212 The Extra Degree
If you haven’t seen 212 The Extra Degree yet, you need to take 3 minutes and watch it right now. It’s very short and worth every second of your time. The concept is amazingly simple, yet amazingly powerful and applicable to everything we do as entrepreneurs.
Click on the image to watch it now.
If you haven’t seen this movie before you should take 30 minutes as soon as you can and watch it. It completely explains the power and the positive nature of the Network Marketing business model. It would also be great to share with anyone you know that doesn’t think that Network Marketing is a real or viable business.
Click the image above or the link below to see it and don’t forget to share it.
Good Follow-up Is Critical To Your Success!
What’s the single biggest mistake people make in our business? 90% of Marketing Executives don’t follow up properly. There are two types of followup in our business:
(1) Prospect followup
(2) Enrollment followup
In this blog post, I’m going to refer to prospect followup. I will address enrollment followup in a later post.
Many people will say they are actively working their business and “talking to lots of people” but they get nowhere. In almost every case, besides not prospecting properly and gathering the prospects information, it’s because they’re not following up at all or if they are, they’re not doing enough of it.
Read this statistic about the importance of following up from an association of professional salesmen, the National Sales Executive Association. Their statistics show that the most sales by far are made from the 5th through the 12th contact! Here is the data they have compiled about on which contact sales are made:
2% of sales are made on the 1st contact
3% of sales are made on the 2nd contact
5% of sales are made on the 3rd contact
10% of sales are made on the 4th contact
80% of sales are made on the 5th-12th contact
Why do I mention “sales”, you ask? If we think we don’t make sales, that we simply educate prospects, point them to the info, etc., don’t kid yourself! You are selling yourself, Freelife’s products and Freelife itself or you are not having any success. Sales is not a dirty word; it is what we do to show prospects that they need our products and our opportunity. Sales is an extremely noble profession since without sales, business doesn’t happen. Learning some good sales techniques will definitely help you with your business. In fact, if you haven’t read “The Greatest Salesman In The World” by Og Mandino, you should get it. Great stuff!
The bottom line is this… If you get really good at following up, your enrollment rates will probably double or triple. And what if your good followup properly duplicates within your new enrollees?…think about that! It really comes down to numbers and trust me…good followup will greatly increase your numbers and therefore greatly increase your income.
Here are some words of wisdom from Max Steingart:
I think this says it all
You determine your attitude.
You can respond positively or negatively to any situation.
Your attitude is not determined by circumstances,
but by how you respond to your circumstances.
Any challenge facing you is not as important as your attitude towards it,
for that will determine your success or failure.
It’s how you react to events, not the events themselves,
that determines your attitude.
Copyright 2008 www.yourdailymotivation.com
If you add up the letter position numbers for the word ATTITUDE it all adds up to 100. Just more proof that Attitude is truly Everything…100%!
A – 1
T -20
T -20
I – 9
T- 20
U- 21
D- 4
E- 5
= 100! How cool is that?
Can you see exactly what you want your future to look like? In a short sentence, I believe if you can’t see it, you can’t have it.
I don’t know if you’re a student of self-development or not (I encourage you to become one if you’re not), but many of the great business leaders of our time have talked about being able to visualize success before you can attain success.
“You can bring into your life more power, more wealth, more health, more happiness, and more joy by learning to contact and release the hidden power of your subconscious mind.”
- Dr. Joseph Murphy“What the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve.”
- Napoleon Hill
The subconscious mind is an incredible thing and you’ll learn that you can actually program your subconscious mind for success. Yes, it’s like a computer, it can be programmed to give you whatever you want. Learning how to program it isn’t something that everyone knows how to do, but the good news is that anyone can learn how to do it, and it’s not hard to do.
If you haven’t yet read or watched The Secret
Once you’ve read “The Secret”, another book I would recommend is Psycho-Cybernetics
Vote on Tuesday!
