Blogging is taking off like a wildfire. People are blogging about  just about anything you can think of. From the daily routine of their cat, to technology reviews, to politics.

Until the blogosphere sorts itself out and matures a bit more, it may be difficult to tell exactly how this new frontier of instant publishing can help you and your business grow. But don’t worry – you’ll start getting a flood of new ideas in the coming months.

For now, the most important thing you can do is develop the right mindset about business blogging. What you think about something, and how you strategize appyling it in your business very often has more to do with succes than the technology, tool, or resource itself.

With that in mind, here is the most important thing you can do. Keep your eye on people.

DO NOT get stuck on the “technology.” That’s what drove all the pie-in-the-sky dot.com dreamers into the financial abyss. It’s people and personal communication that matter most, and should always be at the center of all your thoughts, strategies, and actions.

Blogging is just a tool. But it’s a tool that can and should become a major support arm of your business. Why?

Because it exponentially multiplies the world’s oldest, most favored, and trusted form of information sharing — word of mouth.

Just ask yourself, whom do you trust the most to give you advice, recommendations, and information about opportunities, purchases, or choices? Someone you know and trust, right? Someone who you feel is just like you.

That type of trust comes from personal communication, social interaction, and the joining together of like-minded individuals. Blogging simply magnifies and expands that sense of community and more personalized communication, and then expands the reach across the entire world!

Link trust; with respect, positioning, and word-of-mouth and you have the makings of a powerful marketing arm that can initiate an ever-growing stream of highly targeted prospects.

Remember, it’s the relationships that matter most. Keep your eye on that fact, and you’ll always have the right mindset for business blogging that’s a benefit for you and your readers.

Talk soon,

P.S. Blogging can explode your business if done right, but sometimes it’s difficult to know where to get started and what service to use.  I was there once too, so if you find yourself there also, I would like to share with you where I got started.  You can click The Quansite Revolution link below and see for yourself.

The Quansite Revolution

Here is a great excerpt from Frank Kern’s Core Influence seminar.  Leave a comment and let me know what you think after viewing it.

Talk soon,

How to start your network marketing business on the internet?

So where exactly do you start at?  Well, below I have a proven blueprint to move your business forward on the internet.  These are the exact same steps I and many other top marketers have taken to start branding You, Inc. on the internet.  There are four key components to start your network marketing business on the internet.  But, I want to start out by saying that network marketing is no longer about pitching your business, it’s about teaching and educating others.

So, what are the exact steps to start your network marketing business on the internet?

Step 1 – Attraction Marketing:  You must learn the skill of attraction marketing, bar none.  This is a have to step.  If you don’t learn attraction marketing, then don’t bother with continuing to the next step because you will still be in the pitching mode, like the rookies, and not the teaching mode, like the pros.  Let me ask you a question….When was the last time you pitched your business to one of your friends and after you were done they jumped up and down with excitement and signed on the dotted line immediately?  It hasn’t, has it.  More than likely they hope you never bring it up again.  Now, instead, what if a friend of yours came up to ask you about your business and you started teaching and educating them about network marketing?  You are now in control of the conversation instead of the other way around.  And more importantly you didn’t pitch them anything, they asked you remember, so if and when they would like to start a network marketing business, they will come back to you.  This, my friend, is the power of attraction marketing and is a lot more fun than “throwing up” your business all over people.  Two resources for learning attraction marketing that I would not be without are Mike Dillard’s Magnetic Sponsoring and Ann Sieg’s Renegade Network Marketer.

Step 2 – Register a Domain:  Ok, now that you have opened your eyes to a whole new world in network marketing, it’s time to get to the fun stuff and really get into starting your network marketing business on the internet.  You must register a domain.  If you don’t have your own domain, it will look like this is your hobby and not a true business.  You are buying virtual real estate which is real estate on the internet.  I always tell people to first start off with buying your own name with the .com version.  So it would be, www.yourname.com.  If the .com version isn’t available, I would try the .net version.  Very simple step and cheap too.  You can go through Godaddy and get your own domains for $10 or less a year.   I’ll get to this in a minute, but don’t host your website there.

