MLM on Fire

That Wikipedia Appeal

2011-11-21T01:05:00.001-08:00

In all the work to build my own website as well as in day to day information I need, I have accessed Wikipedia regularly. For up-to-date information it is hard to beat. At times some information can be questionable. Obviously posted by the people themselves, it needs some objectivity. Over time, though, this happens with all the moderation that is brought on board. There is the opportunity to update information yourself although I have yet to do this.

But as a means of providing the widest possible information on the widest possible range of topics, I do not feel there is anything like it. For an information network based on the social formula, what else could be imagined?

All this without targeted advertising!

Energy Developments And An EBook

2011-10-17T17:56:00.000-07:00

Information To Be Aware Of

Hey there again.

Some time since I was last in action at this site. There have been some developments in other work I am doing. My website on alternative energy action with particular reference to nuclear fusion as an option has been growing week by week.

I published an eBook about this as well and you can check out my video about it here:

<a href="http://www.linkedtube.com/WQljwWuoTj4a2e11d5bdb7fb25a51282f018572a22f.htm">LinkedTube</a>

The Variety of Nature and Abundance

2010-09-22T18:32:00.000-07:00

Recession Mentality
In this time of apparent recession(depression, or whatever) it is interesting to see how people process things and what they think. And how much this parallels economic theory and what we believe deep down.

What do I mean?

Well I remember learning about Malthus and the summary of his idea that population grows exponentially and food production only arithmetically. Our food supply was soon to be outstripped and people would starve.

Like the Club of Rome in the early 1970s who told us oil was running out, that we had olny enough for 20 more years and food likewise was threatened. And here we are still using oil and still eating. Oild reserve levels have been re-estimated. And cars became more efficient.

Abundance
Makes me think of the breeding of dog breed and how many varieties we have from the basic roor gene stock of wolves. And that a whole new breed can be established in seven generations - and in dogs a generation requires only a year.

And the variety that can be produced in flowers from a basic wild stock. Locked up in nature, the DNA code and more, is a huge wealth of variety and potential!

Energy Production
And it is the same with the possibilities for energy. While everyone is talking about global warming, carbon taxes and wanting to restrict usage of various things, the wealth of the universe is being ignored. Solutions are there if people only would open their eyes, see and pursue them! See my new web site - in process of building - and one idea that is possible, among many.

Our Amazing Lives
The same with people and the possibilities each one has for their own lives. There is so much more we can be, do and have!

Another Dense Plasma Fusion Video

2009-10-22T02:58:00.000-07:00

Here is another fusion video giving an idea of the currently constructed device and how it works:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgfY_Ig9648

What If....

2009-10-06T02:17:00.000-07:00

WHAT IF....
You did not have to live to work, but to work to live?
WHAT IF.....
Everything you had ever been through was all there for some greater, more glorious purpose?
WHAT IF....
Not just somewhere over the rainbow, but right here dreams really did come true?
WHAT IF....
Those dreams you had in the past really were there for a purpose and to be achieved?
WHAT IF.....
We did not wait for governments and institutions to do it for us but individuals with dreams came together to each pursue their dreams and together make this world an incredible place?
WHAT IF....
There was a key?
WHAT IF.....
You had it?

Fusion Video For Dense Fusion

2009-03-23T19:18:00.001-07:00

Here's a schema of how the dense fusion system works.

Now with money behind it the research is moving ahead into its next phase which looks promising.

Then it's up to future funding to make it a reality. Clean, green, near unlimited, cheap energy for the planet.

MLM on Fire: Huge Income Possibility Through New Opportunity

2008-12-22T18:05:00.000-08:00

MLM on Fire: Huge Income Possibility Through New Opportunity
Springdale Clinic Information

Huge Income Possibility Through New Opportunity

2008-12-17T02:10:00.000-08:00

This is a huge opportunity in a business endorsed for some time now and into the future by Donald Trump. As a savvy business man he sees this as a no-brainer huge opportunity for any who have the guts to do this. In fact he says if you can't make a go of this "You're fired!" It is that simple. But huge.

My Background
I am a medical doctor who in the last few years has turned over in excess of a million dollars a year. This opportunity has the capacity to produce at least that (without the same expenses I have running my practice) and not just for me but for anyone who wants it. There are people already doing this in the company. And the way it is structured many people can do this and in not too much time if worked correctly.

Money For Anyone
Money lack is about the most commonly stressful thing people deal with in their lives. In my General Practice, before my current business, I dealt with many people suffering from stress, depression and marriage breakups due to the lack of enough money for one reason or another. This opportunity gives anyone who wants to the chance to put money concerns behind them. In fact it gives money and free time - to spend how you want it - together. What could be better?

Live Your Dreams
Not only this, but doing this business has brought back some dreams I had as a teenager. I wanted to work on producing nuclear fusion power (the same energy that powers the sun and the stars). I thought somebody would have done it by now. But the huge, expensive, and radioactive-waste-producing multinational unit being built in France will take fifty years to produce viable power for the world. This opportunity has enabled me to put money behind a US team with a design that looks capable of producing fusion power for the world in the next five to six years. Not only that but there will be no radioactive waste, no carbon dioxide emissions, will be a fraction of the cost of current power generation and have billions of years of fuel to run it.

If this business can open up this for me as one person, what could happen with many people being able to pursue their dreams? What would this mean for the world?

For Further Information
If this has aroused some interest in you check out some or all of the following:

Hear Mr Brian Sax
Listen to a Senior Vice President in this company, originally an engineer through Princeton University and a gifted middle distance runner who had a goal to be an Olympic representative for the USA. He has worked this business for some eleven years and is working to grow it in Australia and New Zealand and on to Asia on:
001 212 990 6934 (if calling from New Zealand)
or 001 11 212 990 6934 (if calling from Australia)
or +1 212 990 6934 internationally.

Check My Business Website
Or check out my business website, including some clips from Donald Trump at my business website.

Phone And E-Mail Contacts
If you are interested to know more, or you know people who would be interested, please phone me on 021 904 552 (internationally +64 21 904 552)
or use my business contact number +64 9 273 2133
or e-mail me at mark.denekamp@xtra.co.nz.

The Challenge Of The New

2008-09-02T03:58:00.000-07:00

At times I wonder why things seem to be moving so slowly, or why the breakthroughs I expected have not come through. I do the work, attend the trainings, engage in personal development, focus, keep positive, and still things seem a way off.

And then all of a sudden something happens and it is like I am at a new beginning. and I realise that there is a process to go through. If I had started the way I was before I would have expected it to progress in a certain way. and that way had more than a taint of the old way of doing things.

I need to see there is more going on than what I realise. And that there is a need for something completely new to arise. Only then will I be fully satisfied with the outcome. Only then will I see really new things.

To keep going with what I already have will result in only a gradual or partial change. What needs to be seen is a radical and explosive change that will accelerate me into a hugely exciting future. Free from the limitations of past experience, failures and concepts.

So here it goes! Here's to the future! And here's to seeing you there!

Learnings From Wealth Dynamics

2008-07-15T04:09:00.000-07:00

I can create wealth from nothing. Usually done in a networking situation, where two (or more) apparent zeros (nothings) will combine to create a wealth creation team (remember the doubling in the noughts and crosses game). The rules I have known may well change to get where I need to be. Once I find out where I need to be I may well need to go back where I came from, or part of the way, to get equipment and training to take me to the top.

BEING
My opening to wealth will come from sharing what I have to GIVE (rather than what I want to get) and from encouraging people I come across by giving them the confidence that I respect their confidential sharing to the circle of sharing, giving them responsibility to be responsible for their part and growing in both authority and excellence as I learn and practise.

Fortune can be defined in three ways – luck that happens to me as I go, the legacy I leave behind, and my timing through tuning into something before it happens.

