MLM Dream Savers

This Blog Has Been Moved to a New Host!

2009-07-13T19:36:00.002-04:00

The name will remain the same, and the posts will be linked from here, and the URL will still be MLMDreamSaver.com, as well as YourNetworkMarketingTraining.com -- but it will be hosted on my own site using Wordpress. I found a theme that I like ok, but it's like redecorating - too many choices!

Using Attraction Marketing Properly to Generate Qualified Leads

2009-07-09T21:41:00.013-04:00

Many professional sales people and some network marketers have been using one form of attraction marketing or another for as long as these professions have been around. The fact is however, that attraction marketing has taken on a new face with the recent explosion of social networking.

Attraction based marketing is simply grounded in the use of problem solving or value adding to attract customers or prospects. Advertising follows these principals as can be seen in various print, television and radio ads.

But with online social networking, marketing and sales have taken on a new face....
Read the entire post at it's new location...

The Top Ten Rules of Social Media Marketing

2009-07-08T10:29:00.009-04:00

These rules of social media marketing apply to any product, service or opportunity, and are expressed in many tutorials from experts across the industry of internet marketing (not necessarily in this order or format).

Following these rules will ensure that you get the best return on investment from your social networking..... Read the entire post at its new home...

A Bit of Inspiration

2009-07-07T10:05:00.009-04:00

This is a great little inspirational video - it reminds me of a quote by Napoleon Hill,
"Persistence is to the character of man what carbon is to steel"

That should give you some inspiration - pass these along to all of the excuse makers and whiners you know!

Pyramid Scheme Exposed

2009-07-05T17:29:00.005-04:00

Find the post at the new MLM Dream Savers blog location... see you there!

Getting Started Properly in Social Media Marketing

2009-06-27T09:42:00.021-04:00

Social Media Marketing is a bit intimidating to some when starting out, particularly because it's such a broad term, and can be done in so many ways. It is not social media networking. Most people are familiar with online social networking, but that is only the beginning when it comes to marketing online...... Continue at new blog location....

Are You Creating Your Perpetrual Internet Traffic Machine?

2009-06-24T13:44:00.012-04:00

The term Perpetual Internet Traffic Machine refers to the components of your internet sales presence which gets internet traffic without the need of PPC, other ads, or traffic exchanges.

In order to create a Perpetual Internet Traffic Machine, five elements need to be developed..... Continue reading at the new blog location....

Hit and Run Marketing: What Social Meda Means to Your SEO and Traffic Exposure

2009-06-21T09:54:00.025-04:00

Are you guilty of spamming or constantly advertising your product or opportunity in your initial contact or most of your posts?

Do you barely get past an introduction with someone you have just connected with on a social network when you launch into a pitch of your product or opportunity?

If so, you are wasting your traffic exposure and turning off your contacts with this tactic..... Continue reading at this blog's new home...

Follow Up Trump Card to Marketing Activities

2009-06-13T11:46:00.006-04:00

Yes you know it, following up trumps any other activity in your network marketing business!

It is not the system, the marketing activities in themselves, whether you love writing and posting or hate it, whether you love doing web pages or hate it, whether you love advertising to get folks into your sales funnel - if you do nothing about following up with all of those people then you will have no real results - your passive residual income will not grow! Continue reading at this blog's new home....

Prospecting vs Marketing: An MLM Paradox

2009-06-04T13:18:00.015-04:00

There is a struggle going on between those that have been building their businesses using the old school methods of prospecting, and those using the newer marketing methods used by many in network marketing today.

While one does not have to be completely abandoned in favor of the other, there are differences that are important to realize, the main one of which is that to use the newer methods you must be willing to educate yourself and invest some time into building a presence and a name for yourself...... Continue at this blog's new home...

MLM Compensation Plans Part 1 - The Binary

2009-06-03T20:22:00.015-04:00

I have thought for a while about writing about MLM compensation plans, but to make a short work of such an involved topic is providing its challenges. So I think I'll start with some thoughts from an answer I had to someone's question about a binary compensation plan, which is the kind that I have recently been involved with.

