Women are the Power
Filed under: dreams into reality, network marketing, women entrepreneurs
At the Rising Star Academy in Anaheim on November 6th and 7th, Marci Shimoff (http://www.happyfornoreason.com) spoke to a standing-room-only crowd of about 400 women, with a sprinkling of men. She shared many facts that were news to me. Here’s a sampling.
The actual spending power in the average American household lies in women’s hands. Eighty percent, 80%! of all purchase decisions are made by women. If you are creating a business that revolves around products or service, you want to be talking with the women. It stands to reason that it would be wise to know how to talk to the women.
Research has shown that women have much greater brand loyalty than men. Once a woman falls in love with a product, it is very hard to get her to abandon it. If your product or service is new on the market, you want to be talking to the women. Gain their loyalty, and they will stay with you for a long time. Again, it stands to reason that it would be wise to know how to talk to the women.
If you’re looking for business partners, you should know that women start more businesses than men; in fact, 50 times more! And you’ve probably already heard or perhaps noticed that 70% of all network marketing professionals are women. So, if you are creating your own amazing business in network marketing, you want to be talking to the women. And you know what? It stands to reason that it would be wise to know how to talk to the women.
Women process information and make decisions differently than men. Women are more innerpreneurial than men. For women, it’s not just about the money and climbing the ladder. There’s more to success, in a woman’s world, than money and recognition. Women care about the impact they have on society. We are cultural creatures. We are inspired to share our mission of bringing health, wealth, consciousness, authenticity into our everyday business relationships. We are cultural creatives, interested in personal development, making the world a better place, a greener place, a more highly spiritual place.
When you are talking to the women, show them how they can combine their desire to make a difference, with their desire for financial freedom. It’s there, hidden in your prosperity plan, your products, your business culture. Bring it out, sculpt it into a blossoming possibility, show them how they can turn it into a reality. Show them how they can make a difference in their family’s lives, in their friends lives, and the steps they need to take to transform those desires into reality.
Genuine inner freedom is the unspoken goal of our every action and thought. When women are safe to blossom into the nurturing, generous, loving souls that they habitually keep tucked away in their hearts, they CAN change the world. They WILL change the world.
The Dalai Lama said, “The world will be saved by the Western woman.” There is NO force equal to the strength of a woman determined to rise.
Too busy?
Filed under: MLM, building your business, direct sales, entrepereneurs, learning network marketing, network marketing, perfect business, talking with friends, time management, women entrepreneurs
What are you doing right now, that is going to gain you more time a year from now?
Of course you’re busy; everyone is. Is that ever going to change, given the course you’re on now?
Everyone has 24 hours each and every day. Most people spend all of their time making all of their money. The treadmill loops around and around, and they can never get off.
Some people leverage their time, so that a year from now, they’re not working so hard; five years from now, they’re kicking back; ten years from now they’re sitting pretty.
If you work harder at what you’re already doing in your job, you’re just going to keep working longer and longer hours. Jobs can eat us alive, especially those of us who are motivated to do a GREAT job.
But do the GREAT job for yourself, and for your family, and for your friends. Don’t do it for some corporate board of directors, or the neighborhood hardware store. Do it for yourself and the people who are important in your life.
Network marketing lets you train yourself and learn from your leader, then train and lead others, who then train and lead others, who then train and lead others. The harder you work, the less you have to work next year or the year after that, and that trend just keeps on going.
Network marketing is the PERFECT business for people who are too busy, who have no time. Because it gives you the gift of time. It gives you back your life, so you can spend it with your kids with your wife, with your husband, with your friends.
Pyramid scheme? Nope! How do you KNOW?
Filed under: MLM, building your business, direct sales, earn money from home, earn money online, learning network marketing, make money online, network marketing, perfect business, women entrepreneurs
Network marketing companies simply offer effective management.
In every corporate business, the guys at the top earn the vast majority of the money. The executive assistant NEVER makes more money than the executive. Middle management NEVER make more money than upper management. The worker bees NEVER make more money than the guys at the top of the heap.
In network marketing, every person has the potential to earn scads more than the people above them.
Each person earns money based on his or her ABILITY, rather than where they’re placed in the company. I make quite a bit more money than quite a few people in my upline. I’m paid according to my ability, my enthusiasm, my belief in what I’m doing. It doesn’t matter one whit that I joined months and months after other people. I’m doing just fine, thank you very much.
Let’s face it, every business is a pyramid. One person can’t do everything, once the business starts to grow, so you always hire others to help with the work. A child care center doesn’t have one adult and 88 children. Not a successful (or legal) one anyway. A successful child-care center with 88 children would have administrators, teachers, interns, volunteers, and usually one or two people making sure it all hangs together. It’s a pyramid of responsibility; it’s a pyramid of pay scale.
The same applies to hospitals, dentist offices, Microsoft, golf courses.
The only ones calling names are the people who expected it to work without effort, wanted someone else to do it for them, or just, quite simply, gave up.
There are a LOT of people out there who are making it work just fine. And they’re making it work because they’re able to teach others how to make it work.
Find one of them. Find someone who has been successful, and get them to teach you.
