Sir Richard Branson
Right now I’m reading Business Stripped Bare by Sir Richard Branson. It’s a fascinating read about how the Virgin Group has evolved from a humble mail-order music retailer to one of the world’s most recognised brands, along with all the trials and tribulations it has faced along the way.
But a particularly inspiring story caught my attention in the early chapters of the book. Sir Richard was visiting his private game reserve in South Africa. A village woman came up to him and asked to borrow $300 to buy a sewing machine and employ six people so she could kick start her business. Moreover, she promised to return the money in 3 months.
Impressed by her focus and determination, he gave her the $300, expecting to never see it again. He was wrong. [click to continue…]
I hate being sold by sleazy salesmen. I hate to be closed, up sold, lied to, manipulated, “fear-of-loss”-ed, convinced into buying something that I don’t want or need.
Most people feel the same way. That’s why sales is such an intimidating profession. I once heard that the dropout rate for the sales industry is well above 90% over a one year period.
Unfortunately for you, there’s no way to get around it – network marketing is an industry of sales and marketing. Anybody trying to sugar coat it by telling you otherwise is either in denial, or not telling cold, hard truth.
But fortunately, manipulating people and trying to convince them to buy something they don’t need is NOT what “selling” is about. [click to continue…]
Do you like it when people rip you off? I don’t particularly like it either, but I’m about to tell you how getting “ripped off” can really give your business a big boost.
It’s not an easy thing for us to giving unconditionally to people who are not close to us. It’s especially hard to give unconditionally to people who you don’t know, who are just going to take for their own benefit.
When I first started online, I wanted to use my blog to build a mailing list so that I could market my business opportunity or other offers to my list through email.
I didn’t want give away my best knowledge on the blog because I wanted to reserve that for my email marketing. To get the best from me, people had to opt in and get on my list.
The result? I built a list that I could count on one hand. [click to continue…]
Humans by nature, are impatient. Especially in this day and age of the internet, we want and expect everything to be right here, right now with ease.
Our attention spans are getting shorter, and this is not good news for the economy.
I once listened to a Brian Tracy tape and he said something along the lines that successful people have the ability to think over a long time perspective, while unsuccessful people don’t.
For instance: a drug addict’s time perspective is his next hit, a young professional’s time perspective is his next payday.
However, people who have reached the highest levels in any field have time perspectives of 5, 10, 20 years or more. Their long term goal is considered in each of their day-to-day decisions.
This “time perspective” concept super effectively explains how many young middle class people are up to their eyeballs in debt. They simply need to have it all NOW! [click to continue…]
If network marketing was a job, most of us networkers would be fired. Happily, network marketing companies are very patient, and don’t fire their people for poor performance.
But imagine turning up to the first day of a new career, and the job description was…
1. Get a dream and set some goals
2. Work on your attitude
3. Get motivated
4. Build a strong belief in yourself and business
5. Be positive
What would the picture look like? I’m thinking the economy would be quite dismal. There would be a lot of positive, motivated people, but with no money. [click to continue…]
