MLM

Multi-level marketing (MLM) :

Multi-level marketing (MLM) (also called network marketing) is a term that describes a marketing structure used by some companies as part of their overall marketing strategy. The structure is designed to create a marketing and sales force by compensating promoters of company products not only for sales they personally generate, but also for the sales of other promoters they introduce to the company, creating a downline of distributors and a hierarchy of multiple levels of compensation in the form of a pyramid. The products and company are usually marketed directly to consumers and potential business partners by means of relationship referrals and word of mouth marketing.[6]

What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 - Tina Seelig

Tina Seelig is the Executive Director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and one of the most truly brilliant and creative people I have ever met. In addition to a PHD from Stanford Medical School in Neurology, she's written many books, educational cards for kids, and is a serial entrepreneur. I recently listened to this talk she gave at Stanford, and then played it again just to take notes. She has great advice for those legions of young women and men starting out their careers, including (my notes in italics):

1) Every problem is an opportunity for a creative solution. Attitude is everything and you control your attitude. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity. No one will pay you to solve a non-problem. Tina has some great examples of a money-making challenge she gave to a bunch of her students. They're fun to listen to because they so clearly demonstrate how easily we can go beyond our self-limiting constraints.

An Expert Review of The Business of the 21st Century: Robert Kiyosaki

In this great book Robert openly endorses once again Network Marketing and explains why he thinks being involved in this industry is the best way to make the switch from the employee and small business owner/ specialist ( Es and Ss) to the Big Business (B) and investor (I) side of the cash flow quadrant. Here are some of the topics he covers:

-Technology + Outsourcing = Job Loss

-Big Business means either 500 employees or $10 million in gross income

-People helping people and spreading the wealth to as many people as possible

-People Development: Pushing your network up instead of bringing them down

-Build a network of people…build an asset!

-Real world business education. If your network don’ t succeed, you don’ t succeed. In corporate America you get fired

-5 year commitment, scalable and global. You have to be a great leader, a role model anddevelop your leadership skills

-There are 4 basic people in the world: people who must be right ( narrow-minded/ barely change/ they know everything), people who must be comfortable ( their house is burning down but they are too lazy to get up), people who must be liked (they do things to please everyone and to fit in) and people who must win (they will do everything in their power to reach success no matter what)

-Es & Ss work for money and trade time for a paycheck while Bs and Is build assets and real assets are real wealth. In this case, your network is your wealth or networth

-Wealth is not measured in money but in time. Wealth must become infinite, meaning that even if you don’t work you still get paid from your passive income ( real estate, stocks, options, network marketing business, etc)

-When choosing a company, leaders must be first and product second

-It’s not about selling…It’s about leading your tribe to duplicate your results

-It takes action (Overcome Analysis Paralysis) and time (10,000 hours to become really successful)

-Don’t think- Act!

-Master Financial Literacy: You must develop the skill set and knowledge to make informed and effective business decisions

-During this tough times real entrepreneurs get ahead financially

-The rich are always looking forward to tough times

-This is the biggest financial crisis in the history of the world. It is greater than the great depression in 1929 because for the first time you are competing with people who do your job for pennies (outsourcing), plus today you can also replace people with technology. The industrial age is OVER, welcome to the INFORMATION AGE!

-Students are loaded with student loans and no jobs. Safe, secure job – Obsolete idea

-Tax, debt, inflation and bad investments (401k and mutual funds) = Poor Side

-Word of mouth, referral marketing and viral marketing = Best Advertising Channel

-Mindset + Skill set ( leadership, business education and training) + Action (make things happen and execute)= Big Business

-This is a personal development business: winning is the joy of life

P.S. “Your net worth is determined by your network” Robert Kiyosaki

Arturo E. Bermudez
Entrepreneur

http://arturobermudez.com/?p=137

The Business of the 21st Century Review

Review of Robert T Kiyosaki‘s latest book, The Business of the 21st Century by Seth Lefferts

Are you ready to get excited about the business of the 21st century? Seriously, I mean really excited!? I am and I am. I am very excited! It was many years ago that I read a book by Robert T Kiyosakicalled Rich Dad, Poor Dad. To my horror, I had just made a decision a few months earlier that was entirely against the concepts of this amazing book. I had the misguidance to take a nice sum of money that I had received from trading stock options and I used it to pay for two years of my kid’s college, the down payment for a house, pay off a car loan, and buy a bunch of furnishings for the house. In other words, I spent it.

I did some great things with it: true. I used it wisely: false! After I read the book I realized that I could have invested the money, using the dividends to pay for these things over time. Then, when all was said and done, I would still have had the money ready to work for me in other ways. I was a Poor Dad: true. I have been an Employee most of my life, and now have been Self-Employed for the past few years with my own consulting business. It has generated a very nice income, but my outgo pretty much matches it, so I am really not much better off because of it. I just look and act affluent!

It was a painful lesson that I have been looking to correct for all of these ensuing years of working the JOB – just over broke – as someone else’s “slave”; well, the truth be told, me being a slave to the bills that I am generating. I am just trying to pass the blame onto someone else! But, in the end, it’s just me.

