Marketing Your Home Business on the Cheap.

Getting the word out to others about your home business (whatever it might be) is an important primary component of your overall marketing plan. If people don't know about your home business then obviously they can never visit your site, join you or buy from you - yep, what good is that?

There's always paid for advertising and marketing whether through an ad broker, advertising agency, banner exchange etc. however unless you pockets are deep this isn't the best of plans for the average mom and pop operation with their HQ located at their kitchen table.

You already know about marketing via social media sites, however there are also other free marketing methods, systems and platforms out there and though I could bog you down with many of them I decided to choose my favorite. It's called Independent Business Owner and it's free.

It also provides many benefits to your home business such as: press releases, video upload and especially free advertising as a result of earning free credits for being involved there. You can check out the complete list of benefits at the team core site or click the image below to visit the main IBO web site.

Whichever the case, be sure to join (free) today, then get involved and get your home business out there in front of thousands of people daily. Remember if they don't know you exist then they can't visit and join you so it's time to kick you home business marketing into high gear!

Enjoy & have fun at IBO, wishing you the best with your home business.

Paid for advertising for your long term online business success.

Advertisers... they're the ones that get your web site or blog seen, noticed and they're the ones that drive traffic - your way.

In some cases (depending on the Webmaster) you can trade links, products or services for your advertising, however for the long term and for uninterrupted (hands off) targeted visitors you'll need to fork over some green and actually pay for your advertising.

Over the years (since 2005) here on the Lotto Magic Team we've worked with many great advertisers, some inexpensive, some not so inexpensive but all gave us the results we wanted for the money we paid. We've used bloggers to write articles about our team, have paid for text ads and have used banners in different sizes and on various platforms whether rotating ad sites, static index pages, ad bidding or network ads. You can see where our current teams ads are running at the team marketing site.

It's going on nine (9) years since we joined Lotto Magic and began advertising. We'd like to thank those companies, web sites and blogs that have worked closely with us as our advertising partners over all these years who have gotten the word out for us and have helped us grow and prosper as one of the longest and most successful Lotto Magic teams around. In appreciation we've posted links to them along with some descriptions of what products or services they provide at their web sites.

People Ferret - Free people search, people finder and people locator. Find out who called through our reverse cell and land line phone reverse search, research federal and state public records free, or locate a lost military buddy. Includes a large government resource section, map area & death database.

Affiliate Company List - Two senior citizens David and Margie, show you how to earn from your web site. Learn (free) how you can earn a consistent, passive and hands off online income. Included are links to free hosting companies, free affiliate programs and free traffic generation.

Free Teez - Get a free t-shirt in many designs, styles and logos.  Fully customizable, 100% pre-shrunk cotton t-shirts. Add your company logo, favorite photo or choose one of our unique designs. Their free shirts are available in soft cotton white or you can upgrade to ash gray if you like.

Coffee Fair - A large listing of online coffee companies that give away free coffee samples, plus there's free coffee recipes, coffee facts, humor, and video. Grab your FREE Starbucks coffee recipe e-book while there, it's 53 detailed pages of coffee recipes for the coffee you've come to know & love.

Free Million Dollar Bills - Their free million dollar bills look just like real money. These are some of the most authentic million dollar bills ever printed and include unique seals, original looking emblems, numbers, realistic money colors and many more authentic looking "money" markings. Even the size is the exact size of real U.S. money!

We appreciate the help from our advertisers, and we thank you for the many years we've worked together online, and we look forward to working closely with you for many more years to come!

Are you advertising your business? Well you should be.

This post is dedicated to four Lotto Magic Team Leaders: 
Joseph Prokopchak 
Rosie Armstrong 
Dale Stokes 
Joseph Gerace

You might already know that customers, clients and others will NOT automatically find you just because you have a great product or service.

Sure, you can use social media, it's free and it does work given some effort, skill and time. The bottom line is that it takes both work "and" time on your part to get the word out there to the masses via free social media marketing methods.

Is there another way? Yep, advertising...

