ONE WEEK TO INTERNET MARKETING 02/21/2010
 If you don’t think that there are easy ways to make money online then think again. There are many individuals who have already become millionaires from doing business on the Internet. Then there are those who, though they are not millionaires yet, are making a stable income from the Internet and have been able to quit their day jobs. You must know that people have been earning from the Internet ever since it was first introduced 15 years ago. So earning money from the Internet is not a new concept as some people believe. Truth is, it is much easier to earn money from the Internet in those days because of the presence of less competition in almost all niches. Now, almost all niches have been tapped and the competition online is getting tougher every year. This is not to say though that it is impossible to earn money from the Internet nowadays. It is just a matter of being able to recognize a hot niche that is just waiting to be tapped. To find niches, you probably need to do some market research. Once you have selected a niche then it is time to think of what value-added services or product you can offer to this niche. You can either develop your own product and sell it to your market or you can sell other people’s products or services through affiliate marketing. If you are not familiar with how affiliate marketing works then let me give a general description of the process. In affiliate marketing, you sign up for an affiliate program wherein you will be given a link. You will put this link in your site, blog or email then encourage people to click on it. If the person who clicks the link eventually buys the product or service being sold, then you get a percentage or a commission of the total sale. Affiliate commissions go from 30% to as high as 90% of the total cost of the product or service. Affiliate marketing presents a very big opportunity for individuals who are looking to earn huge amounts of money online because of the fact that there are literally thousands of individuals and companies who are looking for people to sell their products for them. Many experts believe that affiliate marketing is the easiest way to make big money online and rightfully so. No other method of making money online offers the flexibility and the earning potential that affiliate marketing does. Check out OWM and get started today. Easy, concise and lucrative! Internet Marketing is a Real Business 02/08/2010
I received an email today and wanted to pass on this great information that I received from Joe. Enjoy the post! Times are tough. Slowly it seems that we might be coming out of the big recession we've been in, but things still haven't improved much. There is no easy way out of these tough times. However, one realistic solution to beating a down economy is to turn to Internet Marketing. Internet Marketing is a great way that anyone can make a little extra cash or even a fulltime income. But before you can turn to Internet Marketing you need to understand what Internet Marketing is all about. Basically, using the Internet to make money is a form of Internet Marketing. There are many "real world" businesses that market themselves online and consider this to be Internet Marketing. But the type of Internet Marketing you're concerned with is actually running a business and making money online. There are many ways you can turn to Internet Marketing in order to beat a down economy. The key is to decide which one works best for you. You could create a product or service and sell it online. You could create sites and allow ads to run on your sites in exchange for money. You could sell other people's products in exchange for a portion of the profit from those sales. These are just a few of the potential ways you can make money online. The key is to find the way that works best for you. So, you should do your own research online and see all the possibilities that you have with Internet Marketing. Be sure to visit Internet Marketing forums as part of your research. Once you choose a general way you want to make money online, then you need to choose what method you will use to make money. What will be the exact process you use to actually make money? The two keys you need to remember with the process you choose is that you should pick one that works for you and you should also choose a process that's proven to work for others. Don't latch on to some new method that just a couple people claim will make you a lot of money. Choose a method that's been around for a while and has proven to be effective. Finally, when you turn to Internet Marketing to beat a down economy you want to watch out for scams. If something seems too good to be true, it usually is. Also, there is no such thing as making a lot of money without doing any work. There's also usually no such thing as making money overnight. So, beware of anyone or anything that promises this. And be prepared to work hard and learn a lot over a long period of time. True Internet Marketing success almost always takes some time to happen. With times being so rough you should certainly consider turning to Internet Marketing for beating a down economy. Just make sure you do a little research before you make any decisions. Then be prepared to do what it takes to succeed online. If you do then you can certainly make a little extra cash or even a fulltime income with Internet Marketing. Million Mail Program Provides Opportunity 02/07/2010
