Market to Yourself with Larry Lim of Tahitian Noni International

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Hi, it's John. . .

Here's TheMasterMindSessions 04.18.09 Market to Yourself

Session 134
Saturday, April 18
Market to Yourself
Larry Lim

At first, retired (after 28 years of service) U.S. Army Lt. Colonel, former Wall Street investment banker, real estate developer, President of the Hawaii Chamber of Commerece, owner of his own management consulting firm, team building & conflict resolution specialist, certified trainer for the Franklin-Covey Leadership Institute, instructor for the Professional Dynametrics Programs (PDP), Sylvan Learning Systems and the Pace Group, and professor (currently at Boise State University) of sales, marketing and entrepreneurship, Larry Lim knew all about network marketing— but he wouldn't touch us with a 10 foot-long (like his) curriculum vitae.

Why? Professor, Mr. Lim didn't want to be "one of those" kinds of people. He couldn't see himself as a network marketer, and more importantly— he didn't ever want to be seen as one himself. But eventually, all of that changed.

Why? Two things: The relationship-based, business-like approach of his eventual sponsor, Del Williams AND an honest assessment of his financial health which revealed five terminal problems for a 50 year old professional man: 1. No matter how successful he was (and he was), becoming debt-free working in his field wasn't a possibility. His retirement income would be way below what he really needed. 3. He had three children in college. 4. His parents would soon need to be cared for financially. And, 5. His business success could not be passed on to his kids.

Eight years later, Larry Lim's is a leader in Tahitian Noni International with a group of more than 20,000 networkers on his team in 17 countries. He has achieved the rank of Triple-Diamond Black Pearl, is a member of TNI's "Millionaire Club" and… those five concerns above are all handled and then some. Not bad for a Plan B. This Session is his story.
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Additional support material from Larry Lim

Putting Knowledge Into Action
A business man's "Why" network marketing is the best opportunity for most people today.
This is a call for Tahitian Noni representatives (so, beware the company-specific references and insert your own product, opportunity and unique business advantages) where the once "allergic to network marketers" Professor Lim explains what changed his mind, why he got into the business and why today, a network marketing business is the best opportunity of all. It's a message of hope.
29:01 minutes in downloadable Mp3

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Launching a Leadership Revolution with Orrin Woodward

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Hi, it's John. . .

Here's TheMasterMindSessions 04.10.09 Launching a Leadership Revolution

Session 133
Friday, April 10
Launching a Leadership Revolution
Orrin Woodward

First, last and everywhere in-between, Orrin Woodward is an engineer with both a B.S. and B.A. degrees as well as a number U.S. Patents to his credit. There are some who say, "never try to sponsor an engineer"— it's like pushing a rock up hill. (As Orrin himself points out, "They have no people skills".) Well, it's still an effort worth considering, because today engineer Woodward has the third largest group in his company. He is a Presidential Black Diamond with MonaVie. The average income for that position earns $3.24 million a-year— and as you'll learn in this Session, Mr. Woodward is well-above "average."

Orrin began his network marketing career with Amway in what he describes as the "absolute craziest chain of events you'd ever want to hear." That was back in 1993. His business beginnings were singularly unimpressive. Even after years in the business, no matter how hard he worked— and he worked very hard— he couldn't get but a few hundred people to any of his events. But all that eventually changed and by 1999 Orrin's audiences had grown to 15,000 people and he was on Amway/Quickstar's Executive Diamond Council.

Leadership is Orrin's passion, as evidenced by his best-selling book with long-time networking business partner Chris Brady, Launching a Leadership Revolution, and his highly ranked web log, Orrin Woodward Leadership Team. "Leaders," Orrin says, "are like horses. they're no good until they're broken." For Orrin, leadership is not what you do, it's who you are. Leaders take their focus off themselves. Their job is to help people fall in love with their dreams, to give people hope, to build a culture based on character (not personality) and "a habitual vision of greatness." My recurring question to Orrin was "How... how do you do that?" His answers are what this informative and inspiring Session is all about.
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Additional support material from Orrin Woodward

11 Rules of Networking Leaders
If you are a leader in the Networking field then what you do is a most noble of enterprises. You have the honor of leading the most precious asset of any country and that is the people.
10 page downloadable PDF

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I appreciate you.

John Milton Fogg
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PO Box 7543
Charlottesville, Virginia 22901 USA
434.964.9303
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Natural Selling with Michael Oliver

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Hi, it's John. . .

Here's TheMasterMindSessions 03.28.09 Natural Selling with Michael Oliver

Session 132
Saturday, March 28
Natural Selling
Michael Oliver

The last time I sat down for a conversation with Michael Oliver was (waaay) back on November 3 of 2006, in a Session of the same name, Natural Selling. (Click that link to go back and listen to that Session and get the added support material.) What's changed since? In the principles and practices of Natural Selling that Michael teaches— not much. In other ways— such as the financial circumstances the world is immersed and enmeshed in and the new direction needed for direct sellers and network marketers— lots… perhaps everything.

As we're learning, much of how the world works isn't working, and so it goes with network marketing. A new awareness is needed, a new paradigm shift is wanted. In our business, the number's game approach is a duplicatable system designed to duplicate failure, not success. "What if," Michael asks, "we offer an approach geared directly to helping the vast majority of the people who cannot do the business the way the few who've succeeded in the past have used? And what would that look like?

What Natural Selling is all about is a dialogue-based, agenda-free approach where prospecting becomes discovering people's problems and their willingness to change. It's based on listening with a "clean slate," a beginner's mind if you will with no attachment to the "Yes, No, Maybe" outcome and a deep commitment to helping people. Real "Attraction Marketing." You'll learn how to do that and more in this Session with Michael Oliver.
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Additional support material from Michael Oliver

Introduction to Natural Selling
Learn How to Eliminate Rejection and Objections Completely!
Why telling your story and presenting your solution when you first meet someone, or persuading people to do things, very rarely works, and usually results in rejection… and why listening to THEIR story ALWAYS does work!
45'30 downloadable Mp3

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I appreciate you.

John Milton Fogg
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PO Box 7543
Charlottesville, Virginia 22901 USA
434.964.9303
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Posted by GreatestNetworker on March 28, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Rumors of the death of The MasterMind Sessions...

Rumors of the death of The MasterMind Sessions
have NOT been that greatly exaggerated. They may
still come true. Let me explain.

I haven't produced a new Session for nearly a month.
That's because I have been head, heart and soul
-searching what to do.

Transparent truth: The MasterMind Sessions has been
a financial failure for some time. It's bringing in about
$18,000 a year as close as can be to losing money,
and I'm working for slightly less than minimum wage
(a Session takes a full day to create). Not good.

