When you start something new it’s hard to know ahead of time what tools and knowledge you’re going to need. Combine this with a natural resistance towards spending money on an unknown venture and you’ll likely wind up lacking something that’s essential to your business.

Funny thing is when I was a traditional entrepreneur, I spent thousands and thousands of dollars a month on rent, employees, marketing and so much more BUT when I began a home based business…..I got cheap!

Well, not totally true but there is a tendency to “hold back” and not spend money and I can understand being careful but the reality is you need to make right decisions for your business and this often means spending in the right areas when it comes to tools, services, marketing and lead generation AND the right business model.

Let me give you an example. My first attempt developing an online business utilized cheap domain names (.biz, .info) and web hosting which impeded my ability to have a professional looking web site. The truth is I felt overwhelmed entering a new industry and market. There was simply too much to know and I didn’t know where to get the right information to make my business a success. When things looked liked they weren’t working I often times switched gears or abandoned that idea but this meant a loss of time and money. It took some time but I began to turn the corner.

Knowing When And Where To Ask For Help… This is the key and you need to find the person(s) that will help you get where you want to get WITHOUT all the HYPE and GURU stuff as this tends to only empty your pockets and has little to do with putting money into your bank account.

Simply take a step back and look at your business with “objective” eyes. Does the model make sense and what is your expected outcome? If you’re building an M.LM do not over think it but realize you may need to apply yourself for 3-5 years in order to build a sizeable organization that pays well.

If you’re into affiliate marketing and have a gross commission of $30 per sale; analyze that and realize you will need to sell 100 of them in order to earn $3,000 monthly (less marketing expenses). The above is not good or bad; simply look at this from a business point of view as I did for many years in my traditional and offline businesses.

O.K, great advice but what does this have to do with tools, your mindset and making money?

Your mindset can be destroyed if you see failure and after failure and weeks, months and even years go by without the success you’re dreaming about. So, look at your business and decide if it’s the right “vehicle” to get you where you want to go. If it is, great! If not, pick another “horse” and ride it.

Next, seek a coach or mentor to advise you on the tools or services that are “must have” to help you succeed and avoid the $3k Guru programs for now and just get practical advice. This doesn’t have to be expensive.

Finally, AND this is actually first. Develop you inner game, your mindset. Who are you talking to, who are you connecting with and what books are you reading?

Just to let you know, hanging out on Facebook is not the secret to getting rich…great social media but you need to take action and implement. More on this later….

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Coach Al Rod

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It’s so funny to see the MLM guys in one corner and the Top Tier guy in another as to what is best. I have to tell you the truth; marketing is marketing and you just have to find something you like and then apply yourself.

I want to review a system called the Press 1 Marketing System and you can see the pros and cons and see if it is applicable to your business and style. I’ll be blunt and direct and on the surface it may seem like just a voice broadcasting service and it may stir up the emotions of that being old school or “I always hang up on those things” and you would be partially correct, but…. The Press 1 Marketing System has gone well beyond a simple calling service as they have incorporated sizzle calls, which is old school but believe it or not work very well to get people to take another step forward.

What they have done is combined a few tools and bundled it in such a way that it’s a turnkey marketing system for any business. One tool using a simple to use system whereby plugging in a keyword you search for active network marketers online by company name, niche and you can even search by geographical area and more. You can have 100 or thousands of prospects.

The net tool extracts leads of active people in a home based business and/or MLM off of Craigslist and it is so easy to use that a 10 year old can do it.

Okay, then the system takes all these leads into the built in auto-responder with all the messages loaded to bring those people back to you. I want to address the “I hang up on all those messages” argument because I thought the same.

Next process is that the system takes all these leads into the built in auto-responder with all the messages loaded to bring those people back to you. I want to address the “I hang up on all those messages” argument because I thought the same.

Now take a loo of this two important things:

1) It targets people already active and in the business and the professionally recorded calls are, awesome and meant to attract their attention.

2) As all things in sales; it’s a numbers game. How long would it take you to call 1,000 people? Let’s say you really committed and called 50 people a day and did this 5 days a week…it would take an entire month as opposed to doing this for about $20 to call those same 1,000 network marketers. The best thing is no negative people, no rejection, no leaving tons and tons of voicemails and it calls them in less than 15 minutes!

At the end not everyone will join your business but all of them want a way to make more money in THEIR business and the strong and automated affiliate aspect to the program monetizes your efforts along the way. Hey you won’t get rich but this alone can add $1,000 a week to your bottom line and maybe more.

