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Throwing Gas On the Flames of Class Warfare

danni — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:52:06 +0000

Psychology 101:

people are lazy. They’re not going to engage in an activity unless it’s:
a) enjoyable
and/or
b) they believe it will benefit them personally.

Can we agree that unless a person actually happens to like their job, then work is not enjoyable? Yet we engage in it because we believe it benefits us to doing so.

Sometimes even if the only benefit is a pay check.

If you could find a way to get paid without having to work for it, would you do it?

I know that a certain percentage of the population wouldn’t. They find satisfaction in the work they do – it’s physically, artistically, or intellectually stimulating for them.

Moocher Class

But there’s another portion of the population that has no desire to achieve, no drive to engage or contribute, and no willingness to learn marketable skills. Oh, they have desires, drives, and skills, but none for which society would be willing to compensate them for using. We’ll call them the moocher class.

“Disabled”

Then there’s a small percentage of the population that truly lacks the ability to care for themselves. Even if they possess desire, drive and skills, there are valid reasons which prevent them from being able to support themselves. Or their bodies cannot handle the demands that would be required to engage in a skill or trade for the amount of time required to earn such a wage. We’ll call them the Able Yet Un-Able class.

Middle Class

The largest portion of the population we’ll call the middle class. These I tend to think of as “worker bees.” They go about their day-to-day routine: do their job, go home, eat, sit in front of the TV or play with the family, and are pretty much content to live life as it comes to them. And there’s nothing wrong with being a worker bee. Indeed society needs worker bees – not everyone can be the queen. There’s a quiet nobility in the middle class. They, for the most part, are the heart of America. They bring up their children to know right from wrong, teaching them a good work ethic, and eventually how to find a mate and raise a family of their own.

Two Percenters

There’s another percentage of the population, commonly called “The Two Percent,” who has Desire and Drive, and are willing to learn whatever Skills are needed to Achieve and Earn more than most. In their efforts to benefit themselves, they end up benefiting society.

How? First, because the marketplace will not compensate the Two Percenters for their efforts unless they provide a product or service that the market place really wants or needs. Therefore, they’ve fulfilled a need that benefits the marketplace (society).

Second, if their product or service is in great demand, they eventually have to hire others to help. Now, they’ve provided jobs.

Now let’s look at how much “compensation” these Two Percenters are going to earn for their products or services. Well, that depends on how much the marketplace is willing to compensate them. If a hypothetical Mr. Two Percent decides to charge too much, nobody will buy. (And if it’s a really good product, someone else will figure out how to provide it for less.) But if he charges too little, then he’s unable to even recoup his costs. Therfore, he’s going to charge an amount which the marketplace tells him is reasonable, as long as he’s able to recoup costs AND make a large enough profit to support himself while he either improves this one product/service or begins work on a new one.

Let’s talk about the costs that Mr. Two Percent has to cover: materials and utilities used in production, wages of any employees and/or contractors, and space needed to manufacture and warehouse the product (if required) are all pretty standard. Some of these are “static” costs and others are “fluid.”

For instance materials and utilities tend to be pretty static. The charges that Mr. Two Percent must pay for these don’t fluctuate very much, unless there’s some kind of supply and demand, or even seasonal effect on price. Space can be a pretty static cost, although rent will rise annually depending on the economy and the area, but cost of ownership of a space will remain constant.

It’s the wages paid that will fluctuate the most. Wage or other compensation will depend on an employee’s or contractor’s position within the company and their particular value to the company (how easy it would be to replace them, their skills, and their knowledge). Although we don’t normally think of Mr. Two Percent actually earning less than anyone else that he would employ, I’ve known many businesses in which the owners made a point of making sure that their staff was paid before they were – even if it meant they DIDN’T get paid at all. That was a choice they made between letting someone go & doing more of the work themselves (when they were already working 80 hours per week), or living on less in order to remain sane.

