Internet Marketing And The Tip-Over Point
Copyright 2006 Donovan Baldwin

People in network marketing and internet marketing are
always looking for the tip-over point.

The tip-over point is hard to pinpoint, but its effect can
be awesome and hard to miss.

Let's say you have signed up with a new internet business
opportunity. You have your website, and you have done all
the promotional stuff...search engine optimization, built
an opt-in mailing list, post on forums, write
articles...the whole nine yards. Then you wait. Maybe an
order or two trickles in, but after a while, that dries up,
if it ever happens at all.

So, you try a couple of new tactics, redesign the page,
join a couple more forums, try some free classified
advertising and sit back again. Same thing.

Now, at this point, 99.99999% of new internet marketers or
network marketers are going to throw in the towel and start
telling anybody they meet that internet marketing and/or
network marketing is a scam...a rip-off!

Here's a fact for you. It is going to take time to make
your home or internet business successful. Even if you are
doing all the right things, success will probably not come
to you overnight. Even if you DO the right things, you are
more likely to be successful if you KEEP doing them!

It's sort of like pushing a rock up a hill. You pushed it,
you moved it, and the place you are trying to get to with
the rock is closer, but you aren't there yet. As you
continue to push, you may hit rough spots or slick spots,
and even slide back down the hill from time to time, but if
you keep on pushing, you will eventually reach a spot where
things change.

With pushing a rock up a hill, it's the crest of the hill.
You just keep doing what you've been doing, and the rock
will reach the crest of the hill. Depending on the slope
of the downhill side, and the speed with which you were
pushing when you hit the top, and the snags that might get
in the way, you will find pushing the rock just got easier,
and you might not even be able to catch up with it at all.

There's a spot in internet and network marketing that is
similar. You've been placing the advertisements, writing
the articles, visiting the forums with little or no signs
of success. Then, one day, you find that you've made a
sale. The next one might be a day or a week away, but you
keep doing what you've been doing and they get closer
together...maybe even several in the same day.

You have finally reached the tip-over point. That's the
point in which all that you have done has pushed your home
or internet business onto a plane where it almost seems
like it has a life of its own. However, if you quit doing
what you've been doing, things might slow down or come back
to a stop.

People in multi-level marketing (MLM) sometimes get to
really see the tip-over in a way that non-MLM people seldom
do. I've had friends in multi-level marketing who spent
all their time trying to sell product and just recruited
the occasional new down line member. As commonly happens,
most of these people fall by the wayside and never really
produce anything. However, if enough people have been
added to the down line, it is likely that some quality
producers will emerge. When enough of these people have
been added and they have gotten their collective feet on
the ground, they can make a network marketing, or internet
marketing, business grow by leaps and bounds.

I often mention my two friends who became millionaires in
two different network marketing programs. Neither made
tons of money from their own sales. Both took between
three and four years to hit their tip-over point. When it
arrived however; when they had enough people in their down
lines that were producing income and building THEIR down
lines, that's when my friends saw their checks skyrocket.
One month, one was showing me a check for over $25,000.00.
Two months later, he got one for over $50,000.00. A few
months after that, he was making over $100,000.00 a month!

Now THAT'S a tip-over!
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