If you have a home business it takes more then just telling others to join you, sometimes it takes an investment of money (yep, pull out some green) through good old fashioned advertising. Whether your advertising is broadly dispersed to the winds or it's targeted to a specific niche market, the fact that you're investing in advertising is one of the first steps to building your business (whatever it is) bigger.

When you combine your paid for advertising with social media, viral marketing video's and any other types of offline or online marketing it's only then that you cover all bases. With that you get the most visibility where it really matters... in front of the eyes of potential and future customers, clients and more.

What brought on this particular blog subject and post? A traffic and visitor check on the free mini marketing sites we give each and every member on our team. It started out as a simple review of site traffic, yet what it turned up was four (4) team members "investing" their money into their personal Lotto Magic home business through online advertising.

Here's a screenshot of the stats counter data that got us thinking about this post (click to super size):

 

That's a total of 2578 page views (2392 unique) visitors to the free team marketing for a 7 day period starting on Thurs. Oct. 24 through Thurs. Oct 31st, or an average of 368 page views per day. Not all of it was generated by four "top" marketing team members, however a portion of it was.

So who are the "big dogs" willing to invest in their home business, their team and their future?

Team Leaders: Joseph Prokopchak, Rosie Armstrong, Dale Stokes and Joseph Gerace.

I recommend you visit them, ask questions if you have any, then join them on the team!

Free Advertising and Marketing Boost - Google Adsense.

We've added an additional income stream to the free team advertising, all of it benefits YOU and your down line team directly...

You might already know about Google Adsense, you know... sign up, place a small snippet of code on your web site or blog then Google serves up ads that are related to the content on your page.

Well we've been running Lotto Magic related video's for the team for a while now, plus this blog itself is an added component to the overall team marketing and training (social media) plan. However neither has contained Google ads until just recently. Our thought was that there is a ton of visibility to the team video's whether linked or embedded, plus we have social media related infographics and posts here at the blog, all of which IS content which CAN be monetized. What does that mean to you and your team? It means that the profits from these Google ads are rolled into additional free Lotto Magic advertising for you and your Lotto Magic team.

What started out as a simple Google ads test has now become something that will be with the Lotto Magic Team for years to come, helping you and your team grow, yea, free team generated targeted visitors. A while back we decided to add "social media marketing" to this blog to help current team members and it turns out that are thousands of other people finding us on the search engines and through word of mouth, so it's good for them (information) and it's good for you too.

So what are the team income results from the Google ads to date? First, I know, I know it's not thousands but it doesn't need to be, it just needs to be additional funds for even more free team ads (likely at Facebook). At this early stage we are averaging only $17 a day (approx. $510 per month) between YouTube and this blog. Not a huge amount by any means, but again it adds to the current team monthly advertising budget so it's still good news regardless.

An update on this team project will follow later as an add-on to this post, we're expanding the team Twitter account so this will increase the team's blog visibility at the same time!

Lotto Magic Free Team Advertising - Is YOUR Upline Really Helping You?

We've been team building since 2005 which is a very long time to be focused on one MLM company especially these days where we've seen network marketing companies launch as fast as others have closed their doors. At the same time we've seen other Lotto Magic teams come and go over the years, many because the upline was focused solely on building "wide" on their first level. Along the way they forgot that "building deep" below others on the team is one of the most important (and proven) strategies for the long term success of the team as a whole.

Yea, you won't earn as much when members join below the first level but then you have to decide... do I want to earn $120 for that member (Mega Captain) for a couple months? Or would I prefer to earn $8 from that member for many years. And that is the long term formula for success, help those on your team grow their team so they earn an income, period.

At the same time and in order to be a complete success with any type of team building it takes thousands of dollars in advertising and focused marketing to get noticed in the vast ocean called the Internet. That's what we've been doing for the team since 2005... rolling team commissions back into team advertising, we just couldn't afford spending all this money for the team otherwise, not so sure anyone could for any length of time.

