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	<title>John van Zyl</title>
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		<title>MLM Business Opportunity First Steps to Take Before Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julieanne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;re offering? We will look at how the traditional business works (this is not network [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>This article reviews the things to consider first before starting on your <b><a class="ld_link" href="http://www.businesshomebasedmlm.com/mlmbusinessleverage/" target=" " title="MLM business">MLM business</a> Opportunity</b>.</p>
<p>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&#8217;re offering?</p>
<p>We will look at how the traditional business works (this is not network marketing): &#8211; they reach out to segments that are interested in their goods and services &#8211; conversion principles are applied to determine whether their marketing is working for them or not.</p>
<p>Network marketers often find themselves wasting their time on people who are not interested in their products or services. It&#8217;s okay to do that if you &#8220;qualify&#8221; people by asking a few questions before giving a sales presentation, then you are not wasting your time.<span id="more-533"></span></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The 2 things that a entrepreneur does differently as compared to many network marketers are: </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>2) They generate leads within their target market, and use a number of different methods to generate the leads. Traditional marketers don&#8217;t limit themselves to just the people they know.</p>
<p>The very first thing to do before deciding which marketing strategy to use for your business, is to establish what your target market is.</p>
<p><b>Who is the ideal customer or business partner for your business? </b></p>
<p>Once you have established your target market, you can embark on marketing your business. And you&#8217;ll find you get a lot more sales and many more business partners for your <i>MLM business opportunity</i>?.</p>

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		<title>An Online MLM Business Should Use A Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julieanne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t that what you&#8217;re interested in? When you mix the key ingredients together, namely personal [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><b>Online MLM Business</b> 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&#8217;t that what you&#8217;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 &#8211; a monster list that will contain leads!</p>
<p>So this is how we break it down:</p>
<p><b>Personal Branding</b><br />
The beauty of the blog is that it&#8217;s not all text, or rather, it doesn&#8217;t have to be. I will discuss about Video Marketing in another article &#8211; a very useful tool for the Internet Network Marketer so that the company can have a face &#8211; just one of many ways to mix up the monotony of the dreaded wall of text.<span id="more-529"></span></p>
<p>Let your personality shine through. I can&#8217;t emphasize that enough. Most (if not all) successful blogs are teeming with personality. Simply, it makes your blog interesting. Grab readers&#8217; attention, interesting to share, and alluring enough that those who read subscribe to it and will come back again.</p>
<p><b>Cost Effectiveness</b><br />
If you have a new product or service to announce, make the announcement on your blog! Why? Because it&#8217;s free. Press releases can be costly &#8211; certainly more costly than free. Let us say it together: Free.</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><b>Building Relationships, Establishing Trust</b><br />
Trust that is the fundamental value of <a class="ld_link" href="http://www.businesshomebasedmlm.com/attractionmarketingarticles/" target=" " title="attraction marketing">attraction marketing</a>. And if I had to pick a second value, I&#8217;d pick trust again.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Getting an audience does certainly take time and for sure time is a force to be reckoned with.</p>
<p><b>Increase in Traffic</b><br />
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.</p>
<p>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 &#8220;official&#8221; site if separate from your blog) will be clicked.</p>
<p>And finally achieving the results.</p>
<p><b>Lead Capturing</b><br />
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.</p>
<p>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&#8217;ve got them. Use the blog to build your fan base, list of leads, customer loyalty and potential distributors. </p>
<p><b>Take this home</b><br />
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 <i>Internet and Network marketing opportunity</i></p>
<p>Learn more about using a blog to market your <a href='http://internetnetworkmarketing-training.com'>Internet and Network Marketing Opportunity</a>.  Stop by Julieanne&#8217;s site where you can find out all about marketing your <a href='http://internetnetworkmarketing-training.com/homebusiness'>MLM Business</a> using blogs and other strategies. </p>

