Renegade Professional News: This Week

Renegade Professional News is committed to delivering the latest and greatest news, updates, insights and reminders for all Renegade Professionals on a weekly basis.

Because Renegade Professional is expanding and servicing the needs of such a diverse population of “smart beginners,” leaders, network marketers, and business owners of ANY type, we feel the need to keep you regularly updated.

Renegade Professional will meet you where you are so that no Renegade is left behind. The Renegade Professional newsletter has been founded on that premise.

This no nonsense newsletter will be delivered to your email inbox on a weekly basis, and starting next week we will be moving to a new location with a new layout and design. You won't want to miss it.

Latest Developments from Your Renegade Professional

Steve Anderson - Renegade Pro WordPress Expert6 p.m. PT Thursday, July 2 – Why WordPress Is A Powerhouse Attraction Marketing Platform – As part of an ongoing LIVE Webinar Series featuring your Renegade Professional Trainers and Super Guides, Steve Anderson, WordPress expert, will detail why WordPress is such a powerful lead magnet.

Who Can Attend? Anyone (see below on how to promote this event to attract more leads and provide more value)

Sign Up for this Event NOW

A blog can explode your business when done right--allowing you to generate leads on a shoe-string while establishing credibility and building trust with prospects and clients. If you're interested in getting started with blogging, or have already started a WordPress blog, don't miss this free Webinar Thursday, July 2nd!

Click here to register: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/814985802

If you haven't picked up the PDF "Guide" for this webinar, you can pick that up here: PDF Guide for Steve Anderson WordPress Webinar

• As a Renegade Professional, you can find a registration link inside your back office at the Main Menu. Look toward the top of the page. 

Generate Leads and Contribute Value by Promoting this Event - Find Out How

• We have provided all Renegade Professionals a new capture page which you will be able to use to invite your leads, prospects and business partners.
  
  Login to your Professional back office, from Main Menu, click Attraction Marketing, then click Capture Pages, then scroll all the way down the page. You will see that it says, Your Renegade Professional Webinar Series lead capture page link.

• There is also a new area to track the leads that are generated through this new capture page. Login to your Professional back office, from Main Menu, click Referrals, at the top right of the Referrals page, you will see a link that says, Referrals for Webinar Series.

Steve Anderson will host a follow-up webinar that picks up where his first left off (see details immediately below)

1 p.m. PT Saturday, July 18 – Advanced Traffic Tactics – How To Set Your Content Viral In Social Networks Using WordPress – Join Steve Anderson again on this live training call, which follows up from where he previously left off. He will take you click-by-click through the process of spreading your content through the social media sites in one simple step. If you are interested in traffic don't miss this call!

Who Can Attend? All Renegade Professional Students

See Video Demonstration for Locating the New Capture Page to Promote for WordPress Webinar

If You've Completed the 90 Day Action Guide, You Won't Want to Miss This

6 p.m. PT Wednesday, July 8 – Leverage The News Live Training Event – For those who have reached the end of your 90 day check list you've noticed that the last stretch is to study the strategy of "Leveraging the News" & to "Begin Creating Your Masterpiece."

Mike Klingler will begin a series of Live Webinars that take you through these magnificent steps in your development where you put the cherry on top what you've already accomplished and move into exponential business growth acceleration.

Who Can Attend? All Renegade Professional Students (preferably those who have completed the 90
day action guide)

Dotty Scott uses Twitter for her small business 6 p.m. PT Thursday, July 16 – Twitter For Traditional Business – Dotty Scott is a traditional small business owner who understands how to use social networking sites like Twitter.

As part of an ongoing LIVE Webinar Series featuring your Renegade Professional Trainers and Super Guides, Dotty will be presenting why and how local businesses need to be using Twitter; a strategy for tying Twitter to other social sites in use; tools that make Twitter easier and examples of local businesses using Twitter.

Who Can Attend? All Renegade Professional Students

Dotty Scott also has five new Facebook training tutorials in your Renegade Professional back office.

Renegade Breakthrough Mentoring Program (RBMP)

6 p.m. PT Tuesday, June 30 – The Renegade Breakthrough Mentoring Program Session 6. Visit the Renegade Breakthrough Mentoring Program area to prepare, and for registration link. The title of this week’s course is Copywriting: Words that Sell.

Who Can Attend? RBMP Interns (click Special Offers in your Renegade Professional back office if interested in becoming an Intern)

6 p.m. PT Wednesday, July 1  - Renegade Breakthrough Mentoring Program Twitter “Power Hour”

Who Can Attend? BMP Interns (click Special Offers in your Renegade Professional back office if interested in becoming an Intern)

Renegade Professional Events & News You May Have Missed

There is a new area in your Renegade Professional back office.

It’s called Professionals, Businesses, Non-Profits and more content continues to get added to this new section of your Renegade Professional back office.

From your Main Menu, click on Attraction Marketing, then you’ll see a new icon called Professionals, Businesses, Non-Profits.

Patrice Walker has created video tutorials for internet Dental Marketing.The dynamic and talented Patrice Walker is a Renegade Professional Super Guide and Trainer.

She is leading the charge for developing this new area, and beginning a series of tutorials for Dental marketing.

In this new area, you will currently find:

• Dental Websites – Attracting Prospective Patients
• Writing Content on Your Site that Converts
• Marketing 101: “Choosing Your Niche” and “Writing with Pull”

Eric Walker is a Renegade Professional Super Guide, Trainer and CoachMinimizing the Overwhelm, Maximizing Your Time - Tips for New Renegade Professionals and Seasoned Renegade Professionals.