Step 3 – Blogging with an Autoresponder:  Although this sounds intimidating, it really is simple.  You could get your blog and autoresponder up and running in less than an hour.  I’m going to make this short and sweet because I don’t want to get into all the benefits and features of different systems in this post.  I will give you a link to what I use and let you decide for yourself.  If you want to go cheap, then go for the free version of Wordpress for your blog.  But I warn you, you get what you pay for and this is free.  Nuff said.  I looked into many different blogging platforms and systems and I found one that actually goes to work for you so you can focus on content and not all the fancy, schmancy bells and whistles and the programming that goes into it.  I chose a system called Blog i360.  It’s quite amazing what this system is.  It’s not only a blog, but the hub to your entire business which can be ran from just this one system.  Blog i360 will also host your website using the domain you bought through Godaddy.  Now with the autoresponder.  An autoresponder is just like it sounds.  You set up a series of emails that will automatically respond every time someone signs into your list, putting it on autopilot, 24/7.  You can also create one email in real time and send it to your list, which could consist of thousands of people.  Don’t try to go free on this one.  I know some marketers who have tried and got burned, so spend a little cash on a good autoresponder.  Many network marketers, including myself, have went with Aweber.  The Aweber code works great with Blog i360, all you do is cut and paste.

Step 4 – Article Marketing and Social Media:  Article marketing is simple.  You create an article for your blog to post to your tribe or crew (these are people who are following you and reading your stuff).  The other cool thing about this is the leverage you can create.  You can create one article and then create a Hubpage or Squidoo page with the same content.  These are both free resources for you and easy to set up.  The reasoning for this is, you have created more content out there on the world wide web and easier for people to find you when searching for your particular topic.  I will be teaching you SEO or Search Engine Optimization for network marketers in another post, but in a nutshell this simply means you create keywords that your market is searching for on the internet.  So when they type those keywords into a search engine like Google, hopefully your articles will be on the first page.

Social media is the place to be right now.  The ones I would start with are Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and Reever.  Millions of people are on these sites many hours of the day, so you want to tap into these resources very quickly.  Now, don’t go bananas here because if you do this the wrong way you are screwed.  Here’s what I mean.  Remember, network marketing on the internet (and off the internet) is not about pitching, it’s about teaching and educating.  So don’t go to these sites and start spamming your business opportunity all over the place.  You want to attract people to you by your knowledge and skillsets.  If you start pitching, you will get a bad rap quicker than you can say rap.  One thing I would recommend is when you are on these sites talking with others or putting up your video’s, try to redirect them back to your blog or your home, so to speak.  You want to start networking with others and lead them back to your blog.  For instance I might put a “tweet” together on Twitter that says to my followers, How to Start Your Network Marketing Business on the Internet? and put a link back to this article.

Here’s a quick tip on how to leverage your time so you don’t have to post the same thing twice using social media.  You can have Facebook read your Twitter account so your “tweets” go to your Facebook page, cutting your time in half.  Also, if you choose to use Blog i360, you can post a video to your blog and have it automatically post to up to fifeteen video sites including Youtube and Reever with the click of a button.  Just think of how much time this would save you and exposure on the net, it’s priceless.

So there you have it.  A short e-course on how to put your network marketing business on the internet and go to work for you 24/7.  I leave you with this.  Please, please take action.  I see so many network marketers just reading information that could move their business forward, but they never take action.  So don’t be one of those people.  None of this information does any good in your head.  Don’t worry about perfection right away.  Just get out their and do it.  I’m reminded here of a quote from Bob the Teacher and that is T.A.R.L, which means Take Action Revise Later.

I know this was a lot of information to take in at once, but I would like to hear your thoughts on what you just read.

Talk soon,

One quick note before I get started here.  I want to thank my Twitter followers who are following me because you are genuinely interested in me.

Ok, so unless you have been hiding under a rock, you have heard about Twitter and the power it can have in your business.  And if you have been hiding under a rock and don’t know about Twitter, get an account NOW and start tweeting It’s free to join.  You don’t want to miss the growth boat on this one.  But I’m getting tired of people stating they have followers in the thousand’s or even ten-thousand’s and are not justifying who those people really are.

Check out this call I did with another marketer and good friend of mine, Carlton Flowers, going into details about this controversial topic.

P.S. So, what did you think?  Share your comment below.  I would like to get your opinion on this topic.

Live, Laugh, Profit and Give,

Your Network Marketing Company and Upline are Training you Wrong?

I received a very interesting email the other day from Mike Dillard and I wish I could say that I could have said it better myself, but I can’t.  You see, when you first started your network marketing career with whatever company you chose, you were taught the same strategies that have been taught from the beginning of network marketing’s existence.  Make a list of 100-200 names ranging from your family, friends and people you come into contact with, for instance, who’s your dentist, who sold you your car, who is your insurance agent etc.  After going through all of your names on your list you’re instructed to buy leads.  This is suppose to make all of those visions of your dreams you had when you first stepped into the world of network marketing come true? Well, if you’ve been down that path you know this is so far from the truth it probably makes you sick to your stomach.