Luck is being in the right location, understanding my role in the situation, connecting with the right people, and knowledge of what to do with the resources I have and find.

My USP or Station – Need to develop to a unique point who I am and what I stand for. The more unique I am, the stronger will be my personal attraction. To do so I need to refine and refine and refine my idea of it. All entrepreneurs have a base Trust of who or what they are. From this arise many businesses which will come and go with time. The businesses do not matter, the trust does. This needs to be my station. This understanding will attract the connections I need usually situated about three degrees of separation from where I am.

I can help myself on my way (shorten my journey) by learning to ask the right questions, knowing that if I am not getting the information I want and need it is because my questions are not focused or accurate enough.

Money flow can can increase as I build my trust – or how people trust me in my character and role. Need to learn to play in a game where the ball is being passed to me as I maintain my position. Do not go chasing wealth. Establish and function in my position and the ball will be passed to me and I can pass it on, knowing that wealth creation occurs as we pass the “ball” on.

Focus on my internal values – passion and talents, knowledge and network, character and purpose. Build these to increase my value and attraction.

Life At The Speed Of Light

2008-06-30T04:30:00.000-07:00

Now here is a thought. Where will you be a year from now doing what you are currently doing? How far down the line will you be? How much closer to your goals and dreams? And how important are these to you?

Life does seem to go by so fast. There is always something commanding our attention. When we get a chance to look up the world has whizzed on by and often we can seem to be stuck in the same spot. A bit older but no closer to where we feel we should be.

How can we get around that?

By doing just a little bit each day toward what have committed ourselves. This presupposes we have a goal, or goals. But you would not be seeking out this information if you did not have some definite aim. And even achieving that is not too hard. It merely means taking an hour or two out and focusing on seeking what moves our heart.

With the goal, breaking it down into steps, ones we can achieve a bit at a time, helps to visualise how to get it done.

Then it is a simple matter of taking those daily actions towards each step. At times it may be only part of an action. But in doing this much it reinforces we are on our way. Our mind aligns with the process and approves of the direction. It will bring up other ideas to help us. The simple achievement of doing a bit towards the goal creates a positive energy that helps attract more opportunities into our path - we become more aware of them.

By doing a little bit each day, or most days, it is amazing how much you will achieve. Just keep that up and look back after a week or two, or one month. You will be amazed at the change.

You will have learned a lot too. Whatever level of network marketing you are on, this will help. Your mlm business requires commitment. But it is more of a steady continuous commitment that will do it rather than spasmodic huge efforts. The continued application of force will produce some continuous motion.

Stick to it and do that little bit towards it each day. See you at the top!

Brothers In Arms

2008-06-27T05:01:00.000-07:00

What are we trying to communicate with our contacts when we make them? What is it they are wanting to hear? We should have some idea if we have targeted the people we are interested in hearing from. They will usually be other network marketers who have a desire to be even better in their work - the brothers in arms.

Such brothers in arms have the same basic desires as we do - the reasons they got into mlm for. It is not the system itself that attracted us, although that is what we are having to grapple and work with to generate a result in our home business. It is not even because of how powerful network marketing is as a business system - so powerful that major brand names are adopting it as way to grow aspects of their business. It is not the camaraderie of the business, although we may well enjoy that. That along with associating with other positive people.

Emotion
Yes, the reason that we got into network marketing was much more basic than that. Not at the element of reasoning and logical thought. It was at the level of emotion - the emotion that causes us to make a decision and then have to come back and justify it. Like a person being sold a new car by the salesman it is is not the technical aspects of the car he will sell it on, for the majority of us anyway. It is the great look, the smell of the leather, the feeling we will have driving it, or how we will appear to work-mates and friends. That deeper resonance with our inner motivations.

For us the reason we got into mlm was that deeper desire to have a better life, to be able to have the holidays we desire, buy what we want, have the time to enjoy life, to live rather than working to live.

And it is these dreams, aching desires and longings, that will drive us to keep moving and chasing after that goal. This is what will draw other people in to the the business with us or at least cause them to look deeply at it. And it is the reason you need to hold before them as long as they show any interest.

Hypnotic Marketing
Joe Vitale talks about hypnotic and magnetic marketing. And what is this but simply telling a story that involves people? In fact telling a story of the process and then leaving you hanging. You catch a glimpse of what he is talking about and then he switches topic.

Where You Were
You remember why you were even looking at the web page the day you clicked on this opportunity don't you? What time of the day was it? What else had you been doing that day and what frustrations had you been experiencing? What success had you had up until then? And what blockages were you experiencing? What hope did it bring to you then?

The days go by ticking over one after the other and how much change have you seen since then?

Milton
Like the master conversational trance (or hypnotic) master, Milton Erickson, Joe Vitale tells the ideas that keep you spellbound - locked into the images he can build. And that is what hypnotic marketing is about - images that lock you in and keep you moving forward. At times they may not even seem relevant, but they keep you going, you get a glimpse of a scene, beach, water, surf, palm trees that have a resonance for you. The meaning may not click until some time, even days, later. But when it does you find your behaviour has changed and you are doing things, considering things differently, from before.

Permission
How? Well you cannot lead people down paths they do not wish to go. There has to be that desire in there. And that is what you are seeking to draw out. It will produce amazing responses because you are touching something deep.

The possibilities and rewards, in a win-win way, are enormous.

The Power Of Focus

2008-06-25T05:26:00.000-07:00

How well are you achieving the results you want in your life? What are your main goals and the things you most want to see happen? And how far are you along the road to reaching them?

I have experienced myself the problem with having a number of conflicting targets I wished to achieve and have not managed to hit any of them. They all seemed so important. And then there were the deadlines that some other people had set for me. Other deadlines were more suggestions - like, it would be nice if this were done by such and such a date.

Maybe you have not experienced this. Maybe your life is more straightforward and there are no competing demands on you. But I have the hallucination that maybe you might not be too different from me.

Focus On The Job
What to do then? I recall having talked to people about doing another part-time home business that would boost their income and long term provide some massive financial assistance. And they have been unwilling to, although they were very tempted. And they cited as their reason that they did not want to lose their focus on their main business. Often it seemed an important issue for real estate people. But there were others too.

It did highlight for me the importance they placed on focus. And reading around the area and getting some coaching I realized it is an important issue.

Generally most people find, and I have too, that if you elect a main goal that you want to pursue and go all out for it, you tend to make it. That is, you have completed one of those goals or tasks. Whereas when you have several or many you tend to not get to any. Unless there is some outside imposition insisting one needs to be completed. But really that is like choosing one goal and working on it. How does this work? The goal needs to be clearly defined and a definite path worked out with steps to get there. Then you can focus on it and achieve it.

The Pareto Principle
So what would you chose first? Generally the one that is most important. And if you applied the Pareto principle of the 80/20 rule, you would elect to pursue the one that would give you 80% of the benefit or results with 20% of the work. Or sometimes if there are many big goals and you are feeling like you are getting nowhere you can chose one that is quick to achieve to give you some rapid success which will make the next goal you choose seem more readily attainable.

The end result therefore is, by choosing successive goals, working towards them and hitting them you will usually achieve much more in your life.

Performance Results Descriptions
There is another way that works with this too. It is utilizing the technique or system of "Performance Results Descriptions". This has been used by large organizations (like Microsoft) to achieve massive results. And it is one I have used to good effect as well.

The idea is to chose the five or six areas of your life that you want to see some changes in. Then write these down. Under each write down three to six subgoals towards achieving each main goal. The idea is to have a three month time frame and to set mini-goals which reflect this. Often people assume they can do more than they really can in three months and find at their first three month review they have come up short. The idea is not to beat yourself up for not achieving the goals but to learn to have a more realistic expectation for the next three months.