Eric Walker has recorded a live webinar that will assist the new Renegade Professional ready to embark upon the 90 day action guide, or those Renegade Professionals that have been around for awhile, but have not yet put it all together.

This tutorial can be located from your Main Menu by clicking the Start Here Checklist icon, and then scrolling to the bottom of that page, and you will see a big red button that says, "Click Here to Watch Tutorial." Power Point slides from that webinar are available to download.

The Pause, Reflect, Refresh was a webinar for Renegade Breakthrough Mentoring Program interns, and is now available for all Renegade Professionals in your Professional Back Office.

From Main Menu, click Start Here Checklist. Scroll all the way down the page. In Pause, Reflect, Refresh Ann Sieg and Mike Klingler discuss how to overcome many of the inevitable challenges you’ll be faced with along the way in your business development.

Honorable Mention “Must Read” Article of the Week

“How a 36” Cord Can Strangle Your Success – IF You Let It...

In this article, you will learn why achieving success is nothing more than heading in the right direction and then solving one problem after another.

You will want to take a few moments to read through comments. Over 50 people posted their opinion and insight.

Mike Klingler Says...Bits of Wisdom and Assorted “Mike-Isms”
Mike Klingler

If you can find a way to actually put your foot on the gas and work harder in the summer months, you'll be rewarded come Fall. You'll be in momentum while others are clumsily trying to get traction. Since business is all about standing out from the crowd, you will have gained a significant advantage. Read more

Coming Up – Cool Things to Look For from Renegade Professional

A list of all the business books and resources that everyone submitted in these two blog posts:

• http://renegadeproblog.com/2009/06/21/special-delivery-handwritten-letter-for-you/

• http://renegadeprofessionalblog.com/twitter-fireside-chat/

An email will be going out to everyone who made a submission later on this week. It will contain the special “surprise bonus” that was promised to everyone we’d give away.

The Renegade Professional Newsletter will be delivered to your email inbox on a weekly basis to keep you informed with your Renegade Professional, the best attraction marketing training on the internet.

Leaving No Renegade Behind,

Eric Walker
Co-Executive Producer
Renegade Professional News

P.S. Be sure to also keep up-to-date by checking the "events calendar" in your Professional back office. You will find it from your Main Menu.

P.S.S. From Main Menu, you will now find that the Archived Events section is up-to-date with most recent tutorials added. All tutorials will have the date they were added to the professional back office.

Renegade Professionals -- New Lead Capture Page & More Value to Offer

Hi everyone,

Note that in your Renegade Professional back office you'll find a new lead capture page that you can promote through Twitter, your blog, your list, etc to give more value to your lists and increase your credibility ranking.

This one is on Word Press. 

To view the lead capture page log into your back office and click on Attraction Marketing, then on Lead Capture pages.  It's at the bottom of that page.  You can  promote that link and the leads will show up in your Referrals list (in a new section).

We'll be doing events like this regularly to highlight other trainers who have a lot to offer, while giving you the ability to leverage that training to give more value to your lists and generate more leads.

This is just the start of it.  We'll be developing this out going forward.

Keep learning and growing. You may be a future featured trainer and your event could be promoted to hundreds of thousands of people just like this event this week!

To register for this event, on WordPress by Stephen Anderson (our WordPress expert inside Renegade Professional), log into your back office and you'll see the link at the top.

Partners in success!

Mike Klingler

Advantage Goes to The Summer Business Builder

Most know that the summer months are a time of business slow down, particularly in the home-based business world.

But know this:

If you can find a way to actually put your foot on the gas and work harder in the summer months, you'll be rewarded come Fall.  You'll be in momentum while others are clumsily trying to get traction.  Since business is all about standing out from the crowd, you will have gained a significant advantage.

There's less noise in the summer months.  Make a lot of noise and a lot more people will be listening come Fall.  The more valuable that 'noise' is, of course, the larger audience and list (and partners/customers) you'll attract.  If you're moving forward through Renegade Professional you can't help but learn how to give value!

Looking forward to hearing some noise out there this summer!

Mike Klingler

If You Promote Attraction Marketer's Manifesto... Read This Suggestion.

If you're promoting the Attraction Marketer's Manifesto (at your blog, through auto-emails, PPC, etc), you may now want to focus some of your marketing 'space' or effort on directing people straight to the Renegade Professional sales page.

Simply use your Renegade Professional username in front of the address RenegadeProfessional.com

You can use this as a funded proposal for a network marketing business, or just as an additional affiliate income stream; or, to train downline or peers on the ins and outs of Internet marketing, social media marketing, and attraction marketing for a traditional business.

With such a high retention rate (meaning a very high percentage of our students remain here to continue learning and developing their business with us over the long-run) you are able to build up a substantial residual income that can help support you in your primary business, while assisting others by referring them to this one-of-a-kind educational resource.

Just remember--never be overly promotional or spammy-give value as taught all throughout the Renegade Professional training.

Partners in success,

Mike Klingler

How A 36" Cord Can Strangle Your Success -- IF You Let It...

Our retention rate at Renegade Professional is exceptionally high (meaning, a high number of our students stay long-term), and the Success They See is inspiring.

So why would anyone quit?

I wanted to find out so I started asking.

Here's what I learned

Beware of the 36" Cord...

Some people who left before they started said that the training videos didn't play smoothly enough.

OK. 

So I asked them, "Did you contact the support desk and seek some help with that?"