It’s not a pyramid SCHEME! It’s simply effective management.
Hey! I got fired!
Filed under: MLM, building your business, dreams into reality, entrepereneurs, network marketing, overcoming fear, perfect business, positive attitude, solving problems, timing, women entrepreneurs
Yesterday, my boss fired me. Or maybe I got laid off; not sure what the difference is. Kinder terminology maybe. Regardless of the terms, yesterday I had a job; today I don’t have a job. That’s a big change in my reality, and it happens to a lot of people.
Yesterday, I was pretty upset. It caught me, not completely by surprise, but I didn’t see it coming right now. I knew it was something that could happen, but I had let myself be lulled into a sense of security, of things going on the way they always have. I felt safe and content, and then suddenly, during a 3-minute conversation, I felt vulnerable and all alone.
I cleared out my desk, packed up the artwork and plants that made my little corner pretty and comforting. A friend helped me carry everything out to my car. And I drove away. It happened so fast, and it was so late in the day, I was able to say goodbye to only two people. Today, everyone came in and probably saw my empty spot and wondered what in the world happened.
Now, I sort of knew it could happen, because I knew that money was tight. I knew that some funding that they’d been counting on was maybe not going to happen, but they assured me that it wouldn’t affect me, that they really needed me, and that I was safe. But I wasn’t safe. It did affect me. My world is very different today than it was yesterday, not even 24 hours ago.
That’s the world almost all of us live in today. Things change and they can change FAST.
I went home and told my husband what had happened, and my victory was that I was able to talk without breaking into tears. He was supportive and encouraging and enthusiastic about what door might open next. I was too caught up in my emotion to be swayed by his positive attitude, but I was able to stay off that slippery slope of debilitating fear and despair.
I didn’t sleep much last night, so I woke up tired and groggy. But the amazing thing was, I woke up optimistic, enthusiastic, with a sense of freedom that has stayed with me all day long.
Things happen for a reason. We’ve all heard that, and most of us believe it, but when we’re in the middle of a crisis, we might not be able to feel it. But I feel it. I have been working hard all day long at the thing that I LOVE to do, without fear, without anxiety, just knowing that it feels so right to be doing this. I can focus my full attention on MY own business, without the distraction of someone else’s business.
I’m the main wage earner in my household. My husband is a minister and loves his work, but it doesn’t pay anything at all. My income pays all of the bills, and sends us on vacation and buys us new computers and iPhones. So when my income goes away, our lives change.
But I’m not worried. I know that MY own business is going to grow tremendously over the next two months, because I know what I’m doing, and I can finally, finally focus on what I love to do: MY own amazing business. My own AMAZING business.
The worst financial disaster that could have happened to me and my family happened yesterday. And I’m feeling GREAT!
Benefits of network marketing
Filed under: MLM, direct sales, earn money from home, earn money online, make money online, network marketing, perfect business, women entrepreneurs
There are so many. Here are a few:
You get to be the boss.
You control how many hours you work each week, each day.
You choose the people with whom you want to work. You get to ignore the people with whom you don’t want to work.
You choose how much money you want to make.
You decide when to give yourself a raise.
You decide when to take a vacation. You decide when to come back. You decide if you even want to come back.
You get all kinds of tax advantages.
You can leave the business to your heirs.
You are investing your time, instead of spending your time. You get future returns, just like any investment, only of more time, which is a rare thing indeed.
The business belongs to YOU, and you choose how to manage it.
You get to help others do the same.
It’s a wonderful world.
Abundance
Filed under: MLM, direct sales, dreams into reality, earn money from home, earn money online, entrepereneurs, network marketing, perfect business, positive attitude, women entrepreneurs
You’ve probably heard that jobs are scarce, that we’re in a recession, that things will get worse before they get better, that we’re in for hard times.
That might be true for many people, but it doesn’t have to be true for YOU!!!
My company is experiencing record growth; so are many others. You just have to look in the right places.
The world is rich with possibilities, just waiting for you to look at them.
Open yourself to abundance!
Some people envision the world holding a finite amount of wealth, that if you get a piece of the pie, there will be less on their plate. Ludicrous!
Think about how much wealth existed in 1903, in 846BC, in 1960. Imagine how much wealth will exist in 2083, in 2010. Wealth expands and contracts according to the imagination, inspiration, determination of whoever happens to be standing on the planet.
I have never felt more confident about the financial future of work-at-home business owners. We are the wave of the future. We are stay-at-home, work-at-home moms. We are military wives. We are corporate escapees. We are college students, recent graduates. We are enthusiastic, motivated, inspired, richly rewarded.
You should check us out!
Yellow brick road
Filed under: dreams into reality, overcoming fear, overcoming obstacles, positive attitude, try try again, women entrepreneurs
All things are possible. An idea, a dream, starts floating around in your brain, bumping into things, coming into focus, melting into the background, floating, bumping, today, next week, last month.
An insight blossoms in your heart. You see something that speaks directly to your inner self and you know that this is important.
Do you let it go? Do you turn away, sighing?
You don’t have to.
Take the first step. Simply turn your attention to the idea, the dream, the blossom. Hold it firmly, gently, in your heart.
