Too busy?

What are you doing right now, that is going to gain you more time a year from now?

Of course you're busy; everyone is. Is that ever going to change, given the course you're on now?

Everyone has 24 hours each and every day. Most people spend all of their time making all of their money. The treadmill loops around and around, and they can never get off.

Some people leverage their time, so that a year from now, they're not working so hard; five years from now, they're kicking back; ten years from now they're sitting pretty.

If you work harder at what you're already doing in your job, you're just going to keep working longer and longer hours. Jobs can eat us alive, especially those of us who are motivated to do a GREAT job.

But do the GREAT job for yourself, and for your family, and for your friends. Don't do it for some corporate board of directors, or the neighborhood hardware store. Do it for yourself and the people who are important in your life.

Network marketing lets you train yourself and learn from your leader, then train and lead others, who then train and lead others, who then train and lead others. The harder you work, the less you have to work next year or the year after that, and that trend just keeps on going.

Network marketing is the PERFECT business for people who are too busy, who have no time. Because it gives you the gift of time. It gives you back your life, so you can spend it with your kids with your wife, with your husband, with your friends.

In at the beginning

Do you have to get in at the beginning???

NO!!!

Amway and Mary Kay are still producing millionaires, and look how long they've been around?

I got in on the ground floor of one company and no one, NO ONE helped me build my downline.

The important thing is to get in early on the TREND. How early join the company isn't the issue.

The concept of "get in early" applies to the investment industry. There, you want to buy stock or property before it comes to other people's attention, and then sell when everyone else is talking about it and trying to get a piece of the action.

In network marketing, it's important to pay attention to the trends. Take the wellness industry; baby boomers are just now starting to feel their age, and looking around for ways to feel young, to stay young, so they can continue their active lifestyle. If you wait another 30 years, funeral homes and cemetery plots will be the hot commodity.

I mean, look at real estate. Thirty years ago, the baby boomers were starting their careers and looking around to settle down and raise their families. Thirty years ago, I bought a 3-bedroom condo for $29,000. Five years later, I sold it for $79,000. My initial investment was $2,000. My monthly overhead was $300. My friends gave me a LOT of grief over that one, because they couldn't imagine paying $300 a month for housing.

Do you think that you could invest $2,000 today and make $50,000 in five years, in real estate? You know why not? The boomers already own their houses. They've moved on.

Get in on the trend. Stay ahead of the boomers, and you'll ride the wave, all the way home.

Pyramid scheme? Nope! How do you KNOW?

Network marketing companies simply offer effective management.

In every corporate business, the guys at the top earn the vast majority of the money. The executive assistant NEVER makes more money than the executive. Middle management NEVER make more money than upper management. The worker bees NEVER make more money than the guys at the top of the heap.

In network marketing, every person has the potential to earn scads more than the people above them.

Each person earns money based on his or her ABILITY, rather than where they're placed in the company. I make quite a bit more money than quite a few people in my upline. I'm paid according to my ability, my enthusiasm, my belief in what I'm doing. It doesn't matter one whit that I joined months and months after other people. I'm doing just fine, thank you very much.

Let's face it, every business is a pyramid. One person can't do everything, once the business starts to grow, so you always hire others to help with the work. A child care center doesn't have one adult and 88 children. Not a successful (or legal) one anyway. A successful child-care center with 88 children would have administrators, teachers, interns, volunteers, and usually one or two people making sure it all hangs together. It's a pyramid of responsibility; it's a pyramid of pay scale.

The same applies to hospitals, dentist offices, Microsoft, golf courses.

The only ones calling names are the people who expected it to work without effort, wanted someone else to do it for them, or just, quite simply, gave up.

There are a LOT of people out there who are making it work just fine. And they're making it work because they're able to teach others how to make it work.

Find one of them. Find someone who has been successful, and get them to teach you.

It's not a pyramid SCHEME! It's simply effective management.

The BEST business model. . .

