How many times have you had a team member NOT understanding that his/her success is in their own hands, not yours?
How about you? Have you blamed your upline for your lack of success?
If YOU want success, then YOU have to make success a habit.

Of course doing our due diligence before joining any business is a must! But having a great compensation plan is not enough!
We often blame everyone but ourselves for our failures in business and in every day life.

Understanding that action comes before results is one of the biggest challenges most network marketers have.
If you would be able to pay yourself for the time and effort you’ve put today in building your business how much money do you think you would deserve? Try to answer that question honestly based on time and effort.

How can we expect results if we don’t take action?
Jerry ”The Rhino” Clark once said that in a traditional job we exchange time for money – in Network Marketing we exchange time for results.
Most people are still stuck in that J.O.B. mentality:
Punch in – punch out and get a check every 2 weeks like clock work.
If the check does not come 2 weeks into the business they contemplate quitting and if the check does not come 4 weeks into the business they quit.
They are in the J.O.B. mentality but forget one very important factor:
In a traditional job you put in 40 hours per week and only then you get paid.

How many hours have you put this week into your business?
Surfing the computer, reading the Yahoo headlines and staring at the wall does not count.

Successfully doing nothing and pretending to be an entrepreneur is not the path to financial freedom.

Here is a tip from Tom Big Al Schreiter newsletter :

How to “threaten” your downline.

Are you tired of your distributors blaming YOU for their lack of success?

Want to get your distributors to take personal responsibility for their success?

Simply say this to your new distributors:

“If you go out there and become a huge success in this business, it will not be because of me, it will be because of you.

“If you go out there and fail in this business, it will not be because of me, it will be because of you.”

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Understand your compensation plan!
Understand how much you are getting paid. Not all compensation plans are created equal.
When we look for a job, one of the most important questions we ask is ”How much am I going to get paid?”

It’s amazing to me that when we join a Network Marketing company we throw all that common sense out the window.
I’ve done it, people I know have done it, and there is a good chance that you’ve done it too.

Here is a example for you.
You are standing in front of two stair cases. One staircase has 2000 steps and the other has 400.
On top of each staircase is an envelope with $10.000 in it.

Question:
Which stair case are you going to start climbing to get the money?

If you are building a business and the company is paying you next to nothing, then who’s fault is it?
Your fault? Or…maybe is the pay plan? Hmmmm…

What’s your monthly financial goal? Is it $5000 per month? $500? $10,000?
Here is how you can figure out if you get paid fairly or not. How many people ordering your products or services regularly do you need in your downline to reach that goal?

Remember : We are talking about $10,000 in residual income not bonuses.
Bonuses involve recruiting and are one time payments.

Let’s say your monthly goal is $10,000 and in your company the monthly product purchase for distributors is $100.
The next thing to consider is the average percentage the company pays you on levels. Let’s say you have 7 levels in your comp plan and you get paid anywhere from 3% on level one to 7% on level 7.
Now you take the average between 3% and 7% and that’s about 5%.
So on average, every $100 you bring to the company the company pays you $5.

Now if you take $10,000 and divide it by 5% that will tell you how many distributors/customers you need to make that amount month after month. The answer is you need 2000 distributors/customers that order monthly to reach your financial goal.

Of course if you get 5% you are extremely underpaid. And even if the company pays you 30% on level 7 it does not matter because the fact is that most people in this industry are part timers that never get beyond 2nd level.
If the part timer in your company is not getting paid you cannot sustain a  long term downline.
It’s not only that YOU don’t get paid fairly, you also invite people into a pay plan that does not pay.

If people don’t get paid fairly, early and often they get discouraged and quit.
”NO PAY! NO STAY!”

The $10,000 question can range anywhere from 400 people needed all the way to 10,000 people or more.
Why would you have to work harder than you have to?
And why would your team stay if your competitor pays them a lot more for a lot less work?

When you are looking at any home based business, you should analyze your pay plan first before falling in love with the product. After all, it’s the paycheck you receive, not the product, that will pay your bills and make your purchases. If you’re not making an income you won’t be able to buy your product.

In order for MLM companies to stay in business, they have to offer a good product. But … they don’t all have a pay plan as good as the product!

And make sure you don’t have to jump thru a lot of hoops to get a check.

Ask yourself this:
If my team and I bring my company $500 in revenue, what does the company pay me?
You’ll be surprised to find out that there are companies out there where you are actually up to $100 in minus while they make $500 from your efforts.
The negative answers are from companies with low commissions, high startup fees, monthly website fees, renewal fees, etc. All money that comes out of your pocket, not from product sales.

