10-FREE LEADS...

I stumbled across this great online offer and I want everyone to take advantage of it!

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You have nothing to lose if you try them out, so click on the link below to request your 10 Free Leads right now!

http://www.10FreeLeads.com

WE HAVE A WINNER...CONGRATULATIONS TO CHRISTINA CASTILLO...

It pays to read our team blog... Christina Castillo from California was the first person to respond to our contest question below. Christina will receive the 86 minute video "Brilliant Compensation" absolutely FREE.

As it turns out Christina is in the middle of reading "The Wellness Revolution" and she agrees with me that it is a great book for Seasilver distributors.

Remember to put a short-cut on your desk top for this team blogger and visit at least once per day for the very latest helpful business-building information. The next contest will be open to ALL downline distributors in the SuccessWithSeasilver (tm) Team... so make sure you inform your downlines to come to this resource daily!

QUICK DISTRIBUTOR CONTEST...

Let's have some fun... the first SuccessWithSeasilver Team frontline distributor who sends me the answer to the question below will receive a free copy of the fabulous 86 minute video... "Brilliant Compensation". This video is one of the best explanations of the network marketing process and why it is the only reasonable way to make serious money in the new century. You can use it educate yourself, play at business briefings & meeting, etc. Send your answer to the question below to contest@successwithseasilver.com. Here is the question:

What is the name of the author of the "must read" new book entitled: "The Wellness Revolution"?

First person who gives me the correct answer at the email address shown above will win a free copy of the video. You will find the answer to this question somewhere in the earlier posts to this blog. The winner will be announced here.

USE YOUR PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS...

If you have a professional degree or certification you might want to consider using that fact to boost your credibility with prospects.

For example: we have a number of Registered Nurses, Dentists, Chiropractors, Attorneys, etc in the network. If you are one of those... or have any specialty certification in a relevant field... add that designation to your signature files, on your brochures, booklets, labels, etc. By adding RN, DDS, MD, JD, DC, etc. to your name you gain an instant shot of credibility and believability that you might not have otherwise... at least initially. You paid a lot of money and worked hard to earn those designations... you might as well use them to your advantage.

As an aside... you should know that the fastest growing group of people joining network marketing companies are "professionals". You'll find a great book on the subject entitled "The New Professionals" in the book section of the www.successwithseasilver.com website. This highly educated group is fast becoming disgruntled with "tradiing time for dollars"... and are seeking alternative revenue streams with residual income and, most importantly, time freedom.

I found "credentials" useful recently when I was discussing some elements of soil depletion and nutrient loss with a distributor prospect on the phone. I mentioned that I had a BSc degree in Agriculture and that part of my academic experience was in soil analysis. That led to a brief discussion on the importance of supplementation because of depletion and downgrading of the nutrient value of foods. When the prospect heard that I had a level of knowledge and experience directly related to that fact he became much more open and conversational on the phone.

By the way... he is now a new Seasilver distributor. :-)

DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME BEGINS THIS SUNDAY --4/6/2003

Daylight Savings time begins on Sunday, April 6th, 2003.

You may want to mark you calendar and pay attention to the new time differences when making your follow-up calls.

Please note that my state (Hawaii) does not use Daylight Savings Time. The time differentials will increase by one hour when calling to Hawaii after Daylight Savings Time is implimented on the mainland. Example: There is a current time difference of four (4) hours between Hawaii and the Central Time Zone. After the changeover on Sunday that time difference will increase to five (5) hours. Hawaii will be five hours earlier than the Central Time Zone. If it is 12:00 Noon your time in Chicago...it will be 7:00 AM here in Hawaii.

RECYCLING YOUR DIRT CHEAP LEADS (DCL'S)...

On the Dirt Cheap Lead training call yesterday there were some excellent points made regarding the "recycling" of your DCL's:

1. DCL's are automatically sent a series of autoresponder messages from the 'myseasilver' system... 9 messages over a 35 day period.

2. Don't expect instant response from your DCL's. It takes from 4 to 7 messages before you "get their attention" and start getting orders and serious inquiries. This is in keeping with all of my experience. An old rule in sales is that it takes a minimum of five attempts to "close" before prospects begin buying. With email this is extended. That is why we send multiple messages... we know it takes several times before a prospect takes action.

