Dr. Farrah Gray was named as one of the most influential Black men in America by the National Urban League’s Urban Influence Magazine. Ebony Magazine recognized him as an entrepreneurial icon, business mogul and best-selling author. Raised in the impoverished South side of Chicago, Dr. Gray defied the odds and became a self-made millionaire by the age of 14. At the age of 21, he received an Honorary Doctorate degree of Humane Letters from Allen University. This was in recognition of his ingenious economic mind and distinguished commitment to the development of values such as leadership, integrity and scholarship. In his rise from poverty to national and international prominence as an entrepreneurial icon and pre-eminent power speaker, Dr. Gray has inspired millions around the world. At the age of 26, he has achieved more than many achieve in a lifetime.

Since his first interview at 11 years old on KVBC Channel 3, Gray has become a celebrity, featured in thousands of print, magazine, radio and television media including The NBC reality show Starting Over, 20/20, Good Morning America, ABC World News Tonight, The Montel Williams Show, Oprah & Friends, Tom Joyner Show, The Michael Baisden Show, Russ Parr, Radio One, TV One, The Tavis Smiley Show, CNBC, BET, NBC, FOX, CBS, BRAVO, PBS, NPR, Bloomberg, Ebony, Jet, Essence, Upscale, Black Enterprise, Black MBA, “O” The Oprah Magazine, Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post. AOL Black Voices named Farrah Gray one of the Top Ten Sexiest Black CEO’s along with Kenneth Chenault, Tiger Woods and Sean “Diddy” Combs. What makes him extra attractive is the stack of accomplishments he has achieved at such a young age. He is also a syndicated columnist with the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) federation of 200 weekly newspapers reaching more than 15 million readers. As an AOL Money Coach, Dr. Gray gives advice to millions of AOL subscribers daily on leadership, personal development, diversity, strategic planning, creativity, business development and financial management.

Dr. Gray is the CEO of Farrah Gray Publishing (FGP) which is distributed by HCI Books, which published the world famous #1 New York Times, USA Today and Guinness Book of World Records; best-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul series. Chicken Soup for the Soul has sold more than 112 million copies, with titles translated into more than 40 languages and total retail sales of Chicken Soup for the Soul branded merchandise have topped $1.3 billion.

Dr. Gray began his entrepreneurial, personal and civic development as a stellar young citizen at six years old selling home-made body lotion and his own hand-painted rocks as book-ends door-to-door. At age seven, he was carrying business cards reading “21st Century CEO.” At eight, Gray became co-founder of Urban Neighborhood Enterprise Economic Club (U.N.E.E.C.) on Chicago’s South side. U.N.E.E.C. was the forerunner of New Early Entrepreneur Wonders (NE2W), the flagship organization he opened on Wall Street. NE2W enlisted, educated and engaged “at-risk” youth by creating and developing legal ways for them to acquire additional income. Gray is the youngest person to have an office on Wall Street.

Between the ages of 12 and 16 years old, Dr. Gray founded and operated business ventures that included KIDZTEL pre-paid phone cards, the One Stop Mail Boxes & More franchise and The Teenscope “Youth AM/FM” interactive teen talk show, Gray was also Executive Producer of a comedy show on the Las Vegas Strip and owner of Farr-Out Foods, “Way-Out Food with a Twist,” aimed at young people with the company’s first Strawberry-Vanilla syrup product. Farr-Out Foods generated orders exceeding $1.5 million.

As a pre-teen, Gray reached 12 million listeners and viewers every Saturday night as co-host of “Backstage Live,” a syndicated television and radio simulcast in Las Vegas. Gray’s inspirational spirit and grounded personality sparked speaking requests from organizations around the country. Dr. Gray’s sense of social responsibility motivated him to create the non-profit organization, The Farrah Gray Foundation. Among other programs and initiatives, his foundation focuses on inner city community-based entrepreneurship education and provides scholarship & grant assistance for students from at-risk backgrounds to attend HBCU’s (Historically Black Colleges and Universities). Dr. Gray donates his honorariums from speaking engagements (which can be upwards of $15,000) and the proceeds of his book to his foundation in what he refers to as his “self-imposed” youth tax. The Farrah Gray Foundation is also in partnership with the Kauffman Foundation, launching entrepreneurship programs in inner-city schools across the country.

