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Check out the fol­low­ing Rastelli Direct Review Below!

Rastelli Direct Review

So you’re ready to start a home based busi­ness, you’re surf­ing the web for dif­fer­ent MLM oppor­tu­ni­ties and you come across an online restau­rant oppor­tu­nity. It just makes sense to have mul­ti­ple streams of income these days, right? Every­one has to eat, right? Might as well see what this Rastelli Direct Review is about.….

In this Rastelli Direct Review, we’re going to share with you some facts about the com­pany, the prod­ucts,  and the deli­cious busi­ness opportunity.

Rastelli Direct Review/Company Info:

Let’s begin this Rastelli Direct Review with the fact that Rastelli Foods have been in busi­ness since 1976 so the busi­ness def­i­nitely has some longevity we’d say. They have expanded into a nearly bil­lion dol­lar com­pany. Rastelli Direct is the net­work mar­ket­ing divi­sion of Rastelli Foods Group and has been in pre launch since Jan­u­ary 2010. The offi­cial launch for Rastelli Direct will be April 21st, 2012 at the Aloft Hotel in Mt. Lau­rel, NJ.

Ray Rastelli is the Pres­i­dent and owner and has quite a pow­er­ful story from start­ing out as a young hus­band and father own­ing a lit­tle meat shop on a cor­ner to expand­ing into a nearly bil­lion dol­lar com­pany along with his brother Tony Rastelli  ensur­ing the best qual­ity and ser­vice for customers.

Rastelli Direct Review/ Beef:

• All the cat­tle are free range and raised in a clean, low stress, humane environment
• Antibiotic, steroid and hor­mone free

Rastelli Direct Review/ Seafood:

• Fully Inte­grated Pro­cess­ing Facil­i­ties (It’s great to know where your food comes from because they own the prod­ucts and the facility)
• Around the clock FDA inspec­tion (Not just once a year like most gro­cery store chains, but every hour of every day)
• Inno­v­a­tive prod­uct line (They fea­ture the newest and fresh­est gems of the sea)
• Blast Frozen at sea (Caught and processed imme­di­ately to ensure the fresh­ness and safety of the product)

Rastelli Direct Review/Chicken, Pork, Veal and Lamb:

• All Nat­ural Chicken, free roam­ing, clean low stress environment
• No MSG
• Veg­e­tar­ian diet
• Pure­land Pork, stress free and humane envi­ron­ment, antibi­otic free, highly mar­bled for max­i­mum juici­ness and tenderness
• All Nat­ural Milk Fed Veal, humanely raised, no addi­tives or preservatives.
• All Nat­ural Lamb, free range, no hor­mones, antibiotics, steroids,  or growth stim­u­lants, pas­ture fed

Rastelli Direct Review–A Deli­cious Opportunity:

Rastelli Direct Review

Now we’ll dis­cuss in this Rastelli Direct Review  the 3 ways to get involved–

1. Become a Rastelli Direct Retail Customer
2. Become a Rastelli Direct Smart Shop­per (Com­mit to pur­chase at least $50.00 worth of prod­ucts each month in order to qual­ify for a 20% dis­count on the products)
3. IBP–Rastelli Direct Inde­pen­dent Busi­ness Part­ner (Choose from one of the many pack­ages to get started, they will include var­i­ous prod­ucts, busi­ness kit with mar­ket­ing mate­ri­als to get started, and your repli­cated web­site all for one price with free ship­ping on both the busi­ness kit as well as the prod­ucts) After the ini­tial month, you will com­mit to pur­chas­ing $75.00 worth of prod­ucts (aka auto­ship) and your web­site will be $9.95 per month. You can EAT for FREE fairly quickly if you work to bring in at least 8 customers/partners to off­set your costs. The bonuses and incen­tives are all explained in the video located under the finan­cial oppor­tu­nity tab on the  Rastelli Direct website.

Rastelli Direct Review

Rastelli Direct Presentation

Check out our Empower Net­work review and see if it’s a good fit for you.

In this Empower Net­work Review we will explain what it is and why this is a no-brainer for any­one look­ing to have suc­cess online no mat­ter what busi­ness you are promoting.

What is The Empower Network?

The Empower Net­work is a totally done for you blog­ging platform.(no tech­ni­cal set up) We wish this had been around when we were get­ting started. We spent two months set­ting up our blog  and it was a total pain in the ass.

With The Empower Net­work all the hard work has been done for you.

Empower Net­work mem­ber­ship starts you with an 8-part train­ing series with sim­ple core prin­ci­ples that give you a step by step blue­print of what to do with your new blog and how to use it to allow you to make  prof­its on the very first day, lit­er­ally the moment some­one buys some­thing. NO more wait­ing for 30, 60, 90 days for com­mis­sions and No more 10–20% com­mis­sion checks, 100% imme­di­ately, PERIOD! It’s a no brainer for any seri­ous marketer!

The big ques­tion peo­ple have is if they are pay­ing out 100% com­mis­sions how are they mak­ing any money?

Well the answer is actu­ally very sim­ple they (David and David) are doing the same thing you will be doing. Get­ting peo­ple to pur­chase the blog­ging plat­form and the other awe­some prod­ucts offered by The Empower Network.

Empower Net­work takes care of the lead and sales con­ver­sions, train­ing and edu­ca­tion part of your busi­ness so you don’t have to.

What do you blog about? Any­thing you want! Your life,your pri­mary business,tools you use for your business, training’s you just learned and are imple­ment­ing in your busi­ness  any­thing else your heart desires.

While doing our Empower Net­work Review the thing we liked the best is that  you can get started for the low price of just $25.00 and when you start mak­ing money upgrade and pur­chase the other prod­ucts and then you will earn 100% com­mis­sions on those prod­ucts as well. Click here to Review The Empower Net­work comp plan

If you are look­ing to build a resid­ual income The Empower Net­work is the best sys­tem out their to do that with­out hav­ing to be a tech­ni­cal guru.I hope this helps and you enjoyed our Empower Net­work Review.

I hope this helps and you enjoyed our Empower Net­work Review.

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To Your Empowerment,

We feel that we have to Come Clean About what’s hap­pen­ing in Our Home Based Busi­ness so we will!

Feli­cia here and I wanted to share with you some per­sonal aspects of what’s been going on (yet again lol)…

Recently I read an arti­cle about 15 Waste­ful Habits of  Unpro­duc­tive and Unsuc­cess­ful Part Time Blog­gers by Noe Lani Kee and it said that if you have been away from blog­ging for awhile to be open and hon­est about why, so here it goes.…

So many things have hap­pened in our per­sonal lives lately that it has been a def­i­nite dis­trac­tion both men­tally and  phys­i­cally.  I know I’ve spoke on this sub­ject before, but I have to say that we are even more deter­mined to suc­ceed than ever before. There’s no point in beat­ing our­selves up for it, we all go through things and come out of them in our own time. The main point is we have to come out of them-period! At least if you want hap­pi­ness and suc­cess, that is.

Among the many losses we’ve suf­fered over the past few years, it turns out another change of events has unexpectedly occurred.

On New Year’s Eve my sis­ter  Diana  had a  dou­ble aneurysm and has been in crit­i­cal con­di­tion on life sup­port. She is the only sib­ling that I truly feel close to that’s left. My other step sis­ter Denise and I just sim­ply clash. Not sure why, just a dif­fer­ence of per­son­al­ity and beliefs. It’s all good though, it is what it is. I for­give her and love her, but I’ll go into more on that sub­ject in a few. Back to Diana.…of course, that kind of sit­u­a­tion is going to be a detourant from busi­ness and total func­tion­al­ity. She has been in my life since I was 4 years old. She has the kind­est, most lov­ing heart and although she’s 10 yrs. older, she is more like a teenager at heart. As of today, she is doing much bet­ter. She is now off of life sup­port, breath­ing on her own and is more respon­sive and aware, but still has a long recov­ery process ahead of her.

Need­less to say, maybe because of the recent losses it has clouded my judg­ment and made me very fear­ful. I was so afraid of los­ing yet another loved one that I crawled into a shell and shut down. I had been bat­tling some health issues myself, so all the more rea­son to jump on the pity train and take off. Right? WRONG! Life hap­pens some­times and at times there are sit­u­a­tions beyond our con­trol but it’s how we han­dle them that can either make us or break us.