"For a small financial investment and a commitment in sweat equity, hard work, and dedication, anyone can be successful in network marketing."
Dr. Charles King
Doctorate in Business Administration from Harvard
Professor of Marketing at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

More quotes from Dr. King:

"Network marketing is moving into a wave of professionalism. We are seeing more and more professional - physicians, dentists, attorneys, CEOs, college professors - going into network marketing."

"There's no question, based on all of my research, that network marketing is one of the most cost efficient channels in all of the marketing disciplines - whether you're talking about comparisons with direct-purchase catalogs, direct mail, or telemarketing - network marketing continues to be the most effective distribution channel."

It's one of the fastest growing industries on the planet.

More and more companies are turning to network marketing as the BEST business model.

More and more people are treating it like a business - and succeeding!

Create colleagues rather than competition

Part of the magic of network marketing is that, as your business grows, you gain colleagues, not competitors.

As you train people to succeed, they become clones of you, out there being in more places than you could ever cover on your own. They don't break away and steal your customers. They don't set up shop across town and use the skills that you taught them to whittle away your bottom line. They stand with you, shoulder to shoulder, and become your greatest asset.

Everyone wins.

They say that it's lonely at the top.

Not if you take everyone with you!

Do it yourself, or pay the man?

There is so much to do and only so many hours in the day. You're building a business, probably while working full time at the job you're trying to escape, raising a family, juggling schedules, caring for aging parents, and having a quiet dinner out, at least once in a while, with your spouse, so you can remember why you're doing all of this anyway.

Some things you'll be really, really good at. Other things will be a struggle for you. Avoid the trap of trying to do it all yourself. Otherwise, you'll eventually run out of time and sanity.

Look for business partners with skills that compliment yours. If you don't like speaking in front of groups, keep your antennae out for someone who likes being up on stage. If you can't write, team up with someone who can. Are you super organized? Not everyone is. You can provide this skill to your partners, while they're up on stage or blogging.

Another option is to hire someone to help you. For a couple of years, I had a personal assistant. She picked up my mail and called catalog companies to get me off their mailing lists. She returned the videos (pre-Netflix). She bought batteries for my watches and kept the refrigerator stocked. She did my laundry and filled out the checks for me to sign for all of the bills I was supposed to keep track of. When I traveled for business, or pleasure, she kept all of these things going in the background, so I came home to a cleared desk, with no backlog.

Heaven.

Then I got laid off, and I couldn't afford to pay her any longer. But it taught me an important lesson: If someone else took care of the details that didn't interest me, I could focus on what I loved to do, working on my career.

When I started network marketing, things went along pretty good, but I was starting to get frazzled around the edges because there were too many things to do, and most of them I had to learn first. I was a scientist, with no experience in network marketing. I had to learn everything.

When I turned to social networking, I had to learn Facebook and Twitter and YouTube and blogging and and and. . . the list goes on as far as the eye can see.

I sent out a plea for help, and the perfect person said "I could do that for you!" And she could. She did. She still does. My business has grown fabulously since hiring her, because I can focus my attention on the parts that I've learned really well, and that I LOVE to do.

Self reliance is a wondrous thing. Overwhelm is the pits.

Where are you?

Look to the boomers

Do you want a LOT of customers? Do you want a LOT of business partners?

Look to the baby boomers.

Baby boomers control about 65% of the wealth on the planet. They have money to use; they are experienced consumers; there are a LOT of them: 76 million in the US, 1 billion worldwide.

Just after World War II, between 1946 and 1964, baby boomers popped up everywhere. What did they need first? Baby food. Gerber became a household name as it fed boomers across the country. After that, in quick procession other HUGE trends swept the world: Mattel and Hasbro (toys); the Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Beach Boys (music); Ford Mustang (cars), McDonalds and Burger King (fast food); then Century 21 (real estate). These trends were so huge, that we simply think of them as reality. But, if not for the boomers, these trends would have been blips on the screen, like rotary clubs and literature societies.

Right now, the boomers are between 45 and 65 years old. What are they buying now?
Health and wellness information and products
Stay young stuff
Financial planning

If you choose one of these markets, you'll have the potential of a billion customers knocking at your door.