 Can it really be possible to make a million dollars, one hundred dollars at a time? Well that is what the Million Mail Program is designed to do. This direct mail concept has been around for many years, is here to stay and is growing rapidly as a way for people to get themselves on the fast track to financial security. If you or someone you know has been in search of a business, a home based business, that will easily and consistently produce results online and offline, then the Million Mail Program may be for you. In my search, I have found that there are many groups, or teams, using this program each with a bit of a different twist when it came to capture pages and sales pages. After doing research on the different teams producing results, I found one that claimed to be the top earning team and couldn't resist being a part of a group that put forth such effort and concern for all they bring into the program. This program was built with the intention to help every day average people make an above average income from the comfort of their home using a simple and proven system. And that is the important factor here to any business, especially an online or direct sales business and that is a system is in place. In fact, with this top producing team, the training system and marketing system websites are provided to you for free! For most people, it is hard enough to decide on and operate a home business and then to have to figure out how to market it and even make a website if needed, can have people quitting even before they get started. With this program and system, everything is in place and put into motion the minute you decide to join the team. One of the best things about this business is that there is no competition as everyone is really just trying to help each other because our success is based on the success of those we bring into our business. It is a give-give, win-win business where everyone will gain. Another great thing about this business is that you don't even have to know how to use a computer or the internet, as this business can be built completely with direct sales and simple, cheap postcards or letters sent in the mail, which makes this business great for anyone, of any age, from any background and at any level. This program is so simple to follow and it doesn't matter where in the world you are located. We have team members from all over the world. So even if you can't receive money in a residential mailbox due to rules and regulations of particular countries, you can still join this top earning team and receive money online via PayPal or AlertPay. The top earning team that I am part of has made sure and checked thoroughly with PayPal that it is completely compliant with this program. This means that you will never have to worry if PayPal will suspend or terminate your account when you join this team using this system. So, whether you're from right in the USA or from Australia, Japan, Italy, or anywhere in the world it doesn't really matter as getting started is either only a stamp away or a click away! Once you join, everything you need is at your fingertips and ready for you to start making money. In fact, the comprehensive marketing system and training websites has proven to help the team members produce tremendous results in a very short period of time. And it doesn't matter if you are working it offline or online or both. In fact, everything can be completely on autopilot if that is what you would like to do. When joining this team, you will get everything laid out for you with no guesswork. The postcards, the letters, the websites, the training, everything is provided so you don't need to have marketing skills whatsoever. All of the research, hard work and set up have been done for you. The ultimate, low start up, home based business available today! Does a few thousand dollars a week float your boat? Well that is not unheard of and the more you work it the more you will make. But the best part is that you will be making most of your money on the efforts of the people that you bring in. That is called passive income. This program is simple and affordable and has a one-time cost of just $200! $100 goes to your sponsor (the person that brought you into the business) for the Marketing Start Up Kit and the other $100 goes to their sponsor for the business building training CD. Being that it is a leveraged business, means you are making most of your money on the efforts of others. You will make $100 from everyone you bring into the business and $100 off everyone they bring into their business. Can you imagine bringing five people into your business each week and they each bring in five people? That would be $2500 that first week just from the people those five people brought in! I am sure you can do the numbers, and remember, your whole business is based on just that, one-time $200 for the marketing and training systems. Whether you prefer to market your business online or offline, with having all of the tools and systems in place you can achieve success and benefit from joining this team and the Million Mail Program. To begin making money online and offline with the Million Mail Program, join Andrea Pekarik Welch and the Top Earning Team in the business, get started here http://www.PostcardHighway.com ARE YOU EXPERIENCING CORPORATE BURNOUT? 12/09/2009
 Do you dread getting up to face another day at work? You're not alone. In fact, you may well be in the majority. Corporate burnout is becoming so widespread throughout the US and other countries that people travel the country giving seminars on how to handle job burnout and make workers feel less stressed. Of course, you've probably heard the drill-"Learn to work smarter, not harder"... "Be a team player"... "It came down from the higher-ups"... "In the end this will help us reach our goals and we'll get fat bonuses." Of course, the goals set for many corporate employees are so unrealistic that the bonuses they hold out for never materialize. Perhaps you hit 8 out of 9 targets, but sorry, you don't get the prize because you didn't hit that last, totally impossible ninth one. Sometimes it feels like you're working in some sort of absurd carnival sideshow. It's no wonder you don't feel very committed to a corporation that treats you like a slave. How can you feel loyal when there's so little appreciation? Mega-Stress The