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		<title>An Internet and Network Marketing Business Faces 2 Major Challenges</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julieanne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t asked for what you have to offer, the result is a lack of quality in prospects and they are not targeted. The solution [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Network Marketers in A <strong>Network Marketing Opportunity</strong> face two major problems:<br />
<a href="http://www.businesshomebasedmlm.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/gro_04.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-470" style="margin: 10px;" title="Group of Network Marketers" src="http://www.businesshomebasedmlm.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/gro_04-150x150.jpg" alt="Group of Network Marketers" width="150" height="150" /></a><br />
1) It only takes a short time for them to run out of prospects, and<br />
2) Because a number of prospects haven&#8217;t asked for what you have to offer, the result is a lack of quality in prospects and they are not targeted.</p>
<p>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.<span id="more-469"></span></p>
<p>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 &#8211; These are classified as offline and tend to be very expensive and attract less qualified people because it&#8217;s very difficult to target your market.</p>
<p>You can use the following marketing strategies on the internet-</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>By developing these marketing skills, you will become more attractive to work with compared to someone who only has their <a class="ld_link" href="http://www.businesshomebasedmlm.com/mlmbusinessleverage/" target=" " title="mlm business">mlm business</a> opportunity to talk about.</p>
<p>Below are the 2 reasons anyone would want to become your business partner.<br />
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.<br />
OR<br />
2) Your marketing strategies and marketing knowledge and training that you can provide them.</p>
<p>People will hardly ever choose to join your team just because of your company products nor will they join you for your company&#8217;s sake, they can join whatever company they please. When people become your business partner, it&#8217;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.</p>
<p>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&#8217;s going to allow you to sign up a lot of people in your <em>Network Marketing Opportunity</em>, once you learn those strategies.</p>
<p>When you are considering what sort of Network Marketing Business to build, follow along with Julieanne van Zyl&#8217;s free<a href="http://internetnetworkmarketing-training.com/">Internet and Network Marketing Opportunity</a> training. This simple stepped out training demonstrates you how easy it is to attract business builders and potential customers to your <a href="http://internetnetworkmarketing-training.com/members/attraction-marketing/internet-and-network-marketing-business-and-branding-yourself/">MLM Business Opportunity</a></p>

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		<title>The Ol&#8217; Man Swims The Lake</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnvanzyl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>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.</p>
<p>Back in the late 50&#8242;s about 60% of the kids in the school were &#8220;foreigners&#8221; like me.</p>
<p>Because I was a compulsive talker the teacher made me sit next to a sheila with glasses called Fay Morritz. That didn&#8217;t worry me, I had a great time making her mad, asking if I could borrow pencils and stuff from her all the time.</p>
<p>After a while she&#8217;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&#8217;d be proud of she&#8217;d say &#8221; NNooooo ! nnnoooo! NO!, you&#8217;ve got boys bugs van Zyl, I&#8217;d rather sit next to a stink bean &#8220;. That was my cue to say &#8220;I love you Fay&#8221;. That was it, &#8220;there she blows&#8221;, no worries, another job well done!<span id="more-458"></span></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Anyhow this yarn is supposed to be about my Father, so I&#8217;ll get back on track.</p>
<p>My dad was a bricklayer by trade and there must be about a 100 houses standing in Barmera to this day that he built.</p>
<p>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)</p>
<p>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&#8217;d been trampled by the Roman Army at the end of every game and decided to give it a miss.</p>
<p>One day he came home after a swim and said &#8220;I&#8217;m going to swim across the lake on the week end. &#8221;</p>
<p>I thought to myself &#8220;no worries dad, you and what army.&#8221; Lake Bonney is about 8 miles across.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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&#8217;re not goin ??, what&#8217;s not good fun about sitting in a tinny for four hours and gettin&#8217; burnt to a crisp !!).</p>
