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Donovan Baldwin is a Dallas area writer and network marketing professional. A graduate of the University Of West Florida (1973) with a BA in accounting, he is a member of Mensa and has held several managerial positions. After retiring from the U. S. Army in 1995, he became interested in internet marketing and developed various online businesses. He has been writing poetry, articles, and essays for over 40 years, and now frequently publishes articles on his own websites and for use by other webmasters. His network marketing business provides low cost Health Benefits to individuals and both traditional and nontraditional family groups. He is actively seeking those interested in starting their own home business.
January 8, 2008
Worker bees by definition are sterile bees specialized to collect food and maintain the hive.
It?s a darn workaholic thing, OK!
These little fellas work. I mean they work from the day they?re born to the day they die. That?s
the only purpose they have is to work, work and work. Some bees change tasks or duties.
When summer comes they will be a guard or a soldier and during the winter they will be worker
bees or something else. But worker bees are worker bees forever.
You see I researched about these because in some ways it?s kind of similar to some of us. We work, work and work. The sad thing about it is some of you have worked from the time you were teenagers until you get old.
Lot?s of seniors have retired and a little while later they have to go back to work because of a lack of finances or it?s just not enough to support them. Don?t get me wrong I think everybody should work.
But we can work smart and we?re not a worker bee we have a choice.
Are You A Worker Bee? I don?t know about you but I?m more like a boss a lazy bee (Ha! Ha!). I?m the one that tells everybody else what to do. We?ll it?s not exactly like that, I still have my own work to do, I can delegate some but not all. But what I?m saying is we can break the cycle.
Instead of being a worker bee why don?t we try to be a boss bee (Entrepreneur).
I don?t need to show you a statistics chart here but I?ll bet you you?ll agree with me that people that work hard will most likely will develop some kind of work related stress or something.
People that run their business are more relaxed. You know taking vacations here and there, they’re financially secure and so on?(Specially Online Business HINT).
My point is you have more leverage to make money by working for your self than working for your grouchy boss that tell you what to do.?Oh I?m sorry you can?t take a vacation, you can?t have a raise, can?t do this, can?t do that.? and sometimes you just want to scream and say ? SHUT UP! ?. yeah sure in you dreams!!.
Have you heard people say ?Work smart not hard!!? and my answer to this is to start your own online business. You can do almost anything online now, this is even smarter than opening a mom & pop?s offline business.
We?ll don?t wait another day if your dreaming of owning or starting your own business get a plan, execute it and like Nike says ?Just do it!? and don?t be like a worker bee!!
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Albert Hallado Owner of NetBizReview.com (Guide To Internet Based Business)
Albert is known for interviewing online business experts and Helping Entrepreneurs Doing Business On The Internet.
January 6, 2008
MLM company training typically incorporates lots of hype, with claims of superiority, extravagant growth, and other big language. That type of training is typically not very helpful. A large percentage of people involved in network marketing have no experience with any type of promotion or marketing. This type of training usually leads the average person to frustration and possible failure.
Are you a salesperson?
The vast majority of people who get into network marketing are not salespeople, nor do they wish to become one! Yet the training people get from their uplines goes something like this: Now that you?ve joined, get your entire family and all your friends to join you! Go out there and talk to everyone within three feet! Get out of your comfort zone! Get 100 no?s! Make 50 dials a day! This type of training tries to turn trainees into salespeople. In network marketing, this leads to frustration and discomfort because people don?t like to sell or be sold, especially by their friends and family.
Here?s the funny thing: In my previous life, I was in sales! I sold everything from garbage services to advertising, and I was successful, too. When I got into network marketing, I thought, No problem, piece of cake, I can sell anyone anything; this will be easy. Guess what? It was hard. I did everything my upline told me to do, and I still didn?t have success. When I asked what else I could do, I was told to just keep talking to people and not to quit. What kind of training is that?
Do you have a simple, duplicable system?
In network marketing you need a system for promotion, presentation, and follow-up that is simple and duplicable?a system the average secretary, plumber, teacher, mechanic, retiree, salesperson, or CEO can follow. A system that?s rejection-free. For you to have success, a good upline needs a training system in place to teach people about people. Network marketing is a teaching and mentoring business, and in order to be successful, you must understand people and what makes them tick. Most MLM upline training consists of telling people it?s a numbers game. Have you ever been treated like a number? Did you like it? How did it make you feel? Is that the way you want to make people feel? It?s not a numbers game?it?s about people, and people are not numbers.
