Essential Tools for Word-of-mouth Marketers

Check out my post on the Solution X company blog and let me know how you are using social media successfully.

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Are You Waiting for Others to Be Successful?

In a word: don't. Check out my latest blog post on my company blog site.

5 Relationship Tips to Keep Your Business Growing

1. Sponsor people that you like.

Life is too short to waste time pretending...if you don't want to spend time with someone, why would you want them in your business?

2. Invest your time into your team.

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. This is the best way to differentiate yourself. Get to know your team members for who they are, and for who they want to become. Don't be afraid to get your hands dirty...understand the circumstances, needs, and dreams of everyone you personally bring into the business.

3. Set up a game plan—then follow through (focus and finish).

Make sure you give your team a track to run on and then demonstrate your commitment to that duplication model by partnering with them to achieve their desired goals.

4. Stay Connected.

Talk with those you sponsor every week. Successful business-builders talk with their team. They're interested. And over time, this simple talking-with-your-team technique will have you doing business with those you know well.

5. Be a real friend.

Both inside and outside the business. People may leave a business, but nobody leaves a friend. Network Marketing is all about lifestyle, enjoy yours with those you sponsor along the way.

Thanks to Michael Clouse for his article on heating up cold distributors www.nexera.com

What have we learned in 2,065 years?

What have we learned in 2,065 years... "The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." Cicero - 55 BC

It's just not that hard. Let us all just endeavor to practice a little more common sense, common courtesy and fiscal responsibility and then require it of the people we elect to office.

The Art of Saying No

A man firmly sets his core values, goals, and priorities, makes time to tend to them, and says no to things that conflict with what's important. He doesn't lose site of the best, by pursuing the endless opportunities for the merely good.

The rest of this article is worth the read.

The Right Way - 10 Simple Steps to Network Marketing Success

Many of you have asked me to put together a simple, no-nonsense guide to getting started the right way in network marketing. Here it is...I hope you enjoy it. Feel free to share it.

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I'm sharing it with you because...as you know...I love this industry.

Top Reasons I love Network Marketing

It requires you to lift others to achieve your goals.
The money you can make for your efforts is real and tangible and can change your life.
You will grow and stretch as a person in Network Marketing.
Like Andrew Carnegie, we’d all rather have one percent of the efforts of 100 people, than 100
percent of our own effort.
Network Marketing is teamwork at its finest.
All you do is duplicate what the successful have done, sign up
as many people as you can and then teach others to do the
same.

Precious Moments

I was blessed to be present at the moment that my baby daughter actually crawled for the first time. It was an amazing moment for both of us. For her, realizing that forward motion under her own power was indeed possible...and for me, experiencing the joy of sharing that experience with her...one of the many firsts that will never come again but that will live in my memory as one of those experiences that makes life worth living.