So Much Focus on Marketing, Where’s the Sponsoring, Teaching and Duplication Factor in Your Business?

Not Only Market, But Sponsor and Train Your Team

Marketing is Great But Are You Making Time for Sponsoring, Training and Duplication in Your MLM Business?
Marketing is great but how much time are you focusing on sponsoring, teaching and duplication in your business? Ty Tribble inspired me today with his post. Let’s bring the sanity [...]

Living a Video Integrated Life, Brings Us All Closer Together

Video Technology is Bringing Us Closer Together

Video is playing an ever bigger role in our lives. In fact living an video integrated life is very much a reality and becoming more so as we progress in seamlessly integrating our online and offline lives. Ultimately technology is bringing all of us closer together and providing greater connection regardless of where we may live around the world.

Video Allows Us To Deepen and Maintain Relationships

The video component is allowing us to connect more personally and to further our relationships with others and when we can't be there in person. I am in awe of how quickly and completely video is integrating into our lives. It is exciting to see this very personal component coming alive in our lives. People love video because it is the next best thing to being there.

I Am Reaping the Benefits of Using Video in My Life

I am grateful that I have not only an open minded and love learning new things that I have become an early adapter of using video in my marketing and in my communication with others. I am already reaping the many benefits of using video in my life. I am creating a more personal bond between myself and others. I can leverage my time by getting my videos out to numerous people online allowing my messages to be seen by many. My videos continue to reach, connect and communicate for months and years to come online.

Have You Assembled Your Success Team?

If you are either in network marketing or considering a network marketing career you may have run across the phrase it takes ‘team work to make the dream work.’ The people you surround yourself with is absolutely critical to your success. Another friend of mine Stephanie Tanner calls this your “Love Posse”. It is absolutely essential to your continued success to assemble your Success Team.

What is an Success team you may ask? I consider my Success team a collection of people from, mentors, coaches , supporters, colleagues, and my own team members as I start to grow a team within my network marketing business.

My 30 Day Blogging Challenge Experience

I felt is appropriate and timely to share my 30 Day Blogging Challenge experience. We are down to the last two days of the month of August and what an experience it has been! Life changing actually on many levels. I couldn’t help but think of it as running a race where the crowds are cheering us on. I can actually see and here the crowds now.

Blogging Everyday 5 Days a Week Has Been a Push

Blogging everyday 5 days a week has been a push for me. I’d find myself writing my posts early in the morning to leave the majority of my day for the other tasks that need to be done in my business. There were times that I was bone tired having suffered both adrenal and thyroid exhaustion so finding the right balance can be tricky.

I Created the 30 Day Blogging Challenge for Encouragement

I created the 30 Day Blogging challenge as a way to encourage myself and others to stay the course. Maybe for some blogging everyday comes naturally however I found for me, I felt just a bit out of balance with the continued push to create great content without overwhelming myself. I am so glad I did the challenge because it did get easier to write and come up with good content and stay consistent. Sometimes pushing can be a good thing. I almost saw this as sprint for the month of August.

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Wow, the Secret of Becoming a Sponsoring Machine is Easier than You Think

It is funny when we think of leaders and that massively sponsor into their businesses and help others do the same what is their secret formula? It can often seem elusive on how to up your business building game to join those who excel at sponsoring and training however the key tenants are actually easy to apply to your business.

I landed on a great resource this morning, a blog called The Best MLM Resources. It is actually a great place to stop by from time to time to access those resources that will propel and move your MLM business forward and creating MLM success.

Being a MLM sponsoring machine not about being the best closer, using manipulative marketing techniques or working 20 hours a day. What a relief to know you can turn on your sponsoring prowess simply by applying some powerful tenants to your business building practices.

Taking More Action, Harnessing the Power of Fear by Changing Your Associations

Taking more action is a matter of changing your focus and your associations. It has been said, we are more motivated as humans to avoiding our fears than attaining our desires and goals. I found this post by Katie Frieling, thought provoking. If you are not familiar with Katie she is passionate about personal development, personal growth, and an expert in optimizing social media and online marketing. She is a gem and you can gain so much from her blog and the great content she provides.