So, we don't just say we're advertising, we show you where we're advertising Lotto Magic whether as banners on actual web sites and blogs, or through social networks such as Facebook. And we show you what our marketing and SEO efforts have resulted in. Blind faith is fine, however we don't believe you should be put in that position, it's our responsibility to prove to you that we are advertising for you just as we say we are.

Regardless of the program you're in and it doesn't matter whether it's an affiliate program, network marketing or MLM program... if your upline says "join me, we advertise for you free" then it's in your best interest to ask them... "Where is it exactly that you advertise?". If they cannot show you, then they aren't.

For our team you do not need to ask, just click, go and see for yourself. Click the screenshot above for more on what we do for you and your team - free.

What I like about Lotto Magic - Big Apple Lotto Club

What I like about joining this particular team is that they completely dominate the Internet for many of the most important and key Lotto Magic related search terms.

For me it started when I received a Lotto Magic postcard in the mail, we're talking from the mailman here. I got curious and went to Google search which then took me to YouTube which took me to the different team sites, wow, this team was absolutely everywhere.

Finally I went to Google images and saw that they dominate there too and after some more research I saw the advertisement they place for the team, the marketing they do, the social sites and eventually I ended up at the online team newspaper.

If this was the route I ended up on I also knew there would be thousands of others doing just what I did, you know receive a postcard through the mail from really anyone in Lotto Magic, go online and research and end up somehow and someway at one of the team sites to join, I think that's powerful marketing and I joined.

Big Apple Lotto Club

What I like about Lotto Magic - Toddy Boy Lottery Consulting

I have always been interested in the Lottery, especially the Powerball which I've played for years. When I found the Lotto Magic team it didn't take me too long to realize they're about team building.

What caught my eye and what I personally like the best of everything is the fact that they are about building deep in the team for the benefit of the team, me included. I discovered that before I ever joined, clicked on a join link and knew that I had to join a team member that joined the team earlier, so I knew others would have to join me too, I liked that part the best.

 

I don't mind marketing at all and I do, but a little extra help from my up line team (rare these days) is a welcome thing for me "and" for those that have already joined me on my team. They are also in the free team URL rotator so they receive free visitors and sign-ups. Another thing I like about this system and team is that I know they are advertising for the team which is completely free to us, and I can go the team site and see exactly what they're doing for us so I like that they don't just say they're advertising and marketing for the benefit of the entire team, I can see it happening with my own eyes!

Toddy Boy Lottery Consulting

New Team Ad - Earn a Fulltime Income From Home

We've designed a new series of large ads for this months team build projects. These focus on the "Home Business" market which is important because there are thousands of people looking for a real (not a scammy fast cash money moving) way to earn some extra income form home, usually part time as they continue to work at their regular jobs.

Somewhere, someplace and somehow we fully expect people will see many of "your" team adds, want more information and then visit your site to join you.

Other team advertising resources:

Free team ads in progress this marketing cycle

Team member sites on the Lotto Magic online newspaper

Facebook team display ads album

Team update site, individual display ads

Lotto Magic Team advertising page at this blog

More updates about team advertising soon!

What I like about Lotto Magic - Ad Network

I have been impressed with their consistent teamwork since I started running ads for Whitney & team starting back in 2007. In those days I was just an advertiser for them and over the last 6 years I've processed many thousands of dollars per year in Lotto Magic text and banner ads placed for the team.

I have worked with many publishers and have watched them come and go, they'll start their home business, place some ads then we never hear from them again and this is even after email ad deals, bonuses and discounts are offered.

So I like Lotto Magic because I've seen first hand what they do for the team and I've seen them do exactly what they say they'll do. I have never been involved in any type of MLM or home business before but knew if I was ever going to give it a try it would be with the Lotto Magic company and this team.

One last thing is I did feel the URL team rotating system combined with the paid team ads would be a bonus for the people that joined me. Not everyone places ads so having a URL team rotator where my team receives free visitors and sign-ups was what finally sold me on the idea.