<p>So we were off like a bucket of prawns in the sun. The ol&#8217; man started swimmin&#8217; (side stroke ) and we started paddlin&#8217; our dingy, cacklin&#8217; like a bunch a sheilas at a chook raffle.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Peter the friend, was exhausted and had to climb in with us with his tail between his legs.</p>
<p>We said to him, &#8221; Hey Pete, you got in just in time, it&#8217;s your turn to row &#8220;.</p>
<p>The hours went by, we were starting to get niggly, squashed in the boat, paddling, getting sunburnt, we had &#8220;some &#8221; fun taking turns to jump in and cool off. We&#8217;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 ).</p>
<p>Meanwhile the ol&#8217; man was startin&#8217; 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 &#8221; I&#8217;ll keep going &#8220;.</p>
<p>Another hour went by, we could see it wouldn&#8217;t be long before our swimmer had to chuck it in and be happy he &#8221; nearly &#8221; swam the lake, but no, we were wrong. We&#8217;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.</p>
<p>Suddenly we all came to the same conclusion, &#8220;Shit, he&#8217;s had a heart attack !! &#8220;, but he was still moving so we decided he was still alive. We thought about checking his pulse but thought better of it, we&#8217;d already distracted him enough.</p>
<p>The next thing our older sister Maria shouted, &#8221; LOOK, THE BEACH !!!! &#8220;. 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&#8217; and she nearly went arse over head. ( the boat that is, not my sister ).</p>
<p>We all started yelling to dad that he was nearly there, &#8221; come on you can do it !!, you&#8217;re nearly there, you beaudy dad, you&#8217;ll be the first one that&#8217;s done it &#8220;.</p>
<p>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&#8217; on there was one small thing we hadn&#8217;t noticed. The old boat wasn&#8217;t real happy about us jumpin&#8217; around like a bunch of gallahs so the mongrel had sprung a leak and was filling up with water.</p>
<p>In organized panic we pulled the life jackets out from under the seats and got ready to abandon ship. It wasn&#8217;t that far to shore, we were all good swimmers except for the younger sister and she was getting a ride on Peter&#8217;s back. We&#8217;d only swam a hundred yards when the boat had already gone down, the five of us were alone swimming for the shore. We &#8220;thought&#8221; 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.</p>
<p>&#8221; Bloody Hell &#8221; Peter yelled, &#8221; Come on lets move it, we&#8217;ve got five minutes to get out, Move it, MOVE IT !! , come on faster !!</p>
<p>We swam like crazy, like our lives depended on it and they did, we probably would have all got gold medals if we&#8217;d been at the Olympics.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Suddenly I felt a commotion in the water, something was stirring the bottom, something about the size of an Army Tank.</p>
<p>If I&#8217;d been at home, I would probably be considering a change of underwear about now.</p>
<p>A SECOND LATER, I felt something huge close around my right leg like a giant vice&#8230;&#8230;..</p>
<p>I SCREAMED !!!! &#8221; Oh God, this can&#8217;t be real&#8230;. 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.</p>
<p>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&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.</p>
<p>I SCREAMED LOUDER AAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaahhhhhhHHHHHHHH !!!!!!&#8230;..&#8221;</p>
<p>The thing is it wasn&#8217;t REAL, I just wanted to write a story with a fake ending just to see what it&#8217;s like, and yep, it feels good.</p>
<p>Now that I&#8217;ve got that over with I&#8217;ll tell you the REAL ending.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Dad seemed to have got a second wind from the thought of making it after all. He seemed to have increased his speed slightly.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Dad couldn&#8217;t stand up or even crawl so Pete dragged him up the beach with a bit of help from us.</p>
<p>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. )</p>
<p>Shadow went up to the heap that resembled our father and started whining, one of our friends said, &#8220;don&#8217;t worry mate, he&#8217;ll be right as rain in a few hours, just had the wind knocked out of him&#8221;.</p>
<p>Among the people on the beach there was a bloke from the local newspaper &#8221; The Riverland Times &#8220;.</p>
<p>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,</p>
<p>&#8221; Yesterday afternoon, Mr John van Zyl made history in the riverland town of</p>
<p>Barmera by being the first man to swim across Lake Bonney.</p>
<p>The swim took aproximately 4 hours 30 minutes .</p>
<p>He was followed across the lake by his children and a friend in a small boat &#8220;.</p>
<p>( this story is dedicated to the memory of my father, John van Zyl (Sr) a hard working man and loving father )</p>
<p>Hope you enjoyed the story, Regards John</p>

