Network Marketing Skills - The myth of multi-tasking.... now is the secret to reaching your goals!

Is there such a thing as multi-tasking?  When we say we are doing several things at once, what are we really saying?  Can we physically, mentally do more than one thing  at a time?

If we are truly in the moment, living purposely and in the now... how can your attention be on more than one thing at a time!  You can only think one thing in any given moment, you can string a bunch of different ideas together but you can only have  one thought at one point in time.  The only reality is the instant you are living now, past and future are only memories and projections... they are not real.

This idea that multi-tasking is a myth, something I have been claiming to do all my life, really made me think and in an instant made me free!

I have been saying how I am not good at delayed gratification but really I am very good at it.  I dream of what I want in the future but since I can't have it today I continue to do what little I think I can to enjoy today.  I fondly remember the past and want to keep it alive but don't seem to move on.  The programming that I can only dream and not have any part of it now is still there.

It makes perfect sense.  Living in the now means I do what I can now to live my dreams.  The goals and dreams of the future need to live now in order to have life, we need to enjoy them in the now because now is what is real.

A long time ago I did an outward bound course in the Rocky Mountains.  I was 150 lbs over weight and not in great shape.  I loved to rock climb but only done it on a small scale.  Soon I was carrying the least amount of stuff and last to catch up.  All my energy was focused on right then, putting one foot in front of the other.  I had no money worries, no thoughts of relationships that weren't going the way I wanted them to, just that moment.  I loved every torturous minute of it and never felt more alive as I did on that trip.  I was focused on the now.

As an artist, when I am working and totally absorbed in the project, I am living in that moment.  Working on a project feels just like meditating. Think about the last time you were working on a project or doing something with a loved one and it felt like you and your loved one were the only ones on the planet, you are totally absorbed in the project or the person. Nothing else existed... you were in the now.

Living in the now means enjoying the moment.  Right NOW on this point in time I have all I need and life is perfect.  I can have what I imagine and can enjoy the dream now because if I imagine it now it is real.  It will come true because it exists NOW!

So next time you feel you are not getting what you want fast enough, think about what you are concentrating on. Are you dwelling on what you want from the standpoint of not being able to have it? Or are you celebrating the idea that you are living it, that you are one step closer and enjoying the journey.  Be appreciative of what you have now and look for ways to enjoy the moment. To use an old saying, take time to smell the roses and you will give your dream life and your life will be a dream!

What do you need to do to be successful in an MLM?

Hundreds of people try to build a successful network marketing business, and fail.  Why do some make it and some not? Maybe we need to understand what the MLM business is BEFORE we go and sign up with some network marketing company.  You need to have a clear understanding of what you need to build a successful MLM from the beginning.

MLM, Multilevel marketing started with Mytinger’s and Casselberry’s new marketing plan for the Nutrilite company circa 1945. These guys developed a three-pronged approach... Use the products, share the products, and sponsor the folks who like the products.

A professional network marketer working an network marketing business understands that the components of a successful mlm business are:

 1.  A self-development program (with a pay plan attached)

 2.  It is a relationship not a selling business.

 3  There is a product referral program, a sponsoring program.

 4. You must participate in an auto ship program.

 5.  You use the products yourself.               

You need to be active in all five of these areas to be successful.  If you are struggling, find a mentor and be accountable for doing what is needed to get what you want from your mlm. If that isn't your sponsor then find someone else that will be.   A mentor can be your lifeline to being accountable and to making sure you stay on track.  They should not be charging, there are too many out there that will help you for free.  Mentors can be the one thing that makes the difference.

MLM Networking - Inspiration and positive progaming is the key!

Most of us approach MLM network marketing from a traditional business point of view.  We focus on working the traditional way, from the outside... but to work smart means to work from the inside out!  We can do the mechanics, talk to potential clients, send out advertisements, and keep our books, but that isn't all you need to do to be successful. Ask yourself why do some do better than others when they are both doing the exact same thing with the exact same tools?  Why do some make it and some not, given the same opportunity and tools?  It is because of the work they do on the inside, it is because one group works on themselves and the other doesn't.

To be really successful is not supposed to be so hard!  The shortcut is sometimes called spiritual marketing. It is believing and really being emotionally in tune with yourself.  Some also call it attraction marketing.  You believe the tools will work, and you are ready to act when opportunity shows up.  The money, the clients, whatever you need to make it in what ever you are doing is there waiting for you to let it come to you, you just have to know how to attract it and be comfortable with your success enough to embrace it.

Consider this quote from Joe Vatali's book on 'Spiritual Marketing"...