If you choose NOT to be a critical thinker, then all the cards are stacked against you from the beginning.

If you need help analyzing your comp plan call or email me anytime.

Daniela Riess
702 686 1433
dm.riess@gmail.com
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A simple duplicatable System for Success is one of the most important tools for building your business.

Your prospect needs to know that you have the knowledge to guide him/her.
People want to know that you are skilled enough to show them the way and that you have a system to plug them into. If you are new you should have someone in your upline working closely with you.
We all know that one of the reasons for failure in network marketing is lack of upline support.
Heck, I’ve met people that don’t even know who their upline is.

In a real business you should have at least three upline levels contact information available to you.

Your team leaders should have a check-list with all the steps that a newbie needs to take when joining your team.
If you are new in your business, you should have a team of people working with you. We have to remember that we cannot do this business alone.

And also remember that people are not duplicatable but systems are. There are scenarios where people join an opportunity and they get lost in the ”I joined! Now what?” confusion.
If you have no answer for their question and no guidance for them, then you’ve lost them.

A simple duplicatable system is a must have if you want to build a successful team.
And a training check-list is a tool no business should be without.

Here is a great tip from Tom Big Al Schreiter report:

Jungle guide prospecting.

If you were hiring a guide through the jungle, would you hire someone who said:

“Oh sure, I can be your guide. Just give me some time to learn and figure it out.”

Of course not.

And your prospects won’t want you as a sponsor if you tell them something similar. Prospects are naturally attracted to sponsors who already have the skills and know exactly what to say and do.

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Distributors’ lawsuit alleging Amway
is pyramid scheme heads back to trial

By Chris Knape | The Grand Rapids Press

SAN FRANCISCO — A lawsuit alleging Amway and its upper level distributors operate an illegal pyramid scheme is headed back to court after an appeals court struck down company efforts to force plaintiffs into arbitration.

A federal appeals court this week upheld a decision from a 2007 lawsuit against Amway that invalidated a requirement that disputes with the company be resolved through a mediation process rather than in court.

The appeals judges agreed with a U.S. Circuit Court decision that said Ada-based Amway’s mandatory “Alternative Dispute Resolution” process was so slanted in the company’s favor that it was “unconscionable.”

The ruling relates to a proposed class-action lawsuit filed in California by three former Amway distributors, which the company refers to as Independent Business Owners.

In a statement provided to The Press this morning, Amway said it expected the ruling and it continues to believe the allegations have no merit.

“The Ninth Circuit historically has been skeptical of contract arbitration,” the statement read.

“The decision is merely a procedural step on a long road to trial. In fact, the original motion ruling that Quixtar appealed in this case was written more than two years ago.

“Since that time, concerns about the arbitration process have been fully addressed.”

While the appellate decision is largely procedural as it relates the overall case, it could be significant because the company has relied on its dispute resolution process to keep some disgruntled distributors and their potentially damaging allegations out of the courts.

“We agree with the district court that the Quixtar ADR agreements are ’simply too tainted to be saved through minor adjustments,’ and hold that the entire ADR process mandated by those agreements is unconscionable and therefore unenforceable,” the ruling, which was published Tuesday by the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco, read.

The suit by plaintiffs Jeff Pokorny, Larry Blenn, and Kenneth Busiere alleges Amway, which at the time operated under the Quixtar brand name, operated a two-tiered pyramid scheme that resulted in junior level distributors being “scammed” out of millions of dollars.

The suit alleged Amway’s products are priced too high for distributors to resell at a reasonable profit and its system emphasizes recruiting new “downline” distributors over retail sales.

It also says the company and senior level distributors fraudulently induce the junior level to buy business-support materials or “tools” that are supposed to help build a sales business but are almost entirely geared toward recruiting additional distributors.

With the ruling, the suit will be referred back to the U.S. Circuit Court for trial.

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How do you get people to join your opportunity? Do you tell them about how great your company is, or how well the #1 distributor is doing or how your product is the best thing since sliced bread?

I get emails every single day from a distributor of a well known wellness company. He is trying to convince me that his product is the absolute best on the planet.
It does not matter that I’ve made it clear that I’m very happy with the company I’m with and I’m very happy with the products I’m currently using. To him it does not matter that I’m NOT LOOKING!!!!