The Bitter Class

Now! Let’s talk about another portion of our population. We’re going to call them the Bitter Class. You’ll find them among the 98% of the population outside the Two Percenters. How much of that 98% is actually a member of the bitter class is unknown. Definitely 100% of the moocher class belongs in this portion of the population, some of the Able Yet Un-Able are in this class, and there seems to be a growing portion of the middle class within them (thanks to the class warfare that’s being pushed by leaders within the Bitter Class and politicians who would use them). Although we can’t know how many there actually are, here are some was to recognize them:

They’re envious of anyone who’s a member of the Two Percent class. More than that, they’re jealous.
They seem to think that the Two Percenters shouldn’t make more than anyone else. And if they do, they should give it all away to “those less fortunate.” And if the Two Percenters aren’t willing to do that, they want the government to play Robin Hood by forcibly taking what the Two Percenters have worked for and EARNED, and redistribute it to those who didn’t work for it nor earn it.
They seem to think that businesses shouldn’t make profits. I guess they expect the owners and stockholders to work and invest their time, energy, and capital without thought to compensation. Yet they don’t seem to think it wrong for entertainers and artists to be compensated for their work or uniquely created material.
Some go so far as to think that companies shouldn’t charge for their products or services. I suppose they expect all the company employees to work for free, too. What would they think if someone were to suggest the same to their employer?

Remember our first point of agreement: people are lazy and will not engage in activity they find either unenjoyable or does not benefit them in some way? You see, the Two Percenters are the same. They either enjoy what they do, or expect a benefit (compensation) for engaging in that activity, or both.

And the Bitter Class will always enjoy and/or see the benefit in buying into the socialist agenda of class warfare and the concept of “from everyone according to their means, to everyone according to their needs.” They’ll always blame everyone and everything else but themselves for their standard of living. They’ll always point fingers, shake fists, and shout to anyone who’ll listen that somehow they’re a part of “those in need” and are not only owed some of those means, but that it’s those with the means that have held them back and kept them down, and that’s why their standard of living isn’t to the level that they’d like. To them, there’s always a conspiracy of “the rich” to keep others “poor.”

Some members of the Bitter Class will NEVER leave it. But there are some who can be educated enough to realize that:

There really is no benefit to “the rich” to keep others poor.
There really is not a limited amount of wealth in the world – it can be created.
They can improve their standard of living simply by learning to make themselves more valuable to the marketplace.

I can tell you from personal experience that the Bitter Class mindset will never make you valuable to the marketplace. You’re the kind of person that the marketplace “smiles when you walk out of the room” instead of when you enter it.

Grow Up!

So stop ranting about the rich not paying their fair share. (And when you hear someone else spout such dribble, remember that they’re just being a crab in your bucket – yeah, go look that one up.) The “evil rich” have paid more than their fair share through blood, sweat, and tears in order to reach the status that they’ve achieved. And they still contribute to society in more ways than you can ever comprehend with your limited understanding and your limited viewpoint – that refuses to even look in order to begin to understand. You don’t know how much they make nor how much of it they give away. And they’ll never give it to you because they choose to give where they see fruit – and you ain’t producing it. As a matter of fact, you’re most likely the poison that’s killing the fruit of others.

If you want to increase your value to the marketplace, start first by closing your mouth and start looking at the fact that everyone (including “the rich”) has the same problems and issues as you, yet some are somehow able to overcome them. Then figure out how they overcame them. If you want to do the same, then take the same steps they did.

Everyone is human and shares the same frailties. Why don’t you stop asking, “What can I get for free?” And start asking, “What can I do in order to EARN what I really want?”

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I’m so confused!

danni — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:58:01 +0000

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That was the subject line of an email I recently got from a colleague. She & I are in the same network marketing company and she’s been struggling to build her business.