unrelenting stress of a high-pressure job can lead to numerous health problems as well- hypertension, heart attacks, backaches, anxiety, headaches, depression, and even addiction to drugs or alcohol, either as a way to try to stay energized and "up" to complete excessive workloads, or as a self-medicating attempt to relax when you finally have some time for yourself. To add to the stress, stories of layoffs by major corporations are announced every month. In 2006, 1,500,000 workers were pink-slipped in mass layoffs ("mass" meaning more than 50 employees at a time). Rumors circulate constantly about what the top management is doing now, what changes are in the wind. Companies are "reorganizing." They're "outsourcing" or selling out to another company. Or they've gone bankrupt-only to re-appear overseas, employing workers for a tiny percentage of their American counterparts' salaries.  Average, everyday workers like you are the ones who bear the brunt of these kinds of changes. CEO's and other top executives just keep rolling in the dough-even those at companies you wouldn't think of as "blue chip." For example, in 2005, the annual pay package of Dollar General's CEO, David Perdue, was $3,314,901 (as reported by The Corporate Library). An American worker earning an average salary would have to work until the year 2135 to make what Perdue makes in one year. But frankly, this guy is small-time. The average total compensation for a CEO of a Standard & Poor's 500 company in 2005 was $13.51 million-over four times what Perdue made, and a 16% raise over the year before. Did you get a 16% raise recently? Like many of your co-workers, you probably feel angry, undervalued, underpaid, and exhausted when you think about stories like these. Few salaried employees in corporate America work a traditional 40-hour week. Many put in 50, 60, even 70 hours to meet the demands of their superiors. Hourly workers are cut off at 40 hours or less so the company can avoid paying overtime-and you know who takes up the slack. (Meanwhile, those hourly workers may have to work an additional job-at straight-time pay, of course.) The "blame culture" that has developed in our society extends into the corporate world as well. ("It's her fault we have to work so late. If only she'd do her job like I do!") Feelings of competition and worries about favoritism increase feelings of anger and powerlessness. What's the Alternative? There is a way NOT to let all these other people control your life and hold power over your economic survival and lifestyle. You can take control of your own life by becoming your own boss. Ironically, as you've become more and more disenchanted with your corporate job, you have also been learning what kind of job you need to be happy. Are these some of the aspects you would include on your list of ideal job conditions? 1. The freedom to set your own hours. 2. Choosing how to handle situations yourself instead of deferring to a "company policy" that you find ridiculous. 3. The liberty to spend time with your friends and family without having to beg for time off. 4. Working in comfortable clothing in a location you choose. 5. Excellent pay that is determined by the amount of work you put in. 6. You're steering your own course-no worries about someone else determining your future. Have You Got What it Takes? You already know you deserve more than your corporate employer will ever provide. Ironically, during all those excessive hours of work for them, you've honed valuable business skills that you can put to work as you build your own business. The difference is, you will reap the rewards. It's kind of like being your very own CEO.  As long as you have a genuine desire to empower yourself, to live the kind of life you've always dreamed of, we can show you our easy system that will start you on the road to success. This is a legitimate business opportunity that has the potential to bring you more wealth and independence than you've ever dreamed of. As long as you've got a computer and a phone, the only other things you are going to need are a longing for personal freedom and a desire for financial security. You've already got what it takes-so fill out the web form below for more information. It's absolutely free...and it could be the first step toward time freedom and financial security TAKE THE NEXT STEPChecklist to Start Your Own Business 12/03/2009
 From Career Builder “I like what I do. I just don’t like where I work.” Sound familiar? From unbearable co-workers to depressing work environments, there things that can make even the best job a living hell. Here are some signs it’s time to look for a new job. Sign No. 1: Your co-workers are annoying. Obnoxious people can invade your work life. Let’s face it, not everyone gets along perfectly. But you need to have some sort of harmonious relationship with fellow employees to get the job done. How are you supposed to get any work done when these guys keep getting in the way? They are distracting and impede productivity. Most offices have a Gossip, that one person who has the “scoop” all the time and is not afraid to share it. Misery loves company, and finds it often in the Whiner, who isn’t afraid to complain and bellyache. And everyone has the Neighbor whose noisy distractions include his cellular ringtone, speakerphone and radio. Sign No. 2: The environment is toxic. Everyone experiences job highs and lows, but discontent could also be a sign of a chronically depressing work environment or even a company in peril. A bad work environment is reflective of the culture of an entire business. Do you work in a less-than-nurturing atmosphere? Is morale constantly low? Have you been complaining for two solid years? It could be an organizational problem that applying feng shui to your cube just won’t fix. Sign No. 3: You’re mentally exhausted by the end of the day. Stress can cause low morale, decreased productivity and