Under each mini-goal you can write out a means of achieving it. So you end up with multiple small goals to aim for.

Two Benefits
The beauty of the system is two-fold. One: you can refer back to the written mini-goals to remind yourself what they are. Then you can go out and do them And because they have been broken down so much they are often readily achievable with say a phone call or two or an internet search.

Two: the goals seem to become etched in your unconscious mind and many times you achieve them without even referring back to them or reminding your self about them. This probably occurs in part because in order to tabulate the goals you have to determine a pathway to do each one - the mini-goals - which shows your mind how easy it is to achieve and so it does so. With bigger goals we can have negative emotions toward them not knowing where to even start. The process of breaking them down seems to open up new ideas and possibilities.

Try doing this and see where you get. Happy mlm work!

Getting Started

2008-06-24T05:51:00.000-07:00

So often I have waited to get things going. Whether it is lifting up the phone to call someone, begin a new venture, or make a definite decision about a venture I am already in, it is so easy to keep putting off the effective action.

And then much later, in hindsight, I see I have missed a perfect opportunity or the right timing to do something the most effectively. Or others in the same field as I am are moving ahead in leaps and bounds while I seem to continue plodding on. What is the answer?

There is no time like the present to begin something you want to achieve. All the motivational speakers agree on this point. Yes, you need to decide what you want to do. And then you need to make a basic plan of how you are going to achieve it. But once decided you need to start.

Procrastination
Good old procrastination will always have excuses as to why now is not just right. Tomorrow will be better, either because of the time of day, or the weather, or the day of the week, or because I will have thought about it more. But really, it is all just an excuse. Occasionally one day may be better than another. But usually tomorrow never comes and we never get going.

The Right Mindset
We can justify our actions by saying we need more information. That we need to know all the angles before we get into action and make a fool of ourselves. That last part of the statement reveals all. Not wanting to make a fool of ourselves is a fear-based motive. And as such does not produce very effective results. It comes from a mindset of the universe being against us or out to get us. But if we come from one of a positive universe that seeks our good, then we can move on out in that positive mindset of love and trust.

Ready, Fire, Aim
It is like those effective business people that tell us we need to do actions in a Ready, Fire, Aim sequence, rather than the one we so often employ of Ready, Aim, Fire. With this new mentality we do not fluff around concerning ourselves with minor things when we should be seeing that the product or service we wish to market is going to sell. Once sales begin and we see we have an effective business then we can order all the trappings to make life easier or the business seem more legitimate. We often tend to get all the paraphernalia when we do not know whether what we have is going to be in demand.

Also in life our best opportunities tend to present to us when we are on the move. As we are under way we tend to encounter more people and opportunities. These lead to more interactions. And consequently to the best range of offers and possibilities.

Once underway we also receive feedback about what is working and what is not. Then we can make adjustments to our approaches and plans. Making plans from a purely theoretical standpoint is much more difficult as we have so much less data.

2 Ways To Start In Your Internet Network Marketing?

2008-06-23T01:52:00.000-07:00

So you have decided to take your mlm business to the next level. You have decided if you wait for the usual one-on-one marketing and business meetings you are only to going to get more of what you have always gotten. And if your past efforts have not been spectacular, why should continuing in the same vein be any different? That definition of insanity again, that led us into network marketing in the first place - it being doing the same thing you have always done and expecting a different result!

Where would you start? Well a bit depends on your experience up until now and whether you are wanting to spend any money.

Pay Per Click Marketing
Assuming you have some money to use, one of the easy ways is to do an advertisement in Google's Pay Per Click marketing. You will need a link to a site to direct traffic to. And you will need to monitor the results regularly. But the beauty of the PPC campaigns is the rapidity with which you get feedback. The next day you will have information you can use.

By having several different advertisement versions you can test the power of variations of words, or completely different ones. You can elect to let Google display your ads according to response - here they will display an ad that gets a higher click-through rate percentage more often than one that does not. So if you are selling something you can have a better rate of response for each time your ad is displayed. Or if you wish to have data to decide on this yourself for later, maybe for other media, you can elect to have your ad versions rotated giving an even exposure. It is interesting to get feedback on this. You can find that one ad wording may appear more popular for a time and then drop back, suggesting a change in the searchers out there, maybe a variation in the economy, or whatever.

Initially you can elect to have your ad displayed simply on the search display. This gives you a quicker response on how your wording is functioning, often in a few days. It also gives you a more targeted audience, dependent on the keywords you elect to have as your search criteria. Once you have determined your best wording you can allow the ad to be displayed on the content pages, that is other web sites out there dealing with similar content to what your ad is about. This gives a somewhat less targeted audience but does allow for a wider exposure.

You can chose the countries or cities you wish you ad to be displayed in. For an initial word testing of your ads you may find it better to have a world-wide, or Europe, North America and Oceania distribution to get a larger audience and therefore more rapid feedback.

You need to decide on your keywords. It is better to have more selective ones to allow better targeting of your audience. Also the more common ones tend to be quite highly priced. These will cause you either to have to set a high cost-per-click which can mean your campaign will be expensive. Or, having elected to have a not so high maximum click through cost, having a lot of keywords that are inactive at any one time. It is also useful to realize that some PPC marketings will elect a high cost-per-click rate for a day or so and then drop their bid once they have achieved a high placements spot for their ad by their initial bid.

If you get creative on keyword selection, though, you can have very targeted enquirers at relatively low cost. The trick is to think like your desired customers are likely to think and decide what sort of search keywords they are likely to use and what their other interests and searches are likely to be and then use these and related words as your keywords.

You can also use tools like Word Tumbler and the adwords wrapper in Mikes-Marketing-Tools.com. This way you can cover the variations that people are likely to use in the Google search.

You don't need to confine yourself to Google. Use Yahoo or Microsoft's service if you prefer. But Google does have the lion's share of the traffic.

You need to decide what you are wanting to market too. You could ask people to simply join your network marketing group or look at your home business. Or you could offer them a service, whether one on information or another simple product. You will find, as you no doubt are aware yourself, that people are more likely to check out information, and when they know a little bit about you, then ask more about your mlm opportunity, than they are to do it directly. If you are not sure about this you can always test it. In fact in the same campaign you can check it out side by side and compare results over an identical time frame.

Article Marketing
If you are not yet up to spending some money, then a simple way to testing the waters is by article marketing. You can write articles of interest to a particular segment, usually related to your business i.e. home based business or mlm, and submit them to directories. These can be picked up by many different sources and hence you begin to create a wide distribution system out there.

The article needs to be unique. Using copyrighted work and other people's already existing articles is not recommended or ultimately allowed. Usually you have to tick a box to agree that this is not a copied work. There is provision for you to use a ghost-writer, but usually such people need to be acknowledged. Most of these sites allow people to object if they feel you are using other people's material and this will be checked out.

You cannot directly market your network marketing opportunity in the text of the article. But you can append a resource box to it - in fact it is recommended. This gives a brief description of you and a link or two back to sites you would like interested people to check out. This will allow a selected group to seek you out. They already have an interest in you and what you are saying. So you have a very warm targeted market.

You can submit to a wide number of article directories out there, sending the same article to different ones to create a greater exposure. And there are some who will distribute your article for you to other directories saving you time on individually submitting each one.

There is much more that can be done, and much more that could be talked about even on these two ideas. But at least this is a start. The main thing in internet network marketing, as with conventional mlm, is to take action. You have to get out there and do it!

How To Stand Out In Internet Network Marketing

2008-06-21T05:35:00.000-07:00

How is it possible to make sure you are known when you enter the world-wide web? With the huge community of pages and pages of information and millions of players how can you stand out? With internet network marketing and knowing that the marketing part is crucial, what enables you to succeed?

