Being successful in a home-based business has to do with one degree. It can mean the difference between victory and mediocrity. Watch this video to see what I mean:
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Thinking of getting involved in an MLM or »”>network marketing opportunity? Read this blunt “Judge Judy” style article.
If you want to join an MLM or another home-based business sytem, there are a few things you need to know.
First, be prepared for a monstrous, seemingly endless amount of WORK.
Yes, this is a painful truth for all of the Get-Rich-Quick crowd, whom I affectionately call “GRQs” (pronounced “jerks”).
Beyond that spiffy, exciting, promising headline and squeeze video landing page is months, and even years of learning, adjusting, frustration, denial, delay, and pure, honest-to-goodness HARD WORK.
The $39.95 you spent to earn $100,000 per month just ain’t gonna happen. There is MUCH more to invest in money and time in order to get to that point.
What do I mean by hard work?
Let’s get one thing straight. ”Hard work” definitely does NOT mean “part-time” or “FREE fill-in-the-blank”. These salesletters that promise you can earn $25,000 per month “in as little as 90 days working part-time from home” or “FREE downline generation” are using carrot-on-a-stick marketing tactics to get you to separate from your money.
It’s hype, plain and simple. Misdirected excitement.
And I don’t like hype. In fact, I like it just about as much as I like a cobra biting me in the eye.
So what’s the not-so-shocking truth? I just mentioned it above – it takes hard work to create and sustain a successful MLM or network marketing home-based business.
And by hard work, I mean 12 hour days, 6 or 7 days a week. You’ll be working harder on your MLM or network marketing business than you ever did at your J-O-B. For the first few months AT LEAST.
You’ll be working harder, longer, and spending more than you’ve spent before in capital than you’ve ever spent before.
Now at this point, most people would be turned off. Understand this isn’t meant to discourage you – not at all. In fact, it’s meant to inspire you to something greater, because all of the value in the world has come from the fruits of hard work.
I’m also enlightening you to the common experience.
Be prepared for:
1) Massive delay - You aren’t going to earn thousands in a week in the beginning. In fact, in all likelihood, you will NOT earn one single cent of you investment capital back within the first few months. Profits take TIME, and a TON of sweat. Do not expect a healthy ROI within the first few months (3-5, or even up to 8 months of constant, machine-like work).
2) Massive frustration – this goes hand-in-hand with the massive delay above. You are going to feel frustrated at not getting “instant” or even “reasonable” results within the first few of months. But frustration can be countered with a healthy dose of self-development. Reading books of insight, like Tim Ferriss’ 4 Hour Work Week can lighten the mental load we place on ourselves.
3) Overwhelm – you have a 9 to 5 job and work on your business when you get home, but realized there are only a few hours in a day to complete everything you want (or need) to do. Plus, the sheer amount of training your system provides is nothing short of flabbergasting. It makes the prospect of finally “making it” seem far away.
You WILL be overwhelmed, because most people aren’t prepared for what they have to learn to be successful. Those preachy salesletters make it sound so easy.
It isn’t easy. At all.
Simple… but not easy.
If you feel overwhelmed, that’s a good sign. It shows your brain is outgrowing former modes of complacency. It’s adapting to new stimuli and developing your skills.
4) Bewilderment – everyone else is getting the results you want. You are struggling, doing your best and wonder why you haven’t gotten to their level yet.
Why is this?
It’s really fatiguing to put forth so much effort on something only to see the “leaders” in your company taking the spotlight week after week, month after month on the “superstar boards.”
When is it going to be your turn? When will you start pulling in the leads, the actual sales? When will all of your effort pan out?
Assuming you really are working your tail off, it’s really not totally your fault you haven’t gotten results. It’s a matter of perception.
You ask these questions and are befuddled because you only see those who are achieving, those on the front lines of the marketing battle, and then mistakenly make it a global belief about everyone in the company.
