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Usually, I don’t hang up on most internet marketers / telemarketers, but occassionally I have (as politely I could) got off the phone based on obvious reasons. You see, I get phone calls just like everyone else. The difference is that some of the people that call me end up getting a FREE Marketing lesson in return. Is this a secret of mine, I doubt it!  I’d have to imagine that most successful internet marketers do the same thing.

The hottest thing around seems to be either marketing software or voice broadcasting software.  I’ve been contacted by associates from both and personally I’m not at all interested in either. Why they’re calling me is a mystery. I already use my own successful marketing tools and I’m really not that excited about broadcasting software. I have to admit, I do hang up on broadcasting software nearly every singe time.

First things first, Marketing Software! If you’re selling marketing software to other network marketers, you should at least be using the software yourself. My advise, if this is a big ticket item or costs more than $400.00 you should consider changing the strategies your being taught by your upline. 

Contact me for details.  I can help you !

Now to the bigger mess! If you are selling a voice broadcasting system and your marketing other network marketers, YOU DEFINITELY NEED TO CALL ME OR PURCHASE THIS GUIDE. I recommend not calling me while using your broadcasting system because, I’ll probably hang up on you. Don’t get me wrong, I think this is a necessary tool for those involved in school functions, church functions, medical, dental, and sports. But the reality is, most people trying to sell this type of system is involved in business and their being taught to say the wrong things. In order to sell this system you have to know exactly what to say in order to keep the prospect on the phone long enough to follow your instructions. 

Let me tell you this, if you are marketing this type of software, PLEASE THROW OUT THE SCRIPTS YOUR UPLINE IS GIVING YOU. YOU ARE GOING TO FAIL VERY FAST. I believe you can succeed with this type of product / service but you need help. The kind of help your upline isn’t going to tell you.

Contact me using this  Leave me your phone number and do yourself this favor.

Until then, your luck will be below average.

– T. James –

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Many aspiring Internet marketers hear all of the talk about earning a six-figure income and assume that it’s all hype. Some of it is hype, but earning a six-figure income really isn’t difficult. I’ve watched friends generate “six figures” in sales as we sat together in conferences or meetings! 

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More coming,

– T J –

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It’s been a bad year and there are no signs of it turning around any time in the near future.

Layoffs, Foreclosures… skyrocketing prices on everything from gas to trash bags…

Families drowning in debt and being kicked out of their homes…

We’ve all heard these depressing facts over and over for too long. Everyone’s hurting, and nobody knows what to do to fix it.  On top of it all, we’ve got an election coming up and neither candidate is making me feel particularly secure about the future.

What you need is the ability to create some cash in hand right now, and a proven, solid, and sustainable system for putting more cash in your hands in the future.  I’m not going to make any guarantees without knowing what type of attitude you’re bringing to the table. I’m confident in knowing I can sit down with just about anyone and within 45 minutes or less, I can recommend at least 3 different ways they can create additional revenue for their household or existing business (complete with a plan).  I can also share the key points in Prospecting, Sponsoring, and Email Follow Ups.  The stuff most people get horrible feedback from.  It’s all in THE COURSE

To Your Success,

– T. James –

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This is so good I copied it word-for-word from a partner of mine. It describes a simple method that strips out all the complications when it comes to making money online… 

The good thing is, I can verify this system really works.  I do this myself and have been teaching similar methods to my team for over 4 years now.  But now it’s your turn..

I have been involved with IM since August 16th of 2002. Since January I have made no less than 2 thousand a month and as much as 17 thousand (in one month).

Currently, I am marketing to 3 different niches and follow the same plan for each one. I challenge anyone who is not making money to follow any type of organized plan of attack and not make money. It is impossible.

Here is what I do step by step. I will follow this by what I feel that I could have done in the beginning and would probably be making twice the money monthly. I just could not see the big picture.

1. Niche Research - This takes me all of 5 minutes. I go to clickbank and see what everyone else is selling (meaning a product with a high gravity and a good sales page.)

