The perfect way to handle rejection - You do not need to convince anyone to get into this business. It’s a waste of your time and energy to try and do so.  You should be about getting the maximum return possible for your time and efforts.  The minute you run up against negativity there is automatic resistance and it’s not a good use of your time to try and convince someone who disagrees with your way of thinking.

“A Man Convinced Against His Will,
Is Of The Same Opinion Still.”

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That person, even if they join your downline will probably not stick it out and will be a drain of your energy with constant demand on your time for support.

Kelvin

Lynn, it is good to enter this endeavor with a healthy amount of skepticism.  I like you am involved in GDI with my eye toward retirement (another 5 years).  I started almost 2 years ago and plan to have my business on solid ground when I reach retirement in 2012.  That being said I am in no hurry and am not stressed to make it profitable overnight.  I have noticed most people seem to enter this with the idea that they should be making money within a short period.  $10.00 a month won't bankrupt me. Therefore, I simply plod along at an even keel, slowly building my business to profitability.

I don't have all my resources tied up in GDI.  I am also developing other income streams. I have more than 18 websites (three of them hosted through GDI). I think of my business as a store in which I sell many different products.  GDI just happen to be one of the products.

I suggest you simply concentrate on learning as much as you can about one product at a time, concentrate on developing it until you get it to the point of maintaining it with minimal effort,  and then start developing other products, rinse, and repeat.  3 years from now, you'll be surprised at what you can accomplish.

Make sure you visit the forum often and make a habit of copying and saving useful posts on your hard drive so you can find them when you need them.  All the best in your endeavors...

Kelvin

I have purchased leads through the GDI back-office and recently purchased 2,000 leads through another company. The conclusion I have come to from both of these avenues is that "PURCHASING LEADS IS A WASTE OF MONEY".  For 14 days now a series of emails are being sent daily to the 2,000 leads I purchased.  Only 1 click-through so far.  This will continue for 45 days.  I'll let you know what the results are when its' finished.

I actually have better results from one of the major traffic generaing sites, where I simply buy credits (I don't want to set around clicking to websites to build up credits) and offer a free viral eBook containing my site links.  I attempt to capture the visitors name on my site, but if not I allow them to download the eBook with my links in it, plus they can give the eBook away for free too.

Kelvin

I myself am not a people person, and really hate direct selling.  However, I just picked up 4 people into my down line yesterday by holding a one on one conversation with one person.  During the conversation, we started talking about ways to start a business and make money on the internet and I mentioned my affiliation with GDI.  He had heard about it but had never looked into it, and at 2:30am the following day I received a call from him wanting to get my code because he had decided to join and wanted to make sure he joined under me.  I checked my down line later that day and he had indeed joined.  Therefore, as everyone should do I emailed him welcoming him to GDI, offered advice to check out the forum and gave some other advice.  The next day I received an email from him (he put me on a broadcast email he was sending out to a list promoting GDI).  I must admit it was a very good email, touting the website registration and hosting opportunity not the income opportunity.  He picked up three signups in less than 24 hours of joining GDI (I picked up 4 down line members by holding a general conversation with a stranger).  So, I say yes direct one on one conversation works.

This incident only boosts my confidence in using that method.

However, there is one thing that completely irks me.  I came directly here  to the forum from searching the web about GDI, and reading through other forums.  Multi-Level-Marketing has taken a bad rap over the years.  GDI out on the net at the moment is getting a bad rap in a lot of forums.  The reason is that most of the members are overstating the income potential, making insane promises about the amount of money and the quickness with which it can be made.  I wish the members would tone it down a bit.

Kelvin

I don't know if this will help or not, but I had a horizontal scrolling issue and think the problem was the page links.  When I renamed the page links, making them shorter than the page width it seemed to resolve the scrolling problem.

I say "seemed to resolve" because I was seeing it in preview but not whne I looked at it after publishing.  I think that may be because I'm using a very large monitor.

Hope this help.

Kelvin

Past week I began revamping my site, www.kelvinandrews.ws, simply burnt out for the moment, plus need to get some other things done.  I would like to set my page navigation menus along the left side and bottom of each page, anybody know a quick solution for this?  I intend to come back later and do some additional work on the site this weekend...

By the way comments/criticisms are welcome.

I have been with GDI for 3 months now and found myself getting no where with it.  So I went off on a study expedition and am now back.  I registered another website with GDI www.MarketMaster.ws (please check it ou and give me advice and criticisms).  I am currently building myself a permission based email list of subscribers to which I intend to market heavily with GDI being the primary focus. Although I have published the site I am not actively advertising at the moment, I figure around mid-June it and I should be ready to hit the ground running.  Have seen some great sites here and am getting ideas for improving mine.

Here's my 2nd forum post. Please look at my website, www.KelvinAndrews.ws, recently updated.  Would appreciate both praise and criticism from: Don't expect immediate profits from this but am learning.  Quite frustrating at times, especially the "error 122" demon...

I am now turning my attention to the GDI opportunity because I was busy getting my other websites up and running.  Am taking next week off from work  on getting my GDI website up and running.  Just posted my first 2 pages www.KelvinAndrews.ws.  Just 2 quick pages, will concentrate on uploading the GDI opportunity next week and will constantly ask for feedback through this forum.  Let me know what you think about my site so far...