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No Romance, No MLM Downline
No Romance, No MLM Downline
By Joe Schroeder
NO ROMANCE
No Downline
No Downline, why bother?
If you were romancing a fine lady,
would you walk up to her and say,
“Hey babe, lets do dinner?”
I wouldn`t. That would not work.
It would work maybe 1 out 100 attempts.
Plus, testosterone doesn`t get you dates.
Having a heart gets you dates.
What I used to do (in the olden days)
was pay her some extra attention.
I`d ask her if I could grab her a bagel while
I was going for some noshing.
Small stuff.
But it worked.
Maybe even one of my pals would ask her,
“Have you talked much with Joe?”
You know, setting it all up.
It`s about romance.
You take it slow.
To go fast, go slow.
To go slow, go fast.
Now here we are on-line.
We are we all trying to do?
A: Build a residual check.
B: Bag our jobs that we despise.
C: Convert suspects to enrollees.
So what do we do?
Do we buy $179 worth of re-cycled leads?
Maybe. Then you slam and jam them
into an auto-responder.
And why not?
Don`t the MILLION $$$$$$$$$$$$
Don`t the BIG SITES teach that?
Day one: Join our deal. Gimme $50
Day two: Buy my leads. Gimme nother $200
The PROBLEM with that scenario is this.
Easy come. Easy go.
Easy in. Easy out.
No integrity.
No one knows [even] why they joined.
Over 80% quit next month and no one.
Not once.
Mailed a tape.
No romance.
No live calls,
“hey, THANK YOU FOR joining me!”
No romance.
Easy in.
Easy out.
I buy leads. Have to.
But only once per month.
To spice things up.
I also mail post cards
I mail out tapes.
You know.
Marketing.
I CREATE relationships.
I turn COLD suspects into
my WARM MARKET friends.
I guess you could say I am as old
fashioned as they come.
(when exactly did I get old anyway?)
Geez. I sound so “eighties.”
Oh well. But my way works.
But “my way” isn`t my way.
It`s just use tried and true old
school marketing.
I get people excited enough to
consume MORE of the sales process.
I convert my COLD leads into WARM leads.
I am accessible.
I call folks. Make friends.
All I do is give my prospects time.
I, well, I romance them.
Slow.
Like molasses guys.
Write this down.
To go fast, go slow. Ease it up.
To go slow, go FAST.
It`s not “Zen” either.
Just good old fashioned marketing.
You EXCITE and romance people to
take the next step.
That way, they convince themselves
WHY they want to work with you.
Now they know WHY they joined you
in the first place.
On-line, slamming “the numbers” is about
no one knows anyone.
No one cares.”
“Just work the numbers.”
GREAT for the KINGS and GURUS.
You pay for their sites.
You pay for their leads.
You [even] JOIN their MLM!
Not one MLM, but usually ALL THREE!
And that puts you forever on the
BUYERS SIDE.
And guess what bucko`s!
The money isn`t there.
The MONEY is on the sellers side.
Not the buyers side.
You know.
The food chain.
Be on the wrong end of it and
“Opps, poor me, I never made a penny.”
My LATEST revelation is so refined
that I chose not to make it readily available.
I won`t win any popularity votes here.
Oh well.
This is the truth. Mine anyway.
Dare I remind you NOT TO GIVE UP.
I believe in you. Most people give up inches
before the big pay day.
This industry is a tad nutty.
So are most marriages.
So are most families.
So are most jobs.
It`s called life.
And AINT IT GREAT!
Hail to the Chief,
God bless our Troops!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good old AMERICANISM still works today.
FREE ENTERPRISE STILL ROARS.
But have integrity.
Stand for something guys or you
will fall for anything.
No romance. No downline.
Fast and furious isn`t the business.
Spending $50 per enrollee is
NOT
DUPLICATABLE!
Having to BUY leads that convert
at the PRICE of $50 to $100 per enrollee
is not the business I signed up for back in 1988.
To Your Success,
Joe Schroeder
P.S. I`ve been around the block.
Don`t get taken for a ride guys.
Too many rides and you will BUY
yourself out of your dream.
THINK about that!
No ROMANCE
NO downline
To go FAST, you go slow.
Joe has authored 32 audiotapes, eight manuals, booklets, featured on the cover of Upline Magazine and Six Figure Income Magazine.
Find out what Joe recommends for generic training and leads by
visiting http://www.BeAMLMHeavyHitter.com
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What is a Business Opportunity?
What is a Business Opportunity?