Dr. Gray’s work did not remain under the radar-screen for long. He soon then became the youngest member of the Board of Advisors for the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce. He was also given a three-year term on the Board of Directors of United Way of Southern Nevada at the age of 15. Dr. Gray’s continued his philanthropic work signing on as the spokesman for the National Coalition for the Homeless and the National Marrow Donor Program. As a private consultant he was gone in to work with the likes of JP Morgan Chase and the U.S. Department of Commerce Minority Development Agency.

Dr. Gray’s latest books “Get Real, Get Rich” and “The Truth Shall Make You Rich” a no-holds-barred rejection of the fallacies we’ve all heard–and believed–about success and how to achieve it. Dr. Gray’s first book “Reallionaire” was nominated by NBC & Publishers Weekly Quill Awards in the category of “Health/Self-Improvement.” His book appeared on the Amazon and Barnes & Noble’s Best-sellers lists two weeks before its international release. “Reallionaire” was also named as the #1 Best-selling Nonfiction Paperback book in the August 2005 Issue ofEssence Magazine.

“Reallionaire” was endorsed by Former President Bill Clinton, Pierre Sutton, Stedman Graham, Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen. Gray’s book and his journey to succeed against the odds have become required reading and part of classroom study from elementary school to entrepreneurship departments on college and university campuses such as Harvard University and Princeton. Gray’s books, “Reallionaire,” “Get Real Get Rich” and “The Truth Shall Make You Rich,” have been translated into Russian, German, Polish, French, Korean, Indonesian, and Vietnamese languages with book sales in Africa, Australia and Europe and in Central and South American countries.

Gray is also a contributing author to “Chicken Soup for the African-American Soul”. Dr. Gray’s honors include Keys to the Cities of Dallas, Shreveport, and Cincinnati. He has also received Proclamations from the Governors of Illinois and Nevada, the Mayors of Louisville, Kentucky, Chicago, Las Vegas, New Orleans and Wilmington, Delaware, and Clark County Nevada Commissioners. Dr. Gray’s Awards include The National Urban League Whitney M. Young Jr. Entrepreneurship Award, The Indiana Black Expo (IBE) Hoosier Lottery Entrepreneur Award, The Alabama A&M Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) Award, The Davidson College Love of Learning Lifetime Educational Achievement Award, Central State Award of Appreciation for contributions made in the area of entrepreneurship, NV Magazine Vision Award, and the American Red Cross Award of Appreciation.”

Look, if you’re here, on this post right now – it’s for one reason.

You’re wondering if you should join Empower Network.

Maybe you’ve been sitting on the sidelines, in the background, waiting – and maybe, just maybe you just ran into us right now.

Let me be honest, and up front, because the truth is, Empower Network is not for everyone.  If you’re reading this, it might not be right for you.

Here’s who Empower is NOT for:

1.  People who want a ‘Get Rich Quick’ scheme.  Although I definitely believe that by applying certain skill sets, you can ‘get rich quicker’ than inferior ways of making money, the truth is – you’ve got to work your ass off, even with a great system, great tools, great products, and a great company.  You might fall on your face, fail for a while, struggle a bit, and experience pain – and if you quit without applying what you learn, you might not make any money at all.

The Fact?  You WILL experience struggle if you want to make money on the internet.

It may not be immediately – maybe you’ll get in, and make $10,000 your first month.  It doesn’t matter whether it’s a struggle of learning new skills, facing a little rejection, or going through a ‘rough patch‘ – Empower is NOT for you if you’re not willing to face some pain in your life, and overcome it.