Taking More Action, Harnessing the Power of Fear by Changing Your Associations

In Katie’s post and video she takes the time to dig behind what motivates us and how we can make that work to our benefit. When we operate unconsciously there is no hope for transformational change and progress. Simply by becoming aware of the power of fear in lives and our desire to avoid that which we are afraid of can be used as powerful tool through creating new associations.

Disconnected from Your Prospects? You’re Probably Not Asking Enough Questions

Are you listening or are you assuming with your prospects?

A Great Network Marketing Blog, the Enlightened Networker
Found a fabulous network marketing website yesterday. I first fell in love with the name, The Enlightened Networker. Perfect name for what all of us should be striving for within the network marketing profession. This is a glorious [...]

202 Blogging Tips That Create Insane Blog Traffic, Ana Hoffman Delivers in Spades

202 Blogging Tips that Create Insane Blog Traffic

Ana Hoffman Delivers in Spades

If there is two pieces of advice I can give you to create a growing list online and ultimately create a legacy, identify and live from your passion and over deliver! Ana Hoffman does this in spades. Her blog reflects her style and energy and her content rocks. Ultimately it is all about the connections we make with others. However it starts with generating traffic. As you craft your brand, develop your marketing funnel amazing people will show up. New business partners, affiliate products sold and joint ventures created.

Ana delivers in spades 202 bite size ways to drive massive amounts of traffic to your blog. Are you ready to break it wide open? Are you ready to over deliver? This is one of life’s great lessons. You have to give it all away to have it all.

By the way one of the things I love about this list of traffic generating tips, it all stuff you can apply right way in your blogging, its free and it works. I will be referring back to this post often and capitalizing off of what Ana so generously has shared.

Creating Videos That Connect and Get Found on the Web

Creating Videos that Connect with Your Audience and Get Found on the Web

Be Yourself, Be Authentic

There is only one you, don’t attempt to be like someone else just be yourself. Share your style and your personal branding and your authentic self will shine through. People know when we are not being ourselves so relax and celebrate that you having something to offer in a way no one else can. Your audience is seeking you so you only need to show up and offer the best value in your unique way.

Get Your Video Seen By Your Target Audience

Make Your Title Count

Just as in blog posts title’s carry a tremendous amount of weight. Create a great video Title and it can pull in a huge amount of traffic. You want your Titles to be optimized for both human interest and search engine optimization. Use your key words in the title of your video and create Titles that are catchy and interesting.

Remember Google owns Youtube so you can see there is a definite connection between video and searched content. When posting your videos,I recommend that you post them to youtube. Use a Key word rich title that is catchy, use key words in the description of the video and use the proper key words and tags when posting your videos.

Be Interesting, Informative, Funny and Provide How To Content

Two of the most sought after areas content on the internet is content that is funny and content that provides how to information. Position yourself as a thought leader and trusted advisor in your area of expertise. All of this continues to grow your brand.

Keep Your Videos Short

Because our time is valuable and attention spans are shortening keep your videos targeted focused and no more than 3- 4 minutes. In late, 2009 ComScore found that the average video online is 3.8 minutes in length.

Borrow From Hollywood

In the beginning keep your videos simple. Simply talk to the camera and have a background that does not distract from you. Keep it simple until you are super comfortable.

Why You Want to Catch the Online Video Marketing Wave Part I

This will be the first of a series of posts on the power of online video. In today’s post I focus on why you will want to get involved in this seismic online video marketing wave.

To Grow Your Personal Brand and Grow Your Business

Heard of Gary Vaynerchuk? If you don’t recognize his name you’ll probably recognize his best selling book, “Why Now is the Time to Crush It! Cash in on Your Passion. Gary was doing reasonably well with his dad’s liquor store and wine shop offline but when he took to using social media and taking his marketing online he chose video.