“Spirit is substance which forms itself according to your demands, and must have a pattern from which to work.  A pan of dough is as willing to be formed into bread as biscuit. It makes as little difference to Spirit what we demand.”
--  Frances Larimer Warner,
Our Invisible Supply: Part One, 1907

There is a lot of opinions on what to do to make yourself successful in business, but if you are successful in your personal life, you can't help to be successful in business.  If  you plant corn and Larkspur next to each other, both will grow. The soil will treat each one the same, even though one is healthy and the other is poison.  Your mind is the same, it doesn't discriminate between negative and positive, it will consider them both the same way, unless you actively take part in what is going in to your mind. Make more positive things go in and you will see and feel the difference.

There are many things you can to to tip the balance to positive. Consider these actions and see if you are doing them.

     • Reading....  it seems like all the people I have met that are wealthy spend some time every day reading, not romance novels but uplifting, self improvement books.
     • Mastermind group... they have a group of like minded people they can go to to brainstorm ideas. Some like in Napoleon Hill's book 'Think and Grow Rich" can be imagined, figures from history or your life that you admire and respect, or people that are real that you get together with on a regular basis to help inspire each other, not necessarily in the same business but with the same mindset.
     • Your are being programmed whether you are aware of it or not... Control the programming.  Stay away from people who want to steal your dreams.  Don't allow negative people around you as much as you can. Sometimes you can't avoid them, at work or at home, but you can give yourself more positive than negative by refusing delivery, by putting more positive in your head so that the negative won't fit.
     • Make yourself up a positive self talk, one that will take the place of all the negativity that we encounter. Make it easy to remember and repeat it out loud and to yourself whenever you can.  Turn off the radio in the car and listen to your thoughts instead.  Think positive, talk positive and positive things will happen for you.
     • Turn off the news, no violent, negative programs, or better yet no tv.  The news stations are sending you negative programming, gloom and doom, and yet the sky hasn't fallen yet, has it! Give it a try for at least 30 days and you will be amazed.
     • Seek out positive videos and audios, put them on your mp3 player and instead of looking at magazines and their ads, listen to them while you wait at the doctors or when picking up your kids, anywhere you have to wait and be idle. Turn off the radio and listen to your mind instead.  You will be surprised what you hear. Fill you head with positive possibilities and watch them come to you!
     • Helping others will always help you as well. Remember Zig Ziggler's quote,"If you help others get what they want, then you will get what you want".  Running your business without an agenda, that is with the thought in mind that you are going to help someone without expecting anything in return, will have a great positive effect on your business. Do this and you will be surprised how much of it will come back to you.  Think of it this way, when you give to anyone or anything, you are giving to the universe, and the universe will give back to you.

These are just a few things that you can put into practice that will make a difference. Give yourself  30 days, invest in yourself and you will not be sorry. You will be a superstar and when your success happens, you will be ready to embrace it!

MLM Networking - How to make your business from home flourish and last

MLM Networking is a fun and lucrative way to make money from home, and anyone can be successful in it once you understand how it works. It is one of the only business models where everyone is on a level playing field, doctors, lawyers, schoolteachers, housewives, even students all start in the same place, learning the same principals and with the same chances of success.

Consider this quote...

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
                                             - Anais Nin

What a great idea! Just think, network marketing is a relationship business and each person you sponsor in your business is a new world (their own business center), yet part of the group ( part of your group volume so part of your business)! If you think of it without the money, they really are adding a whole new world to yours, expanding your universe in ways you can't yet see. What a great present... If you think of it like this, you really do take yourself out of the equation and will be able to help them more effectively.

So want to see your business really shine, want to have a retention rate of 50% or more... don't sponsor people, make friends, find out how to help them, and in doing that you will be helping yourself.

Network marketing is a great business but so many treat it like a sales business, and once someone is sold, they become a customer, a number. Make sure you aren't selling, develop relationships instead.

I have heard the saying 'a stranger is just a friend I haven't met yet', think of your leads the same way. Find people with something in common, that being the desire to start a home business, and ideally someone wanting to do network marketing. They are your optimized targeted leads. They will become your best friends.

If you utilize this philosophy, you will successful in more ways than one. You will be a great leader, and a great friend.  You will be financially free and a role model for your children, you will truly own your life.

