1. If I Just Had Time To Breathe 71
2. I Wish I Were a Poet 72
3. So Much Time 72
4. Generally Speaking 72
5. Smokey Fire 73
6. When Her Silence is Heard 73
7. It Was Hard 73
8. Dying Comes Easy 73
9. Mirror Therapy 73
10. School Bus Drivin Blues 73
11. Jebby The Wander Dog 73
12. The Legend of Thomas A. Boyer 74
13. The Lighter Our Load 74
14. You Can Set Me Free 74
15. Radar Love 74
16. The Wishing Machine 75
17. The Choice 75
18. The Way of Love 75
19. My Own Spell 75
20. The Most Incredible Thing 81
21. Just Another Believer 85
22. Love For a Lifetime 85
23. Personal Philosophy 85
24. The Accusations Are In The Air Tonight 85
25. Who Will Discover Who Will Know 85
26. Leanin on Your Love Again 86
28. Forever More 87
28. I Love My Kids 87
29. Thirsty Man 87
30. I'd Be a Fool 87
31. In Lovin You 87
32. Too Long 88
33. Your Dreams Came True 88
34. It's All There For The Takin 88
35. A Game We Play 89
36. The Lost Losers 89
37. Watch Your Step 90
38. So Where Do We Go From Here? 91
39. We Needed More 91
40. I'm Sorry I Lost You 91
41. Time Turns The Page 91
42. The Writings on the Wall 91
43. The End of a Dream 91
44. The Edge of Time 91
45. Stuck Between Two Women 91
46. I'll Always Be Wondering 91
47. I Could Not Understand 91
48. Deborah Arlene 91
49. Lesson To Learn 92
50. Someone Still Loves Me 92
51. Sinkin Deep 92
52. When Will We Begin? 92
53. Catylist For Change 92
54. We All Have Our Turn 92
55. It's Only Love, It Turns To Heartach 92
56. The End of My Heart 92
57. Lonliness 93
58. One Day 93
59. Visions Grand 95
60. Lesson to Learn 95
61. Future Song 96
62. Don't Push It On Me 96
63. All In Time 98
64. Praise Love 98
65. Stuck Here Goin Both Ways 98
66. The Beauty Inside (No Way Home for the Lonely) 98
67. I've Lost My Way, Take Me Home 98
68. She's Still Sane 00
69. Olivia 00
70. This World Entraps My Eye 01
71. The Ocean of Love 01
72. The Matter of Time 01
73. With a Woman Like You 01
74. The Girl Next Door 01
75. Cut Puppies 02
76. She Dumped Me 03
77. I Saw Your Love 04
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Mike Dillard answers a great MLM Question
I just have to post some of these great Mike Dillard responses to questions on the Magnetic Sponsoring site. This one is very potent!
Written by Mike Dillard
Mike Dillard
“Mike, At last--a voice of reason rising above the babble! I've been using these methods in the brick-and-mortar business world for years, and they work like magic! In fact, I work as a business growth consultant, helping people implement these concepts.
However, when I talk to my upline (Quixtar) about integrating these strategies and tactics into my MLM business, you can almost see them reaching for the garlic necklaces and crosses to ward off such "evil thoughts!" How do you recommend that I go about finding a reputable company that won't frown on (or outright forbid, as Quixtar does with many of these methods) these concepts?”
- Dave
That’s a great question Dave and I’m so glad to know that you already understand the power found in the strategies of Magnetic Sponsoring.
It’s becoming harder and harder to advertise as a distributor in network marketing and that trend will only continue to grow in the coming years.
Companies find themselves between a rock and a hard place.
On one hand, they understand the importance of advertising, and want you to do as much as possible. Believe me… There’s nothing they’d like to see more than a market flooded with distributor placed ads promoting their products and opportunity.
On the other hand, they’re handcuffed by attorney’s who are more than aware of the FTC sharks who are constantly circling, just waiting for someone to screw up so they can dive in for the feast.
As the legal risks continue to rise, the more strict parent companies must get with their advertising policies.
This is an inevitable outcome.
Think about it…
95% of distributors in a network marketing company have no real experience as a business owner or professional advertiser.
They have no idea what’s within the law and what’s not. Income Disclaimer? Terms Of Use? Privacy Policies?
What are those?
So you take an eager group of people with ZERO education and little sense of personal liability, and you let them loose onto the biggest communications platform in the history of mankind… The Internet.
People end up placing stupid ads, and making insane claims, all in the name of their beloved parent company.
The Gov shows up a few weeks later, knocks on their door, and says “clean up your act or we’ll shut you down”.
And just like that, the ability for distributors to use advertisements with any information about the parent company at all is taken away.
You can’t blame corporate. They’re just doing what they must in order to stay in business.
This will only get worse and it’s a shame.
Personally, I can’t stand government intervention into a capitalist market.
They walk into a market under the excuse of protecting the “ignorant consumer” from the evil savvy marketers.
“Your testimonials are too persuasive which caused Mary to spend her last $50 on your product and now she can’t pay her cable bill. You need to remove those testimonials and replace them with something stale, boring, and un-compelling”.
Excuse my 3rd grade verbiage here, but that’s retarded.
America is quickly becoming a country where no one takes personal responsibility for anything in their lives. If there’s a problem, you go crying to the government who will gladly take your side in exchange for a vote, or a hefty donation during election time.
The weak whine the loudest, which is heard by the politicians who just want to keep their job, so policies are changed to cater to the whiners which means that this entire country is slowly turning into one big pile of finger-pointing meat puppets who cry for their bottle until the someone else sticks it in their mouth for them.
Can you tell I’m a little jaded by this trend?
So as far as your network marketing business is concerned, what are you going to do about it?
Well that’s the million-dollar question isn’t it?
I have to be honest. There is no right or wrong answer. You will define your own solution depending upon your personal views and opinions.
I found mine two years ago, and though I’m probably biased, I believe it to be the strongest.
Why?
Well in less than two years it allowed me to go from waiting tables to “millionaire” by the age of 29, and it is the only solution that is completely immune to any and all market changes. It is, in a word… “Timeless”.
And it’s very simple really…
You don’t just build an MLM or network marketing opportunity because there’s no real value or equity there.
I hope you realize that.
When you build a business opportunity, you’re not building a real business at all because you don’t own any part of it. You don’t own the product. You don’t own the company, and you don’t own your downline.
You are an independent distributor that can be let go at the owner’s discretion.
Building a business opportunity is fine, but it shouldn’t “BE” your business. It should only be a part of your business.
It needs to be focused and centered around you and your name…. What I like to call, “You Inc”, because the equity you build in your name, your reputation, and your relationships is priceless because it can never be taken away from you.
When you build a following of people, and a business around “you” instead of your company, your income will never be at the mercy of other distributors, market changes, competition, or company owners again.
That’s the key to dealing with the growing limitations when it comes to advertising your company.
You don’t advertise IT… You advertise YOU.
Sponsoring distributors becomes effortless, building a downline can be done in days, and making $10,000, $20,000, or even $100,000 in a single day is as simple as writing an email.
Now this strategy is straight-forward, but I found that 99% of homes business owners lacked the simple skills necessary to actually execute the marketing methods necessary to build a “You Inc” centered business.
For example…
· How do you generate leads online?
· There are over 6 different types of leads you can generate. Which types should you pursue?
· How do you market your business to them?
· How do you market your product to them?
· How to you get them to pursue you?
· How do you monetize them if they don't join your business?
· Do you email them, call them, or mail a letter? How often?
· How do you automate this process?
· What should your emails, calls, or letters say? What should the headline be?
· What should you ask them to do next?
· How long should you keep in touch with them?
You see, the ironic part about all of this is that in the end, we’re in an industry of marketing and promotion, pursued by people who have no idea how to market or promote… Especially online.
Marketing is the life-blood of your business, but do you know HOW you’re going to keep marketing even when your company says you can’t use their name in your ads or websites any more?
If that day hasn’t come for you yet, it will soon.
Learning how to implement an effective “You Inc” based marketing campaign effectively online is not optional anymore.
