Unfortunately, global resorts network does not have a direct deposit option however, they do utilize a company by the name of International Global Xchange (IGX) which you have the option to use. IGX is an international exchange account located in Canada.  All of thier international affiliate utilize IGX and many of our national affiliates as well.

IGX works by global resorts sending your funds to a personal wallet account with IGX.  Once you generate your first commission using IGX you will get notification that funds have been transferred to an IGX wallet account for you.  You will be provided with instructions on how to login and setup your IGX account in order to retrieve your funds.  When setting up your account you will be asked the bank of choice you would like to have funds transferred to.  Once your account is established, which is free of charge, you will then log in and accept your funds into the bank of choice you previously indicated.

Once your account is established with IGX you will get an email notification every time a commission is paid out to you and you will simply log into your account and accept your funds. The transfer from IGX to your bank account usually takes two business days.  There is a one dollar transfer fee from global resorts to IGX and a two dollar transfer fee from IGX to you.

If you would like to change IGX to your payment method simply log into your Global Resorts Network back office by going to www.globalresortsnetwork.com and click on Member Login.
Enter in your user name and password to gain access to your back office.
Under menu select Update Payment Method, click on the drop down box and select IGX then click on Change Withdraw Method to save.

Just adding some factual information for GRN affiliates!

Not sure if people know this or not, but you do not need to purchase the global resorts network membership in order to make money with the company. Not only are there the Gold ($1495 – 3 year membership) and the Platinum ($2995 – Lifetime membership) options for you to choose from but, there is the “free” option also… let me explain…

Global Resorts Network “Free” Membership

An ‘Affiliate Only’ is required to pay $100.00 annually for the website fee. Once global resorts receives the $100.00 payment, the Affiliate will receive their product-only website.

(http://www.globalresortsnetwork.com/username)

The Affiliate is then required to sell a Gold or Platinum Membership for their first sale, which is called their ‘Activation Sale’. The ‘Activation Sale’ will activate their Biz website and will determine their commission structure.

(www.globalresortsnetwork.com/username/biz)

If the Affiliate sells a Gold Membership on their Activation Sale, they will be locked in as a Gold Affiliate until they complete 10 Platinum sales, then their status will change to Platinum and they will receive Platinum commissions or they would need to purchase a Platinum Membership in the amount of $2995.00 to receive Platinum Status.

If the Affiliate sells a Platinum Membership on their Activation Sale, they will be activated as a Platinum Affiliate. The commissions and the person sold to will be passed up to the sponsor on the ‘Activation Sale’.

The second sale made, is called the ‘Qualifying Sale’, which will qualify their first level. The commissions on the Qualifying Sale is split with the Affiliate and the 1st tier sponsor and the retail sale override is

passed the next qualified Affiliate in your upline, but the person sold to will remain in the Affiliates down line.

The Affiliate will begin to generate a full commission on their third sale.

If a prospect chooses to register with Global Resorts Network as a $100.00 Affiliate they will only have the ability to market the product, and will not be able to take advantage of the travel benefits regardless of how many sales they have made unless they purchase a Platinum or Gold Membership.

And… thats all folks!

Why I left Magnetic Sponsoring with Mike Dillard for the Online Mastermind System with Jonathan Budd.

It’s simple, the mastermind system just offered a more valuable and entailed more ways for me to brand myself and build a better foundation for myself long term.

There is nothing quite as sad as having an excited new distributor with a hot new business opportunity and superior product line, who has no idea where to go first and what to do. Downline abandonment is a plague where the recruit suddenly feels alone with no idea why they can’t get people to join their business.

The MLM sales pitch made it sound so easy. Right?!

Or they feel overwhelmed with too much information.

A new IBO needs access to two kinds of training -

- That of product sales training so they will know more about the benefits and features of their new product line and how to promote them.

- Then, secondly – and most importantly – tips and advice to prepare them to be in business for themselves and create a downline that’s just as motivated and educated as they are.

Ideally, you are training them to become independent of you, although you’ll still reap the financial rewards of having them sign up under your name in the first place.

Each new prospect will need guidance and input in the many facets of being in business for themselves. While they may be excited and raring to go, maybe they have poor business practices that turn people off. For that, they’ll need some personal skills development.

