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The Empire Group Newsletter issue 02
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Welcome to another issue of The Empire Group newsletter. Here's what we have in store for you this week...

The Leeds Event
Recognition
Recruitment Incentive
Blog news
Affiliate help
Weekly Conference call changes
This will be the last mass mail out of the newsletter, from now on. The newsletter will be sent to KEY people who can then send it on to their downline.

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1. Leeds.

There will be an event in Leeds this month on the 25th starting at 3pm.
The hotel is called Bewleys Hotel Leeds and is located on Sweet Street in Leeds city centre. You can get directions here.

http://www.bewleyshotels.com/leeds_hotel_details.asp

I have a fantastic list of things I would like to cover for all attendees, plus announcements of some awesome advertising methods that myself and a few leaders have been trying this month. There's also a raffle where you could win a luvverly prize!

Everyone who turns up gets a ticket.
Anyone with a team of 5 with at least 1 personally sponsored member will get an extra ticket.
Have at least 5 personally sponsored members in your team on the day of the event will get you a third free entry!

There will also be 'spot' gifts to those who have excelled this year.

2. Recognition.

I would like to recognize some new and some old affiliates here, some of you are just taking off with your businesses and I couldn't be prouder! Top 5 recruiters so far this period are..

1. Roberto Puzo (lotto2success.com)
2. Richard (lottoclever.com)
3. Dave Hovell (playourway.co.uk)
4. iwanttobeawinner.co.uk
5. playlottouk.co.uk

Roberto has a team of nearly 20 people in only 3 weeks! His downline reaches level 4 already, his enthusiasm and team building skills are awe inspiring!

Robby has been contacting people by email and phone asking them to take a look at his new site, he then gives them a follow up call to ask what they thought and he's been doing it as a 3 way call so others can listen in to learn how to do it themselves. He's also been promoting his landing page with some online methods that we have worked on and had some signups with the Total Leads from the main site.

Robby sends prospects a DVD, he (like many others) have found it to be an excellent tool to explain and excite a prospect, but he ALWAYS follows up with a call. I have personally found this type of promotion to be both easy and effective. If you'd like to listen in on some of my own calls, just contact me and we'll work something out.

Well done Robby. You are a shining beacon and your teamwork and our 3 way calls to your downline are really making a difference. Light that fire under them!

3. Recruitment incentive

OK after the event in Leeds, the new period starts so I would like to announce a very special prize for the top affiliate recruiter and biggest group increase.

Top affiliate recruiter is the person who introduces the most affiliates over the 2 periods that this competition is running.

Biggest group increase is for the person who has the largest amount of personal AND group signups.

The prizes will be BIG. I will announce them at the event.

4. Blog news

Oh I am so pleased with this, now for the keywords that matter - my blog appears at the top of Google.co.uk searches. Try these google links

vwd elottery
vwd lottery
Euromillions results friday

(there's more too on other search engines, my blog referrer stats are geekily beautiful to look at!)

Why is this good for you? well, Robby has been using the blog as a way of telling people what sort of support they can expect. By being at the top of google searches it gives credibility to you when you say to a prospect that by joining you, they have the support of a top ranking webmaster (lol, thats me!) who will be able work with you and them to build their own high ranking site.

Robby has found it to be useful enough to bring in even more affiliates this week (on top of his other methods).

It's also useful to you because when you make your own blog, which you will learn to make by working with me or your upline, I will link to it from mine and thus increase your search ranking. Continue to update it with content that I can help you with and it will only be a matter of a few months and you too could have over 1000 hits a day like me!

5. Affiliate Help

I have a new free number for anyone in the UK. You are welcome to give it to your prospect so they can phone me and have a chat before they join YOUR downline. I'm here to help and I do this full time, don't give it to any stalker freeks though ok? LOL

it's 0800 0430*** (please subscribe to view number)

If you'd rather do a 3 way call with a prospect, contact me first and I can call you both. 3 way calls are a very very useful way to get your confidence up to talk to people, even if it's only to say , "hi Jim, this is Andy, he's on the line too. He's my sponsor and you can ask him anything about the site I showed you" or similar and I can do the rest. (until you are able to do it yourself).

The Empire Group will have it's own password protected website, I will be constructing a website that will have tutorials, essential tools, advice, prospecting software and tools and much much more. There'll be a forum too so we can discuss "top secret" or "saturation susceptible" (too many cooks spoil the broth)promotional methods that will be JUST FOR US.

The domain is http://www.TheEmpireGroup.co.uk and will start to get content after the event. I am working on a way of creating a landing page package that can use unique identifiers so every single affiliate in my AND your downline will be able to have a simple splash page and email capture function without having to worry about hosting or coding. (useful for traffic exchanges and other types of advertising where you don't want someone 'drowned' by information overload or for people with slow connections that can't handle VWD's flash objects)

6. Weekly Conference Call

I have had to cancel this Friday's conference call due to other obligations, sorry everyone! After talking to the team, I will now hold the calls on Wednesdays at 8pm starting next week on the 15th March. It is still being held in the blog chat room until VWD has finished theirs.

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Remember, all it takes is a little call or message to me or your upline. We can't help if we don't know you need it! If it rings, I'll try to answer it. If it 'pings' I will try to respond to it and if you shout loud enough I might hear you and shout back! :-)

From Success to Success.

Kindest Regards

Andy Bailey
+44 208 8100322 (London landline)
0800 0430587 (UK free phone)
+44 7921 628872 (UK mobile o2)

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