Think about this for a minute.  Are we still in the industrial age?  Are you still watching a black and white TV?  Does Pepsi or Coke still have the same logo as they did in the ’80’s?  I think you can now understand where I’m going.  The answer to all of these questions is hell no.  Things change, but yet your company and upline are still training their associates the same way as they did when network marketing started.  They have not yet figured out that the old way is not working as it did in the past and they can’t seem to get it through their thick skulls.  Or do they know and just not letting you in on the new media network marketing?  I could go on and on, but I wanted to share with you Mike’s email and it’s rather long.  I think it’s well worth reading as it will shed some light on this subject and hopefully it will open your mind to a whole new world as it did mine.  Enjoy!

Prospecting, sponsoring, and recruiting is
all about psychology.… Specifically, the psychology of leadership and
human group dynamics.

Why can some people sponsor new distributors
effortlessly, while others struggle without results for years?

Well
I can tell you right now that it has NOTHING to do with scripts or what you
actually say.

There is no magic opener to use, or rebuttal to an
objection that brings the desired result, and you can’t retreat to your
dungeon to invent some amazing script that puts prospects into a
trance.

What you’re
about to learn will allow you to tap into knowledge and power that took me
7 YEARS to acquire and once you master this mindset, you will truly find
yourself a completely different person.

How To SponsorMore Reps
Without Hard Selling:

Within the sponsoring process, the goal isnot to
SELL our prospects on a product or opportunity.  That
sounds completely backwards and counter-intuitive doesn’t it?  After
all,what’s the point if you’re not there to make a sale
right?

Well there’s a problem with “selling” when it comes
to this industry,especially when you’re offering a business
opportunity.  If you “sell” someone on getting started and buying
into your opportunity through persuasive conversational and closing
techniques that pump them up emotionally, and target their “hot buttons”,
then yes, you will recruit a lot of people and make
sales.  But… once that emotional state wears off, whether it’s a
day later or a week, the buyer will experience remorse.  The dreams of
wealth and success will succumb to the harsh realities of business
ownership… That there’s real work involved, skills to be learned, money to
be invested, and much more.  These people quit and go back to their
lives.

Now if you’re just going after a one-time retail sale, that
would be fine. But that’s not your goal when you’re bringing in a
new distributor whom you’d like to a see a commitment/partnership of
several
years from.  Unfortunately, this is what happens most of the
time in this industry.  New distributors are
just focused on the sale.  They need the money, they want the self-gratification and recognition that
comes from sponsoring a new rep so they learn how to throw out lines, read
scripts, sell, over-come
objections, and close.

Many will go on to
achieve success because they sponsor so many people that some naturally
stick and run with it.  But selling and sponsoring like that is HARD
work.  It’s an uphill battle because you’re
fighting people’s instincts
to avoid being sold.  They’re afraid of making a mistake.  They’re afraid
of
being ripped-off.  They’re afraid of failing or looking silly.
There’s no TRUST.

In my opinion, there is a much better way that’s
more enjoyable and beneficial for both people…

Make it THEIR IDEA to
buy from you.  This is the new paradigm when it comes to selling in
today’s market.

Your First Step: Get Invited…

The old fashioned
methods of pounding the phones, holding meetings, pitching your business to
leads, and trying to turn your friends and family members into business
partners have come to an end.

“Prospecting” for business as you’ve
known it, has become
obsolete.
It’s an irrelevant, old-school sales
technology that is only
pursued by
individuals who have yet to discover the
methods Magnetic
Sponsoring is
based upon.

I’d like you to stop and
think for a moment.
Compare today’s social
environment to the world we
lived in just 15 years
ago.

Today, people are DROWNING under a flood of
information, marketing
noise,
and endless options to choose from thanks to
the
internet.

Corporations have literally turned us into numbers,
tracked our
personal
buying habits, categorized our topics of interest, and
constantly
use that
information to drive as many customized offers into our
viewing
screen.

Entire industries, products, and pieces of legislature
have been
created
just to help consumers manage the tidalwave… Think
pop-up
blockers, spy
ware protection, spam filters, and the “Do Not
Call
List.”

People have been forced to build fortified walls around
themselves
and
their homes to fight back the onslaught of people trying to
get their
hands
into their pocket book.