MLM Work From Home - Network Marketing instead of a second job

The biggest challenge in working a MLM business from home for me is being able to devote a block of time without interruptions to concentrate on my business.  Working from home has a unique set of challenges.  Family and friends sometimes don't seem to treat this as a real 'job' and your time is fair game.  They will interrupt you while working at home where they wouldn't dream of disturbing you if you were in another place working for someone else.  You have to make them understand and be determined to make this time as important to you and everyone else as it would be if you were going off to work.  After all you are working for yourself, isn't your business worth as much as someone esle's business?   Maybe more?

Working an MLM business can provide much more financial security than any other kind of job or brick and mortar business in a much shorter time, if it is worked correctly.  Luck has nothing to do with it, knowledge does. Make yourself a student of the industry. If you wanted to be a brain surgeon, wouldn't you go to school to learn the trade?  Even McDonalds has it's Hamburger University!

MLM is a business that can be marketed in several ways.  The old model says make a list of friends and family and get as many people in your living room or a hotel room as you can.  Talk to your warm market, and go back in your memory and look up as many people as you can to fill those rooms.  How many of you have tried this, only to have friends and family reject and sometimes laugh at your efforts, until you quit out of frustration. These days we have the Internet and if you learn how to use it, it can be a great source of finding optimized targeted leads that already want to work an MLM business.

There are many strategies both online and offline that will allow us to work from home and make the dream come true.  When you start your MLM don't just concentrate on the company and its products. Think about the  marketing system you will use because the process you apply for attracting and enrolling future partners needs to allow your personality to come out and be duplicatable for your clients joining you in your business. There are many different ways, and they are forever changing and evolving, so you will never run out of ways to advertise online. These new and improved strategies have only just started and will continue to generate fortunes for people that can understand and are able to use the power of the Internet.

What happens invariably with offline strategies is that unless you are a heavy hitter with a great influential circle, you will struggle with the friends and family because when you have exhausted your circle of friends and acquaintances, which for 90% of people out there is very limited, you are left with a cold market.  You first have to convince most of these people that a home business is a good idea, and then sell them on MLM.  No wonder it is called a cold market! What happens most with this kind of lead source is you have to have thousands of them to find one, and spend hundreds of dollars doing it.  A very expensive way to find people to talk to.

A good marketing system be easily duplicated and easy to implement. It should be inexpensive or free and give you a way to track your results.  It should be one that finds people that ALREADY WANT TO DO MLM.  It should make them want to talk to you. This in my book, is a whole lot better and easier than the old fashioned way of trying to convince others that don't have a clue about what we are trying to do!

 A Note:  Mentoring for Free is a free service that will help you learn how to advertize and find the system that fits you. Some MLM's have something already in place talored to the company, sometimes they will work well for you.  At Mentoring for Free there are experiences network marketers volunteering their time to help you out, and show you how to do things without getting caught spending money on worthless lead sources, and show you how to find your own optimized, targeted leads.  

Without support and the proper training, you can't hope to be as successful as someone who is being trained and supported by experts in the field.

Have you ever felt like you were drowning and no one was around to pull you out?  If you are trying to make a success of a network marketing business and doing it on your own, you may identify with this guy.  Trying to work a home based business by yourself is really difficult. Without support and the proper training, you can't hope to be as successful as someone who is being trained and supported by experts in the field. If you  fit this description and are failing, I can promise you YOUR FAILURE SO FAR IS NOT YOUR FAULT!

You need a support system to succeed and the proper training you or are most likely to be part of the 90% that traditionally don't succeed in network marketing. 

Here are some recent numbers I think are pretty astonishing. My group is part of a pretty good-size network market1ng company. Our team uses the "Success In 10 Steps" E-book by Michael Dlouhy to find prospects, and others in the company use other means.

Our team brought in 62% of the company's new business for the month of April.
- 82% of the company's new business for May.
- 85% of the company's new business for June.

My mentors have a 60% to even 90% RETENTION RATE! That is the same as the dropout rate of those that don't succeed using the traditional methods, our success rate is the same as the average failure rate!

"Success In 10 Steps" is generic. No companies or products are mentioned. No affiliate links are included. The point of the E-book is to find the Warriors in M-L-M, and to help you connect with them. This is a very effective system.

The traditional way is to make a list of friends and family, and call them to try to get them to a meeting to hear your 'plan'. The trouble with this is you are probably talking to people that don't have an interest in network marketing or even working a home based business! You have to work to get them to just listen to the idea of making money from a network marketing business. We say leave your friends and family alone! These guys are showing me how to find people already wanting to work a home based business. I skip this step completely, the people I talk to want to hear what I have to say!

It is a great ride, and fun since I am talking to others excited about the concept of network marketing. I don't have to get them excited about network marketing first, instead I talk to people looking for a way to make money from home, and I teach them how to think critically about the offers and opportunities out there.  