It’s required.
Until you know how to market online, you don’t have a business, you have a dream.
I realized this years ago and was fortunate enough to learn these simple skills from some of the best online marketers in the world and two very good friends of mine, Tim Erway and Tom Bell.
Tom actually owned an MLM lead company for a few years, and by this point, all of us had built at least one significant downline.
We knew for a fact that the button wearing, flier-posting days of the 90’s were over.
The Internet age was here, and we didn’t hesitate to take advantage of it.
Over the course of a year, we combined our skills to come up with what we now call, “The MLM Traffic Formula”, which has become THE definitive guide to building a successful “You Inc” centered home based business in the internet age.
I’m not going to sit here today and try to sell it to you, but if you’ve been on my list for any amount of time, you’ve surely heard of it.
Tim used the Formula to sponsor 1,732 reps in 31 days. Tom used it to make over $11,000,000 in five years. And I used it to generate 9,817 free leads in one month.
The Traffic Formula allowed us to dominate the competition at will. It was pure power and the MLM industry became our playground.
So what is it?
Well it’s actually made of three different pieces or “phases”…
Phase I is about building a 7-figure business that's immune to attrition and competition by building a “You Inc” based business. If you want to learn how to market when your company doesn’t allow it, this is how it’s done…
Phase II is about generating massive online traffic using blogs, Google Adwords, search engines, articles, press-releases, and CPA networks - And then turn that traffic into live, exclusive leads for you and your business.
Phase III is about monetizing your leads and the 95% of your prospects who said, “no”, to your opportunity. I’ve used this strategy to make well over $1,000,000/yr in addition to the money made from my primary program.
In the end, it amounts to a complete step-by-step system that allows anyone who uses it to:
1: Generate endless leads online. 2: Produce instant cash-flow. 3: And build a time-less, work-at-home empire that was completely protected against market changes, “no advertising” policies, company break-downs, downline attrition, and even competition.
So Dave, you’re right… Distributors are faced with some big challenges these days, but we’ve been able to successfully adapt to them using The Formula.
I hope you enjoyed this. Click here to pursue further interest.
Written by Mike Dillard
Mike Dillard
“Mike, At last--a voice of reason rising above the babble! I've been using these methods in the brick-and-mortar business world for years, and they work like magic! In fact, I work as a business growth consultant, helping people implement these concepts.
However, when I talk to my upline (Quixtar) about integrating these strategies and tactics into my MLM business, you can almost see them reaching for the garlic necklaces and crosses to ward off such "evil thoughts!" How do you recommend that I go about finding a reputable company that won't frown on (or outright forbid, as Quixtar does with many of these methods) these concepts?”
- Dave
That’s a great question Dave and I’m so glad to know that you already understand the power found in the strategies of Magnetic Sponsoring.
It’s becoming harder and harder to advertise as a distributor in network marketing and that trend will only continue to grow in the coming years.
Companies find themselves between a rock and a hard place.
On one hand, they understand the importance of advertising, and want you to do as much as possible. Believe me… There’s nothing they’d like to see more than a market flooded with distributor placed ads promoting their products and opportunity.
On the other hand, they’re handcuffed by attorney’s who are more than aware of the FTC sharks who are constantly circling, just waiting for someone to screw up so they can dive in for the feast.
As the legal risks continue to rise, the more strict parent companies must get with their advertising policies.
This is an inevitable outcome.
Think about it…
95% of distributors in a network marketing company have no real experience as a business owner or professional advertiser.
They have no idea what’s within the law and what’s not. Income Disclaimer? Terms Of Use? Privacy Policies?
What are those?
So you take an eager group of people with ZERO education and little sense of personal liability, and you let them loose onto the biggest communications platform in the history of mankind… The Internet.
People end up placing stupid ads, and making insane claims, all in the name of their beloved parent company.
The Gov shows up a few weeks later, knocks on their door, and says “clean up your act or we’ll shut you down”.
And just like that, the ability for distributors to use advertisements with any information about the parent company at all is taken away.
You can’t blame corporate. They’re just doing what they must in order to stay in business.
This will only get worse and it’s a shame.
Personally, I can’t stand government intervention into a capitalist market.
They walk into a market under the excuse of protecting the “ignorant consumer” from the evil savvy marketers.
“Your testimonials are too persuasive which caused Mary to spend her last $50 on your product and now she can’t pay her cable bill. You need to remove those testimonials and replace them with something stale, boring, and un-compelling”.
Excuse my 3rd grade verbiage here, but that’s retarded.
America is quickly becoming a country where no one takes personal responsibility for anything in their lives. If there’s a problem, you go crying to the government who will gladly take your side in exchange for a vote, or a hefty donation during election time.
The weak whine the loudest, which is heard by the politicians who just want to keep their job, so policies are changed to cater to the whiners which means that this entire country is slowly turning into one big pile of finger-pointing meat puppets who cry for their bottle until the someone else sticks it in their mouth for them.
Can you tell I’m a little jaded by this trend?
So as far as your network marketing business is concerned, what are you going to do about it?
Well that’s the million-dollar question isn’t it?
I have to be honest. There is no right or wrong answer. You will define your own solution depending upon your personal views and opinions.
I found mine two years ago, and though I’m probably biased, I believe it to be the strongest.
Why?
Well in less than two years it allowed me to go from waiting tables to “millionaire” by the age of 29, and it is the only solution that is completely immune to any and all market changes. It is, in a word… “Timeless”.
And it’s very simple really…
You don’t just build an MLM or network marketing opportunity because there’s no real value or equity there.
I hope you realize that.
When you build a business opportunity, you’re not building a real business at all because you don’t own any part of it. You don’t own the product. You don’t own the company, and you don’t own your downline.
You are an independent distributor that can be let go at the owner’s discretion.
Building a business opportunity is fine, but it shouldn’t “BE” your business. It should only be a part of your business.
It needs to be focused and centered around you and your name…. What I like to call, “You Inc”, because the equity you build in your name, your reputation, and your relationships is priceless because it can never be taken away from you.
When you build a following of people, and a business around “you” instead of your company, your income will never be at the mercy of other distributors, market changes, competition, or company owners again.
That’s the key to dealing with the growing limitations when it comes to advertising your company.
You don’t advertise IT… You advertise YOU.
Sponsoring distributors becomes effortless, building a downline can be done in days, and making $10,000, $20,000, or even $100,000 in a single day is as simple as writing an email.
Now this strategy is straight-forward, but I found that 99% of homes business owners lacked the simple skills necessary to actually execute the marketing methods necessary to build a “You Inc” centered business.
For example…
· How do you generate leads online?
· There are over 6 different types of leads you can generate. Which types should you pursue?
· How do you market your business to them?
· How do you market your product to them?
· How to you get them to pursue you?
· How do you monetize them if they don't join your business?
· Do you email them, call them, or mail a letter? How often?
· How do you automate this process?
· What should your emails, calls, or letters say? What should the headline be?
· What should you ask them to do next?
· How long should you keep in touch with them?
You see, the ironic part about all of this is that in the end, we’re in an industry of marketing and promotion, pursued by people who have no idea how to market or promote… Especially online.
Marketing is the life-blood of your business, but do you know HOW you’re going to keep marketing even when your company says you can’t use their name in your ads or websites any more?
If that day hasn’t come for you yet, it will soon.
Learning how to implement an effective “You Inc” based marketing campaign effectively online is not optional anymore.
It’s required.
Until you know how to market online, you don’t have a business, you have a dream.
I realized this years ago and was fortunate enough to learn these simple skills from some of the best online marketers in the world and two very good friends of mine, Tim Erway and Tom Bell.
Tom actually owned an MLM lead company for a few years, and by this point, all of us had built at least one significant downline.
We knew for a fact that the button wearing, flier-posting days of the 90’s were over.
The Internet age was here, and we didn’t hesitate to take advantage of it.
Over the course of a year, we combined our skills to come up with what we now call, “The MLM Traffic Formula”, which has become THE definitive guide to building a successful “You Inc” centered home based business in the internet age.
