Why Do YOU want a Business For Yourself?

Figuring out why you want a business for yourself is one the most critical, if not the most critical piece to your network marketing puzzle. You hear it said all of the time in trainings and on conference calls, but how many of you have taken the time to figure out truly to the core, why you are in business for yourself.

Many people join a business to make more money, to leave a legacy, maybe to get off their job and work strictly for themselves. These are all great to begin with, but to achieve success long term, you must dig a little deeper.

Keep asking yourself why "x" is important to you.

• Lets say that you want to make more money.
• Well, why is making more money important to you?
• I would like to pay off my debt
• why is that important to you?
• I would like to not have the stress of the money.
• Why is that important to you?
• I'm just sick and tired of everyday feeling the pressure of paycheck to paycheck.
• Why is that important to you?
• I saw my mother stressed out day to day because of money and it eventually took her life at a young age. I don't want that to happen to me. I want to be around for my kids, to see them grow up, to graduate, and to start a family of their own. Building my business, and providing the ability to take the stress off and have more money at the end of the month would allow me to live longer and enjoy my grand children.

You see how much more powerful that is than just saying that you want to make more money.

You have to dig deep, and tug those heart strings. This is your life that we are talking about. Its OK to dig deep and really find out what it is that you what. If it makes your cry, perfect, that isyour reason why. Hold tightly to that reason.

This reason will take you through the tough and lean times of your business. This reason will push you forward when you feel overwhelmed and you feel there is no where else to go. This reason will get you up early and make you stay up late building your business.

This reason is the rocket fuel you need to succeed.

Have you developed your why?

If you haven't then I suggest that you isolate yourself or you and your partner have a sit down and really discuss your reasons that you are in business. I promise that it will make a huge impact in your daily effort and results.

What Are the Pros and Cons of Having a Home-Based Business?

What Are the Pros and Cons of Having a Home-Based Business?

If you are considering starting a home-based business by joining a network marketing company because the prospect of working from home appeals to you, then you need to know the pros and cons of doing so. In my opinion, the following are the top pros and cons of having your own home-based business.

PRO #1 - FIRE YOUR BOSS

Think of the joy you'll feel when you are finally able to walk into your boss' office and say, "I quit!" Technically, you will still have a boss, but it will be YOU! There is not one person on earth who cannot live with that fact.

PRO #2 - SPEND MORE TIME WITH FAMILY

This pro is the crème de la crème for most people. For those who are married or have children, achieving this goal is the most important of all the pros. Being able to spend all the time with your spouse or children that you want is priceless. Imagine never missing another precious, irreplaceable moment in your little ones' lives again! Imagine being able to date your life partner everyday! This pro is a win-win for everyone involved!

PRO #3 - NO MORE PLANES, TRAINS OR AUTOMOBILES

The very thought of no longer having to commute, hop on a plane to go on a business trip and be away from family or sit next to stranger after stranger on the mass transit train is enough for most people to consider working from home a pro! The end of bumper-to-bumper traffic and that long, stressful, two-way commute is worth its weight in gold. Say goodbye to traffic jams and hello to your favorite fruit flavored jam you get to spread on your toast each morning, instead!

PRO #4 - PAJAMA PARTY

No more strict corporate dress codes to adhere to. Party in your pajamas! When you work from home in a home-based business, you can wear your pajamas to the office...and you don't even have to worry about getting reprimanded!

PRO #5 - VACATION WHEN AND WHERE YOU WANT

Forget living for the weekend. When you determine how your time is spent and not an employer, you can go and stay on vacation for as long as you want! And what's more, when you are the boss, you actually get a CEO salary, so you have the money to enjoy yourself while you are there, as well!

PRO #6 - MONEY, MONEY, MONEY, MONEY

When you work for someone else, your employer dictates your life and how much you get paid. However, when you're the boss, you decide how much you want to get paid. And when you want a raise, you just put forth a little more effort, and you can give yourself one! And, you don't have to get anyone's permission to do so.