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		<title>You Can&#8217;t Always Get What You Want? True Or False?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 05:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnvanzyl</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>I&#8217;ve been a BIG Rolling Stones fan since I was a skinny 15 year old kid, now many years later I&#8217;m playing their songs again in my Stones tribute band.</p>
<p>Up until a few years ago I&#8217;d never given any thought to the title or the words of the song &#8216;You Can&#8217;t Always Get What You Want&#8217;.  But more important though, I&#8217;d never considered the fact that a large majority of people DO actually believe that maybe you CAN&#8217;T always get what you want, everyone knows that, that&#8217;s what our parents and grand parents told us, so it must be true?.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>After reading several books on <a class="ld_link" href="http://www.businesshomebasedmlm.com/mlmhomebusinessgrowth/" target=" " title="personal growth">personal growth</a> stuff etc,(yes I know, we&#8217;ve all done that), watching the SECRET and listening to Abraham Hicks and others talking about how the law of attraction works, &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.I do believe without a doubt that We CAN Get Whatever We want.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s an example of getting what I wanted.</p>
<p>Remember I was talking about having a Rolling Stones Tribute band at the beginning of this post, well it&#8217;s taken me THREE years to get the &#8216;right&#8217; guys in the band to play all the characters.<br />
Within the first two years I had most of the guys, but getting someone to do the Keith Richards role just wasn&#8217;t happening.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d had several guitar players that were ok but not &#8216;THE ONE&#8217;, then one day I got a call from the guy that plays Woody.<br />
He said he was at a party when this guy walked in that looked like Keef&#8217;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.<br />
He got talking to &#8216;Woody&#8217; and it turns out that after some years break from doing Keef he was looking for another  Stones Tribute band to join?.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s up to us, we&#8217;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.<br />
Maybe it&#8217;s time someone wrote a song, You CAN Always Get What You Want.</p>
<p>all the best<br />
John</p>

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		<title>Building Your Business, Downstream</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 08:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnvanzyl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>As I mentioned in my last post we did our first <a class="ld_link" href="http://www.businesshomebasedmlm.com/mlmbusinessleverage/" target=" " title="mlm business">mlm business</a> offline with some success, but never felt comfortable with the approaching strangers anywhere, anytime concept.<br />
Also after spending hours on the phone with the first company we were really determined to find something we could do online, globally.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Even though the majority of people in this new company were still building their business&#8217;s offline, this lady was pioneering something that was just plain radical at the time and it wouldn&#8217;t be used by the multitudes of online marketers for years to come.</p>
<p>Here are some REALLY IMPORTANT things we learned during this period,</p>
<p>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&#8217;s right, these people were actually asking for information about a businesss so I didn&#8217;t mind calling them.</p>
<p>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.<br />
All we did was put something like, &#8216;So Who Are John and Julieanne&#8217; 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.<br />
Funnily enough the name of the web page was called a &#8216;Face Page&#8217;, which was really the very beginnig of all the online social media we have today, like FaceBook etc.</p>
<p>Another thing we were advised to start doing was sending out a newsletter that people could opted in for on our emails.<br />
These newsletters were about trips overseas we&#8217;d made or the different adventures we&#8217;d had travelling around Australia.</p>
<p>The reason this made a lot of sense and still does now is that it&#8217;s MOST important that possible future business partners are attracted to YOU first and your product/business opp SECOND.</p>
<p>This whole process is all part of branding yourself and, as you would probably agree it&#8217;s a lot more downstream than going upstream, convining, roping and dragging people into your business.</p>
<p>All the best<br />
John</p>

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		<title>Is It a Bird? Plane? No It&#8217;s Attraction Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 03:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnvanzyl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Everyone, Thanks for coming to my blog, I appreciate you being here and hope you find some of this stuff useful or just enjoyable to read. I have to say that just up until a month ago you wouldn&#8217;t have found this blog because, I was still trying to build my business offline and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Hi Everyone,</p>