I’m not going to sit here today and try to sell it to you, but if you’ve been on my list for any amount of time, you’ve surely heard of it.
Tim used the Formula to sponsor 1,732 reps in 31 days. Tom used it to make over $11,000,000 in five years. And I used it to generate 9,817 free leads in one month.
The Traffic Formula allowed us to dominate the competition at will. It was pure power and the MLM industry became our playground.
So what is it?
Well it’s actually made of three different pieces or “phases”…
Phase I is about building a 7-figure business that's immune to attrition and competition by building a “You Inc” based business. If you want to learn how to market when your company doesn’t allow it, this is how it’s done…
Phase II is about generating massive online traffic using blogs, Google Adwords, search engines, articles, press-releases, and CPA networks - And then turn that traffic into live, exclusive leads for you and your business.
Phase III is about monetizing your leads and the 95% of your prospects who said, “no”, to your opportunity. I’ve used this strategy to make well over $1,000,000/yr in addition to the money made from my primary program.
In the end, it amounts to a complete step-by-step system that allows anyone who uses it to:
1: Generate endless leads online. 2: Produce instant cash-flow. 3: And build a time-less, work-at-home empire that was completely protected against market changes, “no advertising” policies, company break-downs, downline attrition, and even competition.
So Dave, you’re right… Distributors are faced with some big challenges these days, but we’ve been able to successfully adapt to them using The Formula.
I hope you enjoyed this. Click here to pursue further interest.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Are You Building Your Business on Limited Funds?
This is a short video clip of Mike Dillard talking about his new free training video series on building your online business on a budget. Very valuable stuff here!
http://jamers.buildingonabudget.com/
Enjoy!
Jim Marvin
http://jamers.buildingonabudget.com/
Enjoy!
Jim Marvin
Sunday, January 20, 2008
How to Use Free Web 2.0 and Search Engine Traffic to *Stuff* Your Inbox With Free MLM Leads Quickly
(I found this article on the forum at Magnetic Sponsoring and thought it was great. It offers insights and knowledge about current online marketing possibilities that I didn't know anything about. I hope you enjoy.)
How to Use Free Web 2.0 and Search Engine Traffic to *Stuff* Your Inbox With Free MLM Leads Quickly Print E-mail
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Written by Jim Yaghi
Jim Yaghi
The secret to getting leads isn't about reproducing the same content over and over using mass article or video submission software. It's all about leveraging the networks of others. You'll learn how to do that using Web 2.0 in the following article...
The secret to getting hundreds of free Network Marketing leads and sales every day is to start small and to always leverage your efforts.
Most traffic methods are easy enough to get small short-term results with. But the real challenge is to turn those results into repeating long-term ones.
Say you write an article in an ezine like ezinearticles.com. The day you get published, you'll get 1, 3, or maybe even 5 leads. But if you don't turn some heads quickly, the results will stop the next day.
A well-written press release submitted to 24-7pressrelease.com might send you 40 leads for your MLM opportunity in a single day. But on its own will rarely bring you any more after that.
Your MySpace profile or YouTube video may bring your Home Business a few leads if you have a lot of friends in your network, but it will take forever to put your video in front of enough people to make it worthwhile the effort.
Without a way to accumulate the effect of multiple MLM lead generation sources, it's going to take forever to get leads, customers, and distributors, right?
Smart Network Marketers online find ways to leverage their consistent efforts and they compound them on top of each other.
For example, while some people might create a single YouTube video and post it and wait for a decent number of views to generate MLM Leads--smart Network Marketers find ways to reuse the video which took them a lot of time and effort to create.
So they bookmark their video with del.icio.us, a social bookmarking site. Then they "digg" it at digg.com. Then they create a lens at squidoo.com and embed their YouTube video there as well.
This exposes their video to views from other networks of people who they wouldn't have had access to before.
But guess what happens now?
The people on YouTube who saw the video will leave some comments and leave feedback. They'll talk about it and share it with their friends. People on digg.com who come across your "dugg" video will discuss it in digg with their friends and refer THEIR networks. The same happens with people on del.icio.us and Squidoo.
But why stop there?
These online MLM Home Business marketers post their video on their Wordpress blog and add it to their MySpace profile to get even more exposure in more of their networks.
And if they're using Google Adwords to promote their capture page, well, they may as well embed their video on their capture page and make it autoplay. After all, they're getting a lot of clicks that cost them money anyway and not all of them opt-in or buy.
Why not turn those clicks into useful "view count" on YouTube?
Yes! YouTube will count the number of views your video gets wherever it's embedded. And the more views it gets, the more YouTube thinks it's popular and starts to recommend it on the front page and as "related video" when prospects are watching similar videos post by others!
Not only that--but the people who notice your popular video start blogging about it and embedding it in their Google Adsense blogs. Their visitors start to discussed it and leave comments too.
Finally, the Search Engine giants like Google and Yahoo start to see all these related discussions and comments around the simple video. Now they start sending targeted MLM leads right to you because they're ranking your page as some pretty relevant content to anyone searching for information on Network Marketing.
And all of this started with a single video.
But most Network Marketers write one article and stop. Post one video and stop. Then they wonder why they get no leads for their Home Business.
Do you realise the potential to generate enormous numbers of MLM leads by leveraging a single lead generation effort with cross-promotion? Can you see how you can create a snowball effect of piles of cash, product sales, and distributor enrolments--simply by leveraging the networks and contents of millions of other people?
Jim Yaghi, author of 8 Days to Cashflow in MLM is a Network Marketing leader and professional internet marketer who trains Home Business owners to build their own cash-flow streams on the internet. If you would like to speak to Jim, contact him through his Magnetic Sponsoring Community profile. Otherwise watch some of his Network Marketing Training videos.
How to Use Free Web 2.0 and Search Engine Traffic to *Stuff* Your Inbox With Free MLM Leads Quickly Print E-mail
*
* 1
* 2
* 3
* 4
* 5
(49 votes)
Written by Jim Yaghi
Jim Yaghi
The secret to getting leads isn't about reproducing the same content over and over using mass article or video submission software. It's all about leveraging the networks of others. You'll learn how to do that using Web 2.0 in the following article...
The secret to getting hundreds of free Network Marketing leads and sales every day is to start small and to always leverage your efforts.
Most traffic methods are easy enough to get small short-term results with. But the real challenge is to turn those results into repeating long-term ones.
Say you write an article in an ezine like ezinearticles.com. The day you get published, you'll get 1, 3, or maybe even 5 leads. But if you don't turn some heads quickly, the results will stop the next day.
A well-written press release submitted to 24-7pressrelease.com might send you 40 leads for your MLM opportunity in a single day. But on its own will rarely bring you any more after that.
Your MySpace profile or YouTube video may bring your Home Business a few leads if you have a lot of friends in your network, but it will take forever to put your video in front of enough people to make it worthwhile the effort.
Without a way to accumulate the effect of multiple MLM lead generation sources, it's going to take forever to get leads, customers, and distributors, right?
Smart Network Marketers online find ways to leverage their consistent efforts and they compound them on top of each other.
For example, while some people might create a single YouTube video and post it and wait for a decent number of views to generate MLM Leads--smart Network Marketers find ways to reuse the video which took them a lot of time and effort to create.
So they bookmark their video with del.icio.us, a social bookmarking site. Then they "digg" it at digg.com. Then they create a lens at squidoo.com and embed their YouTube video there as well.
This exposes their video to views from other networks of people who they wouldn't have had access to before.
But guess what happens now?
The people on YouTube who saw the video will leave some comments and leave feedback. They'll talk about it and share it with their friends. People on digg.com who come across your "dugg" video will discuss it in digg with their friends and refer THEIR networks. The same happens with people on del.icio.us and Squidoo.
But why stop there?
These online MLM Home Business marketers post their video on their Wordpress blog and add it to their MySpace profile to get even more exposure in more of their networks.
And if they're using Google Adwords to promote their capture page, well, they may as well embed their video on their capture page and make it autoplay. After all, they're getting a lot of clicks that cost them money anyway and not all of them opt-in or buy.