Self pity is the worst thing you do. It doesn’t help any­one, it only hurts you and all those around you. It shows a lack of faith. As I’ve said before we’re only human and all fall short of the glory of God. This is why I’m so thank­ful for my faith. I know that I have a lov­ing , for­giv­ing, mer­ci­ful Father who is still mold­ing me and shap­ing my life.

Fol­low­ing are some more rea­sons why we are more deter­mined than ever to get back to our home based business.…

Brian has been work­ing a full time job doing com­mer­cial con­struc­tion cabling. The job is not sta­ble, too hard on his body (we are get­ting older and phys­i­cally demand­ing jobs are not the best), co-workers with no vision or com­pat­i­bil­ity, fight­ing the ele­ments of mother nature, etc. etc. So many rea­sons why work­ing for some­one else is not grat­i­fy­ing. We want con­trol, time and finan­cial free­dom along with tax advan­tages so we push on…

With me, I have been work­ing full time with both of my sis­ters at a title search­ing com­pany in down­town Colum­bus. (Not a sta­ble job either, but what job is these days?) Even before the event with my sis­ter Diana, we had all been mis­er­able with our job. Our sis­ter Denise is quite a chal­lenge to deal with on a daily basis. I’m not try­ing to talk bad about her, just stat­ing facts. In fact, some of her anger is some­what jus­ti­fied as the way the com­pany is run, the dis­or­ga­ni­za­tion, and the piss poor man­age­ment is absolutely mad­den­ing but it doesn’t help that she has a very neg­a­tive mind­set to begin with  and at the age of 50 throws tantrums that pale in com­par­i­son to a 2 yr. old. when things don’t go her way or the slight­est thing goes wrong. (I.E. her copier/scanner runs out of paper) Boy, look out! Heaven for­bid she has to get up off her a** and put more paper in the machine. Wow! Every­thing that comes out of her mouth is evil and neg­a­tive. This toxic envi­ron­ment makes it very hard to maintain.

My sis­ter Diana is more like me, wants to see the good in things and deals with prob­lems or stress in a much more dig­ni­fied man­ner. We tried to stay pos­i­tive despite Denise’s melt­downs, but it was/is get­ting harder every day to do so.   Now, with­out my sis­ter Diana to help off­set the crazy, it’s even more like a night­mare. You see, you can’t change other peo­ple, you can only con­trol how you han­dle yourself. However, when you are in a toxic envi­ron­ment day in and day out, it starts pulling you under with it no mat­ter how hard you try to stay afloat. Are You in a Toxic Envi­ron­ment? This envi­ron­ment starts suck­ing the life out of you and you have noth­ing left to give to a home based busi­ness at the end of the day, or so I thought.

This is the exact men­tally that you don’t want to have. This is exactly why you have to fight ever harder to over­come. There’s no sense in com­plain­ing or whin­ing. It’s time to Nut Up or Shut Up!

Brian and I choose to not hang around neg­a­tive peo­ple in our per­sonal lives, so why do we in our pro­fes­sional lives?  Well, I don’t know, but it’s high time that we do some­thing about it. Remem­ber, it is well known that you are the aver­age of the top 5 peo­ple you hang around the most!

“It’s not what’s hap­pen­ing to you now or what has hap­pened in your past that deter­mines who you become. Rather, it’s your deci­sions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you’re going to do about them that will deter­mine your ulti­mate des­tiny.”
~Anthony Robbins

We all have choices. We have the choice of where we work, who we are around, where we want to live, how much money we want to make, what is most impor­tant. Never Give Up! 

We choose to be suc­cess­ful in our home based busi­ness. We choose to bust our butts until we reach the level where we  lever­age the efforts of our part­ners that want the same and then retire. We choose to have more time and finan­cial free­dom. We choose to travel and make new and inter­est­ing friends who are like minded and pos­i­tive. We choose to help oth­ers and ulti­mately choose to fol­low God.

I know this is a lot of per­sonal stuff. My hope is to reach some of you out there who may be hav­ing some per­sonal strug­gles as well and real­ize that we all go through them. You have to have a pow­er­ful enough “why” to do some­thing about it and take action, even when you don’t “feel” like it.

Do You Have the Right Mind­set? Yet another rea­son to con­sis­tently work on per­sonal devel­op­ment to off­set the tri­als and tribu­la­tions of every day life.  Read­ing good books are absolutely essen­tial. Visu­al­iza­tion and med­i­ta­tion are also must do’s to stay grounded. Yoga, eat­ing right and stay­ing hydrated are also some good ways to stay healthy men­tally and physically.

If we can do it, YOU can too!

On a side note, we’re extremely thank­ful for our pos­i­tive friends and biz part­ners in the net­work mar­ket­ing arena who lift us up and encour­age us to keep push­ing for­ward. It’s great to be a  part of such a won­der­ful com­mu­nity of like minded peo­ple who really care and want the best for you!

Click Here To Get Started Blog­ging Your Way to Suc­cess With The Empower Network

To Your Success,

Are You Ready for 2012?

with a promise to be a bet­ter per­son, lose ten pounds, quit smok­ing and make more money then when Jan­u­ary 15th rolls around, they are for­got­ten or go by the way­side until the next New Year’s Eve.

1. Set goals that mean some­thing to you per­son­ally. Be specific.

2. Write down your goals.

                                              If you are ready to take action and start off 2012 by earn­ing 100% com­mis­sions click on the link below

                                                              www.empowerwithbrianandfelicia.com 

To Your Success,

 Let me ask you something.…do YOU ever feel like quit­ting Net­work Marketing ?

I’m sure you have at least thought about it or maybe you even have quit pre­vi­ous net­work mar­ket­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties in the past. It’s nat­ural to have these feel­ings. All of us do in all areas of our lives, even mar­ried cou­ples can relate to want­ing to quit sometimes.

I’ll tell you right now though, that quit­ting is not an option for THIS pow­er­house cou­ple! Fail­ures and dis­ap­point­ments will come, chal­lenges and tri­als will come, but we will NEVER give up on our dream to be finan­cially free and together for eternity.

Let me share with you some recent exam­ples of how hard this indus­try can be.…..

One day last week, I saw a face­book sta­tus of a fel­low net­work mar­keter that read, “I feel really depressed and wanna give up on life and need some­one to talk to.” So, what did I do? I reached out to him. I sent a pri­vate mes­sage to him with my phone num­ber and he called. I ended up talk­ing to him for about a half an hour and hung up the phone with tears in my eyes just hop­ing and pray­ing that he didn’t or won’t do any­thing dras­tic. I hoped my words had made a dif­fer­ence. After all, I shared some pretty per­sonal stuff with him myself, try­ing to relate to him and talk him down. I really care so much for oth­ers and the thought of some­one tak­ing their life is so scary. The scari­est part is know­ing that I’ve been there before. I’ve felt that des­per­a­tion and com­plete dev­as­ta­tion not want­ing to carry on.

Want to know why he was so upset?

It was because Christ­mas was com­ing up and he only had $100.00 to his name and the net­work mar­ket­ing com­pany he is with screwed him over. They had taken the one per­son he got in and took the credit. He got noth­ing for his efforts. How horrible! My heart and prayers go out to him. I still think of him and check on his sta­tus quite fre­quently. Us net­work mark­ers need to stick together and sup­port each other!

Truth­fully, in this game called life, there will be many dis­ap­point­ments like that. Life isn’t fair. You just can’t give them that power over you. You have to keep mov­ing for­ward. I don’t advo­cate com­pany jump­ing, but if you’re that unhappy maybe you should take a sec­ond look at your options. Most impor­tantly, work harder on per­sonal devel­op­ment so that you can be stronger when such tri­als occur.

Now, here’s another thing that just hap­pened the other day…

We got an email from one of our busi­ness part­ners stat­ing that he is quit­ting. Not because of any­thing we did or didn’t do in spon­sor­ing him, but because he just didn’t feel it was a good fit. This is some­one I spent lots of time men­tor­ing, shar­ing all our tips and plug­ging him into all the resources we had. I thought I had pre-qualified him fairly well. He said he com­pletely under­stood that it takes time to build any busi­ness and that he would be a life long cus­tomer at the very least. I’m not angry with him at all, I’m only telling you this so you know what to expect.