2.  People who want everything to be perfect before they start.  I have a core philosophy, and that is to break things, and innovate.  The fact is, if we’re perfect – we can’t grow.  The beauty in life happens in the pain of change, and Empower Network is a grass roots movement.  Part of being ‘grass roots’ is getting aches and pains, and growing stronger through the fire.  Real entrepreneurs understand that the greatest opportunity lies in the wake of innovation.

3.  Wussies.  Empower Network has a strict ‘no wussies allowed’ policy.  What exactly is a wussy?  It’s someone that blames the world for the problems that they create in life, and doesn’t preserver through challenge.  No whining, no complaining, if you want to be here.  We are here to Empower your vision, not to do it for you.  If you take personal responsibility for your own results – you’ll LOVE the culture at Empower Network.  If you love to blame others, we’ll probably make you mad when we call you a ‘wussy’.

If you want to succeed – work hard, and take responsibility, dangit!

Ok, that’s who Empower Network is not for.  Here’s who it is for:

1.  Real Entrepreneurs.  People who want to innovate, and be on the front lines of growth in the marketing world are automatically attracted to the culture we have in Empower.  We have a ‘No B.S.’ attitude, that has carried us through two MASSIVE hurdles and helped us do more than $4.2 million in sales in our first 140 days, and triumph through the struggle.

Who is a real entrepreneur?  Someone who is ready to tackle a challenge, someone who wants to grow, and learn WHILE doing.  We need to get rid of this ‘get perfect before we try’ attitude, and ATTACK our problems head on, with the ferocity of a wild Lion.  Like Bruce Lee, we like to ‘Attack the Attack’.

2.  People who like RESULTS based marketing education.  At Empower Network, we only teach what we do ourselves.  All the way from the founders, with Dave Sharpe and I, to the field leaders – we teach NOTHING that isn’t proven to create results.  Even if you don’t want to make money selling our training products, you won’t find better education anywhere – either offline or online – there is a reason for this, and it has to do with the third type of person.

3.  People who want to make REAL MONEY when they sell stuff, and are sick of the crap.  The reason why our marketing education is so cutting edge is because our affiliate compensation model is attracting the best direct response marketers in the world.  Why?  Because they make more money selling our stuff, than anything they’ve ever sold before.

*  Key:  You still have to do the work, to generate traffic and create sales.  We’ll help you.  We’ll give you tools – however, your results are YOUR personal responsibility.

We get real marketers, getting results NOW to do all of our trainings at Empower, so you always have real, up to date, live strategies that work RIGHT NOW in the marketing world, rather than being trapped in the never ending cycle of product launches.  If you buy our stuff – you don’t need ANYTHING else.  Period.

We have the numbers to back that up.  If you’re a leader in Empower Network – feel free to share your own results below.  * See income disclaimer – we publish average earnings statistics based on actual payouts and commissions, updated daily.  We are not afraid of what our people are earning, and some make no money at all.

If you fall into this ‘elite’ group, and you want to get results online, you may have one of the common objections to joining that I’m going to list below.  I’m not going to answer everything, just the major ones – I can attack smaller issues in a future post.

Objection #1:

Empower Network is just another ‘Attraction Marketing System’ – I tried that!  Or, I’m already in a system!

The Facts:  Empower is not a competition, or even in the same niche as ‘Attraction Marketing’.  We are related to the niche, but not in it.  What do I mean?  These kinds of companies provide systems and tools (good ones) to teach you how to create a totally branded funnel online – with your own videos, own face, own copywriting, and complete branded skill set.

We are not an ‘attraction marketing’ company – we are a direct response and personal development company.  Attraction Marketing teaches personal branding and personality marketing as the core of the message – and we teach conversions, response, direct marketing, and profit margins.  Although we teach the concepts that will allow you to do this when the time is right – we believe that it is not the right thing for brand new marketers to be running around creating custom built sales processes.

Why?  They usually suck at it for about 2 years before they get any results.  We teach people how to get results now by driving targeted traffic to a high converting, extremely profitable offer, and then using relationship marketing to create up sells and team sales and growth.

So, instead, we operate our business around sales funnels built by people who know how to sell stuff – and teach everyone how to operate within a system around that process.