PRO #7 - GOODBYE OFFICE POLITICS

When you work from home, your co-workers are your computer and telephone, so there is no co-worker drama to deal with. When you are the CEO, it is impossible to be passed over for a promotion. Of course, you can always buy something nice for "the boss" to get on their good side...after all, no one knows what you like, like YOU!

Now, for the cons.

CON #1 - BUILDING SOMEONE ELSE'S DREAM

If you work for an employer, you are building someone else's dream. Someone is buying your time for a lot less than what it's worth, and what's worse, you give them permission to do so each time you punch the clock.

CON #2 - ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

There really is no bad side to owning your own business. The majority of the world's wealthiest people are BUSINESS OWNERS. If you want what you've never had, you must be willing to do what you've never done.

Owning your own business is the way to go.

The pros far outweigh the cons. A home-based business coupled with an incredible work ethic cannot be ignored - positive results will come.

The choice is yours.

3 Deadly Mistakes That Kill Your Business Before it Even Starts, Don't Do Them

3 Deadly Mistakes That Kill Your Business Before it Even Starts, Don't Do Them

Mistake #1 (No Vision):

Friends, Do you know that usually people start a business without a clear (and I do mean CLEAR) vision of what they want to become, what they want to achieve, what they want to acquire. What makes things worse is that most people (you included) might have heard about the word "Vision" and the importance of it but do you really know what vision is?

You must know where you want to be exactly, How your relationships should look like? What income you should be having? Your Health Status? Your social status? Your spiritual status? What car do you want to be driving? How much does it cost? (yes if you don't know how much then how will you even know whether you're making a progress or no). Pick up the phone right now and ask for its price, or even better, go get a test drive to get a feeling of how it will be like when you get it and jet-fuel your passion drive towards it. The car is just an example, but apply this to whatever you want.

You want a house? How much does it cost? How will it look like? How much space will it take? Where will it be located?. You want a fit body? How much should you weigh? You want a piece of land? How many acres? What will you use it for?. Just take this principle and apply it against anything and everything that you want.

Do not underestimate the power of a vision and visualization. You will be surprised if I told you that I got my first dream car *a Cadillac - similar to the one in Matrix and Bad Boys II* and one of the primary (PRIMARY) things that I've done was that I visualized myself, I saw myself driving that car, day in and day out, asked about its price, took a test drive, asked about its functions, systems everything. All I did was visualizing and internalizing the thought of having this car, it's true when we say "You become what you think", read that again "YOU BECOME WHAT YOU THINK" be careful, your thoughts are very powerful and they can determine your destiny.

Read the following carefully, it's one of the ancient secrets that I have discovered. The one who revealed this died more than a 1200 years ago. Anything in this life starts with a thought, a thought then evolves into an idea, an idea evolves into a determination, a determination evolves into an action, an action evolves into a habit and a habit evolves into a trait. So, imagine if your thoughts were "I can't do this"!

Your trait will be "I can't do this". That's why whenever you get a negative thought, consciously cancel it as soon as you get it before it evolves into stronger phases and disrupt your life. Enrich your mind with positive thoughts, "I can do it", "it's easy", "I enjoy the journey towards becoming a business owner", "it's fun to be a business owner". If you do this then guess what? These thoughts will keep evolving until they become traits! Can you imagine what you will be able to achieve if success is just a trait of yours?

I emphasized over this topic so much because it's important. Owning a business is not about just knowledge or knowing certain techniques or tactics. Owning a business is 90% mental and 10% execution. If you're not mentally prepared you will not be able to do it.

The day I got my Caddy was unbelievable!, forget about its glistening, shiny look, forget about the logo, forget about the turbo, forget about the speed (by the way I tested it and it moves from 0 to 140 in about 6 seconds - not bad for a luxurious car J) When you're looking for a definition of a mixture between luxury and sport then you're looking for a Cadillac.

