In seeking ways of increasing your client pool, you for certain, may have come across the idea of getting into networking clubs. In the cleaning business, marketing becomes more successful as you know more people. These people, in turn, become prospective clients or those who can refer you to prospective clients.

Membership Clubs
A good way to meet new acquaintances is through membership clubs. These may be service clubs or organizations like Rotary, for example; or it may also be a business organization, or groups like alumni associations and ethnic group associations. Most of these clubs and organization usually requires a membership fee for you to become a member. And for you to be noticed, you usually have to play an active role in their events or in club meetings. You should also expect that you’ll be having some expenses on their activities and other social events of the club. This is the time when you should also weigh if the expenses you incur by being a member of this club are really worth it for your cleaning business, opportunities and all.

Another kind of club that you can become a member of is a golf and country club. This is the kind of place where you can meet some people for your cleaning business, opportunities to garner some upscale clients. The house cleaning business may have a lot of average-income people who may need your services, but there are also those who are wealthy and rich and may need someone to maintain their estates too. So to obtain rich and wealthy clients, you have to go to where these people usually hang out and let them know about your cleaning business, marketing it to them subtly.

Other Groups and Networks
Aside from groups and clubs that would require your membership and membership fees, there are also those wherein you can simply participate actively and they’ll even be happy that you did. For example, become more active in your church or in local events, activities, and projects in your neighborhood. This makes you visible to the general public who actually know who you are as a person, and may feel secured and comfortable availing your services or recommending you to their network of people too. Also, these people help out in the community because they want to, and because they feel there is a need to help other people. These are the people who are deemed as good company; and most likely, they will be good networks for your house cleaning business. Basically, be active in society, help out your community, and promote your business – it’s hitting two birds with one stone.

Global resorts network is a travel membership club as well as a lucrative business opportunity. The company has been in the works for more than 23 years now and has earned itself a good reputation of being loyal and beneficial to its users and members. It was started by Alfonso Morales. Its headquarter is located in Arizona as opposed to an offshore location.

Initially Global resorts network only offered direct memberships (anywhere from $8000 to $12,000), it was about 3 years ago that they decided to market themselves online and use the power of Multi-level Marketing to expand their business. The membership of GRN (or Global Resorts Network) will give you access to a number of timeshares and holiday resorts worldwide at discount rates.

You can buy any of the two memberships, the gold or the platinum:

Gold: The gold membership is a three year membership that will entitle you to the same benefits as someone with the platinum membership. It costs $1495.

Platinum: It is a lifetime membership that values $2995, it doesn’t include any annual fees or maintenance costs.

This is an excellent membership if you like to travel a lot. Many of the resorts/cruises that you can access with global resorts have a membership fee (by themselves) which are more than the membership cost of GRN. Global Resorts Networks virtually gives you unlimited weeks per year to enjoy unlike timeshares, where your time is predetermined and fixed.

GRN has served people excellently for the past years. In the past there were few members who had a lot of choice of different resorts. Since GRN entered the network marketing world and subsequently spread, their membership has increased drastically, this forced the membership club to expand and make more relationships with other resorts.

Apart from the membership benefits of GRN, as an online affiliate you have potential of making a decent online income. With the high ticket value of the GRN membership and its generous payout plan (upto $1000/sale), all you need to make a 5 figure income is sell a few of these memberships per week. To become an affiliate you need to pay a $100 annual fee to GRN and in return you will receive an affiliate id, an affiliate back office and a promotional website that you can refer people to. GRN has been known for its timely payout programs and has never missed any commission payouts so far which is unheard of in the affiliate marketing industry.

The downside of GRN, is that they don’t have any marketing and training websites that they can offer you, so the task of learning marketing with GRN falls on the shoulders of the marketer. However, if you search around on the web you will find people who specialize in GRN specific internet marketing.

The first ever sale you make with GRN, you don’t receive any commission and this is called a qualifying sale. The commission from this sale goes to the sponsor of your sponsor as well as your sponsor. This however only happens once after that all commissions are split between you and your sponsor for every direct sale you make (each making $1000 for every platinum sale you make). Depending on what kind of membership you sell, the commissions are $1000 per platinum package and $500 for a gold package.

As you can see, the power of leverage can be achieved with Global Resorts package as you can quickly multiply your income the more you build your team. GRN works on the binary compensation plan and is not a pyramid scheme. The company follows FTC rules and strictly enforces its regulations with its members. GRN is surely not a scam as they have reputation of 21 years in the market. The thing that might hold you back from selling the GRN membership is that many of the competitors of GRN in the industry offer much less than their price. However, with the 23 years of hospitality and service, you can surely get a few people in your vicinity to buy their membership. Don’t forget the easy $1000 commissions jut for referring someone.

Choices, choices, choices…..

There is a big problem when it comes to doing business online.

Every day another opportunity, another choice…..What do you do?

The problem with Internet marketing is the mind-boggling scope of all the programs and choices for putting a small home business into a global market. It can be like throwing a lamb into a lion’s den. Many people lose their way just from the overwhelming number of choices available for finding effective online sales training.

As Todd Oldfield, a friend of mine, says, “Chase one rabbit at a time! If you attempt to chase two rabbits at the same time you will not capture any!”

So are there any best social networking sites for business?

Or is a first-rate business marketing platform the best choice?

Social networks are the buzz of the Internet. Ask anyone about the best social networking sites for business and they will say either Facebook or Google. But are they the best for your business?

Google and Facebook are currently in a sparring contest to see who can come out on top. While hundreds of smaller social networks scramble for a piece of the social networking pie. Does this work for your business?

First of all, let’s take a look at a business network. LinkedIn differentiates itself as one of the best business networking sites for businesses and professions. In fact, you would not join LinkedIn solely for socializing like you do social networks. LinkedIn has a free membership, as well as more features available with a paid membership. The paid memberships start at $29.95 per month and go up to $75.95 per month.

The paid memberships give you the ability to see more profiles, send messages to anyone on LinkedIn, find out who has viewed your profile, and see expanded profiles on anyone in LinkedIn.

You will still need to add other sites to round out your business platform. You will need a place to hold meetings, to host events, develop a business forum, and do video marketing.

What does Facebook have to offer the business person?

The recent changes to Facebook have made it more business friendly. Facebook is a good place to build relationships, find like-minded people, and join business groups. Facebook engages over a million people and is therefore a great place for finding customers and business associates.

Google offers similar features plus a “hang-out” room where you can meet up to ten people at a time. Also with Google you can create several email accounts and use each one for a different purpose.

In the offline world when you take a break from the office you head down to the local coffee shop and strike up conversations. Or you use the coffee shop to meet clients and discuss a business proposal. Well Facebook, for the online business person, is like the coffee shop. It is a place to increase your circle of friends and build trusting relationships.

What if you could take breaks at the coffee shop and then consolidate all your business sites into one online business community? This business community would be your office dedicated to doing business.

It would be a first-rate business marketing platform where you have everything you need at your finger tips. A global online business network that offers such things as:

* Event hosting and scheduling
* Meeting rooms for small and large groups
* One on one chat rooms
* Video conferencing
* Video email
* Business specific forums
* Personal and business profiles
* Internal networking like LinkedIn

Choosing between Facebook and a business community platform would no longer be necessary. You can use the best of both. Work at the office and take breaks at the coffee shop!!