It seems quite an overwhelming task just staring out into the internet as most people do today. When I first started there weren’t so many choices, and it was much easier!

So, here I am on my biggest quest, if you like, to make it simple for you too.

With the turn of year, there is a feel of newness and vamped up competition, you wonder indecisively which could be the best mode with which to market your websites. There are so many ways to market, how do you choose between them all?

You have article marketing, ezine marketing, blogging, videos, Facebook, launches etcetera. Over the next few months, I’m going to be giving you details on each one, just in case you haven’t heard of them all.

If you are new to this or you have been in the marketing field for some time, if you feel overwhelmed, you will find great relief in…

Pick that method that you are most comfortable with.

Read about a strategy, then take a step back and ask yourself..  How do I feel about doing this?  When you ask yourself that question, you‘ll most likely get a response and make use of that smart little voice inside your mind.

Repeat this quick exercise with every option and go with the one that makes you feel great.

Do not keep changing strategies half way, stick with the one you are most relaxed with and take time to master it. Don’t move onto another one unless it feels good to do that.

Once the money starts to roll in, you can simply adopt your strategy as need arises, pay special attention to the important ones! And, if it really doesn’t feel good, get some help.

Get a coach or an expert to do it or help you out.

Video marketing is really effective in building your brand and also marketing yourself and your business. You might find the idea of creating videos really scary.

So get over your fears and find someone to walk you into video marketing success. Once you’ve got over that fear, it will be easy!

All prospective entrepreneurs know that starting up a home business is all about creating a lead list through network marketing and prospecting among others.

While all these things are necessary in becoming an entrepreneur, most of us seem to overlook the importance of our mindset in establishing our business.

By that I mean, the level of “Internal development” or personal growth that has occurred within you. Mindset is that essence that eventually determines your success and the ease with which you reach it.

11 years ago when me and my better half begun our network marketing business, our upline insisted on sending us Jim Rohn quotes and newsletters. I loved reading them, but at first I really didn’t understand why he kept sending them!

I only came to appreciate the difference between go getters and quitters when I had my group of business partners and observed their varying reactions to different events.

I used to think that just by following steps set by people who had succeeded before me then I would be able to become successful as they had been.

I realized that there is more to entrepreneurship than just taking the step by step directions that someone else had taken.

<b>Entrepreneurship Takes Real Commitment Patience and Endurance</b>

Maybe you know it by now maybe you do not but entrepreneurship is not as easy as people may make it seem.

It takes REAL commitment and patience and endurance. You need that burning desire deep inside that can NOT be extinguished under any circumstance for you to be successful.

Successful business owners have mastered the above qualities and it’s what makes them so attractive to their clients. Also, they are able to solve problems by focusing on the solution and not letting the problems get them down.  They will persist through obstacles and find the information they really need to take their business to that next level.

These business men have reached personal growth and internal development. It allows them to get over any hurdles and keep going until they do succeed at getting what they want.

<b>Successful People are Problem Solvers..</b>

Successful people are Problem Solvers and know how to find solutions. We all experience problems at one time or another in our lives.

Failure for successful people does not mean it is time to stop, it only means it is time to try a different approach, whatever it is they will find the solutions they are looking for. It might be about learning how to generate an endless supply of prospects or how to inspire those prospects to purchase their products and/or services.

You could be facing any of the challenges, it could be your fear of making phone calls to clients, face to face meetings and many others, you just have to face that fear head on and find out the cause for it.

However you choose to do it, make sure to develop the qualities and behaviours of a successful person and make it easier for yourself to get through those hiccups.

<b>Success comes about from the Inside</b>

In all types of businesses and especially network marketing the result you get is dependent on the work you do on the inside. When you align what’s on the inside with the actions you take, it’s far easier to build a business, especially Network Marketing.

So, here’s my recommendation  -Take some time to think about your weakness or the weaknesses in your business. Then, take some action toward a solution to that limitation, and to solve that problem in your business.

You may have to call in a friend to help or outsource a task you don’t want to undertake on your own.

Rather than being anxious over the problem, focus on getting a solution to that problem and take action on that!

