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The Future Is Not Evenly Distributed…Yet

Will — Mon, 03 May 2010 05:41:05 +0000

“The future is here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” — Science-fiction writer William Ford Gibson wrote this back in the 1980′s.

The signs of the future are all around us. The evidence is everywhere if we will only open our eyes. There are always clues, but it isn’t until much later that most of the world grasps their significance. Meanwhile, the innovators who are busy inventing our future live in a place of their own. They see and act on ideas invisible to others. But after those ideas are accepted, and then adopted by the public, it’s hard to envision life without them. Take running water, electricity, or the radio, or the telephone, and of course, the Internet. My youngest daughter doesn’t remember life without a computer hooked up to the internet. To her, a computer is like a toaster…everybody’s got one.

Why do I bring this up?

This past weekend, in St. Louis, I believe I witnessed a historic milestone for the future of Internet Shopping. My Net Universe/My Shopping Genie launched a new version of their App, My Shopping Genie. This free App has been around for a while, helping people find low prices on the internet, and it works well. Originally, I understand it was an app to find cheaper eBay prices. Then it evolved into searching the shopping search engines along with eBay. Starting tomorrow, and over the next few days, My Net Universe will roll out it’s latest version of its free app, My Shopping Genie.

Why Should You Care?

Not only will it continue to find the lowest prices for consumer goods, now, it will find products in the virtual world as well. Clickbank is a well-known website for downloading ebooks and other items in a digital format. Amazon.com recently entered this industry too. My Net Universe has created a website that can search both catalogs in seconds.

What this means for users of the app, is that for the first time, they will be able to use one app to find the lowest price for all their needs in the real and the virtual world… An app that will find the lowest price 96% of the time. An app that saves the user significant time from having to sift through thousands of search engine results. An app, that if used will save the average household a hundred dollars or more per month. That’s pretty good walkin’ around money. It’ll pay your average phone or cable bill each month, won’t it.

My Shopping Genie also finds you coupons for groceries and local restaurants. Unlike so called “loyalty” cards issued by supermarkets, the Genie doesn’t track anything personal about its users. It simply scours the internet for the best deals…and doesn’t everybody want to get the best deal?

Get Your Own Free Genie.

Get the free app at www.myshoppinggenie.com. Follow the simple instructions. Install it in a minute or two. Use It Everyday To Save Money and Time.

Earn Money Giving Genies Away Too.

You have the opportunity to earn money with the Genie if you’d like to. Click Here to Learn How. A direct sales or network marketing model is used for the sale of licenses. Baby Boomers, and people of all ages can resist the government’s economic crisis by installing the My Shopping Genie app.

For the purposes of transparency, you should know I own a license to distribute the My Shopping Genie App. But even if I didn’t, I’d tell you about this great money-saving app anyway.

Check it out on the last ten items you bought and see what you could have saved. You’ll wish you had found the Genie sooner.

A Case Study – Why You Should Create A Brand For Your Home-Based Business

Will — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:08:55 +0000

WOW! When this post first appeared in February, I had no idea how prophetic a few of my paragraphs were, or how close to home they would hit.

Prophetic Paragraph #1

“Let’s say you are a distributor for company ‘X’. … Then one day, you get an email telling you the company is changing it’s distribution method (read: company is going out of business). … You try to log in to your back office, but they’ve already shut it down.”

Prophetic Paragraph #2

“ My primary opportunity, (name withheld), is blended into the mix of other companies and activities I’m involved in. If any one company closes down, my list and records are still intact. My own multiple income strategy only suffers a fender bender – not a total loss. Plug another opportunity into the open space, let my friends on the list know about it, and keep on moving ahead.”

Yep, it happened right here in River City. One company decided to use a different marketing model and move ahead without its associates or me.

Don’t get me wrong here. Their business decision is just that…their decision. They have every right and, I might say, the obligation to do whatever it takes for their company to survive and thrive. If the original model wasn’t working, then it must be adjusted and changed for the better, or their company and their investment of time and money would be lost. (They have done their very best to do right by the associates. Something not many people would have done. Way to go guys..you know who you are.)