Gary started a Vlog which is a Blog with Video. He’s no dummy. He knew it was all about personal branding. He is earthy, uses a few four letter words and best of all he doesn’t fall into the category of the typical wine expert. Gary knows his wine but presents wine totally differently and he was able to quickly capitalize on what makes him different by using video as his main medium online.

Jonathon Budd Shares a Powerful Process, the Ultimate Outcome for You is Freedom

Jonathon Budd Shares a Process, the Ultimate Experience is Freedom

In keeping with my theme this week on personal development and meditation this post from Jonathon felt more than relevant. In fact this is a post shares a process that will certainly assist all of us on the road to enlightenment. You may be thinking [...]

The Art of Connection Starts With Caring About Others

I am blessed to be apart of a fabulous blogging mastermind with two other amazing female bloggers. We are writing and creating videos on a series of topics that are pertinent to online marketing. Today’s topic is pertinent to all areas of our lives, the art of connection. I love the words the art of connection because it truly is an art. Connections with others is to be cultivated and elevated to an art form.

Starts with Caring About Others

I thought where would I start with the discussion of the art of connection? I knew my discussion had to start with caring for others. One can not truly connect until one cares. If I am self absorbed I will not be a good connector with others. I will not put myself in their shoes. So truly connecting has to do with caring, empathy with another person. When I put myself into another person shoes I now have the opportunity to connect. What is the phrase do not judge another until you have walked a day in his moccasins. A powerful code to live by.

Meditation is Easier Than You May Think

I think one of the biggest mindsets that gets in the way of a regular meditation practice is the thought I don’t know how to do this, or what if I don’t do this right? Meditation is actually easier than you think. Below I am going to include the necessary guidelines for a successful meditation.

Some Myths of What It Takes to Successfully Meditate

Before I cover how simple it really is to meditate successfully, I’d like to point out some myths.

Must be in an Yogic Posture to Successfully Meditate.

Must Know Mantras to successfully mediate.

You Must Meditate for Hours Per Day

You Must Know Exoctic Breathing Exercises

Must Have A Special Chair For Meditation

Must Have a Guru You Are Working With to Successfully Meditate

Meditation is Hard Work

The Good News Meditation Can Be Easy To Do and Maintain

The good news is successful meditation is much easier than you think. Anyone can meditate. As children we would naturally meditate as we day dream or get quiet and listen, our ability to naturally meditate gets programmed out of us as we grow into adults.

Meditation Creating My Life From the Inside Out

Meditation Connecting with Your Higher Source Leads to Inspiration

Mediation Often Takes a Back Seat in Our Western Culture

We are such an outward focused society especially here in the west that meditation and contemplation often take a back seat in life. Most my life and my conditioning has been wrapped up in what I do and how much I get accomplished. Nothing wrong with accomplishing goals and creating results in your life but what if there were an easier way? Rather than through using our will (driven by our egos) what if we allowed inspiration to guide our lives?

My Journey

Two years ago when I set out on my online marketing journey there was a lot to learn and do. I found myself so stuck in my head by virtue of the learning curve I was on, I could feel myself getting out of balanced. Again, there is nothing wrong with learning new things and expanding myself and my skills however when I come from a balanced living there is a grace that envelopes my life.

When I Least Expected It

Just when I least expected it, Larry and I were at our health food grocery store in Sedona, New Frontiers. I was eating in their cool little deli restaurant when I noticed the bulletin board. There is this great bulletin board with tons of announcements, events and seminars listed. I was drawn to one in particular. It spoke to me. I grab the information on the flyer. It was for a 8 week meditation course.

Funny How We Often Wait Until Our Backs Against the Wall

Memories flooded my mind when back when I was 30 having just gone through a divorce and living on my own for the first time since college I found myself at a cross roads in my life. It was financially challenging time in my life and I knew I needed help. Just how bad had it gotten, I hadn’t paid my rent at the time for 3 months. Fortunately my landlord was a good friend. I went to see an Episcopal woman minister. She counseled people who came to her and she was highly recommended by friends of mine at the time.

