Zombies Rule Our Economy
And Just In Time for Halloween!
I love pop culture. Not TV or pop music exactly but what pop culture can show us and teach us about how most people think and behave. Especially unconsciously.
Have you noticed the raging popularity of Zombies in video games, books, TV shows and movies? MSNBC reports that the Zombie phenomenon is worth over $5 billion to the economy.
What do you think that’s about?
Could be the banksters, corporate criminals and the government of BOTH parties have been sucking the life out of us, leaving most people to walk around like zombies, dazed, disoriented and half-dead.
Zombies, by definition, are walking around controlled mentally and physically by an outside force the source of which cannot be fully determined.
Zombies stumble about intent on purposes others have created for them and of which they are not aware.
And Zombies feed off the living.
Sounds a lot like most members of Congress doing the bidding of lobbyists for big money interests.
Have you walked around lately and had any conversations with people not of your immediate circle? Have you tried to get a straight answer or even a reason why someone is doing something?
Clueless. And pretty much hopeless.
Yet against high odds some still hang on to the idea and belief that we have purpose and aim as they rebuke the encroaching army of Zombie control.
But Zombies have gone main stream and big time too. Check out that link.
Does that leaves sane and responsible people in the ever shrinking minority?
Arguing Has Value
Arguing with success
“You can’t argue with success.”
Of course you can.
Conventional wisdom says you shouldn’t bother. But arguing with failure is dumb. Failure doesn’t need to be argued with, it’s already failed.
It takes guts to argue with success, guts and insight. And it’s the best way to make things better.
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/10/arguing-with-success.html
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So goes the latest and greatest blog from Seth Godin. I take personal satisfaction from this one in particular since I’ve always looked to take apart what works and improve it.
Thanks Seth.
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MLM Tip: It’s A ‘Talking’ But Not Necessarily A ‘Selling’ Business
I had the great pleasure of hosting one of the all-time giants of Network Marketing and generic training, Tom ‘Big Al’ Schreiter, this past Monday here in New York City.
http://www.Meetup.com/MLM-skills-for-success
‘Big Al’, as he is affectionately known, tells those interested that to be successful in any NetMark business, the skill of being able to speak commercially is essential.
After all, he says, companies pay millions to ad agencies to advertise on TV and radio to get our attention and get us to take action, all in 15, 30 or 60 seconds. And why can they do that?
Because they know how to speak commercially to our subconscious minds.
We must be able to do the same if we desire to succeed.
Now what in the world do I mean but this article’s title?
Just this:
Of course we are selling stuff: No sales, no company profits, no commissions, no checks.
But to too many people selling and closing means saying out-dated even dumb things like:
- So what part of my presentation didn’t you understand?
- Don’t you love your family?
- Any three-year old can see this is a great opportunity – do you have any problem with it?
- Are you a decision-maker or a loser?
Don’t you want to just cringe, fold your arms or just run away?
What would your efforts be like if you could really just TALK to people, effectively and to their subconscious minds?
And in effect have them sell and close themselves?
You can access these skills at no cost to you by registering for a webinar series that is fully sanctioned by ‘Big Al’ and that focuses on his 25 essential skills for Network Marketing success. (Go here to get the full list http://BigAlSkills.com)
And register for the webinars here: http://www.MLMreadysetgo.info.
Please use my name ~ Tony Lauria ~ as your inviter, and No, this isn’t an affiliate program.
What Choice Do You Have?
This is the question that is always there, always before our eyes or hovering overhead, or lurking around the corner.
What choice do I have? It is the question that can both underscore our power to steer our lives where we desire or to collapse and give in to paralysis.
What choice do we as a nation have? To count on job creation from a government that has enabled the banks and big businesses to insulate themselves and pass on the bill to us and our great grand children, or to depend on ourselves and self-employment?
In the economic realm that is the choice: jobs from those who don’t know which end of a shovel or a pencil has the point or self-employment?
Jobs. Self-employment.
Choose.
http://521895.vitamark.com/opportunityvideo/
The Difference Between Management and Leadership
Seth Godin does it again:
Managers work to get their employees to do what they did yesterday, but a little faster and a little cheaper.
Leaders, on the other hand, know where they’d like to go, but understand that they can’t get there without their tribe, without giving those they lead the tools to make something happen.
Managers want authority. Leaders take responsibility.
We need both. But we have to be careful not to confuse them. And it helps to remember that leaders are scarce and thus more valuable.
Stupid OR Lazy?
Here’s the link to the latest post from Seth Godin. http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/10/stupid-and-lazy.html
I highly recommend it for several reasons, the first being that I totally agree with his assessment. The second because it greatly explains, in my opinion, much of our economic woes.
Are we in this economic trouble because we ARE stupid – perhaps untrained is kinder and more accurate – OR because too many of us just don’t want ANYTHING enough to move off the couch or away from the computer?
Closer to my own situations is this: I have people in my network marketing organization that surely expressed deep desires to own their lives and thus live their dreams, but once in and thoroughly trained, nothing ever happened.
Stupid OR Lazy?
A shame on many levels, not the least of which is that self-employment is the way out of the economic doldrums, not JOBS.
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MLM Tip: Just What is Network Marketing?
Tom ‘Big Al’ Schreiter fills us in:
When people first hear the words “network marketing” or “MLM” – the first question in their minds is, “What do you mean?”
Network marketing is simply:
“Recommending and promoting what you like.”
That’s it.
Everyone already does network marketing.
We all recommend and promote things to our friends and acquaintances. This is part of the human experience. We naturally want to share our favorite resources, products, music and ideas.