Make a step to solve the problem rather than worry over it. Thus achieve both internal and financial growth.

You want it? Then you have it inside you to get it!

Warning: Do not take lightly the influence of video marketing. Getting your message across effectively on behalf of your Internet Networking Business is tricky to get exactly right, and Video Marketing can be a very powerful tool to get it done. As Internet Marketing and SEO specialist Phil Guye says:

“The #1 reason that businesses fail has nothing to do with the lack of dollars spent on marketing, but the disconnect between the message in the marketing and the prospect for which the marketing message was intended.”

The test: Make a useful Marketing Video that efficiently signifies the significance of your company and the quality of your services or product.

Why Video Marketing?

The benefits of using video marketing for your businesses are widespread. It is very crucial to have a strong presence on the internet. The more far and wide your name is spread, the easier it is for others to find your business when they need it. The majority of Americans spend about 6 hours a day on the Internet and YouTube has over 490 million unique users worldwide. That is a lot of potential opportunity for your marketing video to be found by prospects!

Majority of Americans would rather watch videos rather than read articles, and the quality of your video will sway people’s awareness of your business – so use it to your advantage! The audiences frequently search for a landing page for 60 seconds or less. That is not a lot of time to seize and convince your audience of your value and ability to suit their needs. A video in this case is an excellent way to grab the attention of your viewers who might otherwise stray you’re your big blocks of text. Video marketing can be a simple way to put your best foot forward each and every time someone stumbles upon your business.

Tips for Making Your Marketing Video:

1. Think internationally. English is the most common second language in the world, so viewers regarding your video, even if they aren’t in America, will understand your sales pitch.

2. Be sincere in your marketing video about what you are presenting. Honesty in the competitive world of marketing is a real virtue that contributes to customer loyalty and satisfaction.

3. Keep your video short. Some viewers may see the length of your video and either skip through it to “see if it gets interesting” or may skip it all together.

4. SEO rules. Using the best keywords for your title, tags and description will increase traffic to your video. As soon as you have created your video, you can assist lead people there by giving a link to it in your email signature, posting it on your Twitter feed (and reposting it at interval times), and using it in conversations within the blog community. You might be surprised at the rate at which people take interest.

Things to Remember: Unless you select to disable the feature, your clients and viewers will be able to leave feedback based on their experience, or even the value or claims being made in the video. Private videos, for instance videos stating an opinion or using “facts” can lead to either increase or decrease of a sizeable audience, so be very careful when selecting to create such a video.

great way of promoting your product is using entertaining videos. When a video is entertaining, viewers will spread the video to their friends, family and coworkers. It’s a fun way to grab more viewers as well as sell your product.

What does it all mean?

Video Marketing can be extremely powerful in gaining interest or being in the front row from your competitors, but it must be cautiously done. A high quality video can lead to great gains, while a poorly made video can cause viewers to glaze right over your business. Think of it as a consistent first impression that you create and allow access of to the masses.

Plan an uncomplicated and helpful outline to assist you decide, gather and find information pertaining to your topic enabling you to write your article that can help in network marketing lead generation, document or research paper.

Using an easy seven-step outline any subject you choose whether it is a broad-general subject such as World War II or a precise subject like Whale Watching both can be narrowed and focused into a short written piece. Plus this outline can be adjusted to fit your specific writing style and needs.

Choose and Develop a Topic
Start by analyzing ideas you are interested in whether it be agriculture, environment issues, breeds of horses, oil and gas in the Middle East, or history of wars and put these down on a piece of paper. As soon as you have a couple of subject ideas put down on paper, draw a line and write in secondary subjects below the heading wither in a bubble format or basic outline. If the topic is still too general, you may want to discuss your idea with a colleague, editor, instructor or publisher. By discussing your topic idea with another person you will either be able to narrow your focus or trash this topic idea. If your topic is too large such as World War II, you will want to limit your topic idea and break it into smaller topics. Some of those topics could be timeframe (third year of fighting), a category of people (farmers, factory workers, suppliers, etc.), or a specific event (Japanese invasion of China).

