06/29/2007
MLM Network Marketing Success | Realistic Expectations and Goals
If you're in the process of building your MLM Network Marketing business, it's important to have expectations and goals.
Unfortunately, many are lead to believe that this business is "easy and anyone can do it."
Keeping your goals and expectations realistic, as they pertain to your current situation, is very important to do.
In doing so you will keep yourself focused and avoid the urge to compare your MLM Network Marketing success, or lack thereof, with others in your company or in the industry.
Hopefully this little lesson from the Daily OM will help you in doing just that!
Financial Naivete
You may realize today that you have a tendency toward rather unrealistic expectations when it comes to business and financial decisions, which could leave you feeling naïve. Or perhaps you could find yourself suddenly realizing the impracticality of a choice that seemed so perfect earlier. When we choose the heights of the goals we would like to reach, it is good to remove all belief in limitations. Because we create our reality with our beliefs, it is important to let ourselves have the freedom to imagine whatever gives us a sense of excitement and anticipation. With that positive energy working for us, we can then look for the realistic steps that will take us in the right direction. By combining your unlimited imagination with practical steps today, you wisely work toward your goals.
We are only able to see a small percentage of the possibilities available to us from our vantage point at any given time. But when we trust the universe to guide us, we know that there is a place for ambitious visions that seem unrealistic as well as for the possibility of actually achieving them. For example if our ardent desire is to be a rock star, we first need to take the steps of learning how to play and perform music and getting the experience necessary. Today by accepting that life requires both big idealistic dreams and small realistic steps, you strike the balance necessary to create them
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It's a Good Life!
Suzanne, The MLM Mom
www.TheMLMmom.com
813-948-8188 anytime!
TheMLMmom@yahoo.com
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04/21/2007
MLM Network Marketing Success | Leadership Plain and Simple
In order to have any kind of Sucess in MLM Network Marketing you must develop strong Leadership skills. The reason being, if you want mlm network marketing success, you will be leading a team of 10, 20, 100, 1000 or perhaps even 10,000+ people.
Teams need leaders. Some people are born knowing how to lead, but most have to develop those skills over time.
Unfortunately, many people get into a position of leadership in their MLM Network Marketing business and either:
1. Don't know what they're doing and, at a certain point, that becomes crystal clear to the people who are the "followers"
or
2. Greed and Ego get in their way and they alienate all those around them.
In order to become a leader, in any organization, MLM Network Marketing or not, the most effective leaders have the following four character traits.
Vision
Effective leaders have a clear vision of where they are going and how these goals will be accomplished, they have a plan.
A vision can also be known as your "why".
A "Why" is what drives you to keep going in this business, even when the going gets tough.
Some examples of "why's" are:
you want to wake up every morning at the time of your choosing
you want to travel the world
you want to make a difference in this world and start or support your favorite charity
you want to spend more time with your family
Everyone has their own reasons for getting involved in this business. Your part is to sit down in a quiet place and figure out what your reasons are.
People follow leaders who know where they are going because they instictively know those people can help them get where they want to be.
Courage
It has been said, by the late, great Earl Nightingale that the opposite of courage is not cowardice, it's conformity.
Think about that for a minute.....conformity.
Think about the great leaders, the "non-conformists". In order to be a leader you have to have the vision that no one else has, then have the courage to go out there and get it, no matter what anyone else says!
Remember this the next time you hit a road block, be a "non-conformist", be a leader and keep going anyway.
Integrity
Say what you mean and mean what you say....pretty simple.
Even if what you have to say isn't what others may want to hear. The truth is the truth.
When those around you start losing faith in your integrity, especially in MLM Network Marketing, watch out because this business is based on trust and relationships.
If you don't have integrity you can fool people for a little while, but, eventually the truth comes to light. That's when organizations can crumble in the blink of an eye.
Perserverance
All the three previous characteristics can be found in perserverance.
If there is no vision you will never perservere.
No courage, how will you ever perservere?
Lack of integrity, people will never join you in your MLM Network Marketing business.
The combination of these three traits will lead you to perservere and true leaders always perservere, they never quit.
