With so much noise out there on the internet on what network marketing tools one needs to grow their business it can be confusing on what to use and who to listen too.

Below we will point out the most important tools you will need to build a long-term profitable network marketing organization.

Network Marketing Tools #1: Yourself.

Your personal network marketing experience and your reasons for joining a network marketing business is your best allie.

Only you know your personal desires for why you want to achieve financial freedom through network marketing or MLM. Everyday you will need to tap into your "why" factor in order to stick it out until success is reached.

Network Marketing Tools #2: Keyword Generation Tool.

One way network marketers advertise their home based business is by placing PPC or pay-per-click ads on the major search engines such as google and yahoo.

In order to find those keywords that have a low cost per click charge and get a lot of searches per month with little to no competition you will need a keyword generation tool in your tool bag. Google's external keyword tool is a good free way of finding good keywords.

Network Marketing Tools #3: Blog.

Blogging is the newest phenomenam since the invention of computers everyone and their mother is doing it. It is also a way of getting free targeted traffic to your network marketing business.

Writing articles about network marketing and posting those articles to several article directories per day is a great way of getting immediate traffic even if your blog is not search engine optimized.

Network Marketing Tools #4: SEO Website.

Having a website that is desinged to rank on the first page results for a particular keyword in your niche is a tool for the serious network marketer who truly wants to solve the long term problem of never running out of leads.

One technique for getting on the first page results is to increase your link popularity or by having quality one way links that point back to your website. Do this by writing original quality content then submit those articles to ten different article directories everyday for a year.

By the end of the year you will have 3,650 one way links to your website(365 X 10). This will be one of the many factors that will determine your search engine ranking. Read a few books on SEO before getting started.

Network Marketing Tools #5: Ad Tracking Software.

Your job as a network marketer is to get quality traffic at the least cost possible. If your not tracking your ads you don't know what advertising is bringing in money and which is costing you money.

Track everything whether it be articles, PPC, or ezine advertising. By tracking your marketing you can increase the amount of money for the advertisements that are bringing in the dough and shut off the ones that are stealing your money. Tracking software is a must have.

Network Marketing Tools #6: Social Media.

This is a free tool involving myspace, facebook, youtube, and twitter. For myspace and facebook all you need to do is set up an account with a link back to your network marketing business start inviting new friends on a daily basis and make comments on your friends' page.

Their friends will see your comments then they will click thru to your page and possibly on to your network marketing opportunity website.

For youtube subscribe to other people's videos and make quality videos for your business and in no time you'll be recieving free traffic. On twitter follow someone and ask them to follow you in return.

Net Marketing Tools #7: Autoresponder.

Not everyone who visits your website is going to join your network marketing business immediately, so you're going to need an autoresponder to follow up with those leads.

It takes at least seven marketing messages before a prospect even notices what you are doing. You will need to stay in constant contact with the list you generate and eventually over time the right ones will join your network marketing business.

All of these tools are an important aspect of growing your network marketing business for the long term and should not be shrugged off.

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