What you ultimately need to be able to know how to do is to determine the number of distributors you will need in your downline to earn a six figure income..... Continue reading at this blog's new home...

The Cause of MLM's Downfall - How You Can Save its Tarnished Reputation

2009-05-31T21:38:00.007-04:00

Have you ever met with someone who attacked everyone they knew about their network marketing opportunity? Or went on for eons about how their product was the absolute best, most scientifically proven, advanced and groundbreaking than all the rest?

Most people have, and it is precisely why the network marketing industry has earned such a bad name.... Continue reading at this blog's new home.....

MLM Magic Bullet: How to Succeed in Network Marketing

2009-05-28T21:36:00.009-04:00

If you have been looking for a fast way to make your first
million in network marketing, you can stop right here....

Continue reading at this blog's new home....

The Five Pillars of an Excellent Network Marketing Company

2009-05-26T20:44:00.009-04:00

A company may have the greatest products and the best pay plan on the planet, but if it is lacking any of the Five Pillars, you could lose EVERYTHING overnight. Your income and Reputation are at stake.

You should know exactly what to look for in evaluating an MLM opportunity. Please do yourself a favor and answer each of these questions with your critical eye. The answers to these questions will save you years of failure and frustration..... Continue reading at this blog's new home...

Top 10 Stupid Things Network Marketers Do to Mess Up their Business

2009-05-23T21:34:00.005-04:00

Ok, I may have been a bit harsh. I don’t like to say ’stupid’, but you know that feeling where you want to smack the palm of your hand against your head after you’ve realized something that you thought you should have known?

I can raise my hand and say that I have made almost all of these mistakes. And I am sure you can think of at least one or two more. But these are the ‘top ten’ mistakes that I came up with in thinking of how we can have better success in network marketing by avoiding.... Read the rest at this blog's new home...

Time and Country Code / Calling Tools

2009-05-19T00:14:00.002-04:00

In network marketing, or any time that you find yourself working with people all over the world, you may wonder “What time is it in Australia?” or “How many hours difference between now in the East Coast of the US and Finland?”.

What I’ve done is placed a folder on my toolbar for quick access to a few handy tools so that I can tell whether I should be calling someone or whether I’d risk alienating them at 3am. Or what time we can schedule a time to meet on the phone or online. Or what US state they are in given a phone number and an area code I don’t recognize.

Hopefully these tools will help you to be able to work more efficiently in your daily business, and manage your time more effectively.

The WorldTimeServer.com is great for just typing in the name of a country and pulling up the current time there. Then you can check your clock and know what the difference is in your timezones. TimeAndDate.com is also a good place to do timezone conversions and look up the time for a current location,

Then you might way ‘I have a phone number from one of my leads but how do I know where they are?’. Well, CountryCallingCodes.com has a Reverse Lookup tool where you just put in those leading numbers and it tells you exactly where they are! Or, if you know you want to call someone in a particular country and have their number but not the country code, you can just select where you are calling from and to and it gives you that.

Or, if you have a national US number and want to know what state the person is in whose number you have, AreaCodeLookup-USA.com has that. It also has a reverse lookup for a number to give you the state (a bit easier than finding it in the list for the area code by itself).

Hopefully these tools will help you as they have me.

To Your Success!

Leaders: Are You Focused on Being Understood or On Understanding Others?

2009-05-16T16:31:00.000-04:00

As Leaders go, some may say that their ability to make decisions and carry them out is the most important quality. It is true, that quality is absolutely essential to successful leadership.

Yet, some will say that the ability to get their ideas across, to convey their thoughts completely and concisely, and convince or win over their audience; to be understood – is their most valuable quality.

But indeed, the ability to understand your audience may be far more important. To sense or be able to discern what someone needs in the way of your approach, conversation or information is key. You must consider your audience when presenting any idea, system, opportunity, or product.

Someone new will need a bit more nurturing and patience, while you make every attempt not to overwhelm them with your knowledge. Someone experienced will require more challenge and more of your expertise to remain interested. Someone who has been through an extremely rough time may require more time to process anything you give to them.

