Ken Bryski's Blog

The Beginning Of a New Web Business

2008-02-18T23:09:00.000-08:00

Valentine's Day is past and that was the deadline for entries in the newest contest for Site Build It! owners. I think I was the 398th entry and there is a total of 661 entrants.

The idea behind the contest is to develop a new way of doing Multi Level Marketing or MLM. The old way of doing MLM is proven not to work. There are just far too many documented cases of the failure of the old methods of marketing to friends and family. The stories of the 661 contest entrants are proof enough for even the most stubborn old-time MLMer's to dispute.

Ken Evoy who is indisputably the greatest Internet marketer of all time has teamed up with Ann Sieg, a leader in the MLM industry, to lead and coach this group of people towards developing a new way of doing MLM online. No longer will we have to chase after every person whose name we can remember, in a quest to bring them into a business they have absolutely no interest in.

The new method will bring a steady stream of people who share the same interests and goals as we do. The new method of course involves a website with a primary goal of attracting those people. Once on the website, the information we share will lead these people into joining our business opportunities or trying our products.

Those who don't share our interests won't ever find our sites and if they do, and they're not our target market, the website can face the rejection for us. We only have to deal with the people who show an interest in our business opportunity or products.

To be eligible for the contest I have to start a new website. I can't mention the name of the company on the website and I can't use any of my other websites to promote it. That's so those of us who have been marketing on the Internet for awhile won't have an unfair advantage over the newer SBIer's.

There is a total of $20,000.00 in prizes for the websites that earn the most money in the last 3 months of their first year in business. All of the websites had to be registered between August 2007 and February 14, 2008. We already have a name for this new method, it's called InterNetwork Marketing. We just don't have the details of the method yet.

I'm sure this next year is going to be a very exciting one for SBI! owners and is something that I'm really looking forward to. The contest was the main reason for me transferring this site over to SBI! and taking the next step in my business plan of coaching a team in using SBI! to build their own businesses.

The next step is coming up with the niche I'm going to build this site around. The product I'm going to use is a nutritional fruit juice drink. The most important thing about promoting any product, whether through MLM or an affiliate program is to use the product yourself and ensure that it's a great product. Too many MLM companies promote the business opportunity and the product is secondary.

I think it's extremely important to have a product you feel passionate about and is providing you some benefit that you can share with others. You can read about this product and how I present it on another SBI! site I have that isn't in the contest.

I haven't decided whether I want to do a site that promotes the product or a site devoted to this new method of doing MLM online. Because the method includes Internet marketing, I'm inclined to go that route as I have far more experience in helping people set up marketing sites than I do in health related topics.

Oh well, the tools that SBI! provides will clear this up for me in a few more days. I'll let you know, although I won't be able to tell you the name of the website. Maybe over time you'll be able to figure it out from the clues I leave.

Google, Site Build It! and Infin It! Oh My!

2008-02-18T21:48:00.000-08:00

Well, it's taken me several days to get the new blog figured out for this site and another SBI! site that I have. The blogs are a result of Infin It!, a new module from Site Build It! that allows us to host a blog on a sub-domain of our site.

The blog is actually hosted offsite using another domain I own and is created using Google's Blogger. But Infin It! shows the blog as being a sub-domain of kenbryski.com.

Blogger allows us to modify their templates to create the same look and feel of our SBI! site. Because I have a webmaster's account with a web hosting company I was easily able to set up a new subdomain to host the blog. And it only costs a buck a month.

The problem for me came with editing the templates and setting the correct paths for the blog to be uploaded by FTP and setting the domain mapping in my webmasters account.

It was a bit of trial and error but they both seem to be working fine now. The biggest goof came when I was making a small adjustment to the page footer in the Blogger template and highlighted everything above the part I was pasting into. It deleted everything above the footer.

I never saved the template changes I had originally made, so I had to start all over again. But I am getting better each time I do it.

Ken Bryski's Small Business Success Coaching

2008-02-12T08:14:00.000-08:00

My website has recently seen a transformation. The website was originally called "The Bryski Family's Place in Cyberspace" and was started in 1996 when I first became interested in Internet Marketing and the web.

Over the past 10 years I've been learning about using the Internet to help grow small home businesses and to market products through affiliate programs. I'm also part of a group that is developing a new way to do MLM or multi-level marketing online. We call this new method InterNETWork Marketing. During the next year over 500 business people will be using Internet to learn new techniques to market themselves and their products.

If you're interested in learning more, please visit this page to find out how I can help you get started in the exciting new world of InterNETWork Marketing.