Find Background Information
The key topic idea put down on a piece of paper, you will want to put together a set of keywords. Write two sentences pertaining to the main idea of your topic. For example describe the different variations of Santa Claus that exists across cultures. Your keywords will be: Santa Claus, variations, cultures.

Utilize your directory of keywords to lead you as you start your exploration using encyclopedias, books, periodicals, video and the internet. You may want to try different combinations of keywords in your searches to gain better results.

Find Books and Videos
With your subject idea, a piece of paper and a pen, go to the university or local library to start looking for books, encylopedias, periodicals, videos and the internet. Remember to include the librarian as they are an invaluable resource and may point you towards new materials on your topic idea.

Find Internet Resources
Carry out an internet search of the subject idea to investigate options and assist narrow the focus of your key subject idea. Beware of using the Internet as your only resource as there are thousands of websites that are personal opinion rather than factual information.

Avoid Plagiarism
Obtain approaches to stay away from plagiarism in your article particularly when using internet sources. Do not present another person’s information or words as your own. And remember by changing words or using a thesaurus to substitute words is still plagiarism because the original idea is not your own. Document anything you borrow and include direct quotations, paraphrases, pieces of information, and ideas according to the MLA Handbook, to avoid potential plagiarism issues.’

Cite your Sources
There are a number of methods and styles you can select from to mention your sources. Before completing your assignment, article, document or research paper ask your editor, instructor or publisher what formatting and style guide you are to be using: MLA, APA, CPA and Turabian styles.

Seven Step Outline
1. Select and Grow a Topic.
2. Look for Background Information.
3. Look for Books and Videos.
4. Get Articles.
5. Search for Internet Sources.
6. Shun Plagiarism
7. Mention your Sources.

Make use of this seven-step outline to conjure up key topic ideas in order to write an article for network marketing lead generation, document or research paper. Remember this seven-step outline can be adjusted or tweaked to fit your main topic idea and research methods.

Online Resources in MLA style
Cornell University Library. “Introduction to Research.” Cornell University, 2009. Web. 19 June 2009 <http://www.library.cornell.edu/resrch/intro>.
Christian Brothers University. “How to Research a Topic.” Christian Brothers University, 2011. Web. 8 February 2012 <http://sun.cbu.edu/cbu/Library/instruct/help/howto/index.htm>.

This article reviews the things to consider first before starting on your MLM business Opportunity.

Are you approaching a general market with your offers, people uninterested in your business? Or, do you only speak to those who ARE requesting what you’re offering?

We will look at how the traditional business works (this is not network marketing): – they reach out to segments that are interested in their goods and services – conversion principles are applied to determine whether their marketing is working for them or not.

Network marketers often find themselves wasting their time on people who are not interested in their products or services. It’s okay to do that if you “qualify” people by asking a few questions before giving a sales presentation, then you are not wasting your time.

Once you begin to understand that YOU are your business and that your company is only a part of your assets and income, then you will start to enjoy yourself. Having business partners who love your product and your company is important for your success but that alone is not enough. You need to have your own business to promote your own growth and the growth of YOUR business.

As soon as you start attracting people in this manner, they will see it?s much better and want to build their business in a similar way.

The 2 things that a entrepreneur does differently as compared to many network marketers are:

1) Traditional businesses find out WHO will be interested in their products and/or services, and market to those people specifically. This way helps to turn leads into sales more easily.

2) They generate leads within their target market, and use a number of different methods to generate the leads. Traditional marketers don’t limit themselves to just the people they know.

The very first thing to do before deciding which marketing strategy to use for your business, is to establish what your target market is.

Who is the ideal customer or business partner for your business?

Once you have established your target market, you can embark on marketing your business. And you’ll find you get a lot more sales and many more business partners for your MLM business opportunity?.

Online MLM Business experts will tell you this: You need a blog for your online business. You need a blog for leader generation. That is what it all comes down to. Top company value, high customer loyalty, and greater profit. Isn’t that what you’re interested in? When you mix the key ingredients together, namely personal branding, building trust with clients, increasing your company value and getting traffic to your company website, the outcome will be a monster – a monster list that will contain leads!