Forget about all of that, the best thing, the best moment is when I walked into the showroom (in slow motion), the electric doors slid wide open splitting the big Cadillac logo into two parts, and the sales man welcomed me with a smile and the ... KEY in his hand ... The world around me just stopped for a while and I thought that it would take me a year to reach this key, although it's just few steps away. I extended my hand, and when I GRABBED it! I was like (YYYYYYYYEAH, FINALLY I GOTCHA!)

Listen, the feeling is worth the effort. Never ever shy out from having a big vision. Never ever stop growing your visions. In my case, having a car was something big for me, but now my vision has become very VERY big for what's coming next in my life, now that I know my ability to achieve what I want if I do what it takes. YOU too my friend, you have that power inside of you, you need to trust yourself and let this power out, don't be put down by the voices inside your head that keeps telling you "You are not capable of achieving your vision". Slam the door in the face of that voice and follow your instinct.

You must have a true sense of what being wealthy or rich is. DO NOT BE SCARED or look down at yourself. Do what it takes and keep doing it until you die. If you are so negative about life then listen to this...

"It's better 100 times to die trying to achieve your vision than the bitter taste of guilt that you'll get at your old age because you keep thinking - what if I tried and succeeded" - Marwan Talodi


Mistake #2 (No Plan):

Don't be like most people, just living your life day by day without proper planning neither for your business nor for your life. Don't let the days control your life and not make any effort in trying to control and direct the flow of your life.

If you're to go out on a trip or a picnic you'll find yourself doing all the planning, the papers are out, the maps are out, the pencils and pens are out, you'll start writing down everything that you might need. You'll perform all the car checkups that you need and you'll make a list of all the people whom you want to invite.

The irony is that you might be ready to spend days and days planning for a picnic but you are not ready to spend a couple of hours planning for your business or for your life. Never be tempted to do such a thing.

By the way the absence of a plan doesn't necessarily imply that you have to create one. During my studies and research I have discovered a way that allows you to start your own business without the need to create a plan yourself. .

Mistake #3 (Education Ends with High School or College):

I have never seen a millionaire or a billionaire in my entire life who has stopped educating him or herself. This is just crazy, if there is only one factor that is common between all these millionaires, billionaires, successful business men and women then it would be the fact that they never stop educating themselves.

As a matter of fact you will find that a lot of them never went to school or college in the first place. What differentiates those people from the crowd is that they are ready to spend time and money on educating themselves. They don't even consider it an expense they consider it an investment.

I really wonder when you find someone talking about how he wants to be running his/her own business, how he wants to achieve wealth and success, how he wants to be healthy...etc and then you ask him about education he replies with "I don't have time"! the question is, don't have time for what? For achieving your ultimate vision in this life? Yeah right, don't have time for the ultimate vision but have time to watch TV, have time to watch the news every night, have time to play cards with friends.

Another thing is "I don't have the money to educate myself". Well if you consider a $10, $30, $50 or even $100 book loads of money then guess what, forget about owning your business. Go find yourself a job better (Even a job in this time requires continuous education). The fact that you're reading this e-mail right now means that you can afford educating yourself.

You don't have to go to $10,000 apprentice program. Start small, buy these books that people who owned business before you did, track them, read their biographies, learn from them. Because guess what happens when you read a $50 book? You learn what it took 50 years for someone before you to learn! Or what took someone to research 50 successful businessmen and women and guess what. That's a good deal!

Network Marketing Vs Direct Sales

Network Marketing Vs Direct Sales

When looking at online opportunities, most companies fall into one of two categories:

1) Multi Level Marketing (MLM) or Network Marketing

2) Direct Sales / Top Tier Sales

Anyone who decides to join either MLM or Direct Sales clearly has drive, motivation, and wants to make money online. Tens of thousands of entrepreneurs have created massive wealth with both vehicles. So what is the difference between these two?

Which one makes the most sense for you and your financial needs? Here are 4 major differences between these two wealth vehicles. My intention is that this will clarify any confusion you have and empower you to choose which vehicle suits you the best.

