Not feeling challenged by your everyday "norm" of a schedule? You can effectively remove yourself from that ho-hum cycle and super-charge your day by making the commitment to create a new game.
Re-write your playbook
Creating a new game for yourself is simply looking at your situation differently in terms of your Daily Mode of Operation. To reach your desired level of success, you may need to re-configure your playbook a little. Look at your schedule. Make sure you are not in "Training Camp" mode for 80% of your day. You've got to get off the bench and out on the field is you want to score. Identify the distractions and excuses that keep you from actual revenue producing work and structure your schedule accordingly. "Warm" up before you play by spending 15 to 30 minutes reading some motivational material and mentally visualizing your goals. If you aren't currently experiencing success, you might be calling the wrong plays or putting the wrong resources in the game. Having the wrong equipment and resources can bring alot of unnecessary distractions. Re-writing your playbook can eliminate these distractions and give you a fresh perspective on the game!
Celebrate your victories!
It's important to celebrate the small victories on the way to your success. If it was a victory to get out of bed today, then celebrate, but remember that you need more than one score to beat the competition; they get chances to score too. Don't wait until you're financially independent to celebrate; celebrate your first sale, your tenth sale and your fiftieth sale. Heck, celebrate generating your first 100 leads! While celebrating the small victories are important, you also need to set goals that challenge you. If you don't like writing ads, set a goal to write 20 new ads, then celebrate when you reach that goal. This will break the over-all learning and working down into smaller chunks because it's very important to feel successful in the journey to your over-all success. Dividing your day up into victories means that you're preparing for that victory and making the important decisions that are game changers for yourself and your team.
Be Decisive
Decide to play the game every day and decide every day to WIN. Taking action is crucial every day if you want any level of success marketing on the Internet.
Friday, October 1, 2010
3 Strengths of a Successful Leader in Home Business
Strength number 1. The strength of self mastery. Do you have a hard time getting up in the morning, Why? Are you a creature of bad habits, what are they? Do you have a temper in the car when driving, maybe even when someone else is driving? This is what "self mastery" means to me, it's my first reaction to a particular situation, those are the ones I have total control over. I can choose in that moment to let the Jerk just go by and tail-gate someone else, I have the power to quit smoking, I have the power to get up when I want and do what I want. Is it all worth it to scowl at the day?
Is my family worth it to try harder at what I do that brings in the cash flow? I challenge you to find that reason to become a master of yourself. Move forward and do things that you like or something that gets your blood pumping in the morning. Leaders in any industry all have this in common.
Strength number 2. The strength of action. Do you find yourself watching alot of television, surfing the internet, skipping an afternoon workout, putting off that book you're halfway through? Although watching TV is in itself an action, it's not the kind of action I am talking about. Action, is placing ads not just writing them, submitting your articles and videos, not just having a great idea. Leaders take action, daily focused action. They don't compromise on their goals, if they don't meet a goal, they come back to it. It's about the consistency of your action on a daily basis to meet personal and business goals. Bending and breaking are the decisions that take you away from your goals.
Strength number 3. The strength of relationships. It comes down to the people you spend the most time with outside of your family. That's your circle, you share viewpoints and insights with these people. Their habits are your habits. They may see and exploit your weaknesses, they may prop you up, they may look up to you, but how deep are your relationships with them? A casual relationship can have meaning, it's OK to be nice to the person taking your order at Starbucks or the gas attendant or whatever. Point is, is that you are in control of your relationships, don't carry that baggage of a broken friendship or allow a rude interaction with someone to knock you off your course. Everyone deserves to have their day brightened up, why not be the one shedding that light on those around you!
Having strong relationships with those around doesn't really take all that much more effort, attitude goes a long way and is universal. It will transcend your relationships and have a lasting effect on the people in your circle. Be influenced by those who you aspire to be like.
Is my family worth it to try harder at what I do that brings in the cash flow? I challenge you to find that reason to become a master of yourself. Move forward and do things that you like or something that gets your blood pumping in the morning. Leaders in any industry all have this in common.
Strength number 2. The strength of action. Do you find yourself watching alot of television, surfing the internet, skipping an afternoon workout, putting off that book you're halfway through? Although watching TV is in itself an action, it's not the kind of action I am talking about. Action, is placing ads not just writing them, submitting your articles and videos, not just having a great idea. Leaders take action, daily focused action. They don't compromise on their goals, if they don't meet a goal, they come back to it. It's about the consistency of your action on a daily basis to meet personal and business goals. Bending and breaking are the decisions that take you away from your goals.
Strength number 3. The strength of relationships. It comes down to the people you spend the most time with outside of your family. That's your circle, you share viewpoints and insights with these people. Their habits are your habits. They may see and exploit your weaknesses, they may prop you up, they may look up to you, but how deep are your relationships with them? A casual relationship can have meaning, it's OK to be nice to the person taking your order at Starbucks or the gas attendant or whatever. Point is, is that you are in control of your relationships, don't carry that baggage of a broken friendship or allow a rude interaction with someone to knock you off your course. Everyone deserves to have their day brightened up, why not be the one shedding that light on those around you!