“Why is everyone getting ahead except for me?” “Why am I the only one who doesn’t get it?” These are disempowering global beliefs.
Instead of understanding that the “winners” you see are only a small percentage of people who are successful, you make a generalization about EVERYONE, and in this case, everyone in the company.
You never see the higher percentage of people who are struggling to make it work, are experiencing delay or doing nothing at all. If you knew this amount, your global belief would vaporize.
No company EVER highlights the failures or the people who have dropped out. They only spotlight winners and achievers.
How to overcome this tendency – realize that making a global belief like that is analagous to smashing yourself in the face with a big red brick. It doesn’t help you, it hurts, and it wastes your potential. So they earn $100,000 per month. So what? What’s that really got to do with you?
Do you have any idea what kind of sacrifice and work load it took for them to get there? (Read this article again to get an idea, then multiply it by about 50.)
Let go of making those global kinds of beliefs. You are never alone.
Now this all seems a bit daunting, doesn’t it? I know it was (and sometimes it still is) for me. It may sound like I’m being negative or shooing you away from being involved in network marketing or MLM.
In no way am I doing that. On the contrary, I want to EDUCATE you so you can qualify yourself to the industry. I am saving you from disappointments, unmet expectations and giving you blunt honesty. And as an added bonus, I’m letting you see the value of good, honest, hard work.
Because you know what? This is an industry of hard working folks, and people who care about success and the success of others. Or that’s how it should be. The snazzy salesletters you see everywhere – they’re just disingenuous distractions.
Now here are the rewards of all that hard work:
1) You become much more valuable as a person.
2) You develop yourself and your appreciation for what you can accomplish. You start liking yourself more and more.
3) Financial freedom – I hope that was a given. But yes, owning that Ferrari can be quite nice. Quite nice.
Not having to worry about what card to use when you go the grocery store? That’s very nice, too.
Buying what you want when you want it? Wonderfully freeing.
But in the end, it’s really about the person you have become on the journey. Discovering who you are capable of being is the hardest thing you will do, but it’s ultimately the ONLY thing we are doing anyway.
And developing a home-based business is the perfect way to do it:
http://www.30daymarketing.com?t=blogpost_hard_work_022010
Get to work! Play hard!
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Just got word of an alliance between Microsoft and Yahoo. Here is part of the release I just received via email:
“Dear Advertiser,
Yahoo! and Microsoft have now received regulatory clearance to form a search alliance. This is a significant milestone and an exciting first step in our combined effort to help you reach even more customers with greater ease and efficiency.
What’s Ahead
There will be no immediate changes to your Yahoo! Search Marketing account. Both companies are committed to making this transition as seamless and beneficial to you as possible. Our aim is a high quality transition of advertisers and partners in at least the U.S. prior to the 2010 holiday season. However, we may wait until 2011 if we determine this will be more effective. Approximately three months in advance, we’ll begin providing you with detailed information about what to expect and how we will assist you.”
Uh oh… is Google in trouble? Two of their most potent rival forces now combined as one with their search platforms. Not to mention the common, rabid displeasure from marketers resulting from Google’s infamous Slap (see my other articles).
What does this mean for Google? What does it mean for everyone?
Nobody can say for sure, except to say that this WILL impact how business is done. Should the partnership be a success, there will be a newfound goldrush from marketers and non-marketers alike. The new Microsoft and Yahoo platform (Yah-soft?) could be raising it’s own behemoth hand to give Google a nice slap in it’s cyber face.
Poetic justice? Let’s see how it plays out…
As an aside, when something major like this happens, keep vigilante lookout for opportunity. New alliances typically mean cheaper advertising prices for a time.
Stay tuned…
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You’ve experienced a Google Slap and wanna get your marketing mojo and Adwords account back. This is the last part of this three-part series.
In the last two parts, we talked about the Google Slap and how you can overcome it or avoid it entirely. We discussed items 1 through 3 below and will discuss number 4 in this one.