The Business of the 21st Century

The Business of the 21st Century. Robert Kiyosaki’s HOT! New Book

For the past several years, multimillionaire businessman, entrepreneur, investor, advisor & author Robert Kiyosaki has been a staunch supporter of Network Marketing. Like many people, he was skeptical about the industry at first— and I know THAT for a first-hand fact. I was one of the first to do an article with Robert (for Upline) and it was one of THE hardest interviews I’ve ever done. He was a bear! That is until he learned first-hand what Network Marketing is all about: Helping People & getting a great Personal and Professional Education (and earn while you learn, too).

In his latest book, the author of the super-successful Rich Dad Poor Dad series shows why Network Marketing is indeed the business of the 21st century. Robert shares the eight wealth-building assets offered by network marketing that allow you to take advantage of these tough economic times to build a strong financial future and happier life.

- Asset #1: A Real-World Business Education
- Asset #2: A Profitable Path of Personal Development
- Asset #3: A Circle of Friends Who Share Your Dreams and Values
- Asset #4: The Power of Your Own Network
- Asset #5: A Duplicable, Fully Scalable Business
- Asset #6: Incomparable Leadership Skills
- Asset #7: A Mechanism for Genuine Wealth Creation
- Asset #8: Big Dreams and the Capacity to Live Them

A Blueprint for Success

Believe while others Doubt,
Plan while others Sleep,
Study while others Play,
Decide while others Delay,
Work while others Dream,
Listen while others Talk,
Smile while others Pout; and
Persist while others Quit.

Entrepreneurship Skills

$ Attitudes of Success
$ Leadership Skills
$ Communication Skills
$ People Skills
$ Overcoming personal fears, doubts and lack of confidence
$ Overcoming fear of rejection
$ Money Management Skills
$ Investing Skills
$ Accountability Skills
$ Time Management Skills
$ Goal Setting
$ Systematization

Network Marketing Secret: How to Become a Leader In 90 Days

Become a leader in 90 days.

How’s that for an offer you can’t refuse?

You can. What’s more, it’s much easier (and obviously faster) than you probably imagined possible. Here’s how:

First, think: Is anybody born a leader?

Was Gandhi, Winston Churchill, Susan B. Anthony, born a leader? I was not. Were you?

We may inherit intellectual, emotional, spiritual or even physical characteristics, which are useful for becoming a good leader – but a born leader… Nah. Leaders are made, not born. And fact is…

ALL leaders are self-made leaders.

Let’s agree then that people become leaders through some kind of process. So, what’s the process people have used before successfully for becoming great leaders?

Well, there are leadership trainings. Do people emerge from these weekend/week-long workshops as card-carrying leaders? Hardly. I don’t think you can workshop yourself into being a leader. But I am convinced you can be trained, or train yourself to become a good leader through leadership management.

The most common leadership development process I’ve observed is the emergence of a leader from a person who performs “leadership” actions consistently over a period of time. In other words, leader development or leader training results in leaders.

The military, even the Scouts, have proved this to be so.

Now, what do you call human behavior that results from a person taking consistent action over time? A habit. And that’s the key to becoming (or creating) a leader in just 90 days:

Leadership Development through Habits

How You Create A Habit
In his pioneering personal growth text, Psychocybernetics, Maxwell Maltz claimed that you could make a new habit in 21 days. Tribal people, relying on more “natural” sciences, say it takes 28 days – one complete cycle of the moon.

So, give or take a week…

You should be able to develop a new habit in about a month. With two more months of practice-making-perfect, it should be a very done deal in 90 days.

Now, the way you develop a new habit – any habit – is to repeat the desired behavior over-and-over-and-over-and… until it moves from being an action you think about before you do it, to one done without your conscious attention. Putting on your directional signals in your car before making a turn is an example.

Okay, you develop a habit by repeating an action consistently. How consistently? For this exercise in creating the habit of leadership, let’s consider taking daily actions.

Your 10 Daily Habits
To develop the Habit of Leadership, I recommend you make a list of 10 Daily habits, which you commit to doing day in, day out, every day for 90 days.

Now, if you are a master of the will, you may not need to do these things each and every day. However, I have yet to meet a person who has such mastery. But, on the odd chance you are one… fine. Do the actions whenever. For the rest of us – especially in the beginning – these actions MUST be taken day in, day out, seven times each week, as if your life depended on it! (And your life as a leader does…)

If you are really serious about your leader development using this habit method, and you’ve been known to get a little lazy and even sneaky sometimes about getting out of doing things, I recommend you “hire” an accountability partner, a business coach, or just someone with whom you can check in every day so you can report that you did or did not be, do, have your habits.

If you did, hear – as in deeply and generously experience on a feeling level – your coach or partner’s praise and acknowledgment of you.

If you didn’t, you send him or her a $100 bill IMMEDIATELY! (Upping the ante works! And it’s okay to manipulate yourself for a positive outcome. Just don’t do it to other people.)

So, what are some “leadership” actions or leadership skills you can take and make into habits?

Well, let’s see – what do leaders do?