I didn't have success before but I am now and it is exciting. I am looking forward to being able to work my business and make my art when I want to. I am that much closer to owning my life, are you?

Great quote from Zig Ziggler: Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

Great quote from Zig Ziggler: Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness. This is Mentoring for Free. 

I have been listening to the audios and free calls for probably a year now, and I can say it has been there when I needed it.  It is uncanny that I hear what I need when I need it.  They are the best support system for anyone doing something that is challenging like building a business from home.  You can pay hundreds of dollars for personal developement courses, but my mentors and this system is there for me at NO CHARGE!  Imagine that, just people with a common bond, a mutual objective helping each other to succeed.  As an artist we can be somewhat in our own world, almost on the fringe of society at times, we are part of a culture all our own.  We try to get people to connect with our art, and as a network marketer I see it much the same, I am trying to get other people to connect with me, so we can together build a business that will set us free!  

Mentoring for Free  tells us that we are perfect just as we are to build a business, and we are announced when we speak on the calls as the 'next brilliant leader'.  Does this not sound like Zig''s quote, someone designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness?  This is you and me, we just have to learn to believe it and step up and shine when the opportunity shows itself!  We must believe it, when we believe it we will live it.  

Network Marketing Opportunities - How to get 'leads' for any business.

I have tried so many different companies along with many of my team of mentors, we all had much the same experience. We were told to make a list of friends and family, recruit everyone you meet, people are dollar signs, learn to 'close' them, sell and recruit, recruit, recruit.  Never how to talk to them, where to find them and no indication that we were talking to a person!  I was not good at selling snowballs in Alaska, so I didn't do well recruiting, and the ones that did, tell me it still didn't work because as soon as one came aboard, another would leave!  

When I found my mentor and mastermind group, I was skeptical, kept waiting for the sell, but they never asked for money?  It was always listen to this free call, or I will send you these audios and/or videos, or read this free ebook.  'Put your credit card in the freezer' they said, we want no money.  What was up with this?!

In nut shell, I was told MY FAILURE UP TO NOW WAS NOT MY FAULT.  I was perfect to do this business just the way I was.  I was NOT to buy leads or sign up for a bunch of expensive training courses or buy a lot of books and cds showing me how to do it.  Just plug into the free training calls, listen to the free audios and videos and read Michael Dlougy's free ebook 'Success in 10 Steps."  In fact this is taken directly from one of his duplicatable websites.  Michael writes...

Briefly, here's my MLM philosophy:

Don't sell.

Don't recruit.

Don't say ONE doggone word to family & friends!

Build People. People will build your business.

So what is this... It is the truth. It works and it is sooo refreshing to hear.  I found it to work just like they have told me, the only time the system Mentoring for Free hasn't worked is when I didn't follow instructions. 

Ever tried to make a cake from scratch?  Gotten a great recipe, and tried to improve it by adding something extra or put more of something in it because you liked it?  Then when it was baked you found it wasn't what you expected, sometimes it was plain awful?  

That is how the system works, and how network marketing works. Follow the proven system and you will have success.  You will have more 'leads' than you know what to do with.  The best part is these leads will become your friends, and you will pick who you want to work with.  You don't need thousands or even hundreds to be successful.  You just need to be coachable and sincere.

Here are the directions.  Click this link and read the page, you will find no credit card fields, only a place to fill out to get the free e-book by Michael. Down load the book and see for yourself.  You will be just as successful as any of the people you can read about when you click here.

A new year is here and I am working on lots of things. This year is going to be focused on finally owning my life! I have been working on mlm companies for many years, switching from company to company when the last one didn't work or get too expensive with little success. But now have found a system called 'Mentoring for Free'! They are making all the difference.

They started out by saying my lack of success was not my fault... WHAT!? All the other companies and sponsors would lay it squarely on my shoulders when I asked why I wasn't prospering like they promised when I joined. Talk to more people, make your list of friends and family and add to it, talk to people at the grocery store, join more lead sources ( this was expensive). Mentoring for Free says, DON'T BOTHER YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY.... ? Here are low or no cost stratigies for talking to people already wanting to work a business from home, they already believe in the business model. WOW! What a difference!

Now I spend my time working with people that want to do what I do! I have mentors that take the time to help me find ways that FIT MY PERSONALITY and pocketbook to get my message to quality prospects. I get to help other people do the same, we are a family of like minded people working together to finally own our lives. It is fun and prosperous, and I want to get on the phone, because I am going to talk to people just like me and really make a difference.

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