Some did but most didn't even bother.  If it required any level of problem solving most ran for the hills.

Come to find out, most of these people had a bad wireless Internet connection and just didn't know it.

(While you might be able to watch a 10 Minute video on YouTube or use the net without noticing a problem ordinarily, you'll need a solid connection if you're going to be learning in a class-like setting like  at Renegade Professional).

If you watch long educational style videos like we have (1 hour or longer) you need a good connection.

The Simple Solution:

Get a 36" USB cord and plug it directly into your modem/router and computer (any length of USB cord will do the trick).  This will give you a far better Internet connection.  You'll notice everything on the net will go faster and work better. 

Call your Internet Service Provider for any needed help.  Ask others for help.

Problem solved.

Now you can watch the educational videos with no interruption and start attracting prospects, build your business and live your dreams in THIS century!

What Might Be "YOUR" 36-Inch Cord?

What might stop YOU?

Is it your work schedule? 

Is it that you feel overwhelmed? 

Is it that you aren't comfortable learning how to write or be in a video? 

Is it that your computer keeps crashing? 

Is it that life is just not fair?

Maybe it's that you did a little spurt of hard work and didn't hit the jackpot yet--you feel burned out?

I assure you, EVERYONE who built a successful business has a bundle of 36" cords they had to find and plug in. 

One problem after another will need to be solved.

Sometimes its technical. Other times its emotional.

That's just the way it is.

Here's another one I heard that was interesting:

They couldn't log in. 

In fact, this is the #1 reason I heard people quit! 

But check out the #1 reason WHY...

In most cases this was because they were copying and pasting their username or password with an extra space in it. That extra space prevented them from logging in!

But instead of contacting the support desk at support@marketingmerge.com or contacting their guide (the person who referred them)... or just going to Google to search for help from other Renegade Professionals, they quit instead. 

Before they had even gotten started.

Achieving success is nothing more than heading in the right direction and then solving one problem after another.

That's literally IT.

The more willing you are to solve problems the faster success will arrive for you (whether that's dealing with your computer crashing or your spouse yelling at you for working too much behind the keyboard).

It really is that simple.

And since we already know Renegade Professional has you going in the right direction as we look at other Successful Students who followed through on their commitment, the LAST thing you want to do is avoid solving problems.  Because that's all that is left to be done.

Your success won't come easier through some 'magical system' -- you are staring reality dead in the face right now.  Learn how to attract prospects and develop your business.  Overcome any challenges that get in the way.  Everyone will have their own challenges to overcome.  That's what you'll end up calling YOUR STORY when we interview you and share your success with others.

Have you taken the first step yet, that you were instructed to do?

In the Start Here Checklist in your Renegade Professional Backoffice you were asked to take some time to just poke around the back office.  Did you do that? 

Next, you were asked to simply follow one video tutorial after another, until you hit your Magical Moment... where it all starts to unfold.

Follow through.

Log into your back office.  Get through the 90 day checklist, one step at a time, one video at a time, solving one problem after another. 

Once you're moving in the right direction, which you now are, problem solving and learning new things is all that's left.

You can make this happen.  It's not a complicated process anymore.

Partners in success,

Mike Klingler

Renegade Professional Is Now Open to New Students!

If you missed the news today, click to read the announcement about Renegade Professional reopening today.

Extra! Extra! Read All About It - Renegade Professional News Hits Stands Now!

Welcome to the First Edition of Renegade Professional News - Weekly Newsletter for the Renegade Professional Community

We are committed to delivering you the latest and greatest news from Renegade Professional on a weekly basis.

Because we continue to develop high quality content from a growing contingent of leaders and contributors in the Renegade Professional community, we find it necessary to keep you abreast of the many events, trainings and insights from Renegade Professional.

Hence, the Renegade Professional Newsletter has been founded.

This no nonsense newsletter will be delivered to your email inbox on a weekly basis.

So without further ado, here are the latest developments from your Renegade Professional:

6 p.m. PT Sunday, June 21 – Twitter Fireside Chat - Since some of you may not be familiar with how Tweetchat works, read the following directions carefully so you know how to meet Ann Sieg on Twitter this Sunday evening – Fireside Chat with Ann Sieg (http://renegadeproblog.com/twitter-fireside-chat/)

9 a.m. EST Monday, June 22 – Renegade Professional Re-Opens to New Students! Follow the updates so you can share the news with your lists and audience Renegade Pro Blog and/or Twitter.

6 p.m. PT Tuesday, June 23 – Pause, Reflect, Refresh – Pause, Reflect, Refresh will be a live class available to RBMP. At this special event, Ann and Mike will help people distinguish between constructive overwhelm and destructive overwhelm. They will also address the emotional challenges that accompany accelerated skill development and business growth.

Renegade Professionals will have access to the recording. Many Renegade Professionals will also have a need for the Pause, Reflect, Refresh class. RBMP interns will receive a link for this class, and Renegade Professionals will be notified when it’s posted in the back office.

6 p.m. PT Tuesday, June 30 – The Renegade Breakthrough Mentoring Program Session 6. Visit the Renegade Breakthrough Mentoring Program area to prepare, and for registration link.

6 p.m. PT Thursday, July 2 – Why WordPress Is A Powerhouse Attraction Marketing Platform – As part of an ongoing LIVE Webinar Series featuring your Renegade Professional Trainers and Super Guides, Steve Anderson our residentWordPress expert, will detail why WordPress is such a powerful lead magnet. On this call Steve will cover setting up your blog correctly and some advanced traffic tactic! This will be available to the general public. Invite your leads, prospects and business partners.