By Darrell Knox
People throw the term business opportunity around pretty loosely these days. Before the internet took off, a business opportunity was a franchise like McDonalds or Wendys. Or maybe a vending machine route or insurance sales position in your local area.
Mainly what people considered business opportunities was that you had to be an entrepreneur with investment capital to take advantage of an opportunity. So a business opportunity was something only someone with money to invest could take advantage of. You had to have money to make money.
Nowadays, people by the thousands make money on Ebay and through millions of websites selling everything from wigs, to toys, to cars, houses, and electronics. A business opportunity exists for every man woman and child on the planet who has the drive to learn how the internet works and just how many different ways there are to make money.
Some business opportunities on the net require an investment of thousands of dollars. Others require only that you have a website and hosting for it. $24 a month can set you up with an affiliate business opportunity right now. I even have a free website I give people, loaded with products and customized so that you get commissions for every sale made on your site.
You don’t have to know HTML. You don’t have to know how to get a merchant account. And most of all, to get started, you don’t even have to have your own products. By far the most people making money online are doing it as affiliates who refer people to products, services, and information for commissions.
This is what I do, and I love it! I don’t have to take care of customers, stock products, do any shipping, or anything else that comes with owning your own products. Yet I make great money at it.
Now that’s a business opportunity! Gone are the days when you had to have a lot of money to invest in starting a business. You still can, if you want to. But to me it’s crazy that people spend tens of thousands of dollars on their local business, hiring staff, managing them, keeping stock and inventory, dealing with rude customers. I don’t mess with ANY of that stuff and make more money than most people who DO!
A business opportunity is worthless if it is not taken. Most people just keep their jobs because they don’t trust that they have any other choices. People who take action on a great business opportunity are people who are self-motivated and action-oriented.
You should be able to work long hours in the beginning and you should be willing to do what it takes to learn what business is all about on the web.
If you do, you can become self-employed and even extremely rich. It’s not for everyone, but from now on you know that business opportunities abound on the internet and one is even just a click away from you right this moment!
Darrell Knox is a writer and entrepreneur with 15 years of home business and marketing experience. Website:http://cgi.tripod.com/lazaraus26/cgi-bin/index.pl
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Five Tips for Home-Based Entrepreneurs
5 TIPS for Home-Based Business Entrepreneurs
By Perry Gage
Have you ever heard that only a small part (5%) of ‘all’ Home-Based Business entrepreneurs achieve success?
Do an online research on your favorite Search Engine
and you will understand what I mean.
In this article I’m going to show you the KEY to Home-Based
Business entrepreneurs success; you’ll find out what makes an
entrepreneur succesful in the home-based business field.
Below are 5 TIPS for Home-Based Business Entrepreneurs:
1. It’s their mindset that brings success
Serious entrepreneurs have ‘programmed’ their mind to succeed no matter what. They don’t lack focus on their home-based
business and let nobody stop their plans in achieving what
they want.
They know what they want and they have the DESIRE to succeed. If you don’t know exactly what you want when it comes your
home-based business, think about it again and re-consider your
plans, what you want to achieve, a get-rick-quick or a
profitable, long term business.
2. It’s their start-up plan that brings success
Smart entrepreneurs know that it takes time to set-up and grow a profitable home-based business. They plan to succeed. They
have a start-up plan that might fail but they never give up and
start again with a better plan.
Serious entrepreneurs know that it takes discipline and
time to build a strong and solid home-based business, which delivers ongoing income through many years to come.
3. It’s their initial RESEARCH that brings success
Smart and serious entrepreneurs know the importance
of market research. They know that in order, for a home-based business to succeed, they have to research their target market (their potential customers) and study their competitors.
Research your target market and study your competitors
in order to have a long-term, profitable home-based business.
Know what your customers want and give it to them.
Keep an eye on your competitors, study their offer(s)
and make sure you come up with a better deal than
them.
4. It’s their marketing strategy that brings success
Study each successful entrepreneur in your marketing
field and you’ll notice how they market online / offline.
Each of them have their own ‘unique’ marketing strategy
but they use the same basic principles.
Don’t re-invent the wheel. Use the main marketing concepts
that are proven to work but try to improve and adjust them
to your own situation. Make them work for your home-based business. Make your offer better and unique than your competitiors if you want to WIN in this business, or simply quit (I know that’s no what you really want!)
5. It’s their investment that brings success
Smart entrepreneurs know that the KEY is to work SMART, not hard. If you don’t have the required skills to develop a NEW marketing tactic for your home-based business why not hire a consultant who knows his stuff?