So this is how we break it down:

Personal Branding
The beauty of the blog is that it’s not all text, or rather, it doesn’t have to be. I will discuss about Video Marketing in another article – a very useful tool for the Internet Network Marketer so that the company can have a face – just one of many ways to mix up the monotony of the dreaded wall of text.

Let your personality shine through. I can’t emphasize that enough. Most (if not all) successful blogs are teeming with personality. Simply, it makes your blog interesting. Grab readers’ attention, interesting to share, and alluring enough that those who read subscribe to it and will come back again.

Cost Effectiveness
If you have a new product or service to announce, make the announcement on your blog! Why? Because it’s free. Press releases can be costly – certainly more costly than free. Let us say it together: Free.

The people who have subscribed to your updates and will be keeping an eye on it thanks to it being free. That is they will be once you have established a following thanks to your informative blog posts.

You can kill two birds with one stone by reaching prospective clients who subscribe to your blog and by using your blog to advertise your product or service, you provide them the medium to openly discuss the product or service with you.

Building Relationships, Establishing Trust
Trust that is the fundamental value of attraction marketing. And if I had to pick a second value, I’d pick trust again.

Blog is the most powerful channel for open discussion. Talking and interacting with prospective clients assists in building a relationship with them. After all, clients want to buy products and services from businesses they trust. By providing them with informative articles on your blog that are relevant to the products or services they are seeking, you are increasing the value of your company.

Share the concerns of the consumer. Find the solutions to their questions. Make it known in your blog that you have the product, service and/or knowledge to fulfill their needs. Invest in your subscribers and they will invest in you.

Getting an audience does certainly take time and for sure time is a force to be reckoned with.

Increase in Traffic
Work with the time you have. Map out what your blog will be about, how frequently you can genuinely create different articles and without question, make it happen.

The main advantage to be updating consistently is that fresh, new content attracts major search engines. This is when you should start thinking about Search Engine Optimization (SEO). This should be rather obvious; however people underestimate the power of this tool. The better the SEO, the higher the traffic, and the more frequent your linkbacks to your company website (the links that you provide in your articles that point to your “official” site if separate from your blog) will be clicked.

And finally achieving the results.

Lead Capturing
An easy way of finding out who your leads are is by simply going through the list of the people who register in your blog.

So, use your tools to your advantage. Since you know that your product or service is what the client is searching for, make sure they know that you’ve got them. Use the blog to build your fan base, list of leads, customer loyalty and potential distributors.

Take this home
Do not forget that personality is first and foremost. You can air it by your own creation for instance an informative article, a video response, an open forum or a fun inquisition of the audience you wish to target, even a combination of your Face book, Twitter or Flickr accounts. The (blog) world is your oyster, if you put time into giving value to your subscribers; they will be buy from you. So, consider using a blog for your Internet and Network marketing opportunity

Learn more about using a blog to market your Internet and Network Marketing Opportunity. Stop by Julieanne’s site where you can find out all about marketing your MLM Business using blogs and other strategies.

Network Marketers in A Network Marketing Opportunity face two major problems:

1) It only takes a short time for them to run out of prospects, and
2) Because a number of prospects haven’t asked for what you have to offer, the result is a lack of quality in prospects and they are not targeted.

The solution to both those problems is to learn marketing and Network Marketing leads generation and turn your leads into clients and make more income. Then you will create a never ending resource and flow of people that you can bring into your Network Marketing business.

Since the internet has millions of people searching on there every day and all over the world, it is the best way to go in finding people interested in your Network Marketing opportunity. Otherwise you could use TV, radios, flyers and newspapers – These are classified as offline and tend to be very expensive and attract less qualified people because it’s very difficult to target your market.

You can use the following marketing strategies on the internet-

Pay Per Click advertising, Getting organic searches, Social media marketing, Blogging, banners, Text links, Article marketing, CPA networks, Affiliate marketing, Video marketing, Forum marketing, and Ezine marketing.

By developing these marketing skills, you will become more attractive to work with compared to someone who only has their mlm business opportunity to talk about.

Below are the 2 reasons anyone would want to become your business partner.
1) You can offer value as a leader and this will make people see that they can learn to be successful like you and make money like you do.
OR
2) Your marketing strategies and marketing knowledge and training that you can provide them.