6 p.m. PT Wednesday, July 8 – Leverage The News Live Training Event – For those who have reached the end of your 90 day check list you've noticed that the last stretch is to study the strategy of "Leveraging the News" & to "Begin Creating Your Masterpiece."

Mike Klingler will begin a series of Live Webinars that take you through these magnificent steps in your development where you put the cherry on top what you've already accomplished and move into exponential business growth acceleration.

6 p.m. PT Thursday, July 16 – Twitter For Traditional Business – Dotty Scott is a traditional small business owner who understands how to use social networking sites like Twitter.

As part of an ongoing LIVE Webinar Series featuring your Renegade Professional Trainers and Super Guides, Dotty will be presenting why and how local businesses need to be using Twitter; a strategy for tying Twitter to other social sites in use; tools that make Twitter easier and examples of local businesses using Twitter.

1 p.m. PT Saturday, July 18 – Advanced Traffic Tactics – How To Set Your Content Viral In Social Networks Using WordPress – Join Steve Anderson again on this live training call, which follows up from where he previously left off. He will take everyone click-by-click through the process of spreading your content through the social media sites in one simple step. If you are interested in traffic don't miss this call!

Events & News You May Have Missed

There is a new area in your Renegade Professional back office.

It’s called Professionals, Businesses, Non-Profits.

Patrice Walker, Renegade Professional Super Guide and Trainer, has just completed a tutorial called “Dental Websites – Attracting Prospective Patients.”

From your main menu, click on Attraction Marketing, then you’ll see a new icon called Professionals, Businesses, Non-Profits. More content will be on the way soon in this new area.

Minimizing the Overwhelm, Maximizing Your Time - Tips for New Renegade Professionals and Seasoned Renegade Professionals.

Eric Walker has recorded a live webinar that will assist the new Renegade Professional ready to embark upon the 90 day action guide, or those Renegade Professionals that have been around for awhile, but have not yet put it all together.

This tutorial can be located from your Main Menu by clicking the Start Here Checklist icon, and then scrolling to the bottom of that page, and you will see a big red button that says, "Click Here to Watch Tutorial." Power Point slides from that webinar are available too.

The Renegade Professional Newsletter will be delivered to your email inbox on a weekly basis to keep you informed with your Renegade Professional, the best attraction marketing training on the internet.

Leaving No Renegade Behind,

Eric Walker
Executive Co-Producer
Renegade Professional News

P.S. You can keep up on all the Renegade Professional events by logging into your Professional back office - from the Main Menu, click the icon that says, Event Calendar. From there, you will be taken to a calendar that has been updated to reflect this newsletter.

Handwritten Letter From Ann Sieg You Don't Want to Miss...

SPECIAL DELIVERY - Handwritten letter for you!

How to Improve the Quality of Your Leads

Some of my best training content comes out of answering questions I receive from students at Renegade Professional.

Here's an exchange that shares how Iwas able to attract HIGHQUALITY leads that allowed me to enroll more people (action takers) in less time.

Ireceived this email the other day from a student of Renegade Professional:

Hi Mike,

I now generate lots of leads but I find it extremely time consuming to sort through all of them. I sponsor 25% of those who review the information about my company. And these are not MLMers.

I'm able to reach by phone 47% of the lead I generate. 95% of the people I talk to say they're going to review the videos I recommend them. I have them review Tim Sales's Brilliant Compensation online and then follow-up with a phone call (50% really review it because I'm able to reach them back and confirm that they watched it), I send them an e-mail about my company, follow-up (55% have reviewed my company info). And I sponsor 25% of those who reviewed the information.

Do you suggest anything else to me in that regard?

It takes a lot of drive to get back on the phone each day and do the numbers again. Do you do this too or you have other ways that make it less demanding?

Also, a very small number of people that I sponsor actually end up doing something. What are your stats? How many do you need to sponsor to find someone that will really work towards a leadership position?

Do you think that doing meetings on a regular basis locally would improve the number of people doing the business? I hear all the time that belief is crucial and events build that belief. What do you think?

-Stephane

My Initial Response:

(Note:you always want to ask questions before firing off a response to get a better idea where the other person is coming from--apply this in your relationships with prospects and downline as well and you'll be able to provide more value and attract better results):

Stephane,

How many leads are you generating on average per week or month?

- Mike

Stephane's Reply:

10-15 per day.

I used to pay 5$ per lead. I pay nothing for those.

These leads are not Network Marketers. These are people in transition, looking for a career change.

I get 2-5 networker leads per day.

I hear people sponsoring 10-15 per month. I'm far from that, here's the reason:

With all the follow-up I have to do, my pipeline is filled after a week of work. I have no more time free to call my new leads that come in each day.

What do you suggest I do?

-Stephane

My Response Back:

(Note Iget more clarification to make sure there isn't something Ineed to know that might change my view of what he needs):

Hi Stephane,

I have some very specific thoughts already, but it’s always best to first gather more information before shooting off suggestions.

Are you using PPC or solely social media? I know you said you don’t pay anything but that could have meant you’re using PPC and have a funded proposal of some kind offsetting cost.

Let me know and I should be able to reply with a suggestion.

- Mike

Stephane's Reply:

I use classified ads.

For mlm leads, they come from social media.

- Stephane

My Final Response &Advice:

Hi Stephane,

I was in the same boat you’re describing during many of my most active network marketing building days.