Think of it this way – if Tony Robbins came to you and said:  ”Here’s the deal – I’ll do the selling, make the funnels, do the up sells, close your customers, and build the process – and YOU can keep 100% of the commissions from product sales…”

Would you rather do the selling yourself?  Exactly.  He can do it better – so can we, and we have proof.

It works better for new people.  However, some people still want to create their own funnels, and they are free to do that.  I encourage new people not to, though, when they’re new.  Usually, they get significantly worse conversions than our sales funnels – that are built by people who know how to sell stuff.  Later, when you’re making money, learning these things can be useful if you want to create your own company – but for the first year, or two, they will stop you dead in your tracks if you focus on it.

We’re targeting a wider audience – in the ‘Make Money’ niche, ‘Affiliate Marketing’ and generic ‘Work from Home’ and attract audiences from all of it.  My goal in forming this company was to create something that attracted and compelled the masses, not something that stayed in the Network Marketing niche – it’s one of the core reasons we’ve grown so fast.  People who don’t even like MLM are attracted to the simplicity and speed of growth of the Empower Network model.

Attraction marketing companies are extremely valuable too, they just fall within a different market.  We’re not even making a remote attempt to compete with them, we’re going after a different, bigger group – we’ve got a vision to put 250,000 customers in Empower Network in the next 12 months, something that is not possible in such a narrow, focused niche.

Objection #2:

Internet marketing doesn’t duplicate!  Do home meetings, dangit!!!!

The reason why people think this, isn’t because it’s true – it has to do with another objection that people usually have, and it is an objection created by ‘Attraction Marketing.’  The objection is valid if you’re a traditional network marketer, but it doesn’t apply to Empower Network.

Why?  Because Empower Network doesn’t teach attraction marketing, we’re a direct response company, that handles front and back end sales conversions – and teaches people how to narrow their focus down to one skill:  Getting Traffic.

The fact?  Getting Traffic is easy to teach if you take out the technical and management complications that drive the rest of the marketing niche.

Empower Network DOES duplicate, and we can prove it.  Look at the numbers – we’ve now existed for 140 days, and have more than 20,109 customers who have bought our blogging system.  Does your offline team duplicate that fast?  Probably not.

The fact is – it might – but saying that Internet Marketing can’t duplicate just isn’t true, when you look at the numbers.  The reason why internet marketing doesn’t duplicate, is because most people are trying to teach everyone to be gurus, not focus on basics that everyone can do.

We’ve solved that issue, and are growing faster than most actual, grass roots belly to belly network marketing companies.  Again – is this true normally?  Sure.

It actually makes a lot of sense why most belly to belly network marketing leaders keep their teams off of the internet – it’s a total disaster to duplication and growth, because it’s so damned complicated.

Here though, it doesn’t apply.

I’m actually going to speak at an event with Eric Worre who runs Network Marketing PRO, because Empower is the only system that has started online, that actually does duplicate the way that direct sales companies are supposed to.

I actually only know of one team, ever that has put in 20,109 active customers in 140 days in a traditional network marketing company.  I know there are probably more, but it doesn’t happen very often.  (keep in mind, that was through MASSIVE adversity – and we still did it).  Empower grows fast because it is simple, appealing, and the math works.

This is just the start.

Objection #3:

I already have a business!  I’m so in love with my soap, it’s unreal!!!

This is the fun part.  We don’t care.  Sell whatever you want here.  Obviously, don’t be a moron, and spam your links in the comments – not only does it not work, but it makes you look dumb, too.  As long as it’s honest and legal – you’re free to sell it here.  Go for it.

That’s the beauty – we don’t care what you sell.  We’ll help you learn to sell more of it.

I was on the phone with a VP of banking the other week – he said “Dave, this marketing can help ANYONE – I’m going to join this and recommend it to my clients as a way to enhance their marketing presence…”

There’s no better education in online marketing, period.  If you love your soap, vitamins, coins, or top tier deal – cool.  Let’s help you learn to sell more of it, and in the process, help you create a ‘front end’ funnel that actually pulls in enough conversions and sales to pay for your whole marketing process.