Someone with an analytical personality, a ‘green’, will require all of the information you can share, in a very organized manner. But a rapid-fire, decide now, forceful presentation would be a sure way to get rid of them. Someone who is a nurturer or caretaker (the ‘yellow’), will require a broader view and will only care about the details at some distant point in the future as the need arises. Someone who is looking for excitement (the ‘blue’ personality) will require all of your energy and conviction to maintain their interest.

Understanding personalities and what someone’s background is can go a long way in effectively communicating your ideas and being accepted. It may also go a long way in your ability not to regard them as a lost cause and give up on a potentially great prospect!

Just something to think about!

Are You Tracking Your Tweets Effectiveness?

2009-05-11T22:30:00.003-04:00

I think it’s fascinating to be able to watch the response to something I’ve tweeted. It gives me an idea of what my followers want and will respond to. This can be very useful in building your following. So thought I’d share this for anyone who hasn’t found this trick, or in case anyone can add to it (if so, please do!).

You can only do this if there is a link in the Tweet (which is probably the only time you’d really care to track the Tweet anyway). If you have used bit.ly to shorten links for Twitter, you may not realize that you can also use it to track the number of clicks, the times, and even geographic locations. To do this you have to just create an account at bit.ly. (Note: if you are running AdBlockPlus in your browser, Disable it for the bit.ly page, weird interactions lock up bit.ly output).

I used TweetLater.com to schedule some tweets for a link I wanted to send out (very handy if you are not going to be able to Tweet at your leisure all day!). I spaced the tweets out every couple of hours over a day, along with a few other tweets. At the end of the day, I went back to bit.ly and clicked on the ‘Info’ link by the shortened link, and noticed that there was a total of 18 clicks (I only had about 750 followers at the time so I think I averaged about 3 clicks per Tweet).

But the phenomenal thing was that by the next day, the stats on the link showed over 115 clicks! Geographically (which you can find within the Info page), these were around 86 from the US, over 21 from the UK, 1 each from Canada, France, Australia, and Brazil, and 2 each from Spain and Austria! Pretty cool…

I understood that HootSuite.com could both schedule Tweets and shorten links using ow.ly, but I didn’t find how to track the links there. Both HootSuite and TweetLater allow scheduling of Tweets to multiple accounts.

Remember not to spam when Tweeting! That’s a pretty sure way to get ‘unfollow’ed Rather, provide a variety of good content, with occasional value that may inspire folks to opt-in to an offer you may have, after your quality tweet!

Is Your Corporate Bubble Bursting?

2009-05-10T11:55:00.001-04:00

My Company isi Failing, But I am Not!

Have you ever been at a company that has had layoffs every quarter for 9 years running, and yet STILL have to go into bankruptcy? Well I have, and it’s not a pretty sight.

After losing over 3/4 of their headcount (in this case from just about 100,000 employees worldwide down to under 23,000 now), we are now currently in Chapter 11 since sometime in January or February.

After working for this company for 20 years and remaining at the top of my game, when they finally turn the lights out there will be no severance, no medical coverage, from the time the door hits me in the rear. That goes for me and about 30 other people I have worked with for as long as that, and who are like family to me.

We’ve all been loyal and hard working, and what has that gotten us? I know several that were laid off back in October through December, with their years of service were to be receiving full severance for anywhere between 8 and 11 months, suddenly found those paychecks gone in a flash, and medical coverage with it.

And with the job market such as it is, shouldn’t I be worried? Well maybe a little, but not like you would think. It’s just not getting me down. Not in the least. It’s probably been the catalyst to give me more drive to work my own business and gain the confidence that I can make it work to replace my current income.

This week we will probably hear about major divisions in the company being sold off. There are rumored buyers, and we may end up just working the same job but for a different company. That is, those of us that survive the numbers which the buying company has agreed to take on. Or if no buyers come out of the prospects, we'll just be turning out the lights.

It’s a weird state to be in not knowing what the next day will bring for the last few months. And I thought making it through 36 rounds of layoffs was a tale to tell…..

But by creating a passive residual income through network marketing, and thanks to finding the comprehensive training system at Mentoring for Free, I have ensured that I chose the right company this time, and the right compensation plan, so that my future is no longer in the hands of unscrupulous corporate executives, whether at traditional or multi-level marketing companies! I know that I am on the right path for rebuilding my financial future.

