One of the biggest questions I get online is 'Gavin, how do I set up my blog?' and to be honest, if you've never done it before, it can seem rather daunting!
3-4 years ago, I learned the hard way… (trial and error) until eventually I succeeded and built my own Network Marketing blog.
I was happy 
It didn't look great, but hey, I'd done it and now I could teach others how to do the same.
So, if you've seen all those superstar bloggers on Facebook, in the tribes, and on the web with their own great looking blogs, I'm about to show you how they did it!
All you need is:
- A Domain Name and a Hosting Account
- The knowledge to Install wordpress
- A Premium Wordpress Theme
- Killer graphics to bring your blog ALIVE
So, lets dive straight in and follow along with me as I show you exactly how to set up your own fantastic looking Wordpress Network Marketing blog
Fast Start Blog Set up Guide
Step 1
Click here to Grab a domain name and hosting account from Host Gator.
I've been using HostGator for years for several of my blogs. They are a reliable company with great support, therefore I am recommending them to you.
Watch the video below as I show you how to set this up.
(Have a look at the icons at the bottom of the video player and click the little square icon, which will allow you to view the video in full screen so you can see exactly what I'm doing. Otherwise you may struggle to see.)
Step 2
Install Wordpress on your hosting account. (Follow the instructions in the video below and remember that once you've finished step 1, it can take anywhere from 12-48 hours for your domain name to propagate so it works correctly. You'll need to have patience for this part
Step 3
Click here to Buy your premium Wordpress Theme. This will help bring your blog alive. Make sure you watch the instructional video below to learn how to buy and install your theme…
There are thousands of Wordpress themes online, but I recommend Woo Themes as a great place to get your Premium theme from. If you've got a Woo theme installed on your blog, you'll then be able to follow along with the rest of my Wordpress video course where I'll show you how to customize your theme and add your plugins etc. (Keep an eye out on my blog for the rest of the course)
Congratulations, You've Just Installed Your Brand New Blog!
You can now take the following steps to further enhance your blog and earn an income at the same time…
Step 4
Click here to Order your Killer MLM Graphics Kit to make your blog STAND OUT!
When you've installed your new blog, with your Premium theme, there will still be a few things missing. You'll want a Killer Header and a custom Add me Button which you'll find on this page.
Armed with your brand new blog, premium theme and killer graphics, you'll quickly be seen as an expert in the Network Marketing industry which will help you generate many more leads and prospects for your business, give you the credibility you need and help you earn a much bigger income from this business.
Step 5
If you struggle to set up your blog in anyway, or just don't have the time to do it, you can pay us to set it up for you. So, Click here to take advantage of our Done for you MLM Blog Starter Kit service!
Step 6
Sign up for my affiliate program and earn up to $299.40 per sale.
If you don't already have an account here at GavinMountford.com then quickly sign up for your affiliate link, and come back to this page. You'll then be able to share this blog post with your affiliate link. (Watch the video below)
Step 7
Once you've signed up for an account here, make sure you login and your grab your affiliate link for this specific page here:
You'll earn commissions on anyone clicking on your link and purchasing our Killer MLM Graphics kit, Done for your blogging services or Social MLM Secrets multi media course
Step 8
Make your affiliate link short. Go to http://bit.ly and shorten it before putting it out on Facebook or Twitter.
Step 9
Log-in to your Facebook account and share your affiliate link, which should now be a bit.ly link.
Here are a few ideas for you to use to share this blog post and earn an income at the same time. If possible, write your own 140 character info to add to your Facebook profile or Twitter account.
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Step 10
Login to your http://www.twitter.com account and send these tweets out over the next few days. (Or schedule them using Social Oomph, or Twaitter.
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Step 11
Just for the fun of it, and to keep up with what I'm doing on Facebook, please join my Facebook fan page and drop me a message on Facebook.
Drop me your comments at the bottom of this post if you liked it & please share on Facebook and Twitter
Thank You,
Gavin Mountford
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Email Overwhelm…
I used to have so many inboxes and email that I just didn't know if I was coming or going. My inbox was overflowing and I was missing important emails because of it. Frustrated, overworked, stressed out and overwhelm were all regular emotions for me…
Was I supposed to leave messages unread or read if I had to take action on that email? Where was I supposed to file my emails for reference, and how was I supposed to manage this much JUNK?