Why not turn those clicks into useful "view count" on YouTube?
Yes! YouTube will count the number of views your video gets wherever it's embedded. And the more views it gets, the more YouTube thinks it's popular and starts to recommend it on the front page and as "related video" when prospects are watching similar videos post by others!
Not only that--but the people who notice your popular video start blogging about it and embedding it in their Google Adsense blogs. Their visitors start to discussed it and leave comments too.
Finally, the Search Engine giants like Google and Yahoo start to see all these related discussions and comments around the simple video. Now they start sending targeted MLM leads right to you because they're ranking your page as some pretty relevant content to anyone searching for information on Network Marketing.
And all of this started with a single video.
But most Network Marketers write one article and stop. Post one video and stop. Then they wonder why they get no leads for their Home Business.
Do you realise the potential to generate enormous numbers of MLM leads by leveraging a single lead generation effort with cross-promotion? Can you see how you can create a snowball effect of piles of cash, product sales, and distributor enrolments--simply by leveraging the networks and contents of millions of other people?
Jim Yaghi, author of 8 Days to Cashflow in MLM is a Network Marketing leader and professional internet marketer who trains Home Business owners to build their own cash-flow streams on the internet. If you would like to speak to Jim, contact him through his Magnetic Sponsoring Community profile. Otherwise watch some of his Network Marketing Training videos.
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Blogging For Profit
Blogging for Profit
Lots of people are wondering about blogging for profit. There are so many different blogs being posted all over the internet today. It has reached a point where many people who want to build a business up from the ground have chosen blogging as a very viable way to produce income.
A blog is simply a powerful way to get your thoughts out to the online communities. What we've learned, however, is that there are a lot of different people who are interested in the idea of being able to not only write on a particular topic, but also communicate with other blog owners on that same topic. There is an overwhelming give and take in the blogging communities and it is this that makes it such a profitable experience.
By building up a loyal readership to your website, you are going to soon see that blogging for profit will become very productive because monetizing blogs is extremely easy to do. If you build campaigns in text linking, square link pictures, pay-per-clicks, and a some affiliate programs, you could easily be looking at a full time income.
Also, take a look at it this way; blogs are the new content sites. When Google first came out, it was best to create content websites in order to make money from Google AdSense. Later on, with reduced interest in CPC, blogs became the natural way of doing things because of the ease in which one could produce multiple sources of income. Blogs are here to stay and if you want to make money writing about something that you really enjoy, then blogging is an incredibly powerful approach.
It's easy to set up your first blog; either through a free service or by purchasing a domain along with hosting. Next you start promoting and marketing your blog and soon you should see your page views climbing. From that point on, it becomes a much smoother ride. Blogging for profit is not the easiest way to make a living, but if you are willing to put in the effort it is definitely one of the most reliable and productive.
Lots of people are wondering about blogging for profit. There are so many different blogs being posted all over the internet today. It has reached a point where many people who want to build a business up from the ground have chosen blogging as a very viable way to produce income.
A blog is simply a powerful way to get your thoughts out to the online communities. What we've learned, however, is that there are a lot of different people who are interested in the idea of being able to not only write on a particular topic, but also communicate with other blog owners on that same topic. There is an overwhelming give and take in the blogging communities and it is this that makes it such a profitable experience.
By building up a loyal readership to your website, you are going to soon see that blogging for profit will become very productive because monetizing blogs is extremely easy to do. If you build campaigns in text linking, square link pictures, pay-per-clicks, and a some affiliate programs, you could easily be looking at a full time income.
Also, take a look at it this way; blogs are the new content sites. When Google first came out, it was best to create content websites in order to make money from Google AdSense. Later on, with reduced interest in CPC, blogs became the natural way of doing things because of the ease in which one could produce multiple sources of income. Blogs are here to stay and if you want to make money writing about something that you really enjoy, then blogging is an incredibly powerful approach.
It's easy to set up your first blog; either through a free service or by purchasing a domain along with hosting. Next you start promoting and marketing your blog and soon you should see your page views climbing. From that point on, it becomes a much smoother ride. Blogging for profit is not the easiest way to make a living, but if you are willing to put in the effort it is definitely one of the most reliable and productive.
Interview With Bob Proctor
(This is a great interview with Bob Proctor, the Publisher of Networking Times. It has lots of valuable insights about the industry of network marketing in general.)
Networking University
Presents
Moral Compensation
Interview with Bob Proctor
By John Milton Fogg
I've written (and said) many times that everything I know about Network Marketing I learned from somebody else. I love learning and I love learners-- those thinking men and women whose lives are devoted to knowledge. And I've never met a learner who didn't give more than he got. Such is the case with Bob Proctor-- he is a master student, and more, a master of a teacher.
I take notes when Bob speaks (and I usually never do that), because there're always three or five insightful, thought-provoking, immediately useful things he says that I don't ever want to forget.
Since the following interview is already written down for you, you don't have to take notes. But I'd sure recommend reading with a high-lighter in hand. As usual, when Proctor speaks, leaders listen. Enjoy.
-- JMF
Robert, you have an extensive background in corporate America, in teaching and training those people. What attracted you into Network Marketing?
A doctor I have tremendous respect for got involved with a Network Marketing company. It was seeing his picture in a Network Marketing magazine that brought the industry to my attention and caused me to take a look at it from a totally different perspective.
What was the basis of your respect for him?
I've studied the mind for approximately 40 years, and he probably taught me more about the mind than any other individual. He knows more about the mind than anyone I've ever met, or even read about. He's not a money guy, he's involved in the healing arts, so when I saw his picture attached with this company, I thought "There has to be something here that I don't understand." So I decided to look into it.
When I did, my whole perspective of the industry changed. I think I'm like an awful lot of people in that I didn't understand it but thought I did. If someone had asked me to explain Network Marketing, I would have been at a loss to explain it. And yet, if you had said, "Do you understand it?" I would have said, "Sure" when the truth is, I didn't.
Did you have a negative impression of it, Bob?
I don't think I had a negative or positive impression. It was more disinterest than anything. I often say "I was caught in my own trap." I have taught in numerous programs that anything we don't understand we have a tendency to criticize and ridicule carelessly.
What did you find when you started looking?
I found that, all things being equal-- good company, good product-- it's probably the most moral form of compensation I have ever seen. And I've studied a lot of them. I believe that the whole universe operates in an orderly manner, and Network Marketing operates more in harmony with the laws of the universe than any other business I've seen. A person truly receives exactly what he's worth. No nepotism, no favoritism. I find that rather unusual in the business world.
What are some of the laws you're referring to, and how does Network Marketing honor them?
Well, for example, the law of cause and effect-- which is one of the laws in the universe-- clearly states that energy returns to its source of origination. Or in more familiar terms, what you sow, you reap. Action and reaction are equal and opposite. This business is so perfectly aligned with that principle. If a person puts the effort out, it does come back. People are recognized for their efforts-- recognition is a big part of it, and compensation is a big part of it.
I see that there are two sources of income in life, one psychic, one material. The psychic income is the satisfaction we get from how we spend our days. We should earn enough money to provide the things we want and live the way we choose. Network Marketing, for the most part, offers that person the opportunity for both.
The people I've observed who are successful in this industry truly love what they are doing. Once they understand the system, away they go-- helping others understand it, too. Keep in mind that there are a lot of people who are not successful, but that's their own fault. Another unusual characteristic of Network Marketing is the seemingly small distance from the bottom to the top.
Can you say more about that, because a common criticism of this industry, Bob, is that there are just a few people at the top while most people are struggling.
That is something that people say, and yet, if you ask them to explain it, they're unable to. Again, what we don't understand we have a tendency to criticize and ridicule. I was probably guilty of that. I got up and said that I didn't know anyone who was earning any money. Well, I really didn't know that many people involved in Network Marketing at all. There were passing acquaintances, but I certainly didn't know what they were earning.
I've since found out, of course, that there are a lot of people earning great money in Network Marketing. My wife has been very successful, and she's having an awful lot of fun at it. I spend almost all of my time working in this industry now because I enjoy working with Network Marketers so much. I still do some work outside, and it's not that I couldn't do more, I just don't really have a desire to.