Solicitations are detested
and met with
frustration and impatience. We
simply don’t want to be
bothered which
means no sane person would
willingly build any kind
of business based on
cold-market prospecting,
and
in-your-face selling.

Yet… The internet has
created an
entirely new world of opportunity for
everyone, where you can
literally
re-invent your life, and turn a simple
thought into a business for
little
or no money at all.

Obviously, that’s a trend you intend to
take
advantage of, or you
wouldn’t be here right now.

But
unfortunately 95% of
those who start a home business will fail
themselves,
and the primary reason
for that failure is that they didn’t
acquire the
knowledge and skills
necessary to succeed in today’s modern,
competitive
market place.

So with
that said, here’s the key to success in today’s
market…

If you’re
going to sell something to someone, you’ve got to
find a way
to get
invited into their world as a welcomed guest, instead of
a pest.
Now you
have two options when it comes to building your
business…

You can simply
play the numbers and contact enough people
until you make a
sale through
traditional old-school prospecting and this
is the path 95% of
home business
owners take.

Or…

You can
position yourself in the market place in a
manner that allows
interested
prospects to find you, and contact you.

This
is called “attraction
marketing” which is at the
heart of
Magnetic Sponsoring and Black Belt Recruiting.

Option #2 is obviously the superior choice for several
reasons,
but I’d
like to point out one dynamic that is key to the
concept
of Magnetic
Sponsoring…

Who finds and contacts the other
person first
is very important. In Option
1, you were chasing the prospect.
In Option
2,the prospect was chasing
you, which means you are perceived as
the
expert,and hold all of the power
and value in that
situation.

The
prospect invited you into his world, and is basically
asking you to
sell him
your goods or services. You get to instantly bypass
all of the
barriers
and walls that must be broken down by everyone else,
and all of
the sudden
this isn’t about selling any more.

You’re now
in the position of
the knowledgeable service provider who’s
expertise has
been sought out
and pursued.  There’s a level of implied
trust already
present.  At this
point, sponsoring becomes effortless.

This is where
you have to be today in
order to break through the infinite
noise in the
market place.

How do you
do this?

Simple… The most potent
marketing weapon you have in your
arsenal, is
actually you, because unlike
business opportunities,
there’s only one
of you in the entire
world.

You want to market YOU.

So the
key to
Step 1: “GettingInvited”, is to offer personal VALUE to
your
prospect
above and beyond your opportunity.

The best way to increase your
value
to other people is to educate
yourself.

Become an expert at
lead
generation.  Become an expert at sponsoring
prospects. Become and
expert at
attraction marketing.

There’s no magic here.  Just buy courses
like this,
apply what you learn,
and you will automatically acquire massive
amounts of
value to your
prospects who don’t know any of this
yet.

No value…
No invitation.

If you’re struggling with
sponsoring, it’s because
you don’t have
any real value to offer anyone.
Change that.

As we’ve
seen, having value and expertise to offer is VERY
attractive.

Hopefully some light-bulbs have
already gone of in your head just
from, but I have to tell
you, that this stuff is just the tip
of
the iceberg.

P.S.  If you want to start sponsoring people quickly, I highly recommend that you go through Magnetic Sponsoring and Black Belt Recruiting immediatley.

Live, Laugh, Profit and Give,

I wanted to give you a little Twitter marketing tip today.  But before I get to that, if your not using Twitter, get on this thing as fast as you can because it is becoming a great business tool and I would hate for you to be left behind.

So what is this powerful new viral Twitter marketing tip?  It’s very simple to use and you don’t have to be a computer “geek” or programmer to get it working for you.  This is something you can implement immediately and if you can follow some simple directions, your good.

First, create some text at the bottom of whatever you are promoting that says something like, Tweet this post…Your followers will thank you! Or Tweet this video….Your followers will thank you!  Be creative.  This will work with just about anything.  Now highlight the text you just wrote and create a hyperlink for it.  Your hyperlink will look like this=>

http://twitter.com/home?status=

After the equal sign you want to put what you want the tweet to say when someone clicks on your text link.  You see, when someone clicks on your text/hyperlink it will open up Twitter, they will sign into their account and whatever you put after the equal sign will show up in their update box automatically and they just have to hit update and presto, it’s in the Twitter stream.

So you could put this under a post on your blog or a video and when someone clicks to “tweet” it, it not only could become viral and create a ton of free traffic, you could also create some followers on Twitter.