Email was dominating my life. Every 2 mins I'd go and check it. "Oh, I wonder if I've got a new email, let me check" I didn't actually realise it was costing me a lot of time and was switching my focus away from what I was working on.
I was an email slave.
Then one day, salvation came… I found a solution. (Well, it actually took me 6-12 months to learn how to implement it all, but it was worth it)
David Allen, Getting things done and the Zero Inbox saved me. Finally I was able to take control of my email, and ultimately my life. No longer was I a slave to the electronic message.
1. How To Take Control Of Your Inbox
Video 1 – I show you how I manage my email inbox and how you can do the same. Use the same workflow that most highly productive people use and breeze through your emails in a FLASH.
2. Creating Power Labels
Labels are very powerful. The 3 main ones I have are:
@Action
@ActionLTO
@ActionMLM
The reason I use the @ symbol is that it makes that label appear at the top of my labels rather than half way down because symbols appear higher than numbers. You could also call it 1-Action if you wanted to.
Remember, you will want to put all the items you need to do into your @Action label. My @Action is for tasks I need to do for my personal life. My @ActionMLM is for all MLM related tasks and email's to reply to.
I also use a to-do list/planner which I won't discuss in this post, but will do in the future.
My other labels are R/label – The R/ Stands for reference, and to be honest, whilst I have about 50 labels to file my emails into… you actually only need R/Reference. 1 (one) label and put all your reference material in it. Gmail has a fantastic search facility which can find pretty much every email you ever received if you search for it by keyword.
Video 2 – Here is how I create labels in Gmail and control my email to avoid overwhelm.
3. Filter Out Unwanted Email (Trash!)
Filtering your emails is very important. I am subscribed to hundreds of newsletters and I have a LOT of email coming in. I like to be able to filter it and send some of it to specific labels so I never actually see it in my inbox and once per week I can go and skim through all the newsletters and pick out something to read.
Video 3 – Here I show you how I filter out unwanted email in Gmail, which allows me to keep my inbox relatively clear. This is very powerful and if you don't use it, then you must.
4. Directing All Emails Into One Inbox (Streamline)
I must have about 10 different email addresses and I used to struggle managing them all. I would have to go to multiple places/ logins to read my different email. I'd have 3 gmail accounts, several website emails, my Facebook, Social networking, Better Networker emails + others and it was taking up a major part of my day.
Whilst I thought I was being productive, I was actually very unproductive. Never achieving anything, and always replying to email.
So, I wanted to show you how I bring all my emails into one place…
Video 4 – If you've got multiple email addresses, and multiple inboxes then here is how to import your other gmail accounts, and website emails into your main email address.
There are many email clients. Outlook Express, Outlook, Yahoo, Hotmail etc… but I chose Gmail because I could have the one Google account and have everything running through it.
I'd be interested in your thoughts on how you manage your email. Which client do you use and which methods do you employ?
If you like this post and can see the value of it for you, your team and Facebook friends etc. Please hit the share button's at the top of the post and share it on Facebook for all to see.
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Yesterday I received an email from a good friend of mine on Facebook to say that he'd just had his Facebook account hacked into and the hackers sent a message out to all his friends. (Neither of us have clicked on the link in the email so we aren't sure what the site is).
So, to his friends it looked like the message was coming from him and many people would have clicked the link.
Imagine the devestating effect that would have on your network marketing relationships… Make sure it doesn't happen to you.
I wanted to bring this information out to you as soon as possible to help protect you, so I've recorded a couple of videos…
Watch my first video to learn more about what's going on. Once you've watched the first video, watch the second video to learn how to protect yourself.
Here are the messages exchanged between myself and my friend… I've blurred his name out for Facebook privacy.
How To Protect Yourself.
Watch this video as I show you one of the methods I use to protect myself against this sort of thing.
Action Steps
1. Go to http://strongpasswordgenerator.com and change your Facebook password to a new password which is much stronger.
2. Generate yourself a new password using either 7 or 14 characters. (You can use symbols to be even more secure, or untick the box for an easier to remember password.)