If you have ‘enough’ money why not invest in someone who can help you grow your home-based business and give me something to work at too?
What is more valuable to you, your time or your money?
A serious entrepreneur is ready to invest (both time and money). He knows that he will build a long-term successful business for him and the one he loves (friends, family, children, etc.)
The final (or first?) STEP you need to take in order to succeed
is to act (take ACTION!). Yes, put into practice what I have
told you above (the 5 TIPS for Home-Based Business
Entrepreneurs) and you’ll succeed, no matter what. Trust me!
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Network Marketing’s Best Kept Secret May Be Costing You a Fortune
This is included for informational purposes only. Please consult a tax advisor, your attorney, or an accountant regarding tax code and stuff like that.
Network Marketing’s Best Kept Secret May Be Costing You a Fortune
By Jim Lynn
The words, “I quit…” have never been more costly.
Network marketers hear “I quit” all too often from distributors
they have sponsored. However, if those new distributors only
knew the thousands of dollars they were throwing away,
they would never quit. Here’s Why?
The moment your prospect enrolls in your program,
they may be eligible for an instant $300 or more
pay increase from their place of employment.
And the best part is—This money can be in their hands
starting with their next paycheck! Think about what that
could mean as an incentive to boost your program.
How is this possible?
The U.S. government as TWO income tax systems,
and most taxpayers are in the wrong one?
There is one tax system for employees that includes most
working Americans, and a very different, much better tax
system for business owners.
Employees, called W-2 Wage Earners, work for someone
else. There are very few tax deductions available to wage
earners, and hence, they pay a large percentage of their
income as a tax to the government. Conversely, business
owners get to deduct (write-off) just about everything from
apples to zippers, and pets to donuts.
When payday comes, employees immediately lose a large
chunk of their wages to income tax withholding. Business
owners, on the other hand, get to keep what they earn,
spending it on whatever they want or need to, and then
pay taxes only on whatever is left over. Said another way,
business owners buy things with BEFORE-tax dollars.
Employees buy things with AFTER-tax dollars.
By signing a Distributor Agreement form in your program
(or enrolling to be eligible for commissions) with the intent
to make a profit, your prospect becomes a business owner.
Business owners are authorized by the U.S. Congress to
receive immediate tax benefits (tax deductions).
This tax benefit is huge. On average, a home-based NWM
business owner can cut their tax liability by $5,000 to $10,000
or more per year.
Here are just a few tax deduction you may claim as a
NWM home-based business owner.
As a home-based business owner, you may be eligible to
deduct 100% of all medical, dental, optical bills, health
insurance premiums and deductibles your family pays
on your annual IRS 1040 tax form.
You can deduct up to $4,250 for every child in your family
and spouse as employees of your business. Why? If they
carry out the trash, if they wash the car, if they dust your
home business work place, the IRS considers them
employees of your business.
You can deduct $5,250 a year in educational expenses
for every child over 21, deduct 100% of pension plan
expenses, and much, much more.
The home-based business owner can deduct virtually
every expense the business incurs. Of course, that
includes equipment, employee costs, utilities, loan interest,
insurance, security systems and medical costs. But it also
includes vehicles, travel expenses, entertainment, magazine
subscriptions, even the coffee in the kitchen, and those are
only a few of the deductions the business owner can take.
Taxpayers without a business do not have these benefits.
Give Yourself An Immediate Pay Increase
As a home-based business owner, you and/or your spouse
may adjust your W-4 exemptions at your place of employment,
and immediately take home up to $500 or more per month that
is now being withheld. That translates into one BIG pay increase
with money you can spend or invest now!
If you had triplets, you would go to your employer and change
your W-4, tapping into hundreds of dollars. The same goes for
your home business. The day you opened your home business
you tapped into potentially thousands of dollars in deductions,
enabling you to raise the number of exemptions on your W-4.
Your take home pay goes up by hundreds of dollars (even if
you didn’t have triplets). And the best is that you do NOT need
to show a profit in your business to claim more exemptions,
only the INTENT to make a profit.
W-4 forms exist for one purpose—to claim withholding exemp-
tions. This form may be amended at any time, any number of
times, without penalty. The more exemptions you claim, the
greater your take-home pay will be.
What could you do with an extra $300 per month?
You could use that extra $300 to buy products needed to
qualify for commissions in your NWM venture. You could
afford to advertise your business, set up an online
marketing system and much more.