Do you under­stand how easy it would’ve been for us to give up and quit net­work mar­ket­ing all together?

Thank­fully, Brian and I have each other to sup­port each other, kick each other in the butt and pick each other up when things get tough. I’m telling you this not for your sym­pa­thy or to com­plain but for the pur­pose of  you real­iz­ing that we ALL have good days and bad days, we ALL have mis­for­tunes hap­pen in life, we ALL have sick­ness or ill­nesses that weigh us down at times and dis­tract you. You just have to have a pow­er­ful enough “why”.

Why did you decide to get involved with net­work mar­ket­ing and start your home based business?

Because you want more time for fam­ily, hate your job, get out of debt, tax advan­tages, etc., etc.

Here’s the thing…

You can’t get hung up on tem­po­rary tri­als. Don’t get addicted to the out­come. Just keep plug­ging away doing what you know works and keep talk­ing to more and more people.

You have to be grate­ful for what you have and the peo­ple who DO care. Pros­per where you are planted RIGHT NOW!

You see,  in this indus­try peo­ple WILL come and go. As humans we all want instant grat­i­fi­ca­tion. When oth­ers don’t get instant results they use the cop out that it’s not for them and quit. They may blame their upline or spon­sors, they may blame the com­pany, can’t afford their auto­ship, they may have a mil­lion excuses as to why they quit but at the end of the day it’s all excuses. It takes a strong per­son with great deter­mi­na­tion to suc­ceed, not just in this indus­try.… but in life!

How bad do you want it?

 “My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or suc­ceed shall be no man’s doing but my own. I am the force: I can clear any obsta­cle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice, my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my des­tiny.” ~ Elaine Maxwell

So, the moral of the story is two-fold:

1. Take account­abil­ity for your actions or lack thereof.
2. NEVER give up!

As we close out another year I hope the gift every­one receives is know­ing that one of the great­est gifts you have ever and will ever receive is the amaz­ing tal­ent God has put inside of you! Whether you know it or not, it is there! I hope that 2012 is a year that you CHOOSE to exer­cise it, stretch your­self and reach for great­ness in your life! I promise that you will never regret truly going for it, but you will regret it if you don’t!
Expect great­ness for your life in 2012!!!

If you’re ready to take action go here!

To Your Success,

In light of the hol­i­days approaching.…We’re going to share with you how you can Be a Gift to Others!

Let me start off by say­ing this par­tic­u­lar post was writ­ten by Feli­cia (Me) for the pur­poses of shar­ing a few per­sonal sto­ries to inspire oth­ers to be the best they can be, no mat­ter what pro­fes­sion you choose.

So, first off I’d like to talk about my great grand­mother Mrs. Geral­dine Mar­tin Beck. My mother passed in July of 2011 and upon going through her belong­ings I came across a news­pa­per arti­cle (Gospel Ban­ner, national pub­li­ca­tion of the United Mis­sion­ary Church) from 1953 where my great grand­mother was awarded  the title “Mother of 1953″ in Piqua, Ohio.

The arti­cle begins with the sen­tence, “Her chil­dren shall call her blessed.” What to know why? Well, she was an extra­or­di­nary woman who was a true gift to oth­ers. She not only was the mother of five daugh­ters and two sons, all of which were pas­tors or pas­tor wives, but also had 3 fos­ter chil­dren, 14 grand­chil­dren, and an abun­dance of great grand­chil­dren and here’s the kicker.… she took care of over 300 chil­dren in her home nurs­ery over a period of years for the wel­fare department.  She had immense com­pas­sion and sym­pa­thy for oth­ers and that Godly love and pas­sion for help­ing oth­ers has con­tin­ued to shine from gen­er­a­tion to generation.

My grand­mother Pauline Zim­mer­man (Beck) was another exam­ple of a Godly woman with a desire to help oth­ers. Her and my grand­fa­ther Nor­man, served the Lord for nine years in the field of evan­ge­lism, 31 years in the pas­torate and 6 years as Dis­trict Super­in­ten­dent of the Mis­sion­ary Church. Grandma Zim­mer­man was involved in many Women’s Mis­sions work­ing closely with youth espe­cially. She and my grand­fa­ther also sang in the church choirs, my grand­fa­ther played the vio­lin and my grand­mother played the organ and piano.

My mother who recently passed, shared many tal­ents with the world as well. She went to Bethel Col­lege and won numer­ous awards as a con­cert piano player. She served in our church West­gage United Methodist Church for many years, direct­ing the church choir as well as the bell choir and my father drove the church van help­ing trans­port oth­ers who couldn’t do it on their own. He also was on the stew­ard­ship and wor­ship committees.

That being said, I come from a very rich her­itage of serv­ing oth­ers and doing the Lord’s work. I’ll be hon­est, our fam­ily doesn’t attend church at this time, but I still have a heart to do what’s right and serve oth­ers. I too, played the piano like my grand­mother and mother and sang in the church and school choirs. We have a long line of musi­cal tal­ent in our family.

I also believe I have a pas­sion for help­ing young chil­dren much like my great grand­mother as we did fos­ter a lit­tle girl named Jas­mine a few years ago. It was prob­a­bly one of the hard­est things to let go when her father wanted to take her back to Pales­tine but I’m thank­ful for the time she did live with us. We def­i­nitely con­sid­ered her our daugh­ter. She touched our hearts in a very pro­found way and we miss her dearly to this day.

Now, our pas­sion is to help oth­ers in the net­work mar­ket­ing indus­try. We want oth­ers to find what­ever it is they are pas­sion­ate about and just do it. There are so many home based busi­ness oppor­tu­ni­ties and ways to make money from home these days, thus allow­ing more time with our fam­i­lies which is so impor­tant in this day and age.

See, we all have strengths and weak­nesses, but what­ever strengths you have, we strongly sug­gest you share them with the world espe­cially dur­ing the hol­i­day sea­son. You don’t know how many peo­ple may be struggling.….financially, emo­tion­ally, phys­i­cally or otherwise.

Here are some ways you can help:

• vol­un­teer at a soup kitchen
• spend time with the elderly (singing, read­ing, or just listening)
• donate money to your favorite charities
• donate cloth­ing items or food to the homeless
• Men­tor a young teenager or sin­gle mother
• make a video show­cas­ing your tal­ents and share it with the world
• offer to babysit for some­one who is in need of a break
• start a blog shar­ing your per­sonal story of chal­lenges and tri­umphs (You can do this here)

To Your Success,

Over the past year, we’ve been asked the ques­tion if it is Pos­si­ble to Build a Home Based Busi­ness Part-Time numer­ous times.

Hon­estly, it IS!

The key is to use your time wisely and focus, focus, focus. It can be chal­leng­ing at times. Things will not always go your way. There will be dis­trac­tions, emer­gen­cies, etc. but as long as you’re tena­cious in your endeavor to become suc­cess­ful with your home based busi­ness then you’ll do great.

Results = $     

You have to remem­ber that hav­ing a home based busi­ness doesn’t pay you for your time like a nor­mal J.O.B. (Just Over Broke), you get paid for results. Hav­ing said that, you must be smart and do those income pro­duc­ing activ­i­ties like pick­ing up the phone and actu­ally con­nect­ing with people.

Yes, it’s good to attend train­ings and study what’s hap­pen­ing in the net­work mar­ket­ing indus­try, but don’t hide behind your com­puter too much and get sucked into those social net­work sites, like I have been guilty of doing.

Here’s a thought…if you only have 3 hours to work on your biz, you could:

• Spend one hour doing some type of train­ing or per­sonal devel­op­ment reading
• Spend 1 hour gen­er­at­ing leads (plac­ing ads, writ­ing a blog post, email cam­paigns, etc.)
• Spend one hour prospect­ing –AKA call­ing your leads!

Be Smart!     

If time isn’t on your side, another option would be to out­source those tasks. You don’t have to pay a for­tune either. There are sev­eral options when it comes to outsourcing.