2. Keyword Research - Again, initially this takes me all of 5 minutes. Because my main traffic generation is article marketing i go to google and see what keywords are ranking high within article directories. Those are the ones I focus on while trying to target long tails.

3. I set up a Squidoo lens as my landing page. I also set up a hub page, a blog at blogger, and a free wordpress blog. I set and forget my squidoo lens but update my blogger blog, hub, and WP blog every other day or so. I link everything back to my Lens.

4. Write a minimum of 3 articles everyday for each niche.

5. Submit my Lens to 10 free directories a day to build my link popularity.

That is the exact process I follow and consistently get sales each and every day. By no means am I making a killing but, I am able to pay my house note and all of my utilities every single month which, is more than I thought I was going to be able to do. With the limited success I have had though, I do see IM as a way to replace my entire income and hopefully, be able to work at it full time.

I could be making so much more though but, admittedly I am a bit of a hard nose and frequently do not look at the big picture. Here is what I wished I would have done from the beginning.

1. Got my own hosting and domains. The reason for this is pretty simple. In addition to it being “mine” I could easily have had an asset that I could have sold at some point for a nice profit if I decided my time would be better spent in another niche. As it stands now I have nothing to show for all of the link building and SEO I have done. (best choice: Hostmonster

2. List building - Each of my three niches get at least 3000 visitors a month. By now, I could have had one heck of a list to market to. How sweet would it be to be able to be able to send an item once a week to these people? I lost a lot of money here.

3. Outsourcing - Again, this is a hard nosed moment for me. I wish I would have taken half of my profit and paid to have articles written and submitted for me. In the short haul it would have cut into my play money but, by now I have a feeling it would have paid me major dividends.

ANYONE can make money doing this. As a matter of a fact, a guy I work with asked me what the hell I am always doing on my laptop and I told him. He said he wanted to give it a shot so I gave him the same outline above and showed him where everything was. He has made 4 sales already in a matter of 6 days and is excited as you could be.

If you don’t have a product of your own yet, contact me RIGHT AWAY..

GO TO: http://selfequity.com/contact

Complete the form there or email me directly.. I can show you where you can choose from literally hundreds of quality, top selling products and best of all, many of them won’t cost you a dime..

Giive me a call or email, I’d be glad to help !

–T–

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Definite Thumbs Up !  You be the judge and jury..

If you’ve ever wanted to know what a “definitive” course on recruiting looks like, and what it contains, then check out the description I put together for you below. 

Believe it or not, ALL of this and more will be covered IN DETAIL within Black Belt Recruiting, which is why it got such great reviews during it’s limited release a few months ago. 
 
You’ll learn… 
  • How six and seven figure network marketers close prospects on the phone without doing any “selling.”  (In fact, with Mark’s methods, the LESS you sell, the MORE people you sponsor!)               

  • A sneaky way to get your competition to help you sponsor people into your business… without them even knowing it.
  • How to sponsor people who have already decided NOT to join your business!               

  • My “wrong number” secret that lets you sponsor FAR more prospects than you are now… and with a LOT less effort.
  • Four words that will destroy your chances of sponsoring new reps — even the ones who already want to sign up!  (When I stopped saying these four words — that 99% of networkers say during calls — my sponsoring rate shot through the roof.)               

  • The secret of getting your prospects so “fired up” about your business you can literally sponsor them without even saying what company you’re in or what product you sell!  (You may even have people call you a couple days later asking, “Ummm, what am I selling again?”)
  • How to instantly “de-fang” loud and obnoxious prospects — and actually have them apologizing and pleading with you to show them the plan.  (This secret works even if they were dead set against networking before!)               

  • Startling facts you MUST know about sales people before you talk to them about your business.  (Sales pros can be your best reps — but there’s a “trick” to talking to them if you want to sponsor them into your business.)
  • How to “position” yourself as a network marketing expert before you even sponsor your first distributor!
  • A weird (but effective) way to make money when distributors quit your team.
  • Why the best time to talk to a lead is AFTER they’ve talked to other network marketers!  (If you do things “Mark’s way”, you will never again worry if other networker talk to your leads — in fact, you’ll actually prefer they do.)               