Most MLM companies don?t provide training that?s worth a hill of beans. Typically, it consists of a lot of motivation and ?you can do it? hype. That?s okay. Believe it or not, the company?s job isn?t to train the distributors in the field; their job is to manufacture and ship the products and then send us our checks. That?s why it?s so important to find an upline or team that has a system already in place, a system that you can plug into for some good meat-and-potatoes training and that has great support and makes you feel part of a team, not alone on an island, struggling to survive. When you find a MLM team with good, solid training in place, it will be magic!
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Suzanne Fulford is a successful network marketer and stay at home mother of two. Suzanne believes everyone with the desire to become successful in network marketing can do so with the proper skills, mentoring and support. It is her goal to help as many people as possible attain the proper skills and mentor them to success. Download her free eBook at http://www.TheMLMmom.com or visit http://www.NetworkMarketingHotspot.com for more free tips and training.
January 5, 2008
I recently saw a forum discussion titled ?Why do they quit??
Some of the answers were what we have all heard before: ?The work was too hard? or ?They were sold on getting rich NOW?, or ?They couldn?t understand the product?.
STOP!!! IT HURTS!!
Okay, let?s get this straight. I have quit a home based opportunity, before. Yes, it?s true. I was disenchanted with the help my upline had promised. It wasn?t there.
Bad Reason? Yes, I agree. But I was young and impressionable .
People are prone to quit for two very basic reasons:
1. It was easy to get in ? low cost, so getting out is not painful.
2. The ?team? is always changing how they do things and it is too overwhelming!
That?s it. Is it too simple? Maybe. Sometimes it is hard to tell because those that are quit are probably not likely to take an exit survey to tell us exactly why they quit.
Now, what can we do to get past these two reasons?
1. We need to convince them that this is a commitment and to treat this like a multimillion dollar business.
This is a matter of your leadership. Don?t let them skip the first important steps of setting their goals and sharing why they are doing this. But you can?t babysit them, either.
2. Have a system in place where the person can just plug into.
This is IMPORTANT!!
We all know that a hamburger from McDonald?s is nothing to write home about. But why are they so successful? Because Ray Crock, the founder, knew that it wasn?t the burger that was going to make the business ? it was volume. He developed a system where many stores could all operate with the same products ? duplication!
Teenagers came in (I was one of them in 1977) and pushed buttons to start timers, flipped the quarter-pounders on the beep, squirted one measured glob of mustard, ketchup, 2 pickles, and butterflied the cheese if cheese was ordered. It was a system anyone could learn and use.
Does your opportunity have a system? Does your team have a system? Is it streamlined? Do you have a step by step formula for success?
If your company doesn?t have one, it?s time for you to write one! That may be a different article. I will have to ask Michael if he wants a follow up.
Here is a trick that I use to find out if a prospect will succeed before he or she even signs up!
Ask this question: ?What personal development book or program are you reading or listening to??
Of course this is when they call or email me. I don?t do cold calls. I don?t need to.
Anyway, if they hem and haw on this question, I don’t need them, and they are not ready for MLM. Of course, I don’t call until they have qualified themselves through my system, but that is another story. Cold calling is way old school.
That brings us to the real product of Network Marketing.
What? It?s not Noni Juice? :0
The real product in MLM is not a gasoline additive, weightloss, or skin care products. The product is leaders. You have to develop leaders. Leaders will reveal themselves through thick and thin.
Develop your leaders, the one that is standing with their hand up saying I am ready. Develop leaders and they will not quit. You will still have tire kickers, lookie lous and mlm junkies, but when you get a few leaders going, they can start developing their leaders.
Work yourself out of a job as mentor by developing mentors.
To your success!!
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January 4, 2008
3 Hot Tips For MLM Success
Here are 3 simple tips to communicate your business opportunity to new prospects, be they friends, acquaintances or cold leads:
1. Create Suspense.
You need to create suspense. Sometimes, we shoot ourselves in the foot by just talking too much and giving too much information at the get go.
Stop doing it
Instead be brief and build excitement and curiosity
When you talk too much you leave an opportunity for your prospect to make an uninformed decision - you don’t want that.
Be prepared to develop a planned strategy in how you prospect for team members
Develop the same principles of farming. A farmer plants seeds and then reaps at a later stage. You need to develop an environment of curiosity that leads the prospect to want to ‘buy’ from you rather than you having to ’sell’ them - there is a huge psychological difference between the two.
Leaving the prospect in suspense makes them eager to hear what you have to say.
The point here is to get them to want to hear what you say, otherwise you are giving them just information rather than inspiration.
Suspense makes the prospect interested in what you have to say.
2. Urgency
You also need to move your prospects towards a decision that is time sensitive. You need to give them a reason to ACT NOW rather than waiting.