Obviously, we have rules – respect them – but wherever you are, let’s take your success, and stretch it to a whole new level.

Objection #4:

Is this a pyramid scheme?

Lol.  This one’s pretty rare, but still pops up from time to time.

There’s a core, simple differentiation between pyramid schemes and legitimate direct sales marketing companies – and that is:

1) Are commissions being paid for recruiting affiliates?  Of course, the answer is no.  People in Empower Network only earn commissions when they sell a product to someone using it.  There is no ‘front loading‘ of any kind, and no required purchases.

(Of course – call me biased – I think you should just buy everything)

The difference with our affiliate model and others in the market place is that we payout 100% of the revenue from product sales in our commission structure.  (minus of course, normal processing fees – which vary depending on whether we are processing transactions and paying you, or you are using your own merchant account).

That means on a $500 sale, after the fees from a normal merchant account, all of it is paid to someone in the compensation model.  Make a $500 sale – say your processing is 6% – that means you would keep $470.  Lol.  You don’t even have to develop the product, or manage it.

That’s pretty sick.

The best part?  Every customer you bring in is coded to you for all future product sales in that compensation structure.  So if they keep buying stuff – you keep getting the commissions from future things they buy, see the ‘Getting Money’ tab for more info on how our affiliate compensation model works.  It really is badass.

Why?  Because I built this company to pay you the way I’ve always wanted to be paid as a lowly affiliate, in the trenches – and the best part?  We’re marketing, and making sales with you, so if we tell you something is working – we know it is, because we’re doing it, too.

Sometimes, because we talk about money a lot, people don’t get how valuable our products are.  That’s ok, because they’re always blown away once they buy, and login to the actual training.  See the comments in this post, and if you’re in Empower, tell us your thoughts on the products.

Objection #5:

That ‘getting everyone merchant accounts’ thing didn’t work!  You’re right, it didn’t.  Part of being an entrepreneur, is trying things that other people think are risky and on the edge, and experimenting a little to fine tune your results.

I thought that getting tens of thousands of affiliates merchant accounts was a great idea – they could process their own transactions, and have people pay them for their sales.

The problem with the model is, it made banks a bit nervous – and rightly so – we brought in too many people too fast, and were a bit overwhelming.  As the owners of Empower Network, it’s better if we take on the risk management of our own business, and that way – we can focus on YOU.

It was a great theory that failed.  I can admit that.  Luckily, we now have a payment system in place where we will process transactions, and handle customer payments and affiliate payouts for you.  You and your people don’t have to handle any customer information or transactions, so you can focus on making sales and driving traffic to our high converting offers.

The best part?  It’s actually cheaper.  Most merchant accounts range from $30-$50 a month, plus per transaction fees.  You can use our wallet system for $19.95 per month, we’ll handle the customer information and keep the data safe, keep the customers happy, and then just pass our transaction fees on that we get, to you.

If you have a merchant account of your own, you can still use it for your own customer sales, you just don’t have to in order to work with us.  Personally – I like that, and our affiliates do, as well.  It’s stable, scalable, and allows us to personally work directly with our processor to make sure that our whole model is compliant and that we can be around for a long, long time.  It frees us to focus on our products, make them better, and create a better company infrastructure.  You’ll love it.

Objection #6:

Once you buy an Empower Network product – they’re always talking about buying more stuff!!!  Lol.  Of course – like any great business, we want you to buy stuff that will benefit your business.

We built our sales model around a simple up sell process that I designed with David Sharpe based on the last 3 years of successful marketing.  You have to think about this from two perspectives:

1.  As a customer – would you rather that we were honest, and sold you everything that you needed to be successful in your business?  Or would you rather that we were weak, and only sold you cheap, ineffective crap?  I’ll take quality over quantity every day of the week.  At Empower Network, I believe that if you buy all of our marketing products, you literally don’t need any other information to succeed online.  Period.  I’m not afraid to tell you to buy stuff, right now that is going to benefit you in your business.

