If You’re Broke and You Know it, Clap your Hands
Written by Todd Falcone
It would probably be better to be happy and you know it if you plan on clapping your hands. But, if you ARE broke and you know it, clap your hands. Then, read the rest of this article.
Being broke is a temporary state. I’ve been broke. I had times when I had no money. But, you know what? I hated being broke, so I decided to get damn serious about my network marketing business.
Seven Easy Steps for “Going for Broke” to Create Success:
1. Pick a company and stick to it. Going from company to company isn’t going to be the solution to your financial woes. If people are making money in your deal and you’re not, the company ain’t the problem. You are. Start working on your skills to create better results.
2. Make the commitment. Success doesn’t happen for people who dabble. Dive in deep. Get moving. Don’t give yourself a way out…and don’t ever give network marketing a “try” or a “shot’. Make the decision today to DO IT.
3. Be a Student. Study the success of others. Find someone who has what you want, and do exactly as they do. Don’t reinvent the wheel thinking that you’re the greatest gift to selling since Ron Popeil. Be coachable and learn from others who have already done it. Humility will lead you to success.
4. Hang out with the winners and dump the losers. Your net worth is going to be an average of the 5 people you hang around with the most. If you don’t like you net worth, start investing your time with people who are more successful than you are.
5. Work your butt off. Seriously…if getting rich was easy, everyone on planet earth would be doing it. I love the old phrase, “The harder you work, the luckier you get.” Hard work definitely pays big dividends. Obviously, working smart AND hard will pay even bigger dividends.
6. Learn to communicate masterfully. The best entrepreneurs I know are the best communicators. Work on your communication skills every day. Read books, study good communicators, take a class…do something. If you stink at communicating your message, your check will stink. The better you get, the easier this business becomes.
7. Don’t ever quit. My goodness! Even if you are a total nimrod, you’ll make money at this if you simply keep prospecting and never stop. But…who wants the title of nimrod? Not me. I don’t think you do either. The only ways to fail in this business is quit or not work at all. As Donald Trump says, “Just keep on chugging!”
It’s not that tough. Remember, broke is temporary. The moment you decide to not be broke anymore is the moment you begin to create wealth in your life.
Trust me…having a bank account balance is a good thing. You deserve it.
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Marketing Secret Used by Rush Limbaugh & Fidel Castro Attracts Cash & Customers Like Flies to Honey
Marketing Secret Used by Rush Limbaugh & Fidel Castro Attracts Cash & Customers Like Flies to Honey
Written by Ben Settle
If you'd like to explode the power and reach of every single marketing piece you send out -- whether it's on TV, on the radio, in a print ad, in an email, on a website or even on a lowly postcard -- then this article will show you how.
But first, please take a moment to study the following list of names: Jesus Christ -- Oprah Winfrey -- Fidel Castro -- Dr. Atkins -- Donald Trump -- Walt Disney -- Karl Marx -- Rush Limbaugh -- Ronald Reagan -- Bill Clinton -- Ronald McDonald -- Adolf Hitler.
Believe it or not, as diverse and opposite to each other as some of these people are, they all have something very important in common. A “thing” so powerful it can immediately boost your profits to obscene heights and blast through any financial “ceilings” you bang your head on.
What is this special thing these people have in common? The answer is simple: They have tremendously powerful personal brands.
I'm not talking about image brands -- or branding in the corporate "Good Year Blimp" sense of the word.
What I'm talking about, and what the list of people above are (or were) masters at, is personal branding.
And make no mistake, the difference between image branding and personal branding is like night and day.
You see, unlike the "image" branding we're all exposed to every single day -- which is almost always built around a logo, blimp, slogan or song -- personal branding is built around a specific person and/or personality.
Take, for example, the list of people above.
Whether you like them or not, these people -- good, bad or ugly -- are not “unknowns”. They each trigger instant name recognition and, in many cases, strong emotions.
Think about it:
Rush Limbaugh, Karl Marx, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton -- Jesus Christ Himself -- are all loved and/or hated with unbridled passion around the world.
And cash is attracted to them or their causes like flies to honey. When you have the personal brand of any of the people listed above, all someone has to do is mention your name and people will know exactly what you do and what you stand for.
Now, this begs the question:
How exactly do you build an explosive personal brand?
One that attracts people and cash to you -- and keeps your business red-hot and your direct response advertising even hotter?
Fortunately, it's not rocket science.
And although there are dozens and dozens of ways of doing this (way more than we can possibly discuss in an article like this) you can get started on building your own personal brand simply by making sure your personality is attached to every point of contact you make with your customers and prospects -- especially your marketing.
For example:
If you send out a sales letter, instead of using cold, stilted "cough medicine label" words, use words you would use in a real conversation -- figures of speech and all. Or, if you send out a weekly newsletter, don't be shy about telling people some real life incident that happened to you and how you reacted and felt about it.