It’s very easy to use a company system. The replicated sites, the contact info, pre-made ads, and all the rest of it will provide the illusion of being in business. This system can work when things are going well. BUT if things go wrong with the company… oh-oh…You could be out of business too. You might not be able to recover. The work to get back to where you had been might be overwhelming.

There is more work to set up your own system. The work is not that hard, but there is more of it. The good news is that once you have a good personal marketing system in place, it’s relatively easy to manage. For myself, doing business any other way is not an option. It doesn’t make sense to do all the work and have it at risk due to no fault of your own.

But I’ve digressed. My point is that the personal marketing plan I am using “brands” my own company and me personally. The various other companies I promote fall under my own company’s umbrella. When I got the bad news, my initial disappointment soon gave way to the excitement of discovering another company that fits really well into my business plan. A few hours of scrubbing the websites and I was finished with the one and up and running with the other.

Incidents like this occur in our industry. Companies do change directions and/or go out of business all the time. Branding yourself helps you be prepared for the bumps in the road that will always be there. Branding yourself instead of your opportunity pays off because when something not-so-good happens, you can shift gears easily and stay on track and still cross the finish line as a winner.

I urge you to consider how your are marketing your home-based business. If you’re not branding yourself before your opportunity, I’d recommend that you consider adjusting course. Change to a better business model. You’ll be very glad you did.

Writing from home tonight - Bettendorf, Iowa

Commission Or Omission – Part Three

Will — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:49:05 +0000

John Meatte has this right, doesn’t he? Hope you have learned from and enjoyed his article. Thanks John, for giving me permission to use it.

* * *

Dear friends,

Here’s the third and final installment of my rant. I hope you found something in it that you’ll use to take your business to the next level.

I may have stepped on some toes. But those toes needed to be stepped on in my humble opinion. The old sell & tell way is not the way that we should communicate with people now. The old way is what has perpetuated a negative perception of our industry for a long time.

Network Marketing is growing in spite of, really because of, the world’s current economic situation. Our Industry is positioned to become mainstream due to the fact that compensation for ALL JOBS is becoming more and more PERFORMANCE based. Performance has always been rewarded in our industry. The way I see it, we’re all ahead of the curve.

Give people the respect they deserve, be there for them when they are ready, and simply give of yourself, with no expectation of return. That’s the right way to treat people and the right way to become successful in your own right.

Here’s Part Three, the rest of my rant…

So now just who do you think you are talking to? Is it your hot, warm, or cold market?

Where in the world are you? Are you on the phone, face to face, on the Internet, at the super market, or just out walking around?

Do you communicate with everybody in a Comfortable, Conversational, and Connecting (C3) way? C3, practiced in any of these environments gets results!

When addressing potential business partners, do you project confidence and respect? Do you provide value and prove many benefits all centered on their needs and wants?

Give, and ask for nothing in return. Utilize this simple fundamental of a universal language. It is nothing more than the Golden Rule. You know the one that so many have forgotten in today’s hectic turmoil.

C3 works equally well with families, friends, co-workers, adolescents, teenagers, or your Mom. C3 works with your prospects and with continued use, will open previously closed doors in all aspects of your life and relationships.

What sets you apart from all the the script-zombies? Use Comfortable, Conversational Connecting when working your business and feel the difference respect and real value makes with real people. Experience the results you have been missing and dreaming about for so long. Use C3 Everyday.

Did you know this?

1. Did you know that many times the “Poster Kids” for companies

have NO history in network marketing? Many times they have

a pretty face or an ability to speak fantastically well – BUT they

got to be the “Poster Child” because of who they knew. They had

an uncle, brother, sister, mother, father, etc. on the “Inside” that

allowed them to be the “face” of a company.

2. Companies KNOW that most of the training they provide to

their reps IS NOT effective – statistically. They know their numbers

down to a science. They have to. They understand all too well that

on average a new associate may ‘stay on the books’ for 90 days and

will bring in 2.5 new distributors, on average, before they cancel their

monthly auto ship.

They have to teach BASIC and VERY simple techniques primarily

because what they teach is being used by the MASSES. Everyone

who comes into the ‘system’ is taught making a list of their hot and

warm market, handing out fliers, running newspaper ads, etc.