If you’re in one, you know the drill. Start a names list & harass everyone you’ve ever met since birth, purchase opportunity leads and spend HOURS on the phone trying to call people who are magically never home to take your call, go to the mall and put fliers on cars, and/or strike up conversations with strangers in the hopes that you’ll find someone who’s looking for what you’re offering.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard there’s a better way. Mike Dillard and Anne Sieg turned the network marketing industry on its ears a few years ago with the Magnetic Sponsoring and Renegade systems. Well, my colleague had also heard of them, and had studied all the “free” materials she could by and on both of them and their systems. (I know, I know… I know what you’re thinking! But I’ll address the unrealistic expectations from what you can get “for free” on a later post.)

What was so confusing?

She wrote, “It seems to me that if you join their program—you are selling their material–not your business. I would really like to chat with someone who has actually used this stuff and see what they say–is it all hype?”

First let’s address the hype.

While the MLM industry is rife with it, what good does it do? It only hurts in the long run. It either backfires immediately because everyone can see through it, or it backfires later when people ask for refunds because they realize that what you’ve said isn’t true.

Secondly, there are way too many people who are having success building their own businesses with these products and systems for this to be just about making money for Mike & Ann.

The Magnetic Sponsoring & Renegade systems are:

training systems for you & your new enrollees
to learn internet marketing,
to learn how to market YOUR business online,
to generate your own high quality prospects,
and to provide a means to monetize (meaning to make money from) your prospects whether or not they ever join you in your network marketing business (by being an affiliate for Dillard & Sieg).

According to the law of averages when working with purchased opportunity leads (some people do better and some people do worse, this is the “Average”), you will need to dial 200 numbers just to get one enrollment!

YUCK!!!

Why not find a way to have your lead generation system pay for itself on the front end while generating leads for your business on the back end? Sure beats that “200 to 1″ ratio!

Success in network marketing really depends on each person finding out which method works best for them, and working THAT method primarily. That’s why I started looking into other methodologies.

Sure some people are very successful with warm market strategies, opportunity leads, or the “walk & talk” method. But most aren’t. Besides, why ignore the entire online world and the great resource that it is?

What I got out of the Mike Dillard & Anne Sieg materials:

How to apply the geeky side of internet marketing to my network marketing business. It works great! It just takes a while to start getting the financial results when you start it from scratch. What it really is, though, is generating your own opportunity leads. So you’re still working leads, it’s just a more powerful method because when you call the prospects, you’re saying, “Hi, you visitied my xyz.com website and requested more information…”
Another big thing I’ve gotten out of the Dillard & Sieg methods is the self-growth. It’s embarrassing how backwards and poverty-minded my thinking has been over the past few years.

Ok, all that said, it is my opinion, and I’m hearing this more from the gurus now, that the whole “marketing your MLM via internet marketing” niche is becoming more & more saturated and more and more competitive. It requires SOOO much content creation, and what hasn’t already been said by everyone else yet? How do you market yourself as a leader that others want to work with in the face of all that competition for attention?

You create your own system, that’s how!

But who has the time and resources to do that? More importantly, who has the WILL to do that? Why reinvent the tools that already exist?

That’s one of the reasons there’s such a huge movement away from the “geeky online marketing” methodology toward social networking.

Not only is social networking SOOOOO much simpler to do, it’s much simpler to teach!!! For a vast majority of the population, we’re already on the social networks. We’re having fun, but wasting a lot of time. What if we could network socially, but with purpose? (I guess you could say that it’s “old school walk & talk” applied to the internet.) Most of us have no problem striking up conversation and socializing online. Speaking for myself, since 1996 I’ve made more friends online than I have off line!!! lol

The best part is that we don’t have to teach the methodology ourselves!!! You don’t have to be an expert at this. Just direct yourself and your serious biz builders to the training source. Max Steingart has been teaching what is now called “attraction marketing” via social networks for about 12 years already. His classes are extremely affordable. And once you learn the method, it’s applicable to ALL social networks.

Oh, another word about all this training that’s available. Pick a skill or system, learn it and MASTER it before moving on to another!!!!! Take if from an ex-teacher: you learn by doing. So…

Train then DO!