Here is a quick example.
You see an ad in the paper for a new restaurant opening. You go, have a great meal, and then you tell your friends how wonderful the food was.
That was network marketing.
Now, the restaurant owner appreciated all of your word-of-mouth advertising. He would like to reward you, but he has already spent his entire marketing budget on advertising. So, when you return to his restaurant, he gives you a bottle of wine with your next meal as a “thank you” for bringing more customers to his restaurant.
Yes, we recommend movies, books, baby sitters, dentists, cars and more. We all do network marketing every day, however … some people actually get paid for it.
Want to get paid for what you are already doing?
Consider this. Many companies believe that the word-of-mouth recommendation and promotion of their products and services is more effective than money spent on advertising. Here is what they do.
They stop their traditional advertising and marketing.
These companies then use these unspent advertising and marketing monies to reward people who recommend and promote their products and services.
So if you like the products and services of one of these companies, don’t change what you are doing. Simply continue recommending and promoting, and let these companies send you cash every month.
There are two types of people in the world:
- Those that recommend and promote the things they like, and
- Those that get paid for it.
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Who’s Paying the Price?
In line with the current topic of what OCCUPY is all about comes this blog post from Randy Gage.
Now I admit that at first glance there does not seem to be any relationship but allow me to connect the dots.
There is a stifling sense of entitlement that seems to be permeating the globe from huge businesses and banks that expect to get bailed out even when they screw up, to the politicians who love to spend wealth they have not created, to the radical chic in Zucotti Park-like demonstrations, to network marketers who join a company, don’t want to work, but expect success/wealth.
Just what the hell is going on that so many are so allergic to work and effort? Millions upon millions of long gone immigrants to North America et al must be turning in their graves.
That leads us to Mr. Gage. I trust now you’ll be able to see the connection.
Pay the Price
By Randy Gage
October 19th, 2011
Here’s the very unsexy thing no one likes to talk about. But I’ll tell you the truth:
Success doesn’t come without sacrifice or inconvenience. There is a price for success. And in Network Marketing, that price is going to include some levels of rejection, no shows, dropouts, skepticism, doubt and fear. Perhaps even getting let down by a company or two, some government harassment or negative publicity.
That’s the truth. So what?
No other business has a higher reward ratio. Pay the price and you’ll live a life most can’t even dream of.
And remember you are overcoming to become. Which makes it all that much better…
Ain’t it great!
- RG
All You Need Is Love. And Work.
WOW, have I been having flashbacks!
OCCUPY has occupied more of my thoughts the past week than I planned on devoting to it. But I can explain.
I am a child of the ’60s, a dyed-in-the-wool Baby Boomer and the college campus protests of that time were very real experiences to me.
So seeing all these unwashed and tattooed kids – I’ve earned the right to call them that at my age – brings up a sort of twisted nostalgia. Twisted because my feelings are mixed.
Like “shaken not stirred” mixed.
Essentially we back in the ’60s were trying to stop an ill-advised, unwinnable war, a position that has since been corroborated by former Defense Secretary and president of Ford Motors Robert McNamara and participating generals of that war.
Stopping a war is stopping destruction and death.
Please keep this in mind. I’m coming back to it.
Currently the protests are against what?
The investment banks that got bailed out? CHECK – All for it.
Our government, any government, has no business saving them. If they were too ill-managed they should be left to fail. That is the free-market credo that CEOs espouse, isn’t it?
The Wall Street brokerage houses that similarly were saved? CHECK – All for it.
If you or I make bad investment decisions, well we have to take the losses. So why shouldn’t they? Besides what they call investments are honestly nothing more than gambling rackets and Ponzi schemes, all of which give true capitalism a very bad name and readily supply the argument socialists love to wield.
When government gets this cozy with big businesses and banks political scientists have a word for it. They call it Fascism.
So if that’s what the Occupy protests are about they’d be little problem in my eyes.
But of course it’s not that simple.
What too many of them want is for the government to TAKE CARE OF THEM. Talk about a double standard.
Don’t Bail Out The Banks, Bail Us Out!
Without working? Just how is that possible?
Here in my eyes is the crux of the matter: Very few people understand how wealth is created so I’ll state it outright: Wealth is created by working. It is created by providing goods and services to people for them to buy. Do a good job, get rewarded. Do a rotten job, go out of business.
Simple, eh? And universal too. This fair and logical view is not exclusive to white, English-speaking, European-North American societies and cultures.
That’s why sometimes businesses go under – and should be allowed to go under – and why people are fired – and deserve to be fired.
This may sound simple and in my case biased but back in the 60s we long hairs were protesting destruction. What are these long hairs against? Work?
Yeah, The Beatles were right, we all need love but work is pretty damn necessary too . . .
OR NOTHING GETS CREATED!
MLM Tip from Rangy Gage: If You’re Not Failing, You’re Not Risking Enough
A great blog post from Randy a few days ago uses the analogy of base stealers in baseball: If one is 100% successful, he’s being too cautious and not taking enough chances.
In other words, there’s a Fear of Getting Caught, or a Fear of Failure.
Your Success Percentage
By Randy Gage
October 11th, 2011
If a base runner steals 25 bases in 25 attempts, you may think that makes him a great base stealer. Actually, quite the opposite…
A good coach will tell him that if he is 100 percent successful, it means he is too cautious and is not taking advantage of the opportunities being presented to him. In fact, many coaches expect the player to be thrown out 25 or 30 percent of the time, and then consider them a true base stealer.
Now let’s talk about you…
If everyone you prospect is enrolling – you know what that means, right?
-RG