One of the things that I love about my company is that it's perfect for baby boomers, both as customers and as business partners. It combines aspects of business and health, financial freedom and staying healthy, that are very appealing to the baby boomers. It has it all.

Nice, huh?

What's the right product for you?

The very core of a successful network marketing business is a product that you believe in, something that people truly want or need. To be sustainable, the product has to be unique and consumable.

Unique means that people have to buy it through you. It can't be something that they can pick up at Long's or Safeway. It has to be something that piques their interest, something that they recognize is going to help them in a way that other things haven't helped them.

Consumable means that your customer uses it up and buys it again next month. If you're selling aluminum siding, then you're constantly looking for your next customer, because last week's customer isn't going to be buying another set next month.

The right product is in front of the trend. Take the wellness industry. People are disillusioned with our health-care industry and are becoming more and more interested in maintaining their health, improving their health, so they can stay out of the hospital, stay out of their doctor's office.

A great product is one that will benefit baby boomers. They're still the biggest consumers around, and if you catch their interest, you will have more customers than Colonel Sanders and Ronald McDonald combined.

Look around. Find something that wows you. I tried 4 different companies, no wait, 5 companies, before I found the one that makes my socks roll up and down.

Find yours, and you're half way there.

Benefits of network marketing

There are so many. Here are a few:

You get to be the boss.

You control how many hours you work each week, each day.

You choose the people with whom you want to work. You get to ignore the people with whom you don't want to work.

You choose how much money you want to make.

You decide when to give yourself a raise.

You decide when to take a vacation. You decide when to come back. You decide if you even want to come back.

You get all kinds of tax advantages.

You can leave the business to your heirs.

You are investing your time, instead of spending your time. You get future returns, just like any investment, only of more time, which is a rare thing indeed.

The business belongs to YOU, and you choose how to manage it.

You get to help others do the same.

It's a wonderful world.

Abundance

You've probably heard that jobs are scarce, that we're in a recession, that things will get worse before they get better, that we're in for hard times.

That might be true for many people, but it doesn't have to be true for YOU!!!

My company is experiencing record growth; so are many others. You just have to look in the right places.

The world is rich with possibilities, just waiting for you to look at them.

Open yourself to abundance!

Some people envision the world holding a finite amount of wealth, that if you get a piece of the pie, there will be less on their plate. Ludicrous!

Think about how much wealth existed in 1903, in 846BC, in 1960. Imagine how much wealth will exist in 2083, in 2010. Wealth expands and contracts according to the imagination, inspiration, determination of whoever happens to be standing on the planet.

I have never felt more confident about the financial future of work-at-home business owners. We are the wave of the future. We are stay-at-home, work-at-home moms. We are military wives. We are corporate escapees. We are college students, recent graduates. We are enthusiastic, motivated, inspired, richly rewarded.

You should check us out!

Bean by bean, the bag gets full

Network marketing doesn't often explode into being. Some people can do that, but not many. Most of us build over time, solidly, determinedly, cyclically.

I've heard people say that their business imploded 5 or 8 or 6 separate times before they hit the top. Mine has imploded twice. It might implode again. That won't stop me. I KNOW in my heart of hearts, that this is the business that will help the most people the most. That's MY life goal: to help people blossom into the best version of themselves.

I don't care how long it takes them. I'm there for them. I match their effort. I lead them where they want to go.

I don't do it for them. That's pointless. If a mother never lets her child tie his own shoelaces, then that child grows up hampered. I take the time to show each person his or her next step. I hold the bicycle, running alongside, until she gets her balance, and then watch as she swoops toward her future, calling out encouragement and praise.

And bean by bean, my bag gets full.

I coach each person on how to run alongside the bicycle that someone else is trying to ride. I watch from a distance, my hand shading my eyes from the bright sun of their future.

I watch as, bean by bean, their bags get full.

We're changing the world, one bean at a time.

Be a leader

People want direction in their lives. Sometimes we get so bogged down in the details, that we need someone to step up and point in the direction that we want to go. It helps us end up where we want to be.

What is leadership?
Leadership is the ability to lead people to do things they wouldn't normally do.

