I never had any success with the Global Domains International Affiliate program.

I would sponsor people for the 7 day free trial but they would not upgrade...and it's only
10 bucks a month. I think the problem is the 1 dollar factor. For every member in your
downline you receive a dollar a month as long as they are subscribed. Geez...all that
work to recruit someone and only get a dollar a month. When I was shopping around 
looking for programs to build my Home Business, I received autoresponder emails
about the GDI compensation plan explaining the "Power Of One", and how those one
dollar bills can add up very quickly and wondered why they kept "pushing" that topic.

So, I figured it must be an issue with some people. When you look at the compensation
plan, you need 10 people just to break even before you see any profit. Where GDI
has already "glutted" the market, the most signups will be coming from "new" people
entering the online business world and recruiting 10 people as a "newbie" is no
easy task.

After a couple months, I got an invitational email to join 3in7, a GDI downline builder.
"Guaranteed" (There's that word again and it got me suspicious back then) to put 3 people
in your downline in GDI in 7 days. You guessed it; never happened. For some reason I
couldn't get it going and and didn't feel right promoting a program that never fulfilled
their "guarantee" to me.

Out of that debacle, I did learn something from a GDI member that was doing great with
the company and attributed his success to Forum posting. Actually he was a Doctor and
building his GDI business as his time schedule allowed. By posting to 3 or 4 popular
Forums everyday or every two days he was and still is building his downline. The first
3 or 4 months there was nothing happening but then slowly he began getting replies 
to the posts he was making on his thread, and interest turned to signups.

As members joined his downline he encouraged them to follow his lead and post on his
threads or start new threads if the Forum allowed it. Essentially, his Forum threads
became downline builders.
 

I decided to try and duplicate his success by using the same method for my programs.
That was about 4 months ago and strangely, just in the last few days I began getting
some interest and response to my Forum posts also a few signups. Just like the Doc
ordered, his prescription was working.

A word of caution that every Forum has different rules and standards. You must read
the rules and regulations for each category within a Forum to stay "legal". Popular
Forum topics also get good ratings in the Search Engines especially if your content
is fresh and original.

In my next article I will discuss Forum posting and how I found out the hard way that
not all Forums have the same format and rules.