In conventional marketing there is branding. Branding is still a requirement of the internet. Unless you stand out from the masses of others plying their business in varying degrees of intensity, how are you ever going to make it? As the internet is a relatively impersonal place with little direct presence of yourself actually there, you need something powerful to have an effect.

Personality On The Internet
Images and sounds will help. This as as close as the real contact in the real world can be, It explains the success of the MySpace and Facebook formats. And if you do happen to stumble across some such site while doing a search the effect of a video which can be played almost immediately is quite profound. Elements of the poster's personality are evident immediately. Even those non-verbal cues like eye contact and body responses as the person speaks give large volumes of information that the written page cannot quite match.

Your Purpose
But is it is well to remember, before you place an on-line video, that you need a purpose to be there. Or at least if you are pursuing internet network marketing you need that. Why do you you want to enter the web and what are you offering? This clarity, a bit akin to that recommended by Napoleon Hill in his classic "Think and Grow Rich", is important. As one of his strategies he suggests you need to have a goal (monetary in the case of the book) that you are aiming for, that you have a date by which you wish to attain that, and that you know what value you are going to give in exchange for it. Similarly we need some clarity about our purpose before we launch onto the world wide web in search of internet mlm success.

Growth And Flexibility
In some ways though, you can never be absolutely sure of what exactly you will be and how you will run things on the web until you get on it. As you become involved in the community your ideas begin to clarify. Having to put out there what you believe and have experienced crystallizes some of your reasons and aspirations. Feedback from your forays will redirect you as well. Some approaches and ideas produce more fruit than others. And like any savvy marketer you need to take heed of these responses to adjust what and how you are doing your work. In itself this is hugely useful. Your business will be in a state of flux finding your path. But if you respond appropriately and learn from your mistakes (and there is no way you will not make some of these) then you will be a much better network marketer for it.

What sort of things help your branding?

Your Story
Well your past experience is always helpful. And it is a natural point to work from. We are the product of our upbringing and the events that happen to us along life's way. The story of your history is always interesting to people and creates an element of kinship. Of course there are those out there who will not relate to you. But the value of the web is the in the huge numbers of people out there. The more there are, the more chance we will have of encountering someone who relates to us. So we do not need to be bland and inoffensive. By creating a larger-than-life character in a way you create a powerful magnetic attraction to those with a similar or related bent. That shared identity and understanding creates the beginnings of rapport and that vital trust that allows for more direct communication. So never forget the importance of the story of you.

Stories
With the constant amount of entertainment we are all exposed to it is important to be entertaining. Remember that stories sell and facts tell. By relating you daily life stories you will engage people further. Letting them know of amusing happenings and changes you are going through you also create more of that personality that we are used to relating to in the live situation.

So do not be afraid of relating those embarrassing or annoying moments - you don't want to be too personal - but at least people are quite likely to be able to connect with it.

Remember in network marketing people also relate and stay with the person more than with the opportunity. By being a compelling person you create even stronger attraction.

Your Company
The value you have in your company is also important. For some reason it was important to you. And for those who will most likely respond this will be important too. Being able to feel your enthusiasm for it will translate across the medium too.

Clarity
Clear messages of what you are seeking and hoping for also helps. It is easier to relate to a strong personality. And if you want to retain people it is important to have a clear point of difference from others out there. You can afford to be outrageous to a degree, especially if it reinforces your brand.

Consistency
Make sure you respond quickly and consistently to your contacts. With the flaky world that is out there that assurance of consistency creates great trust and loyalty.

Multiple Exposures
Chose several mediums to work with. As people are present in different areas of the web if your mlm home business is going to find the right people you need to be exposed in a large number of places to find those people you are looking for in large enough numbers to ensure that no matter how fickle these wandering net people are, they will find you and stick with you.

Your Persona
Over time you will develop a persona on the web. And your particular strengths will become more clear. You can add this to your contact details to reinforce this even more. In this way you become more compelling by having a clear message as to who exactly you are and what you stand for. It creates a greater polarity. But that stronger differentiation creates even stronger attraction as it creates stronger repulsion for some. But you only want those who are going to respond well to you anyway. Why not make it even more secure.

Finally, it may not always be the best to promote your company first. People are always keen for information and connection. Once this is well established they become more curious about who you really are and what mlm business you are involved with. A more natural inquiry and response can be created very readily.

Internet Network Marketing Basics

2008-06-20T03:47:00.000-07:00

What is the basis to internet network marketing? MLM's core system is the building of a team of distributors of services or products. By introducing other members to the team, each person introducing at least one other, the team will grow exponentially and produce huge results. As with all theoretical ideas the reality is the pure exponential expansion does not occur, but an approximation does.

What are the elements that are required for growing a network marketing organization? The finding of new people who would be interested in joining by each person in the system. And the broader this is and the more rapidly each level is added the quicker and larger the organization will build. What is the quickest and broadest way to do this? Seriously, by the internet. This presupposes the system you wish to build is permitted to built on-line. Some mlm companies specifically prohibit this and some do not allow marketing in other countries. The structure of your teams in your mlm will also affect how best to grow this.

The Question Of Marketing
What is the simplest way to build this? By marketing in some form on the internet. Marketing is an important aspect. There are a number of recruiters out there keen to point out that network marketing is a bit of a misnomer. Multilevel marketing newbies are taught to target friends and family who may have no interest in doing the business you have seen so much opportunity in. That is not entirely a problem in some ways as it is possible to arouse interest in someone who has not thought about it. There needs to be some underlying seeking for further opportunities already established. With more difficult economic times out there this is not too unusual these days. But once you have exhausted these possibilities how do you reach a market effectively? And this is the point many mlm newbies have not grasped. Marketers target the markets they are after - those people who will be a good fit for what they are offering. And this where the internet works so well. With search engines, keywords and other elements it is possible to reach a highly targeted audience.

Which ways can you use? Almost any means that is available. There are both free and charged ways possible. And for those who have tried them they all work. Especially when you understand how to run them.

Free Forms
As far as free forms go there are chat rooms, forums, publishing of articles, blogs (which can be free or charged depending where you go) and e-mails of various sorts to contacts you have. Newer areas like Facebook and MySpace are proving valuable. All these will require some time to develop. But because of the viral nature of the internet, ultimately the coverage and penetration can be huge.

Paid Forms
The paid avenues out there include pay per click marketing, which can direct people to your website or some lead capture page, and advertising in other internet products (which will occur on content pay per click ads) on e-zines in their solo or classified sections, banners and other advertisements on sites that allow active advertising, and on websites you might have that are search engine optimized.

Like a professional marketer, to best use these systems you need to be able to track your results. By tracking the traffic you generate you know where your efforts are best spent and where you should put in more effort. Also, with the rapid response of the internet, you do not need to wait months or half years like you would in more conventional advertising. The feedback is almost immediate. You can rapidly try several different approaches and find which works best. Also it is possible to use several variations at the same time and monitor them simultaneously in order to get even more precise marketing data.

And the best way to find out what works is to actually do it. There are ways you can shorten your learning time. There are books and systems out there that can significantly speed up your learning and reduce the need to reinvent the wheel. Just like everything on the internet though there is a great deal of hype and many poorly functioning products out there. The key is to find the right one.

In a very short time you can enroll a large number of prospects and begin to build your business. Then it is up to you to guide it where you wish. Happy internet network marketing!

What If You Had Donald Trump On Your Team?

2008-06-19T05:18:00.000-07:00

What would you do if you had Donald Trump on your team? We know his methods somewhat from "The Apprentice" a show he says his agent tried to persuade him not to do. And when Donald went ahead anyway and was successful and the agent thought he should have his cut, he told him what to do.

If we had Donald looking over our shoulder, watching what we did everyday, would we still be doing our home business as we are? Would we be able to offer the excuses as to why we had not achieved what we said we would each day? Would we dare offer some lame reason? Especially with the dread of hearing the "You're fired!" line.