You need to give your prospect a compelling reason to act now. Buying moments are fleeting moments, so load up whatever you need to give by way of incentives to ensure that the prospect makes a decision now. It is statistically proven that it is harder to sell someone a second time than it is the first, so seize the moment first time round.
If you prepare the prospect through SUSPENSE, and then give them a compelling reason to act in an URGENT manner now, then you have set the scene for the third thing you need.
3. Fear Of Loss
You need to remind your prospect that if they don’t act now they will experience some form of loss, be it financial, emotional, or psychological.
Now one disclaimer I would put here ….. You have to believe that they will suffer loss. Don’t peddle a line that is a throw away sales line. If you genuinely believe that they will suffer some loss then communicate this with enthusiasm. Anything less will be shown up in time as a sales line.
If you don’t genuinely believe there will be loss, then get out of that and get into something that you passionately believe in !
People smell fakes a mile away - it is called intuition.
A fear of loss gives your prospect a reason to ACT. It is a buying motive they need to make them decide now rather than later, or not at all.
Combine all three in your lead generation, be it verbal or written, be it cold or warm lead.
Practice all three and develop your own scripts, based on what you will say in a variety of different situations, and also develop responses to a range of responses. You don’t have to be Einstein to work out what people will say in the majority of cases, so prepare in advance.
Suspense, Urgency & Fear of Loss - include them in all your presentations and watch your downline grow before your eyes
January 1, 2008
As an ingredient of online business success, it crucial to decide on the advertising mix that you are going to use. Yet the problem that is faced in online business is that the online business advertising media is not known.
Let us look at it from a different angle. In the offline business world, people who work in Marketing or advertising fields, usually have university degrees in those fields. Meaning, they have got years of training before entering the field, and then they will need to get experience and make achievements before they can move on with their careers.
This is not the case in the online business world. The majority of people who venture into online business are establishing businesses whether with their own products/services or as affiliates without having the slightest idea about how to market online. Accordingly, the advertising tools will be totally unknown. Thus it will be impossible to decide on the online advertising mix.
Therefore, for any person who wants to venture into online business needs to learn all the different tools available for online advertising. Then each tool should be studied to know how to use these tools effectively. Although there are numerous books and e-books written on the subject, they are lost in a pile of scam e-books that basically give no information whatsoever about the subject. Only the lucky ones are able to find a program that walks them one step at a time in the world of online advertising either by finding a real e-book or by affiliating with a program that actually gives such a detailed training and not only a bunch of tools and unorganized material.
After knowing all the tools available, how to use them and costs associated with each of those tools, a person would be able to decide on the suitable online advertising mix. Although the factors affecting the decision to choose the suitable online advertising mix are the same as those affecting the choice of a suitable offline advertising mix, the priority of those factors would differ between the two marketplaces.
The factors are:
1- Type of business
2- Target market/segment
3- Budget availability
4- Skills
5- Availability of resources including time
The priority of these factors when deciding on an offline advertising mix would look like this:
1- Type of business
2- Target market/segment
3- Budget availability
4- Resources and skills are at the same level.
The priority of these factors when deciding on an online advertising mix would look like this:
1- Budget availability
2- Resources, especially time
3- Skills
4- Target market/segment
5- Type of business
Many internet marketers might find the details of this article debatable but they would all agree on the steps advised which are briefly as follows:
1- Get to know all the advertising tools available for online advertising
2- Know the ins and outs of each tool
3- Try the ones that you are able to afford and test their effectiveness
4- Depending on your situation decide on the online advertising mix that you are going to use.
It is important to note here that for the offline business world consider the internet as one advertising tool to use; similarly the online business world consider offline advertising as one of the tools that can be used to advertise online businesses.
It should be very clear that deciding on the online advertising mix does not guarantee success for the mere factor that the mix itself is not engraved in stone and it could be changed depending on the changes that could occur on the above mentioned factors. Deciding on the online advertising mix is the beginning of the online business journey.
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December 11, 2007
What do you do when a friend tries to get you into their MLM? Do you refuse?
I don’t refuse because I may want to do that MLM also, or at least give it a run with a certain group of people to see how it goes.
OR
I may join because I want to do business with that person in the future. Especially with people that have a large list of MLMers that are offline or who know people who have such lists. In Japan it’s called ‘Giri Ninjyo’. A bit like giving chocolates to the boss on Valentines day. Even though there is no love involved the thought is there.
Sometimes I’ll join a friend?s MLM if I want the products. Products are normally cheaper that way. Then if I like one of the products I may promote it to product orientated groups or companies that can promote it within their cliental without breaking the MLM rules.