What Your Upline May Not Be Telling You

2009-05-08T21:03:00.007-04:00

Do you know why most Network Marketers never do much more than break even? Do you know why there is an over 97% attrition rate in MLM companies? Or that over 90% of network marketing companies fail in the first 5 years?

Don’t run away from a passive residual income because of these problems!

Instead, learn how to avoid them. You can and should be a part of changing everything.

What you are probably missing is real training that is just not provided in MLM opportunities where they teach how to present the plan and become an expert on their product. This is the company's training, not network marketing training.

And MLM company Policies and Procedures documents and Compensation Plans are always written in the company's best interest. But you can learn to scrutinize these carefully to determine the best company with which to associate.

You don’t have to give up your dreams of a residual income because of a tarnished reputation currently cast over the MLM industry. You don't have to give them up because of failures in the past. Don’t listen to the nay-sayers. Tell them that your “Why” is bigger than their “Why Not”! Then pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and dig in. For now you have found your missing piece.

What you need to be truly successful in this business are some key pieces of knowledge:

What things to avoid and what to look for in choosing an MLM company and product
How to spot a scam, and understand a real compensation plan. Know how many people you really need in your downline to earn $10,000/mo (it is more likely to be between 1500 and 4000 than between 350 and 400, but although the latter is rare, is possible!)
Note: The answer to these first two will reveal the reasons that so many fail, and also why so many companies don’t want you to have this information!)
How to determine within the first minute of talking to someone whether they are worth your time, and if they are, how to approach them (real people skills, not ‘make a list’).
How to use attraction marketing and social media marketing to generate your own highly qualified and targeted leads.
How to duplicate yourself to increase success and retention in your team, the key to a true passive residual income.

All of this is available to you for free, provided with ten live conference calls a week, hundreds of hours of audios, and personal coaching with industry leaders with over 30 years of experience. All that is required of you is your will to succeed.

You can start by downloading the free eBook "Success in 10 Steps. Most people find that this book saves them from years of frustration and failure in the industry.

Here's To Your Success!

From Product to People - The MLM Paradigm Shift

2009-05-06T11:23:00.004-04:00

For those in network marketing who are programmed to “lead with the product” or “lead with the opportunity”, it might be the most difficult thing to do to convince yourself how or why this is not necessarily correct.

When you do this without the focus first being on the people, and the personal relationship, you may end up having to talk to many more people to get to one to sponsor into your business. Think of sewing seeds in unprepared soil and then doing the same in a well cultivated garden. What are your odds of germination and a healthy crop in either case?

And do you think a five minute conversation with someone constitutes a relationship worthy of dumping your product or plan into their lap, unsolicited? Ask yourself, did you have permission to present your opportunity to them? Do you realize how offensive this can be, how unprofessional this appears?

The focus on product and opportunity is so engrained in the old school MLM psyche that it seems logical and natural to lead with the product, and to coin the phrase, “the product sells itself“.

Well, the word to notice in that statement is “sells“.

If you want leaders to join your business and become part of a growing team, then ‘sell‘ is the last thing you should be doing. If you want to just retail the product then of course selling makes more sense. Not to displace the importance of a good product when it comes to success in a network marketing business however, but you are your most important asset. Noone likes to be sold.

The same with an opportunity. Even if you think you have the best one, your praises will fall upon deaf ears with someone you barely know and have not built a trusting relationship.

Its a Relationship Business

The truth is, albeit not completely overlooked in most MLM companies, is that it is a people business. But they never tell you to lead with yourself. When in truth, you are who your prospect is judging first. Not your product. Not your opportunity. People join you.

They call it relationship marketing for a reason. Yet they only pay lip service to the the fact that it is a people business, and give you no training on how to first capture their interest, determine whether they are a valid prospect and right for your business, or how to coach and mentor that person according to their personality. They tell you to support and train your team but never give you the tools or knowledge to do that correctly.

Product brochures and opportunity presentations are not people skill training! Inspriational and motivational books are only a way to spur you on in your misdirected activities, when they would take on an entirely new meaning if you only knew how to lead with yourself, and how to understand, work with, and train your prospects.