So what would the difference be? Well here is someone who is successful. He has looked in the jaws of defeat and bounced right back. He has proven himself continually. Anything we could bring to the table would seem paltry compared to him. Maybe a different hair style!

Would we recruit the sort of people we are at present, or trying to do so? Would half-hearted and unproven people be acceptable to him? His attitude would always be to get the best. It might not outwardly always look like the best to others. But he can see the intrinsic value in the investment, know what he could make of it and move right on in

Whether he was simply commenting on our performance or was our supervisor/boss in the business, we could expect some hefty criticism if we aimed low. In his own life he has aimed high. And he has done well at it. Could we offer excuses as to why we had not achieved some goal we had said aloud? We know what his response would be.

If we want to win at this mlm game it might be necessary to to imagine such a scenario. Only by seeking to be our best can we hope to really excel at this. If some people want to earn a little bit to get a little bit of extra cash then this might not be relevant. But if we were seeking to reach one of the top positions in the network marketing company then it might be a great idea. Those top achievers are going to have to perform at peak levels to maintain and encourage great team growth. We will have to be assuming the position in our mind and acting as we would when we got there. If we were not adequately prepared then there is a chance we could lose it and slip right back, maybe not all the way but at least part of it.

What would he expect of us?

Hard work. The getting the job done no matter what. The seeking out of top quality business people to be involved in our team.

Communicating effectively. He would be expecting us to use whatever skills we have in this area as effectively as possible in order to move people. That implies a deep commitment to and passion for the mlm business.

Utilizing the team to maximum effectiveness. All the elements we have about us can be utilized in some way to leverage our own skills and prevent us from developing large blind spots.

To show results. We know as far as he is concerned that words are nowhere near enough. There have to some visible gains in the business before he would even begin to approve.

So would it be so bad to imagine this? To have this scenario in our mind as we went about our network marketing business? It might just change a few of our attitudes. And it might also have an affect on our posture and belief.

Network Marketing - Your Reason Why

2008-06-17T04:39:00.000-07:00

The strength of your motivation for doing network marketing is what will keep you in the game. Like all of life network marketing poses challenges. There are good days and bad days. And unless you are doing it full time, you have your job to fall back on if it does not work out. Being a home based business mlm tends to be something that is easy to quit when the going gets rough.

And yet we know that if we don't quit we will win. "Winners never quit and quitters never win". An there are those statistics that someone like Mark Yarnell will comment on: for those who remain in any network marketing opportunity for ten or more years 95% will become wealthy beyond their wildest dreams. The other 5% were in it for the other benefits such as personal development and a bit of extra income and they will reach their goals too. So why quit?

There are probably as many excuses as there are people. But the underlying reasons are few.

1. It Doesn't Work
Whether it is people saying it to us or our own experience, this would be the commonest one out there. No matter how good any mlm worker is they are going to encounter "Nos". And it can be those closest to you who will give you your strongest no. The stronger the connection the more someone can hurt you. Some people talk to only a few people - two or three (or even at times ten) and get all "no" replies. If even their own mother or best mate will not join them in the business or become a customer how will anyone else? That might seem reasonable but the reality is not everyone sees it. And their refusal can be based on their past experience either directly personal or of someone else they knew who tried it and failed or never did much with it. Probably most of us know or are related to people like this.

But that good advice of taking care of those you take advice from is worthwhile. Do you listen to those who are broke to learn how to make money? Or a billionaire? Anyone in any business who has got anywhere will tell you it took some work. That is effort, coping with nos and with failures at times. The reason the successful ones in any business, mlm or otherwise, made it was that they never gave up. Ask anyone who has made it to honestly tell you how their time had been on the way up. Every single one will have had some dark, extremely tough time, probably many of them, when it would have seemed so much easier to give up. Most successful entrepreneurs have failed several times before they finally made it.

2. The Failure Of Those Under You
In mlm we build teams. And the teams are made up of all sorts of people. You are told when you come in that you never know who the good ones will be. It takes time, several months, and with some people several years, before you will see who the great ones are, the leaders and so on. In a networking home business you become quite close to your team. You are training them and hearing regularly how they are doing. Many people feel responsible for those on their team. When they fail to achieve great things they can take this personally. To some degree there is a personal responsibility. We should have been trained well by our upline. At times this was not so. They were still learning how to do this business and may have messed it up. We tend to duplicate the actions of our uplines for those in our downlines. What else do we know? This multiplication of less than ideal methods can result in very poor results compared with those doing it well.

There comes a point for every network marketer where they have to assume responsibility for their business. And, as in all life, we can ultimately be responsible for our own actions only. We cannot force people (at least not very successfully) to do those things they are not willing to do. If we wrongly accept responsibility for others in our team, when they fail, we feel like we have failed. The only things that really fail are a poor system (everything duplicates, good or bad) and the individual who makes a decision what is important for them.

It is possible to have whole upline members quit. If you are in mlm long enough this is bound to happen. They will have their own reason for quitting. A main one is that lack of stickability when they feel there is not enough success. They will usually blame the business and head for another one. At times they may be right. It might not be a good business fit for them. But if it is otherwise a successful company that did not conflict with their core values their experience of another company is likely to be the same as the previous one. We take ourselves with us wherever we go.
3. The Pain Of Personal Development
One of the great benefits of mlm business is personal development. There is very little else out there that creates the need for this in the same way. It is simple to understand why. You have your own business which is virtually totally dependent on you (not for the underlying business, but for how it develops - it is a reflection of you) for growth and results.

Each step up the ladder involves more responsibility and expectation from those under you. You grow or perish - or at the least, don't advance. If you attain a position beyond where your development is you can either lose your team as they find you are not a strong enough rock to relate to, or you can stagnate while your development catches up. And if you are going to become financially independent in this lifestyle living off the huge rewards of ever-growing residual income, then for the sake of the planet, it is vital you have developed far beyond where you were when you first started your mlm business.

4. That Reason Why!
This is it! Most of us were told this when we joined. And most of us were told we needed to commit some years in the business to getting there. But back of it all, to remain in those years, to do what you have been told and not get results, or maybe not do them and then come back, or to be bold to try some new ways, you need a strong reason why. Your motivation. It is everything in the end.

For many this can change as they are in the system. Initially for many it will be about a little bit of extra money to cover rising petrol prices, mortgages etc, or financial independence. But the question at the back of financial independence is what do you want to do when you are financially independent? Apart from having a decent holiday at last, getting the home you always wanted, or the car, or providing for your children's education, once you have all that covered, then what? It may take some time to see. And it will be an individual idea for each one of us. But think of this: with a huge financial purse to fund it, what could you do in this world? How would the world be different for you being here? What would you like to see happen?

Using Your Unconscious Mind
And for all of us this is the conviction we need to fall back on when all else seems to turn to custard. There will be days everything falls apart and it all looks so black and so hard. But the more you have fed your unconscious mind on that deep overwhelming reason why, the easier and faster it will be for you to drive on forward. We need to regularly feed ourselves on this deep reason. Picture it. Read about it. Dream of it as you go to sleep at night - the time it is most easy to get in contact with your unconscious mind - that part that controls 95% of all you do. Like the crew on the ship, where the captain is our conscious mind, unless the unconscious shares the understanding of where we want to head, it is unlikely to help us get there. Those other unconscious beliefs, values and goals will drag us where they want to go. So feed that unconscious - with dreams, images everywhere, daydreaming and direct suggestions.