1) Duplicate websites
2) Affiliate websites (including those “salesletter” ones you see)
3) “Review” websites that were actually a slick salesletter (or had affiliate links)
4) Websites with limited or unoriginal content
Number 4 above is probably the most important aspect of them all. Perhaps it should be listed at #1 as this was the main reason many websites were disabled. Many websites pre-slap were merely copies of other websites, such as are found with affiliate programs and downline-based companies (MLM).
Your website must offer unique, ORIGINAL content for it to be immune to a Google Slap. This means that stock landing page you have with your “opportunity” is a no-go – get it customized and made your own.
Gone are the days of “carbon copying” a template site. Gone are the days of stock pages everybody in your downline can use. Your page must have your own original voice, content and design if you want immunity to the dreaded slap, and if you have any hopes or rising up to stellar rankings within Google.
Also – VERY IMPORTANT – keep in mind the following:
1) You must get your own domain name. If you have your page hosted on your company’s server using their domain, you can bet you will be slapped, suspended or otherwise denied.
For example, let’s say your company’s website is YourWebsiteHere.net, and your own page is named ”mypage.html”. The domain would look like this:
http://www.yourwebsitehere.net/mypage.html
In essence, you are using your company’s domain to host your own stock landing page. Now add all of the other pages other people are using on the same site and you have the Google Slap demon jumping all over the site disabling people’s Adword campaigns and organic listings.
Why?
Google sees multiple similar pages on one server and says “Uh oh, unoriginal, duplicated content – delete them from our listings!”
Remember, Google is looking for original content and penalizes those with duplicated pages. Create your own custom page with original content not seen anywhere else.
This leads us perfectly into number 2…
2) If you are going to create your own custom page, you’ll need hosting. If your company offers it, you may take it – with this very important caveat: Google may have slapped the entire server upon which is hosts it’s pages. Make sure you understand if this is the case with your company or not before you decide to host with them. This is critical - don’t ignore this!
I’ve chosen Dreamhost. I’ve been with them for years and they are STELLAR. Not only are they super helpful and polite, but they’re FAST and will bend over backwards for you to get things done. I once had an issue late at night, submitted a helpdesk ticket and they got back to me in an less than an hour with a solution (I wonder if they’re allowed to sleep?)
They are also super fast and very sensitive to your level of expertise, so if you are “technically challenged”, no worries. There are no dumb questions.
They are also VERY competitively priced. Check out their pricing chart. They’re really a happy bunch and I couldn’t recommend them more. Visit them here.
3) Contact Google. Pretty obvious, but lots of folks would assume that Google is too busy, big and “corporate” for you to get any useful response from them. Don’t let that misconception stop you from contacting them and communicating with them to get back on track. Just ask them what they require for compliance and then execute it. Follow up with them to let them know you have complied and would like to submit for review.
There we have it. The bulk of the tips in the past three articles should help you to avoid the ugly reality of a Google Slap and aid you in getting your marketing mojo back. If your accounts have been cancelled, suspended or delisted, these tips should help you get back on track.
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So you’ve been Google slapped and don’t know what to do about it. Here is the second part of our three-part article series that provides solutions on how to prevent or overcome a Google slap.
In the last part, we mentioned 4 reasons why Google may have frowned upon your site and suspended or banned you for life. They were:
1) Duplicate websites
2) Affiliate websites (including those “salesletter” ones you see)
3) “Review” websites that were actually a slick salesletter (or had affiliate links)
4) Websites with limited or unoriginal content
We went over the first two in the last article. We will discuss number 3 now.
Number 3 – Have you ever been to a so-called “review” site only to discover they were really selling the very thing you were attempting to find a non-biased review on? There were thousands of these kinds of pages everywhere on Google.
If you read part one of this article series, you’ll probably be able to guess why this doesn’t fly with Google anymore. The users are looking for reviews, not salesletters for the product disguised as a review. Google’s userbase complained on a mass scale about the lack of REAL reviews and the search engine monarch reacted.