Every email sounds about the same:

”Our product is the absolute best in the industry! You could save $600 per year if you replace the product you are currently using with ours! Our company is the best, there is no question about it!”
It goes on and on, same email same sells pitch.

Now, if this person would put more time into researching that people don’t join companies they join YOU, he would have much more success in getting his point across.

Creating relationships is what’s working in network marketing because people are people, people are not numbers!
There are plenty of good companies out there and plenty of good products otherwise those companies would not be in business 5 years later.
Coming across with the repetitive ”MY company and MY product are the absolute best”  destroys your credibility and pushes people away.

And let’s not forget that the company and product are just part of the picture. There are other very important things to consider:
Compensation plan that pays the part timer and the contract between You – the distributor – and the company you represent.

But…YOU are the most important part. Everything else comes second.
There was a poll conducted by Tom Big Al Schreiter while traveling the world training network marketers.
It asked a simple question: What is most important to you when considering joining a business venture?
The answer might surprise you : ”WHO did the presentation” was the most important factor.
That factor came before the company, products and compensation plan.

So lead with YOU, create relationships and try to truly help someone without an agenda.
Say to yourself : I’ll make a new friend today instead of ” I’m going to get him/her in my business”

Stop sharing your opportunity with anything with a pulse. That’s not a way to conduct a business.

Doing it that way screams loud the word ”Amateur!!!!” 

A business relationship should be a life long relationship.
I’ve learned from one of my mentors that you should not build a business with someone that you don’t want to be on a month long cruise with.

So here is to you -  ”best opportunity best product on the planet” – person behind the email sells pitch of the day:
As Forest Gump say: ”That’s all I have to say about that!”
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Montana says Fortune High Tech is a pyramid scheme!

Helena – Montana Commissioner of Securities and Insurance, Monica J. Lindeen announced the issuance of a Cease and Desist Order and Notice of Proposed Agency Action against Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing, Inc. for allegedly operating a “pyramid scheme.”

The actions allege Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing (FHTM) recruited thousands of Montanans with deceptive claims that members could earn huge sums of money through the recruitment of new participants and through the sale of discounted services.  Also named in the actions are Paul C. Orberson, President, Thomas A. Mills, Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, and Dianne Graber, Executive Sales Manager for the Company.  Ms. Graber lives in Billings and allegedly promoted the program in Montana and recruited a substantial number of Montana participants.

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http://www.kfbb.com/news/local/87709867.html?video=YHI&t=a

Fortune marketing company banned

By Linda B. Blackford – lblackford@herald-leader.com

After receiving numerous phone calls from Montana consumers about a Lexington network marketing firm last year, officials there embarked on a five-month investigation and concluded that the company is an illegal pyramid scheme.

Montana has banned Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing, which has received as much as $1.9 million from state residents, from doing business there until there is a hearing or settlement of the case, said Jackie Boyle, a spokeswoman for the Montana auditor’s office.

“Basically a lot of the claims they’ve been making are false,” Boyle said.

The company was founded by former Danville basketball coach Paul Orberson, who became a millionaire with Excel Communications, another network marketing group. In 2000, he started Fortune, which promotes itself as a company that recruits people to sell services and products.

Jason Baker, the associate general counsel for Fortune, directed a reporter to Fortune’s Web site, which had a statement from Vice President Tom Mills asking Fortune representatives not to work in Montana.

“We respect the right of the auditor’s office to oversee the conduct of companies doing business in Montana,” the statement said. “While we are in discussions with them, you must not engage in your Fortune business.”

Orberson is also a University of Kentucky sports booster who recently gave $100,000 to the Hoops for Haiti campaign, earning the winning bid on a dinner at Coach John Calipari’s house with actress Ashley Judd.

To become a Fortune representative, the company’s literature says, a person pays $299, then sells services such as the Dish Network and True Essentials vitamins while recruiting a sales force of his or her own.

The person at the top of the pyramid receives commissions from each sale and each new membership. It’s legal, Fortune officials say, because they sell products.

However, the Montana authorities disagree.

“FTHM is not a multilevel distribution company but rather a pyramid promotional scheme because the compensation each participant in the program receives is derived primarily from obtaining the participation of other persons in the program and not the sale of goods and services,” the cease and desist order says.

Only two of 17 witnesses interviewed in Montana who signed up with Fortune made more than the $299 they paid to join the company. There are 1,300 people represented in the complaint, Boyle said.

“Recruitment has happened very quickly here,” she said. “We’ve been getting a number of calls just in the past week, so that number could potentially grow.”