If you don't yet feel you have a strong reason why ask your unconscious mind to work on finding one for you. It will work for you while you sleep in the same way it will wake you before the alarm at some time it has been vital for you to get up early. The easiest way to do this is to address it directly three time in three different ways. Before you go to sleep (or if you wake up in the night not being able to go back to sleep) tell it then: "Unconscious mind I want you to search for a huge reason why I should be doing my network marketing business. As I sleep I want you to search all possibilities and present to me a massive motivation for doing my mlm business. By the time I wake unconscious mind I want you to reveal to me the best reason I should do my home business." You can instruct it to help you remember it too. It will! It is like an obedient crew. It needs definite and clear instructions for what it is to do, and it will perform. Otherwise, with no clear direction, it will give you that sort of result. You can instruct it in the same way to give you a great night's sleep as well. Try it. It works!

Once your motivation is sorted and it is locked deep into your unconscious mind there is no way you cannot succeed. When you meet an obstacle it will work out for you, if necessary overnight, how to get around it. It will give you new and creative ideas as to how to grow your business. And it will seem to magnetically draw people and opportunities to you - those who will best help you in the accomplishment of the task. Did you ever read Napoleon Hill's "Think And Grow Rich" book and wonder at the end what it was all about?

Where Is Nuclear Fusion At?

2008-06-16T04:17:00.000-07:00

Isn't it interesting that as the world is paying more and more for petrol and petroleum products and food prices rise as more ground is being planted for biofuels, a clean, green, cheap energy source is being ignored? How blind can we be? Or is this all occurring in some little corner of the world that nobody sees?

I have seen how it is possible for great breakthroughs that could help a lot of people get left in some backwater in an obscure conference and forgotten. And even checking with people who have a great deal of apparent wisdom and knowledge in their field you can find incredulity. Even when the knowledge could produce an explosion in performance and results in their field. The attitude being well everybody is seeking out some tiniest edge in the most obscure methods, how could this have been missed?

The reality is something can be of interest to one segment of the scientific or medical community and totally ignored by most of it. There is such a vast ocean of knowledge (or at least data) out there that no one person, or even organization, can possibly know all of it.

So it is left in its backwater. The benefits unavailable for the majority. There are ways to deal with this of course. Do a research article that is published in a peer reviewed journal in a bigger more mainline organization. But the problem is the peers who review the submitted articles need to have some experience or at least agreement with the idea. And if they have never heard of it the chances of getting it approved are slim to nothing.

In conferences I have seen how people who are greatly respected for their research and acumen have rubbished a presentation with new results and effects. They say that such results are impossible because the effects they know of work in this particular way. How can there be other types of effects?

And yet if they would just look at the fuller literature the effects they are seeing presented have been described in the past. It is the unfortunate influence of the latest conferences, textbooks and lectures that have narrowed down to a particular view and decided this is now the only one. A type of religious orthodoxy. It would seem incredible in a day and age that prides itself on pluralism and open-mindedness. How could these people have such closed minds? Maybe it is in part due to the demands of current academia - there needs to be a demonstrable profit to enable continued funding. Pure research and inquiry stands bereft of company and support. If a true original thinker who could explode our boundary conditions of thinking were to appear they would have great difficulty in being heard. And yet that has been the trouble throughout history, has it not?

Billions of dollars is being spent on the ITER device (see image) construction in France. The project says that the partner countries (the European Union, Japan, People's Republic of China, India, Korea, the Russian Federation and the USA) will be spending $360 million a year over a nine year construction period. This, they say, is less than the annual spend on fusion in just one of the contributing countries. So it is not much to them.

How galling then that projects which demonstrate the ability to produce results in a faster time frame without yielding radioactive waste struggle to find even a few million, or less to explore the next stage. Vested interests keep the current thrust on its track.

It is a little akin to the inertia of a huge and complex body like the United Nations. So many conflicting loyalties affect its ability to respond. Whereas smaller entrepreneurial organizations can go into difficult situations and achieve rapid results. More and more this flexibility is being utilized and realized.

A similar movement needs to occur with some of these fledgling fusion projects. The big governments and vested scientific organizations are involved in a huge inertial movement to the end they see. Others are going to have to take the initiative to see alternative progress.

The View From Above

2008-06-14T03:54:00.000-07:00

When we are down in the midst of our lives with so many sights and sounds flashing all around us it can be hard to imagine there is some lofty purpose being served. That we are on a path that will bring us to greater light. Or that the vital moment we have been waiting for is about to dawn.

And in some ways the more seriously we take life the more difficult it is to relax and wait for this moment. The least stressful way is to treat this as a game. That we are playing a vast range of game plans to produce an end. That the more we attack, feint, draw back and recommit the sooner we shall reach our goal.

If we drew back to look from above, like some blimp shot at an outdoor sports game, we would have the right perspective. The view from above shows shapes running and passing, dodging and diving, and forming a pattern to reach a goal. But on the ground the height and bulk of the opposing players can make it seem like there is no way forward.

Yet life has a purpose and an end. Life strives to better and expand on itself - the act of growing and increasing in complexity and fruitfulness. The main aim is to keep moving and learning and acting as we do so. With this we will suddenly see the gap or the way forward. Then we can dart in and score.

What is the point of this?

There is a way forward for each of us. There is a better way to do things. One that is in tune with us. And one that will feel easy when we hit it. The secret is to keep testing the ways we could use, to watch the responses and results and adjust accordingly. With our own personal character and background we respond and resonate to various things. The game of life is to be listening and feeling for that resonance, to catch it, and to move fast once it is heard and felt.

The path we were born to tread seems so easy when we hit it. We can wonder why it took so long to find it. Why we wasted so much of our lives before we found it. But nothing is ever wasted if we constantly learn as we go along. All these learnings are data for responding to circumstances once we are on our path.

The game is on. The audience watches to see us play our part. And when we do they applaud us or join us to see it outworking in the world.

The path is becoming clearer. Keep your attention wide and alert.

Are Your Wealth Beliefs Sabotaging Your Network Marketing Success?

2008-06-13T03:11:00.000-07:00

"What do you want earn a year?" the business analyst was asking me. In an overview looking at where we were headed and what we wanted to do I was not quite expecting this and had to think hard for a few minutes.

And looking back at my reply I am not altogether happy with the one I gave. I mean, how much is enough, or what is a right answer? Certainly my response gave some keys to what I was thinking.

And if there was no limit to what you could earn, what would your answer be? How can this be you ask? How could there be no limit to what I could earn? In those questions lies the rub. Here we look into our own preconceptions about the universe, what it is and our place in it. Do we, or have we set limits both on what is possible and what we ourselves can achieve? And does that explain where we are today?

To read people who have thoughts on this, we do box ourselves in with the boundary conditions of our thinking. And this has been a slowly cultured process for most of us. As children we tended to have these unlimited dreams. Slowly over time we are educated out of this, initially by others and then by ourselves. How?

Language
One way is in the language we were exposed to. The "we can't afford it" expression, "what do you think I am: made of money", "money doesn't grow on trees", "you have to work hard for money" etc. Most of us (surely all of us) have grown up with these expressions or a variation of them most of our lives. Heard repeatedly they tend to have the effect of becoming established truths. Soon we cannot imagine a world outside of these confines. So we limit ourselves to them.

Modeling
What we see our parents and friends doing in relation to money also affects us. The way we were raised tends to almost put a recording inside of us. We follow these patterns that were modeled for us by those we respected and had to answer to.

For some people this was a limitation in expecting money, being able to meet the bills, or own a house, or to do so without a a struggle. Or some were raised in situations where it was either boom or bust as the parents' business went through these cycles. And we can either acquiesce to these situations and reproduce them in our own lives or rebel against them and head in the other direction. But depending on our motivation even this latter response can have either positive or negative effects.

Our Efforts
Then as we enter the workforce and begin to earn money our experience can further shape our mindset and expectations. We can find our wages fixed, or our prospects limited no matter how long we stay in the company or industry. And if we still nurse those childhood dreams what do we do? Usually we tend to lower our expectations and dreams to match our income. We are "being realistic". We have come "down to earth".