3. Go to your Facebook account > Click on Settings > Account Settings > Password and change your password.
4. Remember your new password using Roboform or Firefox password manager, or search in Google for password managers.
I couldn't operate online without Roboform, Roboform2Go, GoodSync and Roboform online. I store all my passwords and usernames inside and I can protect it with a master password incase my computer gets stolen.
5. If you've followed the instructions in this post, click on the Re-Tweet button and pass it to your twitter friends, and add me a comment at the bottom so I know you've found it valuable or how I can improve it to help other people.
6. Share this post and video with your Facebook friends (just click on the share on Facebook button at the top of the post) so they can learn about this and change their passwords to something more secure.
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In November 2009 I received an email from a top networker named Eric Su who said he was putting together a report with 15 top MLM experts from around the globe. He'd been following my blog and content for the last 12 months, liked the way I'd contributed to the community and wanted to know if I'd be able to provide my predictions for 2010…
Eric wanted 15 top Network Marketing experts to all write a short article on how networkers can grow their business better in the year of 2010, or experts' predictions of the upcoming year in the network marketing industry.
So, being a person who NEVER misses an opportunity and ALWAYS jumps at any chance to be associated with bigger network marketers such as Ann Sieg, Norbert Orlewicz, Jim Yaghi and many more… I took the bull by the horns and set about preparing my 'award winning article' for the report.
Being the creator of the Facebook MLM Secrets course, naturally I decided to write about Facebook and how simple it is to use Facebook to build your network marketing business….
I titled my entry as:
I Feel So Overwhelmed & Frustrated With Online Network Marketing – (Surely It Can't Be This Hard Can It?)
I wanted to show people that actually they don't need to complicate things to succeed. In fact, most of the time it's the COMPLETE OPPOSITE.
Keep it simple and SUCCEED!
I won't go into too much detail about the report here as you can download it for free and with no opt-in below…
There are some fantastic articles and predictions for 2010 inside and I highly encourage you to download this report and read it for yourself….
You'll learn so much from these top Network Marketers. Everyone is an expert in their own right…
Here are some of the expert authors in the report… (along with the titles of their predictions)
- 2010, The Year of OZ – By Rod Nichols
- I Feel So Overwhelmed & Frustrated With Online Network Marketing – (Surely It Can't Be This Hard Can It?) – By Gavin Mountford
- The Essential Elements of Network Marketing Leadership – By Dr. Joe Rubino
- 5 Ways To Connect With Your Audience – By Barbara Silva
- Relational Network Marketing Forecast by Emma Tiebens
- How to Be The Hunted In 2010 By Andrew Murray
- How to Turn Your Leads Into Relationships – By Ty Tribble
- Network Marketing and the 4 Principles of Selection By Tracy Repchuk
- The Internet Will Not Build Your Network Marketing Business – By Norbert Orlewicz
- Developing Your Brand Using Social Media For Your Business Success in 2010 – By Diyana Alcheva
- The Power of the A to Z Presentation – By John Di Lemme
- The New Model of Team Building – By Ann Sieg
- Trends in Pay-Per-Click Marketing For 2010 – By Jim Yaghi
So, to download your copy and to make sure you position yourself correctly this year (2010) click this link below and save the pdf document to your computer where you can find it in the future.
Then visit each of the top experts to learn more about each of them…
Click Here to Download The 2010 Networker Report
I look forward to hearing your thoughts and comments below & click the twitter button to re-tweet this to your followers and downline.
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I've lost count of the amount of people who have asked me how I get the cool signature and image at the bottom of all my email messages and autoresponder messages so I've decided to compose this tutorial post and video's to show you exactly how I did it.
You want something that people can recognise so they know who you are. If you use the same contact details, tag line and image across all your social networking profiles, emails, autoresponders etc… people will start to REMEMBER YOU.
Make sure you watch both tutorial videos I've created and when you've completed your own signature, add a comment at the bottom of the post so I can see what it looks like.More on How To *Jazz Up* Your Email Signatures & AutoResponder Messages…
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