As I've learned by speaking with subscribers there's
real and useful value in the Sessions. I know my
marketing efforts have been nge ("not good enough")...
the "intro" page was a big mess and turned people
away... the website needs a re-do (badly)... even
giving the Intros and Previews away didn't help...
and so on and on.

D. All the above are my responsibility and I clearly
haven't been good at it/them.

What I have done well is the "content." When I say
it's the best stuff I've done, I'm sincere and serious
and as said, seems lots of people agree.

So, given that... I'm in current conversations with
advisors and just today began speaking with someone
interested in doing the web development and marketing.

AND the "bold move" big news is... I've just shifted
the price to a buck a week. Just $52 for a full year's
access to the Sessions and all that comes with them.
You can learn more about it here:

http://TheMasterMindSessions.com

Please, let me know what you think and feel about it.

And please know, what I want most is to continue
The MasterMind Sessions. I am on a mission and I
do believe in the need and the excellent value we
provide subscribers. I've just got to find a way to have
thousands of people playing, instead of a few hundred.

Any and all of your ideas are most welcome.

Thanks.
I appreciate you.

PS. I DO have some more Sessions agreed to with
Michael Oliver, Orrin Woodward, Tony Rush, Chris
Widener and... Nicki Keohohou of the DSWA has given
me a list of superb women to contact, so... help me
make a go of it, please. I know it can be done. Just not
sure how yet.

John Milton Fogg
mailto:jmf@TheMasterMindSessions.com
PO Box 7543
Charlottesville, Virginia 22901 USA
434.964.9303
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Posted by GreatestNetworker on March 20, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

Why Network Marketing is the best business...

Eric Worre has embarked upon a new project he's calling Network Marketing Pro— part of his initiative is a series of videos with super-successful (by which Eric means million-dollar and multi- annual income earning...) direct sales network marketing leaders. (He's thrown in some corporate "types" as well for some kind of good measure.)

Here's a taste of Eric's recent release, a series of clips from an interview with NuSkin icon Nathan Ricks. This is part four of five. The others are available on the website.

And from the website: "In the fourth of a five part interview, $40 million dollar earner Mr. Nathan Ricks covers two important subjects. First, the opportunity for Network Marketing in our challenging economy. And second, why Network Marketing is the best business vehicle on the planet..."

I appreciated Ricks' perspective of the "efficiency" of the network marketing business model AND especially how to use that to appeal to those genuinely productive men and women working in corporations who's efforts are eroded by carrying their non-productive peers... the "slugs" as Nathan calls them. Network Marketing, he points out, is one of the very few professions where you are truly paid— or not— for your productivity.

Catch all the videos as soon as you can. Good "from the horse's mouth" stuff.

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Posted by GreatestNetworker on March 19, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Do you share Mike Dillard's dilemma?

Got this email yesterday from Mike Dillard, King of Magnetic Sponsoring and heir (apparent?) to what "MLM Big Fish" (Joe Schroder) started by in the Upline days. I share the same dilemma, save for shaving a few zeros off Dillard's conundrum. It's the high maintenance of dancing to Web 2.0's drummers that get's to me. You? Here's Mike's e-mail.

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I have a dilemma John…

It’s been the source of an internal debate for a few weeks now, and I’d like to get your thoughts…

I’m talking about Twitter, and the single question that we must all eventually answer…

Do you follow someone just because they followed you? Or do you only follow people you genuinely know and want to follow?

Over the past few months, I’ve done both.

After talking to my good friend and social media maven, Perry Belcher, I decided to “reciprocal follow” everyone who was following me about two months ago.

There are two reasons you’d want to do this…

1: It’s polite.

2: It helps you gain exposure, which will help increase your number of followers.

As of today, I follow around 10,000 people, and have 11,900-ish followers at http://twitter.com/Mike_Dillard

Looking back, I’m not convinced that was the best move to make, and here’s why…

It’s not the number of people who follow you on Twitter that matters, it’s the number of people who actually listen to you.

And if everyone is just “reciprocal following” everyone, not because they WANT to listen to that person, but because they’re trying to increase their exposure and number of followers, then we have a problem...

Everyone’s following everyone, but no one’s really listening.

When I had 8,000 followers and followed 50, I knew that all 8,000 people subscribed to my “Tweets” because they genuinely wanted to plug into my life, and hear what I had to say.

That’s no longer the case.

And it gets worse…

Once you follow 500+ people, you have to start using specialized software like www.TweetDeck.com, just to filter and manage so many messages.

And if you already use TweetDeck like me, you’ve probably set up a custom sub-list of real friends so you can separate all of their messages from the masses of people you don’t know.

How genuine is that?

In the end, reciprocal following simply dilutes the power of an application like Twitter because it’s a behavior that’s motivated by greed instead of authenticity, just so we can all enjoy the illusion of having “more followers”.

That doesn’t sit right with me, so after many days of thought, I’m going to do some surgery on my Twitter account and * gasp * “unfollow” the 10,000+ people I don’t truly know.

If you’re one of them, please do not take it personally. It’s not.

I'm sure I'll lose quite a few people during this process, but that's fine. If that's what it costs to be authentic, then so be it.

And if you continue following me because you truly have an interest in what I have to say and offer, then THANK YOU. That’s what this tool is all about.

My Twitter address is: http://twitter.com/Mike_Dillard

In the end, I feel that any true “following” you build in your life should be based on providing real value, not the perpetuation of an illusion daisy-chained from one person to the next.

(If you feel strongly about this as well and would like to share this letter, you're welcome to do so as you wish).

Sincerely,

Mike Dillard
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It's the "authentic" part I feel strongly about, which is why I "shared" this e-mail with you. Tom Schreiter (I think) called much of what makes up Web 2.0 as "Relationships Lite." I believe he's right. You?

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I appreciate you (for reading my weblog and other things).

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Posted by GreatestNetworker on March 17, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)

No, you don't!

"You've got to be a product of the product."
"You've got to use your products."
"If there was not a business opportunity attached, you'd buy the products anyway."

I've said D. All the above... from stage... on calls... in print... for years. And in learning what it really takes to build a successful direct sales network marketing business (by actually doing it), Lesson #24 for me was and is, "No, you don't" HAVE TO... be a product of the product... buy the products anyway... even use your products...

It's GREAT if you do, but it really is NOT required.

Heresy, of course. I know.

Jack Zufelt was first to set me straight about this— and I STILL rejected the idea until I proved it to and for myself.

On a call one day Jack proceeded to illustrate the point by selling me on penicillin to cure my little girl's ear infection. He did a very convincing job explaining how it was fast-acting and would take the pain away right away (which was what I wanted most). He said it wasn't expensive and he told me a couple of stories about other kid's with ear and eye problems and how well it worked for them. I was sold.