I ask for a downline if I can’t see advantages in joining the new MLM. This way the products are free and if the group moves then I’ll train and increase the group. If the pay plan is a binary then the request will be to have people on both left and right legs to put me in profit from the start.
The idea is not to have someone give me a big downline, just enough to cover the monthly costs of joining their MLM. The benefit for them is that they will have someone who knows a lot of big players with big lists plus someone who can train that group.
Perhaps this all gets back to whether a person should stick with just one MLM or not. I just happen to be a person who likes to put their eggs in more than one basket if it happens to suit me. I have my main MLM (a binary) but my job is sometimes to ‘Fit the MLM to the person and not the person to the MLM’ so it’s advantageous to have more than one screw driver in the tool box.
My main MLM has online tools for online MLMers, but this will not cover my neighbors weight problem or excite a person with a huge offline list of prospects. So I’m always open to listening to MLM presentations from friends and if I can help them and me, a win win situation, then I’ll join their MLM.
If it’s not a win win situation then I give them real reasons, ones that they can fix if they really want me.
Some people treat their MLM like a religion, one thought, one God etc or a place just to make friends. That?s fine !?
I like to treat MLM like a business.Read on:
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Realizing up front that with any business nothing but hard work and determination pays.
Starting your own work at home business can be quite easy if you apply a few simple strategies. You have probably seen the ads, either in your inbox or while surfing the internet, about making money online or other work at home opportunities. Maybe you did a Google search for ?work at home opportunities?, or ?make money online? but then it happens; information overload! You get bombarded with hype and promises of fast and easy money with the ?click of your mouse you?ll make millions?. You try to figure it all out but have no idea where to start. Well, you are not alone. All of us working online were there at one time or another. What it takes to be successful is some persistence and the ability to find the right tools and programs to get a good start.
One of the biggest mistakes you can make is to sign up for every offer that comes along. You will soon be bombarded with e-mail from all the different programs you joined and will not know were to start. It is fine to sign up for the programs? free newsletters or other subscriptions to get more information and you can always stop them from coming if you are not interested.
The first thing to consider before you begin your search is your goals. What is it that you would like to get from your work at home business; is it just to make a little extra money, need to pay off some bills, perhaps you just need a second income, or if you are really ambitious, do you want to quit your job and work from home full-time? Answering these questions will help you determine how serious you are and how committed you need to be to learn what it takes to reach your goals.
Another thing to consider is how much time and money you are willing to spend to reach your goal. As with any business, there are start-up costs, although for a work at home business these can be significantly less than a traditional business enterprise. You might as well know right now that there is no get quick rich method to it. There is no easy system where you can ?click your way to millions?. However, if you are willing to roll up your sleeves and put the time in to learn what it takes, then get ready for a journey that could change your life.
Copyright ? Jeff Houdyschell
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December 10, 2007
Cutting through the clutter to find the truth about a work at home business opportunity.
As you begin your search for the right work at home opportunity, you will see hundreds of offers from others telling you how they became rich and how you can too. You are also wondering how to determine if these are legitimate moneymaking work at home opportunities. There are a few ways to do this. First, you need to learn to read between the lines of these sales pages to see if what you are looking at has any value to you, and more importantly, if it has any value to others that you will be promoting it to. In most cases, the page you are reading about a specific program will be the same thing you will be promoting if you join. This is not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, if it works to get you to join, then there must be something of value to it.
Lets look a little closer at the offers the online experts are telling you about their specific work at home opportunity; you know the ones that are usually long on testimonials and short on details. Now, do not get me wrong, some of these are a great way to start a work at home business. In fact, I joined a few of these myself. It is just the fact that you have to read for a while to get to the point, if you even stay around that long. The best way to read these are to not really read them at first, but to scan the page looking for how much it is going to cost to join and what you get for the price. You are looking for a tangible object, something of value or a tool that can be used more than once. At this point, you really should not be buying just information. Remember, the internet is full of that for free. The next thing to judge is how you will use it to your advantage and if it will teach you the skills you need to further your work at home business. Another consideration is if it is something that you see as valuable, not only to yourself, but to others that you will most likely be marketing it to.
Before you sign up for any work at home opportunity, you may be interested in you should first sign up for a free newsletter or any subscription they offer. You will usually begin to get a series of e-mail from them with useful information pertaining to the subject you are interested in while persuading you to join. This is probably the same system that you will be involved in should you join the program and it will give you an idea of the quality of their marketing and how you may well be promoting your own work at home opportunity.
Copyright ? Jeff Houdyschell
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