<p>Thanks for coming to my blog, I appreciate you being here and hope you find some of this stuff useful or just enjoyable to read.<br />
I have to say that just up until a month ago you wouldn&#8217;t have found this blog because, I was still trying to build my business offline and wasn&#8217;t convinced that online was where it&#8217;s going &#8216;booom!!&#8217;.<br />
 <br />
I&#8217;m not saying people haven&#8217;t built huge business&#8217;s offline and that there is anything wrong with it, because probably 1,000&#8242;s of people have done just that and been very successful.</p>
<p>Back in 2000 my wife and I decided to &#8216;have a go&#8217; at what was supposed to be a computer business and see if we could make some extra money.<br />
We did have some succsess but I spent up to 4 hours a day on my &#8216;phone business&#8217; convincing people to buy my product.</p>
<p>It was a great product no doubt about it, which did make us feel great, but, according to our upline we were supposed to sell it to anyone within a 5 foot radius, I even stood in the middle of a shopping centre one day giving out flyers and I gotta say I&#8217;ve never felt so much like a goose.<br />
People were avoiding me like plague or at the least like I hadn&#8217;t had a shower for a month.</p>
<p>A lady we met at a Saturday meeting where we&#8217;d dance to rock music and get energized (which was fun) told us she&#8217;d wear a badge that said &#8216;lose weight now ask me how&#8217; everywhere she went and talk to everyone within her &#8216;circle of influence.&#8217;<br />
I was laughing to myself and thought &#8216;more like a circle from hell I reckon&#8217;, I just couldn&#8217;t do it, jumping on and hounding unsuspecting people with some speil about something they hadn&#8217;t shown the slightest interest in or even thought about.<br />
For some insane reason I started thinking about John Cleese. (again having a chuckle to myself) and pictured him walking into a jewllery store and asking everyone in there if they wanted to buy a new car?</p>
<p>After 12 months we joined another company with an incredible lady named Marcy that introduced us to <a class="ld_link" href="http://www.businesshomebasedmlm.com/attractionmarketingarticles/" target=" " title="attraction marketing">attraction marketing</a>, which was at that time unheard of.</p>
<p>She was a pioneer without realising it and taught us all about attracting people rather than chasing them, because, as she used to say, &#8216;if you drag someone into your business you have to drag them around.&#8217;</p>
<p>I will write more about all the things we learned to do with attraction marketing in my next post, hope to see you then.</p>
<p>all the best<br />
John </p>

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		<title>Becoming An MLM Network Marketing Leader</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnvanzyl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi, this is John and I&#8217;ve got some great stuff to tell you about, can I hear you saying to yourself, &#8216;here we go, give me a break, I&#8217;ve heard all this stuff before bud&#8217;, but I promise you won&#8217;t go to sleep when you read it and, if you have heard it before that&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Hi, this is John and I&#8217;ve got some great stuff to tell you about, can I hear you saying to yourself, &#8216;here we go, give me a break, I&#8217;ve heard all this stuff before bud&#8217;, but I promise you won&#8217;t go to sleep when you read it and, if you have heard it before that&#8217;s great, congratulations you&#8217;re probably doing this stuff already and like me you&#8217;ve read or heard some Jim Rohn.</p>
<p>Some of what I&#8217;m about to write is influenced by Jim Rohn but a lot of it is my own thoughts on leadership.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve got a dvd that I got with a Success magazine and on it Jim Rohn talks about leadership and some tips for building a successful business, and the funny thing is this stuff never goes out of date, no matter what business you are in, or if it&#8217;s online or offline.</p>
<p>Firstly, there&#8217;s honesty, always tell the truth, don&#8217;t just go on about all the incredible benefits someone will get by joining your business, also tell them about any pitfalls or dangers they may face or need to look out for.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t be the &#8216;shonky&#8217; car salesman that says, &#8216; this car has only been driven to the supermarket once a week by an elderly lady&#8217; , and forget to mention it needs new disc brakes and a new radiator.</p>
<p>Remember, being a leader is being a role model, a &#8216;true beacon&#8217; that new business builders can trust and follow and feel they are in safe hands, because with the opportunity of becoming a leader comes responsiblity.</p>
<p>Another thing, it&#8217;s important to keep sending useful informative stuff to your list, whether you&#8217;re building online or off, because your list is your &#8216;gold&#8217;, so keep building it because the bigger it is the sooner you will be uccessful.</p>
