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Having An Extraordinary Life
Bob & Anna Bassett, my dear friends and mentors, are always teasing me about my inability to take a compliment without objecting. So when I came across this video, well I had to share it with them and post it. It’s a real eye-opener on how to have an Extraordinary Life.
Thanks guys!
Successful Networking What It Takes To Win
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MLM Tip: Qualify Prospects as Tenants
While prospecting for my network marketing company, I realized my best MLM recruiting idea was the same as screening for better tenants.
Four and a half years ago I became a property owner for the first time.
After my grandfather died, my father and uncle became co-owners of the 4-family house I grew up in. Fed up with commuting from the suburbs for over 20 years to keep his hand in the management of the property, my uncle sold his half to me.
Best investment I ever made. But such a move is life altering.
First I had to give up my place in Manhattan and then learn to deal with city bureaucracy, various repairmen and craftsmen and…
Tenants!
I had never thought of it before but dealing with tenants is a lot like dealing with business clients – only more so. Tenants, in my case, are people I have to live with!
What I found was that the process of finding tenants is a lot like prospecting for good people to join your MLM company in one major aspect – they are people who are occupying your downline and on whom you are depending, to a large extent, for your income.
My first three adventures in networking were glorious, resounding but instructive failures. Par for the course I long since discovered. However, failure does not really exist. It is generally an event that can and should be viewed as feedback and, confidently, as a learning opportunity. I had many of these “failure/learning opportunities” – hard and expensive ones at that – as all enormously successful networkers have.
The most glaring of these failure/learning exercises were ineffective techniques for attracting serious business partners. It just wasn’t there. All I got was the hackneyed, the ridiculous and the expensive strategies:
o The ’3 foot rule’
o Every ‘NO’ gets you closer to your first ‘YES’ – 100 of them means you’re getting closer!
o Enlist everyone who fogs a mirror and has a credit card!
o Buy ‘pre-qualified’ MLM leads. And then some more. Then more yet.
In my new life as a landlord I imagined using these same strategies to find reliable tenants . . .
Except it put shivers up and down my spine.
- Just as I wouldn’t rent a 2-bedroom to EVERYONE and ANYONE within three feet of my voice, why would I talk to just anyone about my business? Look for the motivated.
- Just as I wouldn’t want to spend days showing a vacant apartment to all passers-by off the street, why would I want to get dozens and dozens of time-consuming ‘NO’s before I found a suitable fit and a ‘YES’? Look for the qualified.
- Just as I’d want to check a possible tenant’s employment history, credit rating and personal references, wouldn’t I want to know if a prospect is dedicated, motivated, and coachable before recruiting and sponsoring one into my business? Look for the volunteers.
If you are not looking at prospects for your business as desirable “tenants”, as potentially good neighbors residing in your downline, what strategies and techniques are you using to attract a pool of desirable candidates?
Take my favorite MLM prospecting idea and use it: If you’re serious about building walk-away, residual, royalty income, your downline has to be made up of serious business partners – as good as the tenants you’d want living with you in the same building.
Because they are.
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Manifesting is Intention & Attention Successful Networking What It Takes To Win
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MLM Tip: ‘Playing’ at Network Marketing
Kids playing Tag. A puppy and a lawn sprinkler. Children engaged in Hide & Seek.
What do they have in common?
“You can’t get me!”
But they’re sure going to get as close as they possibly can . . . but not too close that they can’t escape from being tagged, getting wet or being found.
So what’s this got to do with Network Marketing?
Prospecting.
You see, they want to be found but they’re hiding just as every kid wants to show how clever they are at staying out of sight and . . .
They want to get wet but not soaked.
They want to get close, real close, to what they’re looking for, but not get tagged with a bad deal. Not get scammed, cheated, lied to or swindled.
And that has all happened to most of them. Yet they want to get close again.
The dream is too strong, the reward too enticing. In fact, one of the master networkers Randy Gage goes so far as to say that once MLM gets in their blood the only thing that will replace it is formaldehyde!
So they want to play at this the way an athlete looks forward to the next contest. But unlike professional athletes, most networkers who long to be professional winners are without the skills necessary to win.
That’s all that’s missing. The will to play and the will to win are already in place.
They just don’t know what to do and say and when to do them.
That should be simple and easy to fix, shouldn’t it?
And why can’t it just be given away?
Play instead of Work?
See what I mean: http://liveyourdream-ownyourlife.com/sorry-but-i-dont-believe-in-work
MLM Tip from 'Big Al': tips for mlm
by Tony Lauria
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MLM Tip from Big Al: How to make your investment friends jealous
This MLM tip from Big Al is about where to put that $100 for the best return.
Let’s say that you have $100 to invest. Where would you invest it?
You could be safe and put that $100 in a bank savings account. At .05% interest, you would get a nice, safe, guaranteed return of $0.05 at the end of the year.
So why not try investing in the stock market?
Maybe you could invest in some company that you are very familiar with. You’d like to have an inside view or advantage, so you’ll stick with a company you intimately know.
Now you buy one share of that company’s stock for $100. Because you have inside information, your share of stock appreciates to $200 at the end of the year.
Wow! That’s a 100% return on your investment. Pretty smart, don’t you think?
Not really. Not the way the market is behaving.
What if you did this?
You invest the $100 in a classified ad in the local newspaper. By adding a little personal work to your money investment, you successfully recruit one new serious distributor.
And with a little more personal effort, you train your new distributor to be productive.