For some though there is a challenge to look for something better. Either looking at multiple jobs or entering network marketing people head off into a bright new hope. Then what happens? They find they are not succeeding. Or maybe getting to a certain level but then no further.

What is the problem? Is network marketing at fault? Is the world, or our government, or other forces keeping us down? Do they not want us to succeed?

Our Mindset
Usually the problem is us. Our mindset. The set of values, beliefs and experiences that set us down a certain path and caused us to react and live in certain ways and deliver certain outcomes. We can earn much more than our parents and yet not seem to be getting any further than they did. Is this the same for everybody? We only need to look about us to see this is not so. There are people who have come from much more deprived backgrounds than us, without the same privileges and education who can yet be much better off. Stupendously better off. Why?

These ingrained beliefs and systems keep dragging us down. Our mind, particularly our subconscious or unconscious mind, controls so many of our actions. It is the most powerful part of our mind. If it disagrees with where we say we are headed we are unlikely to get there.

Mindset Wealth Classes
We tend have levels of belief about wealth. Whether as a poor person just struggling to pay the bills. Or as a middle class person who just wants to be comfortable - this is where I fell into a trap of giving a figure for what I wanted to earn. Or you can have a rich or wealthy mentality which does not set those limits on yourself.

To see what we really believe and embrace we only need to look at where we and those around us are.

What Should We Aim At?
My question to myself is "How much could I earn?" And my answer when looked at after a night's sleep is unlimited. Why would I want to limit myself? Or, if I wanted to give a figure, why not something huge?

And if your mind is thinking "Impossible" or "Greedy" or something similar then just realize this says more about your unconscious mind's beliefs and habits than it does about me.

And is that why you, and I, are not achieving the massive level of success that is really possible in mlm. It is a highly leveraged business where we are not limited to the abilities and efforts of one or even a few. Likewise in looking at other businesses there is no need to accept a limit. How can this be? A real understanding of how we can utilize our unique gifts and bring on board others with their unique gifts will open this up for us. We can all achieve much more than we already have. The answer is in understanding our strengths, playing to these and utilizing the skills of others to achieve a level well beyond anything we have managed so far.

Is Network Marketing Failure At 92% Plus Acceptable?

2008-06-11T04:46:00.000-07:00

When I first heard that 92-97% of people fail at network marketing I was shocked. How could it be that an opportunity that seemed so straight-forward could result in so much fallout? Certainly when I got in I decided I was there for two to four years minimum before I would decide to quit. And when I knew the statistic that 95% of people who remain in an opportunity for more than ten years would be wealthy beyond their wildest dreams then I felt I had to hang in there. To quit would be stupid.

And if the figures are correct why quit? Well there can be a number of reasons - some common and some less obvious.

Recently on considering the sobering failure statistic again I remembered I had heard that 95% of small businesses fail within two years. But checking this I found it hard to substantiate. It may be that it is an urban myth. There are references out there. But there are also a good number that dispute this figure. More recent US statistics suggest it may be much lower. Maybe only about 34%. Then again the framing of the statements suggests the data could be looking at all existing businesses.

If it was really at 95% then failure in mlm at 95% would not be incongruous. It is just another form of business.

Still why do people fail at home business network marketing?

1. Poor Businesses
If the underlying opportunity fails then those involved with it will suffer a loss of their livelihood. And with the large number of start up mlms failure is a distinct possibility. You need a business with a good track record and sound business footing. People like to get on board a new opportunity early to benefit from being at the top of the system. Like any new venture there are risks with this. With no track record you have no assurance for the future. Even a track record does not mean a company will continue without problems or challenges that could send it under. But it gives more reassurance than nothing. And the founders should have learned some good strategies to get as far as they have.

2. New Competition
New businesses starting in the same area can produce competition which can lead to a reduction in possible opportunity. The leaders of a multilevel marketing business should always be aware of threats and weaknesses and should be adjusting to allow for this. But they can get caught unawares.

3. Cheaper Product Available in Retail Stores
If the same or near equivalent product appears on the retail market, especially in supermarkets, then the viability of running a competing business is in jeopardy. A good company should be channeling its product through the one outlet. Or, if it is available in retail there should be a significant cost advantage buying it through the network. However supermarket chains are unlikely to allow this.

4. Failure of Support
If there is inadequate training and lack of a good team support structure then it will be difficult for a newbie to succeed. Any mlm must have a very simple method of operation that can be readily duplicated. And there needs to be good support and expert trainers to get a newbie onto their feet.

5. Unrealistic Expectations
This applies to the new business owners as much as to any customers the company. If the expected returns are set at attainable levels and there is early generation of income people are more likely to continue. But, especially with the advent of the internet, a long lead time to financial success will cause questions to surface in a new recruit's mind. And if they are strong enough and there are not good answers forthcoming they will quit.

6. Too High An Investment
If the start-up costs are high and the method of attaining new recruits involves significant up front costs a good number of people will find that financially they cannot cope for long.

7. Failure To Understand Personality Differences
This seems to be a major reason so many people quit. With the huge range of personality types out there - ranging from four to eight depending on the system used - it can be difficult to cater to the variety of representatives there will be on the team as well as variations in customer personality. Too often it is easier to communicate in a style that fits our personality type as that is what resosnates with us. And often it is the reasoning that moved us into the business. If it did us, why should it not be for other people? What we should be looking for, though, is the personality style of our prospects. And with new team members the personality style of our newbie reps.

If we allow for this we are more likely to have success. In fact, if your consider a basic four types set up and an even distribution of types, then we could increase our prospect range by 300% - going from 25 to 100% of a possible market!.

So what is the answer?

a. Business
Well we need a good business, financially sound, with a good track record, products or services that are in wide demand and are not available cheaper in normal retail outlets. We need excellent training and support and a mindset that we will be in this for the long term. Therefore our business also needs to be one that will be around for many years due to the nature of the its current products or services and its development of future products or services. Start up and ongoing costs should be reasonable. And the compensation plan should allow for ready monetization of the process. It should be possible to rise to the top levels of the company at any time in its life history - ground floor or many years later. The system for acquiring representatives and customers should be easily duplicated.

b. Personalities
As far as personalities in your team go, a good understanding of the synergies that are available in utilizing a number of people with a range of personalities in your team could lead to a real business explosion. Different personality types can reach a wider range of people. More importantly it gives balance to the whole team thrust and multiplies its effectiveness. Different skill sets can undertake different functions within the team. The different processing styles allow for better observations of opportunities and responses to them. And communication which understands and relates to the different types will produce better outcomes and satisfaction.

With this approach and method of operation there should be far fewer failures. And if there were less the multiplication of our opportunity would produce huge results - exponential growth built from a much bigger base. Every extra unit at each level produces unbelievably large increases in the leverage of network marketing. If Einstein called compound interest the eight wonder of the world, then exponential team growth based on better retention in your home based business would be the ninth.

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Communication Levels

2008-06-10T05:59:00.000-07:00

I remember one of the consultants I worked with when I was doing my early training in obstetrics and gynaecology. He was the head of the whole operation. And well respected too. Having emigrated from Britain he had set a number of initiatives in place which had raised the standard of the hospital, management of data and analysis.

However he had an unfortunate habit of being rather overbearing about his pet hospital. And one morning I had copped it. Getting into the lift with him after a night working I was suddenly bawled out for a delivery that occurred overnight. There had been some signs of fetal distress and I, still a student, had been the senior person in the room. He quivered and exploded and left me rather intimidated. Just an example of the sort of way he could be at times.

Naturally I wished to avoid him as much as possible in the future. And I was exceedingly glad in my later training to be in another hospital he was not part of. I saw him at occasional combined training meetings only. That was much safer.

