Web help for Isagenix Associates
Let’s face it; if you need to share a video, YouTube is pretty great. For the cost of nothing, you can find the video you want, copy some code, and plunk it down into your website.
The one major pain of doing this? YouTube trying to tell your audience what they should watch next.
We’ve had a couple of questions come through from people who attached one of our videos to their website, only to have YouTube make recommendations for other videos once it stopped playing.
Ladies and gentlemen, I just wanted to give you a head’s up: There are people who write to our Twitter account who are looking for information on Isagenix products and becoming an associate.
Of course, we don’t sell directly, and we have no downline of our own to add them to. But you can, and you do! So this creates a great opportunity for you.
Did I mention we recently got our Twitter account verified? I didn't? Well, we recently got our Twitter account verified!
If you do a search on Twitter for @isagenix, you will see all of the tweets addressed to us. Among them are usually a few that sound like this:
“@Isagenix is it really only $20 to become a wholeseller for your products? Where can I find out more about that. #interested”
In fact, as I write this, that’s exactly what one of them sounds like – because it was posted an hour ago.
Or there’s this one from two hours ago:
“@isagenix Day 1 cleanse….feel great so far, but already starting to irritate those close to me. I’ll keep ya posted with the blow by blow.”
You likely have some advice for this person on how to cope with the start of a cleansing regimen, don’t you? You could be the person who response to their tweet and gives them all sorts of handy advice.
That handy advice would also be seen by other people on Twitter, of course. You show your expertise, you make a new friend, you possibly add to your downline, and you have more content on your Twitter stream. Yay!
neato www graphic to make you think about websites
The Isageeks get a lot of questions about building websites, what the best tools are, what the best blogging sites are, how to build squeeze pages, etc, etc. The answer to all these questions is a “definite maybe”.
We’re going to be covering blogging in the next Isageeks video (which will be “a very special episode of the Isageeks”, by the way), so I’m not going to go into too much detail about it right now. Suffice to say that blogging is essentially an online journal, or “web log” (which is where the word “blog” comes from – geeks are sooo witty); you can use blogs to write articles about your weight loss journey, how you’re building your business with Isagenix, or anything else you feel like writing about. You can get started using free online tools like Tumblr, WordPress, or Blogger - check them out when you have the time.
However, if you’re interested in building a website that’s really just for information, such as a site to house information for your teams, a lead generation or “squeeze page”, or just a general website about whatever, there are some tools out there for that, as well. However, most of them tend to either 1. cost money, or 2. require you have their ads on your site (uh, tacky! The 90′s called, and they want their website back!) (more…)
Remember last week when I posted about how you can get an invite to Google Plus through us? Or the sign up sheet at Celebration 2011 to become a member of the site? It’s no longer necessary: After three months of testing, Google Plus is now open to the public.
The announcement was made a little over an hour ago on Google’s official blog, along with a number of other improvements to the site – including the ability to create and join in Hangouts using mobile devices with Android 2.3 or higher.
What’s more, Hangouts can now be viewed by anyone. Where before you might have a group chat with yourself and 9 others, which is still the case. But that chat can be viewed by an unlimited number of Google Plus members. Therefore, if you scheduled a time for a Hangout and sent it out to a large group of people, even once the 9 places filled up for it people would still be able to watch and learn.
You can also share Google Docs, which means you can port over PowerPoint presentations you may have.
All this essentially means you can now do a full product demo live, for an unlimited number of Google Plus viewers, with whatever presentation tools you need – and if you have an Android 2.3 device already, you can do it from anywhere too.
I’m still waiting for one of your product demo geniuses to use Hangouts in just such a way. (So let me know if you do!)
Best of all, Google Plus FINALLY has topic searches. If you’re interested in, “hockey,” for instance, searching for it won’t just get you all of the people with “hockey” in their name like it did before. It will pull up posts that actually mention hockey. I just could not understand why this wasn’t a feature at launch – seeing how it was a Google product, and as I understand it Google has had some involvement with search in the past.
So this is definitely the best version of Google Plus so far. If you haven’t joined yet, now you can, without an invite, and get jumping on the best available features.
When you have a problem with some new piece of technology released by Isagenix, or questions about social networking, search, or anything else related to online media, your best source of information is the Isageeks Group on Facebook.
There are a lot of members to the group – and most of them have likely had the same challenges you’re having. The response time from the community is also very fast. Certainly, it’s a lot faster than if you leave a comment on one of the blog posts here.
All you have to do is go to http://www.facebook.com/groups/isageeks, click on the, “Ask to join group” button, and wait for your approval. (We’re pretty fast about getting to these as well.) Then you can fire off your question, and even answer questions other people have as you become more of a pro yourself.
See you there!
Google Plus has given us a URL to distribute invitations to their social network. (Which, in my humble opinion, is incredibly awesome.)
If you aren’t already a member, sign into your Google account and click on the G+ image above. This will take you to the join up screen, and you can get started on here immediately.
We have a limited number of invites to give out, so you’ll want to jump on this fast.
If you try to get your invite and it doesn’t work anymore, you can also try going to the Isageeks Facebook Group and asking the members there if they have any invites.
See you there!
Since Google Plus (or G+ as we social media hipsters call it) came out, I’ve been crazy about their feature Hangouts. It’s a chat room that lets you invite friends and talk to them via your computer’s web cam. It’s like the future we were promised on, “The Jetsons,” where everyone calls each other up with video phones.
What was also great about it was the ability to share YouTube videos. Since Google owns YouTube, getting the two to work together was a no-brainer for them.
But Google recently made that integration work even better. Here’s a picture of a video on our own Isagenix YouTube Channel:
