"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." -- Teddy Roosevelt
Do you remember when you were a child and no dream seemed too big? Some of us thought we would walk on the moon; some dreamed of riding with Roy Rogers; others imagined stepping to the plate in a big-league game. Every one of us, when we were young, had a common trait--we were dreamers. The world hadn't gotten to us yet to show us that we couldn't possibly achieve what our hearts longed for. And we were yet still years from realizing that in some cases, we weren't built for achieving our dream.
I realized about my junior year of high school that I was too short and too slow to play professional basketball. The dreamer is always the last to know.
Eventually, we started to let our dreams die. People began to tell us that we couldn't do the things we wanted. It was impossible. Responsible people don't pursue their dreams. Settle down. Get a job. Be dependable. Take care of business. Live the mundane. Be content.
Do you know what I say to that? Hooey! It is time to dream again! Why? Here are just a few reasons:
* Avoid regret. The facts are in, and someday, we will all lie on our deathbed looking back through the history of our lives. We will undoubtedly think about what we wished we had done or accomplished. I, for one, don't want to regret what could have been, what should have been. So, I am deciding today to pursue my dreams.
* Help others. The world needs people like you to dream of something great and then to pursue it with all of your heart. Maybe you belong to a business, school, or organization that started out with good intentions but has settled into the same ol' same ol'. Shake these people up and remind them of how they could really help other people if only they would dream!
* Enjoy personal and family fulfillment. One of the things that happens when we stop pursuing our dreams is that a little piece of us dies and we become disheartened, if only in that area of our lives. Stepping up and pursuing your dream rekindles that passion and zeal that everyone has the capacity for and lets us experience fulfillment. Having a purpose puts the zip in our step and the zing in our emotions!
* Make the world a better place. All of the great accomplishments that have ever happened began with a person who had a dream. Somebody rebuffed the naysayers and said to himself or herself, "This can be done, and I am the one who will do it." And, in many instances they changed the world for the better. It isn't just the Martin Luther King's and J.F.K.s either. Think of all the people we have never heard of who have started things large and small that help people world-wide every day.
* Leave a legacy. How will your children remember you? As one who sought all that life had to offer, using your gifts and talents to their fullest extent, leading the family with a zest for life, or as an overweight couch potato who could have been? Our children need to see that we dream; that we search for something better. They, in turn, will do the same!
So where do we start? Here are some ideas:
* Reconnect with your dream. Set aside some time to let yourself dream. What have you placed on the backburner in order to live the status quo? Settle on one or two dreams that you can and will pursue. Don't come up with too many. That will only deter you further.
* Decide that you will do it. This may seem elementary but many people never decide and commit fully to their dream. They simply keep "thinking" about it.
*Tell others that you are going to do it. This puts you on the record as to what you are dreaming about. It makes you accountable. It will help you do it if for no other reason than to avoid embarrassment!
*Develop a step-by-step plan. This is absolutely essential. You must sit down and write out a few things:
* A timeline. How long will it take to the end?
* Action steps. Point-by-point what you will do and when you will do it.
* Resources you will need to draw from. What will it take? Who will need to be involved for help or advice?
* An evaluation tool. You need to evaluate from time to time whether you are progressing or not.
* A celebration. Yep, when you are done, you should already have planned what you will do to celebrate. Make it big!
I have found that there is no better time than now. So, set aside some time today to get started on your dream. Follow the action plan and set your sights for the top of the mountain! You will be glad you did!
Chris Widener
Wednesday, Apr 9, 2008
source http://www.mlm.com
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Duplication is the key success factor in network marketing.
MLM ---- Network Marketing Industry
The concept of duplication is what separates network marketing from
traditional business. It's why the time honored mass marketing
strategies of traditional business just don't pan out for the bulk
of network marketers that use them.
Many marketers tell us that their downline isn't duplicating.
But something is duplicating, even if you are not aware of it. With
97% of the people involved in this business NOT earning a profit,
it's pretty obvious what is duplicating. Unfortunately it's the
wrong kind of duplication.
Duplication isn't about being a cookie cutter. It's not about
having people do exactly the same thing that we do and becoming a
clone. That's what actually causes duplication to break down over
time.
The focus of your duplication efforts should be to duplicate the
earning of income - getting a commission check. It's about
duplicating results.
This is where most companies seem to run out of options. Yet it's
having options that work for each individual that's precisely what
is needed in order to duplicate positive results.
There are a lot of books and Internet sites with tons of ideas (and
even more promises) on how to best build a network marketing
business. Some of these ideas are good, most are not. At leaders
Club we approach things differently.
