My cousin Jimmy was telling me a story of how one Saturday morning he woke up to somebody knocking on his door. He puts on his robe and was greeted by a salesperson with a box of frozen goods.

The salesperson was dress sharply, had a big smile, and spoke faster than a hurricane (how typical right?) Apparently, on this beautiful Saturday morning, he was trying to sell what he claimed to be "top-of-the-line" steaks to my cousin.

My cousin was a big groggy, a little hungover and not very coherent yet... so he just couldn't manage to get rid of the annoying salesperson. No matter what excuses Jimmy came up with to NOT want to buy the steaks, the salesperson would quickly brush that aside.

Jimmy's wife, Margarita, not sure what the commotion was all about, finally got herself out of bed, put on a robe and came downstairs.

She quickly analyzed the situation, saw that Jimmy was having a hard time getting rid of the salesperson, and did the one thing that finally worked.

She asked, "Are the steaks kosher?"

Lo-and-behold they weren't! So she said, "I don't want them."

With that, the salesperson left. He just wasted 30 minutes of his time which cut into his profitability. (Heck, I didn't even know my Mexican cousins were Jewish! lol)

Not only did the salesperson tick off my cousin and his wife (for waking them up Saturday morning) but he committed the one mistake that 90% of businesses make in their marketing...

Know Your Target Market

See, the salesperson did the one thing many businesses do -- especially within the realm of network marketing. He did NOT study his market (obviously his timing was bad too... nobody likes to be woken up from bed Saturday morning).

He had no idea whom he was talking to. He had no idea if the residence of the house he rang the doorbell at would have the slightest interest in what he had to offer - steaks. (Or that he'd be talking to Jewish Mexicans!)

He was blindly marketing to random folks with the hope that they would buy. He had no idea if my cousins were even meat-eaters (try selling steaks to a vegetarian)!

Had he done his research, he would've completely skipped Jimmy's residence in favor of the carnivore two doors down who wakes up early Saturday morning to hunt and kill, small animals to eat!

And guess what? He probably would've made a sale.

When you are marketing your business, you always want to have an idea as to whom you are targeting. You have to figure out who would realistically be interested in your products; who would be most likely to be the purchasing agent of your services?

Figuring this out will end up saving you a lot of advertising money, time, and headaches.

You see, too often network marketers fail because they are convinced that EVERYONE is their target market, which is simply NOT TRUE! They spend all their time, effort, and energy pitching their product and opportunity to everyone they know, without regard for interest level or need.

The result? Well it's like trying to "sell steaks to a vegetarian". See, it's not that the product is not worthy. It's just that without finding a NEED and WANT in their prospects, these network marketers:

So before you even start thinking about spending money newspaper ads or flyers, conjure up an image of the perfect customer for your products/services. Understand where they are coming from.

Ask yourself:

Answering these questions will help you in writing and coming up with an internet marketing campaign targeting your ideal customer. (The best part: They don't even need to know YOU!)

This process helps setting up your "pre-filter."

What is a Pre-Filter?

A pre-filter weeds out the people who are NOT interested in what you have to offer - thereby saving you marketing dollars and a lot of heartache talking to people who might otherwise, get angry at you.

In our steaks example, it's simply filtering out all the vegetarians (and if you want to get more detailed, you'd also filter out those who only eat meats that are kosher).

Online marketing makes this process very painless, precise, inexpensive, and simple.

For starters, realize that a chunk of internet marketing is done via the search engines and social networks (such a Google, Facebook and YouTube for starters). This means, people come online with questions in mind - questions for which they are desperately seeking answers for.

They search for things like:

...and so on.


They Are Already Telling Google and Facebook What They Want and Like!


Get These Platforms to tell you what it is!

Online marketing allows you to structure your marketing campaign such that you get to pick out the online questions you want to answer.

You get to choose the questions and expressed needs which your products/services are well suited for and not concern yourself with the rest.

Sure, you can sort of accomplish this via traditional marketing (for example, only advertise on fitness-related magazines if you have a fitness product). However, online marketing affords you MUCH more control in specifying whom you want to interact with and you can do it for A LOT Less!

This wider degree of control provides vital feedback and translates into money in the bank (from the profits you'll reap because of your appropriately selected audience and the savings you'll keep from not wasting money on fruitless marketing to the wrong crowd.)

The best part is... not only can you define your market (you can get as nitty-gritty detailed as you want), depending on the medium of your choice, you either pay very little for your marketing or you only pay when your audience responds to your ad.