2.  As an affiliate – would you rather that we helped you earn 100% commissions on only one product?  Or did a GREAT job at selling your customers lots of products, that you also get all the commissions on?

Personally, I would love it if I sent a customer somewhere, they kept buying stuff – and I kept getting commissions.  Our sales model has the highest up sell conversions that I’ve ever seen on the internet.  Our sales leadership says the same thing.

If you’ve made money from Dave Sharpe and I selling, and up-selling for you – tell us about it in the comments.  In most affiliate companies – if you send them a customer, you might get the first commission.  After that, though – it’s fair game.  Anyone can steal the affiliate tracking on future upsells.

YOU gave them the customer!  At Empower Network, we value your business.  See our compensation model (of course) to see the structure of the 100% payout on core product sales, and you’ll realize that there is LIFETIME value in sending us customers – and we have better sales conversions than anyone in the niche.

If you know how to drive traffic – we’re the best place in the world to send it, in my opinion.  Why do I say that?  Because I’ve never made as much money sending traffic anywhere as our affiliates make sending traffic here – and I’m a danged super affiliate with a monster sized list.  It really is just… gangster

Would you rather send a customer to someone who will make you send that person back to get another commission?  Or have life time customer value?

You’ll REALLY value our up sell process if you refer a lot of business our way.  Try it – send us 1,000 customers, and see how we do in helping you teach, train, coach, mentor, and help your people succeed in their business.

Objection #7:  I don’t want to do it!  That’s not an objection, it’s a preference.  You’re welcome not to.  Some people want wussy, teenie weenie little 20 and 30% commissions, and like staying stuck in business and life.  Other people just want to work a job, and have one person at the head of their company boss them around, control their future, and control how much money they do, or don’t make.

Other people want to hassle with blog setup, technical infrastructure, making and creating sales funnels, and doing it all themselves.  Others care about branding more than sales conversions, commission payouts, and the bottom line.

Other people just want a normal life – and think we’re a bit weird.  They want to sit in a cubicle, get fat, and eat potato chips.

That’s fine – you’re welcome to do whatever you want in life, and I congratulate you for being honest.  However, if you’re ready to take massive action, learn REAL marketing skills, get real results, and decide to change your life…

…welcome to the Empower Network.  

(Just get in, already)

We’re here to EMPOWER your success – and I’ll be damned if I don’t die trying to help make you into a better, richer, fuller human being – that reaches your unlimited, beautiful potential.

To YOUR Success,

Viral Marketing. How can you implement viral marketing into your business?

Today’s question is “What is Viral Marketing“. You hear this term a lot of times and it sounds good. But what exactly is it? I have spent some time researching it and I decided to use some viral marketing. Guess where??? Right here on this very blog. With specialized software and plugins one can get amazing results with viral marketing without tying yourself to your LCD screen. I’ve got some really cool data that I want to share & it’s coming from this blog. Now I’m going to share with you 3 things about viral marketing that I think you can apply that will work. I will talk about how they work & how I implemented them.

The third one actually I have not yet implemented yet, but I will soon, so I will give you a sneak peak on how you will be using it. First of all viral marketing is basically any kind of viral marketing that is shared via social media and word of mouth. You know one thing that I don’t like is when people talk about traffic generation techniques; they will list viral marketing as a separate thing. It`s the same. Viral marketing sits above it all. You do anything, and it turns viral. Social marketing, article marketing, video marketing, even your paid marketing, press release marketing, brand marketing. All of these can go viral.

Empower Networks program is purest of all viral marketing technology since the whole blog system is promoted via individual owners and something we call “Empower Networks Tribal Culture”. For sure this has never been seen anywhere else either online or off. Viral is just what happens with your marketing after you release it.