I should note I no longer do network marketing because I am now building new businesses with more ease and leverage, and on a personal note, it’s more fulfilling for me.

Network marketing will require a lot of repetitive grunt work.

After 14 years at it, I lost interest in networking with people who didn’t share the same values or mindset I have (... "going through the numbers" means networking with a lot of the wrong people; for me now, I am networking only with the best mindsets, and its more rewarding for me).

But, everyone has different business goals and preferences.

If you’re building a networking business you definitely have to accept that there will be a lot of networking (much time spent) just talking with the wrong people.

But here’s what I suggest you do, which I did in the past to address this issue head-on. Doing this can have a dramatic improvement on the ‘time wasting’ problem you described, and allow you to network with much higher quality people, saving time and getting you more results.

It may seem obvious and overly simplistic but the solutions usually are.

The Solution:

Qualify the people better before they can talk to you

Right now, you’re simply generating more prospects than you can reasonably work with. Therefore, it’s only logical that you would create more qualifiers (either with the message you use in your copy or by giving them more hoops to jump through) so that the people you speak with are much more READY to join.

Tweaking The Copy:

Depending on your advertising or sales copy, you can use pre-qualifying statements like, “Please do not fill out this form if you do not have at least $1500 to invest into your business.” That is just an example. You can use pre-qualifying statements on your lead capture page that weed out people with negative mindsets too.

You will want to test out different things and make this a study.

It can be fun to change one little line on your lead capture page or ad, for example, and then take note of the drop or increase in leads, and more importantly here, the different type of person you are attracting. Create a list of qualities of the ideal prospect and as you play with the pre-qualifying statements or slight tweaks in your language, measure and observe how many prospects you get who match the characteristics you are looking for.

Another thing to test would be where you generate the lead. You mentioned you’re using classified ads, so I would test other classified ad locations and see how that may impact the quality of prospect as well. Again, paying more for lead is a good thing if it saves you time and gets you more results.

Giving Them Hoops To Jump Through:

Depending on your marketing funnel (process from point A to point Z that your prospect goes through to become a lead), you can set up different “hoops” for them to jump through to qualify them in the same way as you can do through the copy.

As an example, I’ll reflect back to 1996 with a fax blasting system I started, in the olden days when that was a somewhat acceptable way to attract leads.

Here’s how it worked:

Back in the 1990’s, people used fax machines a lot more. (This was obviously before the age of the Internet, but the strategy I used here can apply to the present).

Many prospects who were contacted through either the cold or warm markets were referred to fax-on-demand documents where they could call a phone number and receive a fax back automatically, with a presentation about an opportunity.

I was buying leads from the companies who owned these fax on demand services. They knew the fax numbers of the network marketers who downloaded previous network marketing related fax on demand presentations.

I would load their numbers into my computer and using a simple fax blasting software, send a letter every Friday to about a 1000 of these leads (Sprint had a special long distance thing going on called Free Fridays so I didn’t have to pay a cent for the long distance calls I’d be making all day long... back then long distance was a big expense!)

In my fax letter they received on their fax machines, they were instructed to download a fax on demand presentation. It was a 7 page document pre-selling them on my opportunity. But here’s where I put in an extra “hoop” they had to jump through to address the very issue you’ve described (I didn’t want to talk to too many ‘bad’ prospects)...

So at the end of the 7 page presentation, there was a little form to fill out and send in the mail to me with $5, so I could then send them an “Information Pack,” which was really the same materials that most people in my company gave away to prospects! I got about 10 leads a week. I enrolled half of them. This allowed me to enroll about 20 people per month. I trained these people to follow the same system and this is how I grew to a 600 downline in a few months.

We ended up using up all the fax leads in the U.S so I had to find new ways of attracting prospects; however, I never stopped applying the same principle and would always create different types of pre-qualifiers and ‘hoops’ for prospects to jump through so I was dealing with smaller numbers that were highly qualified.

Make a game out of it. Test out different ways of attracting out only the most committed and interested. Don’t be afraid to actually make it harder for them to get on the list, as long as the copy you use to do that (or the hoop you make them jump through) is likely to attract better quality people, which means people showing a greater willingness to be coachable, and take action, and who don’t mind being challenged.

The way you model this will differ in the details, but ultimately, you can apply this to any offline and/or online marketing funnel.

Partners in success!

Mike Klingler

Renegade Professional Co-Founder

Twitter.com/MikeKlingler

Renegade Professionals -- Prepare for Fireworks in July! Check the Calendar in Your Back Office for Fireworks to Begin in Your Business on July 8th (not a typo)

Renegade Professionals (I'm speaking to those who enrolled in April or prior)--

If you're getting closer to reaching the end of your "90 day check list" you've noticed that the last stretch is to study the strategy of "Leveraging the News" & to "Begin Creating Your Masterpiece" (Attractive Content that gets people flocking to you).

We'll begin a series of Live Webinars that take you through these magnificent steps in your development... it'll put the cherry on top what you've already accomplished and move you into exponential business growth acceleration.

The magic starts when you learn how to leverage timely events in your marketing, and to have created your own grand opus that sky rockets your credibility and lead generation capabilities.

My hope is that you will have completed EVERYTHING else on your 90 day check list before this point. If not, get through as much of it as you can before this Live course series begins so you can focus and absorb it.

Do that and amazing things will happen for you before summer is over.

Partners in success,
Mike Klingler

P.S. Remember, Renegade Professional is designed so you can go at your own pace.  If you have a tough schedule, (like you're a single parent of two young children working two jobs, with no help from anyone) then you have to be realistic.  In that kind of a situation, the 90 day check list is more realistic as an 18 month check list. 