Thing is, Jack wears one of those Medical Alert bracelets to inform doctors and paramedics that in the event of an accident or an unconscious trip to the emergency room DO NOT administer penicillin to Mr. Zufelt, because he's severely allergic and it could kill him.

Yes, do do have to be passionate about your product or service and how good and great it is FOR THEM. (Any men out there have a product that's perfect for alleviating the symptoms of PMS?) You can do that through network marketing as a satisfied customer OR as a marketer who knows the advantages and benefits of his or her products for the target market and concentrates on saying (or learning to say) the right things to the right people.

In direct sales network marketing it's clearly easier to have people with no formal marketing and sales experience or training be persuasive in the marketplace if they're in love with what they're offering.

How much easier is it to get the attention of people who know me when I've lost 23 pounds since they last saw me and they say, "Wow, you look great." And they ask, "What did you do?"

Now, if you DON'T have a market or product like that, you may have to love your product to life, so you can don your Kevlar conscience and go confidently and enthusiastically out to tell the world all about it.

Neither way is better or best, just different.

Be a product of the product and market that way—
if that works for you.

Be a product of the marketing of the product—
if that works for you.

Either way, as a network marketer you market to and through your network. And remember, you ARE a volunteer. You don't HAVE TO do anything.

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I appreciate you!

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Posted by GreatestNetworker on March 16, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Which MLM Network Marketing Game Are You Playing?

WARNING: What follows requires thought, open and authentic, "Hmmmm, that's interesting (perhaps even exciting). I wonder what would happen if I...?" Like that. Don't waste your time if you're not up for that and more.
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Lots of talk— virtual and actual— about a Revolution in MLM Network Marketing. Most in truth is back to basics stuff; those good and great things to do and be done that have worked since the beginning and will continue long after you and I are the upline in the sky. The rest is evolutionary; logical and intuitive next steps born from experience. Honestly, I don't find much being offered that truly "turns over" (the essence of the word revolvere) the status quo of what's so now. Except perhaps this...

From one way of looking at it, MLM Network Marketing is a game. There's a field of play, rules, time frames, teams, ways to keep score, bats and balls and racquets (and rackets), uniforms even (for some)... all of that.

But there's another view of the MLM/Network Marketing "game"— a wholly different paradigm that is not only vitally and vastly different from all the other "business" game models, but is a 180 degree shift from the MLM game most of us have been taught and are playing today.

See if what's below presents you with a lighthouse to your battleship.

These ideas are excerpted and paraphrased from the remarkable book: Finite and Infinite Games - A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James P. Carse

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There are at least two kinds of games: finite and infinite.

A finite game is a game that has fixed rules and boundaries, that is played for the purpose of winning and thereby ending the game.

An infinite game has no fixed rules or boundaries. In an infinite game you play with the boundaries and the purpose is to continue the game.

Finite players are serious; infinite games are playful.

Finite players try to control the game, predict everything that will happen, and set the outcome in advance. They are serious and determined about getting that outcome. They try to fix the future based on the past.

Infinite players enjoy being surprised. Continuously running into something one didn't know will ensure that the game will go on. The meaning of the past changes depending on what happens in the future.

All games are inherently voluntary. There might be consequences of not playing, but there is always a choice required. Driving in the right side of the road, shaking people's hands, and paying taxes are games one has a choice about playing. There are certain rules and boundaries that appear to be externally defined, and you choose to follow them or not. If you stop following them you aren't playing the game any longer.

There is no rule that says you have to follow the rules.

All finite games have rules. If you follow the rules you are playing the game. If you don't follow the rules you aren't playing. If you move the pieces in different ways in chess, you are no longer playing chess.

Infinite players play with rules and boundaries. They include them as part of their playing. They aren't taking them serious, and they can never be trapped by them, because they use rules and boundaries to play with.

In a theatrical play the actor knows that she really isn't Ophelia. The audience knows that she really isn't Ophelia. But if she does a good job, Ophelia can express herself through the actor. The playing is most enjoyable when it is both clear that it is chosen play, that it is the actor doing it voluntarily, and at the same time it is so convincing, following the rules well enough that it seems real.

You can play finite games within an infinite game.
You can not play infinite games within a finite game.

You can do what you do seriously, because you must do it, because you must survive to the end, and you are afraid of dying and other consequences. Or, you can do everything you do playfully, always knowing you have a choice, having no need to survive the way you are, allowing every element of the play to transform you, taking pleasure in every surprise you meet. Those are the differences between finite and infinite players.

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So, where are you at with all that? Seeing anything differently? Which game have you been playing? Which game do you want to be playing?

Please, let me know...

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Posted by GreatestNetworker on February 28, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

Art Jonak: Lead with the product? Lead with the opportunity?

Folks are liking the Podcast/Clip deal, so... Here's more taken from recent weeks of The MasterMind Sessions.

Age old MLM question: Do you lead with the product? Do you lead with the opportunity?

New age answer (only so, because I've never heard anybody say this before) from Art Jonak. Listen and learn (it's short: 1'23) if it makes sense to and for you.

Click the player below to listen to the Mp3:

To listen/download via the url: Click here.

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Please, let me know what you think of what Art had to say AND what you think and feel about the whole Podcast deal.

Thanks.

I appreciate you!

PS. You can take advantage of a Special Offer for an annual subscription to The MasterMind Sessions that saves you $180. You'll get a (very) conservative $1771 (actually calculated that figure) value for $99.95. It's here:

http://TheMasterMindSessions.com/SpecialOffer

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Posted by GreatestNetworker on February 26, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Why It's Time... For Network Marketing

This is the foreword to a book I put out a few years ago. I know it's bad form to say something negative about your own sales, but... truth is, the book didn't sell well at all. The only thing (besides people didn't know about it at all) I've gotten back for a reason why was that I put the names of people and their companies in the book and their web site addresses, too. Sad if that IS the real reason. I would hope we in the biz' were bigger than that.

It's a wonderful book (I say). 52 authors from all walks of network marketing who all walk their talk about what makes network marketing...

"The most remarkable form of free enterprise ever created."

There are people in the book you've never heard of before and... there are in-side and out-side the industry legends and leaders such as Robert Kiyosaki, Paul Zane Pilzer, Bob Burg, Corey Citron, Tim Sales, Kim Klaver, Tom Schreiter, Tony Rush, Diane Walker, Jim Gillhouse, Mike Potillo, Lim Eng Hai, Roberto Torress, Lisa Wilber, Ty Tribble, Jackie Ulmer, Art Jonak, Robert Allen... The list goes on and on.

I've never released it as an ebook, but... that's what I'm thinking about doing. That's one reason for making this note. The other is, I RRREally want you to read the foreword and get excited about it's message, which is...