There may be some setbacks along the way, but the true leaders get up, brush themselves off and keep going because they have the vision, they have the courage, they have the integrity and, of course, they have the perserverence.
Think back to the true leaders you have followed in your life. Identify these characteristics in them and start living you life accordingly.
By developing these four leaderships charcteristics, and becoming the leader your organization will want to emulate and follow, you will find yourself on the path to mlm network marketing success.
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It's a Good Life!
Suzanne
813-948-8188...anytime!
www.TheMLMmom.com
TheMLMmom@yahoo.com
12/08/2006
Network Marketing Success Tip | Branding 101
In today's Network Marketing Success Tip we will be discussing Branding. According to AllAboutBranding.com branding is the direct and indirect activities undertaken by a company (person) to imprint and influence a 'desired reputation' upon its audience.
You may be thinking, what does this have to do with me? Most people in Network Marketing really go off track here. They think their job is to sell thier product/services or to recruit business builders. But let's look at big picture.
Madonna as a Network Marketer?
We'll take Madonna as an example. Whether you love her or hate her she is a marvelous case study in branding. Those of us interested in Network Marketing Success could learn lots from her in the way she's branded herself.
Madonna has a great voice, so do lots of other people.
We have a great product/network Marketing Opportunity, so do lots of other people.
Madonna looks great, so do lots of others.
Our opportunity/products really can help lots of people, so can many other opportunities and products.
By making a name for herself, Madonna has been able to consistently stay in the forefront of her field. How many people have done that in Network Marketing? Not Many, I can think of one, maybe two.
But we can do this by branding ourselves and by doing so we:
1. Establish ourselves as an expert
2. Build a solid reputation within our industy (which is, unfortunately, lacking)
3. Increase your notoriaty and image
By branding ourselves, we now have people who seek us out for our advice and expertise. So often in Network Marketing we are taught to recruit, recruit, recruit, or sell, sell, sell. This puts us at a disadvantage where we have to continually fill the funnel and "get" people to join us.
When we take the time to brand ourselves, people start seeking us out because they know we have soemthing of value. We can teach them how to do this business and be successful.
So next time you are wondering how you can make network Marketing a little easier, think of Madonna. Maybe this Network Marketing Success Tip will help you remember branding yourself is the way to go!
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12/05/2006
Network Marketing | Success Tip from "Big Al"
Here's a Great Network Marketing Success Tip from Tom "Big Al" Schreiter!
Which would you want more in your network marketing career?
A. Education.
B. Money.
The reality is: bonus checks come and go. If you are lucky
and sponsor a superstar, every night you will stay awake
worrying if the company will survive, if your superstar
will stay loyal, etc.
You will worry because you know you were lucky and that
it will be difficult to be that lucky again.
However, if you have the education on how to build a
business, you won't have this stress in your life. You know
that you have the skills to duplicate your success no matter
what happens with your present company, your downline,
the economy, etc.
You can always successfully start all over again and rebuild
your bonus check.
So if you're lucky, and would like to get a good night's
sleep, take the time to learn the skills on how to be a
successful network marketer.
How True, How True Big Al. For more Network Marketing Success Tip download your free eBook today!
Have Fun Out There!
Suzanne, The MLM Mom
813-948-8188 anytime
TheMLMmom@yahoo.com
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09/17/2006
MLM Success | Programming Your Mind
MLM Success is something we all strive for, but in that yearning for success in MLM, the one thing that gets most overlooked is the huge part played in programming your mind for MLM success.
Scientific evidence is proving that the correct mindset for success can bring you straight to the top! Unfortunately, I have seen people fail to achieve the success they desired in MLM because they have spent years programming their mind for failure.
I can’t help what I feel!
Oh yes you can! More and more research is showing if you want success, you had better change what you feel! Did you know that a single thought, positive or negative, changes the chemistry in our brains causing us to feel happy or sad?
If you’re mind is filled with predominately negative or worrisome thoughts, guess what chemicals will be released into your brain? I can assure you it’s not the happy ones!