apathy towards work. Plus, it can spill into your personal life and even have a negative effect on your health. Today there are fewer people who are taking on more and more work. American workers experience burnout at an alarming rate. According to CareerBuilder, 68 percent of workers feel burnout at work, and 45 percent said their workloads are too heavy. Yes, we all have to pick up some slack and “take one for the team” from time to time. But if there’s no end in sight, do yourself and your health a favor and dust off your résumé. Sign No. 4: Your boss is a nightmare. Even though this person is your boss, it doesn’t give him license to do anything he wants. If you have a lousy boss, even the best job in the world can make life a living hell. Your relationship with your supervisor plays a big role in your overall professional happiness and success. Fighting to have your boss removed or waiting for your boss to change or get fired are rarely successful tactics. If you are working for someone who is always absent, unavailable, self-absorbed or untrustworthy, it’s time to look for a better supervisor and a better opportunity.  Sign No. 5: You’re watching the clock… every 10 minutes. Though you might not like to work, it’s even worse when you are bored while you’re there. One can only watch so many videos on YouTube or bid on unneeded things on eBay. If you aren’t feeling challenged, that’s a sign that you need additional responsibilities or a change roles. And be warned, if you don’t have any responsibility or find yourself with nothing to do, management might be trying to phase you out and you might be in danger of losing your job. Sign No. 6: You get no respect. Does any of this sound familiar? Your ideas aren’t taken seriously; there are no opportunities for advancement; the boss ignores you; co-workers alienate you; you’re discouraged from improving skills with a course or seminar; you’re passed over for a promotion — again; or you’re excluded from key projects and strategizing sessions. So why are you still giving this organization your time, energy and great ideas? Sign No. 7: Your co-workers act like animals. They live for themselves and only themselves. They irritate you. They offend you. They have no manners or ethics. And you work with them all. There’s the Office Thief who steals your ideas. The Shirker arrives late, leaves early and disappears whenever work is near. The Buck-passer unloads her work onto everyone else and blames others for her mistakes. The Procrastinator delays things until the last possible minute, slowing you down by not having the information you need to meet your deadlines. The Interrupter stops by your cubicle 10 times a day to chat about her latest boyfriend despite your ringing telephone and pressing deadlines. And don’t forget the infamous Elevator Person who rides up only one floor instead of taking the stairs. Sign No. 8: Nobody communicates. Although we live in a world of e-mail, cell phones, instant messages, Blackberries, WiFi and, yes, even face-to-face conversation, there can still be a complete lack of communication. Whether it’s a co-worker who’s not returning your voice mail or the CEO not conveying a company’s goals and accomplishments, the breakdown of communication can be frustrating and detrimental to your job. It can cost you an account, make you to miss a deadline, cause you to lose a client, and even get you fired. Sign No. 9: You’re not valued. Forty-three percent of workers do not feel appreciated, and one-fourth of workers feel that they are just a “number” within their organization. You need to realize that you deserve credit for your successes. Recognition is important, and good companies implement programs to let employees know they are valued. Is your company doing anything to reward your efforts? Do you ever receive bonuses, perks or positive feedback? If your boss has never heard of positive reinforcement verbal or otherwise, find a company that will value your talents. Sign No. 10: You feel stifled. What kind of quality of life do you have? Is your 40-hour week turning into a 24/7 grind? While salary may seem like the end all and be all, your quality of life determines your overall happiness. How much time you spend on the job, working conditions, supervisors and subordinates can positively and negatively impact your job outlook. If you dread the time you spent at work, it should be a clear indicator that it’s time to break free. A job shouldn’t stifle you creatively, mentally or physically Bottom line: Considering what you don’t like about your current situation should give you insight into what you are seeking in future endeavors. If you know what your priorities and preferences are and actively seek them, work can be an enjoyable experience. If, however, you’ve answered yes to more than four of these signs, then you might want to get started on a new job search or finally start your own home based business. Is it time to FIRE YOUR BOSS? Find out if a home based business is in your future. Call me, let’s talk about how you can start creating your own stimulus package. Andrea EVERYONE NEEDS A HOME BASED BUSINESS...WHY? 11/17/2009