• You can hire some­one for $5.00 per task on a web­site called Fiverr (DO YOUR RESEARCH!)
• You could hire a fam­ily mem­ber or friend
• You could hire a stu­dent at a local com­mu­nity college

“Think Big, Take Action — Con­sider that both the Empire State Build­ing and the Golden Gate Bridge were built dur­ing the Great Depres­sion. Now is a time to think big, cre­ate your vision and take action. With more peo­ple liv­ing in fear and fewer peo­ple tak­ing ini­tia­tive the rewards and recog­ni­tion will be greater for those will­ing to work hard and ded­i­cate them­selves to build­ing a great busi­ness, prod­uct, ser­vice, and vision. As we know, there is no sub­sti­tute for hard work and now is a time where those with a pos­i­tive atti­tude and great work ethic will shine.”   ~Jon Gor­don  (Check out his book called “The Energy Bus” )

 If you are ready to start work­ing from home part-time  this is a great place to start!

To Your Success,

Are Mul­ti­ple Streams of Income a Good Idea?

We would have to say yes if done right.

We have 5 streams of income, two of them are feeder pro­grams which are a great way to gen­er­ate leads quickly and make money to cover your costs for mar­ket­ing costs, auto ship costs, etc.

If you can show peo­ple how to make money quickly online and get paid daily then they are more than likely going to come to you when they want to join a pri­mary busi­ness. They are also going to stick a round if you can show them how to cover their expenses  while they build their pri­mary busi­ness, which takes time.

There are ways to make mul­ti­ple streams of income with­out being a com­pany jumper.

We have a pri­mary busi­ness (resid­ual income stream #1) You want to pick a pri­mary busi­ness that you can proudly stand behind and has a prod­uct that peo­ple want and/or need.

We use a mar­ket­ing sys­tem (lead mgmt,capture pages,auto-responder,training etc.) It has an affil­i­ate pro­gram attached to it as well (resid­ual income stream #2). There are a lot of great mar­ket­ing sys­tems out there. We have found this one to be the eas­i­est to use.

We are a part of the Empower Net­work which is a new and excit­ing blog­ging plat­form that any new­bie can eas­ily use to start blog­ging and make 100 %  instant com­mis­sions paid right to your bank account as peo­ple buy. (resid­ual income stream #3). We really wish this had been around when we started blog­ging. If you have set up a blog you know what a pain in the ass it can be. LOL! The Empower Net­work has done all the hard work for you.

We also use The Daily Income Net­work  which is a FREE to join way for peo­ple to make money online quickly and eas­ily. If some­one doesn’t have the money to join your pri­mary busi­ness, this is a good way for them  to make the money  and a good place to start in work­ing from home. It is also a great place to learn for the per­son who is just get­ting started in mak­ing money online.The back office is full of great train­ing content. It also has a VIP pack­age which gives you even more streams of income… plus you can put your pri­mary busi­ness on the back end of this sys­tem (income stream #4)

Now I know what your thinking.….where do I get leads for all the­ses streams of income?

Well we have learned to gen­er­ate leads on our own (which takes time) plus we are involved with mylead­com­pany which is Free to join and you can buy leads for as low as $24.95 a week for 200 leads.You make money by peo­ple buy­ing leads through your affil­i­ate site (resid­ual income stream #5).

You see, you CAN have mul­ti­ple streams of income with out being a com­pany jumper.

All of our streams of income are a part of out total mar­ket­ing strategy.You need all of these things to run a suc­cess­ful work from home business,so you might as well make money from all of them while build­ing your pri­mary busi­ness .We are not in 5 dif­fer­ent net­work mar­ket­ing com­pa­nies that would be a hor­ri­ble idea and may get you booted out of all them.

You may hear peo­ple say you have to con­cen­trate on one thing at a time (as they are try­ing to sell you their newest prod­uct). Absolutely, you need to con­cen­trate on your pri­mary busi­ness you also need to make money now!  While you build for the future. Believe us, all the guru’s out there are not just  mak­ing money from one source. They all use mar­ket­ing sys­tems and tools that are also sources of income for them.

In clos­ing, we would say if you have the time to pro­mote  many things at once. Go for it! If you don’t have the time, then start out small and add streams of income from tools and sys­tems you use as you go and you will be mak­ing money now while cre­at­ing mul­ti­ple streams of resid­ual income for the future.

Click here to get started blog­ging and earn­ing 100% com­mis­sions!

To Your Success,

Ok, there’s no Tricks here for For­mat­ting Your Blog Posts, but there are Some Cool Tips! Check it out.….…

First and fore­most when writ­ing a blog post you MUST offer 100% valu­able qual­ity con­tent. What solu­tions do you have  in order to help oth­ers?  What cool resources or tools can you offer to help them?

Now onto the “look” of your blog posts.…

1.   Catchy Titles Rule! 

Titles are what make oth­ers decide if they want to go on read­ing your post. It has to be eye catch­ing but cer­tainly needs to per­tain to what the per­son is actu­ally read­ing about. A cool exam­ple of a pre­vi­ous blog post we did pre­vi­ously that got tons of hits and com­ments was Nut Up or Shut Up!

 2. Keep the Titles Short

  3. Write Short Paragraphs

No one wants to read lengthy unat­trac­tive text so break it down for the masses! Keep it sim­ple and appealing.

         4. Use Cool Images

By using a visu­ally appeal­ing or funny image in your blog post you will draw in oth­ers and  hold their atten­tion much longer. If it’s a longer post, con­tinue to add pics through­out the post so as to keep them engaged as they scroll down the page. We’re told, Big­ger is Bet­ter as far as images go!

 

 

        5. Face Images

Faces in images help to hold people’s gazes longer. We’re wired as humans to con­nect with other peo­ples faces so it just makes sense to use such, but use dis­cre­tion. It still needs to per­tain to what­ever you’re writ­ing about.

        6. High­light your Key Points with Sub Headers

When oth­ers are view­ing your site, they will often scan over the con­tent to see if it is rel­e­vant to what they are look­ing for so this is why you want to high­light key points with sub head­ers. Again, it catches the eye. Make sure when choos­ing a theme for your blog that it offers good head­ing tags. We use H2 and H3 quite often.

 

 

          7. Num­ber Lists and Why You Should Use Them (Sometimes).…

You cer­tainly don’t want to over use the num­ber list posts, but it can be effec­tive to draw in read­ers. Lists are neater, thus visu­ally more appeal­ing. Peo­ple love learn­ing  the top 10 tips of ___________fill in the blank. Keep in Short and Sweet!

 

             8. Spe­cific For­mat­ting Good­ies to Utilize

Using ital­ics, bold text and “block quotes” helps in break­ing up text and is visu­ally impres­sive. You can even stress “call to actions” by chang­ing the color font to red. So do it up– just don’t go too crazy with it.

 

“You were born orig­i­nal. Don’t die a copy.” ~John Mason

 

                9.  Be Authentic!

Share what you have learned with oth­ers, but put it in your own words. Your char­ac­ter and integrity are at stake. No one likes a pla­gia­rizer or some­one who’s uno­rig­i­nal… BORING! You should always be yourself!

 

               10. Have a Call to Action!

What do you want your read­ers to do? What is the pur­pose of your post? Do you want oth­ers to watch a com­pany pre­sen­ta­tion? Do you want oth­ers to com­ment, like or retweet your post? Do you want oth­ers to sign up for your newslet­ter or buy some­thing from you? It could be to research some­thing or to apply what that per­son learned from read­ing your post. What­ever it is, peo­ple need to be told what to do, so use the call to action to direct them.

 

We hope you’ve found this post ben­e­fi­cial in tweek­ing your blog so as to max­i­mize it’s effec­tive­ness with the masses.

Feel Free to Com­ment, Digg, Like, Re-Tweet, and Share! 

 

To Your Success,

Brian & Feli­cia White ( B and Flea)

(614) 423‑7553

www.my5starfood.com

www.empowerwithbrianandfelicia.com

www.onlinedailyincome.com

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To Your Success,

It has been known that peo­ple are like gems, so What Kind of Gem Are You?

We feel that peo­ple are to be hon­ored every­where, no mat­ter what posi­tion or pro­fes­sion they are in. Each per­son has the strength to grow, flour­ish and shine just like gems. They are to be treated with the utmost respect, loved and for­given no mat­ter what. This is the only way to live a happy and ful­fill­ing life and it is essen­tial to suc­cess in your home based busi­ness as well.

So now we’re going to break it down for you because we truly care!

There are 4 basic per­son­al­ity types (aka gems):

1. Sap­phires–Moti­vated by fun
2. Pearls–Moti­vated by help­ing others
3. Emer­alds–Moti­vated  by facts and figures
4. Rubies–Moti­vated by chal­lenges or the need to win

To Your Success,

This post is all about  How To Turn Pas­sive Mar­ket­ing Into Active Recruiting.