Rarely do you find companies that create marketing material based

upon the specific skill set of the distributor – that would be too

expensive and not realistic for most companies to do.

3. Most larger companies make 25-50% of their overall annual

revenues from the sale of marketing materials (fliers, brochures,

audios, etc). Companies are SMART – they recognize how

valuable their database is. They understand that if the average rep

only stays ‘on the books’ for 90 days they have about 3 months to

offer them everything they can (marketing materials, event sales

tickets, clothing/apparel, etc.).

Companies know the game and they play it well – I DON’T fault them

for any of this either. They run a business. Businesses are about

profits and balance sheets. They recognize that it’s a lot easier to

sell products (of any type) to their CURRENT PAYING clients than it

is to go out and find new business.

It’s the responsibility of you and I to go out there and drum up new

business. The objective is for us to add new associates quicker

than they go out the back door. This is known as attrition.

The very successful associate connects with his team, giving to

and helping them become successful associates too. There is a lot

of personal satisfaction to be had by helping others achieve their goals.

Learn as much about this industry as you possibly can. It’s a GREAT

industry – SECOND to none, but at the end of the day, it IS a business,

not a hobby. Any business still has to realize a profit, or else…

If you’re looking to level the playing field, become proficient in having

a comfortable conversation and connecting with your prospects.

This is why we give our mentoring specifically to you. And why it is

so rewarding for us. We appreciate you.

John

________________________________________________________________

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” –Booker T. Washington

Achievement

By Robert Louis Stevenson

That man is a success who has lived well,

Laughed often and loved much;

Who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children;

Who has filled his nice and accomplished his task;

Who leaves the world better than he found it,

Whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem or a rescued soul,

Who never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it;

Who looked for he best in others and gave the best he had.

John Meatte has this right, doesn’t he? Hope you have learned from and enjoyed his article. Thanks John, for giving me permission to use it.

* * *

Dear friends,

Here’s the third and final installment of my rant. I hope you found something in it that you’ll use to take your business to the next level.

Here’s Part Three, the rest of my rant…

So now just who do you think you are talking to? Is it your hot, warm, or cold market?

Where in the world are you? Are you on the phone, face to face, on the Internet, at the super market, or just out walking around?

Do you communicate with everybody in a Comfortable, Conversational, and Connecting (C3) way? C3, practiced in any of these environments gets results!

When addressing potential business partners, do you project confidence and respect? Do you provide value and prove many benefits all centered on their needs and wants?

Did you know this?

1. Did you know that many times the “Poster Kids” for companies have NO history in network marketing? Many times they have a pretty face or an ability to speak fantastically well – BUT they got to be the “Poster Child” because of who they knew. They had an uncle, brother, sister, mother, father, etc. on the “Inside” that allowed them to be the “face” of a company.

2. Companies KNOW that most of the training they provide to their reps IS NOT effective – statistically. They know their numbers down to a science. They have to. They understand all too well that on average a new associate may ‘stay on the books’ for 90 days and will bring in 2.5 new distributors, on average, before they cancel their monthly auto ship.

They have to teach BASIC and VERY simple techniques primarily because what they teach is being used by the MASSES. Everyone who comes into the ‘system’ is taught making a list of their hot and warm market, handing out fliers, running newspaper ads, etc.

Rarely do you find companies that create marketing material based upon the specific skill set of the distributor – that would be too expensive and not realistic for most companies to do.

3. Most larger companies make 25-50% of their overall annual revenues from the sale of marketing materials (fliers, brochures, audios, etc). Companies are SMART – they recognize how valuable their database is. They understand that if the average rep only stays ‘on the books’ for 90 days they have about 3 months to offer them everything they can (marketing materials, event sales tickets, clothing/apparel, etc.).

Companies know the game and they play it well – I DON’T fault them for any of this either. They run a business. Businesses are about profits and balance sheets. They recognize that it’s a lot easier to sell products (of any type) to their CURRENT PAYING clients than it is to go out and find new business.

It’s the responsibility of you and I to go out there and drum up new business. The objective is for us to add new associates quicker than they go out the back door.

The very successful associate connects with his team, giving to and helping them become successful associates too. There is a lot of personal satisfaction to be had by helping others achieve their goals.