The bottom line is this --

THAT check list will move you to where you want to go faster than reading any number of books and buying any number of independent training courses that you pick up along the way.  It will certainly move you exponentially faster to business achievement over learning through your own trial and error.

That check list will develop your skills, confidence and allow others to be attracted to your new-found competencies that show YOU are a person to do business with!

Where will you be in 2 years? 

You'll either be where you are now more or less, or you will have grown significantly, and will be living a life close to what presently seems to some like a dream (particularly to friends and relatives).  Hopefully to you its a dream you know can come true, because it can and IS for many people at Renegade Professional who find a way, THEIR WAY, to follow through. 

If you do your best to follow the check list, even a single parent with no help raising two young children carrying two jobs can get through that check list and prevail. 

Most people will have it easier than that.  90 days is the fastest I can imagine someone can move through the check list... if that was you, you got an A+ and made commitments regardless of your situation. 

"All You Can Do Is All You Can Do... But All You Can Do Is Enough!"  -- A.L. Williams

Did You Miss Eric Walker's Recent Webinar On "Getting A Move On" Through the 90 Day Checklist?

Powerful Webinar... Eric is a fantastic teacher

Click to Review the Webinar Here (recorded version)

Be sure to hit the button that says:  "Full Size" after it starts playing so you can view it easier.

Let Your Audience Know About the Bonuses For Early Birds Who Enroll On Monday

If you plan to let others know about the Renegade Professional reopening on the 22nd, be sure to inform them of the bonuses that'll be given to the early enrollers.

Also, in case you missed it, you might want to also let them see some of the results new students have gotten who registered in April.

Don't sell--inform!  Provide value inbetween.  The list grows.  Your credibility grows.  The number of people approaching you grows (or who are receptive to you approaching them to further assist)...

The bottom line... Your business grows.  It's not rocket science, it's just a long term commitment to what actually builds a business, no matter what business you're in.  Give value and attract customers and partners.

Read some of the articles posted below for more.

Partners in success!

Mike Klingler

Lou Abbott & Attraction Marketing

Lou Abbott knows a thing or two about making success happen.  In fact, it was Lou who won the Mercedes contest held in April (he opted for $28K in cash-I don't blame em)!  My point is, when Lou sets out to accomplish something he nails the bulls eye...

Why Is That?

Because he 'gets' attraction marketing.

Here's 3 fantastic videos by Lou that I think many will benefit from. He's a great person to model if you're looking for tangible ways to apply attraction marketing to your business.

Attraction Marketing with Lou Abbott, Video #1

Attraction Marketing with Lou Abbott, Video #2

Attraction Marketing with Lou Abbott, Video #3

Watch these--Lou is a GREAT person to model!

Mike Klingler

More Free Content To Use in Your Marketing

You can now leverage the credibility of Ann Sieg and Mike Klingler.

A new video tutorial in your Renegade Professional back office and/or Renegade Classroom explains how you will be able to use the same videos Ann and Mike used during the first Renegade Professional launch for your own marketing efforts.

These are the same videos which contributed toward earning affiliates nearly $115K in commissions for the month of April.

By sharing value like this (the right way) you are leveraging the success of Ann Sieg and Mike Klingler, while attracting relationships and building your own credibility.

You now have access to 26 video clips of Ann and Mike’s “Fireside Chat” video series.

You may use them at your own marketing channels. There are, literally, dozens of ways you can use these through the various social media sharing locations. This includes uploading these videos to your favorite video distribution channels to embedding them in your own capture pages.

Even if you’ve felt uncomfortable in front of the camera, or haven’t started with video marketing yet, this could be a good start. The hard part has already been done for you.

IMPORTANT TIP It’s best to not “sell” these videos, but add your own value to them by contributing your two cents about how you've used the knowledge shared, or ideas about how your target market could use it. This is how Mike started with his marketing and was able to move forward quickly.

You will be walked through the process of …

• How to download the videos to your computer
• How to edit the videos
• How to post your own affiliate links on the videos
• How to upload the videos to your choice of video distribution channel

Here is how you can access the video tutorial that explains everything you will need to know about how to leverage the Ann Sieg and Mike Klingler “Fireside Chat” video series:

If you are an upgraded Renegade Professional- Log into your Professional back office from www.MarketingMerge.com. When you do, you will be at your Main Menu. There you will see an icon in the lower right hand corner that says, Affiliate Education. Click it. It’s the tutorial titled “Video Marketing Leverage” – by Diyana Alcheva.

If you are a Renegade University Student- Log into your Renegade University back office from www.MarketingMerge.com. When you do, you will see a tab on the top navigational bar that says, Renegade Classroom. Click it. It’s the tutorial titled “Video Marketing Leverage.”

Having Fun Supporting All Renegades,

Eric Walker
Affiliate Relations
Renegade Professional

P.S. It wasn’t mentioned in the tutorial, but you can also put your link to the full interview on each video clip. Perhaps you’d say something like “Watch Full Interview – www.yourwebsite.com”

Squidoo Makes Policy Changes

I received an email from Squidoo, like many of you may have, explaining new changes to their policies.  There's nothing striking, just  moving us more toward a value based Internet as we've been teaching it will continue to move to.  But I suggest all who use Squidoo review the new policies.

Someone from our own community, Shelly Begarowicz (AKA "The Rat Race Rebel") already posted this on their blog saving me some time!  Thanks Shelly! That's a great way to Leverage the News!!