When done right this will help you build your busi­ness. We  use this method con­sis­tently and it works over and over again.

What we do is place image ads for our home based busi­ness on craigslist. When peo­ple click on the image in the ad it takes them to one of our many lead cap­ture pages.

Then they put in their info and watch a short video explain­ing our busi­ness oppor­tu­nity. We then give them a call and con­nect with them, this is the most impor­tant step. If you aren’t call­ing and con­nect­ing with your leads you are never going to build a net­work mar­ket­ing business. People join peo­ple not busi­nesses and it takes a lit­tle time to build trust.

With the mar­ket­ing sys­tem we use, you can con­nect with your leads on face­book and twit­ter  with just a click of a button.

Once you have them on the phone, find out what THEIR needs are. What are THEY look­ing for? We’d like to add it’s extremely impor­tant to weed through the peo­ple to QUALIFY them to work with you in your pri­mary busi­ness. Remem­ber you’re look­ing for lead­ers. They must have a pow­er­ful “why” and you find this out by ask­ing mean­ing­ful ques­tions to see how seri­ous they are about build­ing a busi­ness and chang­ing their future.

Here are some exam­ple of key ques­tions to ask:

• What made you decide to check out xyz company?
• What type of result are you look­ing for?
• How soon do you want to achieve your goals?
• Have you had any expe­ri­ence with net­work mar­ket­ing in the past?
• How much time are you will­ing to ded­i­cate to grow­ing your business?

There are a lot of ways to do pas­sive mar­ket­ing such as fliers,drop cards,post it notes but Craigslist  has worked the best for us. We have built a great team of peo­ple by using this method of turn­ing pas­sive mar­ket­ing into active recruit­ing and it can work for you as well. Remem­ber the key is not being pas­sive, but actu­ally reach­ing out and per­son­ally connecting!

To Your Success,

These 4  Laws of Suc­cess will help you in Your Home Based Busi­ness for Sure!

Our goal is to really help oth­ers be wealthy…spiritually, finan­cially, phys­i­cally and per­son­ally. Of course, we  are imple­ment­ing the fore­go­ing laws and are still works in progress, but are always work­ing towards our goals– striv­ing to be our very best.

We’ve been read­ing a very pow­er­ful book by Dani John­son called “First Steps to Wealth”, and  have high­lighted the best points out of what we’ve read thus far. We’d like to share them with you in hopes of help­ing you…

Laws of Suc­cess Cont’d:

7.  For­give­ness–This is a tough one, but extremely nec­es­sary in mov­ing for­ward in your per­sonal devel­op­ment. This has to be part of your daily life. When you don’t for­give, your mak­ing deci­sions out of bit­ter­ness and anger which kills your pro­duc­tion and cre­ativ­ity. You don’t do it for the per­son or per­sons that hurt you, you are doing for your­self so that you can have true free­dom and growth of wealth in every area of your life.

8. Law of Pro­mo­tion–You can’t change peo­ple or cir­cum­stances, but you can change how you deal with them. The law of pro­mo­tion has to do with being faith­ful with what you already have (what’s right in front of you) whether it be time, money or influ­ence. Grow and pros­per in your cur­rent cir­cum­stances and you’ll be ruler over much more time,  money and influence.

9.  Focus–Basi­cally when you are work­ing on your business…make sure you are focus­ing 100% on your busi­ness with no dis­trac­tions from any per­son, place or thing. When you are focus­ing on your fam­ily, make sure you’re not dis­tracted by busi­ness calls, com­puter, etc. Focus on what­ever you want to get good at and sched­ule times for each thing. If you want to be a bet­ter spouse or par­ent, make sure you set time aside and give it your all, heart and soul. Same goes for your busi­ness. Always sched­ule things ahead of time and stick to it with ded­i­ca­tion like none other.

10. Honor–This law is about mak­ing a REAL con­nec­tion with peo­ple far beyond just a smile. This applies per­son­ally and professionally.…people love to be hon­ored! Be sin­cere above all and ask oth­ers ques­tions using the FORM method. F-Family, O-Occupation, R-Recreation, and M-Message. What are oth­ers inter­ested and what mes­sage do you want to deliver to them. You def­i­nitely want to put the focus on them, not on yourself.

In a nut­shell, be your true unique selves, be the best you can be and treat oth­ers the way you want to be treated, then all will be well pro­fes­sion­ally and per­son­ally. Remem­ber peo­ple can tell if you’re being fake or just out to get some­thing for your­self and they won’t want to do busi­ness with you, or even be around you. You have to build trust with oth­ers and this takes time and sin­cer­ity. Be a decent human being and all that will come back to you!

It’s true peo­ple! We have had dif­fer­ent peo­ple say they wanted to work with us sim­ply because they liked who we are, our story and our hearts. What a huge honor!!! Guess what?! It’s because we honor oth­ers! Get it? Hope so!

We really hope this helps and look for­ward to shar­ing more good stuff with you soon! If you liked it, please feel free to share, tweet, digg, com­ment and like.

P.S. This post is a con­tin­u­a­tion of the past two posts, “Are You Liv­ing Your Life by Default or By Design?” and “Fly Like An Eagle to Be Free”, which dis­cuss Laws of Suc­cess 1–6.

We believe in YOU!

Fly Like an Eagle to Be Free– Fly Like an Eagle to the Sea!

Despite Hur­ri­cane Irene and other hur­ri­canes to come, one of our many goals is to be near the ocean for good– very soon. As we’re get­ting older, we’ve real­ized that we are just sick and tired of harsh win­ters here in Ohio. We have been want­ing this for awhile but are wait­ing for our youngest son to grad­u­ate high school, we also need to make sure my father is well taken care of (since my mother’s pass­ing), and we  want to spend as much time with our grand kids as pos­si­ble before the big move. It will be an enor­mous change, but one we’re super excited about!

Just thought we’d share one of our many goals with you all to get YOU think­ing about what it is YOU really want. Do you want to be free? Free from your boss telling you when you can take a vaca­tion or go to your kids sports activ­i­ties? Free from bill col­lec­tors call­ing you relent­lessly? Free to help change oth­ers lives and make a real dif­fer­ence? Free to live your life the way you want, when you want?

You see, free­dom is very attain­able if you put your mind to it and take action. In our pre­vi­ous post, “Are You Liv­ing Your Life by Default or Design?”, we talked about the laws of suc­cess and now we’re going to share more of them.….

Laws of Suc­cess Cont’d:

4.  Reap­ing and Sow­ing– You may think that suc­cess is about being lucky, but the bot­tom line is you reap what you sow. You have to take respon­si­bil­ity for your finan­cial sit­u­a­tion. Don’t blame your boss, your co-workers, the gov­ern­ment, or the econ­omy. Step up and take charge. If you sow gen­er­ously in your busi­ness, you will reap gen­er­ously. If you want refer­rals, give refer­rals. If you give encour­age­ment to oth­ers, you’ll get that back. You can’t change oth­ers, but you can change yourself.

5. Desire–Desire reveals design and des­tiny much like the eagle who was designed to soar and has the desire to soar. You were born with the gifts to suc­ceed such as enthu­si­asm, per­sis­tence, adven­ture, the abil­ity to get over things and faith. The only part you need to work on is the skills to suc­ceed and this will come with learn­ing and invest­ing in yourself.

6. Be Teach­able–Don’t think you know it all.…sizing your­self up against oth­ers, being judg­men­tal and argu­men­ta­tive. This will get you no where. Some­one who is teach­able says, “Show me, guide me, teach me.” Egos will keep you broke, so don’t be afraid to ask for help. Lis­ten to what other suc­cess­ful peo­ple tell you and above all, TAKE ACTION!

“There is no pas­sion is to be found in play­ing small, in set­tling for a life that is less than the one that you are capa­ble of liv­ing.”  ~Nel­son Mandela

Well folks– that’s all for now, but more to come soon! Hope you got some value out of this post and that you spread your wings and fly like an eagle to be free! If you liked this, please share, tweet, like and com­ment below!

We’re All Meant to Live Our Lives by Design Not by Default!