Well we all can have our moments when under stress with our jobs, our expectations, and when things do not run exactly how we thought they should.

Which is all by way of introducing the idea of communication.

In all we do in network marketing, as in all aspects where we interact with people in the rest of life, communication is vitally important. Conducted poorly it can lead to misunderstandings. And certain communications can also leave a lasting impression. The lasting ones we would prefer would be the positive ones that move people.

Verbal
So often we can slip back into the idea that communication is all about the words. We spend years at school perfecting this. Debating societies can major on this. And yet verbal communication (as far as the words go) carries only 7% of the message people take on board from us.

Tone Of Voice
A larger proportion 25% or so is the tone of voice. My obstetric consultant's tone of voice certainly conveyed a lot more than just a written record of the words would have shown!

Other Cues
And the rest, the largest percentage, is made up of non-verbal cues - body language, breathing, body movements, gestures, eye contact and eye movements etc.

This huge percentage is where we pick up our idea of congruence - do the words fit what we are non-verbally being told? Here is where we seek out the truth or honesty of the words we are hearing. It is a vital part of the data we process.

Internet Communciation
On the internet the situation is similar but affected by specific factors of the medium. So much can be just words. Written or otherwise. Pictures and videos can give more detail. And the communication modalities discussed above show why these are so powerful.

Even without pictures though a lot can be read from internet contact. The regularity of contact gives an idea of trustworthiness. If the content comes across as "canned" though, it may be interpreted as mechanical and handled simply by auto-responders. The value is lowered. We crave, or deeply value, true human contact.

The consistency of the messages also helps in our judgments. In the days of letter writing people could often learn more about the person they were corresponding with than in face-to-face encounters. As the letter, as with e-mail, is a complete document more of the message can be conveyed at one sitting. We do not have visual cues of facial and body reactions to what we are saying to cause us to moderate or alter our delivery. Hence it may seem more true.

Some feeling for the posture of the writer can be gained through the messages. Again this is extra feedback. The relatively rapid responses e-mail allows also gives another level of data for us to process - rapid responses, delays and irregularity all tell us something.

Like all communication, though, how one person interprets the full data can be completely at variance from the way the next person does. We all chose our frames of reference and come with our our own colored backgrounds which all affect what we ultimately take on board.

Some internet communication does involve some similar cues to face-to-face ones, but there are different aspects being sorted. If we remember what we value in people though there should be no difficulty in prospecting and sharing opportunities with people on the net.

4 Ways To Build Trust In Internet Network Marketing

2008-06-09T04:38:00.000-07:00

We have looked before at the importance of trust in dealing with anyone in any sales, including network marketing. Lack of trust represents about 75% of why people would not deal with someone even if they had a great product or service.

In traditional marketing and sales the best way to build trust is in building rapport. This is the feeling of engagement that people have with the sales person, or anyone in any situation really.

If we can build huge trust rapidly the cautious defences we have about us in any new meeting will drop and we will hear what is being communicated. Without it, nothing will really get through.

In face-to-face encounters there are a number of things people can do to build trust - on a physical level and a psychological level.

The Seven Second Rule

There is an initial summing up people do on meeting us - the seven second rule of an initial assessment. This is mainly based on our physical appearance and initial words. Once the first impression is formed it is difficult to change.

For the next element of building trust (although as noted above about how quickly we judge people it is important this is incorporated in that initial seven second assessment time) there are two elements.

These are in the physical and psychological realms.

Physical Rapport

Physically we can rapidly build trust by mirroring people. This occurs on a number of levels. General body posture is important, rate and depth of breath, blink rate etc.

Standing facing someone does not allow this to be done as effectively. Being at an angle to our subjects allows us to subtly mirror them. It is better to adopt this as we respond in speech and not to be too obvious. Just try matching someone's breathing sometime and see what happens.

Psychological Rapport

On a psychological level people tend to hear according to their personality types. If we take the simplified personality types mentioned before (shark, whale, dolphin and urchin) each has a different response to pace and engagement concerns.

Personality Styles

Sharks and dolphins tend to be fast-paced. You can hear it when they speak and see it when they walk. Whales and urchins are slower and will not follow a fast-paced presentation as well.

The urchin and shark are more fact based. The other two relate more to emotion. Sharks, though, prefer succinct details and value results, urchins are concerned with finer details and a lot of it.

The dolphins will relate to fun and excitement and the whales to helping people and contribution.

Sharks respond to elements of power and control (they like things - fine cars, houses etc). Urchins value respect and making the right decision. Dolphins love fun and recognition, while whales need support and teamwork.

You are often more correct in assessing what personality type people are not than exactly what they are. But this can narrow the field down quite quickly.

To assess these personalities rapidly it is best to allow the person you are meeting to talk about themselves, their needs and wants as much as possible. This in itself builds trust. People trust those who are interested in them.

Group Presentations

In large group situations finding out particular personality types of our audience is not often possible. But it is possible to have elements that appeal to each personality type in the presentation.

Internet MLM

On-line we have a different situation. So how can we build real trust? Is it even possible?

Yes it is and in many ways it corresponds to the above criteria.

1. A picture

An image of us instills trust. That initial seven second evaluation can be done even more rapidly. There are characteristics we trust and others we do not.

Our dress, expression, posture, though comes across well in an image.

Video gives even more information. And you may well want to consider whether or not to use this. Some people prefer audio files only. These are valuable as the quality and tone of your voice builds trust as well.

2. Personal Details

Some description about ourselves can help establish rapid trust. This again can form part of that rapid assessment. Our background, age, experience and the degree this relates to our prospects can have a huge bearing on whether they will trust us.

Is this a problem? Would it be better to appear bland to not offend anyone?

There are two parts to this. One is that the internet is such a huge medium with a such a massive audience that there will be people out there who relate to us. As in life generally we should not worry about pleasing everyone. By being ourselves as much as possible we are more likely to strongly attract those who resonate with us. This will build a more committed team or prospects.

Being bland can make it harder for people to hear us too. They are looking for points to judge us on. The quicker they can make this assessment the more likely they are to hear the rest of what we are saying. Otherwise a part of their mind is always engaged in evaluating who we are.

3. Communication Styles

Communicating at all the levels of the different personality styles can help establish rapid engagement. If you chose to only engage the same style as yourself, or one style only, you will reach 25% of the people out there. Or rather 25% of those who make it through the other judgment calls. By relating in the different styles it is possible to increase your prospects or audience by 400%! Doesn't sound too shabby does it?

So what would these styles relate to? Well sharks like fast, hard facts, things that relate to status etc. So details that reinforce this are helpful. Details of the history of the company, how big it is, how quickly it has grown, and placement in the market are important. Urchins might be more impressed by in depth details about legal aspects of the case and exactly how it all works.

Dolphins would rather see how much fun it would be or the ways it could enhance their social needs. Whales like to see it helping humanity or enabling them to be more able to engage in volunteer and team work.

4. Consistency

Being predictable and consistent in your communication methods, timing and content is helpful in establishing trust. This can be within the body of any communication you make and also with ongoing regular communication like with e-mails. Again this is not to say it should be boring. But some degree of consistency creates a reliability scale. People can relax knowing where you are coming from and feeling like they already know you. They will look forward to your e-mails and other calls.

A large variation will mean they will have to re-evaluate you again.

Overall Evaluation

Beyond this though there is the reality that we are all growing and learning. So don't be too rigid in running your on-line communication. Life is organic and growing so we should allow ourselves to do so too. Authenticity comes through. If we try to maintain some posture, style or method when we have grown beyond that or realize it is no longer serving us, people will read it and the walls of distrust can start to rise again. Communication is dynamic too.

All the best for building your network marketing online.