As you can see, there's nothing complicated about this. Start putting your personality into your business and I think you'll be amazed by what happens.
Ben Settle is a direct response copywriter and author of "The Copywriting Grab Bag". Although Ben rarely accepts clients, he freely shares his latest copywriting secrets and tactics on his website at http://bensettle.com
Written by Ben Settle
If you'd like to explode the power and reach of every single marketing piece you send out -- whether it's on TV, on the radio, in a print ad, in an email, on a website or even on a lowly postcard -- then this article will show you how.
But first, please take a moment to study the following list of names: Jesus Christ -- Oprah Winfrey -- Fidel Castro -- Dr. Atkins -- Donald Trump -- Walt Disney -- Karl Marx -- Rush Limbaugh -- Ronald Reagan -- Bill Clinton -- Ronald McDonald -- Adolf Hitler.
Believe it or not, as diverse and opposite to each other as some of these people are, they all have something very important in common. A “thing” so powerful it can immediately boost your profits to obscene heights and blast through any financial “ceilings” you bang your head on.
What is this special thing these people have in common? The answer is simple: They have tremendously powerful personal brands.
I'm not talking about image brands -- or branding in the corporate "Good Year Blimp" sense of the word.
What I'm talking about, and what the list of people above are (or were) masters at, is personal branding.
And make no mistake, the difference between image branding and personal branding is like night and day.
You see, unlike the "image" branding we're all exposed to every single day -- which is almost always built around a logo, blimp, slogan or song -- personal branding is built around a specific person and/or personality.
Take, for example, the list of people above.
Whether you like them or not, these people -- good, bad or ugly -- are not “unknowns”. They each trigger instant name recognition and, in many cases, strong emotions.
Think about it:
Rush Limbaugh, Karl Marx, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton -- Jesus Christ Himself -- are all loved and/or hated with unbridled passion around the world.
And cash is attracted to them or their causes like flies to honey. When you have the personal brand of any of the people listed above, all someone has to do is mention your name and people will know exactly what you do and what you stand for.
Now, this begs the question:
How exactly do you build an explosive personal brand?
One that attracts people and cash to you -- and keeps your business red-hot and your direct response advertising even hotter?
Fortunately, it's not rocket science.
And although there are dozens and dozens of ways of doing this (way more than we can possibly discuss in an article like this) you can get started on building your own personal brand simply by making sure your personality is attached to every point of contact you make with your customers and prospects -- especially your marketing.
For example:
If you send out a sales letter, instead of using cold, stilted "cough medicine label" words, use words you would use in a real conversation -- figures of speech and all. Or, if you send out a weekly newsletter, don't be shy about telling people some real life incident that happened to you and how you reacted and felt about it.
As you can see, there's nothing complicated about this. Start putting your personality into your business and I think you'll be amazed by what happens.
Ben Settle is a direct response copywriter and author of "The Copywriting Grab Bag". Although Ben rarely accepts clients, he freely shares his latest copywriting secrets and tactics on his website at http://bensettle.com
Friday, November 30, 2007
Head First? No.
Everyone that has been successful in network marketing is well aware that,in order to make money in this industry, it takes
i) an abundance of hard work
ii) a lot of patience
iii) a reasonable investment
If you are lazy and believe all those "easy money" catch phrases, you will soon fall into the 97% category of network marketers that never make any money in this industry.Instead of offering a money back guarantee, network marketing programs should offer recruits $10,000 if they make any money at all, without working and without some form of investment. I bet that $10,000 will always be safe!!
If, however, you want to fall into the 3% category that does make money, you should get some knowledge of the industry before you dive in head first. You can only get this knowledge from those that have been in this industry long enough to gain formidable experience - in many instances by way of "the school of hard knocks".
One of my favourite gurus is Mike Dillard. He has built a web of experienced networkers around him and for the price of a book you will benefit from their vast knowledge of the industry.Watch the Seven FREE Boot Camp tutorials before you sign up.
http://dunnit.magneticsponsoringonline.com/letter.html
You don't need to thank me...just continue to benefit from it!
i) an abundance of hard work
ii) a lot of patience
iii) a reasonable investment
If you are lazy and believe all those "easy money" catch phrases, you will soon fall into the 97% category of network marketers that never make any money in this industry.Instead of offering a money back guarantee, network marketing programs should offer recruits $10,000 if they make any money at all, without working and without some form of investment. I bet that $10,000 will always be safe!!
If, however, you want to fall into the 3% category that does make money, you should get some knowledge of the industry before you dive in head first. You can only get this knowledge from those that have been in this industry long enough to gain formidable experience - in many instances by way of "the school of hard knocks".
One of my favourite gurus is Mike Dillard. He has built a web of experienced networkers around him and for the price of a book you will benefit from their vast knowledge of the industry.Watch the Seven FREE Boot Camp tutorials before you sign up.
http://dunnit.magneticsponsoringonline.com/letter.html
You don't need to thank me...just continue to benefit from it!
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