People will hardly ever choose to join your team just because of your company products nor will they join you for your company’s sake, they can join whatever company they please. When people become your business partner, it’s usually because they believe you can help them become successful. The reason people are attracted to you is because you are a leader and you can educate people on how to market.

So you might want to focus on developing your leadership and marketing skills. perfecting those two skills will place you in a winning position. You will be able to attract a huge amount of business. And, that’s going to allow you to sign up a lot of people in your Network Marketing Opportunity, once you learn those strategies.

When you are considering what sort of Network Marketing Business to build, follow along with Julieanne van Zyl’s freeInternet and Network Marketing Opportunity training. This simple stepped out training demonstrates you how easy it is to attract business builders and potential customers to your MLM Business Opportunity

This is a story about having a goal, determination and intestinal fortitude.(ok, guts ) When I was in grade 6 we lived in a small town called Barmera, on the edge of Lake Bonney in the Riverland. (famous for grapes and oranges) We had a dog called Shadow, a turtle called Speedy and my best friend was an Aboriginal kid called Brian.

Back in the late 50′s about 60% of the kids in the school were “foreigners” like me.

Because I was a compulsive talker the teacher made me sit next to a sheila with glasses called Fay Morritz. That didn’t worry me, I had a great time making her mad, asking if I could borrow pencils and stuff from her all the time.

After a while she’d go red in the face and with about a 1000 freckles her face used to look like the inside of a watermelon ready to blow up. Then through a strained, wafer thin voice and baring teeth any shark’d be proud of she’d say ” NNooooo ! nnnoooo! NO!, you’ve got boys bugs van Zyl, I’d rather sit next to a stink bean “. That was my cue to say “I love you Fay”. That was it, “there she blows”, no worries, another job well done!

About this time the teacher would appear at my desk (the eagle has landed !) and I would get a hefty clip behind the ear and spend the rest of the lesson in the corridor with a nice breeze and a view of the lake. Life was good in grade 6.

Anyhow this yarn is supposed to be about my Father, so I’ll get back on track.

My dad was a bricklayer by trade and there must be about a 100 houses standing in Barmera to this day that he built.

He used to spend up to 10 hours a day, six days a week, sometimes the temperature would stay at 100 plus for a week at a time. For recreation he loved to swim and used to spend a few hours swimming in the lake after tea. (dinner)

He did have a go at one other thing, that was soccer. He played about four games in all and took a coupla days to recover from each one. We all had to go down to the local footy oval on a Satdy arvo and watch him play. He always looked like he’d been trampled by the Roman Army at the end of every game and decided to give it a miss.

One day he came home after a swim and said “I’m going to swim across the lake on the week end. ”

I thought to myself “no worries dad, you and what army.” Lake Bonney is about 8 miles across.

The next Saturday morning it was all organized. We had a tinny lined up, (small rowing boat) plenty of drinking water, some food he could eat while swimming, the dog, a friend of ours, half my fathers age that had decided to swim the lake as well, and my sisters and I.

We shoved the boat into the water, jumped in and waved to our relos and friends on the shore. They were smiling and shaking their heads. (buggered if I know, the mongrels must be jealous they’re not goin ??, what’s not good fun about sitting in a tinny for four hours and gettin’ burnt to a crisp !!).

So we were off like a bucket of prawns in the sun. The ol’ man started swimmin’ (side stroke ) and we started paddlin’ our dingy, cacklin’ like a bunch a sheilas at a chook raffle.

The friend that was swimming the lake as well took off like a bull at a gate and was a hundred yards in front before dad even started. By comparison, dad had easd himself in, taken his bearings and was gliding effortlessly through the water with a nice relaxed stroke.

After about an hour dad was still going strong, no sign of being tired yet but hungry so we eased the boat in closer and handed him a peeled banana that he ate swimming on his back and had a drink.

Peter the friend, was exhausted and had to climb in with us with his tail between his legs.

We said to him, ” Hey Pete, you got in just in time, it’s your turn to row “.

