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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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Building Wealth With Network Marketing
To have health is to be or live healed. To have wealth is to be or live well.
Doug Casey is a man who knows a thing or two about wealth and he was recently quoted in Dr. Steve Sjuggerud’s newsletter DailyWealth Premium.
There are some radical thoughts there but as Doug writes, “these ideas weren’t radical 200 years ago… But they are considered radical now. That’s why it’s important to keep them in mind. In the financial crisis I see coming, the right ideas might mean your life.”
From that newsletter I would like to share some points from both Doug and Steve.
First Doug:
1. “First, recognize that wealth is a high moral good.
Don’t feel guilty about having it or about wanting more. I do believe that productive people – people who work hard to provide goods and services for others – definitely tend to be wealthier than unproductive people. They deserve to be. And since we don’t live in a malevolent universe, people generally get what they deserve. So, yes, wealth is definitely one indicator of moral excellence.”
2. “Second, figure out your purpose in having money.
Sure, money makes life easier. And it’s nice how it enables you to assist people you like with material things. But I strongly suggest that you not take too short a view on this matter.”
3. Steve Sjuggerud enumerates Doug’s 3-step plan to building wealth. As the focus of this blog is wealth and Network Marketing, please pay special attention to these three steps and see if what I have boldfaced below doesn’t make the case for Network Marketing.
“Step 1: Liquidate. Chances are high that you have too much “stuff.” That stuff is costing you money in storage cost, in depreciation and in the weight of psychological baggage. It’s weighing you down. Get rid of it.
“Step 2: Consolidate. Take stock of your assets. After Step 1, that should be a lot easier.
“Your main asset is knowledge, skills and connections you possess. Take stock of them. What do you know? What can you do? Whom do you know? Make lists and think about these things, with an eye to maximizing their value.
“Step3 is the most important… the ability to create. Working for yourself is the easiest way to create.
“Think like an entrepreneur at all times. Remember that there is an infinite desire for goods and services on the part of the 6 billion other people on the planet. Find out how you can give them what they want, and the money will roll in.”
If you are thinking of getting started in a home-based business but don’t know what to do first, download this free report and start creating some wealth.
Is FREE A Sign It’s Worthless? Seth Says Not Necessarily So
Today’s blog post by Seth Godin – http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/09/do-it-tomorrow.html – sarcastically suggests “There are very few categories where there is less correlation between price and quality than advice.”
I say sarcastically because Seth asks if we are more likely to take action on advice that we have paid dearly for, or said in other words, less likely to act upon free advice.
This is a very insightful question which challenges each of us to consider whether we are confusing price with value. (“Does expensive advice feel more valuable than the free stuff?”)
Personally the best business advice I ever received, the information that not only changed my business life but showed me how to own my life, was FREE.
So to paraphrase Seth one last time, Are you less likely to take action because you got it for free?
Here’s a test: Your FREE report is available right here. It is the same one I mentioned above.
Go ahead. It’s invaluable to your career.
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MLM Special Knowledge
“. . . Initiations often double as a long and confused moment of shared truths. Essentially, what the adults, elders, or senior members of the group share with the initiates is the knowledge they possess, and then they admit to a terrible secret, the secret of the “tribe” – that beyond the knowledge the initiates have just been given there is no special knowledge.” ~ Anna Simons, The Company They Keep
There is no special knowledge. Anywhere. Not in the US Army Special Forces which is what Anna Simons is writing about in the above quote.
Not in an ashram or a monastery. Not in a lodge or a brotherhood or a cult or a club.
Not even in a Multi-Level Marketing company is there secret knowledge other than that shared when entering the group. Though initiates want it, (see http://liveyourdream-ownyourlife.com/bullscript) suspect it has always existed and believe they will now have it revealed upon joining, there is no secret knowledge about how to lock down that success that’s been so elusive yet so promised.
There’s only this:
To persistently work the system of a 5 Pillar company.
Want help in determining what a 5 Pillar company is? Get your free report here. It’s knowledge but never a secret.
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Appreciating Self-Worth Is The Beginning Of Progress or Using Mental, Spiritual, Intellectual and Creative Power to Do All We Could Ever Dream Of Doing
I am a big fan of personal development and deeply appreciate using mental, spiritual, intellectual and creative power to do all we could ever dream of doing in our desire for a successful Network Marketing career. Coming from a lifetime as an employee and experienced in the conventional business model, I needed a drastic “attitude adjustment” and I got it from all the wonderful material out there.
Here is a quote from one of the masters, the late Jim Rohn, who in his book The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle had this to say:
What would happen if we all put our minds to work and read the books, took the classes and discovered new ways to refine our philosophy? What would happen if we all developed a new attitude about the past, the present and the future? What would happen if we all changed our feelings about one another and the importance of each individual to our collective destiny? If we did all that, just imagine what an incredible effect this would have on our future?
The exciting thing is that each of us already has enough mental, spiritual, intellectual and creative power to do all that we could ever dream of doing.
Everyone has it!
{Let me repeat that: The exciting thing is that each of us already has enough mental, spiritual, intellectual and creative power to do all that we could ever dream of doing.}
We just need to become more aware of all that we already have and spend more time refining all that we already are, and then put it to work for us.
What stops us from recognizing our inherent gifts and talents is a poor attitude about ourselves. Why are we so quick to see the value in others and yet so reluctant to see it in ourselves? Why are we always ready to applaud someone else’s accomplishment and yet so shy about recognizing our own?