It's Time... Network Marketing went beyond being ACCEPTED and started being truly ADMIRED.

Please, let me know what you think AND pass this along to your friends in and out of the business and find out what they think and feel, too.

Why It's Time... For Network Marketing

... the most remarkable form of free enterprise to get the respect and recognition it deserves. It's Time... network marketing went beyond being accepted. It's Time... network marketing became truly admired.
Foreword by John Milton Fogg
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There's a whole new way of doing business happening all around the world. Literally, a transformation is taking place in the way people buy and sell everything. At the same time, there's a radical transition in what people are willing and able to do to earn a living today. You see it everywhere. You can feel it... everywhere. Everything's changing fast.

Blame the Internet most of all.
Thank the Internet most of all.

Network marketing is leading this transformation.
The "others" will have to follow or get out of our way.

Network marketing is all about doing things differently. "Business as unusual" is what we're all about.

We are "business for the rest of us" and the number of "us" is growing by more than 70,000 new people around the world every day!

It's Time... will once-and-for-all set the record straight about what makes this business of ours so different... and so remarkable.

It's Time... will show why more and more people are noticing what a brilliant business model this is (and this book will have even more people than ever sit up and take notice).

It's Time... will silence the critics who call our industry a farce and give voice to the real people who know the truth: network marketing is a force. It's life-changing, and it's unstoppable.

It's Time... network marketing went beyond accepted.

It's Time... network marketing became truly admired.

Network marketing is the leading edge of free enterprise.... (Not just "on" the leading edge." It IS the leading edge.)

And the world doesn't know it—yet.

Network marketing is the most powerful and persuasive way to introduce consumers to new products and services they don't know exist.

And the world doesn't know it—yet.

Network marketing turbocharges person-to-person (P2P), word-of-mouth recommendations by brilliantly adding an incentive/reward compensation program.

And the world doesn't know it—yet.

Network marketing is the business model where relationships rule.

It's...

• the only real, level, commercial playing field open to anybody regardless of age, sex, race, education, or past success...

• the best way for ordinary people to achieve extraordinary income...

• the only business structure designed to build successful organizations through cooperation, not company politics and competition...

• the proven, affordable "People's Franchise"...

• the only business system that encourages you to creatively "do it the best way for you" and succeed...

• the best choice today for the growing number of "terminally unemployable" entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs...

• the authentic, intelligent, credible, moral business design that pays you what you are truly worth...

• the business model that provides both time and financial freedom...

• the business that lets everyone in on the "secret" of leveraged, residual income...

• the business that lets everyone in on the "secret" of loverage, of contribution, of making a difference for a living...

• the business that has changed millions of people's lives for the better forever...

Successful network marketers know all of that. And now...

It's Time... everybody knew it!

Enjoy the book.

Thanks.
I appreciate you.

John Milton Fogg

So, please let me know what you think... and if you'd be interested if I offered it as a eBook. The "real" on sells for $25 and shows up all over the place for $19.95 (Amazon, etc.). I'm guessing $10 would be fair for the "virtual" puppy. Let me know on that, too...

Posted by GreatestNetworker on February 25, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

The MasterMind Session with Jackie Ulmer

NOTE (Please) I post this newsletter here for two reasons. 1. Because you can listen to the PREVIEW for FREE! Always good stuff. Usually about 10 mins. Worthwhile. 2. I want you to learn what I'm up to with this and how good it/they are. I've got 131 Sessions just like this in the library and a special deal gets it to you for less than $100. Let me know if there is or are more or better in all of mlm. I haven't found it. So... if you want it, it's here:

http://TheMasterMindSessions.com/SpecialOffer

Continuing right along: Hi, it's John. . .

Here's TheMasterMindSessions NEWSLETTER for 02.24.09.

The title of this Session will be familiar to MasterMind regulars. It's the same one that we used for Session 129 two weeks ago with Art Jonak, because that's what I want to focus on: How do you REALLY build a network marketing business. When you want to know, go to the pros. So... I have. And this week, another one Ms. Jackie Ulmer. Read the rap and listen to the preview and you'll know why you'll want to hear more. The woman IS the best!

Btw, no more Friday always Sessions. You'll get them when I've got them and they may be anyday they're ready. Kind of like a surprise. Enjoy.

Session 131
Tuesday, February 24
What Does It REALLY Take To Build a Business?
Jackie Ulmer

When you want to know how to REALLY have, do or be anything, you go to the been there, done that, and still in the game because they love it, players. They are the "Masters." Jackie Ulmer is such a one in network marketing. A million-dollar income earner 15 years in the biz,' she's won every award her company offers. In fact, they had to expand the achievement/compensation plan to make room for Jackie's accomplishments. Now, THAT is the person I want to learn how to REALLY do this business from. And I promise you and I will in this Session.

On a spur of the moment urge (men's intuition), I asked Jackie if she had a list of "The Top 5 Qualities of a Successful Network Marketer." (Actually, I'd been working on my own list. And it popped into my head to ask Jackie.) She didn't, but jumped right into making one: First was "Why?" Having a BIG vision for the business— knowing what you're working for. Having a business plan, a plan of action is next, because it all starts with you and what you're going to do. Next is a "can do attitude," knowing that quitting isn't an option. Jackie made a commitment early on that she was going to make it to the top, that she was going to be unstoppable. Number four was to be self-motivated, a seeker of knowledge and education learning what it's going to take to get you there. More? Oh yeah! Over an hour's worth with one of the very best in the business, Jackie Ulmer.
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Additional support material from Jackie Ulmer

Target Marketing and How to Build an Effective Network Marketing Business
7 page downloadable eBook in PDF

The Power of Partnership
11 page downloadable eBook in PDF

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John Milton Fogg
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Posted by GreatestNetworker on February 24, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Promises, promises, promises...

Wrote this reply over at GreatestNetworker.com forum today. Thought you might appreciate it here, so...

You wrote "...one major hurdle I have in getting started is that I dont want people to lose money. Im scared that someone I recruit may spend money (that they may have used for other purposes) and end up getting nowhere and then being resentful for getting involved. And I would then have to feel guilty for having recruited them in the first place."

I appreciate the "sinserious" quality of your consideration and that you have unfortunately been on the receiving end of getting nowhere, spending money you may not have had and being resentful.

There's an "easy" answer: Just DO the following (and SAY the same) with everyone you bring in as a business partner:

1. I will never lie to you.
2. I will never knowingly have you do anything that is not in your best interests.
3. I will match your eforts and stay one step ahead of you with my effort.

Make those promises and you will NEVER have to be concerned about those fears you wrote about up above.

How's that?