The hours went by, we were starting to get niggly, squashed in the boat, paddling, getting sunburnt, we had “some ” fun taking turns to jump in and cool off. We’d eaten all our food, run out of even real bad jokes and just wanted to go home and walk around on land ( except for Peter we were still kids ).

Meanwhile the ol’ man was startin’ to look a bit frayed around the edges, starting to slow down a bit and we thought he might want to jump in the boat with us. We asked him a few times if he wanted to call it a day but he just shook his head and said quietly ” I’ll keep going “.

Another hour went by, we could see it wouldn’t be long before our swimmer had to chuck it in and be happy he ” nearly ” swam the lake, but no, we were wrong. We’d stopped offering him a lift in the boat and anyhow he was in another world, with a slight smile on the dial and looking fairly peaceful.

Suddenly we all came to the same conclusion, “Shit, he’s had a heart attack !! “, but he was still moving so we decided he was still alive. We thought about checking his pulse but thought better of it, we’d already distracted him enough.

The next thing our older sister Maria shouted, ” LOOK, THE BEACH !!!! “. We all got such a shock and turned around for a captain cook in her direction. We started falling over each other trying to see, the boat started rockin’ and she nearly went arse over head. ( the boat that is, not my sister ).

We all started yelling to dad that he was nearly there, ” come on you can do it !!, you’re nearly there, you beaudy dad, you’ll be the first one that’s done it “.

Suddenly the air was filled with excitement, even the dog was barking encouragement, she tried to jump in to give our swimmer a hand but we stopped her. While all this cafuful was goin’ on there was one small thing we hadn’t noticed. The old boat wasn’t real happy about us jumpin’ around like a bunch of gallahs so the mongrel had sprung a leak and was filling up with water.

In organized panic we pulled the life jackets out from under the seats and got ready to abandon ship. It wasn’t that far to shore, we were all good swimmers except for the younger sister and she was getting a ride on Peter’s back. We’d only swam a hundred yards when the boat had already gone down, the five of us were alone swimming for the shore. We “thought” we were alone but not for long. Peter saw them first, about four hundred yards down the beach on the left, two massive Crocs were sliding into the water.

” Bloody Hell ” Peter yelled, ” Come on lets move it, we’ve got five minutes to get out, Move it, MOVE IT !! , come on faster !!

We swam like crazy, like our lives depended on it and they did, we probably would have all got gold medals if we’d been at the Olympics.

Finally we reached the shore and started walking up the beach, Peter helping dad who was well and truly buggered by now. I was the last one to leave the water and was lagging behind a bit but now I was walking out still about waist deep.

Suddenly I felt a commotion in the water, something was stirring the bottom, something about the size of an Army Tank.

If I’d been at home, I would probably be considering a change of underwear about now.

A SECOND LATER, I felt something huge close around my right leg like a giant vice……..

I SCREAMED !!!! ” Oh God, this can’t be real…. the swirling water was turning red, I lost my balance and fell into the water and I knew the Croc was planning to take me for a death roll.

When he was through drowning me he would take me to his larder and keep me there until I smelt bad enough to eat for dinner……….

I SCREAMED LOUDER AAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaahhhhhhHHHHHHHH !!!!!!…..”

The thing is it wasn’t REAL, I just wanted to write a story with a fake ending just to see what it’s like, and yep, it feels good.

Now that I’ve got that over with I’ll tell you the REAL ending.

Suddenly the air was filled with excitement, even the dog was barking encouragement, she tried to jump in to give our swimmer a hand but we stopped her.

Dad seemed to have got a second wind from the thought of making it after all. He seemed to have increased his speed slightly.

Just before we reached the shore we all jumped in and swam the last 50 yards with dad, splashing and yelling as we reached the shore.

Dad couldn’t stand up or even crawl so Pete dragged him up the beach with a bit of help from us.

While we had been crossing the lake the relos and friends had driven around on the dirt track to meet us and were now crowding around the swimmer making sure he was ok and muttering congratulations.( mum had made tea and sangers. )

Shadow went up to the heap that resembled our father and started whining, one of our friends said, “don’t worry mate, he’ll be right as rain in a few hours, just had the wind knocked out of him”.

Among the people on the beach there was a bloke from the local newspaper ” The Riverland Times “.