I started thinking about it a couple years ago but didn't join until just recently and I'm glad I did.

The Ad Network
Matching the Right Advertisers with the Right Publishers

What is Affiliate Marketing, and How to Get Started with Affiliate Programs.

The short description for an Affiliate Marketer is... the middleman. Walmart is the middleman between the manufacturer/supplier and you. Your realtor is the middleman between the buyer and seller. The Girl scout with the cookies, she's the middlegirl between the cookie supplier and you the customer. And along the way the middleman gets something... Walmart makes a profit, the Realtor earns a commission and the girlscout, well I'm sure there's a cool looking Girl scout badge in there somewhere for her.

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Note: Before we get too far along we'd like to welcome Ashley Wright and Joshua Wright to Lotto Magic and our power team of marketers. You can visit them and learn more at their free Lotto Magic team site (Team Free Lotto Magic) today, yea then join them and grab YOUR free team site and free targeted visitors too!
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OK, back at it...

The point I'm making is that being an Affiliate Marketer is no different, it's really about being the middleman, nothing more. Your job is to get the word out to the public about a product or service, then you earn a commission for it.

Unlike direct customer sales which are for the most part "active" selling, an Affiliate only needs to place a link or banner on his or her blog or website, then walk away. Passive selling takes place when a visitor visits the blog or site, clicks on a link or banner then makes a purchase. All this while you're cutting the grass, watching TV, or reading this post!

There's much more to being an affiliate marketer, but we sure can't cover it all here. You can read more (no registration or email address is required) about Affiliate Programs and learn step by step what you need to do in order to properly monetize your blog or web site.

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Affiliate programs, companies and step by step online training guide

Thanks & enjoy!

New Lotto Magic Video - Get Paid to Play the Lottery

The new Lotto Magic video is out! 

Thanks to Mike and staff of course, great job and very much appreciated by all! You can view it at the Lotto Magic main company site and also at the Lotto Magic free team site.

Oops, my finger just slipped. Wow, looks like I just uploaded it to the Blogger server too...

 >  Here's the join link mentioned in the video, also more details there too

If it's by chance running slow on the company, team or Blogger servers then of course good old YouTube is always cruising along with massive bandwidth so it's embedded just below too, because I can and because I just like uploading stuff :-) Not a link farm here, maybe a video farm though - Moo.

P.S. I did NOT embed the Google+ version, at this point of the post I surely didn't want your eyes to glaze over!

Hmmmm, something I never noticed before. The video source files for both video's above are 100% identical, however the one uploaded to YouTube turned out to be true HD just as it should be. The Blogger version is slightly degraded, unsure why but I'll check into it and post an update here later on.

Have a nice night, look for an upcoming post welcoming the newest member's on the team - yea then you'll need to join them. For now there's some posts about them on the Lotto Magic team Facebook page.

Rebrandable team marketing PDF's

We're working on 100% free "rebrandable" team marketing PDF's for YOUR use online on your web site, blog, Facebook, twitter etc.

The software works perfectly fine on the server. You'll just need to enter your Lotto Magic ID and some other information then click rebrand, and it'll generate a custom PDF on the fly within seconds. The various PDF's are in the works to include Flyers, postcards, circular, brochures, display ads and more.

The first "test" PDF can be viewed in full page mode at the main team core site (recommended) or you can stay here and view the DocStoc embed below. This test page includes links to some of the team traffic generating sites, however the final versions (yours) will only contain your Lotto Magic and main web site, blog, social media (your choice) links.

More on this soon, look for an update via email when it's ready for you - more soon!

Lotto Magic Home Business

Welcome new team member Samantha!

A warm welcome to Samantha Bookman who joins the Leslie Hotte team, working together to build their lotto pool in Lotto Magic. That's more lottery ticket numbers, more wins and more sharing!

Click the image above to see the web site Samantha received free

Visitng us today and want to learn more?   It's easy....