I don’t mean to completely dismiss the warm market or the value of the product (it must be a product that stands out from the crowd to drive a successful network marketing business). It’s just that the shift from the exclusive product lead must change when working in the internet marketing arena, where the instant connections and friendships that are made can’t be compared to your true warm market. Therefore the lead in the case of online marketing must be you. Think about your warm market. You are already leading with yourself. People still join you because of who you are.

Lead capture can be done from the product angle as well; leading with the product shouldn’t be entirely overlooked when addressing your product’s specific target market. But if you are not working with your existing warm market (who already like and trust you), then you have to lead with yourself first, and then your product.

Provide Value First

You will want to have something to offer that other people need, and to be able to provide that, you’ll want a lead capture and auto-response system. But you may be struggling with the thought that you don’t have anything of value to offer, either as a funded proposal or even free. Hello! As a person you certainly have much to offer!

Think of all of the acconplishments you’ve had, no matter how insignificant you may think, and the struggles you have made it through. Think of all the people you have supported and helped over the years. You are valued, worthwhile and deserve success even if you do not think so or fully believe it. But, still, maybe you say you aren’t as internet savvy as some of the experts out there, so that leading with yourself may seem a bit of a stretch.

But that’s where Mentoring for Free comes in. Most people find this to be a tremendous value, including free one-on-one coaching, extensive training, and daily live interactive conference calls. Anyone can take advantage of the free training provided, but it is also a replicatable system which costs less than a simple email auto-responder. The value for people using this system is that it provides a duplicatable training system that you can offer your entire downline, including the ability to generate leads.

A People Centric Marketing System

Whatever system that you put into place, it must ensure that you are not product centric but people centric. You must provide value that solves a problem for your market. If you are in network marketing, there are lots of problems to solve!

And, although not everyone will be interested in your business, just look at the numbers of MLM companies that fail, or lose their integrity, or fail their distributor base in some way (change the policies and procedures or comp plan, or go public).

Look at the number of people simply failing in network marketing because they have never been taught how to be a professional in this business. Look at the number of people out of work and looking for some way to make ends meet in this day and time. Look at how many of them never knew that leading with a product or opportunity was the reason they most often fail!

Look at the numbers that have never known the right way to use the internet to reach their market, the ones that want to build a business. The way even some of the more modern MLM companies use the internet is still only to provide for product ordering, enrollment and back office functions. Some even provide company replicated web sites, which as newer network marketers realize, cannot be manipulated to achieve SEO. But lead capture? Hardly.

But many who have failed may, after your having maintained a long standing relationship with them, one built of trust and giving, return to you for help in the future, possibly to be in business with you in the long run. And from giving without want, expecting nothing more, you are building relationships which you will have for a lifetime.

Once this product -> to -> people epiphany finally occurs, you are on your way. Until then, you may continue chasing your friends, family and co-workers. But when you begin to get your own qualified, targeted leads online, leading with yourself, and coaching others to do the same, you will be amazed at how quickly things can change.

Twttter Tributes: Chronicles of a Twitter Traveler; Tools, Tips & Articles

2009-04-30T18:55:00.003-04:00

I have found so many useful articles, tools and tips on Twitter, that I am compelled to archive them for posterity. I just know that I'll be wanting to return to finish or reread them at some ponit in the future! But I have to first at least tell you how I came upon so many all at once that I didn't even have time to fully explore them all...

After quite some time pondering what possible use Twitter could ever be, when personally I get befuddled trying to maintain two simultaneous IM / Skype conversations, I was encouraged to jump in. And so I did. In moments it was as if I had stepped off the banks of a raging mountain river into the rapids, heading uncontrollably downstream with not so much as a raft, paddle or even an innertube. It wasn't until later that I realized the hidden value of this phenomenon.

It was a Friday morning on a day off when I got started. Little did I know the potential effect of a combination of my friend Juanita's well timed couple of tweets to her 2400+ followers on 'follow friday'. As things progressed, by days' end I had 200 followers, and almost doubled that in a couple of days. I know that's peanuts in some folks' views but I was only getting started!