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Posted by GreatestNetworker on February 20, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

People turn to “network marketing” in soft economy

PLEASE, click through and watch this video as soon as you can. AND, if you appreciate it, email the reporter and tell him, "Thanks" and say why? Here's the link, the text is below and thanks to Jackie Ulmer for the turn on.:

http://www.nbc13.com/vtm/news

People turn to “network marketing” in soft economy

By Chris Pollone
Reporter
Published: February 17, 2009

BIRMINGHAM, Ala—While her husband was searching for full time work, Jennifer Grissom of Birmingham decided to make a little money on the side on top of her full-time job.

“I had to find some way to get an extra line of income that worked in the hours I had available to me,” she said.

Since November, Jennifer’s been selling skin care products for Arbonne International.

The company relies on a network of sales consultants who recruit other people to sell the product as well.

The more people a sales consultant recruits, the bigger her potential earnings are.

It might sound like a pyramid scheme to some, but marketing experts say it’s not.

“These are legitimate businesses, though you want to make sure you’re working for a good business, always,” Dr. Betsy Holloway of Samford University’s Brock School of Business said.

It’s called “network marketing” or “multi-level marketing” (MLM) and it’s been around for decades.

Companies like Amway, The Pampered Chef, and Tupperware work under similar arrangements.

Doctor Holloway said direct retail like this has been growing for a decade, and there’s potential for it to get even bigger.

“I think in today’s economy with the layoffs that we have and people desperate to find work, there’s going to be increased demand in these sorts of opportunities.”

Jennifer Grissom said she had to overcome a preconceived stigma of network marketing and the fear of rejection we all have.

“It’s not easy, but it is simple,” Grissom said. “You just have to be able to understand it, and be enthusiastic, without being annoying.”

She’s exceeding her expectations just three months after starting.

Experts advise if someone wants you to join a network marketing opportunity, take time to research the company.

Check to see if it belongs to the Direct Selling Association, a group that holds companies to strict standards of operation.

They say that can help ensure you’re joining a legitimate business, and not signing up for a risky scheme.

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Posted by GreatestNetworker on February 19, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

The MasterMind Session with Scott Ginsberg

NOTE (Please) I post this newsletter here for two reasons. 1. (Because it's most immediately important to you) You can listen to the PREVIEW for FREE! Always good stuff. Usually about 10 mins. Worthwhile. 2. I want you to learn what I'm up to with this and how good it/they are. I've got 126 Sessions just like this in the library and a special deal gets it to you for less than $100. Let me know if there more or better in all of mlm. I haven't found it. So...

Hi, it's John. . .

Here's TheMasterMindSessions NEWSLETTER for 02.13.09.

Late. Yes. I know. Sorry. This Friday's will also (probably) be late and I'm considering changing from Friday releases to Mondays from now on. At least I'll have the weekend to catch and clean up. Mama! (Nobody told me that a network marketing business took this much time. Hopefully, that's just the "in the beginning" part. 8^)

Anyway, this is a great Session and, I hope, worth the wait. Thanks for your patience.

Session 130
Friday, February 13
Anonymity is Bankruptcy
Scott Ginsberg

He calls himself (and that's who the world says he is, too) "The NameTag Guy." Scott has been wearing a name tag for more than 3024 days now (that's over 8 years). Why? For Scott, it's all about "approachability." He asks, "What would your life and work be like if you lived in a 'Cheers' world— a world where everybody knows your name?" Being anonymous in this day and age is an invitation to business and personal bankruptcy. Savvy marketers have taught for years that we have to get to know our customers and prospects. But the question Scott is asking is, "What are you doing now to have your prospects and customers get to know YOU?"

The author of seven books including HELLO, my name is Scott, The Power of Approachability, and How to be That Guy and Make a Name for Yourself, Scott now speaks and trains the likes of STAPLES, VERIZON Wireless, Boeing, Prudential Financial, UniGroup, Coldwell Banker, Manpower and Hyatt Regency in the fine art of connecting authentically and in a meaningful way with their customers and prospects. His message is something all network marketing professionals and would be's need to learn.

In this Session we spoke about why if you don't have a blog you are out of your mind (even Scott's dog Paisley has a blog). Throwing away your business card (and having a "Purpose Card" instead). How to get passion in your conversation. Some great questions to ask that open people wide for what you have to offer. Why you don't need a website, you need a web presence. The value of impatience. Your answer to the question: "How would you treat people if you weren't trying to sell them anything?" And more… much more.
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Additional support material from Scott Ginsberg

The 7 Habits of Highly Horrible Networkers
There is a time and a place for networking— it's called ANY time, and ANY place. (We first published this piece in 2005 in the library at GreatestNetworker.com. If anything, it's become even more valuable and important today.)
8 page excerpt in downloadable PDF

Let Me Ask Ya This…

55 Great Questions to Ask Someone You Just Met
There comes a time in every conversation with someone you've just met when you must cross the chasm between "how are ya?" and "who are ya?" And, since you only have four minutes to decide whether or not the conversation will continue, asking the right questions is the only way to make progress.
6 page excerpt in downloadable PDF

20 Ways to Make Customers Feel Comfortable

A Special report Scott is offering directly. Simply send him an email at: Scott@HelloMyNameIsScott.com and put "20 ways… in the subject line. You'll make a new friend— one of the most approachable, useful and valuable you've ever met.

Enjoy the Session and please let me know what you appreciate most about what you learn from Scott to help you build your business.

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John Milton Fogg
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PO Box 7543
Charlottesville, Virginia 22901 USA
434.964.9303
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Posted by GreatestNetworker on February 17, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

The Match Game

I'm posting this for the members of my network marketing Team. Thought you might benefit, too, so... please let me know if you do and how so?

I did one of The MasterMind Sessions loooonnnggg ago (07.27.07) with Ron Maurer, who was at the time leading an organization of 10,000 networkers in ForeverGreen. Of all the things Ron and I spoke about, the one bit that stuck with me most was his idea of "Matching Efforts." Simply, Ron directly matches the interest level of his prospects and the efforts of the people on his team with his own. He explains it fully in the PDF and gives a summary of his method on the audio clip below. I call it the Match Game.

What's important for me about this idea is that it provides me with a guideline for how much energy and effort to invest in both my prospects and team members. (Emphasis on "guideline. Obviously, NOthing can be cast in rock when you're dealing with people.)

So, here's the rap and the link for the PDF:

Matching Efforts
When we choose "matching efforts" as our business model, we
are choosing a method that aligns us with the interest level of
the people we are working with. This creates a comfortable
interaction for everyone and helps us to create a positive
experience in network marking for a greater amount of people.
Ron Maurer
15 pages
http://TheMasterMindSessions.com/PDFs/MatchingEfforts.pdf
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Posted by GreatestNetworker on February 16, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

The MasterMind Session Podcast with Marcella Vonn Harting

Here's Sunday's Podcast Clip from The MasterMind Sessions— day late. Sorry. A regular Session goes for a full hour. Today, many people refer to get their "edutainment" in shorter bits and bytes, so these clips are between 2 and 10 minutes long.

