Teams are great. People love working together. I wish I had someone working with me in my office with me. I know we "aren't supposed to" mix politics and religion with business, but this really sums it up great:
"Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work: If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up!" Proverbs 4:9-10
The problem with teams is that there is always a team leader. The positive with teams there is always a team leader too. But if that leader is bad, or were to disappear (it happens all the time online, for legitimate reasons too!), or even just went another direction than you wanted, you have nothing you can do about it but start all over.
So.. Introducing.. a VIRAL Team Concept!
Here's what you do.. ALL of you now! Create your own team!
Whaaaat? I know crazy right? But think about this.. If you are all signed up under each other in the matrix, then if you are all building teams you'll all benefit from it.
Take Traffic Wave for example.. You start by building a list teaching people how to use Traffic Wave. The in's and out's of auto-responders. They are now auto-responder kings. Or at the very least they know how it works. You walk them through the entire process, join their list, make sure it's write. Pure hand holding.
You teach them how to make a list that does the same thing. You teach them how to emulate exactly what you did. Not copy & paste your emails, let them write them in their own style. But the same topic.. How to use an auto-responder, how to use it to build your business, etc.
Then teach them how to go offline, online, anyline and get people on that list. Teach them about auto-responders, why they need them, how to use them, etc. Then teach them how to do the same thing and emulate again.
See the idea here? You don't have to get everyone promoting Traffic Wave either. The magic is that you can teach real businesses offline how to use a list. I say this all the time, and I know at least one person is doing it, but restaurants LOVE this kind of stuff but they don't have anyone teach them or know that you can do it for $20/month..
They get approached all the time by companies who want to charge HUNDREDS to do the same thing. It's easy picking. You can also teach people online who already have the internet marketing drive to do the same thing.
Getting a healthy mix of both you'll fill those levels up faster than you can blink. OK not really, but faster than only promoting to people who each want 10 more people under them without doing anything but promoting to people who also want 10 people under them. The math doesn't work.
Get people who just want the AR in there! The way a matrix works, they don't have to promote it for you to fill all the levels. It will fill it in as needed.
So there you go, each of you build your own team. Don't have your prospects know your team leader's name, only have them know YOUR name. Same with them, don't have them tell their prospects YOUR name, have them tell them THEIR name.
You can keep your team leader, bounce ideas off them as you build your team. And same for people in your team. But quit teaching all your prospects your leader's name and being forgotten yourself! Quit building someone else's list, and BUILD YOUR OWN!
PS. I've got an ebook coming. If I get 200 comments from 200 different people on this post I'll give it out completely free to everyone subscribed to my blog.
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I’m only commenting because of your blatant beg for 200 comments :P
I’ll try to get it going Tim …. :D
Yes, teams that are for helping each other are great. One person comes up with a new idea, shares it and everyone benefits. As long as that sharing goes every which way and not just in one direction … up.
Co-ompetition is the key.
Diane
Seems I respond to a good begging as well LOL :)
For the record (being serious now, lol)… you’ve brought up that about taking the AR email idea to offline/outside businesses before and that’s definitely a great idea. There is a basically huge and unlimited untapped market out there for that and that idea is still in the back of my mind ever since you first brought that up.
Those are also good points about building up the team from team leader to next person being their “own” leader. I think a lot of us who frequently get involved in programs together have somewhat done that with some success – as in I’ve brought, say, Brenda and a few people into something and kind of “manage” them from an upline/leader standpoint and then Brenda sort of “leads” and “manages” her own people she brings along.
I think that works best in most all scenarios. After all, if you’re “the” team leader and your team grows to 10,000 people – how could you possibly give the kind of time and attention to each team member that they need or could use?
I read this right after Jon Olson’s article about teams. It’s really funny because I was trying to decide last night whether I should join a TrafficWave team or just get the auto-responder and use it to do what you described. Last night I also joined a site for networkers that helps you build your own team before joining a program. Enjoying your blog!
Thanks Tim.
You have given me a lot to think about. I actually have been doing both the TEAM Concept and the Self Branding/List Building but you just made me realize I have to step up my game.
Thanks!
This concept is what we are ALL about at Ultimate Income Funnel! We provide people the tools to learn to market themselves online and then just give them a team approach to it. Everyone, in turn, has to brand themselves as leaders to really progress in this. Besides using this awesome team concept, we also use the ONE program on the net that promotes all the marketing tools under one roof, NPN! Nowhere else can you find an autoresponder, capture page creator, ad tracking tools, url rotator, and many other tools for as little as $10.75 a month!
I love the team concept, as my dad (Dave Goodwin) and I have been working as a team for years now. We have always found that by working together to brand ourselves, we will always stick out more then by just promoting some generic affiliate program.
Tim, I am totally agreeing with you here! I am sick of all the teams out there that just tell you to promote their pages and then they will give you referrals based on your work! I thought we started working online to get away from working a JOB!!!
Isn’t it about time we really started to take control of our financial futures? To everyone out there that is working online, the most important thing that you can ever do is promote yourself first! You must learn this rule if you are ever looking to stay online working in any professional manner.
Sorry about the long rant, but this has just gone too far, and I would really like to start getting the truth out there about teams!
To Our Success,
Steven Goodwin
What are the names of the mail servers that NPN uses to send customers emails?
I have been curious about NPN, but I need to check the the deliverabilty of the service before I form make an informed
decison
The main mail server that NPN uses is multisponderelite.com, but we also use smtp.com for top deliverability. If you have any more questions, please don’t hesitate to shoot me an email at [email protected]. Dave (my dad) and I would love to help you get going!