Let me add a few more exclamation points to that…

!!!!!!!!!!!

I cannot stress this enough. Jumping around from method to method accomplishes nothing. You get confused with all the trainings, then you start confusing “training” with “working,” and never build your business.

You MUST pick the method that’s most appealing to YOU. If you’re more of a geek, then go the online marketing route. But if you’re more social than geeky, then go the social networking route. Which ever you choose, though: Learn it. Master it. Start earning from it. Then you can add other skills to diversify and increase your earnings. But at that point, you still focus on the method that already works for you – don’t stop working it. You’re just adding another skill on top of it.

So, I’ve been studying and using the Max Steingart method and LOVE it! I’m just socializing on the internet, getting to know people, making new friends, reconnecting with old friends. By asking the right questions at the right time and paying attention to what people say and how they say it, I can determine if someone is a prospect (qualify them) before I EVER bring up business! So, there’s no rejection, and once I’ve qualified them and know what it is that they want to accomplish, helping them accomplish that is a breeze!!!

Training use to be a hassle. Now it’s just fun – because we’re just playing around on the internet!!!

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Urgent Action Required

danni — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:03:11 +0000

Dear Reader,

This is a quick word out to you just to keep you from making a BIG mistake in the next two days.

I’m sure you’ve heard of Mike Dillard. He’s the fellow who revolutionized the network marketing industry in 2006 when he created four products revealing the process he used to go from a broke waiter to top earner in his MLM. Well he just updated his most coveted product and has just released it to the public at a MASSIVE discount for a limited time.

The current price is only $297. In just one day and ten hours, as of this writing, this special price ends.

It will then go up to the regular price of $997.

When I became an affiliate in August of 2008, this is the one product that I didn’t purchase of his, even though it was offered at a deep discount when I purchased all those other products. From that moment on, I’ve been struggling to learn those missing parts, spending MUCH more than $1,000 for training from other sources. I finally got tired of wasting my time and money elsewhere & decided to purchase this product – learn it from the master, so to speak. When I inquired of it, I was informed to wait just a couple of weeks for Traffic Formula 2 – and told to keep my mouth shut about it in the mean time.

So, do yourself a favor. Invest the $297 now. Do not waste MUCH MORE than $297, all the time, frustration, and gray hair trying to figure this out on your own.

MLM Traffic Formula 2 has been updated from the original. It’s interactive. It includes social networking. It was great before. It’s fantastic now!! It’s well worth $997, but why spend more when you can get such a deal now? Or spin your wheels, spening more time and money, and more frustration waiting on the next update in another 3 years?

Why are you still reading? Go NOW!

Danni

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Why MLM Wasn’t Working for Me

danni — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:00:54 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, I got a little ahead of myself. In it, I reviewed the products & system created by Mike Dillard of Magnetic Sponsoring. Maybe I should have given a “what led me to that discovery” post first.

It’s been since October of 2005 that I got started my current Network Marketing (NWM) business. And for the longest it was a struggle to be successful with it.

Now, don’t get me wrong. The company I’m with is fantastic. It’s a Five Pillar Company! (Contact me if you want to know what that means – no strings attached.) It’s so simple and such a “no-brainer” that others who’ve struggled in NWM have finally found the success they were only able to dream about before.

So why was it such a struggle for me to find that same success?

Relatively speaking, my entire experience with this company has been successful. After YEARS of absolute failure in other home businesses, I was finally, actually, making money! But still not enough to start addressing the debt we’d built up just paying the living expenses over prior hard economic times. And every time something unexpected happened (and it will – that’s life), it made that debt grow. Bit by bit.

I knew there had to be a better way!

If you’re in NWM now, or ever have been, then you know the drill. Make a list, bug the devil out of every one you know, buy leads (of questionable value), and tear up the phone lines! (Check here for why you don’t want to waste your money on leads.)