Your return? An extra $50 a month in bonus income. That’s $600 extra per year! That’s a 600% return on your investment.
Pretty smart.
But it gets better.
What if you invested the $100 in training?
Maybe you invested the $100 to go to your company’s regional training seminar. At the seminar, you learned how to prospect and recruit new distributors without running an ad.
In other words, you won’t have to spend $100 to run an ad every time you want to locate and sponsor a new distributor. Instead, you’ve learned expert methods of locating hot prospects without having to spend any money.
Now you can sponsor one new distributor every month who earns you an extra $50 in monthly income. At the end of the year, you’d have an extra monthly income of $600. That’s $7,200 extra a year — a 7,200% return on your investment.
And that’s the kind of investment return that separates part-time distributors from financially independent leaders.
MLM Tip from 'Big Al' What It Takes To Win Why 98% Fail
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Here’s What Works in MLM ~ WORK!
I like to call it the ‘Bought a Lottery Ticket’ syndrome:
People fed up with the boss, fed up with not having enough money at the end of the month, fed up with not living the life of their dreams, get into a home based business, a Multi-Level marketing company.
Without doing much if any research they jump into a deal that appeals looking for a stash of cash.
“I got a business now, got my websites up and and I’m ready to earn. And . . .”
then they do nothing. They’ve bought the business much like buying a lottery ticket and take the same action, which is NO action. After all , there IS no action to take when you buy a lottery ticket. Just sit back and wait for the money to come in.
And wait.
And wait.
But they have bought a BUSINESS, so why aren’t they getting BUSY?
The answer or answers to this are many but they all explain this:
Why 98% Fail.
The most direct action you can take if you are in such a situation and realize you MUST do something about it is to get the skills that WORK so that your business will WORK.
Yes, WORK. You have bought a business and nothing works like work!
Don’t have the skills? Don’t even know what they are? You can get a list of them here:
And you can register for a new series of free generic webinars focusing on these same 25 business skills, again all generic and free, from the master trainer in MLM, Tom ‘Big Al’ Schreiter.
Register here for the webinar http://www.MLMreadysetgo.info
Each session is live at 1pm ET on Saturdays and each is archived to be reviewed again if not seen live. Just use my name ~ Tony Lauria ~ as the person who invited you.
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What It Takes To Win Why 98% Fail
by Tony Lauria
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Only You Can Save Yourself
I am posting a recent blog article from my mentors, Bob & Anna Bassett. If time management is a persistent problem, you’ll find this hits the bull’s eye. And may cut too close to the bone.
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Only You
Thanks to Gary Ryan Blair, The Goals Guy, for this kick in the butt …
I just got off the phone with the CEO of a company in Phoenix who is in need of refocusing, and who desperately needs to have a strong 4th quarter.
His business is slow, competition fierce, and his margins are getting slimmer by the day. Quite frankly it’s a serious competitive problem that requires a serious, sustained, and immediate solution.
He asked and paid me for advice as to what he can do to finish the year strong. While the medicine I provided was initially tough to swallow, the answer is the same for YOU and anyone you know who currently has their back against the wall and needs to turn things around quickly.
The things you NEED to be doing in the 4th quarter are the EXACT same things you should have been doing all year long!
REREAD THAT LAST LINE …
The things you NEED to be doing in the 4th quarter are the EXACT same things you should have been doing all year long!
The reason why my client, and for that matter why MILLIONS of people throughout the world are in desperate need of refocusing is actually very simple.
Feel free to check all that apply …
- You did not have a specific set of goals when the year began.
- If you did, you were not 100% committed to achieving them.
- You did not develop a detailed action plan to include deadlines and hold yourself to those deadlines.
- You allowed yourself to lose focus on your key priorities.
- You were undisciplined and inconsistent in your actions.
- You wasted a lot of time, talent and resources on low payoff activities.
- You did not enforce personal accountability and made excuses for your inaction.
- You did not take massive action each and every day and as a result you are now dealing with an undesirable reality.
It deeply concerns me when people think that they can really improve their 4th quarter performance by engaging in the same performance, the same habits, the same strategies, the same beliefs, and the same work ethic that got them in the lousy situation in the first place.
It’s not too late to turn your year AND your life around … “
Gary is right that it’s not too late to turn things around. Forget about the date. Think of today as January 1 and get started on what you know will bring you success.
In our network marketing checklist, we cover everything on Gary’s list, but …
- We can ask you to write your goals, but only you can commit to them.
- We can help you with your action plan, but only you can hold yourself to your deadlines.
- We can help you plan your day, but only you can stick to the plan.
- We can help you set priorities, but only you can keep your focus.
- We can help you choose actions, but only you can choose discipline and consistency.
- We can warn against low payoff activities, but only you can avoid wasting your time, talent and resources on them.
- We can ask you to send in your daily accountability report, but only you can be accountable to yourself.
- We can encourage you, but only you can stop making excuses to yourself for your inaction.
For help in setting goals and understanding WHY you are doing this, start with this free MLM report.
If your inaction is due to not knowing what to say and what to do, get some help from Tom ‘Big Al’s Schreiter’s list of 25 Essential Skills For Network Marketers.
And seriously consider signing up for a new series of webinars featuring these skills, which began September 24th. The entire series is free and if you miss any sessions, they will be archived at the site.
Just go to http://www.MLMreadysetgo.info and use my name Tony Lauria as the person who invited you.