To Your Success,
Steven Goodwin
ROFL I knew this was coming hehehe Saw your post on HEN and figured you would post about this. I love the concept though and am glad you came through with this idea so quickly :)
here is one more
Tim,
I absolutely agree with you with everything you have said. Having said that, I am a team leader for one of the TW programs out there and I use a combination of methods to help build my team members’ downlines.
Firstly, the obvious…everyone promotes for the team and when it’s your turn, the team will get you sign ups. However, people need to also take charge of their own business if they truly wish to succeed. If they are totally dependent on a team leader giving them sign ups, and their sign ups sign ups etc…they have lost all power.
With my team, I encourage every team member to promote for themselves also and build their own lists with their own TW autoresponder. They are paying for it, so they might as well learn how to use it effectively. I actively teach my team how to use their autoresponder, how to go about promoting their own affiliate link and even go as far as having a weekly competition where the outstanding team player wins a capture page designed to promote and build their own list.
I think the team concept has a lot of merit, particularly for those who are just getting started and don’t have a clue as to how to begin. Once they become more “internet savvy” , if they are ambitious enough, they will learn the skills to build their own list.
Combining all of this seems to be the correct approach for my team. But yes, anyone who wishes to become successful online NEEDS to learn how to market for himself. What’s that old saying? “Give a man a fish and feed him for a day..teach him to fish and feed him for life”.
Btw..always love your updates…great insight.
To our success
Shane Collier
Hooray – some sanity at last.
I thought here must have been something wrong with my maths, or maybe global warming had had an effect upon mathematical probabilities and certainties.
It’s about time somebody pointed out the real opportunity of “team building”/ real leadership and the resultant opportunities.
And conversely the real dangers of getting sucked blindly into a team that has no other point of existence then to fill a matrix.
Matrices make great compensation models if you are training and coaching people how to use real products.
When the point of the matrix is the matrix then your whole business model is built on sand. Teams that use this matrix rotator model or whatever it is are in reality press ganging people into click automatons. They aren’t teaching skills, they’re teaching dependency – dependency on a flawed business model.
i haven’t a clue about ANY of this and thats no joke
Good thoughts, Tim!
Perhaps the winds, they are a changin’…lol
The time might be right for a team concept business model, that benefits the members as it should, while still benefiting the main program, as well.
I believe Jon is working on just such a model, in his spare time… lol
Carl
Well Tim, I really hope that we manage to get a free copy of your e-book, but that is not the only reason I’m posting.
Right now, I’m using a free auto responder, and I’m quite pleased with it. I was with Traffic Wave, then I was with MIB, then I was with OceanSwell…I didn’t make any money, but I managed to spend a few dollars.
I love your idea, and it comes at a perfect time for me. I have gone in my own direction, and with the expansion of my business, this I feel, will benefit me, and those that are on my list. I have learned from my years on the internet that some times, you have to do things your own way.
Thanks for the outstanding suggestion! Now, I have to put a plan in motion!
Donna Maske (a.k.a. RoxyGirl)
I have learned that the team concept has two meanings to some.
1. Join up and promote for the team in a rotator and benefit the top end.
2 Join up and have the help and training I need to get the job done so I
can teach my downline to do the same. In the group I am in I have learned how to use an autoresponder (one of my stumbling blocks), how to start branding myself, how to host my own banners, etc. In our group we call it friends and partners.
I joined a lot of things at first not knowing what I was doing and now it is easier knowing the steps to take to move forward. I like Lynn’s idea to train your downline to be the leader of their own team to keep everyone moving forward. No matrix needed really as it is building a better foundation if you are helping your downline and not expecting someone to build for you.
That is why I read your blog regularly to see what else I need to keep moving forward.
Ann
I believe you can learn from the team concept
to get your feet wet in online marketing and
even make a few bucks along the way.
Then you can move on to become your own
leader.
Ted
ps I love suellen roley’s comment
ps I love
come on, send that book to your list :
I think zig ziglar said it best you can only get what you want if you help
enough other people get what they want.
Lead teach train duplicate work together as a team
steve
I agree with you, Steve. And Tim. Finding a good team that will all contribute is tough, but still working on it!
To be honest, I’m just commenting for the book…not sure I quite understand the viral team thing.
Hey Tim,
That’s a great post, thank for the ideas you brought forward, there is a lot of logic behind this and it deserve to be looked at seriously by all of us since there isn’t much worst then loosing precious months of time and efforts building a team that will simply end up forgotten by most of it’s members…
Thanks!
Another great Post Tim. I have been doing exactly that tring to show from my past mistakes. I am looking foward to your E book, I espically like the idea of using outside businesses and am developing a plan right now to utilize thier customer base.
Thanks Again
Murray
Hi Tim,
I will admit that I am a member of Team Atlantis, but I was a member of TrafficWave first, then joined the team!! Didi has taught us not only how to use TraffcWave’s AutoResponder but also how to become a better leader ourselves.
I agree with you that Everyone needs to brand themselves and make their own lists. Some of us just need more Hands On training!! LOL some team leaders are only looking out for themselves & they will find themselves alone before too long I’m sure.
Thanks for another Great Topic!!
SilverDark
I am doing my best to learn about autoresponders and building lists and branding yourself now but there is a ton more to learn for me don’t know if I will ever get there but working on it day by day a little at a time.
I do like the idea of using autoresponders for local businesses don’t know how to set something like that up yet but it is a great idea.
davidg
Hi Tim,
This sounds great. I am very interested in the concept. I was wandering how to do this. I look forward to readig more on this subject.
Sherwood
a.k.a.
topflight
Excellent idea… you actually really got my wheels turning with the offline possibilities.
Well said Tim..We all have to build our own team..The Power of One just won’t work on the Internet..
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