Now, I’m not shy, and am definitely not afraid of the phone or whoever is on the other end of the line. So, I’m good at dialing leads, setting appointments, doing presentations, all that stuff. But my results still weren’t what they should have been.

So I started wondering… I KNOW this works, and I see it work VERY well for others. Why not for me?

My support team could only help me with what they knew. Although the “old school” methods (warm market lists & leads) that they taught actually do work in my business, they weren’t working for me. As a matter of fact, those who were able to reach the bigger incomes faster, did so by working with their warm market – even if they’d never, ever been in a NWM business before!

I’d been utilizing training available from independent sources for a year already, and I knew all about posture and personal growth. I knew that if my prospects became my customers and/or business partners, they did so because of their belief in me and my ability to help them succeed, too. So I knew the thing I was marketing wasn’t so much my company or my products as it was Me, Myself & I. I like to think I was good at that, but looking back now, I know I wasn’t.

So…

Why wasn’t it working for me?

Thing is, I’d also had a short gig as a web designer and website promoter in the past. That experience taught me some skills that got results. I needed those kinds of results in my new business. So I had an idea that there had to be a better way: a “marriage” of those marketing methods and NWM.

So I’d had this concept dancing around in my head for a LONG time that there had to be a better way for people like me. There had to be a way to “marry” the strategies that I’d long ago learned and implemented for designing and promoting websites, with Network Marketing. It required a better system than was being provided by my support team. AND it required online marketing skills that were most likely more modern and advanced than I had learned back then. That meant learning those new skills, AND training others on my team to utilize them, too. I may have had the smarts to figure it all out and create it, but I certainly didn’t have the time. I was working so hard at building my business that I didn’t dare risk my slowly building pay check to take time off to figure that out.

Besides, I couldn’t possibly be the only one who was thinking the same thing! Surely someone was working on such a system, if not implementing it already. So I started searching, and ended up stumbling on 3 very good systems at the same time. If these don’t sound familiar to you already, you’re going to start seeing them all over the place from now on:

Mentoring For Free
Magnetic Sponsoring
Renegade Networker (and Renegade University)

As I suspected, the Internet had changed over the past 10 years and the skills I had were almost obsolete. I had a lot of learning to do as far as online marketing went. I learned. I implemented.

I am successful. Finally!

Here’s an analogy for you – my husband gets credit for giving it to me. I use to drive a 1989 Chevette that I’d paid $1600 cash for back in … never mind, I can’t remember and you don’t need to know. I drove that thing until it was on its last days. Then in 1997, I bought a 1994 Ford Ranger – you know… those cute little green trucks with the bed liner, chrome wheels, and sliding rear window that you saw all over the place? I HATED having to take on a car payment, but I just couldn’t depend on the “Vette” any more. And I LOVED my truck! That was an investment that needed to be made, and I never looked back.

Well, as much as I hated investing yet more money into my business, that was an investment that needed to be made and I’ll never look back.

So, if you’re like me and you’re just is not gonna make it using the old school NWM methods, I know how you feel. If you’ve got a failure is not an option attitude, you MUST invest in yourself and your business. Learn these new strategies. In all these systems you’ll learn that the reason you’re struggling isn’t your fault. It’s the methods that you’re using.

I’ll be discussing each of the above systems in upcoming posts.

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What’s Wrong with “Warm Market” Strategies?

danni — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:00:54 +0000

If you’re involved with a network marketing business, you’ve most likely utilized some old school methods to build your business. Purchasing opportunity leads and/or marketing to your “warm market.”

We talked about leads in an earlier post. Today I want to address the problem with “Warm Market” strategies.

In order to be successful with them, one has to have a

Circle of Influence

Boy, are those loaded words!! Although we learned in geometry that any three points determine a circle, a circle of influence really requires MANY more persons to be considered a circle. And what does “influence” mean? According to Webster’s Dictionary, it’s the “power to affect others.”

So to have a circle of influence, you would have many friends and family with whom you have the power to affect. That takes a certain personality type: not just a social butterfly, but an influential person who is “more than just an acquaintance” with many people.