This is bigger picture thinking; but imagine if you had just 5 or 10 people on your team (whatever MLM) to do the same and you all called 1,000 people a day or a week?

SUPER! that is something that not only duplicates but even if 10 people sent out just 1,000 messages each and only 3 times a week would mean over 100,000 exposures on your team monthly.

My last opinion about this system is that on the negative side it will take about an 60-90 minutes to set up the system and you will need a little bit of marketing dollars after you have paid and signed up for the program. On the positive side it is “done for you” with no special knowledge or expertise needed, you don’t have to be a superstar salesperson and in addition to the great training calls and webinars; it’s just a turnkey system to either build your present business or go full bore marketing the Press 1 Marketing System as the affiliate and overrides are very good.

For more details on the sizzle call, how the system works step by step and the compensation model; Just click here: http://www.GetLeadsRightNow.com

Coach Al Rod (Al Rodriguez) is a home based entrepreneur earning a living full time from home and using non-hype and make sense tools and tactics to simply earn a great living from home. His blog is http://www.CoachAlRod.com

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1. Connecting with People – Have you heard…like and trust BUT a huge mistake people make in prospecting, marketing and sales is that they never build a strong rapport or connection with their prospects before pitching them on their business; Nuriche or any other. This makes the business hard, no fun and full of rejection. Plus others see your business (the business you want them to join) for only “sales types” and just a pitch-fest. Simple remember to create the relationship first, the “friendship” and the rest will tend to fall in place. If you don’t have a good connection with your prospect, you’ll never know his/her real objection. As corny as it may sound to some; people want you to be interested in them, to care about them and if the connections is there it opens it up to discuss their concerns, objections and desires for your business in a much more open and easy manner. This if often overlooked and if you practice, people will trust you more, connect with you and that will result in sponsoring more people.

2. Pre-qualifying – This is another common mistake and part of the process that is overlooked. Some of you may know that I spent years as a mortgage company owner and a very successful loan originator. Pre-qualifying a prospects come from years of experience in that prior profession to determine the best and highest use of my time. You see a prospect that could not buy a home (terrible credit, no job, high debts, low motivation, unrealistic expectations, etc) was not really a prospect and more like a suspect. Many loan officers did not understand it and I see tons and tons of people in network marketing that just don’t get this either. A prospect will have a genuine conversation with you and will ask questions but they make sense. A suspect wants to make $10,000 a month but has no money, doesn’t know anyone, wants to know why they can’t get in for no-cost, thinks network marketing doesn’t work or whatever else but you get the picture. You must develop a series of questions to ask prospects and/or a marketing funnel to filter through and separate the real prospects from the suspects for your Nuriche or other business. Develop a set of questions (or check out my next article or video) that will take a prospect through a few key questions to see if there is a basis to spend time talking about working together.

3. Find their WHY – What do they want and why? Take time to discover and find their need as it is different for each person. In fact, I made a huge mistake for many years and missed this step, sponsored people into my program anyway and then wondered why they never did anything (but complain or drift away). Fortunately, if people have come through your marketing funnel; chances are you’re not talking to someone unless they have a strong desire or WHY but you need to figure out what it is. Take people through this process and you will weed out the people that usually are you big time wasters and end up with better prospects for your business.

Follow these three powerful steps to gain maximum leverage on your Nuriche business and align with better partners to go on and build a successful business.

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Everyone has various meanings as to what a home business ought to be. The # 1 home based business for every one can be different. For a few folks, that means having the capacity to work at home and then for others, it means building a business at home.

Managing a home-based business does not necessarily mean that you’re home a lot. You may still manage a home business from home as well as be out on the road a lot more than even for any regular job. Many self-employed people like electricians, repairers of all types, copier servicing people constantly devote even nearly a dozen hrs out of the office from time to time.

Many simply kind of settle since they just do not learn any better. In fact, they’d claim like it is life and death that they’re inside the number 1 home based business available anywhere. There is a proverb that your father has the biggest acres of farmland till you visit another individuals dad’s plantation.

Another thing I would like to address is the fact that a business individual shouldn’t assume that they have the best anything at all. A home business entrepreneur have to realize that there should invariably be space for progress. This is the way all of us improve in everyday life and business.

There’s a thin line between being self-confident regarding your home based business and to be straight up blind and not open to bigger and better things. There’s also a thin line between jumping from 1 home based business to a different one as a result of your low skills and shifting to a better situation mainly because it’s a far better deal. You can find way too many home-based business owners bouncing from 1 home-based business to another believing the grass is greener when in reality they need skills.