Let me know if this delivery format appeals to you.

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Marcella Vonn Harting was a housewife and a mom, "and proud of it!" she says before becoming involved with network marketing 25 years ago. Today, Marcella is one of THE top women in network marketing in the world: a Crown Diamond with Young Living Essential Oils with an organization of 70,000 distributors (over half the company) in more than 20 countries and she's currently earning $1 a month for each and every one. "It's not who you know," Marcella says, "It's who you know that they know." You can listen to Marcella's clip here (05' 14):

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Posted by GreatestNetworker on February 09, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

The MasterMind Session PODCAST with Mark Rawlins

Here's today's Podcast Clip from The MasterMind Sessions. A regular Session goes for a full hour. Today, many people refer to get their "edutainment" in shorter bits and bytes, so these clips are between 2 and 10 minutes long.

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Mark Rawlins is one of the most knowledgeable men in the world on the subject of mlm compensation plans. He's leads the executive team at InfoTrax Systems, a premiere developer of integrated software platforms for direct sales companies. "The primary purpose of all compensation," Mark explained, "is to motivate the sales force." In this clip, Mark demystifies some of the ins and out of comp plan design and function, explaining them from both the distributor and company points of view. Mark is here (06' 38)

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Posted by GreatestNetworker on February 07, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

The MasterMind Session with Art Jonak

Hi, it's John. . .

Here's TheMasterMindSessions NEWSLETTER for 02.06.09.

As I've said for the past few weeks, I'm a network marketer (again) and I'm doing a bunch right in my business and... you guessed it, lots an' lots wrong. So this Session and those to come will be "Selfish Sessions," because I'm passionately after learning how to do this business right. And this week's Master is just that, a Master of Network Marketing. He is remarkable!

Session 129
Friday, February 06
What Does It REALLY Take To Build a Business?
Art Jonak

For Art, what it REALLY takes starts with a foundation of common sense and honesty (he leads with them). Telling people the truth, whole and nothing but… Honor and the personal courage it takes to be honest; Integrity (not doing what's wrong) effort (doing what's right) and building a strong culture (especially of learning). Leadership and how you lead is Job #1. In this Session, we speak about getting people started, influence, training, teaching by your actions, the place of personal growth & development and more along with both practical philosophy and nut-and-bolts to do's.

Even though Art was one of the pioneers of InterNetwork Marketing (in newsgroups and on the web, much of his "how-to" is classic relationship-based MLM: From making a list, to focusing locally, letting the tools do the work, to building for events and the vital importance of skills. "Truly successful network marketers," Art says, "are always students."

And, Art has taken and very strong and public stand for the "Network Marketing Revolution." Here's what it's about:

"As Network Marketing and Direct Sales Professionals, together we can do more to reverse the worldwide recession and give people their dreams back, than all of the government bailout packages combined.

We can rebuild and re-energize the free enterprise system from the ground up— one individual at a time.

But to do this— we're going to have to start a revolution. We have to create a revolution in the way our business is done. We have to stop the scam artists, educate our teams better, and challenge ourselves to higher levels of leadership.

We need to do better. And we can. But to do that, we need your voice and participation."

You can learn more about the Network Marketing Revolution on Facebook (click the link).
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Additional support material from Art Jonak

The Freedom To…
Excerpted from the book It's Time For Network Marketing…
10 page downloadable PDF

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Posted by GreatestNetworker on February 06, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

The MasterMind Session PODCAST with Donna Valdes

Here's today's Podcast Clip from The MasterMind Sessions. A regular Session goes for a full hour. Many prefer to get their edutainment in shorter bits and bytes, so these clips are between 2 and 10 minutes long.

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Donna Valdes is a leader with Waiora, a six-figure income earner with an international organization, which she built predominately over the Internet. Donna's a tell-it-like-it-is, been there, done that network marketing professional. She's all about relationships and taking time. "People are your products," Donna says and she's an avid user of the web and especially online forums to build her business, but NOT, she warns, before you learn what the rules are, what the Internet will "tolerate." Here's Donna's clip (07' 31):

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Posted by GreatestNetworker on February 06, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

The MasterMind Session Podcast with Jack Zufelt

And another of The MasterMind Sessions Podcast Clips. A regular Session goes for a full hour. My sense is most people would prefer to get their edutainment in shorter bits and bytes, so these clips are between 2 and 10 minutes long.

Let me know if this delivery format appeals to you.

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Jack Zufelt is an internationally recognized speaker, trainer and the author of the best-seller The DNA of Success. (He's also been a very successful network marketer.) Jack always asks people in our business "What do you do for a living?" and it's fascinating how most network marketers don't answer him correctly. So, why are you really here? Network marketing, Jack pragmatically points out, is a business. And the purpose of a business is to make money. That's why you're here and this clip with Jack is here, down there (07' 51):

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Posted by GreatestNetworker on February 05, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

The MasterMind Session Podcast with Jordan Adler

Another of The MasterMind Sessions Podcast Clips. A Session goes for a full hour. My sense is most people would prefer to get their edutainment in shorter bits and bytes, so these clips are between 2 and 10 minutes long.

Let me know if this delivery format appeals to you.

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Jordan Adler is the author of Beach Money and a million-dollar annual income earner with Send Out Cards. Jordan is a master networker. In this Session he speaks about the kinds of people he seeks out for his business. Jordan focuses on "Connectors," the kind of people who know lots and lots of people. Jordan is a member of BNI, Business Networks International, and he's discovered many of his business leaders through this organization and urges all his people to get involved in their local Chapter. You can listen here (07' 22):

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Posted by GreatestNetworker on February 04, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

The MasterMind Sessions Podcast with Teresa Romain

Day 5 of The MasterMind Sessions Podcasts. A full Session goes for an hour. Most time-pressured people would prefer to get their edutainment in shorter bits and bytes, so these clips are between 2 and 10 minutes long.

Let me know if this Podcast format appeals to you.

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Teresa Romain is a speaker, trainer and coach and has been working with direct sellers for more than a decade. Teresa teaches that the internals create the externals. She urges people to know clearly know what results they want and the vital importance of having real clarity about where you're at right now. That's the only way to learn the size and shape of your "growth zone" and knowing those key skills you need to develop for success in this business. Here's the clip (04' 41):

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Posted by GreatestNetworker on February 03, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

The MasterMind Sessions Podcast w/Robert Allen

Day 4 of The MasterMind Sessions Podcasts. A full Session goes for an hour. Most time-pressured people would prefer to get their edutainment in shorter bites and bytes, so these Sessions are between 2 and 10 minutes long.