Suddenly my computer seemed more alive to me than it had before, with the ongoing heartbeat of endless tweets. As I witnessed the flow of virtual voices I realized that if one seemed intriguing, I needed to tag it as a favorite lest it be lost forever, like this amazing set of photographs of bubbles. They go by so fast that when you blink they're gone. It does not seem far fetched that in time, there will be Twitter's Anonomous groups opening up all over the world.

I eventually realized that I did not need to keep up, but that I could stand back and step in just long enough to make new contacts to continue building my network, or catch some interesting tidbit to pass along if interesting enough. I ended up with so many good ones that I thought I'd post them here (albeit, most of these I grabbed during my struggle to remain afloat and somewhat sane while being swept downriver :). I know it looks like a lot but these really are ones I thought had the most value (however I did not finish every one of them in their entirety!):

Twitter Starters:
From Here to Tweeternity: A Practical Guide for Getting Started on Twitter
An Introduction to Twitter Hashtags (TwitrPwr - Twitter Power Blog)
Free and Custom Twitter Backgrounds
The Best Damn #followfriday Video on the Net (Twitter Power Blog)
The Art of ReTweeting in Twitter

Twitter for Business:
Twitter is Amazing at Building an Audience at a Low Cost (JF Grissom, BN)
Questions I Get Asked About Getting Business Through Twitter
How to Win Followers and Influence People on Twitter
How to Provide Your Followers With Massive Value (TwitrPwr - TwitterPowerSystem.com)
17 Ways to Use Twitter: A Guide for Beginners, Marketers, and Business Owners
Increase Your Twitter Exposure With Twitter Traffic Machine
Return on Investment for Using Twitter
Leveraging Twitter to Promote Your Business
What's the Big Deal About Twitter (a recent BN discussion)
10 Twitter Strategies That Are Proven to Generate Traffic (another BN discussion)

Twitter Tools:
How to Back Up Your Twitter Account (TwitrPwr) - one of the most useful Twitter blogs I saw
12 Useful Twitter Tools for Your Business (Eric Su, BN)
It Has Been Hard For Me to Sell Anything Till Twitter (review) (Juanita Waterman, BN)
Twitter Tools Exposed and Explained (BN video)
What Twitter Application is Right For You?
Twellow - Twitter Yellow Pages (find people to follow who are in your target market)
The Easiest and Best Way to Mass Unfollow on Twitter (Juanita Waterman, BN)

And just to make you go hmmm:
How Using Twitter Increases Intelligence

Indecision: Recepie for Nut Soup (a Caution for Online Network Marketing Newbies)

2009-04-27T20:37:00.004-04:00

Are you lost in a sea of systems, topics, training and acronyms? Overwhelmed to the point of distraction, inaction, and indecision?

You aren't alone. With rising unemployment, tens of thousands of people are either jumping into the world of internet marketing, lured in by ads promising practically instant riches, or jumping into an MLM opportunity while barely understanding what M-L-M stands for or how to choose the right network marketing company, or both.

They soon find more information on these subjects than they ever could have imagined, all good, but impossible to digest all at once.

Realize first that nothing is easy, and that at the very least you will have to do due diligence to succeed in any such endeavor. Your success depends on one thing, and that is your will to persist until you succeed.

But without self discipline and some good mentoring, you may find yourself floundering and accomplishing nothing but draining your bank account, and taking up massive amounts of disk space with dozens of eBooks you have yet to read. Time to decide now what your plan of action is going to be.

Make no mistake, while you have been diligently working at your place of employment for as many years as you have, network marketing and internet marketing have both matured into complex and thriving industries, almost taking on a life of their own. The number of tools, websites, blogs and articles that you have been enchanted by speak to this in volumes. And the number of scams is well, scary.

But most internet business is legitimate and thriving. Simply spend some time in Google AdWords alone for a while for example. There are a number of highly complex and functional tools in that system, and yet there are dozens of products that make use of these tools to provide even more functionality.

And don't get me wrong, there is money to be made. But if you don't do AdWords right, you can really blow some cash! Just note how many PPC tutorials and tools can be found. Nothing short of mind boggling.