Facinating article written in 2001 and still holds true today.  If You Don't Have a Home-Based Business, Start One Today! The last decade may have been a decade of tremendous corporate profits and economic growth, but for the vast majority of North Americans, the 90's were a dismal, uphill climb. And many economists believe that this new millennium won't be getting better any time soon. Why? Changing business and government attitudes are the reason. There has seemingly been more anti-business legislation in the last decade than in any other this century. Stronger employment and labor laws, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Comprehensive Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA, which includes mandating health insurance for workers for a period of time after they leave employment), safety laws, much tougher laws for discharging workers, more liabilities for lawsuits, Family Leave Act, Americans with Disabilities Act (which is creating immense numbers of lawsuits), along with higher minimum wages and fringe benefits. Just reading this list is exhausting. While these acts have beneficial and protective aspects, they have also encouraged businesses to move their facilities. That "sucking sound" popularized by Ross Perot is not just down to Mexico, but elsewhere as well. The result has been a dramatic loss of heavy industry in the U.S. The young and the middle-aged alike are realizing that their dream of "having a job with a company forever" is an illusion. Companies have been downsizing, rightsizing, and capsizing for some time now, and they continue to do so-more now than ever before. Even the federal and state governments are getting into the act with layoffs and attrition of jobs. In addition to all this uncertainty and mutual lack of loyalty between companies and employees, even the workers who do keep their jobs have no guarantee of promotions due to the shrinking number of management positions. These circumstances aggravate the already tryingly long commutes in rush hour traffic and increasingly typical frustrated boss-spelled backwards, that double S-O-B. Finally, if all this isn't bad enough, under recent tax laws employees are shafted more than ever with limits and thresholds for their employee deductions and higher social security tax limits. This results in more couples working than ever before and, on many occasions, working more than one job. It is now almost impossible to have only one job in the family and make ends meet! Today, many households need three incomes just to survive. Sadly, even having more than one job does not produce any major positive effect on most people's bank accounts. Why? Because of tax laws. This was well illustrated in 1994 by Jane Bryant Quinn in her Woman's Day article on "How to Live on One Salary." Where The Money Goes Ms. Quinn's example assumed that a man was earning $40,000 per year. His wife (we will call her Lori) wasn't working. They had more month than money. (Sound familiar?) Lori subsequently got an administrative job for $15,000 per year. You would think this would improve the family's financial situation, but when Ms. Quinn examined the economics of getting this extra income, the results were startling! Lori had to pay federal and state taxes on her new income. Since they filed jointly, the family's combined income was what established their tax bracket. She paid $4,500 in new taxes, most of which was non-deductible, for federal and state income tax. Lori had social security withheld from her paycheck at the rate of 7.65 percent, which amounted to an additional nondeductible amount of $1,148 being extracted from her salary. She also had to commute to work 10 miles a day round trip, which is probably conservative for most people. This resulted (in 1995) in nondeductible commuting costs of $696. Lori also had some child care expenses, which give a partial tax credit. Ms. Quinn figured that the amount spent over and beyond the tax credit was $4,250 per year. Lori also ate out each day with colleagues, spending an average of $5 per day, five days a week. This results in a nondeductible expense of $1,250 per year. ( I would love to know where she ate for only $5!) Now that Lori has a job, she has to have professional clothing, this means a hefty dry cleaning bill. Ms. Quinn assumed that Lori's increased expenses here amounted to an extra $1,000 per year, nondeductible, of course. Finally, with both spouses working, Lori wasn't in the mood to cook dinner every night. They bought more convenience foods and ate out more frequently. This resulted in increased food costs of a nondeductible $1,000 per year in minimum. Add it all up and Lori's take home pay was a paltry $1,156 a year, for which she had to put up with a daily commute, an unpleasant boss, and corporate hassles. No wonder more and more people are starting home-based businesses. In fact, there are currently an estimated 30 million people working from their homes. This number is expected to more than triple, to 97 million, by the year 2010, and to keep on growing. This has become and will continue to be one of the greatest mass movements in the U.S. Why a Home-Based Business Makes So Much "Cents" There are many reasons why so many people are favoring home-based over traditional business. There is no commute (unless you have a really big home), no boss, little if any chance of lawsuits, much lower overhead, no employees, (or few), and far fewer government restrictions. In fact, many of the laws previously cited don't apply to small firms with few or no employees. It is for these reasons, according to Entrepreneur magazine, that 95 percent of home-based businesses succeed in their first year and achieve an average income of $50,250 per year with many earning much more. There are really two sets of tax laws in this country. One is for employees, and it allows deductions for individual retirement accounts, 401(k)s (if you have one set up by your company), interest and property taxes on your home (which some in Congress want to do away with ), and charity. Then there are the laws for home-based business people who conduct their business either full-time or part-time. They can deduct, with proper documentation ,their house, their spouse, and even children (by hiring them), their business vacations, their cars, and their food with colleagues. They can also set up a pension plan that makes any government plan seem paltry by comparison. For Lori-and for you - the meaning of all this is simple: Lori earned $15,000 in salary as an employee, but took home only $1,156. She could have netted the entire $15,000 had she earned it in a home-based business! This is an increase of