I told her many areas of my life were great but there was this one challenge in my life which was my finances. What seemed to me at the time an insurmountable challenge. She said, something to me that I will never forget. ‘You don’t have a financial challenge you have a spiritual challenge. You are not taking time each day to connect with your higher source, to connect with God.’ I remember laughing all the way home. I knew immediately I could do something about that.

She shared with me that through prayer and meditation I could access this higher power. I am a good student so having tried everything else I just got off the merry go around of life and meditated, prayed intentionally each day, twice a day. Over the next 40 days or so I felt tremendous inward changes taking place in my life. I started having more mystical experiences in my life on a regular basis. Experiences that blew my mind.

I attracted a six figure income over the next 3 months into my life, I’d think of friends and they would call me within minutes the list goes on and on. Now back to present time. Unfortunately my mediation practiced has been sporadic in my life and guess what my life has reflected this. I have had just come through a bout of adrenal and thyroid exhaustion and without getting into the whole story, it was just another reminder of not tapping into my higher power.

Your Perfect MLM Presentation Template, You Can Can Scale It Up or Down and It Works Everytime

Your Perfect MLM Presentation

One of the Things I Love About Network Marketing Are the Amazing People You Meet and Work With
One of the great benefits of network marketing are the amazing people you get to work with. Sometimes you are simply colleagues in the same profession and sometimes you are blessed to be [...]

Engage Your Friends and Fans on Facebook And Create More Leads for Your Business

Great New Talent Online Leading with Heart

I love seeing all the new talent entering the online marketing world. What truly impresses me is not just talented online marketers but many more people who are participating and winning big in the online marketing game are bringing their passion and their heart to all that they do. One such blogger and online marketer is Ryan Yokome. This talented, passionate, heart driven young buck is blazing an online marketing trail.

Ryan Yokome’s Bog Is Stellar

Ryan’s Blog is elegant and clean look which let’s both his stellar content and offer shine. I love his video tutorials. Ryan focuses on sharing strategies that you can apply right away in your business. The one that caught my eye today was his video on creating free leads on Facebook through engagement. He shows some simple strategies that can have you creating new relationships, selling affiliate services and discovering new business partners.

Your Facebook Fan Page, Have You Checked Off Your 10 Point Check List?

10 Point Check List That Will Have Your Facebook Fan Page Making Waves

You Want to Be Where Your Audience is Going

Your Facebook Fan Page is an integral part of your online marketing strategy. If you have not heard it before Facebook now has 500 Million users and the average user spends an average of 20 minutes per day twice a day on Facebook. This is a total of 40 minutes per user and I bet the amount of time that Facebook users stay on Facebook is climbing.

Build Your Authority and Your Personal Brand

If you are in business or would like to be I recommend creating a Facebook Fan Page to build your authority and build your personal brand. There is an abundance of excellent writers and social media mavens online that can steer you in the right direction. One of my favorites is Amy Porterfield. Amy is a social media strategist and a writer for the Social Media Examiner. One of her closest friends is Mari Smith a guru of all things Facebook. This alone is a hint of the caliber as aperson and marketer that Amy Porterfield is in the area of social media and online marketing.

Your Blog the Central Hub of All Your Online Marketing

Your Blog the Central Hub of Your Online Marketing

The Blogging Wave is Here
Everyone and their mother is getting involved with the wave of interest to stake out your piece of internet real estate. Never has there been a better time to get into blogging.
What Part Does Your Blog Play in [...]

My 30 Day Blogging Challenge Experience So Far…

30 Day Blogging Challenge

Wow, It Has Only Been a Week and the 30 Day Blogging Challenge is Rocking My World
Wow, it has only been one week but the 30 Day Blogging Challenge has been rocking my world. I started posting daily 5 days a week two weeks prior to the official launch of the [...]

What Not to Do in Network Marketing, I Laughed so Hard I Cried

Don’t Do This in Your Network Marketing Business

Some Humor for Your Friday, I Laughed So Hard I Cried

If you have spent any time in network marketing and network marketing training then you probably have run across Todd Falcone.What I love about Todd is he not only an adept network marketer and trainer who teaches the tried and true skill sets of network marketing. He has primarily focused on offline marketing methods however he is becoming a master of how to use the online medium to convey his message and his teaching.