This also happens when you are reliving emotionally charged events in your mind. Your brain can’t discern between what it happening now and what happened previously.
When you are spending precious time reliving negative past events in your head, your mind thinks it’s happening again. This causes a vicious cycle of negative thoughts and bad brain chemistry.
Is this good for MLM success?
A soupy mess or a sunny place?
Have you ever noticed that some people walk around with a black cloud over their head, while others seem to never have anything bad happen?
Spend a little time talking to each one of them and I’m sure you’ll immediately notice a difference in their thoughts and attitudes. The black cloud person will tell you about problem after problem while the happy go lucky person will talk about how wonderful everything is!
The fact of the matter is both people have problems but one dwells on them while the other doesn’t. Just imagine what each person’s brain chemistry looks like! One mind is a soupy mess with negative chemistry while the other mind is a sunny place to live!
Who do you think has the better business?
Change your thoughts and your world will change!
The previous example is a bit extreme, most people fit somewhere in the middle. However, it illustrates the important need to keep your thoughts positive and how, scientifically, we can now see why.
Sometimes it’s easy fall to into the habit of negative thinking. We are surrounded everyday by negative people, negative news, and negative situations. I know people who feel that if they are happy something must be wrong!
Do yourself a favor, turn off the TV, if you hear someone speaking negatively, excuse yourself and walk away, don’t let that garbage into your mind! Be aware of what goes into your mind as though it were a precious baby absorbing everything it hears. It does!
When you can start breaking the chains of negativity in your mind, starting with what you’re feeding it from the outside world, you will begin the wonderful journey of programming your mind for MLM success!
For more success tips download your free eBook today!
Have Fun Out There!
Suzanne
www.TheMLMmom.com
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05/03/2006
MLM Business|Love at First Sight!
Yes, when started in my first MLM business, it was love at first sight! There was the typical excitement. I LOVED the products, LOVED the thought of all that money, LOVED the excitement and LOVED being able to do it part time at home. I’m a stay at home Mom.
Sign me up!
So, I joined! I paid a lot of money so people could try the products out for themselves. Hey, I was gonna be making big bucks, what’s a couple thousand in start up costs…right?! Wouldn’t recommend it now! Went to all the local meetings, got on all the conference calls, attended all the seminars within 4 hours, and talked and talked and talked to all the people I knew and met (luckily it’s not my nature to be pushy, so they’re still my friends!) and guess where it got me? You probably already know, maybe it’s happening to you,…Nowhere! My first MLM love was becoming tarnished!
Frustrated, upset, confused
These were the first signs my love for my MLM business was diminishing! Hey, I wasn’t a loser! How come all these other people in my company could do it and I couldn’t? Although, looking around at the team I was on nobody else was doing it either, guess that was a clue!
Looking for answers
One day I was searching the internet looking for something, anything, to help me build my business and resurrect my first MLM love! That’s when I found my knight in shining armor! The MLM business ebook, Successs in 10 Steps and realized the company I was with wasn’t the right fit for me.
Shock and Awe
Now, at first, I was stunned. I thought ,how could that be? These products are great, other people are making it, maybe, I should just stick with it and work harder. Although, I didn’t know how much harder I could work, I was already doing more that everyone else I knew, plus I was only “part-time”!
Epiphany
Soon after I was driving down the road and had an epiphany. Maybe, if you’re in the same boat as I was, this will help. I realized I was going through a kind of “break-up”, with my first MLM love! At the beginning everything was so wonderful and I was going to the top, unfortunately, I had not educated myself beforehand on what was important to look for in a MLM. So I went blindly along, figuring if it’s good for one it’s good for all.
Learn and grow
I learned that isn’t the case. So just like learning after your first break-up, what you want/need and don’t want/need in a relationship, the same thing applies to your MLM business. Everyone is different and all MLM businesses are not the same for all people. So I encourage you, if you are experiencing loss of love for your MLM all is not lost! Download this free MLM Business eBook for some awesome answers!
Hope this helps!
Suzanne
Be a Mentor with a Servants Heart
813-841-1050
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