Bob, besides the moral quality that you've already spoken about in the structure of Network Marketing, what other differences do you see between Network Marketing and a conventional business?
The difference is like night and day. It's paradoxical, really-- people who do not understand Network Marketing point at it as a pyramid, when the truth is that they are probably involved in something that truly is a pyramid!
All business is shaped like a pyramid, but the difference is that in Network Marketing, everybody is at the top of their own pyramid. In corporate America, that's not the way it is. A good example of a pyramid is a Canadian bank. There are only half a dozen banks in Canada, and the people at the top all earn in the millions, while the teller probably earns $20-25,000 a year, with very little hope of getting to $35,000.
A person can sit down and draw her own star, then go and get it in Network Marketing. On top of that, she'll get help-- in Network Marketing, everyone wants to help everyone. That isn't the case outside this business.
In Network Marketing, a person has the opportunity for expansion and fuller expression. In other words, his life can continually improve. There seems to be no end to it. I've only been around the industry for a little over three years, but I'm absolutely fascinated with it. People naturally want to expand and express and grow-- the corporate structure impedes that growth, while Network Marketing supports it. In fact, it's to the advantage of the people above you to help you grow.
Bob, in looking at the uniqueness of this business, what are some of those challenges that Network Marketers face?
I think the biggest challenge a Network Marketer faces is the paradigm shift that they have to make themselves. Second is learning how to present the opportunity to someone in such a way that enables that person to make a paradigm shift, too.
We're conditioned genetically; we're conditioned environmentally. Like the old economy -- if you look at it as the old economy and the new economy. The old economy deals with competition. I think a good example is if you had a pie, and the pie is cut up, and you get a piece, I get a piece, maybe six other people get a piece. If I want more of that pie, I've got to outwit, out-market, or out-sell you, or out-scheme you. For me to have more pie, you're going to have to have less. We're dealing with a limited supply.
In Network Marketing, which I believe is the distribution system that is ushering in the new economy, a person is dealing with an infinite supply, which is in line with spiritual laws. There is no limit. So the person says, "If I want more pie, I'll make a bigger pie, and I'll make you aware of how I am enjoying more pie, so you can, too." It is the most phenomenal system, and it just keeps getting better, because you become more and more aware of the truth of it.
What kind of difficulties does that present for somebody who, say, came out of a corporate environment where the rules of the game are different?
I'll give you a good example for your readers to try. Question to the readers: are you right-handed, or left-handed? Okay, now I'm going to ask you to sign your name. Sign your name on a piece of paper. Now put the pen in your other hand. Don't just read this -- put your pen in your other hand.
You can feel the tension building in your body. Your mind reacts to it. You think "I don't write with my left hand. This is so uncomfortable. It's so cumbersome. I'm going to make such a mess. I'm going to make myself look foolish, and what will my neighbor say?" We're not programmed to write with our other hand.
People are programmed to live a certain way. What we're saying is change the programming. It's like learning a new language. It's almost as if you go home and your family doesn't speak English any longer, but French or Spanish. Eventually, you would learn what they are saying, but it would be extremely difficult and very stressful at the beginning.
Can you speak about the things that need to be reprogrammed, specifically, Bob, or give us some examples of things?
We have to begin by understanding ourselves, and improving our self-esteem. We've been raised to be dependent on the corporation, the boss, the company. We're programmed to believe that if you go to school, get a good education and a job in a big company, that you're safe. Of course everyone knows that that's not true. People have been being laid off, downsized, reengineered, or fired by the hundreds of thousands-- many are walking the street wondering what's happened.
We're living in a new economy. The world has shifted-- I believe it's aligning itself more with the universal laws. See, there's a bigger gap today between the haves and the have-nots than there ever has been before, and it's getting wider. In a recent article in the Toronto Daily Star, they pointed out that the top ten percent of income earners are earning 314 times what the bottom ten percent are earning. The people on the bottom haven't even a hope of how to get to the top, and the old system isn't going to help them.
Network Marketing clearly explains how you get to the top. The intellect can understand that-- "I know I can get to the top. Now I've got to change that emotional, conditioned mind of mine." That's harder, but people care and want to help you make the transition. There are some absolutely brilliant people who intellectually understand it, and yet don't make it. They don't make it because they never get that paradigm changed. I think there has to be more education in that area. Network Marketing is still new enough that it has not come together for the development of people yet-- and it may not for a few more years. It's in an evolutionary state. There has to be more focus on helping the individual change her subjective conditioning. People have a difficult time grasping it, so they struggle.
You see, wealthy people have always had multiple sources of income. I believe that wealth is a very real part of life-- it has to be addressed and understood. A person cannot live a full life if he doesn't have any money, because we use money for things, and we need things for the development of our potential. I have been teaching people that they must have multiple sources of income if they are going to accumulate any wealth-- not just one source. It won't work.
The beautiful part about Network Marketing is you set up multiple sources of income with each person you bring in. So in a relatively short period of time, I could have two or three thousand sources of income. Makes a difference in a person's life.
Which speaks to the business of leverage.
Absolutely. There are three income earning strategies: M1, M2, and M3.
M1 is trading our time for money. Approximately 95 to 96 percent of the population does that. It has an inherent problem called saturation.
What do you mean the inherent problem is "saturation"?
You run out of time. You only have so much time, and if you're trading your time for money, you obviously have a ceiling on what you can earn. Doctors are realizing that today. The doctor has to spend more time to earn less money. So does a laborer. So does a lawyer-- chargeable hours are the most important words in a lawyer's vocabulary. That's the M1 strategy that school teaches us and that we've observed our parents' involvement with, for the most part.
If a person becomes wealthy on the M1 strategy, it's at the expense of a life. They've compromised on the car they drive, the home that they live in, the vacations they take, the school they give their kids, the clothes they wear, because they need the money to live.
M2 is an excellent strategy-- investing money to earn money. Those who understand it know that leverage is a great way to work the M2 strategy. There're only three people out of 100, though, who understand, and some of those aren't very good at it.
Now, M3 is, without question, the strategy that wealthy people have always used. It's a strategy of leverage. Approximately one percent of the population uses this strategy, but they earn around 96 percent of all the money that is earned. M3 is multiplying your time through the efforts of others, by setting up multiple sources of income. It's a phenomenal strategy, and Network Marketing is tuned into it.
Earning money has absolutely nothing to do with work. This is the real paradox.
Say more about that, please.
Napoleon Hill, who probably taught us as much about earning money and wealthy people as anyone, said, "If you are one of those people who believes that hard work and honesty alone will bring riches, perish the thought, because it's not true. Riches come, if they come at all, in response to definite demands, based upon the application of definite principles, and not by chance or luck."
Now, let's take what he's saying and relate it to Network Marketing-- "Riches come, if they come at all, in response to definite demands based upon the application of definite principles, and not by chance or luck." Is there a demand for someone who can show that 96 percent, the people who are feverishly involved in a losing proposition in the M1 income earning strategy, how to move to M3?
Is there a demand for someone to show an individual how to close the gap between the haves and the have-nots?
I think there's a screaming demand for it, and it's something that Network Marketing does. We show them how to close the gap. We show them how to spend their days doing the things that they really love doing, and at the same time, earn the amount of money they need to live the way they choose to live.
I don't think we're made for work, I believe that work is made for us. I work every day, but I never look at it as work, because I absolutely love what I'm doing. I find it amusing that I get paid so well at times. I would do it for nothing, because I absolutely love it. Love is harmony-- it's when your conscious mind, your sub-conscious, and your body are all in sync, and you truly love what you're doing.
Are you willing to talk to me about the role of love in Network Marketing?
Sure -- that's a subject that people should spend a little more time with. I see love as resonance. It's harmony. People who are in love with helping people are huge winners. You see that proven in Network Marketing all the time-- the big winners in Network Marketing love watching a person wake up. They love watching them win.