For one thing, they READ (or Listen). So, one habit you can do is to read (or listen) 30 minutes every day. (I’ll leave it to you WHAT to read. As a guide, ask yourself, “What would a leader I admire be reading?”)

A good leader is healthy and fit, right? So, two more habits you might use: Exercise 30 minutes every day and cut your previous fat and refined carbohydrate intake in half… minimum. (By the way: Make up habits that you can measure. “Eat right,” doesn’t make it. “Cut out burgers or dairy food for a month,” does.)

How about the habit of spending one full hour every day with your spouse or life partner. Is that something a leader would do?

My mentor, Dr. Carol McCall, has identified “Six Areas of Life Planning,” and I say you would be best to have at least one leadership habit to work with in each of the following areas: Career, Health, Relationships, Recreation, Finances, and Personal Growth.

I suggest you restrict yourself to developing 10 and only 10 leadership habits. This process is tough enough thank you, so do your best to make your leadership habits easy. (You heroes and sheroes can wait and create more, harder habits in the fourth month for extra credit.)

That’s it. That’s “How to Become a Leader in 90 Days.”

Make 10 daily leadership habits and do them with a life-or-death commitment for the next three months. In 90 days you will be a leader.

Try it with a select collection of people on your team, too, as leadership development training. Have them all check in with you to report via email or voice mail each night. Come together on a teleconference line weekly to check in, share experiences and resources and, above all to celebrate your successes.

And yes, this is probably too simple and easy to really work. Why? Because the secret is – you have to do it.

As self-made world leader Jim Rohn says:

It’s easy to do… and
It’s easy not to do…

Whether you do, or you do not do, is up to you.

So, it’s not really a Network Marketing secret. You can become a leader in only 90 days. And now, you know how…

______________________________

Thanks.
I appreciate you.

http://thegreatestnetworker.org/

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25 things I wish I knew when I was 20

How many times have you heard someone say, “If I only knew then what I know now”?

As you get older you begin to understand what that means. Call it experience. This hub offers you the benefit of my experience. All twenty-five will not apply to you, but if one helps you avoid a big mistake, then you win.

So let’s get started.

If you can’t explain something in a few sentences, then you don’t understand it. You can easily test this one yourself. Ask some questions. See what you get back, long and windy or short and to the point. Generally the longer the answer is the less substance it contains. Pay attention here if you are the one talking.

Friends are the best currency. You cannot make new old friends. Only time and experience can build true friendship. Keep in touch with your friends; they are the currency of your life.

Challenge yourself, no one else really will. No one can push you like you can push yourself. They will try, but only you can do it.

Love is only the beginning. I will not even attempt to explain this one. Go see for yourself. Think commitment.

Mistakes are learning tools. Mistakes happen. You can’t take back what’s done or what’s said. Take responsibility for what you did and move on. Learn from it. Apologize if necessary, but learn from it or you will repeat it. Taking responsibility for the mistake puts you in control.

You only have one family. Yes they are yours. They are not going away. Get use to it.

Every little bit counts. A little each day will get most things done.

Education only begins with graduation. It never ends.

There is always more than one side to anything. The biggest mistakes you will ever make will be taking actions or making decisions based on one side. Period. Get the whole story.

Most communication is not verbal. Shut up and observe.

Everyone has an agenda. If you know yours, you control yourself; if you know theirs, you control them.

Laugh at yourself first. If it is funny, it is funny. So what if it happened to you.

Learn your job. Whatever your job is, learn it. Be the person co-workers come to when things go wrong.

What people remember about you most is how you made them feel. We are emotional beings.

Do what you say you will do. This is an important measure of a person; do they do what they say they will do? Do you do what you say you will do?

Ethics are what you do when someone is looking. Morals are what you do when no one is looking. Ethics are imposed. Morals come from within.

You will never understand the opposite sex, just enjoy them. I would like to say more but that is all I know.

If you have children, you have a lifetime responsibility. They are eighteen once, but yours forever.

You will get older. Time is not your friend or your enemy. Continue to live, learn, love, laugh, and you will make the best of it. How you spend your time says more about you than your age.

If you want to argue bring up politics or religion, otherwise don’t. You are not going to change someone’s politics or religion with a conversation.

You can learn something from everyone you meet. If you cannot learn from someone, it is your fault, not theirs. It is your loss, not theirs.

Admit your mistakes and share your successes. This is not as easy as it sounds, but it pays future dividends.

Everyone has an ego. Too much or too little is guaranteed trouble. Put simply, don’t believe yourself, believe in yourself.

If someone continually says the same thing over and over, you can bet it is not entirely true. Examples: I don’t drink that much. I don’t fool around on my wife. I do most of the work around here.

If someone talks about others to you then they talk about you to others. You can only trust a gossip to gossip, use them when you need to. Don’t be one.

One last bit of advice, it is easier to learn from someone else’s mistakes, but it is not always possible. If you read one of the 25 and think, “What fool didn’t know that?” Grab a mirror and take a good look and memorize that one for future use.

Enjoy your mistakes as well as your successes because that is life!

http://gnelson.hubpages.com/hub/25-things-I-wish-I-knew-when-I-was-20