3. Consistancy is the absolute key to success with DCL's... buy one or more units of DCL's when ever they are available. Because of the multiple messages which are sent to each group of leads you can have thousands of lead follow-ups occuring each week. This activity will result in a steady stream of orders and bizop leads. Combine this system with PPC's (Pay-Per-Click) search engines and you have a totally automated online marketing system that will grow your business quickly and profitably.

4. When the initial 35 day cycle of autoresponder messages has been completed... wait about a week and "recycle" them into the autoresponder series again. You do this in your advanced contact manager. I just recycled 9,000 DCL's and instantly recieved three bizop leads.

5. You can expect a about a 4% opt-out on the first mailing, 2% the second week, and about 1% per week from then on. Overall you can expect a total opt-out rate of around 9 to 10 percent. These "opt-outs" are good. That means you are not wasting time following up on them.

TIP: Buy only the DCL's that do NOT come with telephone numbers... if they are available. Unless you plan on doing telephone cold calling to these leads (not recommended) there is no need for the telephone number... and you pay extra for these leads. Since you will no doubt get the telephone number and/or email address of any responders to your DCL's through your lead capture page, you might as well save the money you would spend on those with telephone numbers. If the DCL's with the telephone numbers are the only leads available, however, I would buy them instead of going without leads.

FREE CONFERENCE CALL CENTER...

When your Seasilver downline gets to the point where you would like to initiate your own conference calling program, then you are in luck. www.FreeConference.com offers a totally FREE conference calling system that you can use to set-up and operate your own call-in training or marketing programs. As those of you who have participated in any of the 'myseasilver' sponsored conference calls will attest... conference calls are powerful marketing and training tools for Seasilver distributors.

There are some restrictions on the maximum number of participants... I think that is 32 now with some options to increase from this base number. This is probably ample for setting up calls to your front line distributors... (first level)... you might consider holding separate calls for supporting your first level people, biz op presentations, etc.

FreeConference.com does not charge any surcharges, or special toll fees. The only cost to your call participants is the long distance fees they pay to join the call. They can call-in through their regular long distance provider. The service is totally free and will be supported eventially by online advertising. You should register at the site and seriously consider doing some informative conference calls with your downline and their prospects.

MY UPLINE'S WEBSITE... MLM411.NET:

My immediate upline, Chad DeFerrari, runs a quality MLM oriented website at www.mlm411.net. You will find inexpensive advertising (tell Chad that you are in Thom Reece's downline and you will get some special offers), and quality content. Chad is also head of CDF Media... which counts Seasilver Corporate among his client list for media services.

FREE TRAINING BY CUTTING-EDGE MEDIA...

Most of you are familiar with Cutting-Edge Media... they are one of the prime sources for leads, magazine advertising, card deck advertising, etc. in the business opportunity marketplace. Unless you have ordered and used CEM leads, however, you may not be aware of a great free training site from CEM: http://www.cemleadcoach.com/. The CemLeadCoach site is full of high quality training materials that will help you understand the entire lead generation process, how to properly follow-up on leads, telephone scripts, etc. It is a valuable free resource that you should consider visiting often. Bookmark the site and use it to help train yourself... and your downlines.

DIRT-CHEAP LEADS TRAINING...

Thursday night at 9:00 pm EST you can listen to Jim Lenig, Seasilver distributor from Florida who has been having great success with Dirt Cheap Leads.

Jim will be sharing his ideas and techniques for making high returns on his Dirt Cheap investments.

9:00 pm EST
512-305-4655
The access code is: 59952#

Be sure to join Scott Warren and Jim Lenig for new ideas on working Dirt Cheap Leads.

THIS WEEKS TRAINING REMINDER...

Myseasilver Certified Instructors are now conducting FOUR weekly training sessions for the MySeasilver System; TWO for New Users and TWO for Advanced
Users!

Many who have plugged into this training have told us this is some of the greatest training they have ever had. Join us and see for yourself... (and watch your business grow, too!).

