Moving On Up… On TO Own Domain & Ready to Continue Forward
Filed under: MLM, make money online, overcoming obstacles, solving problems
I know that in the pass few weeks I have been making a lot of changes, but each is a step in a plan to make my blog, my business and my online presents better and more able to reach people that I know I can help.
I have switched my blogging platform and moved to my own domain. My new site URL is http://createyourownamazingbusiness.com and my template (which was upgraded a few weeks ago) will stay the same but with better plug-in and therefore more capabilities. I am committed to helping people , sharing what I have found works for me, and can work for you as well. I have many big and exciting plans for this blog, many ideas I can not wait to share and information on an opportunity that I know has the possibility to change your life (it is mine).
The one thing that was not able to intergrate like I had wanted was the Google Friend Connect in the right upper conner, so I must kindly ask you to go ahead a refollow if you were already following and if not, the go ahead and follow now.
I want to say that I appreciate my readers patience during this switch over and that I will be back on a regular blogging schedule towards the end of this week. I am also working on integrating an e-mail RSS subscription where you can get my post e-mailed to you, which I know some, like myself, find easier. In the meantime please, subcribed to my RSS where you can choose your READER of preference to get my blog in to save you time.
I have also added an ABOUT page (top navigation bar) where I gave some more information that I had scaled way down on the last blog due to not having an ABOUT page, so be sure to check it out.
Remember that you are each very important to me and that I welcome, in fact I love, your comments…so keep them coming. I am also always willing to set up one on one time to talk with you about the opportunity that I have found that I believe in that I know can change lives. Besides that things will remind the same, I will continue to write articles and post that I hope you find helpful, inspirtaion, uplifting for even just entertaining.
Most of I would like to take this time to just stop and say Thank You!
Joy TO You
Marilyn Holm
createyourownamzingbusiness@gmail.com
In at the beginning
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Do you have to get in at the beginning???
NO!!!
Amway and Mary Kay are still producing millionaires, and look how long they’ve been around?
I got in on the ground floor of one company and no one, NO ONE helped me build my downline.
The important thing is to get in early on the TREND. How early join the company isn’t the issue.
The concept of “get in early” applies to the investment industry. There, you want to buy stock or property before it comes to other people’s attention, and then sell when everyone else is talking about it and trying to get a piece of the action.
In network marketing, it’s important to pay attention to the trends. Take the wellness industry; baby boomers are just now starting to feel their age, and looking around for ways to feel young, to stay young, so they can continue their active lifestyle. If you wait another 30 years, funeral homes and cemetery plots will be the hot commodity.
I mean, look at real estate. Thirty years ago, the baby boomers were starting their careers and looking around to settle down and raise their families. Thirty years ago, I bought a 3-bedroom condo for $29,000. Five years later, I sold it for $79,000. My initial investment was $2,000. My monthly overhead was $300. My friends gave me a LOT of grief over that one, because they couldn’t imagine paying $300 a month for housing.
Do you think that you could invest $2,000 today and make $50,000 in five years, in real estate? You know why not? The boomers already own their houses. They’ve moved on.
Get in on the trend. Stay ahead of the boomers, and you’ll ride the wave, all the way home.
Pyramid scheme? Nope! How do you KNOW?
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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.
Create colleagues rather than competition
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Part of the magic of network marketing is that, as your business grows, you gain colleagues, not competitors.
As you train people to succeed, they become clones of you, out there being in more places than you could ever cover on your own. They don’t break away and steal your customers. They don’t set up shop across town and use the skills that you taught them to whittle away your bottom line. They stand with you, shoulder to shoulder, and become your greatest asset.
Everyone wins.
They say that it’s lonely at the top.
Not if you take everyone with you!
Do it yourself, or pay the man?
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There is so much to do and only so many hours in the day. You’re building a business, probably while working full time at the job you’re trying to escape, raising a family, juggling schedules, caring for aging parents, and having a quiet dinner out, at least once in a while, with your spouse, so you can remember why you’re doing all of this anyway.
Some things you’ll be really, really good at. Other things will be a struggle for you. Avoid the trap of trying to do it all yourself. Otherwise, you’ll eventually run out of time and sanity.
Look for business partners with skills that compliment yours. If you don’t like speaking in front of groups, keep your antennae out for someone who likes being up on stage. If you can’t write, team up with someone who can. Are you super organized? Not everyone is. You can provide this skill to your partners, while they’re up on stage or blogging.
Another option is to hire someone to help you. For a couple of years, I had a personal assistant. She picked up my mail and called catalog companies to get me off their mailing lists. She returned the videos (pre-Netflix). She bought batteries for my watches and kept the refrigerator stocked. She did my laundry and filled out the checks for me to sign for all of the bills I was supposed to keep track of. When I traveled for business, or pleasure, she kept all of these things going in the background, so I came home to a cleared desk, with no backlog.
Heaven.
Then I got laid off, and I couldn’t afford to pay her any longer. But it taught me an important lesson: If someone else took care of the details that didn’t interest me, I could focus on what I loved to do, working on my career.
When I started network marketing, things went along pretty good, but I was starting to get frazzled around the edges because there were too many things to do, and most of them I had to learn first. I was a scientist, with no experience in network marketing. I had to learn everything.
When I turned to social networking, I had to learn Facebook and Twitter and YouTube and blogging and and and. . . the list goes on as far as the eye can see.
I sent out a plea for help, and the perfect person said “I could do that for you!” And she could. She did. She still does. My business has grown fabulously since hiring her, because I can focus my attention on the parts that I’ve learned really well, and that I LOVE to do.
Self reliance is a wondrous thing. Overwhelm is the pits.
Where are you?
Benefits of network marketing
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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.
Bean by bean, the bag gets full
Filed under: MLM, direct sales, dreams into reality, entrepereneurs, leadership, learning network marketing, make money online, network marketing, perfect business, positive attitude, try try again
Network marketing doesn’t often explode into being. Some people can do that, but not many. Most of us build over time, solidly, determinedly, cyclically.
I’ve heard people say that their business imploded 5 or 8 or 6 separate times before they hit the top. Mine has imploded twice. It might implode again. That won’t stop me. I KNOW in my heart of hearts, that this is the business that will help the most people the most. That’s MY life goal: to help people blossom into the best version of themselves.
I don’t care how long it takes them. I’m there for them. I match their effort. I lead them where they want to go.
I don’t do it for them. That’s pointless. If a mother never lets her child tie his own shoelaces, then that child grows up hampered. I take the time to show each person his or her next step. I hold the bicycle, running alongside, until she gets her balance, and then watch as she swoops toward her future, calling out encouragement and praise.
And bean by bean, my bag gets full.
I coach each person on how to run alongside the bicycle that someone else is trying to ride. I watch from a distance, my hand shading my eyes from the bright sun of their future.
I watch as, bean by bean, their bags get full.
We’re changing the world, one bean at a time.
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