Learn as much about this industry as you possibly can. It’s a GREAT industry – SECOND to none, but at the end of the day, it IS a business,not a hobby. Any business still has to realize a profit, or else…

If you’re looking to level the playing field, become proficient in having a comfortable conversation and connecting with your prospects. This is why we give our mentoring specifically to you. And why it is so rewarding for us.

We appreciate you.

John

________________________________________________________________

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” –Booker T. Washington

Achievement by Robert Louis Stevenson

That man is a success who has lived well,

Laughed often and loved much;

Who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children;

Who has filled his nice and accomplished his task;

Who leaves the world better than he found it,

Whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem or a rescued soul,

Who never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it;

Who looked for he best in others and gave the best he had.

Commission or Omission: Either Way, It’s A Lie-Part Two

Will — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:32:06 +0000

Here’s part two of John Meatte’s article. Part Three will arrive in a few days.

* * *

Let’s pick up where we left off last time.

Personally, I believe it would be a better market place if we forgot how to sell and started placing our prospects interests first. Find out more about what they want and need.

Show them by example how comfortable they can be operating a home business. Be honest with them about the ups and downs of a business. Be sure to summarize their issues, then address them all to eliminate any unrealistic expectations.

Let’s explore some solutions!

Accept the fact that most internet companies have a “one size fits all” marketing approach that probably doesn’t fit you.

Cloning what those at the top say is rarely what will take YOU to the top. People are experts at detecting if you are not being yourself. So be yourself.

You must establish value, worth, and personal integrity in the eyes of your prospects. Expecting your company’s tapes, videos, and testimonials to replace one on one connecting is only fooling yourself.

Recognize the potential in every prospect thru conversational connecting. Every prospect has different issues facing them. Learning how to provide insight that fits each prospect is the secret key to success for you both.

Avoid using any excuse to jump to your opportunity prematurely. Pontificating about your success doesn’t mean ‘diddley squat’ to your potential partner. They are ONLY interested in their needs, wants, and their own reasons why. It’s decision time about who they can actually trust and depend on. They really want to believe YOU have the skill to teach them and guide them through the process of making their wildest dreams come true. It’s your responsibility to BE that person.

More and more marketers have rediscovered the advantage of utilizing the “benefits” of the product or service to establish value and to connect with the prospect. In this climate of hard economic times, the benefits must have value and worth to the prospect first. When the prospect acknowledges they understand the ‘what’s in it for me’, only then are you ready to move on. Summarize what was important to them, and then proceed to ask for permission to move to the opportunity. Utilizing a conversation to understand what makes this individual “tick” by responding with what is important to them.

Help your prospect understand fully what is expected of them. Be realistic by helping them not to expect a “free ATM card”. They get their best chance to achieve success by working with you. Be sure they understand that the only place money comes before work is in the dictionary. Work at ‘raising the bar’ for them by setting an inspiring example that they can follow. Always interact with your partner by exhibiting a ‘how to’, instead of a ‘tell to’ attitude. Keep saying ‘Let’s do this’ until they are ready and want to work on their own. Recall when you were new, did your sponsor say something like ‘Go get ‘em Tiger’? Were you were left alone to fend for yourself, or did you have a mentor who showed you the ropes? How did they make YOU feel?

While it is normal to want success for someone more than they want it for themselves, we know the mechanics of success is built into our business. They do not. Our industry is known for giving people whatever time it takes to move from the mindset of an employee to that of a entrepreneur. One important process for you is to sort out those serious, hard working souls who deserve your time and have the discipline, commitment to work a business. You need people who are coachable, trainable, accountable, and responsible to their business. You will see them working it like a business, not a hobby. They will embrace change to achieve personal success.

Focus on giving without the expectation of anything in return. Give them access to information, and you will open the door to trust and acceptance. The prospect will begin to think of you as their business partner…someone who can help them get what they want from their business and their life.

If you will master giving to your prospect, you begin the process of transition to what your up line wants because you have established solid confidence and trust with your prospect. The relationship becomes mutually beneficial because both of you see each other as having high value and worth for each other. The ‘one size fits all approach’ from your up line won’t flop because your prospect has connected with you. It is the road map to success for you both.

Let’s pause here.

John Meatte