We all have the ability to become a leader.
Will you awaken your innate ability?

A leader is persistent, honest, inspiring, respectful, trustworthy, authentic, firm, confident, courageous, visionary, encouraging, supportive, loyal, organized, consistent.

You learn how to be a leader by practicing. Your learn how to be a leader by hanging out with leaders. Emulate. Internalize. Make it your own.

Sometimes it takes a while to develop your leadership. No worries. Just make sure you're headed in the right direction.

If you're not yet headed in the right direction, then turn so you're facing the right direction.

If you're not ready to face the right direction, then pray to your higher self, or God, or whatever is your source of inspiration. Pray for inspiration to turn in the right direction. Pray for the will power and the determination to turn. Pray for help.

You will get there. You will succeed.

Start now.

network marketing? Bah! Humbug!

Network marketing has changed my life. I used to think that network marketing was for the birds. I thought it was overrun with desperate people, frantically running around coercing their friends into helping them to make this month's quota. I felt nothing but contempt and pity for people who got sucked into network marketing.

And then one of my best friends ever, asked me to buy some weight-loss shakes from her. I cringed. "Why are you doing this???" And she burbled over with enthusiasm, her face alight with hope; she was so excited that she couldn't sit still in her chair.

So, I took her pamphlet home with me, sighing. That night I started looking through the information she had given me, and I gradually grew very still. I read on and on. I got on the internet and checked things out. I grew quietly excited because I realized that network marketing was exactly what I had been yearning for, for more years than I could bear to think about. Here it was, right here, disguised by my preconceptions and ill-informed assumptions.

If YOU think network marketing is for the birds, if you don't get what all the fuss is about, you should look into it. It might be exactly what you've been hoping for, yearning for.

Network marketing has changed my life. I have come into my own. I'm a believer.

Build your business to fit YOU

Network marketing is the perfect business, because you can build it in the way that fits you, your personality, your life.

Some people prefer to work alone, connecting with people over the internet. Network marketing is the perfect business for you. Or maybe you're a phone person, and love chatting away. Network marketing is the perfect business for you. Or maybe your favorite afternoon is sitting in a bookstore cafe, talking with a friend. Network marketing is still the perfect business for you.

Do you like mingling with people, chitchatting your way across the room? Guess what! Network marketing is the perfect business for you. Do you like getting away and spending time alone or with just your family around? Network marketing is the perfect business for you.

Do you like getting things done early in the morning? Yes? No? Do you prefer sleeping in so you can move through the quiet world of late nights? Either way, network marketing is the perfect business for you.

Are you in college, wondering if you'll be able to find a job when you graduate? Are you staying home to raise your children? Are you looking for a way out of your corporate job, with layoffs looming on the horizon? Are you retired, looking for the missing something in your life? Are you a teacher, trying to make ends meet every summer?

Guess what!!!

Network marketing is the perfect business for you.

Find a company that speaks to your heart. Find someone to teach you the ropes. Find one friend who is as excited about the possibilities as you are. Now you have everything you need.

Questions! Ask away!

I love your comments!!!

I hope you're having an amazing day.

Work where you want, when you want

Today I'm building my business while perched on a cliff above the calm, strikingly blue Pacific Ocean. I've been driving down the coast of California, about to arrive in Santa Barbara, and decided to pull over and have some lunch. The beauty and calm of the vista coaxed me to stay awhile, and so I'm spending a couple of hours building my business.

Because I choose to; because network marketing offers me this choice; because the wondrous world around me inspires creativity; because this is my world now: To do as I want, when I want, with whomever I want.

Of course, this wasn't possible 10 years ago. The internet and wireless connections have freed us to stay connected while roaming the countryside. But now it is within our grasp. It's within YOUR grasp.

Some people say that it's lonely at the top.

Not if you take everyone with you!

I can help you get here, too. Don't let anything hold you back.

How do you leverage your time?

In the previous blog, we talked about residual income. An even more powerful component of network marketing is leveraging your time.

We talked about enrolling your first person into your business, then your second, fourth, tenth, and so on. You can enroll people until you're blue in the face, and your business will creep along. But if you start to leverage your time, your business will explode!

