What is it that people really want out of life?  Big business marketers, religious leaders and psychologists all ask that question.  We in network marketing think that we ask it, but rarely is it really asked with conviction because we are just hoping they will say money.  I’m here to tell you that money is [...]

“The Emperor’s New Clothes” is a fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen about an emperor who unknowingly hires two thieves to make him a new set of clothes.  Network marketing, like many traditional businesses, is full of people selling us on false hopes.  In the fairy tale, a young boy pointed [...]

As a distributor, I was always looking for the magic bullet that would help me sponsor in record numbers.  As a network marketing CEO and president, I was constantly besieged by distributors to create the perfect tool.  No matter how many tools we released, the distributors were never satisfied with our investment and wanted something [...]

Question: What is the main thing that holds people back from true success in life?
Answer – In a word, apathy.
Apathy is absence or suppression of passion, emotion, or excitement. When we are apathetic, we lack interest in or concern for things that others can find moving or exciting…  Summed up, we become lame duck, [...]

Sports are a part of our culture.  The underdog athlete taking on the world in front of him and winning makes magic for movies, books and magazines.  I must admit that I still love watching Rudy tackle the Georgia Tech quarter back for a sack.  The climax of the “5 foot nothin’, 100 and nothin’, [...]

How many rich people do you know that are completely miserable?  How many broke people do you know that are completely happy?  There are rich people that have everything that must drug themselves to find peace, Michael Jackson and Elvis showed us that.  There are also many rich people that love life and are completely [...]

Believe it or not, most of your organization is looking for a reason to quit.  It takes true commitment to succeed in anything, not just network marketing. Network marketing failure rate is widely published and maligned, but knowledge is power and when you understand your downline’s tenancies it can help address the failure rate in [...]

I have always tried to think positively, it seems to make me happier.  However, positive thinking by itself is pretty useless.  As the good book says, faith without works is dead. 
One of the better speeches on this positive thinking came from Tony Robbins.  Tony said,”It is ineffective to think positive only.  You wouldn’t go [...]

Question – What are leadership characteristics needed in network marketing to succeed?
Answer – Leadership principles are the same in network marketing as they are in almost every other human interaction.
I was searching leadership today and I found a blog with some excellent information on leadership.
Here are some action steps to enhance our Leadership Generosity:
Give people a [...]

I subscribe to an online newsletter called the SalesLadder and I get weekly information from a writer Marc Cenedella.  He has some great stuff, you should check it out.  Here are some excerpts from his latest email when he interviewed Karen “Duff” Duffy the MTV VJ who has been battling sarcoidosis.
Duff has heroically and humorously [...]

I was on Wall Street Journal Online this morning and read an article about how in this economy,  61% of Americans have either started or thought about starting a small business.  However, another study showed that of over 400,000 potential entrepreneurs in 2008, only 19,000 ever got started. What that tells us is that people [...]

Personal success stories are so extremely important because they inspire us to greater heights.  When we see what others have done, we see more in ourselves.
I received a great email from Palo Alto software today and I thought I would pass on some of it.  It is very applicable to our efforts each day with [...]

If your company went away, how much heartache would it really create? We all like to think that everyone would be devastated and that our product or service is irreplaceable. The fact is, few companies understand that their brand is quite weak and even think that their brand is equivalent to their logo. [...]

In order to help you better use your new blogging site that uses a Wordpress backend, I have prepared videos to give you the basic information that you need to get started.
Using a powerful engine like Wordpress can give you many advantages over other free sites such as blogger.com, but there are lessons you will [...]

Q: What is the secret to success in Network Marketing?
A: Don’t ever give up.
Is that really the secret?  It can’t be that easy you may say.  I tell you it is.  But never giving up is very hard for most people.  Don’t be one of them.
I love this cartoon.  I always have.  I have counseled [...]

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Question: I have been at the same level in my business and life for too long.  What can I do to get past this barrier?
Answer:  You may be holding on to things that are preventing you from the personal growth you need to get to the next level.
I recently received a tweet that said, “The [...]

Question – We are having growth in our business, but we are having too much attrition, what can I do to help people stay in the business long enough to start making real money?
Answer – Try having some fun.
Did you know that one of your main responsibilities as a successful network marketer is to [...]

Getting out of your comfort zone is not easy.  Most people are so married to their own ideas, that it is next to impossible to entertain anything new.  Unfortunately, the inability to entertain new ideas is what stops personal growth and keeps people comfortably miserable.
Bob Proctor tells us that if we are going to improve [...]

I continue to have many people come to my site searching for answers on the bad effects of synthetic vitamins.  I have been researching and looking for medical studies that continue to become more prevalent concerning the bad effects of synthetics.  Here is some more information I have found on the subject.
Ascorbic Acid Causes Hardening [...]