Loners like me, a “sweet Southern girl” who does weird things like acting, enjoys playing computer games, or chatting to online friends, or reading a book (not romance, either, but horror, or fantasy, or science fiction! Oooo! Real girls just don’t do that!), just will not have a “Circle of Influence” here among the Old South. Which is what my warm market consisted of.

I grew up in a small town in a somewhat “sheltered” household. Because of that sheltered upbringing, I’ve always found it difficult to make friends of more than a hand full of people at a time. Oh, yes, I’m out-going, and am not afraid to be on stage in any situation. But making real friends is unusual for me. So, if you are one, count yourself lucky!

That means I have no Circle of Influence.

Now, I know it’s not just in the South, but you get my point that only certain personality types will do well with the warm market strategies. So we’re left with buying leads. I don’t care what anybody says, that’s a very slow way to build. You’re calling people who don’t know you, so there’s no way you have “influence” with any of them.

The problem is obvious.

Does this describe you? Does it describe someone you’ve tried to work with? Every time you call and ask how big their “list” is they say some small number. It’s never bigger than 10 or 20. (LOL, you’re lucky if it’s as high as 20!!)

Don’t get mad at the people you’re working with who have this problem.

They’re not scared to call everyone they know. They just know that they have no influence with them, so the call will be pointless. They’ve probably never called these people before in their lives. If they do now, the person they’re calling will know there’s a purpose behind the call.

Don’t put them in that icky situation! Teach them to attract prospects naturally. Teach them how to find the people who are seeking them.

We’ll talk about how to do this soon…

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What’s Wrong With Opportunity Leads?

danni — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:59:26 +0000

If you’re in Network Marketing, you’ve most likely utilized two common business building methods: warm market and opportunity leads. We’ll cover the problem with warm market in another post. Right now, I want to talk about opportunity leads.

Purchased opportunity leads are a waste of time and money!

Just because you bought a list from a lead company, doesn’t mean that those people actually requested that information. Even if they’re telephone interviewed leads from a top advertising agency!

Sometimes someone enters bogus information (I’ve suspected the ad agency of doing this on purpose just to make more money off its customers!)
Sometimes the person didn’t know what they were filling out
Sometimes they have no idea why someone is calling them to verify their contact information
Sometimes they did request the info, but they’re really not serious, or not ready to actually start a business
Sometimes they’re just looking for a job and not a business
Sometimes they lie when you call… maybe they’re already tired of all the calls they’re getting
Some are just freebie seekers
Etc.

So, you see, you don’t always get what you paid for. (Ask me for access to a recording of testimony after testimony of how purchased leads resulted only in massive debt for many!)

That’s why I started using internet marketing techniques to generate my own leads.

I know that the names & numbers on my list actually visited my site and filled out a form. Otherwise I wouldn’t have that info. I also know which advertising method lead them to my site. So when I do call, I have that info and can mention it during my “hello” so they remember me. (Hi, this is Danni. You visited my GottaHaveAPlanB website and filled out a form for more information about working from home…”)

Generating your own leads is the ONLY lead generation method that you should trust. It’s the only method that you know gives you valid prospects. Well… unless they lie when they fill out the form.

Let’s talk about another problem with leads:

Fear of the Phone

I know a lot of people are just afraid of picking up the phone and dialing those numbers. (Mike Dillard admits that he use to be a telephone chicken.)

You pick up the phone and hope that nobody’s home. The last thing you want is someone blessing you out for calling them when they don’t want to be bothered… You are NOT bothering them. They requested the information and it is your responsibility to help them to the best of your ability.

Weren’t you in those shoes at one time, too? When I was working leads, I tried to remember that I use to be one. When someone called me, I sincerely wanted help. I was dead serious about finding a way to work from home, and with each call I was ready to do what ever it took to get all the information. Including going through all those interviews. That was my opportunity to prove how serious I was, but that I wasn’t gonna let them drag me into any odd business. I was picky.