Take the time to train the people that you enroll to do what you've done. Take them under your wing and show them, step by step, how to talk to people, how to have fun at it, how to work in their back offices, how to meet people for lunch or tea and casually, naturally, bring up the subject of your new business, whatever it is that has made it so easy for you to enroll people. Guide them along until they pick up the idea and start going with it.

I went backpacking once with a good friend who was an expert fly fisherman. We sought out a river where the park service allowed only catch and release, which meant that every time someone caught a fish, they would release it back into the river, alive and healthy, if a little shell shocked.

This also meant that there were scads of fish there, and since my friend was so good at fishing, he was catching another fish every minute or so.

Now, when a fish first comes off the hook, it's dazed and shocked. When you lower it back into the river, it lays there, motionless, listing onto its side. So while my friend had the fishing experience of his life, I opened a fish recovery pool.

I gently cupped a fish in my palm and slowly swished it backward and forward through the water, allowing the water to flow through its gills so the fish could still breathe. I would have 6 or 8 fish gathered around my feet, in their 8 inches of river water, gently swishing two fish at a time, then going to the next two, rotating through the group until they recovered their wits and could carefully swim away.

My friend would add a new fish, two would wake up and swim away, new fish, recovered fish, a cycle of success.

Now, we could have just let the fish fend for themselves. Back in the water, there you go! But by caring for them and helping them function until they could take over for themselves ensured their success. Our fish were successful fish!

Your new team members are like the stunned fish. You can leave them to flounder for themselves, but some of them might not succeed. By nurturing them and helping them function until they can take over for themselves, you ensure their success.

Now, what does all of that have to do with leveraging your time? Every person on your team who succeeds turns into another you. Instead of you enrolling every single person, you have a good friend out there enrolling people, too. You get credit for everything your team accomplishes, so their success is your success. Pretty soon you have two, four, ten yous, out there being successful and having FUN, swimming along naturally, happily.

Train your team members well, and they'll be able to take their own teams under their wings, and teach the third generation how to succeed at enrolling people and teaching THEM how to succeed. Now you have hundreds of yous, swimming along, naturally, happily.

That's leveraging your time. That's true success.

There are other ways to leverage your time in network marketing. Which ones come to mind? Which ones would you like to know more about?

I can't wait to hear from you!

I hope you're having an amazing day.

What is residual income, anyway?

Residual income is something you work for once, and then get paid again and again and again. When an author writes a book, or an actor makes a movie, she does the work once, and then gets paid royalties every time the book is purchased or someone goes to see the movie.

Now, each author or actor can stop there, with just one book, just one movie, or she can go ahead and write a second book, act in a second movie, and then she receives royalties for the second piece of work on top of the royalties that she's still receiving for the first piece of work.

I would love to be an author, or an actor. I would love to spend my days weaving words into luscious images that would enrich others lives. I would love to portray a conflict and resolution that would bring light to millions of hearts. But only a handful of people possess the reservoir of creativity that bring them success in writing or acting.

But anyone can go into network marketing. You can be young, old, in a mid-life crisis. You can be black, Asian, Anglo-Saxon, Indian, anything. You can have multiple PhDs, a grammar school education, or anywhere in between. You don't need a slick resume, you don't need a rich aunt or even a sugar daddy.

The only things you need are a yearning to help other people succeed, a product that you LOVE, and a willingness to learn the ropes.

And network marketing is all about residual income. You sign up your first person, and you earn a commission that month, the next month, the next month, the next month, again and again, for signing up that one person.

Now, you can stop there, or you can sign up a second person and earn a commission every month for that person, in addition to the commission that you're already earning on the first person. Then there's the third, fourth, tenth person. Soon you're able to pay your bills, go on long vacations, watch your son's soccer game, watch your daughter pick out her prom dress. And while you're doing all of those things, the commissions appear in your checking account, again and again and again.

What kind of a monthly income would make a difference in your life? If you had more money, what would it help you accomplish?

If you start now, you'll get there all that much sooner. What in the world are you waiting for?