Or perhaps they need some guidance on how to reach new customers or approach prospects for their downline.

What’s needed is a peer-based setting where you can effectively teach the various aspects of sales and marketing as well as pointing out materials which will help your new recruit grow as a sales person.

A good sales person is someone who has been trained to be a people person but not everyone is a natural at it.

The buzzword in the sales and marketing industry is Attraction Marketing. The fact is no one likes to be sold. The days of the fast talking, hard pitching salesman is gone. But the flip side is that everyone loves to buy!

The obvious solution to this dilemma is to make it easy for your prospect or customer to make a buying decision – which, in this case, is a “sign-up” decision.

The object is to teach your downline how to inform and attract customers and their own potential downline. There are several excellent books on the subject of attraction marketing but for this report we’ll touch on how to use some attraction marketing methods with social media like Squidoo and Google Knols. Like I stated in a previous post… this stuff just works, that’s why I repeat it!

Squidoo lenses (and the same goes with Knols, WetPaint Wikis and Hub Pages) are an excellent way to provide training, advice, hints and tips in the form of training modules that teach the principles of attraction marketing.

Each lens or Knol can teach an important aspect of the bigger picture. Devise a step-by-step lesson plan, which leads your new prospect by the hand to learn how to be more effective in their sales and approaches.

Devote one lens for each bit of personal development. Teach them how to do what you do. You can feature books (available through Amazon.com, ClickBank or PayDotCom, for example) that will help cement that particular point. Then make sure to link these web 2.0 pages together in logical sequence.

Here are a few ideas to get you thinking on what to offer for training:

• How to prospect intelligently
• How to call your warm prospects
• How to develop their own lead generation system
• How to be a more personable person
• How to dress and act successfully
• How to demonstrate the flagship products (and so on…)

Most likely you joined an upline that has some form of training: books, tapes, brochures, and videos. Capitalize on that. Take the training that’s available and make it easily accessible.

Tie them into any upline training that’s appropriate or that wasn’t covered in your own training program. Think of what questions you still had when you were new and didn’t know what you were doing.

Nothing is stopping you from making your own training materials. Producing video is so simple now, and with a Flip video camera or Camtasia paired with YouTube, you can have a quick video up in no time.

Autoresponders

Learn to use an autoresponder to capture emails and then keep in touch regularly. An autoresponder would almost be essential to keep tied in. Since you can’t possibly talk to everyone in your downline once it grows, you should use regular email messages that feature a topic of interest or news, which in turn leads them to the main website or one of your lenses.

Be A Leader

Be a leader of your downline by maintaining a website that’s easily understandable. While most MLM programs have a “back room” for each IBO, that isn’t the same as one that you would maintain to stay in touch with everyone in your downline.

Create a Training Site / Blog

As the leader of your own group, take the initiative and create a central site where your members can get the latest news and you can offer the newest training downloads in the form of mp3s and videos. You might try using Ning.com if you prefer the layout.

Have the key questions highlighted on the sidebar so that they’re linked to other pages or other lenses. On these lenses, answer the questions and offer any helpful books, tapes or other training materials that will boost your new prospect’s confidence and knowledge.

It’s really simple to put together your own network of social networking pages and a training site, that help to build your downline’s knowledge base and make them feel confident in their decision to sign up with your opportunity.

Online, there are several very useful programs that allow you to set up an attractive site which is informative – and the best part is that they’re free: Squidoo lenses, Google Knols, Hub Pages and WetPaint Wikis are the top most used sites which concern your MLM needs.

Squidoo lenses are basically a one page site that has “plug and play” modules for the various types of content – including text modules for articles, a poll module to get quick input, easy Amazon links for books appropriate to the subject, an RSS blog feed module, and much more.

With each Squidoo lens you create, you can feature some aspect of your business – starting with raw recruiting of getting your prospect joining your downline to the on-going educational materials you’ll want to provide to them.

With Squidoo’s many content modules, you can feature educational articles, which lead your reader to understand the benefits of being in business for themselves. You can also include audio file sound bites, live opt in forms, and video on your lens, so it’s a true multi media experience for your prospects and downline.

In your first lens, the one you present when someone wants to know how to make money online, for example let your reader know that there’s a solution and that you’ll lead them through the solution.