To start, we only teach marketing options that we have tested and
have proven to work. We've spent over $10 Million over the years
working the kinks out of various methods, developing new strategies
and dumping the ones that don't work.
Next, we've looked at hundreds of network marketing organizations.
Some attracting thousands of members, with high retention rates,
regular duplication and generating excellent income. Others not.
We know what separates the winners from the losers.
But that's not the reason you should subscribe to our program!
The reason you should subscribe is because we will work with you
specifically to ensure your success. Not only do we create a custom
tailored training program, provide you with one-on-one personal
accountability, we will actually help you troubleshoot prospecting,
marketing and leadership challenges live as they arise.
This is not something a book or a blog will ever be able to provide!
Working with me one-on-one would cost you $250/hr. It's worth every
penny - provided you can get on to my schedule and afford it in the
first place.
But Leaders Club isn't about draining your budget.
We're about helping the underdog. This is why we have weekly live
group sessions where you can ask me, my expert trainers and even
other Leaders Club members for honest help with your most difficult
situations.
The bottom line is that no one leaves a Leaders Club training
program without a solution they can implement in their very next
prospecting conversation or marketing/leadership challenge. Not
hype. Logical solutions that come from experience. 99% of the time
they won't cost you another dime.
No one leaves without a workable solution and the knowledge that
they have an expert team backing them every step of the way!
That's something I know you can recognize in Challenge 7 of the
video. In case you missed it, or want to see it again, visit:
source: http://www.leadersclub.com/1/8great/ch7.asp
_________________________________________________
Want to start Network Marketing Business?
Be part of the fastest growing Network marketing Group, DXN International
Explorer400 Evolution Group
email:143pamela@gmail.com
The concept of duplication is what separates network marketing from
traditional business. It's why the time honored mass marketing
strategies of traditional business just don't pan out for the bulk
of network marketers that use them.
Many marketers tell us that their downline isn't duplicating.
But something is duplicating, even if you are not aware of it. With
97% of the people involved in this business NOT earning a profit,
it's pretty obvious what is duplicating. Unfortunately it's the
wrong kind of duplication.
Duplication isn't about being a cookie cutter. It's not about
having people do exactly the same thing that we do and becoming a
clone. That's what actually causes duplication to break down over
time.
The focus of your duplication efforts should be to duplicate the
earning of income - getting a commission check. It's about
duplicating results.
This is where most companies seem to run out of options. Yet it's
having options that work for each individual that's precisely what
is needed in order to duplicate positive results.
There are a lot of books and Internet sites with tons of ideas (and
even more promises) on how to best build a network marketing
business. Some of these ideas are good, most are not. At leaders
Club we approach things differently.
To start, we only teach marketing options that we have tested and
have proven to work. We've spent over $10 Million over the years
working the kinks out of various methods, developing new strategies
and dumping the ones that don't work.
Next, we've looked at hundreds of network marketing organizations.
Some attracting thousands of members, with high retention rates,
regular duplication and generating excellent income. Others not.
We know what separates the winners from the losers.
But that's not the reason you should subscribe to our program!
The reason you should subscribe is because we will work with you
specifically to ensure your success. Not only do we create a custom
tailored training program, provide you with one-on-one personal
accountability, we will actually help you troubleshoot prospecting,
marketing and leadership challenges live as they arise.
This is not something a book or a blog will ever be able to provide!
Working with me one-on-one would cost you $250/hr. It's worth every
penny - provided you can get on to my schedule and afford it in the
first place.
But Leaders Club isn't about draining your budget.
We're about helping the underdog. This is why we have weekly live
group sessions where you can ask me, my expert trainers and even
other Leaders Club members for honest help with your most difficult
situations.
The bottom line is that no one leaves a Leaders Club training
program without a solution they can implement in their very next
prospecting conversation or marketing/leadership challenge. Not
hype. Logical solutions that come from experience. 99% of the time
they won't cost you another dime.
No one leaves without a workable solution and the knowledge that
they have an expert team backing them every step of the way!
That's something I know you can recognize in Challenge 7 of the
video. In case you missed it, or want to see it again, visit:
source: http://www.leadersclub.com/1/8great/ch7.asp
_________________________________________________
Want to start Network Marketing Business?
Be part of the fastest growing Network marketing Group, DXN International
Explorer400 Evolution Group
email:143pamela@gmail.com
Monday, March 2, 2009
The Death of Network Marketing
What Does Your Prospect Really Want?