One time, I went to Barnes & Nobles in order to pick up some Home Business Magazines. We were looking up home based business names to bet on PPC marketing. I was amazed with how many companies that are selling work at home opportunities. In the franchise opportunity magazines, so many business were calling themselves home business franchises.

If your aim is to have more time with family at home, many of these opportunites don’t cut it. You will end up within another corporate jungle that is just more painful than having a job. A lot of home businesses will simply get more hours from the spare time you had after your day job and compensate you with an drained bank account.

Today whenever you say home-based business to quite a few folks, this is a buzz term. The idea instantly reminds them of a scam. This is simply as several have forfeit their life savings upon paying for home business opportunities which have not been so clear up front with people.

You; I am talking about you yourself need to be the business enterprise. That is the key to having the number 1 home-based business. Instead of investing hundreds of thousands in borrowed money in an opportunity first, pay for your education and learning first and until you die. In fact, the education and learning is free these days. Note that you do not need to invest your lifetime savings in some number 1 home business opportunity. Strong and many home based businesses are less expensive than $1,000 to start up today. The rest of every other expense is going to be in even more knowledge for you–the business.

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I don’t know about you but sometimes life gets us going in many directions and sometimes it’s good to STOP and focus for a few minutes. Do you remember your; WHY when you joined your MLM business?

Did you want wealth, health, happiness or…..? Whatever it is, take a few minutes and write down ALL the reasons why you joined your MLM business. There are no wrong answers as they are your reasons. Are these reasons compelling enough for you and are they causing you to take the daily action needed to succeed?

I don’t know who are you or your needs, But, I know people after having personally coached many for years and if we don’t have this WHY clarity, we tend to lose enthusiasm, question the opportunity or ourselves.

Today could be the day that you simply decide where you go from here. I’m in no way saying to abandon your MLM business but even that could be an option for you.

Pretend today is the first day of your business and do the following:

1) Write down all the reasons WHY you are doing an MLM business?

2) Write down a simple action plan with dates and expected results.

3) Take immediate action.

4) Measure your results at least every 30-days.

This is a simplified action plan and will work for most people. This is meant to have you think about all of this and then take immediate action. If you want a generic place to get free motivation and training then go here: http://www.Join-The-Tribe.com

Plus, I suggest you connect with someone that can serve as a coach, mentor or at least partner in your opportunity. If you don’t have someone in yor present opportunity to partner with then either keep searching upline, decide on another company or pick up a good book today and begin to feed your mind with “good stuff” but…but…but more importantly take immediate and consistent action right now.

To build and succeedis this business, you need a few focused ideas to implement and succeed. Don’t buy into the GURU hype and their secret sauce formula; just keep it simple and implement daily. If you need ideas on how to generate leads or market then go here: http:///www.Join-The-Tribe.com Or SIMPLE DO IT!

The bottom line is, get clear, get into action and keep going as you adjust along the way.

Coach ALROD is a former coach for the Real Estate and Mortgage professions and now dedicates his time working from home to help other entrepreneurs cut through the hype and nonsense to simply make money and build their business on their terms. His blog is http://www.CoachAlRod.com

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This is part of an ongoing series of Mindset articles to help you build your MLM, Direct Sales or Top Tier program. Before I go over the 6 steps there are three things you really, really need in business and they are:

A) Your MUST have the right mindset. Now I know that you hear about all the personal development talk and some of you may wonder if it really matters or whether it’s all a waste of time. I can assure you this is the most important part of your success. If your mind is in the right place, then the rest will get figured out.

B) You MUST have your WHY. That’s right WHY do you do what you do? This needs to be an emotional, gut wrenching process that will get you into action and I can assure you it is not about the $10,000 a month. Your; WHY will get you through the tough times and sticking points in your life and business and this needs to be in writing and referred to on a regular basis.

C) You need a system or a strategy to get enough people to see your opportunity. A steady amount of people looking at what you have to offer is simply a numbers game. This holds true whether you are doing offline or online marketing or both. More on this later.

The next 6 steps are taken from my recent study (re-study) of Napoleon Hill and the book, Think and Grow Rich. In chapter 2 a short exercise is discussed to help you achieve anything you want and I have outlined it here for you. Pull out a sheet a paper and do each step and make sure to review regularly:Pull out a sheet a paper and do each step and make sure to review regularly:

1. Fix in your mind the exact amount of money you desire. It is not sufficient to say that you want plenty of money. Be definite in the amount. There is a psychological reason to be definite. When you study in a MasterMind group that teaches you to Think And Grow Rich it will become clear as to why this exercise is important. When you study in a MasterMind group that teaches you to Think And Grow Rich it will become clear as to why this exercise is important.