The order also quotes a Web video from Fortune in which executive manager Mike Misenheimer says: “You don’t have to understand how it all works; what you’ve got to understand is that it does work.” Misenheimer also says that the “real way” to get wealthy is by “building a team of people.”

The Montana order also names Diane Graber, who is at the “executive” level for Fortune in Billings, Mont., and who allegedly earned at least $65,458 through 2008 through Fortune.

Fortune had a similar problem in North Dakota, but Fortune officials convinced the attorney general’s office there that it was a legitimate business, and the cease and desist order was dropped. Fortune paid the state a $12,000 fine.

The company could be assessed fines in the Montana case.

Robert FitzPatrick, the founder of Pyramid Scheme Alert in Charlotte, N.C., said Fortune’s practice of selling other companies’ services means the margins on sales can’t be very big.

Read more:
http://www.kentucky.com/2010/03/17/1184218/montana-says-lexington-company.html#ixzz0leqsX6xP

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How To Identify A Scam:

An Attorney General would ask these two questions:

1 – Would a logical thinking person pay this much money for the product or service if there was not a business opportunity involved?

2 – Does the income stop when the recruiting stops?

If the answer to the first question is “No” and/or the answer to the second question is “Yes”,
then it is a scam.

Tom Big Al Schreiter is so brilliant and entertaining when it comes to explaining just about anything.
I subscribe to The Big Al Report and I always get great nuggets of knowledge from his newsletter.

The report I got today shows a ”green” personality giving a presentation. It’s very interesting and entertaining how greens focus so much on details and information. Learning the 4 personality colors is probably one of the best tools you’ll absolutely need to build a successful business.

You’ll learn a lot about ”greens” by watching this.
And…it’s pretty entertaining.

How “Greens” give presentations. (This is not me in the video.)

Coach Mike Lewis sent me this YouTube video of a “green” personality giving a presentation. Okay, it may be slightly exaggerated, but not much. And it does illustrate why “green” personalities have trouble enrolling people because we focus on the information. Just go to:
A Green Presentation

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”You can learn the secret language of the four personalities of your prospects, that INSTANTLY goes to their minds and to their hearts . . . so that you can say just a few sentences and your prospects will want to join . . . before they even hear the name of your company”

Most Work-At-Home Job Offers Are Not What They Seem

Do your due diligence!

Below you’ll find some tips in how to avoid becoming a victim of work-at-home scams and examples of work-at-home scams.

from ScamBusters.org

Would you like to earn lots of money in the comfort of your own home

? Generate thousands in income in your spare time?

Ads offering work-at-home opportunities can be found everywhere from Internet employment websites to neighborhood telephone poles.

This might seem like the perfect solution for retirees who want to bring in some extra dollars. But, there’s a catch — most of these work-at-home opportunities are scams cleverly designed to leave you with less money than when you began.

Among the most common work-at-home scams…

*Stuffing envelopes

Lure: Earn big bucks for folding papers and sticking them into envelopes, usually more than $1 per envelope.

Trap: You will be asked to pay for your supplies or training. You’ll typically receive only worthless instructions suggesting that you con others into applying for envelope-stuffing jobs.

Reality: Bulk mailers use machines to stuff envelopes.

*Medical billing or insurance claims processing

Lure: You can make big money processing medical paperwork.

Trap: You will be asked to pay hundreds of dollars for the software and training required.

Reality: The majority of medical offices process their own bills or outsource to large companies. Very few hire individuals.

*Assembling crafts or sewing together clothing

Lure: Are you good with your hands? Then these companies claim to have a career for you. They will send you unassembled parts and instructions, and you assemble them and send them back.

Trap: The company will ask you to pay a deposit up front because it needs assurance that you will do the work and return the assembled goods. When you send in your completed products, most or all will be rejected as not meeting specifications, and the company will keep your deposit.

*Email processing

Lure: Earn big bucks by receiving email sent to the customer service websites of major companies, then forwarding these messages to the proper departments. For a fee, you can receive a list of companies anxious to hire you.

Trap: This list will be worthless, perhaps just companies pulled at random from the Yellow Pages.

Reality: Businesses usually do not hire individuals to work at home processing email.

*Payment processing for international companies

Lure: A company with clients around the globe needs a US representative to handle incoming checks. You will receive checks from overseas, deposit them in your account, take a small cut as your fee, then send your own check for the remainder to your foreign employer.