Grab your FREE information about how our lotto pool can increase your chances of winning the Powerball, Mega Millions and Mega Money Lotteries. Visit Samantha today for the rest of the Lotto Magic story and while there you can also learn about the Lotto Magic home business - have fun!

Start your own home business? Do it!

If you're here at our blog it's possible you're looking to start your own home business like thousands already have (most all those Mom & Pop web sites and blogs out there). If our Lotto Magic lotto pool home business doesn't suit you then that's no biggie, there are plenty of other things you can do online to earn some extra moola.

Every home business has to start somewhere

It all starts with you and what you know, what you like and what you're passionate about. Maybe it's crafting where you physically make something cool with your talents and want to sell them offline (flea markets, consignment) or online through eBay or from your own site.

Or maybe it's an affiliate program closely tied to your current web site content where for instance you might have a "pet" related web site and can sell pet related goodies via an affiliate company, direct from the supplier, or maybe you just want the simpleness of running Google ads on your site?

Well here on my wimpy little blog there's just no way for me to cover it all but I wanted to at least get you thinking about it.. that IS the first step. Now that it's in your head (such power I wield) I recommend you take the next step which is research. Just remember with a home business you can do it part time on your schedule, without spending money on advertising and who knows... yea, it could even be your full time job "income generating" home business if you work at it.

Recommended and useful links:

~ eBay for auctions of course, Etsy for buying and selling the cool stuff you make and Google adsense to place income earning ads on your web site or blog.
~ Learn about affiliate marketing from an old (I say that respectfully of course) affiliate webmaster at Affiliate Company List. Yes, the Whitney Lotto Magic story is there too, fine, you got me. :-)
~ One of my favorite online home business resources is called Home Business Magazine
~ You probably have already been to "About" where they have a home business section to get you headed in the right direction with your new home business as far as getting started, planning, management & more.

OK, now get out there, do your research, find your home business niche and get busy. You need that new car, college funds to build and don't forget about retirement... it'll be here before you can say "Ahhh crap, I should have listened to that blogger guy all those years ago!

Related: Interactive 25 question home business assessment guide.

This weeks online team newspaper has been published

This weeks issue of the team newspaper has been published and is live! You can view it online here easy.

Also, thanks to Anita for the very nice email (below). Anita is new to the team and she's off to a great start building her Lotto Magic team!

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Paper.li Fan Mail

Hi Whitney,

One of your fans from Lotto Magic Team News has sent you a message:

Hi Whitney Jacqueline, I am a new member of your team. Excited to get my team moving. Thanks for the newsletter.

Have a nice day!
The Paper.li team
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Welcome to the team Anita!

Visit Anita today and learn about lotto pools and find out how you can start your own business from home just like her. See what Lotto Magic has to offer you, and what they've offered to thousands of other home business owners since 1996!  http://www.lottomagiconline.com/?R1951

Make a Lotto Magic PDF for your team, get free exposure!

We work hard at SEO for you and your team. One of the ways we do this is through the team DocStoc account. If you're in Lotto Magic and on our team we're here for you. Let us do some cool stuff for you - free.

What do you need to do? It's actually very simple and here's the deal. Make a PDF related to Lotto Magic and be sure to include the URL to your main Lotto Magic site, your free Team Free Lotto Magic site or you can do what new Team Leader Todd did (great job Todd) and link your PDF directly to your web site, then email it to us. We'll upload it to our server, upload it to the team DocStoc account and finally we'll also get it some great visibility like what you see here or at Facebook, Twitter, Google+, you get the picture. :-)

You can use the Adobe program if you have it or you can design your own Lotto Magic "creative piece" via Microsoft Word then "save as a PDF". No fear, if your current MS program doesn't have the PDF add-on, you can grab it from the Microsoft web site free.
Lotto Magic Exclusive Lotto Pool Membership Pool






I embedded Todds flyer above for easy viewing, but you can expand it on this post or you can check it out live at DocStoc.

Yea, it's time to get busy spreading the word about this amazing company that has been in business since 1996. No fast cash, fly by night, gone tomorrow operation with Lotto Magic... so get me your PDF goods and we will get YOU the exposure you deserve!

