you know read it. If you can make them curious for more, you got your opening statement!

Now it’s important that you keep the rest of the content of this page exiting to read. Try to avoid difficult words and phrases and let your visitors get the feeling that, when they stop reading, they’re going to miss out on a great opportunity. But be careful here…don’t give them the feeling that they are on a typical sales pitch page ‘cause people are sick and tired of these pages. In fact…tell them that you only want to work with people who are serious in starting an online business, people who are winners and who are willing to put in that extra 5 % that will separate them from the rest. Let them think about themselves…am I a winner? When you can do that…you got them where you want them! 

Writing good content for your website may seem like hard work but it’s extremely important because it reflects who you are. If your story is boring and bland, people will relate that to you. Try to be creative in what you write, excite people with what you have to say, make them want to read more!

This subject will be discussed later in this course because this is the most important part of your entire campaign! This is where the MyStory Marketing comes in.

This is the page where you present your business opportunity but again, don’t turn this into a typical “sales pitch page” in fact what you are about to read now is extremely important… THE PRODUCTPAGE SHOULD BE THE 3rd PAGE ON YOUR WEBSITE!!

Many people who are in MLM believe that they can attract prospects with capture pages (you know the kind) but in fact most people are fed up with those kind of pages because they can find them all over the internet! Your visitors are not looking for a great business opportunity…no, they are looking for information and for someone who can provide this information. So it’s really important that they first read about what your website is about, who you are and what you can do for them, you want to give them that feeling of “trust” before you lead them to your product page. You also want to make sure that people know that when they signup, they will get the help and support from you AFTER they signed up! Because that’s what they are really looking for…a way to learn “how” to make money and not an ‘opportunity” to make money! You can use this course or it’s content to support them after they joined your team. Again, YOU HAVE TO BE THE LEADER!

On the product page don’t distract people with pop ups, banners and more things to buy or join. If you want to use banners try to put “just one” at the top of your page and make it return on every next page they will visit. (not on the ‘home’ and ‘about me’ page!) This will keep reminding them on the information that they just read on the product page.

You‘re deffinatly want to show the GDI presentation video and the income calculator on this page. Here we already did some work for you, just click here and paste the code in your html source code and you have the GDI introduction video up and running on your product page.

For the income calculator you just use this image on your site and link it to: http://website.ws/kvmlm2/st_calculator.dhtml

No explanation needed 

If you are in affiliate marketing or MLM you should know one of the most important rules of online business and that is : “The money is in the list!!” What does that mean? When you get customers or prospects to your website, you need to get their contact details. (name and email). These contact details, when made available, will let you directly market to people who have visited your site and shown interest in what you have to offer.

In internet marketing this is also called an opt-in list. To build a good opt-in list you need people to trust you, for a faster and quicker build up, you need to get your opt-in subscribers to trust you quickly. The faster you build your opt-in list the faster word about your site and your business gets to be spread. The bigger the scope of your opt-in list the more traffic you get spelling more profits. Its easy math if you think about it. Getting the numbers is not that simple though, or maybe it is? One very important key point to remember here is that you must ensure your prospects that you will protect their information and will not share it with anyone for marketing or other purposes.

People have gotten used to getting junk (from your competitors) disguised as helpful information. So you have to show your visitors that you value them enough to part with real quality information and that you see them as more than just a dollar sign. Getting the trust of your clientele shouldn’t be so hard especially if you do have a legitimate business. Getting your customers trust should be based upon your expertise. People rely on other people who know what they are talking about. 

So the first thing you’ll have to do is think about what you are going to provide to your visitors when they subscribe to your E-mail list. These are usually E-books, software, scripts, membership passes, reports…you name it. In short, prepare a free digital product or service witch is valuable to your prospect. 

If you don’t know how to create a register form, we recommend http://www.emailmeform.com/ , this is a free online form generator service that’s helps you create simple or complex html forms for your website whithin minutes by using a form wizzard. After creating your web form, you get an html code to paste in your source code and you're done!

Proven research indicates that it takes multiple visits to a website to turn prospects into actual referrals. But in order to let visitors return to your page you want to keep your website’s content fresh. By updating the content on a regular basis you will attract people to return to your site to see what’s new. Also by doing this the search engine spiders will take notice and visit your website more often and index the new content which can ultimately bring more visitors to your site.

Now you can’t change much of the content that you’ve created so far on the different pages that we discussed here in this course. That’s why it’s really important that you create an extra page (or even 2) with weekly tips, news or articles. When you update these pages at least once every week with new interesting and valuable information for your prospects, you have a good chance that these prospects will return to your site.

It’s really not necessary to write a dozen of tips articles and/or newsflashes every week. No…you just start with writing one interesting tip, article or newsflash that is related to your website once a week. Every week you replace it with a new one and invite your visitors to return and read more about the online business.

To support the members in our GDI downline, you can send us an email to membersupport@onlinemoney4u.ws with your GDI username and ask for our pre-written articles and we’ll send you more than 50 articles that can help you to get those creative juices flowing!

Ok, now you almost completed the first step in setting up a successful home business. There’s only one aspect that we have to talk about and that is the “About me (us)” page. Like we said before, this is the most important step in your entire business because here is where the MyStory Marketing comes in. This story will not only be on your website but also on the biggest social network of the web and that is MySpace! So before we start with creating “your story” let first take a look at MySpace in Part 2 : MyStory Marketing on MySpace