One of the biggest keys in getting people to come to
you is knowing what buttons to push.
Simple as this may sound, it's actually not as straight
forward or as easy as one might think.
It can take some serious organized thought.
Anytime you give your prospect any kind of
message, you have to thoroughly examine it and
make sure that the things you're trying to sell them
are the things that really matter to them.
To this day, despite the fact that I've had this self-
evident truth repeatedly drilled into my head from
countless sales and marketing courses, I still find
myself at times selling the wrong benefits to my
audience.
I've learned that it isn't enough to just walk a mile
in your prospect's shoes... you have to LIVE in
them.
Pinpointing and fulfilling their true wants and needs
is something you have to obsess over. It needs to
become the predominate thought in your mind.
So let me ask you: In OUR industry, what are our
prospects really after?
More money? More time? Freedom from the 9-5?
Nope.
These are just surface desires that are plainly visible
to anyone at first glance. You have to look past the
obvious. You have to go deeper than that.
(Unfortunately, rarely does anyone in mlm ever
emphasize anything beyond these things).
How about more specifically: Enough money so that
they can take that trip to Italy they've been wanting
to do for 5 years? Enough money to pay off all their
credit card debt and their car loan so the only major
monthly payment left is their rent/mortgage? How
about enough time freedom to start exercising for
45 minutes every day like they've always wanted
to?
That's a little better and yes, they are after these
things... but it's still going in the wrong direction.
These are all end results and they are important, but
there's still a huge gap in between where they are
now and where they want to be.
It's your job to fill in that gap.
See, what they're REALLY after is a way to obtain
these things.
A "how."
And contrary to popular belief, network marketing is
not a how. It's a "what."
If money, time, etc were really all that your prospect
was looking for and network marketing really was
the answer he needed, then merely telling him that
your opportunity can give him a six figure income
while working part time from home would be all
that was needed to sign him up.
Does it work that way? No.
That's because in reality, network marketing
MIGHT be a way for him to achieve all those things...
it's just that he hasn't been convinced of that yet.
He has to clearly see that it will work for him first.
Network marketing is just a vehicle and vehicles don't
operate themselves. People need to be shown how to
work them.
It's no different than stocks or real estate - both
vehicles that can help you reach an end goal.
No one needs to be convinced that it is POSSIBLE
to get rich through those two vehicles. Everyone
knows that.
But what they don't know is HOW to use those
vehicles to get rich. That's the missing puzzle piece
that's keeping them on the sidelines.
Same thing with MLM. The desire is already there
(provided you're doing a good job of targeting the
correct audience). If you can just give them the how,
they will flock to you in droves.
The most burning question your prospect has is:
"Is this going to work for ME?"
They see all the circles and the commission levels
and the big payouts and even all the success stories,
but they need to know how all that's going to happen
for them.
It's very hard to visualize a legitimate six-figure-a-
year business being built from the ground up using a
hastily thrown together names list of all the people
they know.
The way you fill in the blanks for them and answer
the question of how it's going to work is by
emphasizing the most crucial component of any
business: The marketing system being used.
This is the most important benefit of your
opportunity.
(That is... unless you're using warm market/cold
market prospecting. In which case, this benefit has
basically been destroyed. Because if the way you
came in touch with your prospect was by butting
into their lives with a sales pitch they never asked
for - whether they already knew you or not - you've
just shown them exactly how they would be doing
business if they joined your opportunity. And that's
not good because no one wants to be a sleazy
salesperson. On the other hand... if your marketing
system drew them to you first and all you did was
wait for the call or open your email inbox to find
someone who wants more information, how much
easier do you think it would be for them to visualize
themselves doing what you do? After all, it got them
there didn't it?)
Most people in our industry go nuts about the
product and the comp plan and even the timing of
the opportunity, but none of that means anything to
a prospect because that doesn't tell them HOW
they're going to be able to make it work.
Even if they really ARE getting in on an opportunity
that's so unique it really does only come around
once in a lifetime, so what? They still have to market
the products and the opportunity to other people to
make any money don't they? How are they going to
do that?
A good marketing system answers that question
because it, above all else, will determine their
success or failure.
It gives them the "how" instead of the "what" -
which is what they're really looking for.
If you can successful convey this to them, you've
made a bullet-proof case that's literally left them with
no reason not to take the next step.
When you target the right audience, the question
is not whether or not they want what you're offering.
The question is whether they believe it will actually
do what you say it will.
an email from
Ann Sieg
http://win.TheRenegadeNetworkMarketer.com
One of the biggest keys in getting people to come to
you is knowing what buttons to push.