You need to know that your prospects are just like you. There’s nothing to fear.

So, start generating your own leads, stop spending money with MLM lead companies that most likely are selling you bogus info, and don’t be afraid to answer someone’s request for help!

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Review of Mike Dillard’s Products & System

danni — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:52:37 +0000

In some of my previous posts I’ve shared with you that I had been struggling in Network Marketing (NWM) for years. It took God’s backing me into a corner and hitting me over the head with a 2×4 for me to finally take the plunge again with my current company. With it, I finally have the training and support that I really needed to find the success that was eluding me.

That’s the short story.

That success was limited, though, so I plugged into some independent training sources and saw GREAT improvements in my results. The two best things I learned from them was:

Your pay check follows your personal growth.
Posture: people don’t join businesses, products, comp plans, or whatever. They join YOU. So you have to sell you and your ability to help them succeed.

But I still hadn’t found what I was looking for. Because I’d designed and promoted websites in the past, I knew there had to be a better way! There had to be a system that used real online marketing and promotion for building a NWM business. Instead of trying to create that system myself, I started looking around for an existing one… and stumbled on several. (Thank God, because I REALLY didn’t want to do all that work to create it! LOL)

I’ve always been the type to help people avoid frustration and heartache if I could. In my current endeavors, that translates into helping people avoid scams, save their money and their dignity. So whether or not you work with me in my current business is irrelevant. This is just a means of helping you find the right business for you, and be successful once you do.

That in mind, the source I want to share with you now was created by another home business failure, Mike Dillard.

Now, I’ve read many so-called-reviews of Mike’s system and products online, and I can tell you just by reading them that the writers don’t know what they’re talking about. They’ve never actually gotten their hands on these materials and studied them! In my review below, I’ll give you enough information to know the difference between these products, general information about what’s contained in them (without giving away the bank), and what each product is intended to do for you.

Let me give my honest opinion of him straight up. Mike desperately needs an editor because his writing skills are very lacking – but not desperately so. His sentence and paragraph composition are barely acceptable, and he has serious problems with grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Every once in a while, I did find myself having to stop & “translate” what he wrote into something that made sense – just enough to get the concept of what he meant. That aside, with these products, he shares some very valuable skills that he worked HARD to learn for himself. If you choose to take advantage of his knowledge, it’s well worth your time and money.

As I said earlier, Mike was a NWM failure. If you’ve ever tried one, you’ll recognize the problems he (and I) had: make a list of all your friends & family so you can start hounding them to the point that they start avoiding you, then start trying to get them to refer their friends & family to you, then start buying deadbeat online leads and hounding them. He didn’t like doing any of that. He’s an admitted telephone chicken! So he started studying with professional, successful marketers about how it’s really done. From that he developed a few different products for different purposes.

Mike’s first product is called “Magnetic Sponsoring.” This is written for those in NWM. It takes him an entire book to tell you that if you’re struggling, it’s not your fault, you’ve just been told to sell everything except the one thing that matters: YOU. When people join someone in a business venture, the thing that matters most is the person who told them about it: YOU. It’s not the company or the products or the comp plan that matters. It’s YOU. So you should be working on yourself and selling You, Inc. Maybe it just seemed basic to me, but not to you. So, if you’re in a NWM biz already or just considering one, you might want to get this book to decrease your learning curve on this concept alone. This book is $39 dollars and you earn a $20 commission.

Another product Mike has for those in NWM is “Black Belt Recruiting. ” This is a 6 CD set that demonstrates how to recruit in a professional manner. The trainers in the videos: Mike Dillard and Mark Wieser, one of the industry’s top recruiters. If you’re struggling with this, you really need this one. Just hearing how the pros approach in a manner that doesn’t provoke objections and overcome those that do come up is awesome. You’ll have quite a few “ah ha” moments! This CD set costs $147 and you earn a 40% commission ($58.80).