If you do have a review site and still want it to get to the top of Google AND you are really selling something that is UNbiased, here are a few recommendations:
1) Have a prominent NON-affiliate link next to your affiliate link. Explain to users that they should only click on the affiliate link if they feel the review was helpful.
This is tremendously powerful. Why? You have given your users a CHOICE – and the psychology of choice is what drives all human beings. By providing the non-affiliate link to the product, you are coming off as honest, helpful and unbiased – even if you are biased.
By the way, most people will click on the affiliate link out of appreciation for your honesty.
2) Submit your “review” to Ezinearticles.com or GoArticles.com. These are both beasts of the article submission world and Google treats them like VIP members in the top 10 search results. Write your article and submit it to Ezinearticles.com, but make sure you have real, helpful content for the users to read.
Note: there is an entire process for submitting to Ezinearticles – it’s somewhat of a skill and requires an article all on it’s own. Check back for more on this.
Once you have submitted your article to EA or GA, they will be given much more weight by Google, and if you do things right, can appear on the first page of search results for your chosen keywords.
3) Make the site more authentically “review”. Don’t make every review point towards a paying end. Give away information freely. Remember, this is what people are looking for anyway – information, not ways to empty their pockets.
Perhaps this should be number 1, but it’s common sense. Give the readers what they are looking for. If you think about what you target audience really wants and you apply what is taught on this blog, you’ll be able to market to them anyway.
Stay tuned for the third and final part of this series on how to prevent or overcome a Google Slap.
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So you woke up next to your lover – Google – she slapped you, ran out, and told you to never speak to her again.
This sad scenario has played out for many an internet marketer over the past few months. One day, their Adwords campaigns are bringing them in serious dough; next thing they know, their primary source of income evaporates overnight.
Thousands of PPC campaigns suspended with one flip of the Google switch. By the way, this can happen to your organic listings, too (the non-paid listings).
Many articles have been written about the Slap, but few address how to overcome or sidestep it. This article shows you how.
First, why has Google decided to disable so many marketing campaigns promoted by their customers and affiliates?
Quite simply – feedback. Google has received a ton of feedback from it’s millions of users worldwide expressing displeasure with the kinds of search results that show up in the coveted top 30 spots. And it has been an especially aggravated response from people looking to make money online or start a home-based business.
The major complaints were:
1) Duplicate websites
2) Affiliate websites (including those “salesletter” ones you see)
3) “Review” websites that were actually a slick salesletter (or had affiliate links)
4) Websites with limited or unoriginal content
Let’s take a look at numbers 1 and 2. In the next article, we will go over points 3 and 4.
1) Duplicate websites – Google looks for original and unique content to give to it’s users. Duplicated websites, such as those created for marketers involved in “turn-key” systems (like MLM) where they are given identical websites, don’t fit this bill.
Solution: if you have a stock or duplicated webpage that looks like a page someone else is promoting, you can bet Google has, or will, slap you. Create your own original page with original content.
Yes, this takes work, but if you want to be in Google’s good graces, swallow the bitter pill and do it.
2) Affiliate websites – Google turns it’s nose up at sites that promote too many (or only) affiliate links to other sites. Remember, they are looking for original CONTENT, and not endless affiliate links.
The psychology behind this is simple. People use Google to find free information. When all they find are webpages that include nothing but paid venues, users become aggravated and Google starts to lose big time.
Solution: Keep your affiliate links to a minimum, or at least “nested” within your webpage (not too prominent).
Another neat trick is to put your affiliate links into a .pdf document on the website and have a “no follow” command for the document. It’s a bit technical, but basically it prevents Google from sifting through that document to see the links you are promoting. Kind of a slick move – use at your own discretion.
You could make the PDF document available for download by your live users, and not the Google bots that spider your website.