Already in Lotto Magic and looking to build your team, build it with us today and finally experience what teamwork is really about... and that's YOU.

Have a nice night there all.

New Team Video for Lotto Magic 101

A brand new team video for the Lotto Magic 101 lotto syndicate (lotto pool) informational site was uploaded to YouTube, Daily Motion, Meta Cafe and the stand alone team video site today.

It was also posted to Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and finally the online team newspaper - whew!

Lotto Magic - What is a Lotto Pool?

A few other new team video's are also complete and will be uploaded to the various video hosting sites soon!

Lotto Magic Domain Name Forwarding

It's always a good marketing method to use a "custom" domain name. You can then have your domain name automatically "forward" your visitors to your free main Lotto Magic site, the free mini site provided to you by the team, or to either of your two "lead capture" pages available to you from the company.

The best part is that a custom domain name gives you the ability to better describe "what your business is about" before anyone clicks on your link, and it's also more likely to increase your click-through rates at the same time. Yea, and you do want people to click through to your site of course.

Using Domain Forwarding with Lotto Magic

Here's an example of what Joseph did... He registered the domain name www.LottoPooler.com, (very good name choice and directly related to Lotto Magic), he then forwarded the domain to his Team Free Lotto Magic site Sweet?... you betcha it is.

1. So an offline or online ad is placed using: www.lottopooler.com

2. Visitors are forwarded to and can learn about lotto pools at his free team site: www.teamfreelottomagic.com/P7079

3. Then they can learn even more at this Lotto Magic site and join his team directly via: www.lottomagiconline.com/?P7079

Nice job Joseph!

The Lotto Magic Newspaper - Grab yours free too!

I've been asked about the Lotto Magic newspaper which has only been out for a few issues now and I'll cover more about it below but first-a-roonie I have a very (very) important team announcement...

Sending out a BIG welcome to our newest Lotto Magic Mega Captain Michael Guerrero. Be sure to click his name and visit him at his Lotto Magic web site for the inside scoop on his team lotto pools or learn about the Lotto Magic home business while there!

As far as the paper it's actually a free service where the company "compiles" your chosen information sources from across the Internet whether blogs, YouTube, RSS or other places (you decide). Then they format it into a standard "newspaper" feel for easy viewing online while using your chosen template, font, style etc.

Here's the "mini me" version screenshot for some visual.

The Lotto Magic Newspaper - Make YOUR Newspaper Free at Paper.li

Finally they publish it (daily, weekly, monthly) for you automatically and also let your subscribers know when your newest issue is "live". There's a free version an also the Pro version (no ads/$9 a month) so you can take it for a test drive and then decide if you want to go Pro. There's no "trial" period and you can stay with a free account forever if you like - nice. There's also no affiliate program associated with it so we don't earn anything when you join free or go Pro.

You can design your online newspaper around family events, news as related to your city or of course about your business. It's fun and it's free so click the image above to go to our paper [to subscribe, shuh] and receive future weekly issues of the Lotto Magic Team News, or click above and get started on your very own paper!

Note: If you were looking for the latest Florida Lotto Magic "newsletters", these can be found easily in our team archive documents stored and located at Lotto Magic's Doc Stoc.

Enjoy, best of business to you, and more cool stuff soon.

Bob

"Lotto Pays Me" Lead Capture Page

You might not realize that Lotto Magic offers you a couple "lead capture" pages to build your team. Recently team member Daryl sent an update email about one of them (below) to Whitney who then emailed me, I know, I know... what did we do before email!

So remember as a member on the team YOU have this powerful marketing platform available to you - so use it. It also includes automatic email follow-up letters that the company has already set-up for you. Here's a screen shot to refresh your memory, or you can click on the image and go to the site.

"Lotto Pays Me" Team lead capture and auto-responder system

After you check it out and if you have any questions email Daryl, Whitney or I anytime.

More soon eh?

Bob