The next day I left Barmera on the bus to spend a week in the big smoke ( Adelaide ) with another Auntie. The bus driver turned on the radio just in time for the news,

” Yesterday afternoon, Mr John van Zyl made history in the riverland town of

Barmera by being the first man to swim across Lake Bonney.

The swim took aproximately 4 hours 30 minutes .

He was followed across the lake by his children and a friend in a small boat “.

( this story is dedicated to the memory of my father, John van Zyl (Sr) a hard working man and loving father )

Hope you enjoyed the story, Regards John

I’ve been a BIG Rolling Stones fan since I was a skinny 15 year old kid, now many years later I’m playing their songs again in my Stones tribute band.

Up until a few years ago I’d never given any thought to the title or the words of the song ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want’.  But more important though, I’d never considered the fact that a large majority of people DO actually believe that maybe you CAN’T always get what you want, everyone knows that, that’s what our parents and grand parents told us, so it must be true?.

So they just accept it, they expect NOT to have everything they want, and to a degree also accept mediocrity in certain areas as a part of  life.

After reading several books on personal growth stuff etc,(yes I know, we’ve all done that), watching the SECRET and listening to Abraham Hicks and others talking about how the law of attraction works, ……….I do believe without a doubt that We CAN Get Whatever We want.

All we have to do is have the right mindset and never, never, ever give up on our dreams and having the things we want.

Here’s an example of getting what I wanted.

Remember I was talking about having a Rolling Stones Tribute band at the beginning of this post, well it’s taken me THREE years to get the ‘right’ guys in the band to play all the characters.
Within the first two years I had most of the guys, but getting someone to do the Keith Richards role just wasn’t happening.

I’d had several guitar players that were ok but not ‘THE ONE’, then one day I got a call from the guy that plays Woody.
He said he was at a party when this guy walked in that looked like Keef’s twin brother, not only that but he was dressed like Keith, had the same mannerisms, talked the same and had played in a Stones Tribute before.
He got talking to ‘Woody’ and it turns out that after some years break from doing Keef he was looking for another  Stones Tribute band to join?.

It’s up to us, we’re the only ones stopping us from getting everything we want in life and, according to the law of attraction we get what we think about the most, good or bad.
Maybe it’s time someone wrote a song, You CAN Always Get What You Want.

all the best
John

As I mentioned in my last post we did our first mlm business offline with some success, but never felt comfortable with the approaching strangers anywhere, anytime concept.
Also after spending hours on the phone with the first company we were really determined to find something we could do online, globally.

Then luckily, we came across the lady I mentioned earlier, she was doing her business online, exactly what we wanted, so we sighned up with her in our next  company. Even though we knew she was working her business online we had no idea how much we would learn from her over the next few years.

Even though the majority of people in this new company were still building their business’s offline, this lady was pioneering something that was just plain radical at the time and it wouldn’t be used by the multitudes of online marketers for years to come.

Here are some REALLY IMPORTANT things we learned during this period,

Firstly, we were buying good quality leads and putting them into an autoresponder so we could follow up with an email after I called them on the  phone, yes that’s right, these people were actually asking for information about a businesss so I didn’t mind calling them.

This was working ok, but what we were shown made a big difference to the response we were getting, we started putting what was called a signature file at the end of all our emails.
All we did was put something like, ‘So Who Are John and Julieanne’ and underneath that we had a link to a web page which told people about us, like where we lived, what we liked doing etc, stuff about our family and most important lots of photos so people could put a face to the phone calls and emails.
Funnily enough the name of the web page was called a ‘Face Page’, which was really the very beginnig of all the online social media we have today, like FaceBook etc.

Another thing we were advised to start doing was sending out a newsletter that people could opted in for on our emails.
These newsletters were about trips overseas we’d made or the different adventures we’d had travelling around Australia.

The reason this made a lot of sense and still does now is that it’s MOST important that possible future business partners are attracted to YOU first and your product/business opp SECOND.

This whole process is all part of branding yourself and, as you would probably agree it’s a lot more downstream than going upstream, convining, roping and dragging people into your business.

All the best
John