The bracketed and boldfaced text above is my doing.
Now what about your doing? If you have been working on yourself but still are stuck you may benefit greatly from this free report.
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Playing The Time Leverage Game
Funny how each of us really has the same dream: time, money, great relationships, and a meaningful, fulfilling life. But none of us will ever achieve our dream by trading time for money in a job.
There is only one way and that is to learn to Leverage Our Time; make Time and Others work for us.
Here are the Rules as outlined in a great, short, impactful book by Bill Quain Overcoming Time Poverty: How To Achieve more By Working Less.
1. Learn To Multiply. Time for Money is linear and to increase the money you have to increase the Time. It is simple addition. Instead learn to Multiply, using the Time of Others whom you have taught and mentored and the Time of the Others whom they have found in turn. And so on and so on.
2. Increase the value of your time, don’t increase your time. When you create more without working more, you have automatically made your time more valuable.
3. Use your time to Build not Buy. Build equity that will work for you forever. Don’t spend money on things but on more income-producing assets.
4. Build a Toll Booth, not a Toil Booth. Be more interested in collecting than working. Find a massive and dynamic trend and take part in it. Even just a small part of each transaction will accumulate quickly.
5. Get a Mentor, be a Mentor. In this Time Leverage Game, build a network of winners. We all need help and it is our responsibility to pass on that help to those who earnestly seek it.
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Gandhi on Network Marketing (!)
“A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. “
I don’t know if my friend and mentor Tom ‘Big Al’ Schreiter is a student of Gandhi or not, but this is right out of ‘Big Al’s’ Three Steps To Success: “Take the Volunteers.”
Be grateful for a clear and honest NO. Their NO releases you, allowing you to move on to further efforts. When you get excuses or reasons, don’t bother chasing them.
Avoid Stress! It’s a killer.
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Your World Is Your Word
Michelle (I have changed her name) first appeared to be a sincere and eager seeker of her own stable and secure future. She had downloaded the free eBook that I offer, had read it and had taken the initiative to email me her three deepest reasons for needing to succeed in her network marketing business. I take the sharing of such WHYs as a great honor. She impressed me very much and I was optimistic about our fledgling business relationship.
That’s why I was so taken back by her cancellation again and was moved to ask her a simple question: “Do you think with all that’s going on in the world right now there is one simple explanation for it?” She said she didn’t think there was.
I begged to differ and told her, “The reason there is so much turmoil in the world right now, so much contention right here in our country between political parties, so much anger from the populace is because people don’t keep their word anymore. It is that simple. If members of Congress and parliaments kept to their duties, if presidents and prime ministers kept to their promises, if business leaders and employees kept to their agreements, how different would the world be right now?”
I continued. “Michelle, no matter how hard you work, no matter what skills I am able to help you acquire, no matter how great your company is, if you don’t keep your word you won’t find the success you so deeply desire.”
It is THAT simple. And if you believe that she keeping her word, or you and I keeping our word, is inconsequential, well I’ll end with the words of the master, Mohandas Gandhi:
“As Human Beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the Atomic Age – as in being able to remake ourselves.”
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“See, all that money can’t save you.”
Carmine DeSalvo died this morning at 3am.
He was a friend of my father’s, my 89-year old father.
I remember Mr. DeSalvo vividly. He was brash but generous. He gave me one of those model airplane kits when I was about 10 years old and he was the owner of a small neighborhood deli shop – one of his many businesses on the way to becoming a fairly successful small business owner.
My father when he broke the news: “See, all that money can’t save you.”
Now behind that belief and sentiment is this:
some people believe money CAN save their life and since it obviously can’t – we all DO die, don’t we – then why should one ever pursue money?
The payoff, pardon my pun, of such a rationale is to get one’s self off the hook of making money, of being industrious, of being productive TO ONE’S FULLEST CAPACITY.
It gives one a rationale and excuse for being poor and lazy at the very worst.
“Make just enough to get by because if you ever DO overreach, your hand will be slapped by the big phantom in the sky and you’ll be rewarded with death.”
Obviously, rationally, WE ARE ALL GOING TO MEET DEATH, regardless of how much money we create in life. There simply is no correlation, no real connection between how much money one makes and how long one has on the planet.
So why not make all you can while you ARE here?
Just don’t lie, cheat or steal anyone’s labor or ideas in the process of maximizing your earning potential.
Simply pursuing money should NEVER be the object.
Rather doing what gives you joy AND provides and contributes to others, where you CAN BE and while you ARE compensated to the greatest extent, should be.
“See, all that money can’t save you.” Who ever believed that it would?
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Believing IS Seeing
Let’s use the ever useful “Half-Empty or Half-Full glass” question. And what most of us have been taught to do: See first, then believe our eyes.
Seeing first, and describing LITERALLY what we actually do observe, we see that the glass is BOTH half-empty AND half-full AT THE SAME TIME. Isn’t that so?
But by CHOOSING to BELIEVE first that the glass is EITHER HALF-EMPTY OR HALF-FULL makes whichever condition we attend to SO. Not that the other condition isn’t so AS WELL, but that it isn’t BELIEVED, so it isn’t SEEN to be so.
Now try this in your life. The next time you’re facing an argument with a loved one, or a colleague, choose what to attend to. Choose what to believe first, and see what you see. Then articulate that or it won’t become REAL.
Remember LANGUAGE creates REALITY.