Trap: The checks you receive will bounce. By the time your bank informs you that there is a problem, the check you wrote will have cleared, and your “employer” will have disappeared.

*Mystery shopping

Lure: Earn thousands of dollars by reporting on the quality of the service you receive in stores.

Trap: Anyone who says that you can earn high pay mystery shopping is a scammer. They might be trying to con you into paying for mystery shopping information that you could find online for free.

Reality: Legitimate mystery shopping assignments typically pay up to $10 an hour (in some cases, as high as $20 per hour), or perhaps you’ll receive a free restaurant meal or a token amount of some merchandise. For information on legitimate mystery shopping opportunities, see the Idea Lady website.

Variation: You are told that you are evaluating a financial company, such as a bank or money-forwarding service. You are then sent a large check and told to deposit this money into your own account, then wire some portion of the funds to the address provided. The check bounces, leaving you responsible for the money wired.

Some work-at-home scams can be applied to virtually any work-at- home occupation. Be suspicious if you are told…

“We overpaid you with your first check. Please send the extra money back.” Your new employer “accidentally” sent you more than you were owed and asks you to send back a check for the excess. Sometime after you send this check, your bank tells you that the original paycheck bounced. Your “job” was a ruse to get you to send the “overpayment” check.

“You got the job! We just need your Social Security number so we can pay you.” It is perfectly reasonable for an employer to ask for a prospective employee’s Social Security number. Scammers take advantage of this by posting legitimate-sounding job offers on career websites, then stealing applicants’ identities.

Do not provide your Social Security number until you have thoroughly researched the employer and are confident that the company and job opportunity are real.

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In 2009 YTB travel lost almost $10 million.
By going public YTB had to fully display the fact that way more than 50% of their  revenue was generated by    website fees, brochures, marketing material sold to distributors etc..

On the other hand, way less that 50% revenue came from actual travel sells. That is a big FTC no-no!
Paying hundreds of dollars for a card that says ”you might be a travel agent” raised a big red flag as well.

And here is more bad news from TravelAgentCentral.com:

Ever controversial multilevel marketer YTB International anticipates a net loss of $9.9 million for the fiscal year 2009, compared to a net loss of $4.5 million for the prior year, the company told the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

YTB also said that it is unable to file its Annual Report (Form 10-K) for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2009 by the SEC deadline ”without unreasonable effort and expense.”

Headquartered in Wood River, IL,  YTB said, based on the information available at this time, the net loss from discontinued operations for the year ending December 31, 2009 is expected to be $3.1 million compared to a net loss of $762,000 for 2008. Net revenues are anticipated to be $67.3 million in 2009 compared to $159.5 million reported in 2008.

YTB said the delay was caused by the resignation of John D. Clagg as CFO on February 2, 2010. YTB said it had been unable to complete all of the information requested by YTB’s independent auditors.

YTB expects to file the Form 10-K no later than the 15th calendar day following the due date. Robert M. Van Patten, YTB’s CEO and interim CFO signed the filing.

In its SEC filing, YTB said total operating expenses for 2009 are currently $75 million compared to $162.8 million reported in 2008. Other items anticipated to have a significant impact on the net loss for 2009 include non-cash impairment charges for goodwill and intangible assets of $450,000 and $2.2 million, respectively, compared to $149,000 of goodwill impairment reported in 2008.

Also currently included in the net loss for 2009, are asset impairment charges of $4.5 million compared to $366,000 reported in the prior year period. The $4.5 million in asset impairment charges in 2009 relate primarily the $3.9 million write-down of YTB’s headquarters property.

YTB intends to sell the property within the next 12 months. Inventory impairment charges are anticipated to be $724,000 for 2009 compared to $3.0 million reported in 2008, YTB said.

Remember that critical thinking really pays off!
Doing your due diligence might just save you years of failure and frustration in Network Marketing.

This FREE REPORT will show you Network Marketing in a different light.
A  bright light that shows you EVERYTHING.
And by ”everything” I mean the good, the bad and the reallllllllly ugly.

This short post is for the network marketer that does not know much about creating HTML.
Learning HTML can be hard and time consuming. I’m not saying learning HTML is a bad idea.

Education and skills are needed if you want to build a successful business.

I just want to give you a fast, easy and free way to create HTML codes anytime you need it if you don’t have the time right now to learn the skills yourself.

I came across this website by accident .
No downloads required, just a simple free HTML tag generator.

Check it out, it will save you a lot of time and money:

Click here:
Easy HTML Tag Generator

I hope you got the help you needed.
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