I watched a couple being recognized recently-- they stood before the audience and said that they had been married for 13 years, and got a divorce. They stayed in touch because of the kids. One of them got involved in a Network Marketing company and got the other one involved, too. It ended up bringing them back together-- after three and a half years apart. They're happily married again now. Those people love what they're doing, they love each other, and they love helping other people. And who do you think likely received the greatest reward, the most satisfaction? The person who sponsored them. That's the biggest reward for people-- helping others win.
BOB PROCTOR is the publisher of Networking Times. He is also an author, lecturer, counselor, business consultant, entrepreneur and teacher preaching the gospel of positive thinking, self-motivation and maximizing human potential. He has conducted seminars, speeches and consultations for Prudential Insurance, Procter & Gamble, United Way, National Speakers Association, Quaker Oats, to name a few of the most familiar, as well as Network Marketing companies. He is the author of the best-selling book You Were Born Rich and The Winner's Image, The Goal Achiever and The Winner's Circle series, among other titles. He was featured in several educational movies such as The Secret and The Power of Mentorship Movie.
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Networking University
Presents
Moral Compensation
Interview with Bob Proctor
By John Milton Fogg
I've written (and said) many times that everything I know about Network Marketing I learned from somebody else. I love learning and I love learners-- those thinking men and women whose lives are devoted to knowledge. And I've never met a learner who didn't give more than he got. Such is the case with Bob Proctor-- he is a master student, and more, a master of a teacher.
I take notes when Bob speaks (and I usually never do that), because there're always three or five insightful, thought-provoking, immediately useful things he says that I don't ever want to forget.
Since the following interview is already written down for you, you don't have to take notes. But I'd sure recommend reading with a high-lighter in hand. As usual, when Proctor speaks, leaders listen. Enjoy.
-- JMF
Robert, you have an extensive background in corporate America, in teaching and training those people. What attracted you into Network Marketing?
A doctor I have tremendous respect for got involved with a Network Marketing company. It was seeing his picture in a Network Marketing magazine that brought the industry to my attention and caused me to take a look at it from a totally different perspective.
What was the basis of your respect for him?
I've studied the mind for approximately 40 years, and he probably taught me more about the mind than any other individual. He knows more about the mind than anyone I've ever met, or even read about. He's not a money guy, he's involved in the healing arts, so when I saw his picture attached with this company, I thought "There has to be something here that I don't understand." So I decided to look into it.
When I did, my whole perspective of the industry changed. I think I'm like an awful lot of people in that I didn't understand it but thought I did. If someone had asked me to explain Network Marketing, I would have been at a loss to explain it. And yet, if you had said, "Do you understand it?" I would have said, "Sure" when the truth is, I didn't.
Did you have a negative impression of it, Bob?
I don't think I had a negative or positive impression. It was more disinterest than anything. I often say "I was caught in my own trap." I have taught in numerous programs that anything we don't understand we have a tendency to criticize and ridicule carelessly.
What did you find when you started looking?
I found that, all things being equal-- good company, good product-- it's probably the most moral form of compensation I have ever seen. And I've studied a lot of them. I believe that the whole universe operates in an orderly manner, and Network Marketing operates more in harmony with the laws of the universe than any other business I've seen. A person truly receives exactly what he's worth. No nepotism, no favoritism. I find that rather unusual in the business world.
What are some of the laws you're referring to, and how does Network Marketing honor them?
Well, for example, the law of cause and effect-- which is one of the laws in the universe-- clearly states that energy returns to its source of origination. Or in more familiar terms, what you sow, you reap. Action and reaction are equal and opposite. This business is so perfectly aligned with that principle. If a person puts the effort out, it does come back. People are recognized for their efforts-- recognition is a big part of it, and compensation is a big part of it.
I see that there are two sources of income in life, one psychic, one material. The psychic income is the satisfaction we get from how we spend our days. We should earn enough money to provide the things we want and live the way we choose. Network Marketing, for the most part, offers that person the opportunity for both.
The people I've observed who are successful in this industry truly love what they are doing. Once they understand the system, away they go-- helping others understand it, too. Keep in mind that there are a lot of people who are not successful, but that's their own fault. Another unusual characteristic of Network Marketing is the seemingly small distance from the bottom to the top.
Can you say more about that, because a common criticism of this industry, Bob, is that there are just a few people at the top while most people are struggling.
That is something that people say, and yet, if you ask them to explain it, they're unable to. Again, what we don't understand we have a tendency to criticize and ridicule. I was probably guilty of that. I got up and said that I didn't know anyone who was earning any money. Well, I really didn't know that many people involved in Network Marketing at all. There were passing acquaintances, but I certainly didn't know what they were earning.
I've since found out, of course, that there are a lot of people earning great money in Network Marketing. My wife has been very successful, and she's having an awful lot of fun at it. I spend almost all of my time working in this industry now because I enjoy working with Network Marketers so much. I still do some work outside, and it's not that I couldn't do more, I just don't really have a desire to.
Bob, besides the moral quality that you've already spoken about in the structure of Network Marketing, what other differences do you see between Network Marketing and a conventional business?
The difference is like night and day. It's paradoxical, really-- people who do not understand Network Marketing point at it as a pyramid, when the truth is that they are probably involved in something that truly is a pyramid!
All business is shaped like a pyramid, but the difference is that in Network Marketing, everybody is at the top of their own pyramid. In corporate America, that's not the way it is. A good example of a pyramid is a Canadian bank. There are only half a dozen banks in Canada, and the people at the top all earn in the millions, while the teller probably earns $20-25,000 a year, with very little hope of getting to $35,000.
A person can sit down and draw her own star, then go and get it in Network Marketing. On top of that, she'll get help-- in Network Marketing, everyone wants to help everyone. That isn't the case outside this business.
In Network Marketing, a person has the opportunity for expansion and fuller expression. In other words, his life can continually improve. There seems to be no end to it. I've only been around the industry for a little over three years, but I'm absolutely fascinated with it. People naturally want to expand and express and grow-- the corporate structure impedes that growth, while Network Marketing supports it. In fact, it's to the advantage of the people above you to help you grow.
Bob, in looking at the uniqueness of this business, what are some of those challenges that Network Marketers face?
I think the biggest challenge a Network Marketer faces is the paradigm shift that they have to make themselves. Second is learning how to present the opportunity to someone in such a way that enables that person to make a paradigm shift, too.
We're conditioned genetically; we're conditioned environmentally. Like the old economy -- if you look at it as the old economy and the new economy. The old economy deals with competition. I think a good example is if you had a pie, and the pie is cut up, and you get a piece, I get a piece, maybe six other people get a piece. If I want more of that pie, I've got to outwit, out-market, or out-sell you, or out-scheme you. For me to have more pie, you're going to have to have less. We're dealing with a limited supply.
In Network Marketing, which I believe is the distribution system that is ushering in the new economy, a person is dealing with an infinite supply, which is in line with spiritual laws. There is no limit. So the person says, "If I want more pie, I'll make a bigger pie, and I'll make you aware of how I am enjoying more pie, so you can, too." It is the most phenomenal system, and it just keeps getting better, because you become more and more aware of the truth of it.
What kind of difficulties does that present for somebody who, say, came out of a corporate environment where the rules of the game are different?
I'll give you a good example for your readers to try. Question to the readers: are you right-handed, or left-handed? Okay, now I'm going to ask you to sign your name. Sign your name on a piece of paper. Now put the pen in your other hand. Don't just read this -- put your pen in your other hand.
You can feel the tension building in your body. Your mind reacts to it. You think "I don't write with my left hand. This is so uncomfortable. It's so cumbersome. I'm going to make such a mess. I'm going to make myself look foolish, and what will my neighbor say?" We're not programmed to write with our other hand.
People are programmed to live a certain way. What we're saying is change the programming. It's like learning a new language. It's almost as if you go home and your family doesn't speak English any longer, but French or Spanish. Eventually, you would learn what they are saying, but it would be extremely difficult and very stressful at the beginning.
Can you speak about the things that need to be reprogrammed, specifically, Bob, or give us some examples of things?