So the point of viral marketing is for you to create something and then it gets spread throughout the world virally. This is exactly how MSN`s Hotmail and Yahoo Mail became what they are. They became what Hotmail was and then got acquired by Microsoft. Just because every email that went out had a little footer saying “Sign up now for your own free email account,” that’s viral marketing. Watch YouTube. YouTube page template is full of viral marketing links. Look at some of the top videos on YouTube. How many videos have you sent to your friends because you thought that they were funny? That is you participating in viral marketing. How many times have you Tweeted, or FaceBook’ed something that is funny or a link to something. That is you taking part in viral marketing.

So what we want to do in viral marketing is flip it. How can we devise a way that will make other people want to tell other people about it? Basically word of mouth is viral marketing. So the 3rd technique that I discuss below are viral videos. There is nothing new to say there. It’s video marketing at its best. You are watching something that I hope will go viral in some time. I am going to share with you proof and evidence in a second that what I have been doing HAS gone viral.

Second is incentivized social media. This is a great thing. By the way, let me take a quick break. There are a lot of viral ideas and I ripped actually 3 of these away from a report that my friends put together. You will have to share your name and email to get it. It’s not mine, it’s his, but I wanted to give him a shot out. It’s a great report, read it if you want to know more about viral marketing.

So again the second to consider in your viral marketing campaigns is one of incentive social media. You want an example, look on the right side of the blog, or if you are watching this video somewhere else go to AnikSingal. Come and you will see that when I say ‘win ipads’ and ‘win this and that’ go and read that page. This is what incentivized social media is. I want you to tweet about me, I want you to FaceBook me and in exchange I bribe you with something. That’s incentivized social media, see it for yourself. Go to Twitter and type @viralmlmsystem and you will see that there are hundreds of people that have done this and that has helped me make this blog viral.

The third one is what you call Stats Based Press Releases. This is one of my favorite ones. I haven’t done this for quite some time, but I want to start doing this again. It’s the easiest way to go viral to media.

It’s one thing to go viral to consumers and to people. But it’s another ball game to go viral in media. And I did it. I did this once and the whole thing was absolutely mind blowing. So here it is in black and white. Anik Singal launched not so long ago, 134,234 visits since launch. Whooping 271,957 page views. That’s around 300,000 page views in 3 weeks. I accept that I have a list that I market to. 72% of them new visitors. My list isn’t that big. My posts have been going viral.

Scroll down my blog and you will see how many times things are being tweeted. You will see how many times it was tagged “like” on FaceBook. You will see that I am using FaceBook plug-in for comments. That means this is how many times it’s being spread on FaceBook. Right now FaceBook is already referring 1% of my traffic.

Now I know that doesn’t sound like a lot. But I just started. It’s already got me size-able free traffic. I have no idea where it’s coming from. The rest of it is direct type in traffic. This means my links being forwarded by people to each other. A total of 55% of my traffic is coming from that. That only means that the rest of my traffic is coming from people clicking theirs emails. 55% is just being forwarded around. My most popular post got a little over 14000 views. Trust me I wont be able to get that many clicks even if I mailed my own database. This is viral.

One of my favorite viral marketing plugins is the ping.fm. This awesome tool syndicates your blogposts to all of the social media sites you may have instantly. Publishing a post will send content to be shared on twitter, facebook, myspace, bebo and just about any social site you could use. This makes viral marketing easy for anyone to implement.

Second top video, 11600 views. Now it’s very obvious that I have been doing viral video marketing. And I have been trying my hand at incentivized social media. And I have done some of the other viral marketing; tips that are in the report if you need to know. The third system you are going to see me use very soon is Stats Based Press Releases. And what are those, I will explain them in another video. So to sum it up, viral marketing is very cool. But it is not its own traffic generation technique. It’s something that you can use in any of your other marketing methods.

Properly implemented viral marketing can take on a life of its own. Driving traffic and inquiries to your project. It can be very infectious.

Become part of this phenomenal culture called “Empower Networks Tribal Culture” Learn the techniques of viral marketing and start living the life of your choosing. Earning a living with online marketing you will discover that this world has so much to offer being able to have the freedom to do what you want, where you want for as long as you want to. It all starts with this movie.

I look forward to seeing you on the beaches of the world.

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Duncan