Click to review the Squidoo Policy Changes at Shelly's blog.

If you're in Renegade Professional you are already using Squidoo as it is intended (no spam, adding value, etc) but it's important to follow these events and stay in the know.

Partners in success!

Mike Klingler

Tip When Leveraging Our Content to Attract Prospects and Business to You...

Many of you may already know this but for those who don't, it's a big tip that can get your business off the ground:

When you see us share something like this:

http://attractionmarketersmanifesto.com/beginnersblogging/

Or,

http://attractionmarketersmanifesto.com/contentfactory/

You can refer people to it to build your list and generate income.  Put your Renegade System affiliate link in front of the URL and this will help you build your business through attraction marketing.

Here's exactly how that would work:

So you'd give http://Your_Username.attractionmarketersmanifesto.com/contentfactory

(Be sure to use your Renegade System Username, not your Renegade Professional Username when you're refering people to content like this at the AttractionMarketersManifesto.com blog or RenegadeProblog.com)

You can refer this to your list, post it at your blog and best yet, give your input about the value of it (not selling it, but adding your two cents about how you've used the knowledge shared, or ideas about how your target market could use it, etc.

By sharing value like this you are leveraging us, while attracting relationships and building credibility.

At any time, you can be refering people to the Attraction Marketer's Manifesto and Renegade University--and these are also types of free content you can leverage.

Leveraging Other People's Content Is a Powerful Concept...

This is how I started and moved forward in marketing so quickly. I leveraged other people's content like this to build my list and get known as someone who can help them.  It's how I earned significant affiliate commissions before I was ready to create my on content.

Powerful concept!  Use it!

Partners in success,

Mike Klingler

P.S. Note that you will find dozens of free content videos all throughout the articles posted at http://RenegadeProBlog.com that you can refer people to, write about, share at your blog and in emails, etc... to attract prospects.  Put your Renegade System ID in front of the ULR and these people end up on your list.  When they buy any products from our future promotions, you get credit, even if the promotional email was sent by us!

Do You Have Experience in Financial Planning?

If so, post a comment here to let me know.  I have a JV / collaboration opportunity for you related to lead generation / monetization for your business (regardless of whether or not your current business does or does NOT have anything to do with financial planning right now).

I'm looking for those who can offer cutting edge and TIMELY information for others needing financial advice/planning.

Please let me know who you are and a little about your background and I'll connect with you here at the blog (first).

Mike Klingler

Urgent - If You Use Facebook!

You've likely heard about this already but I wanted to get this out here in case. 

There might still be time for you to grab your name on Facebook. 

Below is an email from Don Crowther of StomperNet about why you should take action on this as quickly as possible.

Note that you can do this now (this email is already 1 day old).

This is IMPORTANT and you need to know about it RIGHT AWAY.

Tonight Facebook is staging one of the biggest virtual land grabs ever - the rush to claim your own name on Facebook.com.

You've heard of Internet Marketers claiming that the surge of traffic crashed their servers?

Well tonight there will be a server rush that has rarely, if ever, been duplicated on the Net. And you NEED to be part of it.

Right now if you want to send someone to your profile, you have to figure out a URL that looks something like this:

www.facebook.com/people/Your-Name/585946540
(That's an inactive URL, BTW, so don't click it.)

But wouldn't you rather own www.facebook.com/yourname?

And this becomes even MORE important for Facebook Fan Pages (not your regular friend profiles, the pages you can set up to promote your business.) Can you imagine how devastating it would be to have someone else own your company name in Facebook?

In the past, it was easy to own your own name on Facebook, all you had to do was to spend a large amount with Facebook (think $50,000+ per month) or be a huge celebrity, and it was yours.

But starting tonight at midnight Eastern US time (that would be 9:00pm Pacific time) you can claim your name as a facebook URL. Plus, you can claim names for your business pages too.

But here's the catch - it's first come, first serve. Imagine a couple of hundred MILLION people all try to grab their name at the same time, and there will be some interesting server shenanigans occuring.

Here's what to do.

Tonight at midnight US Eastern time, login to Facebook then go to http://www.facebook.com/username

You will see a form that will give you several suggested usernames, and the ability to choose your own. Either choose one of the names suggested or type in your own.

Repeat this process for any Facebook Fan Pages you administer, though there are three catches: first, your page must have over 1000 fans prior to May 31st 2009, you can't claim something generic like travel or insurance, and you can't claim someone else's trademark.

In fact, if you have a registered trademark, I suggest you go to
http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=username_rights
right now to prevent others from grabbing your name.

If someone else has already has your name, get creative - add a period, or a dash, shorten it, lengthen it, or slap a number in there somewhere.

That's the drill. I'll be there at midnight, and I suggest you be there too.

And bring a book, the page refresh times may be really sllllloooooowwww.

Don Crowther
SMARTS Founder
StomperNet Faculty Member

Earning Commissions With Renegade Professional ($114,933 Paid In April)

When you refer someone to Renegade Professional you get paid a monthly commission. That's not the main reason we want you refering people, which is why we don't talk about our affiliate program publicly too often.

But we were so impressed with what we saw this month, and how this is positively impacting people in their business, we wanted to share what's going on.

Checks this month varied from $50 to $6000+.  What's surprising is how many people earned $1000--$5000. That's pretty remarkable considering that it's not a primary income source and much of it is residual (meaning most will be getting paid again next month and the next and the next and so on, even if they don't refer anyone for a while!)