Stay tuned for the rest in part 2!
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Time is more valuable than money.
This may seem to be a steep claim to some. Most people would equate the two. To most people, time is money. They are on equal ground.
I don’t think so. I believe time is more valuable. Why? Simply because it’s doled out to each of us with supreme equality – both limited in quantity and constant in it’s execution (all quantum physics aside).
Every last human being on this planet has a limited number of seconds in the day to accomplish what he or she wants. Likewise, each human has a limited number of seconds in his or her own life on this small planet. Each second that ticks by brings you closer to the inevitable exit from your body.
Scary thought? It’s not meant to be.
It’s meant to wake people up and help you see how important each moment of your life really is.
Each of us has a precious few moments in the day to make things right for ourselves. Whatever our decisions, goals, ambitions or dreams may be, every second you spend away from them is a second wasted.
Treat each moment you have, every second – all 86,400 you have each day, as a precious gift. Most of us aren’t awake to experience all 86,400 “markers of destiny”. Almost all of us get to experience two-thirds of them, if we are lucky. And this makes the message even more important.
Every single moment you have in your life – down the millisecond – is a miracle. But most people are dismissing this miracle on fruitless pursuits, e.g. television, drugs, over-socializing, entertainment, distractions and fear-based thinking.
What a waste of life. Your life is delegated to you in a manner to which you respond to it. How you treat your time is how life treats you. This isn’t philosophical pandering, it’s a very deep understanding that can aid you if you let it.
Take advantage of each moment, every last one. Value your time – successful living will follow.
Every moment is more precious than the world’s largest diamond. It is within these moments that you will find your real joy.
How to take charge of your time?
First, see how your time on this earth is limited. Do not give into the voice in your head that tells you “You have enough time… let’s just distract ourselves with TV or ______”.
That voice is sinister! Your time is limited! You must see this. Should you live to be 90, that age is closer than you realize, no matter where you may be in the timeline. How will you feel about the time you spent in the years past?
Second, realize that time breaks for nobody. It doesn’t make excuses, nor does it take prisoners. It will go on with or without your participation. It is somewhat merciless in this application.
You may not spend money, but you are ALWAYS spending time. It is inevitable. What you spend it on makes all the difference. Spend it on distractions and you suffer. Spend it on self-enrichment, you grow to enjoy time freedom.
Note that “time freedom” doesn’t mean you create more time, it means you get to experience more of the time that is available to you.
When people say “I need more time”, they are tricking themselves. There is no such thing as “more time” – there is only a freeing up of activities that prevent you from experiencing the time that is already there.
It may sound like you are doomed to the unforgiving ticks of time, but there is good news, too. You can “warp” time to your benefit. How do you do this?
Focus. Focus will “bend” time in your favor. When you focus your attention and energy into a single task, time will be your ally and a very good one. You will get more done within an hour than you could in 3 when you develop your focus, energy and drive.
When you develop focus, time becomes your ally. It immediately jumps on your side and will even bend itself to your advantage.
Delegate. Are there tasks you can hand to someone else? A web designer, customer service rep, administrative assistant?
Brainstorm. Allowing others to take care of the “busy-ness” of your day will make more time available to you.
Organize. Clutter are potholes on the road of time. Invest in cleanliness and organization. Do you have a dayplanner? A task list? Use them. Have a messy desk, boxes everywhere in your office? Clean it up! This has a subtle but pleasurable effect on your mind. A clean environment is a productive one.
It starts with your mindset however. You must become a clean person to enjoy more time. However, do not become fooled by “preparing to prepare.” This is wasting time.
Just remember to cultivate an orderly cleanliness. This will save you time looking for things when you need them among other time-freeing benefits.
These are just a few attributes to be mindful of as you learn to take advantage of your time. Look forward to part two.
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So you have dreams, goals, aspirations. You want success, and who doesn’t?