Having strong relationships with those around doesn't really take all that much more effort, attitude goes a long way and is universal. It will transcend your relationships and have a lasting effect on the people in your circle. Be influenced by those who you aspire to be like.
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Thursday, September 30, 2010
Facebook Lead Generation - Are You Wasting Your Time?
Using facebook for lead generation has become the latest trend in the pay-per-click world of internet marketing. I'm not going to talk about that. What I do want to talk about is a few strategies that result in free leads for your mlm business. An unsolicited flow of prospects that want your products and or services.
1) Building a facebook fan-page can be a great way to begin connecting with prospects, but only if you are providing value, i.e. free access to webinars, free e-books, and any other free or low cost training. These things provide tremendous value for a fan-page. It takes some time building up trust and relationships with your facebook list, so you'll want to stay away from pitching your business. I know that I hate spam so if your stuff looks too spammy or business-like, people will just go right past your messages. But if there is a face that they can put with the message, it sets you apart from the rest of the unbranded messages they will be bombarded with, especially if they are in the mlm industry. Which brings me to my next point.
2) Personal branding is essential to building a nice following on facebook. The more YOU the better! Like stated previously, putting a face to the message is a key factor in building a following. It is called facebook right? Not Logo-book! I get tons of requests to become fans and I accepted them all at first, but all of the sudden I was bombarded in my inbox with faceless messages. I watch my friend feed and I see all of this interaction, but I have no idea who is the owner the "MLM Prosperity Best Home Business Web Domination for the Rich" facebook fan-page. (Sorry if that's yours, I didn't bother checking). But you get the point, personal branding your fan-page is essential the facebook lead generating game.
3) Getting people to become fans in the first place can be a tough sell in the beginning so I suggest joining groups, the more groups you join the more friend requests you're going to get from people who are in those groups. I know there are some limits so keep it simple and low key. Facebook is watching and they will ban you forever for being stupid with friend adding. Another way I built up my friend list is through twitter. I simply have an automatic direct message that goes out to anyone who follows me and then they are prompted to follow me on facebook as well. It's super easy and on a good day, I get friend requests from around 25 people that were looking for me and the same goes for fan pages. You can follow tons of people on twitter as long as you follow their 10% rule, each of those people will have a chance to follow you on facebook too!
4) Integrating your social media accounts is also key. I do not recommend blasting your facebook feed with twitter though because I've seen some people tweeting every couple minutes or more with their websites and that will get you banned on facebook as well.
These are just some strategies that I incorporate into my business and they work great for facebook lead generation!
For an in-depth look at these facebook lead generation strategies and others, opt-in for this free webinar. Facebook Lead Generation!
1) Building a facebook fan-page can be a great way to begin connecting with prospects, but only if you are providing value, i.e. free access to webinars, free e-books, and any other free or low cost training. These things provide tremendous value for a fan-page. It takes some time building up trust and relationships with your facebook list, so you'll want to stay away from pitching your business. I know that I hate spam so if your stuff looks too spammy or business-like, people will just go right past your messages. But if there is a face that they can put with the message, it sets you apart from the rest of the unbranded messages they will be bombarded with, especially if they are in the mlm industry. Which brings me to my next point.
2) Personal branding is essential to building a nice following on facebook. The more YOU the better! Like stated previously, putting a face to the message is a key factor in building a following. It is called facebook right? Not Logo-book! I get tons of requests to become fans and I accepted them all at first, but all of the sudden I was bombarded in my inbox with faceless messages. I watch my friend feed and I see all of this interaction, but I have no idea who is the owner the "MLM Prosperity Best Home Business Web Domination for the Rich" facebook fan-page. (Sorry if that's yours, I didn't bother checking). But you get the point, personal branding your fan-page is essential the facebook lead generating game.
3) Getting people to become fans in the first place can be a tough sell in the beginning so I suggest joining groups, the more groups you join the more friend requests you're going to get from people who are in those groups. I know there are some limits so keep it simple and low key. Facebook is watching and they will ban you forever for being stupid with friend adding. Another way I built up my friend list is through twitter. I simply have an automatic direct message that goes out to anyone who follows me and then they are prompted to follow me on facebook as well. It's super easy and on a good day, I get friend requests from around 25 people that were looking for me and the same goes for fan pages. You can follow tons of people on twitter as long as you follow their 10% rule, each of those people will have a chance to follow you on facebook too!
4) Integrating your social media accounts is also key. I do not recommend blasting your facebook feed with twitter though because I've seen some people tweeting every couple minutes or more with their websites and that will get you banned on facebook as well.