Humor is the Best Teacher

Todd has found his online niche through teaching through humor. He has created his alter ego in ‘Buzzy Boxer’ got to love the name. Buzzy has a good heart and is giving it his all and we all get to benefit from Buzzy’s mis-steps in his network marketing journey.

Todd gives us an inside view through short videos of the assorted antics that Buzzy goes through to get the sale and build his team. Humor is one of the best teachers and Todd does this in spades.

Though a bit over the top you’d be surprised how close Buzzy’s antics are to the truth with many network marketers. It just reminded me of some outrageous stories of my past experiences with even people on my team or those approaching me from other network marketing companies. I will save those stories for another post. This is a perfect example of where real life is stranger than fiction.

Another Blogger’s Inspiration to Take on the ProBlogger 7 Link Challenge

Woke up early this morning and of course I ended up on my laptop blog walking. I became inspired by Terry Tiessen taking on Darren Rowse’s Seven Link Challenge. First I want to commend Terry for her passion and commitment to take on the Seven Link Challenge, Terry is a fairly new MLM blogger and she is jumping in with both feet. What respect and admiration I have for her.

Perhaps because I have only been blogging for a year and half I can identify with Terry’s passion and desire to let no moss grow under her feet when it comes to upping her blogging game. It takes courage and a sense of adventure and introspection to be willing to take on the challenge of our more seasoned colleagues like Darren Rowse.

Can Social Media and Blogging Lead to Enlightenment?

Social Media, Blogging and Enlightenment in the same sentence? Last night Larry and I were watching the TED Talks (Stands for Technology Education and Development). If you are not familiar with the TED talks they are where the greatest minds in the world come to share innovation in their respective fields. Before I went to bed last night I was blessed to see Dr. Robert Thurman talk about enlightenment developing out of the internet and technology.

Dr. Thurman was speaking to the fact that the truth behind all things is interconnectedness. The internet, social media and blogging is connecting us in a multitude of ways with unlimited potential connections.

Online Marketing Without a Detailed Marketing Funnel Is Like Playing Russian Roulette with Your Business

Are You Playing Russian Roulette with Your Online Business?

The Importance of Your Online Marketing Funnel

Successful Online Marketing requires planning. Creating a detailed marketing funnel for your online marketing gives structure to all your online endeavors. We have all heard the phrase that people don’t plan to fail they simply fail to plan. Most of us wouldn’t intend to take a hit or miss attitude with our businesses and this is actually what we are doing when we don’t create a detailed marketing funnel for our online marketing.

Jonathan Budd’s Cool Techy Tip for Getting More Clicks on Your Videos and Creating a Better Brand

Building Your Brand

Getting More Clicks on Your Videos, Jonathan Budd has a cool techy tip that will separate you from the pack and ultimately grow your brand and your business. I agree with Jonathan that it is the little things that can make such a huge difference. The saying goes that God is in the details. This following tip is a great example of this principle.

Who is Jonathon Budd?

Those of you already entrenched in online marketing know who Jonathan Budd is and if you are new will he is an icon of internet network marketing mastery. Jonathan has mastered online marketing so well he has emerged as a bonafide brand onto himself. Ultimately we are all on the journey to brand ourselves and our unique gifts.

Boosting Your Personal Branding in Social Media in 3 Simple Steps

oosting Your Brand in social media and the online world is a process of consistency and creativity. You need to think outside the box and most important both collaborate with others within your niche and involve your readers. Lastly using mediums like streaming video, podcasting will add more pizazz to your content.

I have been so blessed to connect with other fabulous bloggers within my niche and one of those extraordinary individuals is Danielle Zack. We are involved in a Blogging Mastermind together and her wisdom and ability to draw the best from those around her has truly blessed my life.

Danielle blog is always relevant, beautifully laid out and her content is stellar.

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