almost 13 times her take-home pay as an employee. Notice that Lori is not spending dramatically more money than she is currently spending. She would eat out anyway, go on trips and drive her car the same as before. By having a home-based business, however, many of their expenses become deductible. This concept is known as "redirecting expenses." With a legitimate home-based business, she can now deduct some of the expenses that she is incurring anyway. Renegade Strategy: If you don't have a home-based business, start one! In addition to all the benefits mentioned above, Congress will subsidize you while you are growing your home-based business. If your home-based business produces a tax loss in the first year or so, you can use that tax loss against any other income you have. It can be used against wages earned as an employee, dividends, pensions, or interest income-or you can use the loss against your spouse's earnings if you file a joint return. If the tax loss exceeds all your income for this year, no problem. You can carry back the loss two years and get a refund from the IRS for up to the last two years of income taxes paid, or you can carry over the loss twenty years. You read it right: You can offset up to 20 years of income! Here's an example: Mike earns $50,000 in a job with the government. If he starts a home-based business that generates a tax loss of 10,000, he only pays tax on $40,000. Renegade Tip: You can never lose a properly documented business deduction as long as you run your legitimate business like a business with a bona fide business purpose and have an honest expectation of profit. Make also sure that all your expenses are ordinary and necessary and reasonable as noted in our Tax Advantage and Tax Strategy Program Renegade Strategy: Get LUCK-Labor Under Correct Knowledge. Can You Succeed In a Home-Based Business? Research has constantly shown that it is rarely the business that determines success or failure. It is usually the business owner. Why does one person succeed and another fail at the same business? Two words-Knowledge and Action. Some people want the benefits of having their own business, but they don't take action. The result is business failure. Then there are the people who are always working. They take action but still fail. The reason is that they are not taking the correct actions, the knowledgeable actions, that will bring the desired results. Again, business failure. It's like drilling for oil. If you set up a drilling rig in your back yard, it is going to fail at producing oil unless your back yard is in Texas or Alaska. The same rig in a good field will produce a gusher, because it was placed where oil was known to exist. The point is that most people who get excited about starting their own home-based business do so without all the necessary knowledge. Consequently, many people quit before they acquire, through experience, the knowledge they need, without realizing that they are getting substantial tax breaks. This leads to another strategy.... Renegade Strategy: Learn to duplicate the success of others. Duplicating the strategy of others is much quicker and more effective than going to the school of hard knocks. It is also known as modeling, which is well-illustrated by the way The McDonalds Corporation blazed a trail to success that many have since followed. In the early 1950's McDonald's and other start-up companies discovered that they could grow many times faster than the conventional firms through franchising. Instead of the company investing millions of dollars to build new stores, they let independent franchises do it for them. It seemed like a great idea, but at first no one figured out how to make it succeed on a consistent basis; therefore, the media attacked relentlessly and continually. News articles featured destitute families who had lost their life savings through franchising schemes. Virtually every state attorney general in the U.S. condemned the new marketing method. Some congressmen even tried to outlaw franchising entirely. Over the years, however, Ray Kroc and his management team at McDonald's developed a turnkey franchise business team at McDonald's franchise. The newfound success-from the system-turned public perception of franchising around. Today, virtually every franchise business models-to some extent-the franchise business system created by McDonald's, making franchising one of the most respected ways of doing business in the world. Modeling is simply learning what other successful people have done to achieve success in a specific area, and then doing the same thing. Someone said that "education is the shortcut to experience." With modeling, you literally leverage your own learning with the collective years of learning through experience of many others. Modeling the success of others saves both time and money and reduces frustration and stress. The light at the end of the tunnel, for you and millions of others today, is the financial opportunity that starting your own business offers. If you have one going already, then make sure you are enjoying the many financial advantages to which your smart choice entitles you. The tax advantage alone can make a home-based business the single best financial move you could ever make. NO SELLING in Network Marketing...WRONG! 11/14/2009