Basic Training:
When: Every Wednesday
Time: 2:00 PM EST & 9:00 PM EST

Advanced Training: When: Every Monday
Time: 9:00 PM EST
When: Every Tuesday
Time: 2:00 PM EST

You must be in the WebEx conference room AND on the phone to take advantage of the training. You will need to enroll for the particular WebEx class you wish to attend.

Seating is LIMITED. We ask that you only enroll if you are SURE you will attend. If you enroll and do not attend, you have deprived someone else of this valuable training who could have enrolled if the seat were available.

Please login to your admin panel and click on Training Calls to see the current schedule There you will also find the link to enroll for the WebEx training events.

SERIOUS PROBLEMS WITH AOL EMAIL DELIVERY...

If you are on AOL...or if you are trying to respond to inquiries from prospects who use AOL... you need to be aware of a serious non-delivery pattern with AOL. AOL's servers, in an attempt to filter out spam, are dumping thousands upon thousands of legitimate email messages every day. To a lesser extent this problem exists system wide with most ISP's, but AOL's problem is especially significant as they have over 35 Million users.

I now have several prospects who have been sent numerous follow-messages by me personally... and the myseasilver autoresponder system... that indicate to me that they have not received any follow-up from me. In one case I have had to fax information to the inquirer after sending multiple emails to his AOL address and finding that none of them arrived.

This is not an isolated problem. I moderate several industry discussion lists (Amazon-Affiliates) and the problem with AOL email has been plaguing us for months. If you are an AOL customer you should seriously consider picking up a separate free email address (Yahoo for example) and use the non-AOL address for your essential correspondence. Otherwise you may find that your business suffers because important messages are arbitrarily being dumped by AOL and other ISP's. You might also consider vigorously complaining to AOL for their filtering practices. In a recent article on the subject one AOL spokesperson bragged about the AOL system filtering out over 850 Million messages that day. I wonder how many legitimate pieces of correspondence were included in that number? How many of yours?

EXPECT REDUCED TRAFFIC TO YOUR WEBSITES DURING THE WAR...

The War in Iraq will result in reduced traffic to your websites for the first few days. You should expect your numbers to slow down during the first phase of the conflict. This is a normal dynamic and should not be a cause for concern.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED READING...

Do yourself a huge favor and run...don't walk...RUN to the nearest book store and buy a copy of "The Wellness Revolution..How To Make A Fortune in the Next TRILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY" by Paul Zane Pilzer... published by John Wiley & Sons. It is available at Amazon

I am absolutely blown away at the materials and concepts in this book... and you will be too. If ever there was a perfect outline of why you are in the business of distributing the Seasilver product... it is this book. Buy a copy for yourself TODAY... and buy a few extra's to give to your key front line leaders. This is powerful stuff that is in the "must read" category for any serious distributor. This is no hype...it's the real thing... written by one of the most outstanding minds in the world today. This may just be the most important book you will read this decade.

LAST WEEKS SEASILVER EARNINGS...

My Seasilver check for last week was $495.00.

In addition, my overide commissions for the period March 1st through March 16th (paid monthly) is
another $188.50. This should increase to around $400 to $500 by the end of March.

SEASILVER WORKS... IF I DO! :-)

PPC (Pay-Per-Click) SEARCH TERM SUGGESTION TOOL...

If you are struggling trying to come up with good search terms for your Pay-Per-Click advertising campaigns, you will do well to check out the Overture Search Term Suggestion Tool: http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/

Please note that Overture is constantly changing this url, so don't be surprised when you click on it and you get a blank page. This tool is so valuable that it is worth opening a Overture deposit account just to have access to the Search Term Suggestion Tool.

By simply typing in any search keyword and clicking GO you will retrieve all of the search terms and phrases that relate to your chosen term that have been actually searched on in the past 30 days at Overture. The number of searches made on the listed terms and phrases will be shown also. For example: when I plugged in the term "seasilver" (without the quotes) a few moments ago it showed me a list of dozens of searches related to the term "seasilver"... and told me that "seasilver" itself was searched on more than 40,000 times last month at Overture.

You can use the results pages (print them out) to identify keywords and phrases that you can use in other Pay-Per-Click search engines as well as Overture. Overture itself will give you the heaviest traffic of any PPC... however, their $.10 cent minimum bid is about the highest of any general PPC.