You might have decided to do some Affiliate Marketing, in hopes of making some quicker money than you may be able to in MLM at the start, but that's a field of study all in itself. And if you are planning on building an MLM business, then you might be biting off more than you can chew and diluting your focus to take on another endeavor at the same time in trying to create multiple streams of income.

But in order to succeed at MLM, which is in no way a get rich quick scheme, you must be able to focus on your primary goal, and more importantly, duplicate of your efforts if you are to succeed. In MLM, duplication is paramount in importance. So ask yourself, is what I'm doing duplicatable?

Take a Breath.....

What you have to do now is to focus only on the steps you need to take to lay out your path toward your ultimate goal. You need to decide whether you have the time to invest in yourself, cultivate your plan, and execute it. Once you are off the ground and have a steady stream of leads and people joining your business, then you may add additional streams of income after having gained some expertise in the field of internet marketing.

But most importantly you need to be persistent when things don't move as fast as you'd like. This brings me to why you need to come up with WHY you want to do this.

That WHY becomes your DESIRE and is what will cause you to be able to make the decisions you need to make, and more importantly, to stick with them. In his book, "Think and Grow Rich", Napoleon Hill said, "thought, backed by strong DESIRE, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent". He was speaking about the Law of Attraction.

So when someone pooh pooh's your plan, just tell them "My 'Why' is bigger than your 'Why Not'".

In addition, you have to BELIEVE in yourself and that you can succeed before it will ever be possible. Do not give up! Your conviction is the essence of the way you will come across to others in your business.

Ok, so I'm gonna have to give you another good inspirational quote here (because if you HAVE read this far then you must really need help! ;) Earl Nightingale said that "Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal". You have to realize the importance of 'progressive' in this sentence. Nothing is going to happen overnight here, which is why you need your 'why', to remain persistent in your direction.

So understand your why, find your desire, gain some belief in yourself, focus, and decide to do what needs to be done and gather the ingredients for your recipe for success:

Turn off the TV, for we now have DVRs that can record entire seasons of Lost, Survivor, 24, American Idol and Dancing With the Stars. Even so, that is not real life, THIS is your life. Set aside time for the important things like family, fun, and exercise. Determine what you can devote to this and DEVOTE it. Every time you think of blowing off what you could be doing to further your business, think instead, "What is one more thing I can do right now?" Or, "what have I done today toward growing my business?".
Then if you need to, which you may if you have indeed been swimming in the vast internet without direction for months now, for God's sake get organized! You have to become organized to manage your time and to focus.
Begin the steps of branding yourself. Set up your profiles on two, maybe Twitter and Facebook, and no more than a total of five social networks to begin with. Use your real name, or a very close proximity in profile names, email addresses (get a gmail address for your business to keep it seperate0, and URLs. Use the same photo everywhere to be more recognizable. When you have some thoughts or any value to add, just add it, wherever you are. Eventually things will begin to take shape. Begin making friends but DO NOT pitch your product or opportunity! See my post on "Hit and Run Marketing" if you consider this.
Find a mentor who you can relate to and who can help you find what you need. and an attraction marketing system you can use to help you in growing your network and internet presence, I found the Mentoring for Free system to be the most comprehensive and turn-key, duplicatable approach. In this case, free does not mean low quality, inadequate, incomplete, or simple. This is a mastermind training system like none I've seen after all the looking around and paying hundreds of dollars for internet and marketing training. It is complete with free coaching and live daily training calls, by industry leaders in every area of training necessary, including article writing, ad copy, generating free internet traffic, SEO, personality types, and more.

Then as you educate yourself, continue to build your online social network, lead with yourself, and build relationships. Network marketing is a people business, a teaching and leadership business. By learning how to do what you have decided to do, you can start to simmer your success soup.

The problem of taking on too much in the internet marketing arena and buildingn a network marketing business all at the same time, without understanding some fundamental things like Attraction Marketing, or what to look for in a quality MLM product, opportunity, or comp plan, can have a detrimental effect your outcome. It is just a recipe for nut soup (you being the nut, after too much information, indecision, and inaction).