I received an email today which started out telling me that their system promised to eliminate personal selling, explaining, learning, studying, testing and pretty much any work whatsoever in the network marketing home based business. Oh, yeah and then the marketer promised that hundreds of his members were already making $5,000 to $10,000 per week with his new completely 100% automated system. Oh my gosh.... Give me a break. Does anyone believe this stuff? I am guessing that they do because I see so much of it in my spam folder and on sales pages online. In fact, I am seeing this type of stuff more and more being promoted by folks who want to take advantage of gullible dreamers who desperately want to make money online. Especially at this time of our unstable economy. There are millions of people on line every day searching for additional income or ways to make a living and you can bet the sharks and scammers are out there trying to gobble up anyone in these desparate times. The only reason this stuff is being sold is because there is a huge population of people who want to think they can get rich in network marketing without doing any work, without selling and without learning. That is such a joke and actually hurts the direct sales and network marketing industry because it is impossible to succeed in this way. Direct sales and network marketing is a very stable, legitimate, and professional industry. But like all industries there are people who misuse and abuse the system and shed unfavorable light for other people who are actually working and proving that it does work...if you work! I know of no one who is successful in network marketing or direct sales that is not involved in selling and I know a lot of very successful people in this business. Anyone who wants to make it in network marketing and succeed big time needs to realize this or 5 years from now they will still be buying more and more e-books looking for that magic trick that will finally work for them. But get started now and 5 years from now, you could actually be achieving the financial freedom and security you are searching for. As for actual selling in this industry, well you truly are selling YOU. When you believe in your company and the products you represent, people are buying your enthusiasm, knowledge and your ability to share with others. You are selling YOU. NEVER COLD CALL OR CHASE PROSPECTS AGAIN! 11/13/2009
 Are you trying to build your home based business with your warm market? Have you hit the pavement everyday to make your 10 - 20 contacts? Have you paid hundreds of dollars for leads to only find out later that they are old and useless? Have you alienated your friends and relatives because you keep "dripping" on them, hoping they will finally see the value in your business and jump right in with you? WELL STOP IT. Finally there is a way to get leads who actually are waiting for you to call them. They want to hear about your business. Let me tell you how to build your business quickly by attracting the people who WANT to hear from you. USE YOUR TOOLS 11/07/2009
 If you are new to the network marketing industry and are having a bit of trouble ramping up your business, then maybe you are trying to do it all alone. The greatest thing about network marketing is that you are building a successful business with the help of other people who want for your success. The network marketing industry can provide you not only with time freedom and financial security, but with relationships for life. Tap into those relationships with your up-line, your down-line and with the many available tools, so that you are not marketing your business alone, but are relying on the expertise of those who built their business before you. Here are 10 reasons why successful network marketing companies provide affordable tools to their distributors. 1. Increase Activity in the Field The activity of the distributors will determine much of the success of the Company. Tools increase activity and ensure that your distributors are constantly telling the company's story. 2. Provide a Message Tools deliver the Company's message perfectly-time and time again. Remember when you were a child and you told a secret to someone and, of course, that secret got passed from one friend to another only to come back to you completely altered than when you first told it? This does not happen when the exact same message is being delivered every time. 3. Greater Productivity Tools are the fastest way to reach a large amount of people. Leveraging tools will help your distributors build large and successful organizations. If you purchase 100 CDs at $1 each and distributed them to 100 people and then each of your distributors (let's say five of your distributors) did the same thing and then each of their 5 distributors did the same thing, you would have leveraged your $100 worth of CDs 30 times! That means your advertising budget was leveraged to $3100 to build your organization. 4. Increase Retention If you provide a system to your organization and teach them how to use the tools, you will generate loyalty, commitment and greater retention. An educated distributor and/or customer are more likely to continue with your company long term. 5. Proven Success It's simple-tools work. Many powerful industry leaders have built their businesses using tools: newspapers, brochures, books, CDs, DVDs, etc. Find the tool that is "right" for you and the person you want to bring into your business or share the product with. Many leading distributors share their experience in order to help others in their organizations and throughout the company. Learn from them. 6. Add Credibility Tools provide instant credibility with personal success stories, research from experts, and detailed information about your company and the product. 7. Simplify Your Company's Presentation Tools allow your distributors to pass along the same powerful message every single time in a concise and accurate presentation. 8. Duplicate Easily Duplication in direct selling is essential. Tools provide a system and a routine for distributors that are simple to duplicate. When a company makes it easy for its distributors to learn and duplicate the message and how to build the business, the rate of success drastically increases. 9. Rely on the Message Not everyone is a great presenter, but tools can make anyone a great sponsor. This helps to rely on the message and not being the messenger. By having tools to be the messenger, everyone can build a business in the network marketing industry. 10. Enhance Your Sponsoring Efforts Tell your story in volume. Imagine the power of having thousands of newspapers, brochures, and CDs out in communities worldwide telling your story. The more people who see the tools, the more who will be interested in your Company's product and opportunity. As discussed in #3, leveraging the tools, which leverages your sponsoring, builds your organization more effectively and more often, faster. To build your business with greater ease, find the tools that work best for you and that you are comfortable with sharing to potential customers or business builders that you would like to be a part of your organization. Wishing you great success in your business and remember...NEVER GIVE UP! The "Little Guy" Syndrome 10/28/2009