You’ve started.
Every journey begins with a first step. Progress is made, step by step.
Make a commitment to YOUR yellow brick road.
Build your business to fit YOU
Filed under: MLM, direct sales, learning network marketing, network marketing, perfect business, positive attitude, women entrepreneurs
Network marketing is the perfect business, because you can build it in the way that fits you, your personality, your life.
Some people prefer to work alone, connecting with people over the internet. Network marketing is the perfect business for you. Or maybe you’re a phone person, and love chatting away. Network marketing is the perfect business for you. Or maybe your favorite afternoon is sitting in a bookstore cafe, talking with a friend. Network marketing is still the perfect business for you.
Do you like mingling with people, chitchatting your way across the room? Guess what! Network marketing is the perfect business for you. Do you like getting away and spending time alone or with just your family around? Network marketing is the perfect business for you.
Do you like getting things done early in the morning? Yes? No? Do you prefer sleeping in so you can move through the quiet world of late nights? Either way, network marketing is the perfect business for you.
Are you in college, wondering if you’ll be able to find a job when you graduate? Are you staying home to raise your children? Are you looking for a way out of your corporate job, with layoffs looming on the horizon? Are you retired, looking for the missing something in your life? Are you a teacher, trying to make ends meet every summer?
Guess what!!!
Network marketing is the perfect business for you.
Find a company that speaks to your heart. Find someone to teach you the ropes. Find one friend who is as excited about the possibilities as you are. Now you have everything you need.
Questions! Ask away!
I love your comments!!!
I hope you’re having an amazing day.
Fall is a time of transition
Filed under: learning network marketing, overcoming fear, positive attitude, women entrepreneurs
Kids are heading back to school. The vegetable garden and fruit trees are winding down. The world is starting to still and grow quiet. It’s the perfect time for reflection and shifting toward transitions that are important to YOU.
The busy summer is behind us; the busy holidays are ahead of us. We’re at the cusp of a season of possibilities, of preparation that will yield wonderful rewards, just around the corner.
What would you like to change in your life, if you had to chose just one thing? What kind of a difference would you like to make?
What can you do today, even a baby step, that would take you in that direction? What is stopping you from doing that one thing? What can you do to make that one obstacle float away?
You can accomplish anything, if you simply make the decision to start now.
Where are you going? How do you get there?
What’s your dream? How do you get there?
How do you leverage your time?
Filed under: MLM, direct sales, entrepereneurs, how do you learn to do network marketing, learning network marketing, network marketing, women entrepreneurs
In the previous blog, we talked about residual income. An even more powerful component of network marketing is leveraging your time.
We talked about enrolling your first person into your business, then your second, fourth, tenth, and so on. You can enroll people until you’re blue in the face, and your business will creep along. But if you start to leverage your time, your business will explode!
Take the time to train the people that you enroll to do what you’ve done. Take them under your wing and show them, step by step, how to talk to people, how to have fun at it, how to work in their back offices, how to meet people for lunch or tea and casually, naturally, bring up the subject of your new business, whatever it is that has made it so easy for you to enroll people. Guide them along until they pick up the idea and start going with it.
I went backpacking once with a good friend who was an expert fly fisherman. We sought out a river where the park service allowed only catch and release, which meant that every time someone caught a fish, they would release it back into the river, alive and healthy, if a little shell shocked.
This also meant that there were scads of fish there, and since my friend was so good at fishing, he was catching another fish every minute or so.
Now, when a fish first comes off the hook, it’s dazed and shocked. When you lower it back into the river, it lays there, motionless, listing onto its side. So while my friend had the fishing experience of his life, I opened a fish recovery pool.
I gently cupped a fish in my palm and slowly swished it backward and forward through the water, allowing the water to flow through its gills so the fish could still breathe. I would have 6 or 8 fish gathered around my feet, in their 8 inches of river water, gently swishing two fish at a time, then going to the next two, rotating through the group until they recovered their wits and could carefully swim away.
My friend would add a new fish, two would wake up and swim away, new fish, recovered fish, a cycle of success.
Now, we could have just let the fish fend for themselves. Back in the water, there you go! But by caring for them and helping them function until they could take over for themselves ensured their success. Our fish were successful fish!
Your new team members are like the stunned fish. You can leave them to flounder for themselves, but some of them might not succeed. By nurturing them and helping them function until they can take over for themselves, you ensure their success.
Now, what does all of that have to do with leveraging your time? Every person on your team who succeeds turns into another you. Instead of you enrolling every single person, you have a good friend out there enrolling people, too. You get credit for everything your team accomplishes, so their success is your success. Pretty soon you have two, four, ten yous, out there being successful and having FUN, swimming along naturally, happily.
Train your team members well, and they’ll be able to take their own teams under their wings, and teach the third generation how to succeed at enrolling people and teaching THEM how to succeed. Now you have hundreds of yous, swimming along, naturally, happily.
That’s leveraging your time. That’s true success.
There are other ways to leverage your time in network marketing. Which ones come to mind? Which ones would you like to know more about?
I can’t wait to hear from you!
I hope you’re having an amazing day.
NetworkedBlogs
