Virtual Marketing Team

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 Your Challenge

You need to earn good money, but you can’t work 40 hours aweek, and part-time jobs don’t pay very well.

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Our ChallengeWe need to hire six-to-ten full-time people to

handle marketing and sales of our product,but we don’t have the funding, and don’t want to give away ownership to

get it.

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Economic Challenges

• Make the price appealing because peopleare just not spending money they waythey were two years ago.

• Get the word out cost effectively

• Build a compensation plan thatencourages loyalty, even amongindependent contractors

• Get the word out, and hire the people.

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Our Responses to the Challenges

• Reduce prices on hard-copy goods

• Use cooperative advertising fromorganizations like Costco and shared

mailings• Seek out pay-per-sale compensation

agreements

• Seek out publicity• Offer 50% of Gross Profit

• Engage people who work independently

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Here’s a Creative SolutionInspired by Two (2) Ideas

• Job Sharing

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• SETI at Home 

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Different people, in various locations, withdifferent skill sets, work for the commongoal. The virtual team produces sales, andthe gross profit is fairly shared! 

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Be a part of 

• a virtual marketing team.

• $10 investment, reimbursed after 10 sales.

• Get paid

 – Monthly (some affiliate programs)

 – Weekly (some affiliate programs)

 – or daily (using our PHP/MySQL/ PayPal system)

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Total 80

hours

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A stay at home dad

• Invests 10 hours a weekmaking entries on Dad blogs.

• He uses anchor-links that goto a specific landing page ona web-site, a page thatresonates with other fathers.

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A father and daughter team

• Invest 5 hours a week makingposts on Linked In and Facebook.

• They recruit fans and use links

that go to landing pages for parents, grandparents andteachers.

• They also invest 5 hours a weeke-mailing and writing to editors of major magazines, requesting bookand product reviews. They attach

detailed .pdf files. Example.

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A high-school student

• Invests 5 hours a weekcontacting college librarians.

• She builds relationships and

motivates them to order licenses for digital versions of books that are used bystudents for  job seeking andelementary-ed studentteachers. Monbed

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A freelance writer 

• Invests 5 hours a weekwriting blurbs for newspapers.

• He gets paid for eachplacement by the newspaper and he makes money whenpeople place orders.

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A grad student

• Invests 5 hours a weekwriting blurbs posting on avariety of forums and

contacting bloggers.

• Some of the posts that hemakes are so compelling that

hundreds of people follow hislinks and make purchases.

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A college student

• Invests 5 hours a weektalking to outplacement firmsabout including How to Get 

Job Interviews in their outplacement package.

• Three companies agree to

buy 1,000 copy licenses togive to their clients.

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A newly-hired secretary

• Invests 5 hours a weekdiscussing the books onInternet radio shows and

making comments a variety of shows on Talkshoe.com.

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A laid off marketingexecutive

• Invests 5 hours a weekcreating Google Adsense adsthat drive many people to alanding page.

• He also motivates many

people to “Stumble Upon”landing pages.

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A blogger 

• Invests 5 hours a week doingguest blogs and contactingother bloggers. As articlesand reviews show up onvarious web sites, hundreds

of people purchase.

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The cumulative result of allof these efforts . . .

• Is greater than thesum of the parts.

• There is asynergistic

relationship whichenhances eachperson’s efforts, andeach person makes

good money.

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All Proceeds Go into Pots

$8,400 $8,400

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Half goes to LB Creative, LLC for 

developing new products, and as aprofit for the risk and capital alreadyinvested.

$8,400

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The other half is prorated, based onunits sold and/or time invested.

$8,400

Diverse approaches bring increased

Gross Profit for everyone. 

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$8,400

1 0  / 8 0  x  $ 8 ,4 0 0  =  $ 1 ,0 5 0 

 5/ 8 0  x

  $ 8, 4 0 0  =

  $ 5 2 5

5  / 8 0  x  $ 8 ,4 0 0  =  $ 5 2 5 

5   /   8  0   x   $  8   ,4  0  0   =   $  5  2  5  

5   /   8  0   x   $  8   ,4  0  0   =   $  5  2  5  

15/80

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$8,400

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$1,5

75

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  $ 2 1 0

1            0             /             8            

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 ,    4   0

   0    =    $   5   2   5

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Plus

Back-end commissions increase total earnings.

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Don’t get angry

Instead, earn good money, as part of a 21st

 Century, virtual team.

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To Determine your Profit Potential

• Please download this Excel Spreadsheet.

• Look at all of the “sheets”

• Identify the areas where you feel youwould be most effective.

• If you don’t see the area where you’d be

most cost effective, make your ownprojections, modify the spreadsheet andtell us about your idea.

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To Get the Ball Rolling

• Contact us and let us know how manyhours you can dedicate and the goals youhave set.

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But, before you contact us

• Think about all of the reasonsyou may not live up to your commitment.

•If you feel any hesitation, don’tcontact us.

• For this methodology to work,everyone who joins must be

willing to live up to their commitments for at least four (4)weeks, eight (8) weeks would bebetter.

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For more information . . .

• Establish a PayPal account so you can receive commissions assoon as a sale is made.

• Alan [email protected] – Write or call

• (775) 453-6636, Pacific Time, and let us know the email address(not the password) that you use for PayPal access.

• http://www.AlanJordan.com (blog, being expanded)

• http://www.monbed.com (Children’s book)

• http://www.greatjobinterviews.com (e-book)

• http://www.LetsBeCreative.org (member-based web site—being

revised.)