 Network Marketing or Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) has been a part of the economic fabric for more than half a century. It has long since proven to be the single most effective means of individual wealth accumulation and company product distribution ever devised. So, why is it that this industry has demonstrated the worst percentage of positive results (as measured by the success or failure of the majority of participants)? Indeed, the drop-out rate has been so high that not only has the entire MLM industry been adversely affected, but the concept itself has been severely scrutinized. Many companies have failed to provide an equal chance for every participant to reach their full potential. The big organization builders in the industry recruit the “little guy” endlessly to grow, or just to sustain the size of their organizations. The “little guy” can’t compete with the big advertising budgets, the organizational skills or the numerous contacts of the big builder, so he drops out. The people who were brought in by the first “little guy” rolled up to their up-line. The net effect is that the upline’s checks and advertising budget get bigger, and the “little guy” loses his dream. The “little guy” always suffers the most and usually ends up with a net loss. As a direct consequence, many people who once embraced the MLM concept have come to regard the industry with a measure of skepticism and disdain. Why is this so? Isn't MLM reputed to have created more millionaires than any other industry in the last half century? This may be true, but the "Great Successes" are limited to a mere 3-5% of all participants. Another 5-10% has enjoyed a measured degree of success, but the great majority has endured a net loss in income, not to mention all of their valuable time, dashed hopes and unfulfilled dreams. One must always remember though that in any network marketing company our success is truly based on the effort we are willing to give it and the time we are willing to endure AND that if we don't give up, we will not fail as the numbers do not lie. It is just that it takes time to get to the level where the residual income will provide for a substantial living and most people are not willing to give it the time and effort needed and therefore they now think that network marketing doesn't work. When in fact, it does work! Although we all started out as the "little guy," there is nowhere that it states we can not and will not become one of the "BIG GUYS" in the industry. Yes, some of us lose money trying to build a business in network marketing, but then again many of us have lost money building a brick and mortar business with all of its overhead, inventory, and everthing it entails. If you decide that network marketing is something you want to pursue, then by all means jump on in...where else can you get started for such a little investment with the potential for such great returns...year after year! During the last half century, many great companies have emerged as the “stars” of the industry. Millions of people have received very tangible benefits from the wonderful products that these companies have introduced into the market place. If the missing piece of the puzzle, financial independence, has always been just beyond your grasp, then maybe you need to take a better look at the company you are in or the training you are receiving. But by all means do not quit if you want to make a go of it in network marketing. If your company is not up to par, find a new one. If your upline is less than helpful, find their upline, go cross line and even down line to find someone you can work with. Don't be a "little guy" who understands network marketing and appreciates the lifestyle it offers and not make it to being a "big guy." Wishing you great success. We can help YOU build a home-based business. |  Hi, my name is Andrea Pekarik Welch. Welcome to my blog and website.
I learned the ins and outs of the typical "brick and mortar" business and know without a doubt that I never want that kind J.O.B. (the one you "buy") rule my life ever again. With the home based business Industry, I am in complete control of my financial future without any overhead, no paperwork, no inventory and no employees. A home based business truly can save all of us from a lot of financial woes and bring us the financial security and time freedom that we all desire. Be well and God Bless. Andrea FAVORITE LINKSSFT Marketing
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to start a home-based business and begin owning your life today! 1. Help eliminate debt. 2. Spend more time with your family 3. Add to your retirement savings. 4. Take a longer vacation. 5. Save for a rainy day. 6. Be a stay at home mom or dad or both! 7. Pay off a mortgage quicker. 8. Earn enough money to buy the car or home of your dreams. 9. Enjoy many tax benefits. 10. TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE! "If you really want to learn to be rich, you must begin to understand the power found in networks. The richest people in the world build networks."
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