  • A little talked about fear every human being has… and how to use it to sponsor even the most skeptical prospects.  (This tactic is often used by car salesmen, jewelers and other people who sell high ticket items.  And it works even better for networkers.)
  • A brand new breakthrough (recently discovered by social scientists) that makes even total “newbies” irresistibly attractive to almost any prospect.  (This incredible little secret is how some new distributors are able to sponsor dozens of people right off the bat.  Here’s how they do it.)
  • How to get your prospects to ask YOU to make their decision to join your team FOR them.  (This advanced recruiting technique makes sponsoring as easy as taking candy from a baby.  And you will probably never hear about this anywhere else.)               

  • How to get people at parties and other social gatherings to approach you and ask about your business… Without you having to say a single word!
  • In Black Belt Recruiting we’ll show you how to give yourself this “success aura” that instantly attracts new prospects to you and your business — even if you’re shy, introverted or have the personality of a toad now.

  • How to sponsor people in your local community… even if nobody likes you and everyone hates your guts.               

  • Nine words that let you instantly control ANY prospecting call.  (These nine words are like magic.  Your prospects will feel “lucky” you even took the time to call them.)
  • Why you should almost never sponsor people who say they are “interested” in your opportunity.  (I admit it — this was W-E-I-R-D when I first heard it, too.  But believe it or not, when you stop sponsoring interested people, you will automatically see your sponsoring rates skyrocket.)               

  • How to use an ordinary sheet of paper and a ball point pen to sponsor successful people, professionals and other business “authorities.”  (This has nothing to do with drawing circles or using the infamous “Benjamin Franklin close.”  It’s much easier than that, requires no effort whatsoever, and you will be astonished by how well it works on people used to being “in control” of conversations.)
  • How hanging up on a prospect can dramatically increase your chances of sponsoring him!  (This technique works so well it’s almost spooky.  Just be careful:  You need to know how and when to hang up, and you can only do this with certain prospects.)               

  • The one deadly mistake even experienced networkers make during three way calls that will destroy your sponsoring efforts.
  • How to talk to people you are sitting next to on a plane about your business without scaring them away.  (And one simple “counter intuitive” thing you can do to get them almost begging you to show them the plan!)               

  • How to get even your busiest up-line leaders to 3-way call your prospects at ANY time of the day or night.  (Even if it’s 2 a.m. in the morning!)
  • When you should NOT send your prospects to a website presentation.  (Even if they ask to see one!)               

  • How to “recruit” your mailman to help you sponsor new prospects.  (One guy recently built a huge downline in 30 days with this one secret alone.  Here’s how he did it, and why you can, too.)
  • A secret way to almost guarantee your prospects don’t blow off your meetings and appointments.  (This will virtually eliminate no-shows and late comers forever.)               

  • How to mentally “turn the tables” on your prospects so they sell themselves on YOU… instead of you selling to them!  (This amazing secret is used by every 7-figure networker on the planet.  Here’s how to use it in YOUR business — no matter how experienced you are now.)
  • How to get the best and brightest prospects seeking YOU out — without spending any money on advertising.  (Just use this technique Mark teaches and you’ll have people coming out of the woodwork asking about your business.)               

  • The single most important thing you must do (and say) if you are talking to a highly analytical prospect.
  • The single most important thing you must do (and say) if you are talking to a highly skeptical prospect.
     
  • An “almost magic” way to s ponsor hundreds of international reps
    before your company officially opens in their countries.
And believe it or not, there’s even more packed into this incredible course which I’ll share with you on Monday…
 
Black Belt will finally available now, but for all the skeptics, you can actually go watch an hour long training video interview  - for free - right now on this page…

It doesn’t matter what type of business you operate, this product will for sure teach you extremely valuable communication skills.  Watch The Video and See For YourSElf.. http://mgmt.blackbeltrecruiting.com
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I had to put this article on here.   What a great subject !  I get asked dozens of times every month by ambitous network marketers (even in my own organization) from all over the world, “How can I motivate others to want to become more successful?”