Now here come a couple of products for those who may not be in the NWM industry.

Mike’s “Building On a Budget” (BOAB) will be a harder read for those of you who are grammar snobs like me. But if you can get through it, you’ll learn some marketing techniques that will help you no matter what type of business you’re considering (or may already be doing). These are real sources to use, how to set them up, and tips and tricks to use them for better online marketing results. This book costs $39 and you earn a 40% commission ($15.60).

Last is a more thorough course for online marketing, “MLM Traffic Formula.” Yes, it’s geared toward MLM/NWM, but it applies to any marketing efforts, no matter what kind of business is being marketed. It contains step-by-step methods to create your online marketing tools to generate more traffic to your website, no matter what the subject is. This is not the marketing resources that you learn in BOAB, but how to create your websites, lead capture pages, blogs, and such (the tools) for which you’re generating the traffic that results in sales. This book costs $997 and you earn a 40% commission ($398.80).

Bottom line is that if you can get past Mike’s poor grammar and poor writing skills, his system not only provides a way to make money on the Internet, it also teaches you how to do just that. The best benefit of MS is that you can make handsome profits marketing just these products. Of course, it’s only one-time sales and not residual as with NWM…

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Delimma – What Should My Titter ID Be?

danni — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:12:27 +0000

I’m currently on Twitter as danni63. Some of you already know me by that ID on instant messenger programs, but it’s not very creative, is it? Besides one of the first rules you learn about Twitter is to use your real name.

Unfortunately that’s proving to be a delimma.

You see, I started acting back in the early 90′s, then started working online in 1997. Everyone who knew me back then, knew me as Dannielle Wood. Everyone who knew me personally, knew as Danni. That’s how I knew myself. When I got married in 2002, I needed those who already knew me to still be able to identify me, so I just added my married name to the end. I’m still Danni, but my legal name, thus my formal identity, is Dannielle Wood Hixson.

But “DannielleWoodHixson” is too long to use as a Twitter ID. So is “DannielleWHixson.” Here’s what does fit and what my thoughts are about each:

“DannielleWood” – my original, initially marketed name. That’s why my website is “danniellewood.com.” But my husband is very proud of his last name. “We have our own town, you know.” Yes, he’s a direct descendant of The Hixson of Hixson, Tennessee. Even though he wouldn’t say so, he’d be awfully hurt if I didn’t use his name. Well… if & when he finds out, he would say something. Not much – just enough that I’d know it bothers him. If it’s possible to avoid that conversation, I’d rather not have it.
“DannielleHixson” – only family knows me as Dannielle Hixson. Maybe my current customers and prospects have picked up on the “Hixson” added to all my emails & websites.
“DanniHixson” – if you call my home and ask for Danni, you’re gonna get “which one?” My husband is Danny, too.
“DanniWood” – Yeah, that’s who I was for the first 39 years of my life, and most people know me as either Dannielle or Danni Wood… But there’s that leaving off my husband’s name again, and it’s not who I am “legally.”
“DanniWoodHixson” – I like it best, mostly because I’ve been Danni all my life and it’s more my own identity – how I know myself. But EVERYONE else, just about it, knows me as Dannielle! And there’s that “Hixson” added to the end… “Who’s that?”

ALL that said, there’s this little voice in the back of my head that says, “Get over yourself! You’re not ‘famous’ enough to worry about the name you market, much less how people get to know you on Twitter! Who cares who you are legally? Besides, if you use Danni, that’s how you originally wanted to market yourself anyway, so you get back to your original identity!” (Yes, I couldn’t use Danni, my own name, because that domain was already taken for a porn site. I was furious about my name being misused!) So, there is that part of me that thinks that what ever I use is irrelevant – I can even keep danni63 and it wouldn’t matter.

I can’t decide for myself, so I’ve decided I’m gonna let everyone else choose. Leave your comments below – even if you have other ideas. The choice that gets the most votes wins.

Let the voting begin!

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