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Robert Allen is the New York Times best-selling author of Multiple Streams of Income (amongst many others) and a very successful network marketer. In this Session Robert spoke with me about the cause of disappointments and how to get people past them, the importance of keeping people "close to the fire" and having people understand the radical difference between the value of residual income over linear income. You can listen here (05' 12):

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Posted by GreatestNetworker on February 02, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

The MasterMind Sessions Podcast w/Beth Jacobs

Day 3 of the test of The MasterMind Sessions Podcasts. A full Session goes for an hour. These Podcasts are short clips of between 2 or 3 minutes up to 10ish minutes long. I'm guessing most time-pressured people would prefer to get their edutainment in shorter bites and bytes.

Let me know if this Podcast appeals to you. If so, I'll find a good way to put them out.

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Beth Jacobs is one of the top five leaders with the Pampered Chef, the pride and joy of billionaire investor Warren Buffet. In this Session Beth explains how she speaks with people about the opportunity, using "evites" (invitations over the Internet), how she finds prospects, coaching, and the fundamental difference between network marketing and the home party plan approach. The most important thing for Beth to teach her people is the real meaning of "No." Here's the clip (06' 50):

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Posted by GreatestNetworker on February 01, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

The MasterMind Session Podcast w/Richard Brooke

This Day 2 of a test (it is only a test) and it will go for about 10 days. I want to play show & tell with you and get some feedback on an idea; The MasterMind Sessions Podcasts. Usually a full Session goes for an hour. These Podcasts are short clips of between 2 or 3 minutes up to 10ish minutes long. My sense is that even with the joys of multitasking with iPods and burning CDs, most time-pressured people would prefer to get their edutainment in shorter bites and bytes.

So, let me know if this Podcast and these appeal to you. If so, I'll find a good way to put them out.

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Richard Brooke is the author of Mach II With Your Hair On Fire! (the best book about vision and self-motivation I've ever read), the CEO of Oxyfresh Worldwide and master network marketer. We were speaking about business-building on the Internet when the conversation turned around to what really keeps people in the business and what is the single most important factor in creating lasting network marketing success. Here's the clip (05' 55):

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Posted by GreatestNetworker on January 31, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

The MasterMind Session Podcast w/Tim Sales

This is a test (it is only a test) and it will go for about 10 days. I want to play show & tell with you and get some feedback on an idea; The MasterMind Sessions Podcasts. Usually a full Session goes for an hour. These podcasts are short clips of between 2 or 3 minutes up to 10ish minutes long. My sense is that even with the joys of multitasking with iPods and burning CDs, most time-pressured people would prefer to get their edutainment in shorter bites and bytes.

So, let me know if this and these appeal to you. If so, I'll find a good way to put them out.

Tim Sales -- creator of Brilliant Compensation and the Professional Inviter -- is one of the industry's preeminent trainers. And, he's got a very strong opinion about the state of the art of business training in network marketing today. I asked Tim what's missing. . . what was not working. . . and what needs to happen to provide the kind of quality training he wants to see? He started by telling me he was going to say something that people will hate. Intrigued? You can listen to the clip here (04' 10):

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Posted by GreatestNetworker on January 30, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

The Bag Lady Returns w/Sandy Elsberg

Hi, it's John. . .

Here's TheMasterMindSessions NEWSLETTER for 01.23.09.

I cannot believe it's Saturday and I'm just now finishing this! Oh Mama!

Care to know why? I'm a network marketer and my business got in the way. Whoever said you work hard in the beginning for not a lot of money to take it easy later for a whole lot of money was, I HOPE, right!
So, sorry I'm late and... it's Sandy Elsberg. Great stuff, no kidding and more to come (ala Donna Johnson, Art Jonak and Tony Rush... and folks, we be talking Business Building FOR SURE).

Session 127
Friday, January 23
The Bag Lady Returns
Sandy Elsberg

Truth is, she never really left. Sandy Elsberg created "The Bag Lady" as the main character in her remarkable— "If you're a network marketer you have GOT TO read this"— book Bread Winner Bread Baker. At an event where I was introducing Sandy, I said that I thought Bread Winner Bread Baker was better than my own book. I told the audience that I'm very proud of The Greatest Networker…, but Sandy's book will literally have them and their new people hit the ground running, doing the business right from the start. Sandy and her book are all about the real business-of-the-business— tried and true techniques, proven over years strategies, nuts and bolts skills, rubber-meets-the-road why to, how to and who to. Sandy is one of THE best trainers in our business.

Sandy began her network marketing career 27 years ago when she was a wholistic health practitioner and joined LightForce Spirulina. She's been at the very top of seven different companies and she's destined to do it again with her current company Youngevity. In this drink from a fire hose Session, Sandy tells her story and speaks (read "trains") about the importance of the "Four Legged Horse:" Product— something you can get really excited about (and you'd tell the world about even if you didn't make a buck); The Comp Plan— does it reward you… or does it punish you? The Company— the owners have a vision and a mission, are honest and pure, operate with integrity and really stand for something; And Training— the teaching and the system that will duplicate. And that's just the beginning of what you'll learn in this jammed-packed, power-full Session from the woman known industry-wide as "The Trainer's Trainer."
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Additional support material from Sandy Elsberg

Retailing is Right Now Money
10 page downloadable PDF

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Posted by GreatestNetworker on January 24, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Network Marketing is going mainstream.

Network Marketing is going mainstream (we've been saying for years now). Art Jonak posted this over on Facebook. The copy below comes from the "more.." on YouTube. Enjoy.

Direct Selling Association (DSA) stats: http://tinyurl.com/DSANumbers

As Network Marketing and Direct Sales Professionals, together we can do more to reverse the worldwide recession and give people their dreams back, than all of the government bailout packages combined.

We can rebuild and re-energize the free enterprise system from the ground up one individual at a time.

But to do this we're going to have to start a revolution. We have to create a revolution in the way our business is done. We have to stop the scam artists, educate our teams better, and challenge ourselves to higher levels of leadership.

We need to do better. And we can. But to do that, we need your voice and participation.

Join in the Network Marketing Revolution.

A revolution in the way we do business, how network marketing is viewed around the world, and what kind of future we will build with it.

Join the Facebook "Network Marketing Revolution" group today at: http://tinyurl.com/mlmrevolution

Viva la Revolucion!

As I commented on Facebook, it is fun to have the Phirst Philanderer say nice things about us, even though dated and with numbers off a bunch (like only 100,000 in Russia. Try that times 10 minimum). Now, when Obama does the same...

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Posted by GreatestNetworker on January 23, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

The Power of Belief w/ Ray Dodd

Hi, it's John. . .