On your road to enjoying success, you’ll encounter bumps, potholes, and detours. It is inevitable in any worthy endeavor.
However, wouldn’t it be nice to minimize these occurrences, or at least be able to deal with them swiftly and effectively when they arise?
Before you can do that, you’ll need to address two tiny words that destroy worlds. What words are these? It comes in this simple, sinister phrase:
“Yeah, but…”
Looks innocent? It’s not. It is a destroyer of worlds, a stealer of dreams, a way to keep the carrot on the rope inches from your face on the chain of eternal struggle and strife.
This one phrase will KILL any chance you have of becoming successful. It also betrays a deeper mentality or set of ideas you have about yourself and your potential for success.
Broken down, you can even say “but” is one of the most dangerous words we have on the planet.
Why, you may be asking. That sounds a little extreme. Let’s take a closer look at the phrase and what it implies on a larger scale.
Let’s take a great example from real life. I have a good friend named Fred. I’ve known this gentleman since college. You could certainly call him my best friend, even though I don’t like to put people on scales like that. In any case, he’s charming, loyal, funny and a decent, hardworking human being.
Now Fred had a goal of meeting more women. We would have frequent telephone calls about the “fairer sex” and how to meet them. Oftentimes during these conversations, I would hear my good buddy explain how he would like to have a certain type of girl…
And you know that tone of voice someone uses when they’re about to say “but” or even “yeah, but” ?
This was one of those cases. He said “Ya know, Wolf, I’d really like to meet more women… but…”
So I’d listen and then give him some tips on how to do it. He’d listen appreciably, then say…
“I hear what you’re saying… but…”
Can you see what the word “but” really does? In the above scenario, the word “but” really means this:
“I didn’t hear a word you just said. My situation is different. My situation is totally unique! In essence, I DON’T want to meet more women! I’m investing in my ‘buts’ rather than taking action to achieve what I’d like to have.”
That’s what “but” does – completely stops your goal from materializing by rationalizing your circumstances. Behind that ”but” is usually fear and all it does is STOP you from achievement. Couldn’t be any more simple than that.
I even went so far as to say above that “yeah, but” and it’s ilk destroys worlds. If you have a vision of a goal, that is a new world for you. “But” will butt your goals OUT of existence, thereby “destroying” your world.
See?
How to get past it?
First, realize that “yeah, but” is just a story you put in your head, nothing more. It’s something you made up based on your limited experience of how the world works. Do you know everything? Do you absolutely know that you can’t achieve something?
Of course not! So stop rationalizing towards that end! Quit being a Butthead! Get rid of your ‘buts!’
Another great way is to see what ‘but’ is costing you. It’s costing you your GOALS. That’s a hefty price once you see past your rationalizations.
So no more buts from this day forth. The only ‘but’ you should have in your life is the one you sit on.
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"I FIRED Your Big Mac!"
Can you imagine if “the Donald” were working for McDonalds? It would probably make a great parody for SNL or something like it. Donald (and his hair) both go bankrupt and have to resort to flipping burgers.
But as you can probably muster, this would never happen. If anything, he’d probably build a casino out of a McDonalds. It would be the most opulent, magnificent, state-of-the-art, lavish, luxurious McDonalds… EVER KNOWN TO MAN.
I kid, but the point is taken.
What does this have to do with marketing?
Well, it exposes two schools of thought – the wage system vs. the leverage system. It’ll be explained shortly.
Let’s take a closer look at Donald Trump and why he is so rich. There is only one reason… he has tons of LEVERAGE.
He has thousands of people working for him worldwide on different projects, all simultaneously. If he isn’t developing land, he’s developing TV shows or pulling publicity stunts on TV. And he has thousands of people at his beck and call.
So what? What’s the point?
The point is this – Trump is using the leverage system of having people work for him, whereas the higher percentage of people in this world are using the wages system.
