Archive for June, 2007

Fire Burns Up and Sand Shifts

You are a Champion!
“Motivation is temporary–but so are bathing and eating. It just turns out that if you do them every day you will live longer and smell better in the process!” Zig Ziglar
Because the compensation plan was developed to pay on a generational pay scale people get motivated when they learn how [...]

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The Power of Leveraged Growth

The Power of Leverage is the third part to my Three Star Leg Training.

Perhaps you have heard of the Six degrees of separation or the “small world “ phenomenon based on experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram (Harvard University researcher in experimental social psychology). We are only six people away from everyone on earth through [...]

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The Power of Three

The Power of Three is the second part to my Three Star Leg Training.
A Diamond Distributor I know generally starts out this section of training with a question he was often asked: “How many people do you have under you.”
Several years back a relative, I suspect somewhat skeptical, asked me the same question and [...]

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The Power of the Products and Membership

Why would I get into MLM? Most people wouldn’t for these reasons:

They don’t understand it and the more we talk about it the worse it gets.
They don’t have the Time.

And so, here is the first part of the Three Star Leg Training (The Power of Products, The Power of Three, and The Power of [...]

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Plan B

What do you think about comments like, “Plan A isn’t working so it’s time for Plan B?”
Here are my thoughts about Plan B. When it comes to your core values in life there is no plan B. Where would you go or what would you do to replace your core values?
In reality, people [...]

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Finding the Right Sponsor

Finding the right person to sign up under in MLM is important.
Obviously, having a strong reason and purpose to do the business is important no matter who is your sponsor.
Fortunately, here is an area that I can’t comment on too much (except by observation and reading). Why? Because we have very strong upline [...]

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What Type of Person Are You?

Trust is the reason why a Business Builders works “down” through a warm market using duplication. “Who do you know…” People trust you and don’t even know me even though they may be in my downline organization (because of you). In that respect, I am a positional leader (just like any industry organization chart) instead [...]

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Pyramid

Here is a “Pyramid” taught by coach John Wooden which was summarized from the information in his book The Essential Wooden. Great Book!

Industriousness – There will be no harvest without hard work.
Enthusiasm – The “god within” or energy and spirit of the Team.
Friendship – Spirit of goodwill that nourishes relationships.
Loyalty – Golden Rule – [...]

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Team Building

The successful Network Marketer will be a successful Team Builder. Being a teacher and coach in the game of life is important.
In the book The Essential Wooden, by coach John Wooden and Steve Jamison, John Wooden wrote this preseason letter to the team, July 23, 1971:
If each of you makes every effort to [...]

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Key Industry Terms

Let’s look at two Key Terms that will help in Structuring Your Downline:

Breakage (Company Rules)
Stacking (Distributor Rules)

Breakage refers to rules established by the company, which (in general) allows the company to retain the cash from commissions earned by the Distributor. For example, the overall theoretical payout may be 40% but the company actually pays [...]

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