You also now have a way to help your prospects fund their
NWM business, thereby removing the “I can’t afford it”
objection right off the table.
Take action. You could be bringing home hundreds of
dollars more per month in your paycheck that are now
going to Uncle Sam.
Many taxpayers have taken on part-time jobs to make
up this loss. How much more productive could we be to
ourselves if we learned how to keep what we earn? Surely
it is worth a few minutes a day to document business
expenses to keep our money.
The difference between being able to deduct business
expenses and not having a home-based business is
many times the difference between having to take
another job and staying at home. You decide which
is more taxing.
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Jim Lynn is the author of, “Real World Secrets Behind
America’s Most Successful (And Profitable) People
Who Network.” Website: http://peoplewhonetwork.net
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1,001 Deals and Steals: A Guide to Online Classifieds
1,001 Deals and Steals: A Guide To Online Classifieds
By Donald Lee
Some naysayers way back in the 1990s predicted that online shopping wouldn’t last. Sure, and they said television was a passing fad, too! As we all know, just the opposite has occurred. There’s a television in every household, and more than likely, the homeowner bought their television online—along with his books, music CDs, clothes, and maybe even his home.
Internet shopping is bigger than ever. You can find anything and everything for sale online. Many times, you can find it cheaper online than anywhere else. Internet shopping offers so much more than a discounted price tag, though.
Imagine a shopping mall where there are no lines, where there are no jammed parking garages, and no pushy sales clerks. This is no land of make believe. It is the Internet, where you can discover unprecedented selection, convenience, and opportunities. Online shopping gives you the luxury of browsing hundreds of stores from your living room, while saving on time and frustration. It provides you the chance to compare prices to your heart’s delight on a near limitless selection of brands and models.
For even more benefits, try your hand at classifieds and auction Web sites. These sites are like yard sales and flea markets rolled into one. Unlike retail shopping sites, they offer:
Access to super secondary markets. Take your pick of secondhand or brand-new wholesale goods at steeply discounted prices. The vendors at classifieds sites can get away with it because they aren’t paying high rent for a storefront or a warehouse. And in many cases, you’re not paying taxes.
Tools to locate unique and rare collectibles. Imagine a classifieds site to be like a sunken pirate boat, laden with cultural artifacts, hard-to-find heirlooms, and priceless antiques. The Internet is your deep-sea vessel, sonar, and oxygen tank all in one.
Reach beyond your neighborhood. Search through the inventory of a vendor from your home town, or if you don’t find what you’re looking for there, try that fellow in California, Texas or Canada for that matter.
Close relationships with vendors. You deal with real people—not big, impersonal corporations—when you buy on classifieds sites. They can provide more details about the product, which you can then use to bargain for a reasonable price.
Despite this bounty of benefits, you might still be hesitant to dive into Internet shopping. Don’t be embarrassed. You have good reason to take your time and weigh your choices. According to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Internet fraud tops the list of the thousands of fraud cases that happen every year. In some ways, WWW could stand for the Wild West Web, in that anything goes. Vendors can be villains in disguise, and there aren’t any online Wyatt Earps to protect you from these bad guys. You’re on your own.
But give yourself some credit. You have the common sense it takes to survive the WWW. It is the same commonsense that helps you make the most of your money on your standard shopping trips. Become familiar and comfortable with an online vendor before jumping into a purchase. Ask questions and do a bit of research.
After doing your research, you’ll feel more confident in searching for your online booty. To refine your findings and whittle your list to only the exceptional sites, look for these additional qualities:
• A focus on local shopping, so you can feel more confident buying from neighbors.
• Free education and advice on safe purchasing.
• No-cost and easy browsing through available merchandise.
• Search tools that let you prioritize items by category, location, and distance.
• A straightforward pricing system that avoids the haggling and risk of auction bidding.
• Quick price comparisons among different vendors.
Unbelievably, a few trustworthy, practical, and exciting Web sites exist that have all of these features. To find these websites, simply browse through Yahoo’s directory under the classifieds category. The best of the online classified sites offer these services free to buyers such as you. Some of these sites can link you at no charge to your neighbor selling the antique lamp that you’ve been hunting for or that retiree looking to unload an incredible piece of real estate—or the cowboy looking to sell his big-screen television.
Donald Lee is a public relations manager at BSCCOM Inc. BSCCOM Inc. provides free online advertisement services for Canadian and U.S. regions. For more information please visit: http://www.buysellcommunity.com
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