<p>Your list is really the foundation of your whole business and without it your business would sink into the ground.</p>
<p>all the best<br />
John</p>

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		<title>Everybody Needs A Dream</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julieanne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was sitting at my piano, playing around with this really nice melody that had come into my head about a week before. I reckon it was when I was having a round of golf with my best mate Bazza. He was winning the round, Bazza was having one of his good days hitting the flamin&#8217; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><img alt="John playing guitar" src="http://www.businesshomebasedmlm.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/john-guitar.jpg" title="John playing guitar" class="alignleft" width="187" height="341" />I was sitting at my piano, playing around with this really nice melody that had come into my head about a week before. I reckon it was when I was having a round of golf with my best mate Bazza.</p>
<p>He was winning the round, Bazza was having one of his good days hitting the flamin&#8217; ball straight down that mongrel of a fairway every tee off.</p>
<p>On a bad day he couldn&#8217;t hit a cow in the arse with a hand full of wheat. Anyway it was really weird how these melodies would just appear in my head out of nowhere, at any time.</p>
<p>Usually I was miles away from a piano or guitar and they would be down the gurgler by the time I got back to my joint.   But some of these tunes would just keep on keepin&#8217; on reappearing days, weeks or sometimes months later as if demanding attention.<span id="more-376"></span></p>
<p>I&#8217;d usually end up using these for a song at some time.   So, here I am at the piano, this beautiful tune going around in my head. Through the window of this hundred old house, the skies are dark, menacing, the lightening flashing and the thunder booming (like a bloke banging a couple of 44 gallon drums together in the dunny).</p>
<p>The rain is pounding on the window. Inside my small lounge room it&#8217;s cozy and warm, with the open fire burning nicely.   I started thinking or drifting or both at the same time, back to goals and dreams I&#8217;ve had (my expression when thinking and drifting at the same time is dangerously close to looking like a stunned mullet. )</p>
<p>How it was exciting having that vision of where I was going or what I was going to be.   It was like having a purpose in life apart from all the normal stuff we all do. Most of the time I didn&#8217;t have much money but it didn&#8217;t bother me, because I knew one day I would have all the money I needed but more important I&#8217;d be doing something I loved to do.</p>
<p>My father thought I was a dreamer, and he was right.   We never got really close because we had such different beliefs.  Why did I act like I was already a successful musician?  Why did I buy expensive clothes that I couldn&#8217;t afford? Why did I live in expensive suburbs sharing with 3 or 4 other people when I could afford my own place in the cheaper suburbs?</p>
<p>I was just living my dream! I believed I was a successful musician and took the action I needed to raise my standards and aspirations. As Carol McCall says in her article Listening (And Acting) for Money, I was living out my fantasy, accompanied by positive action, and it was a powerful vision.</p>
<p>My Dad took positive action for a fantasy of his too. His fantasy became a powerful vision, and because he took positive action, his dream was unstoppable.</p>
<p>He told me once that after WWII, a lot of Europe was war-torn. In particular, the city where we lived, Rotterdam had been almost flattened by bombs.   Dad told me there were these big signs up around the city advertising Australia&#8230;.. The land of sunshine, a new life, plenty of work for tradesmen, golden beaches.</p>
<p>He made up his mind we were going to Oz no matter what. Really that was his and my mother&#8217;s dream. If it wasn&#8217;t their dream or vision they wouldn&#8217;t have been able to justify the sacrifices and traumatic decisions they had to make.</p>
<p>They both came from large families, my mother had 5 sisters and 2 brothers, my dad had 4 sisters. They left everything behind, family, friends, their culture, BUT&#8230;. their vision was clear.</p>
<p>They were going to a new frontier, a new beginning, sunshine, blue skies, their own piece of land with a nice house, even their own car. We were the pioneers in our family. After we&#8217;d been in Australia for about a year and my parents sent numerous letters about our new home, the relatives started following.</p>
<p>They too, became caught up in my parent&#8217;s dream. Now all this time, I&#8217;ve been sitting at the Goanna, that melody still hanging around like a bad smell and suddenly these words started flowing into my head.</p>
<p>Up until then, I didn&#8217;t know if this song was going to be about Arthur or Martha or Skippy the Kangaroo. But, this is what I ended up with:</p>
