Suggestions for Marketing GDI

[kingofjames]

Looking for suggestions on the best way to market GDI effectively. I am having limited results and don't know if I should just cut my losses or if there is a way to build a decent downline. Any suggestions would be helpful.

Thanks,

[TLTheLiberator]

Is that one of those mlm type of thingys??

If it is, good luck.

TL

[Kevin Birch]

Do GDI still pay a whole dollar for each referral for what is in essence, a hosting affiliate program?

[bravo75]

Don't waste your time with it

[Liam Hamer]

I was in GDI a few months when I started IM, under a successful and helpful sponsor. Still though, it took me a while to realise it(and MLM in general) wasn't for me. I found it a little demoralizing to try and reach as many people as possible with this 'Thousands of people are making money online with this opportunity' kind of thing. Plus, the $10 monthly hosting is pretty steep, especially considering most don't even use it, rather they just use the GDI promotional templates.

I'm not saying you can't be successful in it, but if you really want to stick with it - I'd advise you to move away from stuff that everyone else is doing - Twitter/Facebook/Myspace, Classified sites, Video sharing sites etc. You're limited in what you can do in terms of articles and such too. I was never successful with it, and I'm actually thankful for that - it was one of the first things that introduced me to the world of IM and I actually learned quite a bit, albeit one of those things was that MLM is not for me.

[showbizvet]

I like what Liam Hamer says... while GDI certainly has possibilities, what can you do to make your participation unique. Some years back I was involved with an up and coming MLM (later found MLM wasn't my thing) and while the company seemed sound, it was like Salmon swimming upstream. Sure, some of them make it.. but most don't.

That's not being negative, merely saying you need to do something unique with GDI and/or come up with something that is uniquely your own.

[Alexa Smith]

Originally Posted by kingofjames

Looking for suggestions on the best way to market GDI effectively. I am having limited results and don't know if I should just cut my losses or if there is a way to build a decent downline. Any suggestions would be helpful.

I would cut my losses.

There are no genuine retail sales.

Nobody is buying the product because they want to buy the product at that price and from that source.

The first test for any MLM company (and it's becoming the first test of the FTC, states' Attorneys General, industry regulators, MLM lawyers and the courts as well) is: "are there genuine retail sales to people who are not involved in the business opportunity?". According to the "70% rule" (sometimes actually enforced!), 70% of your income in an MLM has to be from retail sales. With GDI it just isn't happening.

Sales of the product/service to distributors for their own personal use do not count as retail sales.

The product/service is widely available elsewhere at lower prices.

There's no genuine retail basis there. Many industry experts think it's remarkable that there have been no legal proceedings yet, and that with the pending FTC crackdown on such businesses, it's only a matter of time.

Here's an interesting little article by an industry expert (there's nothing promotional there, no companies are mentioned, there's no advertising, nothing affiliate and no opt-in).

Here's another one from the web site of MLM specialist lawyers.

Read those and make your own mind up about whether GDI and their distributors are breaking the law.

I'd forget it, honestly. The proportion of people who have ever made any really significant money from it is (unsurprisingly) absolutely tiny, anyway.