2. Determine exactly what you intend to give in return for the money you desire. There is no such reality as something for nothing. The only way you can get massively rich is to contribute massively to society. It is the law.

3. Establish a definite date when you intend to possess the money you desire.

4. Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire. Begin at once, whether you are ready or not to put your plan into action. You can refine the details of your plan. It is important to not just think about the plan, but do something now. By taking action, you will have made that commitment to your subconscious mind.

5. Write out a clear and concise statement of the amount of money you intend to aquire, name the time limit for its acquisition, state what you intend to give in return for the money and describe clearly the plan through which you intend to accumulate it.

6. Read your written statement aloud, twice daily, once just before retiring for the night and once after arising in the morning. As you read, see, feel and believe yourself already in possession of the money.

You may or may not have been familiar with this in either case TODAY is the day you can apply this in your life and business.

Coach Al Rod is a former coach for the Real Estate and Mortgage professions and now dedicates his time working from home to help other entrepreneurs cut through the hype and nonsense to simply make money and build their business on their terms. His blog is http://www.CoachAlRod.com You can also see additional training at http://www.Join-The-Tribe.com at no cost; enjoy!

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Forever Living has been around long before the internet became such a grand way to make money. This company started on the foundation of hard work and real dedication to others in 1978. Since then, many people have reached financial success selling this company’s products and have become healthier by using them as well. For those that may be interested in reaching these goals, they should know that a Forever Living scam does not exist.

In business since 1978, even before the Internet became such an intricate part of everyone’s lives, this company has been helping people to make money and to get healthier at the same time. The products are tried, true, and tested by people just like you.

When you consider the definition of a scam, you might also want to consider those that assume because they did not get rich quick the method they were trying is a scam. In all honesty, there is no get rich scheme at all surrounding this company or their products.

Remember this company was built on hard and work and the sincere dedication of its founder. You will need to have this motivation as well to succeed in the in the business.

A vision that started in the seventies has been the root of its success. This company has made the health and finances of many people better through hard work and dedication to a product that is worthwhile.

The dream that started as small with a little company has become worldwide and you can help to make it even better when you become as truly dedicated as its founder. This is what it takes to make any MLM program or business work for you.

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Good for you for researching Dani Johnson… She is an absolute rock star in the network marketing industry and if you are in need of learning the skills required to recruit distributors into your downline from the cold market, nobody is better then Dani to teach you how.

I personally used alot of her strategies to recruit large numbers of new distributors into my downline and there is no doubt it is part of the reason I became so successful.

Once you start studying her material you will quickly come to realize what an awesome leader she is and how dedicated she is to helping business builders become a success.

She became an early success in her MLM business. Although she did so using methods I would never dream of using personally, those primarily being purchasing and calling cold leads.

At a very young age she learnt the skills required to become successful talking to mlm leads on the phone and as a result was able to build a very successful business and even after seeing it fall apart was able to go on and do it again.

After becoming such a big success and creating a reputation as a cold lead rock star… Dani Johnson quickly became a much sought after generic trainer in this industry… eventually doing so full time.

Dani Johnson’s methods are primarily centered around teaching people how to market to the cold market. As I already stated she focuses primarily on showing people how to buy mlm leads and call them using techniques that in my opinion for this method of marketing your business are the best.

Outside of Dani the only other leader in the Network Marketing industry who is any good at training on cold calling mlm leads is Doug Firebaugh, but I would still recommend Dani over him.

A small part of her training focuses on working your warm market, and is really solid stuff. But again Dani focuses about 90% of her time on cold leads.

Prior to marketing on the Web and using it create my own leads based on funded proposal principles, I was a serious student of Dani Johnson. And even use to train her methods to my organization.

However to be very upfront I found cold calling leads to be an extremely difficult and unenjoyable way to build a business, plus I found that not many people in my down line would stick to it, because it was quite painful. Calling 50-100 cold leads (strangers) a day is simply not fun.

Having said that… if you are one of those people who love to build a business over the phone and do not mind calling strangers who are not expecting to hear from you… Dani is the person you want to learn from… nobody is better suited to show you the skills required to be successful in that area.

Out of her products I would recommend her “Script Book & CD Set” as well as her “6 Figures in 6 Months” program which is also called Dani Johnson Live in North Carolina.