$114,933 Paid In One Month

The total commissions paid out for the month was $114,933 and the amazing thing is we're just getting started. This is quite an impact because this is income people make while generating leads and attracting relationships that can be cultivated into clients, collaborations, JV's and downline for your PRIMARY business; and who are likely to purchase from you again and again in the future when you recommend other products or services to them.

Whether you're just getting started or are an experienced marketer, congratulations on your hard work and progress.

Remember to celebrate every step!

That's definitely something I've found to make a big difference in my business--I always got excited about every tiny positive thing I was doing (whether it was getting my first video online, or seeing someone I was helping post their first Squidoo). I got really excited about $10 checks in the mail that I made while building my first list! THAT is a major factor in why they are now in the tens of thousands per month (and soon to be in the hundreds of thousands, because I just keep building upon my previous steps--it all started with 10 bucks and my first attracted prospect).

This attitude is key to finding the energy to grow, building upon each success from the day before. It's also the KEY to inspiring others to take action, which you MUST be doing if you want to see the big growth in your organization.

Reopening "Professional" In June--Prepare Now!

Of course you don't have to recommend Renegade Professional in order to benefit but the extra monthly commissions are certainly giving a lot of people a big boost!

Now we're reopening again in June (in about two weeks), and I just had a few things to share if you're considering taking part in inviting new students to join us at Renegade Professional.

Click to prepare for the reopening.

Partners in success!

Mike Klingler

P.S. We'll have more to share with you about this launch--just wanted to give you a quick heads up if you didn't already know.

Renegade Professional Re-opening In Two Weeks

The exact date isn't set, but Renegade Professional IS re-opening its doors to new students in Mid June.

If you're with Renegade Professional now here's my suggestion:

Take everything you know (even if you think it's not much) and focus on providing as much valuable content as you can to attract people seeking a guide in Attraction Marketing.

Offer assistance, help, coaching--and if you're fairly new yourself--offer your sincere willingness to teach them what you've learned OR what you will be learning... offer collaboration.

THESE are the qualities that will attract a large following.

Giving value means a sincere willingness to help people move forward and succeed.  Advertise your WILLINGNESS to assist them first (instead of advertising your program or product first) and you'll grow your leads list, earn additional affiliate commissions and attract quality business relationships, some of which will last a life time.

About two weeks to reopenning -- get your 'willingness' and content out there... network, connect, offer something.  Assist others in ways that you presently CAN. 

Do this and you'll grow in June!

Mike Klingler

Getting Results with Face Book and Twitter

From time to time I check my messages in Facebook. Today I found a message from one of our students. He's gone through the "Facebook" section at Renegade Professional and while he's learned how to use it to start adding people into his 'network,' he was stuck.

He writes:

"Hi Mike. I'm lost. Have gone through all of the facebook tutorials. I still don't understand "how" I attract or approach people through facebook. Am I contacting them, do I post things, not sure. Any direction would be great."

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My response:

Facebook is a "fishing pool" tool as I like to call it. It's not where you provide the BULK of your valuable content, but a place where you build a following as you've started to do by friending like-minded people... and then when you post videos, photos or text messages with a link to a blog post or video or lead capture page, you end up directing your audience to wherever it is you choose.

I consider the photos, videos, and text messages as the 'Attractive Bait' you use in the fishing pool, which gets people's attention and directs them to either more valuable content, and to a lead capture or sales page where you generate leads and monetize (and put people into an email system that continues to lead them to you).

You can also add your phone number at the end of your videos or on your text messages and will get phone calls, if that is something you decide you want. However, this will only be effective if you have established yourself there over time by giving value and getting known (called branding).

This is the same way you would use Twitter.

You can't expect people to want to do business with you just because you have a Facebook account. Millions have an account. You have to use this tool to just get people's attention and lead them to "greater" levels of value you offer.  In order to do that, you need to have 'set up' some value elsewhere now, so you can direct your audience at Facebook or Twitter to it.

You have to use FB and Twitter along with the other social marketing tools and strategies we are teaching in Renegade Professional--you can't use FB by itself. It's a component of an overall plan.

Have you created any content (article, video, anything like that) of which your audience would be interested in?

Have you identified your target audience and their needs?

Do you have a place to lead them (lead capture or sales page)to collect their information and have you set up an email follow up system.

These are the other sections at Renegade Professional you have to set up, just as we're showing. Follow the 90 day action guide and follow through on all of it, not only the Facebook tutorial section.

There is a way to give value at Facebook through setting up a group--this is where people can join who share a common interest and you can moderate the group's discussion. It allows you to communicate with a much larger group of 'targeted' people as the group grows.

I suggest you hunt down Shelly Begarowicz (she calls herself the Rat Race Rebel) -- google her and find her. She has used Facebook groups to build a big list and has started to really get things rockin'. Reach out and connect with others successfully using tools like Facebook and you'll get ideas. Collaborate, connect, 'network'!

The tutorials get you started, plugged in and comfortable with the tools, but then you have to put 'YOU' into the plan.

Start from the beginning at Renegade Professional. Don't focus on only one small piece of it (like Facebook and Twitter). Those work in harmony with setting up a blog or using other social marketing tools to provide value that attracts people to your business.

I suggest you start by reviewing "The 7 Lessons to Attract Prospects to You," which is in Renegade Professional, but also a free resource (search on Google). This gets you started with identifying your target audience and their needs. Without knowing that, you cannot attract a significant number of people through Facebook, Twitter, PPC or anywhere else.

Partners in success,

Mike Klingler