<p>From my thoughts, this is the song I ended up with. One day I&#8217;d love to play you the melody that goes with it</p>
<blockquote><p>Everybody Needs A Dream</p>
<p>Close your eyes reach for the skies whenever Happiness, it seems so far from view</p>
<p>We all know that dreams are made in heaven</p>
<p>And there&#8217;s someone watchin&#8217; over you</p>
<p>Sail away into a world of make believe</p>
<p>Where wars and revolutions never start</p>
<p>And all the people truly love one another</p>
<p>No-ones tryin&#8217; to tear it all apart.</p>
<p>Everybody needs a dream</p>
<p>Everybody needs a dream</p>
<p>When you&#8217;re out there on your own An&#8217; the sun don&#8217;t wanna show</p>
<p>Why should you deny it, it&#8217;s there for you to try it.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s someplace you can go&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>You may be asking what this has to do with you?</p>
<p>If you have a dream and wish it to come true, keep dreaming and never give it away.  Take positive action and you will have a powerful vision.</p>
<p>I have shifted my internal beliefs and my dreams are coming true.</p>
<p>Like the song in a famous musical called South Pacific, &#8221;Happy Talky Talky&#8221; says</p>
<p>&#8220;If you don&#8217;t have a dream,  How you gonna make a dream come true?</p>
<p>Ooroo,   John (and Julieanne) from Down Under</p>

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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julieanne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Network Marketing Is A People&#8217;s Franchise Have you heard people say that Network Marketing is a scam or a scheme? That&#8217;s what people used to say about franchises back in the 1960s, and the US Congress even made a move to outlaw them. Do you think franchise companies like McDonalds or Pizza Hut are a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><h3>Network Marketing Is A People&#8217;s Franchise</h3>
<p>Have you heard people say that Network Marketing is a scam or a scheme?<br />
That&#8217;s what people used to say about franchises back in the 1960s, and<br />
the US Congress even made a move to outlaw them. Do you think franchise companies like McDonalds or Pizza Hut are a scam? At the present time,  most people consume some kind of product from a franchisee, whether it&#8217;s hamburgers or pizzas or subway.  More about <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a title="People's Franchise" href="http://businesshomebasedmlm.com/peoplesfranchise">People&#8217;s Franchise</a></span></span></p>
<h3>Single Daily Action</h3>
<p>Would you like to learn about a powerful business-building tool? Actually, this is a process that can take you further in anything you want to do, in work and life itself.  It&#8217;s very simple, so it won&#8217;t take long to tell you about it. The name of this tool is S.D.A. S.D.A. stands for Single Daily Action. But, it&#8217;s not just any sort of action. It&#8217;s Consistent and Appropriate Action   More about <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a title="Single Daily Action" href="http://businesshomebasedmlm.com/singledailyaction">Single Daily Action </a></span></span></p>
<h3>Living With Passion</h3>
<p>We&#8217;d like to share with you some of the passion and excitement that&#8217;s been going on in our lives (There&#8217;s also a book we&#8217;ll give you that shows how to Live with Passion) Back in 2003, our business was growing so fast, we could hardly keep up. Sometimes we had to pinch ourselves (ouch!!) Is this really happening to US?   Firstly, we&#8217;d become debt free!  More about  <span style="color: #ff9900; font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Living with Passion" href="http://businesshomebasedmlm.com/livingwithpassion">Living With Passion </a></span></span></p>
<h3>Powerful Intentions in an MLM Internet Business</h3>
<p>This is John here. In the early 1980s I moved back to Adelaide (my old hometown) after living in Sydney for 2 years.  Having had one last try at getting a band back together, the band that was (acccording to CBS records), the next Little River band. We were called the Sultan brothers. It was a really weird thing that, at the time made no sense to me.  More about  <span style="color: #ff9900; font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Powerful Intentions" href="http://businesshomebasedmlm.com/powerfulintentions">Powerful Intentions </a></span></span></p>
<h3>Good Vibrations</h3>
<p>This is another yarn from John &#8211; about having wings:-) I reckon it was in the summer of 82, I&#8217;d only been back from Sydney for a couple of months and was living in a house about 5 minutes from the beach. I&#8217;d nicknamed the house the Grotto. (please don&#8217;t ask me why) ( ok, I give in, I&#8217;ll tell you why ) The kitchen was built onto the house years later and one of the kitchen walls was originally the outside wall of the house.  More about  <span style="color: #ff9900; font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Good Vibrations" href="http://businesshomebasedmlm.com/goodvibrations">Good Vibrations</a> </span></span></p>

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