P.S. To see how this works, go ahead and click on the banner below, log into your Twitter account and watch what happens.

P.P.S Now that I’ve shared this gem with you, leave a comment and let me know what you think and how this could help your business.  Or, if you are already using this, let me know how it has helped your business out.

Learn, Laugh, Profit and Give,

I don’t watch the news too often because it’s usually filled with a bunch of negative garbage and the media hasn’t let me down this time either.  It seems lately, every time I pass through a news channel or talk radio, they ALL are talking about this recession we are in and the bailout plan. Yada, yada, yada.  I’m not going to get into politics right now; frankly I hate politics and think it’s all a bunch of bullshit.  Yes I said it.  It just depends on which bullshit you want to believe.  Now on to my point.

I want you to think about something real hard for me and please keep an open mind.  Ok we may be in a recession, which I’m not participating in, and people are losing their jobs, houses and cutting back on spending in some areas, but where do you think the money is going?  Money just doesn’t disappear.  The federal government isn’t setting it on fire in some empty field or sending it to the bottom of the sea for future use are they?  No.  There is the same amount of money, but the only difference is who has it. A recession is the redistribution of money.

Where do you fit in and how can you benefit from this?  People are starting to realize that going to school and getting a safe secure job is not the answer anymore like it used to be.  In this day and age, there is no such thing and more and more people are going to be looking for answers to take control of their own destiny and lives. They will be looking to start their own home-based business and network marketing could be the answer for them. 

Robert Kiyosaki and even Donald Trump believe everyone should have their own network marketing business, especially in times like these.  Robert has been preaching this for a long, long time.

Well, Mike Dillard hosted a call with Robert Kiyosaki talking about the state and future of the economy and stresses the importance of network marketing.  I have placed the call below for you to listen to.

WARNING: Robert may have some different views of the government than you have, so I am warning you ahead of time.

P.S. Now it’s your turn. Leave me a comment after listening to the call and let me know what you think.

Live, Laugh, Profit and Give,

I have an interesting story to share with you.  Jim Yaghi, a friend of mine I met through Better Networker, was asked the question, do people jump from network marketing to internet marketing?  What’s funny about this is, in the upcoming FREE report and system I’m releasing, Network Power Shift 4, I teach the basics on how to get your network marketing business started on the internet with just 4 simple steps.

After I started my network marketing business on the internet, I too noticed I was getting more involved with internet marketing and affiliate marketing, while still building my network marketing business.  It seems after you start learning how create your own leads through the internet, your business is opened to a whole new world with many possibilities.

P.S. If you want a head start in front of everbody else on getting my *FREE* report on how to get your network marketing business started on the internet, just sign up to my free newsletter. I will be sending out the special link to my members first.

P.P.S. If you are tired of beating your head against the wall and not getting the results you want with the OLD way of network marketing by hounding your friends, family and warm market, check out my 8 Days to Cashflow Bootcamp.  This will get you started on how to create your own leads without having to pay big bucks to buy them.

Click here to read Jim’s answer.

Live, Laugh, Profit and Give,

Well, the predictions are out for how you will be able to generate additional streams of residual income in 2009.  Many are out there including social networking, but the biggest one I’ve seen and is in full force is continuity programs.  Yanik Silver, a well respected internet marketer, just released his Maverick Business Insider continuity program last month.  Believe me, there are others creating their own programs because it seems like every email list I’m on, they are introducing me to their own continuity program.

So what the heck is a continuity program?  Very simple.  It’s a membership that you pay a monthly fee to be a part of, that’s it.  Don’t get me wrong, with this membership fee and what I’ve seen so far, you are getting a TON of great information that if you take action, will help your business grow.  So I started thinking…And then it hit me.  I already have one and have since I started network marketing.  Not to say I won’t create another in 2009, but this one was right under my nose.  If you are in a network marketing company that has an auto ship program, which if you don’t you need to find one, you are golden.  Your customers and downline pay monthly to have the companies products shipped to them and you get a percentage of what they buy.  This is continuity built right in.  Network marketing IS your continuity program.  And the best part, they take care of ALL the back-end of the program including taking orders, taking payment, shipping, refunds, EVERYTHING and leave you to build your business.  It is a B-E-A-utiful thing.

P.S. If you would like to learn the criteria that other top network marketers use to pick a winning network marketing company, see my earlier post at=>

ttp://www.myresidualbiz.net/blog/how-to-select-a-network-marketing-company/

Live, Laugh, Profit and Give,