We have to begin by understanding ourselves, and improving our self-esteem. We've been raised to be dependent on the corporation, the boss, the company. We're programmed to believe that if you go to school, get a good education and a job in a big company, that you're safe. Of course everyone knows that that's not true. People have been being laid off, downsized, reengineered, or fired by the hundreds of thousands-- many are walking the street wondering what's happened.
We're living in a new economy. The world has shifted-- I believe it's aligning itself more with the universal laws. See, there's a bigger gap today between the haves and the have-nots than there ever has been before, and it's getting wider. In a recent article in the Toronto Daily Star, they pointed out that the top ten percent of income earners are earning 314 times what the bottom ten percent are earning. The people on the bottom haven't even a hope of how to get to the top, and the old system isn't going to help them.
Network Marketing clearly explains how you get to the top. The intellect can understand that-- "I know I can get to the top. Now I've got to change that emotional, conditioned mind of mine." That's harder, but people care and want to help you make the transition. There are some absolutely brilliant people who intellectually understand it, and yet don't make it. They don't make it because they never get that paradigm changed. I think there has to be more education in that area. Network Marketing is still new enough that it has not come together for the development of people yet-- and it may not for a few more years. It's in an evolutionary state. There has to be more focus on helping the individual change her subjective conditioning. People have a difficult time grasping it, so they struggle.
You see, wealthy people have always had multiple sources of income. I believe that wealth is a very real part of life-- it has to be addressed and understood. A person cannot live a full life if he doesn't have any money, because we use money for things, and we need things for the development of our potential. I have been teaching people that they must have multiple sources of income if they are going to accumulate any wealth-- not just one source. It won't work.
The beautiful part about Network Marketing is you set up multiple sources of income with each person you bring in. So in a relatively short period of time, I could have two or three thousand sources of income. Makes a difference in a person's life.
Which speaks to the business of leverage.
Absolutely. There are three income earning strategies: M1, M2, and M3.
M1 is trading our time for money. Approximately 95 to 96 percent of the population does that. It has an inherent problem called saturation.
What do you mean the inherent problem is "saturation"?
You run out of time. You only have so much time, and if you're trading your time for money, you obviously have a ceiling on what you can earn. Doctors are realizing that today. The doctor has to spend more time to earn less money. So does a laborer. So does a lawyer-- chargeable hours are the most important words in a lawyer's vocabulary. That's the M1 strategy that school teaches us and that we've observed our parents' involvement with, for the most part.
If a person becomes wealthy on the M1 strategy, it's at the expense of a life. They've compromised on the car they drive, the home that they live in, the vacations they take, the school they give their kids, the clothes they wear, because they need the money to live.
M2 is an excellent strategy-- investing money to earn money. Those who understand it know that leverage is a great way to work the M2 strategy. There're only three people out of 100, though, who understand, and some of those aren't very good at it.
Now, M3 is, without question, the strategy that wealthy people have always used. It's a strategy of leverage. Approximately one percent of the population uses this strategy, but they earn around 96 percent of all the money that is earned. M3 is multiplying your time through the efforts of others, by setting up multiple sources of income. It's a phenomenal strategy, and Network Marketing is tuned into it.
Earning money has absolutely nothing to do with work. This is the real paradox.
Say more about that, please.
Napoleon Hill, who probably taught us as much about earning money and wealthy people as anyone, said, "If you are one of those people who believes that hard work and honesty alone will bring riches, perish the thought, because it's not true. Riches come, if they come at all, in response to definite demands, based upon the application of definite principles, and not by chance or luck."
Now, let's take what he's saying and relate it to Network Marketing-- "Riches come, if they come at all, in response to definite demands based upon the application of definite principles, and not by chance or luck." Is there a demand for someone who can show that 96 percent, the people who are feverishly involved in a losing proposition in the M1 income earning strategy, how to move to M3?
Is there a demand for someone to show an individual how to close the gap between the haves and the have-nots?
I think there's a screaming demand for it, and it's something that Network Marketing does. We show them how to close the gap. We show them how to spend their days doing the things that they really love doing, and at the same time, earn the amount of money they need to live the way they choose to live.
I don't think we're made for work, I believe that work is made for us. I work every day, but I never look at it as work, because I absolutely love what I'm doing. I find it amusing that I get paid so well at times. I would do it for nothing, because I absolutely love it. Love is harmony-- it's when your conscious mind, your sub-conscious, and your body are all in sync, and you truly love what you're doing.
Are you willing to talk to me about the role of love in Network Marketing?
Sure -- that's a subject that people should spend a little more time with. I see love as resonance. It's harmony. People who are in love with helping people are huge winners. You see that proven in Network Marketing all the time-- the big winners in Network Marketing love watching a person wake up. They love watching them win.
I watched a couple being recognized recently-- they stood before the audience and said that they had been married for 13 years, and got a divorce. They stayed in touch because of the kids. One of them got involved in a Network Marketing company and got the other one involved, too. It ended up bringing them back together-- after three and a half years apart. They're happily married again now. Those people love what they're doing, they love each other, and they love helping other people. And who do you think likely received the greatest reward, the most satisfaction? The person who sponsored them. That's the biggest reward for people-- helping others win.
BOB PROCTOR is the publisher of Networking Times. He is also an author, lecturer, counselor, business consultant, entrepreneur and teacher preaching the gospel of positive thinking, self-motivation and maximizing human potential. He has conducted seminars, speeches and consultations for Prudential Insurance, Procter & Gamble, United Way, National Speakers Association, Quaker Oats, to name a few of the most familiar, as well as Network Marketing companies. He is the author of the best-selling book You Were Born Rich and The Winner's Image, The Goal Achiever and The Winner's Circle series, among other titles. He was featured in several educational movies such as The Secret and The Power of Mentorship Movie.
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Sunday, December 30, 2007
Books I've Read Since Approximately 1/1/2003
I was organizing my space and sorting through my small library of books today and decided to assemble a list of all the books I've read recently. I'm real big on personal growth, creating wealth, and health and wellness. Almost all of these are in those arenas. Reading is something I've enjoyed since my youth. I guess it's part of life, to engage in the learning process so I'll hopefully be expanding on this list for many years to come!