Now as great as it might sound to be able to motivate someone else, the answer is, you cannot successfully motivate others.

You may inspire them, but motivation for them must come from within.

Anything less than internal motivation is like spray paint on rust. Eventually, when the motivation from an event or pep talk wears off, its a person’s committment that is left over.

You cannot motivate others to want to succeed any more than you can push a rope uphill.

Truth is, a person must first want it for themselves before they will ever become successful.

If you want it more for someone else than they want it for themself, this can become very unhealthy. (for both parties)

The key then to having motivated people on your team, is to be motivated yourself.

Being self motivated is the only surefire way to reach long term success.

Being self motivated means that you don’t require someone else to remind you of the opportunity you have in front of you.

Being self motivated means that you wake up every morning raring and ready to take on the day, create new relationships, market your business and show people how to get started.

Being self motivated means that you attend local events, regionals, conventions or trainings without having to be reminded that these events are taking place.

Being self motivated means that you invest in your education by reading good books, listening to audios and modeling successful people.

Being self motivated means that you take all out massive action, regardless of who believes in you, supports you or joins you.

Being self motivated means that you are inspired by your future and what is possible.

Being self motivated means being self determined.

Being self motivated requires that you are self functional.

This means that you must learn how to do business, learn the system and then go out and produce.

Some of the best tools I’ve ever learned from are the Ultimate Success CDs by Tracy Biller.

Tracy is the #1 Trainer in MLM / Network Marketing / Home Based Business when it comes to recruiting other Network Marketers from within our Industry.

I recently invested in his Information (for the 2nd time) and picked up a list of his MLM Genealogy Leads.

All I know is that if you ARE self motivated, self inspired and want to learn to become Self Functional, order Tracy’s CD Set.

 

[Compliments of Aaron Rashkin]

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“It’s the training”

Would you like to make $10,000 a month in network marketing? I’m assuming your answer is “yes”. After all, who wouldn’t want to work from the comfort of home, have total time freedom, and make $10,000 a month ($120,000 per year)!

Of course, perhaps you want to earn less than $10,000 a month? If you earn $5,000 a month in network marketing, that’s the equivalent of a $60,000 a year income, which is about double what the average person earns annually in the United States. Plus, you’ll be working from the comfort of home and have total time freedom. Perhaps you want to earn more than $10,000 a month? Well, if you’ve read any of my previous ebooks and newsletters, or if you’ve heard me lecture in person, or if you’ve heard me on any one of the hundreds of teleconferences I’ve conducted, or if you’ve heard one of my many audio presentations, then you would already know that my goal as a network marketer was to earn $25,000 a month. And you would know that I achieved my goal with two different companies, and twice became my company’s #1 earner.

You would also know that I achieved my goal not because I’m super smart (I’m not!), or because I’m an extreme workaholic (I’m not), or because I was born with the “gift” of networking (I wasn’t!).  As I have made known throughout all of my training materials, especially the Ultimate Success CDs training series, the reason I accomplished my goal of earning $25,000 a month in network marketing is because I was fortunate to have received competent, effective, and repetitive training, and I applied what I learned on a consistent daily basis. And I’m here to tell you that you too can achieve your goal if you receive competent, effective, and repetitive training . . . and you apply what you learn.

The fact is that the network marketing training you receive is what “makes or breaks” your business. Regardless of how much money you want to earn as a network marketer –$5,000, $10,000, or $25,000 a month – the success you achieve in network marketing is directly determined by the training you receive.

If you receive competent, effective, and repetitive training – and you apply what you learn from that training – then it’s virtually a guarantee that you will succeed in network marketing. But if you have the misfortune to receive incompetent and ineffective training (as do most network marketers), then it is virtually a guarantee that you and your downline will fail in this business regardless of how incredible your company is, or hard and how long you work, etc.

