Swimming Against The Current of Complacency
Starting a business is one of the hardest things I have ever had to do in my life. The two things I struggle with the most are time management and keeping a positive attitude.
Since I started my network marketing distributorship, a new opportunity has come along that I have taken advantage of. I am now neck deep in becoming a real estate investor. I continue to build my network marketing business as well. Since the two businesses are virtually identical in how they are built (through networking), it is easy to move back and forth between them.
My social skills are More >
Meetings – The Magic Ingredient
There has not been an opportunity for me to attend regular meetings with my MLM until just recently someone many levels up line from me decided to do it. We met in the banquet hall of the church that he and his family attend.
A couple dozen people showed up. There were a few small groups that knew each other or were related, but by and large there was a mix of different people in different lines.
The plan was to do a quick around-the-room introduction of everyone that attended and move on to the agenda for the evening. We started with More >
Going Rogue: An American Life
Sarah Palin’s autobiography was number one on the New York Time’s Best Seller List long before it was even released. The book sales have quickly gone into the millions. Whatever the content of the book, it’s immense popularity cannot be ignored.
At 400 pages, I expected this book to have more than six chapters. It is a personal memoir and basically follows a linear timeline from her childhood, through her vice presidential campaign and resignation of her governorship of Alaska.
Chapter one focuses on Palin’s experiences growing up in Alaska. Her parents were first generation Alaskans as the state is barely fifty More >
Personal Development: Talking to People Part II
Two weeks ago, I decided to take this challenge of talking to complete strangers seriously. I decided that the first thing I needed to do was to just get past that initial hello and if that’s as far as the conversation goes, it would be a successful one.
I went to my favorite restaurant up the road. It is generally a business crowd and in many cases, people go their alone to grab a quick lunch. Sure enough there was a gentleman right next to me tapping away on his Blackberry. Hmm…what to say, what to say. Got it!
“How do you More >
Personal Development: Talking to People Part I
As mentioned in my last post, talking to people and becoming a social person has been one of the biggest obstacles for me so I will be often updating my progress on it.
Network marketing is a people business more than anything. Without people to buy your product or service and to recruit into your business, you will not go very far.
Does that mean the more people you know when you start your business, the bigger your business will be? Not necessarily.
I have seen first hand that people with a large circle of friends are generally more social people and tend More >
Taking a Different Path
For about a month, I was putting a lot of time into attraction marketing. I started a blog. I joined a few tribes. I visited a dozen other blogs and commented on them every day. I researched blogging, social media and SEO for a couple of hours a day.
I find internet marketing fascinating and very effective given time and a lot of effort. What I realized is it seems to be very similar to what I am trying to get away from; trading time for money.
In order for internet marketing to be effective, one must constantly be promoting one’s blog More >
Keyword Research: The Hidden Secret to Successful Internet Marketing
Writing blog posts and articles is one thing. Writing blog posts and articles that will get a lot of views, retweets, facebook shares, etc. is a another thing altogether.
Those that are finding your content through search engines are using the very selective method of keyword searches. If your link does not pop up on the first page of their search towards the top of the page, chances are that you are not going to be seen, much less clicked on.
Sometimes a person looking for something through a search engine will use a single word phrase to find what they are More >
Want People To Listen To You? Have a Story
I have been trying to heighten my self-awareness by monitoring and examining how I talk to prospects, non-prospects, team members, family members, coworkers and even strangers when it comes to convincing them to do something that I want them to do, which is sometimes as simple as holding their attention for five minutes.
I am by no means an expert on this since I am fairly new to this concept myself. However, I have been putting dozens of hours a week listening to and reading the words of the experts.
Have a story.
If you try to explain a complicated topic to someone More >
Stop Complaining! You Are The Only One Preventing Your Own Success
I absolutely had to opine on Eric Worre’s newest video, “Life Changing Habits for MLM Success”. He addresses the issue of people that spend their lives complaining and I would add, making excuses for their circumstances.
At my last job, I moved up through the ranks fairly quickly until I got to the position I was looking for. Once there, I was determined to carve out a new niche for myself and be the go-to guy for that specific part of the business.
I worked very hard and put in long hours to learn my craft and become an expert at it. More >
Is Internet Marketing A Detriment To Developing Personal Relationships?
I was listening to a CD of an individual famous in the network marketing profession. This individual is not a fan of attraction or internet marketing.
I am not sure if I agree with his opinion or not. I have not been in the field long enough to be an authority. Before March first of this year, I was just an I.T. guy working for “the man” (I guess technically I still am).
I love the concept of network marketing. I love how fair it is, how ethical it is and how teachable it is. I love the fact that anyone that More >