1. Peace is Possible, Andrea Cagan
2. The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz
3. Your Best Life Now, Joel Osteen
4. The Millionaire Next Door, Thomas J. Stanley
5. The Automatic Millionaire, David Bach
6. Magnetic Sponsoring, Mike Dillard
7. How to Make it When You’re Cash Poor, Hollis Norton
8. Twelve Pillars, Jim Rohn & Chris Widener
9. The Angel Inside, Chris Widener
10. Who Stole the American Dream, Burke Hedges
11. The Seasons of Life, Jim Rohn
12. A Setback is a Setup for a Comeback, Willie Jolley
13. The Perfect Business, Michael LeBoeuf
14. Watermelon Magic, Wally Amos
15. The Greatest Networker in the World, John Milton Fogg
16. Replace Your Illusions with Grander Realities, Billy Riggs
17. The Legend of the Monk and the Merchant, Terry Felber
18. Developing the Leaders Around You, John Maxwell
19. The Lazy Man’s Way to Riches, Joe Karbo
20. Reclaiming the American Dream, Bill Quain
21. Street Smart Networking, Robert Butwin
22. Timing is Everything, Denis Waitley
23. The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom
24. The MLM Binary Plan, Ray H. Duncan
25. The Richest Man in Babylon, George S. Clason
26. The Perfect Heart, Dawn L. Billings
27. Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill
28. Wave Three, The new Era in Network Marketing, Richard Poe
29. The Wave 4 Way to Building Your Downline, Richard Poe
30. Conversations With God Pt. 1, Neale Donald Walsch
31. Conversations With God Pt. 2, Neale Donald Walsch
32. The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, John C. Maxwell
33. Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki
34. Cashflow Quadrant, Robert Kiyosaki
35. The Business School, Robert Kiyosaki
36. It Only Takes a Minute to Change Your Life, Willie Jolley
37. Life is Tremendous, Charlie Jones
38. The Go-Getter, Peter B. Kyne
39. Your Greatest Power, J. Martin Kohe
40. Unlimited Power, Anthony Robbins
41. Lincoln on Leadership, Donald T. Phillips
42. Jesus, CEO, Laurie Beth Jones
43. The One Minute Manager, Kenneth Blanchard & Spencer Johnson
44. The Aladdin Factor, Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hanson
45. The Magic of Thinking Big, David J. Schwartz
46. Live Your Dreams, Les Brown
47. How to Build a Multi-Level Money Machine, Randy Gage
48. Why You’re Dumb, Sick & Broke, Randy Gage
49. All Business is Show Business, Scott McKain
50. Love is the Killer App, Tim Sanders
51. Permission Marketing, Seth Godin
52. Praying the Attributes of God , Rosemary Jensen
53. 3-Day Energy Fast, Pamela Serure
54. The Dream Giver, Bruce Wilkinson
55. The Law of Attraction, Michael J. Losier
56. Ask And It Is Given, Esther & Jerry Hicks
57. The Law of Attraction, Esther & Jerry Hicks
58. The Secret of Letting Guy Finley
59. Natural Cures, Kevin Trudeau
60. More Natural Cures Revealed, Kevin Trudeau
61. Handbook to Higher Consciousness, Ken Keyes, Jr.
62. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Wealth, Ric Edelman
63. The Traveler's Gift, Andy Andrews
64. Mastering The Seven Decisions, Andy Andrews
65. The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent, Esther & Jerry Hicks
66. Relax Into Wealth , Alan Cohen
67. The 4-Hour Work Week, Timothy Ferris
68. Make Real Money on the Internet, Stephen Pierce
69. Money and the Law of Attraction, Jerry and Esther Hicks
70. Why We Want You to be Rich, Trump/Kiyosaki
71. The Slight Edge, Jeff Olson
72. Secrets of Becoming a Late Bloomer, Goldman/Mahler
73. The Water Puzzle and the Hexagonal Key, Dr. Mu Shik Jhon
74. Toxic Relief, Don Colbert, MD
75. Chicken Soup of the Soul, Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hanson
76. Selling Sickness, Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels
77. Reverse Aging, Sang Whang
78. Alkalize or Die, Dr. Theodore A. Brody
79. The Enzyme Factor, Dr. Hiromi Shinya
80. The China Study, T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell
81. The Great Depression Ahead, Harry S. Dent Jr.
82. The Bodies Many Cries for Water, F. Batmanghelidj, M.D.
83. The Food Revolution, John Robbins
84. Change Your Water Change Your Life, Dr. Dave Carpenter
85. Healthy At 100, John Robbins
86. The Blue Zones, Dan Buettner
87. The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan
88. Water, The Shocking Truth, Paul & Patricia Bragg
89. The Microbe Factor, Dr. Hiromi Shinya
90. Guide to Investing in Gold & Silver, Michael Maloney
91. The Revolution, A Manifesto Ron Paul
92. End The Fed, Ron Paul
93. The Golden Rule, Safe Strategies, Jim Gibbons
94. Now They Call Me Infidel, Nonie Darwish
95. Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Nonie Darwish
1. Peace is Possible, Andrea Cagan
2. The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz
3. Your Best Life Now, Joel Osteen
4. The Millionaire Next Door, Thomas J. Stanley
5. The Automatic Millionaire, David Bach
6. Magnetic Sponsoring, Mike Dillard
7. How to Make it When You’re Cash Poor, Hollis Norton
8. Twelve Pillars, Jim Rohn & Chris Widener
9. The Angel Inside, Chris Widener
10. Who Stole the American Dream, Burke Hedges
11. The Seasons of Life, Jim Rohn
12. A Setback is a Setup for a Comeback, Willie Jolley
13. The Perfect Business, Michael LeBoeuf
14. Watermelon Magic, Wally Amos
15. The Greatest Networker in the World, John Milton Fogg
16. Replace Your Illusions with Grander Realities, Billy Riggs
17. The Legend of the Monk and the Merchant, Terry Felber
18. Developing the Leaders Around You, John Maxwell
19. The Lazy Man’s Way to Riches, Joe Karbo
20. Reclaiming the American Dream, Bill Quain
21. Street Smart Networking, Robert Butwin
22. Timing is Everything, Denis Waitley
23. The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom
24. The MLM Binary Plan, Ray H. Duncan
25. The Richest Man in Babylon, George S. Clason
26. The Perfect Heart, Dawn L. Billings
27. Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill
28. Wave Three, The new Era in Network Marketing, Richard Poe
29. The Wave 4 Way to Building Your Downline, Richard Poe
30. Conversations With God Pt. 1, Neale Donald Walsch
31. Conversations With God Pt. 2, Neale Donald Walsch
32. The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, John C. Maxwell
33. Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki
34. Cashflow Quadrant, Robert Kiyosaki
35. The Business School, Robert Kiyosaki
36. It Only Takes a Minute to Change Your Life, Willie Jolley
37. Life is Tremendous, Charlie Jones
38. The Go-Getter, Peter B. Kyne
39. Your Greatest Power, J. Martin Kohe
40. Unlimited Power, Anthony Robbins
41. Lincoln on Leadership, Donald T. Phillips
42. Jesus, CEO, Laurie Beth Jones
43. The One Minute Manager, Kenneth Blanchard & Spencer Johnson
44. The Aladdin Factor, Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hanson
45. The Magic of Thinking Big, David J. Schwartz
46. Live Your Dreams, Les Brown
47. How to Build a Multi-Level Money Machine, Randy Gage
48. Why You’re Dumb, Sick & Broke, Randy Gage
49. All Business is Show Business, Scott McKain
50. Love is the Killer App, Tim Sanders
51. Permission Marketing, Seth Godin
52. Praying the Attributes of God , Rosemary Jensen
53. 3-Day Energy Fast, Pamela Serure
54. The Dream Giver, Bruce Wilkinson
55. The Law of Attraction, Michael J. Losier
56. Ask And It Is Given, Esther & Jerry Hicks
57. The Law of Attraction, Esther & Jerry Hicks
58. The Secret of Letting Guy Finley
59. Natural Cures, Kevin Trudeau
60. More Natural Cures Revealed, Kevin Trudeau
61. Handbook to Higher Consciousness, Ken Keyes, Jr.
62. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Wealth, Ric Edelman
63. The Traveler's Gift, Andy Andrews
64. Mastering The Seven Decisions, Andy Andrews
65. The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent, Esther & Jerry Hicks
66. Relax Into Wealth , Alan Cohen
67. The 4-Hour Work Week, Timothy Ferris
68. Make Real Money on the Internet, Stephen Pierce
69. Money and the Law of Attraction, Jerry and Esther Hicks
70. Why We Want You to be Rich, Trump/Kiyosaki
71. The Slight Edge, Jeff Olson
72. Secrets of Becoming a Late Bloomer, Goldman/Mahler
73. The Water Puzzle and the Hexagonal Key, Dr. Mu Shik Jhon
74. Toxic Relief, Don Colbert, MD
75. Chicken Soup of the Soul, Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hanson
76. Selling Sickness, Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels
77. Reverse Aging, Sang Whang
78. Alkalize or Die, Dr. Theodore A. Brody
79. The Enzyme Factor, Dr. Hiromi Shinya
80. The China Study, T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell
81. The Great Depression Ahead, Harry S. Dent Jr.
82. The Bodies Many Cries for Water, F. Batmanghelidj, M.D.
83. The Food Revolution, John Robbins
84. Change Your Water Change Your Life, Dr. Dave Carpenter
85. Healthy At 100, John Robbins
86. The Blue Zones, Dan Buettner
87. The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan
88. Water, The Shocking Truth, Paul & Patricia Bragg
89. The Microbe Factor, Dr. Hiromi Shinya
90. Guide to Investing in Gold & Silver, Michael Maloney
91. The Revolution, A Manifesto Ron Paul
92. End The Fed, Ron Paul
93. The Golden Rule, Safe Strategies, Jim Gibbons
94. Now They Call Me Infidel, Nonie Darwish
95. Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Nonie Darwish
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