These are just some strategies that I incorporate into my business and they work great for facebook lead generation!
For an in-depth look at these facebook lead generation strategies and others, opt-in for this free webinar. Facebook Lead Generation!
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Twitter Automation Tips
- How do I get more followers? -
That seems to be the million dollar question: how do I get more people to follow me on Twitter? Well, you're not famous, so that might seem like the biggest hurdle. One thing you need to keep in mind is that you have to keep your follower/following ratio to about 10%. To stay under Twitter's spammer radar, you need to hover around that number. You can have a million followers and not follow anyone yourself but you can not follow a million people and have no followers at all. It doesn't work that way. The process I use is to follow any one who is in network marketing and related fields by utilizing the search feature on Twitter. Then I unfollow people that have not followed me back over a 24-hour period. To figure out who's not following me back, I use mytweeple.com. It's a neat little tool that organizes everyone in my Twitter circle into four catagories: People I Follow, People that Follow Me, Mutual Followers (people that I follow that also follow me), and Everyone. There are many different programs; this is just the one I recommend and it's free. There I can scrub my list by unfollowing everyone who has not followed me back in a timely fashion. I only give it 24 hours because I might be following people that are inactive or aren't serious Twitter users. My objective is to get more followers. Since there's that 10% followers to following ratio, it's important to consistently unfollow anyone who's not following you back within a certain time-frame. Another way to get more followers is to follow people in your field that already have alot of followers, but that is a more timely process I'll cover in another article.
- How do I automate my tweets? -
Automating your tweets is another great way to save time and get more people to follow you on Twitter. There are a lot of automation sites out there, some free and some paysites. The key is finding one that makes things easier for you. I highly recommens socialoomph.com. It's both a paysite and a free site. The free features work fine for Twitter alone. There is a "schedule new tweets" tab on your welcome page and it's pretty self explanitory from there. A key point to remember is to stagger out your tweets all day. On this particular site, you schedule what seems to be an endless amount of updates over a 24-hour period. I try to do one tweet an hour so as to not frustrate my followers. Also, it is important to add value to your tweets; don't post your website or opportunity 24 times in a row! Mix it up with some interesting quotes and educational content. Write some useful articles, post some videos, use humor and be yourself! Watch the trends on your feed page; what do you see that you like or dislike? Automation is cool because it allows you to free up time to do other things, but make sure you take a conservative approach.
- How do I keep up with everyone? -
Good news! You don't have to keep up with everyone. In due time you will build up your own following and have a pipeline full of like-minded individuals to lead and learn from.
That seems to be the million dollar question: how do I get more people to follow me on Twitter? Well, you're not famous, so that might seem like the biggest hurdle. One thing you need to keep in mind is that you have to keep your follower/following ratio to about 10%. To stay under Twitter's spammer radar, you need to hover around that number. You can have a million followers and not follow anyone yourself but you can not follow a million people and have no followers at all. It doesn't work that way. The process I use is to follow any one who is in network marketing and related fields by utilizing the search feature on Twitter. Then I unfollow people that have not followed me back over a 24-hour period. To figure out who's not following me back, I use mytweeple.com. It's a neat little tool that organizes everyone in my Twitter circle into four catagories: People I Follow, People that Follow Me, Mutual Followers (people that I follow that also follow me), and Everyone. There are many different programs; this is just the one I recommend and it's free. There I can scrub my list by unfollowing everyone who has not followed me back in a timely fashion. I only give it 24 hours because I might be following people that are inactive or aren't serious Twitter users. My objective is to get more followers. Since there's that 10% followers to following ratio, it's important to consistently unfollow anyone who's not following you back within a certain time-frame. Another way to get more followers is to follow people in your field that already have alot of followers, but that is a more timely process I'll cover in another article.
- How do I automate my tweets? -
Automating your tweets is another great way to save time and get more people to follow you on Twitter. There are a lot of automation sites out there, some free and some paysites. The key is finding one that makes things easier for you. I highly recommens socialoomph.com. It's both a paysite and a free site. The free features work fine for Twitter alone. There is a "schedule new tweets" tab on your welcome page and it's pretty self explanitory from there. A key point to remember is to stagger out your tweets all day. On this particular site, you schedule what seems to be an endless amount of updates over a 24-hour period. I try to do one tweet an hour so as to not frustrate my followers. Also, it is important to add value to your tweets; don't post your website or opportunity 24 times in a row! Mix it up with some interesting quotes and educational content. Write some useful articles, post some videos, use humor and be yourself! Watch the trends on your feed page; what do you see that you like or dislike? Automation is cool because it allows you to free up time to do other things, but make sure you take a conservative approach.
- How do I keep up with everyone? -
Good news! You don't have to keep up with everyone. In due time you will build up your own following and have a pipeline full of like-minded individuals to lead and learn from.
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