In the wage system, you are paid through (usually) ONE funnel that reflects how many hours you put in. In other words, your hours are traded for dollars. You have only one source of income – yourself.
Compare this to Trump. He has dozens, if not HUNDREDS of sources of income streaming into his pockets (and his hair’s pockets… d’oh… couldn’t resist another hair joke!). And he accomplishes this through leveraging OTHER people’s time.
Putting it simply, he pays other people wages so he can earn the fruits of leverage, which is true, lavish, exotic, opulent… etc… wealth.
It’s leverage vs. wages. And you really can only become super-rich in the leverage system.
Let’s break it down…
In the wages system, you are:
1) Receiving a paycheck, usually every two weeks.
2) Being dictated what you are worth by someone else.
3) Being told what to do, when to do it, how you do it, but not necessarily WHY. You are being paid… just do it. (Ouch… kinda like slavery if you ask me…)
In the leverage system, you are (and this assumes you have worked hard and built yourself up to this point – riches do NOT come overnight):
1) Creating your own paycheck.
2) You can create it more often than once every 2 weeks.
3) YOU tell yourself what to do, when to do it, how to do it, etc. This is called being in control of your LIFE.
4) You determine what you are worth. Now this may sound like cliched platitudes – but the ultimate goal is to reach a place where you are in an upward spiral of net worth.
But not just monetarily. Ever hear of self-esteem? One ounce of self-esteem is worth 10 pounds of $100 bills. The funny thing is, they work hand in hand. The more self-esteem you have, the more ability you have to produce the kind of lifestyle you’d like through money and other means. And the more you see you can produce, the more your self-esteem expands.
Pretty cool, huh?
Again, look at Trump. Now some people would say this guy is an arrogant crusty, out of touch with today (hair?). But look at his confidence. The man knows what he wants and knows how to get it.
So here’s the question with the overly-obvious answer (I hope) for you – what model do you want to belong to – the wages or leverage system?
The Donald and Hair Agree on a Pivotal Point
There you go. Thing is, it’s sometimes tricky to pick the right system that will get you focused in the right direction. I’ve written plenty about what systems are the best over my years of being in countless MLMS, etc, and the one I run right now is BY FAR the best one out there.
Check it out and become another Trump while you’re at it. Hair is optional:
http://www.hypertracker.com/go/30daymarketing/blogarticlelinks/
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Good news and bad news…
Bad news is – marketing is brutal. Let’s just be honest. Whoever
said “it’s a jungle out there” really hit the nail on the head.
Don’t believe me?
Why do you believe most people don’t succeed in
the marketing industry? Forget the whole “most businesses fail
within the first 5 years” mantra you hear everywhere. Why do a
staggering percentage fail within the first few MONTHS?
The answer is simple and I’ll reveal it below.
That’s the bad news. Here’s the good news:
It doesn’t need to be brutal, because YOU aren’t a BRUTE. YOU can
be successful in ANY marketing program you choose as long as you
follow a few simple rules, many of which I’ve already shared with
you in previous emails. But here is a convenient recap:
1) Offer people something valuable – something that increases the
quality of their lives.
2) Offer it to a LOT of people.
3) Be a leader.
4) Care for others deeply.
You know, #4 above should actually be #1. And I really believe in
my heart that people do care about others in this huge world where
most folks seem to be blind.
But you also must take action – and those are the first 3 items
above – all action-oriented.
You see, the secret to success is simple. Note I did not say EASY,
I said SIMPLE. Don’t believe people who say success is easy. It
isn’t in most cases.
But that’s the good news. If success came easily
to you all the time, life would be incredibly dull, don’t you
think? The juice is in the CHALLENGE!
This can go the other way, though… you can have nothing but
struggle. That’s no fun, either.
So what is the point I’m making?
Most people fail in business because they aren’t aware of the above
4 rules AND… they don’t know HOW to put those rules into
consistent, effective action on a daily basis.
My system takes care of that for you. As long as you can plug in
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