Some peo­ple think their cur­rent cir­cum­stances or even their past sets them up for fail­ure. They think they are doomed and don’t have any way out. So, they just accept by default that they will be stuck for­ever, never excelling. Des­tined to be poor, never have recog­ni­tion or true happiness.

What you may not real­ize is we’ve had some per­sonal obsta­cles to over­come. We write blogs together-sometimes just Brian and some­times just me (Feli­cia). Well, I (Feli­cia) haven’t writ­ten a blog post since July 4th– (Let Free­dom Ring with Net­work Mar­ket­ing). That evening was when I got the call that my mother had sud­denly passed away at home. She wasn’t sick, she had recently gone through a com­mon surgery and I still don’t know what caused  her death. We’re still await­ing the coro­ners report almost 2 months after the fact. This has been one of many deaths we’ve expe­ri­enced over the past few years and I’m not telling you this for sym­pa­thy. I real­ize there are many peo­ple with much more hor­ri­ble cir­cum­stances and tragedies. I’m telling you this so you can see that although it may take us time to re-group and get back on track.… we still do. We NEVER give up on our desire to work for our­selves and achieve finan­cial and time free­dom. If you have a real desire to bet­ter your life, you will.

What is so impor­tant to real­ize is that we are designed for great­ness! We sim­ply need to decide to change our mind­set and cir­cum­stances to reflect it. We have the power inside of us to make a dif­fer­ence even in the lives of oth­ers. Even more impor­tant than finan­cial wealth, (which is very attain­able if you work hard) is the wealth you can pour onto oth­ers to help change their lives for good.

You’ve heard the say­ing, “You reap what you sow”? Well, this is very true. If you plant seeds of faith you will see your dreams and desires come to fruition.

We’ve seen all kinds of peo­ple from all walks of life go onto to become mil­lion­aires and really give back to soci­ety in a pos­i­tive way. They didn’t blame their par­ents for abus­ing them, they didn’t blame their spouses for cheat­ing on them, their busi­ness part­ners for steal­ing from them, their upline for not being there for them.…etc. etc.

They took respon­si­bil­ity for their actions and fol­lowed other suc­cess­ful peo­ple to do what they do in order to achieve results. NO EXCUSES!

We’re going to begin with 3 Laws of Success:

1. Vision–Decide what you really want. Is it to travel around the world? Do you want more finan­cial free­dom or time free­dom? Have a big house or fancy car? Be a singer, artist, doc­tor, author? Do you want to men­tor dis­ad­van­taged kids or feed the home­less?  If so, then you have to increase your income to make those things hap­pen. This takes vision. With­out vision, we perish.
2. Mind­set–What you think about, you bring about! The 2%‘s that are suc­cess­ful are the ones who don’t let their cir­cum­stances con­trol them. They don’t have a lot­tery men­tal­ity, but instead know that they must develop skills, train and act upon that train­ing con­sis­tently in order to get results. Instead of giv­ing up every time they see an obsta­cle or road­block, they go over it, under it and through it. They say things like what CAN I do to make it hap­pen instead of quitting.
3. Value–Increase your skill, increase your pay! A prime exam­ple is the dif­fer­ence between a gen­eral MD and a brain sur­geon. Both are greatly needed pro­fes­sions, but the brain sur­geon obvi­ously makes more because it is a SPECIALTY. Every­one is in con­trol of their skills. You need three skill sets to be successful…professional skills, peo­ple skills, then per­sonal and lead­er­ship devel­op­ment. *We will expand on these in a later post so stay tuned.

These are just some of the things we want you to think about if you’re strug­gling in your cur­rent cir­cum­stances. If you are tired of set­tling for medi­oc­rity and you don’t want to live your life by default any­more, if you’re ready to live your life by design, know­ing that you have a greater pur­pose then keep com­ing back to our blog for inspi­ra­tion and steps on how to change your life for the bet­ter. We KNOW you are des­tined for great things, but it’s up to YOU to make some choices and take action! YOU CAN DO IT!

To Your Success,

If  you want to have suc­cess in your home based busi­ness you have to cre­ate a social pres­ence online and draw peo­ple to you. Some will relate to you and your unique per­son­al­ity and some won’t, but the whole point is to be your­self. Don’t be fake, peo­ple will see right through the facade.

Cre­at­ing your own brand and social pres­ence is  a process, but in hav­ing patience and per­sis­tence you can be suc­cess­ful in your home based business.

We’re going to offer you some help­ful tips on how to cre­ate a social pres­ence online. Tips that we’ve picked up on along our jour­ney. How’s that sound? Great! Let’s get Rockin’!

Tip #1: Brand yourself–

• Decide what you want to rep­re­sent or offer.
• Be unique and be your true authen­tic self.
• Cre­ate a name and visual image that coin­cides with your personality.

Tip #2: Blog–

• For­mat your blog to be visu­ally appeal­ing, per­sonal and interesting.
• If you’re not tech savvy or are strapped for time, but you have some money; it’s a good idea  to out­source the devel­op­ment of your blog. Here are some options… How to Set Up a Self Hosted WP Blog and/or  Stephanie Deneke’s Blog Service.
• Offer valu­able con­tent  in your blog posts. (For more on this sub­ject click here.)

Tip #3: Cre­ate  Your Pres­ence on Face­book

• If you don’t have an account, just go to www.facebook.com and  cre­ate a pro­file. (It’s FREE!)
• Do NOT pitch all the time on your pro­file and above all, don’t spam other people’s walls with your biz oppor­tu­nity or products.
• Talk about inter­est­ing things on your wall, offer value, ask inter­est­ing ques­tions, share life’s events.
• Cre­ate a fan page. (Google how to cre­ate a face­book fan­page and fol­low steps or click here).
• Cre­ate a note on face­book invit­ing every­one to your fan­page. You can do this through video too!
• Once some­one goes to your fan page, have an opt-in form on there, so you can col­lect info and per­son­ally reach out and con­nect. (To see how to do this, click here).
•  Start a Face­book group and join other groups and con­nect with like minded people.

Tip #4 Cre­ate accounts on other social net­works and start mak­ing con­nec­tions with people.

• Twit­ter
• Linked In
• Digg
• Stum­ble­Upon
• Vimeo
• YouTube

Now start putting these tip to use and you will make some great con­nec­tions with peo­ple and see huge results in your home based business.

Today is July 4th, 2011.…we cel­e­brate our free­doms with our loved ones due  to our beloved mil­i­tary men and woman who have sac­ri­ficed so much and for that we are truly thank­ful. We are thank­ful for the oppor­tu­nity to Let Free­dom Ring with Net­work Mar­ket­ing as well.

If our coun­try is worth dying for in time of war; let us resolve that it is truly worth liv­ing for in time of peace.

We are free from the cor­po­rate world, the dreaded time clock, the strin­gent rules as to when we can take a break, go to a doctor’s appoint­ment, take time off for a vaca­tion, etc. etc. We are free to choose how we want to dress, where we want to go, who we want to work with, and how much money we want to make. We can even take advan­tage of the tax write offs that come along with own­ing our own home based busi­ness. Can you say the same?

If not, maybe it’s time to really take a step back and eval­u­ate what this day means.…what so many have fought for. Do you want to stay a slave to the grind? Do you want to con­stantly be in fear that you’ll be laid off or let go due to the hor­ri­ble economy?

“Amer­ica was not built on fear. Amer­ica was built on courage, on imag­i­na­tion, and unbeat­able deter­mi­na­tion to do the job at hand.” ~ Harry S. Truman

 

It is time to take con­trol of your des­tiny! Make a bet­ter way. Have a big­ger vision and ACT on it! Edu­cate and help oth­ers to step out of their com­fort zones and pro­vide a bet­ter finan­cial future for them­selves and gen­er­a­tions to come. We weren’t meant to live an oppressed life.

Net­work Mar­ket­ing allows another choice, another option. It gives you an oppor­tu­nity to find out what your pas­sion­ate about and then share it with oth­ers, hence the net­work aspect. You can build a suc­cess­ful busi­ness and then lever­age off of the efforts of oth­ers to cre­ate imme­di­ate and long term resid­ual income. Do you get resid­ual income at your job now? Are you reap­ing the ben­e­fits of all your hard work now or is the Pres­i­dent and CEO of your com­pany? Net­work Mar­ket­ing allows you the vehi­cle to help oth­ers. Are you help­ing oth­ers in your line of work now? Net­work mar­ket­ing allows time free­dom. Do you have time free­dom now to spend with your friends and fam­ily doing what you want, when you want, where ever you want? These are all ques­tions to pon­der as you think about what this day truly means to you.