Here's TheMasterMindSessions NEWSLETTER for 01.16.09.

In another life I do BeliefBusters. I'm on a constant search for peers and mentors who's work works with beliefs— "The Awesome Power of Beliefs." Sadly, NOT that many around and... good ones? Nah. But I found one. This guy, Ray Dodd. Super man and wonderful work. Track him down IF you understand just how important your (and your people's) beliefs are for your success in this business.

Next week Sandy Elsberg with "The Return of the Bag Lady." Great stuff and more to come.

Session 126
Friday, January 16
The Power of Belief
Ray Dodd

What began as a "chance encounter" at the ancient Aztec pyramids in Teotihuacan, Mexico and became a mystical experience with Dr. Don Miguel Ruiz, author of the international best-seller The Four Agreements,soon turned into an and apprenticeship and Ray Dodd's life work. His two books, The Power of Belief and BeliefWorks, contain some of the most profound writing about belief you will ever encounter. At first, the relevance of this pre-Columbian Toltec wisdom to today's fast-paced high-tech social and business life and work may seem quite a stretch, but the more you listen and learn about what Ray has to say, the more you'll experience a powerful and practical use for this authentic self-knowledge.

People are and are not aware of the role of belief. Belief is not opinion or a judgment of the mind, Ray says, it goes much much deeper operating at the level of feeling. Our beliefs are the way it is for us… our world view… our personal myth… the programing of our human computer. And we've got to discover what these real underlying beliefs are. Not so much where they came from, but when they are operating and whether or not they limit and inhibit or serve and empower us. Then it's up to each of us to agree with them or make new agreements. What Ray tells people is that 90% of the process of changing your beliefs is awareness— perception without judgment.

I've maintained for years that you can learn all you need to know about how to do your network marketing direct sales business in an hour and a-half on a Sunday afternoon. The rest of your success will come from the actions you take— and that behavior is based on your beliefs. To paraphrase Henry Ford, "Whether you believe you can or believe you cannot… you're right!" That's what this Session is all about.
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Additional support material from Ray Dodd

Stop The World
A simple yet profound practice of awareness where for just a moment you surrender your description of everything that keeps your attention occupied, allowing yourself to observe the world without your habitual lens of belief What you might see is a new world of possibility without the story.
1 page downloadable PDF

10 Energy Wasters That Are Costing YOU Money and How to Fix them Right Now
Any one of these ten energy wasters could be quietly "siphoning money" right out of YOUR bank account! Read on to learn how to eliminate these emotional, physical and "financial drains" and QUICKLY bring more abundance into your life. A superb eBook written with Susan Marshall
18 page downloadable PDF

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I appreciate you.

John Milton Fogg
mailto:jmf@TheMasterMindSessions.com
PO Box 7543
Charlottesville, Virginia 22901 USA
434.964.9303
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Posted by GreatestNetworker on January 16, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Bringing lots of people in, but not many are doing anything.

I am a student of Kurt Wright, author of Breaking The Rules and co-creator with his life and wife partner Patricia of The Five Right Questions.

NOTE: Both links above will take you to a BeliefBusters Report devoted to Kurt and Patricia's work. The Five Right Questions are there as is a PDF download of a Networking Times Interview I did with my mentors. To go there click here.

http://beliefbusters.com/report/09_091608.asp

I use the Right Questions to solve "problems" and at the same time avoid the energy-draining, counter-productive asking of "What's wrong?" So, ala thinking out loud, here goes.

The "Problem:"

I'm bringing people into my business as partners (nearly half of all the people I speak to become Associates or Customers), but I don't know what to do with them once they are in? The self-starters are flying. Most of my "business" people are not— yet. What do I have to do?

First, ALL the questions:

1. What are you doing right/what's working?
2. What makes that so right/work so well?
3. What would be ideal?
4. What not yet quite right?
5. What will it take to make that right... to be ideal?

1. What are you doing right/what's working?
15 personally enrolled, 3 are customers, since December 15.

2. What makes that so right/work so well?
Get Rich Slow... Conversations... Connecting and re-connecting with people through Social media, email and phone... Relationshipping, Friendshipping, Partnershipping...

3. What would be ideal?
Keeping on keeping on AND having (more of) my people (on levels 1, 2, 3 and... ) producing the same and better results.

4. What not yet quite right?
There are two people flying (mlm pros they are), two people (really) trying, the rest are not started (yet) or doing little or... none of them are getting the results I am.

5. What will it take to make that right... to be ideal?
Ah... learn what to do (of course) from the Masters... the successful who've done it and are still doing.

Okay Master of Content for more than 20 years (this is me speaking to myself as if there's a self there to talk to 8^), Who? What? When? Where?

Duh, go to my own stuff... my own resources:

First stop and step, my sponsor (fortunate me) is Sandy Elsberg, consummate mlm pro. Doing that.

Next... BONANZA! The MasterMind Sessions. I remember Randy Gage (there were others, but...) gave me a piece of bonus material about getting started. It's okay that I assume it's going to be more slam-bam stuff than I want. It's stuff that I want. So, I go...

And oh lucky you, here it is, a FANTASTIC freebie 4U from me. I just opened up the security on the Session so it's all yours. Go here (and enjoy the url):

http://TheMasterMindSessions.com/Sessions/HandyDandyRandy.asp

Although the Session is good (very good) what I want to to get (literally) is/are the bonuses below...

First Steps: Getting Started Fast in Network Marketing
Stop losing all those distributors in the first 90 days. Here's what to do to start your new business partners on the right track. If you're losing good, talented people because they don't know how to get started (especially those long distance distributors), this book is a must for you. You make or break your new distributors in the first two weeks…and the first 48 hours are critical. Reading this booklet will insure your success.
28 page downloadable PDF

Getting Started
This 2-part audio program was designed to go along with the First Steps booklet (above). It will take your new distributors through the all-important beginning work…to set a duplicatable foundation to build on. Includes making their list, setting realistic goals, becoming product- focused and scheduling.
1.5 hour downloadable Mp3 in two parts.

Getting Started Part 1
playing time: 44'26

Getting Started Part 2
playing time: 43'15

Now (forgive the pitch or not), if you have even a skosh of "Thank you" for all the above, please consider (operative word) subscribing to The MasterMind Sessions. They are quite good and when you click the link below, you'll save $180— the annual will only cost you $99.95— PLUS you'll get a free year-long subscription to give to a deserving friend .

http://TheMasterMindSessions.com/HolidayGift

As for me, I have some listening and learning to do. May you and I both be wildly successful and duplicate the heck out of that.

BTW, I clearly know there are others besides my sponsor Sandy and Randy. I'll go for Jonak and Clouse next, because I trust them and admire their stuff. If YOU've others, please let me know.

Thanks.

I appreciate you!

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