My advice learn from Dani Johnson, but also learn what other methods of building your MLM business are available to you, such as my favorite Attraction Marketing.

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The network marketing book Magnetic Sponsoring by Mike Dillard is stirred up an absolute storm of controversey in the network marketing industry overall. There is really alot of confusion surrounding this book, with questions like “Will it grow my downline, or will it build my business. Is it even worth the nominal fee to go out and purchase? This particular magnetic sponsoring review will cover these critical questions, among others.

For the most part, even myself, the entire concept, I was very very leery about, thinking it was just another hyped up claim about how to make network marketing easier. Now, I a know I am not the only one to be skeptical about how to build a business online. There are certainly lots of them out there.

Now with that said, what is the essence of this course? Is there really anything that you will learn from this book? At the core, really it comes down to three seperate things.

#1 Attraction Marketing – Really the entire concept around this is to lead with value in your business and towards your prospects and by virtue of proving and providing value, a natural human attraction is built and you become an attractive person and personality in the eyes of your prospects. Fundamental to this as well is the idea of being a leader and an Alpha Networker. Once you have mastered this concept, never again will you have to chase after leads ever again.

A key concept that is extremely critical to increasing your value is to go ahead and continually educate yourself in your particular niche, become an expert at health, at recruiting, at lead generation. With the correct foundation in education, you can literally train yourself into getting better at all of the above listed.

#2) Funded Proposal – For me, this was really the big takeaway from the Magnetic Sponsoring Course. You see, only a certain percentage of people will only ever buy your product or join you in your downline, and the idea of a funded proposal allows you to generate needed income up front in order to pay for the lead generation and advertising for your business. Up front income is one of the best things to help you create cash flow quickly in this business, not recruiting.

Instead of only 1 out of every 100 people you come in contact with will ever join you in your business, but if you offer others much needed information to help them out, and in turn profit from it as a result. When you increase that number from 1 in 100, to more like 5 or 10 in 100, your odds go way up.

#3) Real Marketing. OK, this is probably the biggest switch that network marketers have to adopt when internalizing the ideas inside Magnetic Sponsoring. Marketing really is all about looking at your business from a customer first standpoint, and servicing them first, giving them what they want instead of trying to coerce and convince people that you have a “Can’t Miss” opportunity. Also, it is about finding those who already are looking for what you have to offer.

So what is the summary here in this magnetic sponsoring review, is there a scam or not?

Really, when you sit back and look at all of the different, basic, yet completely essential business principles behind it, I view it as one of the top handful of “how to” network marketing courses out there on the market. Once you start treating your MLM as a business, it will reward you as a business.

But, let me strongly caution you here. This course won’t build your business for you, nor will it “do” anything for you other than introduce you to the ideas of building a true business based on sound business principles. This is really simply just a stepping stone to bigger and better things for yourself.

Your business will truly take off once you “get” those key concepts.

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Believe it or not people are turning towards the internet and looking at MLM opportunities to help them get out of debt. There are thousands of people from all walks of life starting up home business. Some people are supporting their families, while others are living the high life all through MLM.

So what is MLM? Because that sounds cool making money from home. The home based business arena has three names MLM, Network Marketing and Multilevel Marketing.

Most companies work the same way you become a distributor for a specific company getting a licence to sell the products and also recruit members into your team. The more you sell through your group the more you will earn through bonuses and commissions.

If you decide to investigate these work from home opportunities, make sure you do your research. Most of the companies are legitimate, but there have been a few that were scams, and these get the most attention.

When you really start to looking at all the MLM opportunities on offer it can be mind blowing, don’t panic just pick a company you feel good about and a product you love but also make sure you check them out properly.

Network marketing opportunities focus more on recruiting more people into the company. You are the one who talks to new people and educates them about the company. Your job is to help people who want to be a part of the group sell the products and recruit as well.

So when talking to potential recruits you should make sure that you are up front about the business. People do not want to be deceived, so if you are honest you will go a long way when building what is known as your down line.

Most MLM opportunities are very low start up. You will usually have to go on to auto ship to get bonuses that will be a fixed monthly fee. You could own a business for as little as $150.00

So as you can see it does not cost the earth to set up a MLM business. you buy your products at whole sale and sell those for a profit as well. Most companies have a money back guarantee.

The idea of making money from home as a MLM distributor appeals to thousands of people, how do you think you would like it? How do you think you would do? If you feel like you want to run a home business the MLM opportunities could be for you.

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