Tomorrow is a huge day in history. No matter who wins the presidential race, it will be historic. We’ll either have a woman Vice-President or an African American President. For the under 45 crowd like me, we can finally say we’ve lived through a historic election.
No matter where your views fall on the political battlefield, I hope you’re going to do your duty tomorrow and vote (if you haven’t already). Nothing irritates me more than to hear someone whine about our political leaders and then find out that they didn’t even vote in the last election. That’s just wrong.
Where do you create? Where do you do your best thinking? Why is this important? Well…you’re an entrepreneur, right?
Idea Generator
For me, believe it or not, I have always done my most creative thinking in the shower. For some reason, when I’m in there showering away, my mind sets itself free and the most creative ideas just show up that don’t come to me as freely any other time of the day. There’s no other activity I’ve ever found that releases my mind’s creative power like a taking a shower. I know it sounds a little strange, but it’s true. That’s what works for me, but I know everyone is different.
Digital Recorder
So what often times happens when you have a great idea? You forget it very quickly don’t you? I know that’s what used to happen to me. I’d have all of these great ideas, and then by the time I got out of the shower, they were gone. I’d remember that I had a great idea but I couldn’t remember the specifics of the idea itself. So I solved that problem by investing in a very small, inexpensive digital recorder. Now as soon as I get out of the shower, I can dump those ideas down to my recorder so they’re saved. Then every so often, I’ll press play on the recorder and jot those ideas down in a document in my computer…saved forever.
I bet you have a time, place or activity that sets your mind free. Maybe it’s while you’re driving? Perhaps when you’re playing golf and walking down the fairway to your chip-shot, your mind is racing with great ideas. Whenever or whatever it is, I know you have it.
So why am I talking about this? As entrepreneurs, the most powerful thing we posses is the ability to create. Create systems. Create ways to improve existing systems. Create products. Create businesses. Create relationships. Create a better way to explain something. Create anything imaginable. If that’s our most powerful gift, doesn’t it make sense to allow that gift to work it’s magic as effectively as it can?
I think so. So my challenge to you is to determine where your mind is best set free to create. Then, devise a system to capture those ideas so you don’t lose them. Then of course, the last step is to review those ideas and see which ones are worth implementing and actually implement them, but that discussion is for another day.
Keep those ideas flowing!
Just a friendly reminder that the clocks get turned back 1 hour this weekend. Daylight Saving Time will be over. That means we all get 1 more hour of sleep. Yeah!
I’ve recently been experimenting with a lot of Web 2.0 technologies and ways that they might allow us to meet more people online. Social Networking is a relatively new online phenomenon that is creating incredible opportunities for people to connect with existing and new friends. Along these lines, I have started using a tool that is exposing me to a whole new world of qualified prospects. It’s a great little social networking tool called Twitter.
Twitter is considered a “micro-blogging” tool. What the heck is a micro-blog? Well it’s a way for you to write very short posts “micro blog posts” (140 characters max) about what you’re doing and those posts will be seen by everyone that’s “following” you on twitter.
You could think of a “follower” as someone that has “subscribed” to your posts. Someone that cares about what you’re doing. I know it sounds crazy. When I first heard about this, I thought “who in the world would take time out of their busy life to read what other people are doing?”. Well I was blown away to find out just how many people do read these posts and write their own posts. It’s a whole other world and let me tell you the people that use Twitter and other social networking tools like it, have higher IQ’s and higher net-worths than most of the people out there. These are people for the most part that are “in the know” and well connected and networked. These are perfect prospects for our business.
If you have any questions about Twitter or other social networking tools like Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. , let me know. I’d be glad to discuss them and their business potential with you.
Today I came across a blog post on another blog that contains a Powerpoint Presentation and a recorded Conference Call discussing ideas on how to market Chi3 Energy more effectively. It’s worth taking a look at and a listen to.
http://thrivewithgoji.com/2008/10/23/how-to-market-chi3-energy-training-call/
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