Today  and everyday.…we cel­e­brate life, lib­erty and the pur­suit of happiness.

“The Pledge of Alle­giance starts with ‘I’ and ends with ‘all.’ That’s what Amer­ica is all about – ‘I’ (indi­vid­ual) and ‘all’ (all of us). When all of us under­stand how valu­able each of us is, that’s pow­er­ful. And here’s what else is pow­er­ful: When each of us under­stands how pow­er­ful ALL of us are.” — Jim Rohn

Lib­erty Is The Right To Choose, Free­dom Is The Result Of The Right Choice.….. Remem­ber, Free­dom is Noth­ing Else But a Chance To Be Bet­ter.. Happy 4th Of July!!! God Bless Amer­ica & our troops!

To Your Success,

There are some key things you need to know; Mis­takes to Avoid with Your Home Based Business.…

You see a lot of peo­ple go into such a ven­ture think­ing they are going to be rich overnight, not have to work, and every­thing will come out smelling like roses. NOT THE CASE FOLKS!  You do have to work and it will take time.

Seri­ously though, we’re going to share with you some mis­takes to avoid with your home based busi­ness. Drum roll, please.…

#1-Fear of Failure

Some peo­ple are so detri­men­tally afraid of fail­ing or mak­ing mis­takes that they end up fail­ing before they even get started. You sim­ply can’t have that men­tal­ity. Look at the Wright Broth­ers, Thomas Edi­son, Henry Ford, Babe Ruth and many many oth­ers. How many times did they fail? What if they would’ve given up?

You have to go into this know­ing that it takes time to build any busi­ness. Fear will hold you back from achiev­ing suc­cess. You sim­ply MUST break­through that bar­rier!  Fail­ures can be great learn­ing expe­ri­ences that force you stretch and grow. In your jour­ney, just remem­ber any­thing is pos­si­ble with the proper mind­set and actions.

#2– Lis­ten­ing to Nay Sayers

There are always those who think you’re crazy for not con­form­ing to society’s idea of what a “nor­mal 9–5 job is. Those that tell you you’ll never make it in net­work mar­ket­ing. Your home based busi­ness will fail. It’s too risky, etc. etc.

In real­ity, jobs are not secure. We all know what’s hap­pen­ing in this econ­omy. It’s a far greater risk to put your life in the cor­po­rate world’s hands.

You sim­ply must be com­mit­ted to doing some­thing about your future. You must take charge, take action, work hard, be thick skinned and NEVER give up! You can’t care what oth­ers say about you or to you. You just focus on your actions.

#3-Guru Com­plex

We see this all the time. Oth­ers think they have to be a guru or know it all when it comes to mar­ket­ing. They spend way too much study­ing and not enough time tak­ing action or imple­ment­ing what they’ve already learned. You need to start out mas­ter­ing one thing before tak­ing on mul­ti­ple tasks at once. You need to do those income pro­duc­ing activ­i­ties like pick­ing up the phone to con­nect with your prospects.

It’s impor­tant to lis­ten and take action on what you’ve learned, but don’t be afraid to be unique or try dif­fer­ent things too.

Some of the most suc­cess­ful peo­ple in the world did what oth­ers told them would never work. They knew some­thing about their own idea that even the gurus didn’t know.

Every path to suc­cess is different.

#4-Information Over­load

This goes back to what we stated above.

It’s called “analy­sis paral­y­sis,” the con­di­tion of spend­ing so much time think­ing about a prob­lem and cram­ming your brain with so much infor­ma­tion that you lose the abil­ity to act.

Some peo­ple have the men­tal­ity that they have to “get ready to get ready”, but many oth­ers sub­scribe to the “ready – fire – aim” phi­los­o­phy of busi­ness suc­cess, know­ing that act­ing on a good plan today is bet­ter than wait­ing for a per­fect plan tomorrow.

Truly, too much study­ing can be a bad thing. Don’t suf­fer from infor­ma­tion over­load. Just take it one step at a time. Remem­ber it takes time to build a busi­ness and really hone in on your per­sonal devel­op­ment and skills.

#5-Lack of Con­fi­dence or Posture

This can be a real killer. Just ask your­self one question…would YOU sign up with YOU?   If not, you may need to change your approach. Oth­ers can sense your inse­cu­rity and will throw every objec­tion at you. Con­fi­dence and hav­ing pos­ture will elim­i­nate those objections.

You have to not care if they join you or not; doing such cre­ates curios­ity and a desire to work with you. Remem­ber you are sup­posed to be qual­i­fy­ing oth­ers to work with you. Trust us, you don’t want every Tom, Dick and Harry in your home based busi­ness. This is why work­ing on per­sonal devel­op­ment on a DAILY basis is so cru­cial. Become the hunted, not the hunter.

#6– Annoy­ing Sales­man Syndrome

This is a big one guys. We’ve seen this mis­take over and over. Peo­ple get so overly excited about their new ven­ture that they want to shove it down oth­ers throats. They do the fol­low­ing dis­taste­ful things:

• Blast emails out to all their fam­ily and friends ask­ing them to join or buy the lat­est and great­est xyz product
• Spam other people’s walls on Face­book, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twit­ter, etc. etc.
• Spam other’s blogs with their links
• Voice broad­casts

None of these meth­ods have any­thing to do with build­ing rela­tion­ships or rap­port with peo­ple. None of these are about shar­ing as opposed to sell­ing. Biggest turn off in the world, so heed our words-DON’T do it!

#7-You Smooze, You Lose

Some peo­ple believe that if  you just get to the right per­son or leader in a com­pany and smooze them, get fea­tured on a webi­nar, get on stage or what­ever that they’ll get noticed big time and the rest is his­tory. This is not the case, if you want the atten­tion of the top peo­ple in the indus­try, you have to show results. If you’re mak­ing them money, you’ll no doubt have their undi­vided atten­tion. Try­ing to smooze them at an event won’t do a thing, so don’t be phony. Actions speak louder than words!

The same goes for think­ing if you only get the big mlm heavy hit­ter super­star, that you’ve already won. If you’re some­one of value, you will want to focus on their needs and how to help them, not what they can do for you. This will nat­u­rally attract them to you and your opportunity.

#8-Short Term Thinking

This is def­i­nitely another biz killer. Peo­ple for­get that it takes time to build a busi­ness. Much like col­lege or hav­ing a small busi­ness, you put in a lot of time,  money and some over­head. Oth­ers end up quit­ting 6 months into their new home based busi­ness (some­times sooner), if they aren’t mak­ing thou­sands a month right off the bat.  Rome wasn’t built in a day, you know?!

Build­ing a legit­i­mate home­based busi­ness is the short­cut. It is the low­est risk way we know of that almost any­one can go from nowhere to some­where. Too often oth­ers look for the short­cut to the short­cut. If you make it in this indus­try, it’s because you busted your tail and earned it. Focus on how you are pro­vid­ing value to the mar­ket­place and how you can solve more people’s prob­lems and you will become successful.

#9-Being a Side Track Sally

When you’re not present and avail­able for your team, down­line, etc. then you’re mak­ing a big mis­take. Please don’t con­fuse this with babysit­ting oth­ers or doing the work for them. How­ever; you must lead by exam­ple. Always be busy, but at the same time be there for your team. Lead them, moti­vate them, solve prob­lems to the best of your abil­ity. Do 3 way calls with your down­line. Answer their ques­tions. Plug them into train­ing and sys­tems that will help them grow their busi­ness and cre­ate duplication.

If oth­ers don’t see the value you’re pro­vid­ing then they won’t want to do busi­ness with you. If you want reten­tion in your home based busi­ness then you need to be a leader who is consistent.

“Lead­ers must be close enough to relate to oth­ers, but far enough ahead to moti­vate them.”

— John Maxwell

 

#10-Biggest Blog Mistake

Not putting the cor­rect and nec­es­sary social plug-ins on your blog. Oth­ers need to be able to com­ment, like, tweet, digg, share, etc. etc.  If you care at all about hav­ing a social pres­ence, then this is a must have.