Now isn’t the time for a hard-sell approach. You’re warming them up, so play your personality up in the lens and make them feel comfortable that you aren’t out to take advantage of them.

You’ll build momentum with your sales pitch, starting with soft links for those who are anxious to get going, but linking to other lenses, Knols, or pages with more bait and information until your reader will be sold that they need a business like the one you offer and that you are the person they want leading them.

Those are the basics of what’s called Attraction marketing. But before we get into some attraction marketing basics, we need to cover some basic search engine optimization tips to ensure your social media content gets found in the first place.

SEO 101 – Basics of Search Engine Optimization

Now, it would be nice if people could just type in “how to make money at home” and just show up at your lens or Knol about how to make money with MLMs, but that’s fantasy – there are just too many others vying for the same position.

That’s not to say that someday you won’t pull in a top 10 SERPs position for those keyword phrases, but in the meantime, you need to find other less competitive phrases to attract your prospects.

This is where some basic search engine optimization (SEO) comes in handy. Basically, you will take some general search terms like “make money from home” or “work at home” and type them into a keyword research tool, like the free Google Keyword external tool for a basic search.

When you do a search, it will come back with dozens of terms that contain your main term plus the synonyms in the list below the main one.

From your list of results, choose one and then write articles around that phrase. The idea is that you will write 3 to 4 short 250 word articles per lens or Knol that your reader digests from one to the next.

For example, for the phrase “work at home,” you would write an article with the title, “Best Work At Home Plans,” “How To Work At Home,” “Making Time For Work At Home Jobs,” and “Work At Home: 5 Steps to Success.”

Here’s the important part: The idea is to include the key words in the title and content. Some go so far as to include two keywords (Ex. Work At Home – 5 Things to Look For When Looking for Ways to Make Money Online”) in the titles.

In that title above, you have “work at home” and “make money online” in the title. But don’t just stop there. You need to include them in the introductory paragraph and at least in the closing paragraph of each article. This way the search engines can tell that the article is indeed about “work at home.”

You will do this for each keyword phrase. Write 3 – 4 short 250 word articles for each lens or Knol for each search term. And don’t forget to try to use them in the URL that you create when you first register for a lens like this: Squidoo.com/work-at-home.

The same principle applies for Hub Pages and WetPaint if you choose to add them to your arsenal. Over time, that will amount to dozens, if not hundreds of lenses and Knols – but that’s your goal – to get a small and growing empire in your niche which will eventually dominate your MLM niche subject matter.

You don’t want to get hung up on the inclusion of keywords so much that the articles don’t sound natural to a human reader – because after all, you are writing for them not just the search engines.

Google won’t like it either.

But following the above layout, these basic tips will help your lenses hopefully they will show up on the first pages of the SERPs.

Finally, make sure you include anchor text links to your website where the product/opportunity is sold using those keyword phrases and create a lensroll that includes links to the next lenses in your pre-recruiting or MLM educational series so they know where to go next.

What to Feature on Your Lenses

Now that you know you need to write articles for lenses and other web 2.0 sites, just what do you need to cover and how do you organize it?

First of all, it might be helpful to know that statistics indicate that a person needs to be exposed to an idea 7 times before they will accept it. So, rather than writing an entire lens on “why you need my MLM,” you’ll need to start way back.

Break it down into smaller steps. While this education process could be all on one lens, it might be better if you utilize a different lens for each step through the pre-recruiting phase.

Start back with dream building. Devote a lens to the freedom achieved by being your own boss. The next lens could be about how simple it is to have a home business and other advantages like tax breaks.

Next, start to teach them about the various kinds of home businesses:

1. Service businesses like electrician, computer programmer, and virtual assistant.
2. Product/sales type of business, which include MLM or info product creation.

The next lens would discuss the advantages of working with a supply that will basically drop ship or deliver via email any orders directly to the customer or handle any of the technical part of the service business.

Also devote a lens to teach the advantages of residual income. Spend a good amount of time on this one because people don’t really understand the advantages of doing something once and having it pay for a lifetime.

By the time they finish your step-by-step lens-to-lens pre-training, they will be all ready to know all about your particular MLM.  At this point, they will hopefully have given you contact information on one of your live opt in forms on your lens requesting more information.