Simple as this may sound, it's actually not as straight
forward or as easy as one might think.
It can take some serious organized thought.
Anytime you give your prospect any kind of
message, you have to thoroughly examine it and
make sure that the things you're trying to sell them
are the things that really matter to them.
To this day, despite the fact that I've had this self-
evident truth repeatedly drilled into my head from
countless sales and marketing courses, I still find
myself at times selling the wrong benefits to my
audience.
I've learned that it isn't enough to just walk a mile
in your prospect's shoes... you have to LIVE in
them.
Pinpointing and fulfilling their true wants and needs
is something you have to obsess over. It needs to
become the predominate thought in your mind.
So let me ask you: In OUR industry, what are our
prospects really after?
More money? More time? Freedom from the 9-5?
Nope.
These are just surface desires that are plainly visible
to anyone at first glance. You have to look past the
obvious. You have to go deeper than that.
(Unfortunately, rarely does anyone in mlm ever
emphasize anything beyond these things).
How about more specifically: Enough money so that
they can take that trip to Italy they've been wanting
to do for 5 years? Enough money to pay off all their
credit card debt and their car loan so the only major
monthly payment left is their rent/mortgage? How
about enough time freedom to start exercising for
45 minutes every day like they've always wanted
to?
That's a little better and yes, they are after these
things... but it's still going in the wrong direction.
These are all end results and they are important, but
there's still a huge gap in between where they are
now and where they want to be.
It's your job to fill in that gap.
See, what they're REALLY after is a way to obtain
these things.
A "how."
And contrary to popular belief, network marketing is
not a how. It's a "what."
If money, time, etc were really all that your prospect
was looking for and network marketing really was
the answer he needed, then merely telling him that
your opportunity can give him a six figure income
while working part time from home would be all
that was needed to sign him up.
Does it work that way? No.
That's because in reality, network marketing
MIGHT be a way for him to achieve all those things...
it's just that he hasn't been convinced of that yet.
He has to clearly see that it will work for him first.
Network marketing is just a vehicle and vehicles don't
operate themselves. People need to be shown how to
work them.
It's no different than stocks or real estate - both
vehicles that can help you reach an end goal.
No one needs to be convinced that it is POSSIBLE
to get rich through those two vehicles. Everyone
knows that.
But what they don't know is HOW to use those
vehicles to get rich. That's the missing puzzle piece
that's keeping them on the sidelines.
Same thing with MLM. The desire is already there
(provided you're doing a good job of targeting the
correct audience). If you can just give them the how,
they will flock to you in droves.
The most burning question your prospect has is:
"Is this going to work for ME?"
They see all the circles and the commission levels
and the big payouts and even all the success stories,
but they need to know how all that's going to happen
for them.
It's very hard to visualize a legitimate six-figure-a-
year business being built from the ground up using a
hastily thrown together names list of all the people
they know.
The way you fill in the blanks for them and answer
the question of how it's going to work is by
emphasizing the most crucial component of any
business: The marketing system being used.
This is the most important benefit of your
opportunity.
(That is... unless you're using warm market/cold
market prospecting. In which case, this benefit has
basically been destroyed. Because if the way you
came in touch with your prospect was by butting
into their lives with a sales pitch they never asked
for - whether they already knew you or not - you've
just shown them exactly how they would be doing
business if they joined your opportunity. And that's
not good because no one wants to be a sleazy
salesperson. On the other hand... if your marketing
system drew them to you first and all you did was
wait for the call or open your email inbox to find
someone who wants more information, how much
easier do you think it would be for them to visualize
themselves doing what you do? After all, it got them
there didn't it?)
Most people in our industry go nuts about the
product and the comp plan and even the timing of
the opportunity, but none of that means anything to
a prospect because that doesn't tell them HOW
they're going to be able to make it work.
Even if they really ARE getting in on an opportunity
that's so unique it really does only come around
once in a lifetime, so what? They still have to market
the products and the opportunity to other people to
make any money don't they? How are they going to
do that?
A good marketing system answers that question
because it, above all else, will determine their
success or failure.
It gives them the "how" instead of the "what" -
which is what they're really looking for.
If you can successful convey this to them, you've
made a bullet-proof case that's literally left them with
no reason not to take the next step.
When you target the right audience, the question
is not whether or not they want what you're offering.
The question is whether they believe it will actually
do what you say it will.
an email from
Ann Sieg
http://win.TheRenegadeNetworkMarketer.com
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