Here is your chance to receive what your looking for.  Start by signing up for my free marketing tips newsletter.  That’s what you need to do FIRST.  Once I see you can follow “simple steps” and take action, I’ll start teaching you exactly how you can grow your business profits faster without working harder.  It’s all about competent, effective, and repetitive training.  That’s exactly what I deliver.  

If you don’t have a business of your own yet, WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU WAITING FOR ????? 

Call my office: 330.806.6274 and set up a Free ONE HOUR Brain Storming Session.   Together WE’LL come up with something that will have you LOSING SLEEP AT NIGHT.

FIRST SIGN UP and get started or continue doing what your doing.  It’s always YOUR CHOICE.

Thanks For Reading,

– T –

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That’s a great question……..

It’s becoming harder and harder to advertise as a distributor in a networking business and that trend will only continue to grow in the coming years. 

Companies find themselves between a rock and a hard place.  On one hand, they understand the importance of advertising, and want you to do as much as possible.

Believe me…

There’s nothing they’d like to see more than a market flooded with distributor placed ads promoting their products and opportunity. On the other hand, attorney’s who are more than aware of the FTC sharks that are constantly circling handcuffs them and are just waiting for someone to screw up so they can dive in for the feast.

As the legal risks continue to rise, the more strict parent companies must get with their advertising policies.

This is an inevitable outcome. Think about it… 95% of distributors in a network marketing company have no real experience as a business owner or professional advertiser.

They have no idea what’s within the law and what’s not.

Income Disclaimer? Terms Of Use? Privacy Policies? What are those?

So you take an eager group of people with ZERO education and little sense of personal liability, and you let them loose onto the biggest communications platform in the history of mankind… The Internet.

People end up placing stupid ads, and making insane claims, all in the name of their beloved parent company.

The Gov shows up a few weeks later, knocks on their door, and says, “clean up your act or we’ll shut you down”. And just like that, the ability for distributors to use advertisements with any information about the parent company at all is taken away.

You can’t blame corporate. They’re just doing what they must in order to stay in business. This will only get worse and it’s a shame.

Personally, I can’t stand government intervention into a capitalist market. They walk into a market under the excuse of protecting the “ignorant consumer” from the evil savvy marketers.

“Your testimonials are too persuasive which caused Mary to spend her last $50 on your product and now she can’t pay her cable bill. You need to remove those testimonials and replace them with something stale, boring, and un-compelling”.

Excuse my 3rd grade verbiage here, but that’s retarded.

America is quickly becoming a country where no one takes personal responsibility for anything in their lives.

If there’s a problem, you go crying to the government who will gladly take your side in exchange for a vote, or a hefty donation during election time.

The weak whine the loudest, which is heard by the politicians who just want to keep their job, so policies are changed to cater to the whiners which means that this entire country is slowly turning into one big pile of finger-pointing meat puppets who cry for their bottle until someone else sticks it in their mouth for them. 

Can you tell I’m a little jaded by this trend? So as far as your networking business is concerned, what are you going to do about it?

Well that’s the million-dollar question isn’t it? I have to be honest. There is no right or wrong answer. You will define your own solution depending upon your personal views and opinions.

I found mine two years ago, and though I’m probably biased, I believe it to be the strongest.  Why?

Well in less than two years it allowed me to go from waiting tables to “millionaire” by the age of 29, and it is the only solution that is completely immune to any and all market changes.

It is, in a word… “Timeless”. And it’s very simple really… You don’t just build a networking opportunity because there’s no real value or equity there.

I hope you realize that.

When you build a business opportunity, you’re not building a real business at all because you don’t own any part of it.

You don’t own the product. You don’t own the company, and you don’t own your downline.

You are an independent distributor that can be let go at the owner’s discretion.  Building a business opportunity is fine, but it shouldn’t “BE” your business. It should only be a part of your business.It needs to be focused and centered around you and your name…. 

What I like to call, “You Inc”, because the equity you build in your name, your reputation, and your relationships is priceless because it can never be taken away from you.