We rec­om­mend the fol­low­ing  plug-ins on WordPress:

• Tweet, Like, Google+1, and Share
• Com­mentluv
• Sexy Book­marks

If you got some value you out this post, feel free to share,like, com­ment, tweet, digg, etc. etc. Thanks!

To Your Success,

Here are some of the Do’s and Don’ts of Craigslist Advertising!

If you are mar­ket­ing a home based busi­ness of any kind you know how pow­er­ful Craigslist can be.

You prob­a­bly also know what a pain in the @** it can be. If you can get your ad to stick you can get a lot of leads for your busi­ness but you have to do things the right way.

Don’t make the same mis­takes we made early on in our Craigslist adver­tis­ing efforts. When we first started plac­ing ads on Craigslist we were see­ing suc­cess gen­er­at­ing leads so we thought we will just place more and more ads and than we will gen­er­ate more and more leads.Well that was a huge mis­take we went from get­ting any­where from 20 to as many as 67 leads in a sin­gle day to being ghosted and even­tu­ally totally shut down by Craigslist. If Craigslist puts one of your accounts on hold then that account is gone and you will never be able to reuse it. You can cre­ate mul­ti­ple accounts for craigslist but you will need a dif­fer­ent email address and phone num­ber for each account.

They have even gone as far as block­ing my IP address so it doesn’t mat­ter how many accounts you have if they block your IP address. I now have to go to a local wifi spot just to place my ads. Don’t bother with proxie servers they are all blocked by Craigslist and hide my IP soft­ware doesn’t work either. If you are going to have suc­cess on Craigslist you need to fol­low some sim­ple rules.

• Do not place more than 10 ads per day from the same IP address
• Do not post to mul­ti­ple accounts with the same IP address
• Do not post the same ad in the same section/city mul­ti­ple times a day
• Do not post the same  ad in dif­fer­ent categories
• Change the title and body of every ad
• Keep it local to where you live (noth­ing will get your ads ghosted quicker than post­ing ads out of your local area)
• Clear your cook­ies between each ad you are posting
• If you are putting a link in your ad and your ads are get­ting ghosted try remov­ing the link from your ad and telling peo­ple in the ad to reply for more info. Then when they reply send them an email with a link to your opt in form with instruc­tions on what to do next.
• Try using click –able image ads (if you don’t know how to cre­ate a click– able image ad watch this video

How to cre­ate a click-able image ad from Brian and Feli­cia White on Vimeo.

We hope this helps and we are in the process of writ­ing a Craigslist  adver­tis­ing ebook with some advanced tech­niques that we have been test­ing out .

To Your Success,

We’ve all hit a Slump at some point when try­ing to write or Cre­ate a Blog Post.

It hap­pens to the best of us! We all don’t have super human mag­i­cal con­tent cre­at­ing powers.

In fact, we’ve seemed to hit a slump our­selves. Now that the nicer weather has arrived, more and more events have kept us from focusing…graduations, reunions, babysit­ting our grand­son, etc. etc. This can be good and bad, you’d think we’d use these events to write even more con­tent, but instead it has dis­tracted us from busi­ness period. At least we admit it! Ha! The point is not to give up, you have to keep on keep­ing on if you really want to be suc­cess­ful and we REALLY do! Oth­ers are count­ing on you to be present and deliver value and we know we need to do the same and so we’re back!

So we’re going to share with you 19 awe­some tips that we’ve researched.…

Bor­row Con­tent and Ideas:

Let us just clar­ify, we don’t mean STEAL oth­ers con­tent. That’s just wrong. You can gain ideas, and re-word them to be your own. Let your own style or per­son­al­ity shine through.

1.) Edify oth­ers and help your­self. Find your top 5 favorite web­sites with one favorite blog post each and write about what you like about them. Every­one you fea­ture will be thrilled you  men­tioned them and will thank you for it.

2.) Ask your friends for help. I did just that on Face­book and got some great feed­back. Most peo­ple love to help and have been there before so they can relate and really give some help­ful tips.

3.) Inter­view some­one. This is a great way to con­nect with awe­some, like-minded peo­ple and it’s a heck of a lot eas­ier to write a few ques­tions than an entire blog post. Ha! You can really learn a lot from oth­ers to see what’s work­ing and not work­ing for them.

4.) Uti­lize guest blog­gers. Again, another great way to edify oth­ers. You sim­ply ask some­one who you admire to be a guest blog­ger on your blog and write a post. They will be flat­tered you asked them and will bring their A game, hence draw­ing in new readers.

5.) Speak from your heart. Just start express­ing what you feel you have to say out loud.… In plain eng­lish… then go into detail, as if you’re explain­ing it to some­one who isn’t there… Imag­ine the ques­tions they may ask you about what you’re say­ing and respond to them… keep going long enough, and you’ll usu­ally end up some­where far from where you began, and that’s a good place to start writ­ing things down. (Via Jer­rod Mogan-one of our good friends)

6.) Drink wine. Ok, we just threw that one in. We don’t even like wine, but a fb friend sug­gested it, and it may very well work for some, as long as it’s in mod­er­a­tion. Drunk writ­ing, prob­a­bly not a good idea! LOL!

7.) Write a review. You can review your favorite com­pa­nies, prod­ucts or blogs. Tell what you like or dis­like about it, what you would change to improve it or the key points that you believe in and what helps others.

8.) Tell your story. Talk about your per­sonal jour­ney. What led you to join your com­pany or mar­ket the prod­ucts you’re mar­ket­ing. Be hon­est in where you’re at in your jour­ney and how you plan to reach your goals.

9.) Talk about your mis­takes. Oth­ers love to hear about fail­ures or mis­takes, what to avoid, any chal­lenges and what you learned from them.

10.) Link to oldies but good­ies. Link to pre­vi­ous blog posts you’ve done that you liked that maybe relate to the cur­rent post or just those that were pop­u­lar. Maybe new fol­low­ers haven’t read them yet, so they’ll enjoy check­ing them out.

Find Inspi­ra­tion

11.) Watch a movie. You can find inspi­ra­tion in watch­ing movies some­times. You can relate any­thing almost to real life and apply it to your blog posts. Here’s an exam­ple of one we did before.…Julia Child and Net­work Mar­ket­ing.

12.) Uti­lize tele­vi­sion. Same as above only use the most watched shows that a lot of peo­ple watch. You can even google what the top shows are and work off of that. Here’s an exam­ple of a blog post we wrote after get­ting inspired watch­ing a highly rec­om­mended tv pro­gram.….Are You Teach­ing Oth­ers to Fish?

13.) Self Improve­ment Books. You can gain a lot of great knowl­edge and infor­ma­tion from read­ing per­sonal devel­op­ment books and then apply it in your own words to your own blog posts. Here’s an exam­ple of one of our other posts where we inter­twined some value from a cou­ple great books that we highly rec­om­mend read­ing.…Are You Ready for 2011?

14.) Comic Books. These can be great just because every­one loves super heroes. They are extremely inspi­ra­tional, moti­vat­ing, imag­i­na­tive, and so very pow­er­ful. They take you to a fan­tasy world where you can DO the impos­si­ble. This is why so many movie pro­duc­ers are bring­ing back these classics.

15.) Celebrity Appeal. The men­tion of celebri­ties def­i­nitely attract oth­ers to read more. It can be an actor/actress, musi­cian or even iconic speak­ers. They have the cred­i­bil­ity or appeal to hold your audi­ences atten­tion, whether good or bad.

16.) Trends. See what’s up with the lat­est trends and do your best to apply it to your niche. You can find out more about trends by vis­it­ing…Google Trends.

17.) Explore Cul­tures. Some­times going to an authen­tic restau­rant, museum, or tak­ing a trip can boost your cre­ative juices. It’s a thought anyway.…;)

18.) Take a walk or do some­thing fun with fam­ily or friends. Some­times all we need is a break to reju­ve­nate our minds and bod­ies. Just make sure to not get so dis­tracted that you for­get what your goals are and take action after you’ve cleared your mind. Speak­ing from expe­ri­ence. Ha!

19.) Jour­nal.  When you’re feel­ing cre­ative, write down what you’re think­ing and this will serve you well into the future when your well runs dry. You can col­lect a bunch of dif­fer­ent ideas, sto­ries, etc. and use them when you really need to.

So that’s it ladies and gents! Hope you got some value from this post, now go out there and con­quer your dreams!