Difference 1: Cost of Entry
MLM's typically cost anywhere from $150 to $1500 to become a distributor.
Direct Sales companies can range from $3000 to $20000 to become a distributor.

Difference 2: Up Front Cash
MLM's typically pay you much less than a direct sales company to sign someone up. MLM's often pay you anywhere from $30 - $100 to enroll a new member, where Direct Sales companies pay up between $1000 to $9500 for one sale. Therefore, direct sales organizations will give you more money on the front end to enroll someone.

Difference 3: Residual Wealth
The true power of the MLM model is in residual income. This occurs when your organization automatically purchases your companies products or services each and every month. When a member of your downline's Autoship kicks in, you get a small percentage. This small percentage multiplied by hundreds or thousands of people on an automatic basis is where massive and sustainable residual wealth begins.

Some Direct Sales organizations have residual pay plans now. Due your due diligence into that companies specific pay plan to know how the pay structure is set up.

Difference 4: Mentality/Production
If you are someone who likes being more accountable for your income, direct sales may be for you.

If setting up a huge passive income is for you, then MLM may be your best option. The downside of MLM is it often takes longer to start producing a professional income.

Some follow up questions:
1) Do you love leading a team of hundreds or thousands of distributors? Are you OK with not making a full time income at first, yet love the idea of building a stable residual income? MLM may be for you.

2) Do you like being paid on your own efforts, your own marketing and lead generation knowledge, and want to make more money faster? Direct sales may make more sense.

Both vehicles can, and do, make people massively wealthy. Weigh the pros and cons and determine which model fits your goals, needs, and aspirations

NETWORK MARKETING: IT'S AN ASSET, NOT A JOB

Definitions

An Asset is a systematically built business that generates money for you.A Job is an activity that somebody does regularly for a pay.

What Kind of Asset is a Network Marketing Business?

In Network Marketing you create a network system of people who become business owners through mentoring who in turn create other business owners working under them interdependently and so on. This globally growing system of Business Owners becomes your asset and generates potentially high income.

So how can we build this Asset?

The key to build this asset is knowing the reason why you join this business. The essential reasons are: Reason Number one is to Help Yourself and Reason Number two is to Help Others. If you join only for one of these two reasons, then the system will not work for you. A. To Help Yourself‘To Help yourself’ means that you come to the business primarily to change quadrants: from the E or the S quadrant to the B quadrant. However, this change is very difficult for most people.To understand this idea, let’s see the general descriptions of these personalities in the CashFlow Quadrants.

CASH FLOW QUADRANT

The cash flow quadrant is made by considering the different ways that all human beings generate their income.

(E) EMPLOYEES They have a Job (B) BUSINESS-OWNERS They build an Asset/System People work for them

(S) SELF-EMPLOYED They own a job (I) INVESTORS They buy an Asset/system Money works for them

LEFT QUADRANT · They directly work for Money and then buy liabilities instead of investing in Assets.· They expect instant money· They are afraid of taking risks· They trade their time for moneySalary is not calculated by the volume of job performed instead it is done in a per hour base. So to increase income, “E” and “S” must work extra hours. This means the more their income the less their spare time for their families and social life. Therefore, they have NO TIME FREEDOM & NO FINANCIAL FREEDOM.

RIGHT QUADRANT

· The rich doesn’t directly work for moneyThe business owner is concerned about his asset and directly works to build his asset. Those assets work hard to generate money and make them richer and richer, while they work less and less.

· Expect money in the future. They delay gratification.

· They take risks

· Work for their FREEDOM the right quadrants their success increases in proportion to their time. Therefore, they have TIME FREEDOM & FINANCIAL FREEDOM. That’s why this change (from E or S to B) is normally very difficult for most people because they want money more than they want to change quadrants. To bring this change, the educational system inherent in a good Network Marketing Opportunity is so important as it focuses in developing people through trainings.