When you build a following of people, and a business around “you” instead of your company, your income will never be at the mercy of other distributors, market changes, competition, or company owners again.

That’s the key to dealing with the growing limitations when it comes to advertising your company. You don’t advertise IT… You advertise YOU.

Sponsoring distributors becomes effortless, building a downline can be done in days, and making $10,000, $20,000, or even $100,000 in a single day is as simple as writing an email.

That’s how you build a real business in the networking industry today.

If you’re a beginner, I highly recommend that you pick up a copy of Mike Dillard’s Magnetic Sponsoring Course which will introduce you to attraction marketing and the concept of the You Inc business model.

Receive informative articles like this every week from Mike Dillard.  Purchase his Magnetic Sponsoring Course from this link and get FREE SHIPPING right to your doorstep. 

Don’t Wait two years like I did.

If you’re a more advanced business owner, then you need a copy of Traffic Formula in your hands ASAP.

Please leave your comments below !

– T –

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Whenever we are in a social situation the question “what do you do?” is bound to come up. It’s almost as popular as “how are you?”

I’m sure you too have been the victim of a long drawn out sales pitch, when the question “what do you do?” is asked of someone in direct sales. I’ve NEVER met anyone who wants to listen to a ten minute sales presentation because an overeager sales person believes they now have a lead.

If someone works retail they say “oh I work at _____”. That’s it, you know what they do in 5 seconds. If someone owns a business such as an air conditioning business, again you’ll know what they do within 5 seconds of asking “what do you do?”

Yet for some reason, those in direct sales seem to not be able to convey what they do in under 30 seconds. I’ve truly met folks who when asked “what do you do?” they respond with a sales pitch that ends with “please join our conference call”. C’mon the “what do you do?” was asked in conversation…this is NOT a lead.

There are just so many things you can say:

1. I sell products on a website.
2. I sell advertising via content rich websites.
3. I sell products for a direct sales company.
4. I represent a direct sales company.
5. I help people learn about _______(fill in one or two words here).

The answer to “what do you do?” should not be a sales pitch but rather a conversation starter. If someone says to me “I work at _________(insert retail store name here) then I can say “oh I’ve never heard of them before” or I can say “oh wow, I shop there all of the time” or I can say “oh what do you do there?”. The one sentence of “I work at _____” began a conversation”.

Given the above five suggestions, one might then say to you “oh what do you sell?” or “wow, how long have you been doing that?” or “I’ve never done that, how did you get started?” Those five above ideas are conversation starters, not full blown sales pitches. You now can see where the conversation leads.

See if you can come up with at least five short answers to “what do you do?” that will begin conversations for you, no matter where you are.

Audrey Okaneko has been in direct sales since 1983. She can be reached at audreyoka@cox.net

Hope you enjoyed this article..

–T–

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Black Belt Recruiting will be available to the public for the first time on July 22nd.  Black Belt Recruiting is a 6-CD audio set, and a 40 page written supplement that, in my humble opinion, represents the best training in the world when it comes to recruiting new distributors.  It’s a complete, A to Z program that will teach anyone exactly how to conquer your fear of the phone.

You’ll learn how to call royur leads, what to say to them, how to handle objections, how to get prospects to sell themselves, how to get new reps started, and much more…  

This course is perfect for anyone who has leads, but can’t seem to sponsor any of them, and it works so well, that it will come with an INSANE guarantee for your customers…

If you’re not sponsoring at least 10 new reps per month using what you can learn in Black Belt Recruiting, you can send it back for a full refund at anytime over the next YEAR.

If you don’t get results, you don’t pay. It’s that simple.   Can you get a better guarantee than that ?

Sign up HERE to get a Free 60 minute video that reveals how to sponsor 20 new reps a month with ANY company.

http://mgmt.blackbeltrecruiting.com

This is a “no brainer” if you have your own business. 

Free Training Video: http://blackbeltrecruiting.com/mgmt

Thanks for reading !!

– T –
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