Blogs are a great way to explore (experiment) with the Internet Environment.
As of this time this particular blog has 80,014 hits (that’s small) but I don’t mention or advertise the blog because it’s my journal and only indirectly will it spill over into our business with totally new people. I have not designed this blog [...]
Archive for October, 2009
31 Oct
Blog Effectiveness
30 Oct
Strong Action Plan
Fear of loss should be accompanied by a strong action plan.
Most salespeople know that “Fear of Loss” is more effective than “Promise of Gain.” However, there is a problem if we don’t present our products as a strong solution to the problem.
Noah J. Goldstein, PhD, Steve J. Martin, and Robert B. Cialdini, PhD write [...]
29 Oct
Audit the Fed
Do you think it is strange that congress cannot even get an audit of the Federal Reserve Banks? Isn’t it their responsibility to have oversight?
The central banking system, controlled by the Federal Reserve Banks, was created by the Federal Reserve Act December 23, 1913.
It’s amazing that very few people understand where our money comes from [...]
28 Oct
Your Team
Get your senior team right
In the book 1000 CEOs, written by Andrew Davidson, these comments were written by Marjan Bolmeijer:
“CEOs must understand the need and have the skills to work on their senior team. They must not take the attitude that their team is what it is, and cannot be improved upon; nor must they [...]
26 Oct
I am the Decider
Getting tired of authority figures?
If you like to read a lot you pick up a book that appears authoritative enough (has an interesting title, PhD credentials, great endorsers, etc.) and half way through the book you are asking yourself: “Why am I reading this book?”
Many of us realize that people often publish in order to [...]
23 Oct
Home Based Business
How can our government promote “Home Based Business?”
Why should government promote home based businesses? Look at the gas used to get people back and forth to cubicles. It’s like herding cattle twice each day. If you look at cities like Atlanta and DFW (where mass transit is not used) we wonder how much fuel [...]
16 Oct
Be Nice
Do you remember your mom telling you as a child: “Be Nice!”
There’s a good reason to be nice to people and one of them is the comment we hear from people all the time: “It’s a small world.” At some point it’s payback time.
That statement applies to the Health Insurance Industry, Wall Street Banks, [...]
13 Oct
Refiner of Silver, Gold, and Platinum
What are we really like on the inside?
One of the main things I like about Network Marketing is the refinery or trial by fire that brings out the best or the worst. We quickly find out who are real friends are and we even find out who we are. We may have perceptions about our [...]
13 Oct
Hard-Hearted
Why did it become popular to be hard-hearted in America?
(unsympathetic, hard, cold, cruel, indifferent, insensitive, callous, stony, unkind, heartless, inhuman, merciless, intolerant, uncaring, pitiless, unfeeling, unforgiving, hard as nails, affectless-You would have to be pretty hard-hearted not to feel something.)
TheFreeDictionary.com
Many people are hard to understand when it comes to “moral” issues. They think [...]
4 Oct
MLM Stages
Understand what stage you are in when it comes to MLM.
There are different stages of MLM development and different strategies for each stage. Here are two basic stages:
Development stage
Momentum stage
Initially, upline team or company momentum makes up the “wave” we are riding in the development stage. We are always riding a momentum wave but [...]