To Help Others‘To Help Others’ means help others leave the ‘E’ and ‘S’ quadrants and succeed in the ‘B’ quadrant. If you focus on doing this, then you will be successful in the business. The beauty of a network marketing business is that your goal is to create assets, which are other ‘B’s working under you – and their job is to create other ‘B’s working under them. This is open for everyone. In traditional business, the focus is for the ‘B’ to have only ‘E’s and ‘S’s working for them. If you only want to teach yourself to be a ‘B’ quadrant person, then a true network marketing system won’t work for you. Unlike Networking Marketing Business, this is open for very few people only.

Robert Kiyosaki said “The type of business I was taught to build is a business with me at the top and ‘E’s and ‘S’s at the base. I really don’t have room at the top for many other ‘B’s, which is why in my businesses, I strongly recommend that all my employees look into network marketing as their own part-time business.”

Why People fail to build this Asset?

They quit too soon.Why would they quit? Most people join only to make money. If they don't make money in the first few months or years, they become discouraged and quit (and then often bad-mouth the industry!).

Why Network Marketing?

Why Network Marketing?

Well I am sure many people wonder why Network Marketing, my question to you is Why Not???

Check out this amazing video by one of the Financial Guru's to give a bit more insight before you move ahead and read the article further........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUj6LanvQb0&feature=related

Unlike any traditional business, the start up cost of a Network Marketing company is very low. Unlike a J.O.B. (a.k.a. Just Over Broke), in a Network Marketing industry you have the potential to earn a lot of money. There are no limits. When your network has grown and you have several active down lines under your team, you have the ability to earn PASSIVE INCOME. It doesn't matter whether you still network or have retired.

Flexible time: You can wake up any time you want to. There is no BOSS to ask you why you haven't been to work on time. YOU ARE YOUR OWN BOSS! You have a potential to build a Global business.

Just imagine sponsoring a friend who introduces this business and sponsors his friend in China. This Chinese dude shares the business to several of his friends who take the business very seriously and the business booms in China like a rocket. You are in your country, and you earn passive income when this Chinese dude expands his business in his country. With traditional business it is very difficult. It will take you years to do that. That is one of the Biggest reason why Network Marketing companies expand faster than traditional companies.

One of the most important reason you should join a network marketing company is the financial education. Unlike formal education where a professor teaches you marketing, in network marketing industry successful people in the industry are the ones who show you how to be successful. Think about this for a second. If you were given an offer to learn how to be wealthy from: a) Best Professor in Business and Marketing b) Bill Gates. Who would you choose? a) or b)? Only a moron would choose a). For you to be the best you have to learn from the best. If you want to be a best cook, you have to learn from the best cook. For you to be a great doctor, you have to learn from the best medical school spend more time with the best doctors. To be financially successful, you have to spend time with financially successful people. In a network marketing business you will learn things about success you never knew existed.

It is only in the Network Marketing Company where you'll get friends who support you and motivate you to achieve you dreams and not criticize you. Most people have dreams but they feel shy talking about it because they are afraid to be criticized. By having somebody by your side motivating you to achieve your dreams, you'll discover your true potential. The ability to build a Network. A wise man said, "The Rich look for and build networks, everybody else look for work." If you are able to build a network within and outside your country, then you're on your way to financial freedom. The larger your network grows, the larger your potential to earn multiple streams of income.

Leadership skills: You can be the best employer in your company, or the best self employed person and/or the best investor without having good leadership skills. But to be successful in building a successful business there is no short cut but to be an effective leader. And there is no other place where you can get that leadership skill as in a Network Marketing Company.

Another great thing about Network Marketing is that You can pass your business to your loved ones. There is a beneficiary. The question is, can you pass your job to your children when u pass away? Who is going to take care of your family when you pass away? Will your boss send money to your family every month? Tax Benefits: A network Marketing or Home Business gives you lots of tax benefits unlike a regular employee

Think about it????
shall get back to you more tomorrow, Happy Reading