If you look at the bids currently on Overture for the keyword Seasilver, you will find that the top bidder is bidding $4.99 for a click-thru. The second place bid is $3.01-- a bidding gap of $1.98-- meaning that the top bidder is overpaying by $1.98 cents. He could be holding the number one position by bidding $3.02. This points up a glaring error of the bidding process... not tracking your bids daily and adjusting your bids to only a penny above the nearest bidder to hold your desired ranking.

Also, don't get into this type of bidding war. You will eat up a lot of money. The top three bids currently made for the term "seasilver" are way beyond reason. A respectable ROI (Return-On-Investment) is almost impossible paying these amounts of money. There are much cheaper PPC alternatives where you can bid on "seasilver", or related terms, for a fraction of what Overture costs. Remember, with PPC it is a numbers ballgame... bid on as many terms as you can get approved by the PPC... and bid low. My maximum bid on a great term ranges from a nickle to ten cents. My highest bid is $.26 cents.

SUCCESSWITHSEASILVER (tm) TEAM GROWTH... FIRST LEVEL ONLY...

In order to gauge your progress you should call the Home Office Marketing Department and request your "First Level Downline Report" at least once per month. Here are my results beginning with the first report I requested on January 7th, 2003:

JANUARY 7TH REPORT:
Customers: 17
Distributors: 2
Total Active: 19

FEBRUARY 11TH REPORT:
Customers: 31
Distributors: 7
Total Active: 38

MARCH 11TH REPORT:
Customers: 45
Distributors: 16
Total Active 61

Note that these numbers are for my first level only. If you study the trends you will see that my numbers are close to doubling each month.

My results have been achieved by following the step-by-step outline I provide in the SuccessWithSeasilver.com web site. In a nutshell: Sign up for a one-case autoship, Upgrade to the paid version of 'myseasilver', buy units of "Dirt Cheap Leads" when available, and use Pay-Per-Click advertising to drive qualified traffic to your 'myseasilver' sites. Let the website do the sifting & sorting...and intensily follow-up with your qualified leads and inquiries. The more traffic you drive to your websites... the more quality leads you will have...the more sales and distributors you will gain.

I started my Seasilver business on a part-time business... working approximately 15 hours per week. Seeing the growth charactistics... and the resulting income stream... I have begun to divorce myself of other business involvements in the anticipation of working Seasilver full-time by the end of next month. This truly is a remarkable business... one that we can all feel good about and prosper from.

Keep in mind that I do this from my home in one of the most remote islands in the world. 98% of my business is done online. My trip to the office takes me about 30 seconds... walk to the kitchen and get a cup of coffee...and stroll down the hallway to turn on the computer. I could not ask for...or expect... a better lifestyle.

It is clear to me that Seasilver Works... If I Do! It will work for YOU too.

NEW E-MAIL PRODUCT AD COOP...

My immediate upline, Chad DeFerrari of CDF Media, has released a brand new email advertising coop today that is a great buy. 5,000 emails only $100. Larger quantities available. This a closed coop mailing available to our downlines only at discount pricing. Watch your regular email today for the link.

GREAT ADVERTISING INFORMATION RESOURCE...

Here is a comprehensive resource of radio, TV, Newspapers, magazines, news outlets, college media, etc. If you are trying to source any media by state this resource will be a real time saver: http://www.thedailynewsgrabber.com/index.html

REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE with Spanish Web Promotion...

I would like to do a simple one page Seasilver Promotional on the SeasilverDistributors.com site and list Spanish speaking distributors on our team. We are getting a lot of traffic and leads generated through this distributor locator site so I think we can generate some high quality inquiries for our Spanish speaking team members. I do not speak Spanish and need your assistance with this project. I need our Spanish speaking members to review our promotional page, assist with the translations, and provide me the actual contact data (written in Spanish) for our members to be listed in this section.
Note: This section will only list members of our team who are members of the Spanish speaking community--or--who have Spanish speaking members of your family or staff who can properly follow-up on the inquries generated in a professional and timely manner.
If you are able to assist in this project, please email me at: thom@successwithseasilver.com and indicate your willingness and ability to assist. I will get back to you on as as-needed basis.