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column · March 2006

Network Marketing… is it more than just luck?

Because the answer to your success lies within your hands and it starts with a decision AND action. Nike’s “Just Do It” slogan is more than just a slogan and luck has nothing to do with it.

feature · May 2006

Part time moms in mlm

Simple? No! Fast growing? Nope! Worth it? Every second!

feature · May 2006

Part time effort - full time residual income

What do you wake up in the middle of the night thinking about? What gets you out of bed early in the morning, what is it that you can't wait to get started, and what keeps you up late at night working on because you must have it?

article · October 2006

Start with the basics

Indeed: Always take your shoes off before you take your pants off.

article · October 2006

Network Marketing – Live! Luke's Story

The problem I am having is identifying which business presents me with the greatest likelihood of success, given my skills, interests and schedule.

feature · November 2006

The Packard Brothers

I decided that instead of working at the course, I was going to be a member at a course. It was then that I took the entrepreneurial path.

article · November 2006

Bringing balance to a chaotic life

Our lives make a difference in the lives of others! This is a tremendous reason to bring my life into balance!

article · November 2006

Bringing balance to a chaotic life

Our lives make a difference in the lives of others! This is a tremendous reason to bring my life into balance!

article · November 2006

The Best Business Keeps Getting Better

What was once considered risky- is rapidly becoming known as the smartest way to reduce taxes, increase your income, build net worth and create free time.

feature · December 2006

Success lessons I learned from my single mom

The following success principles, though they can be and should be applied by all of us, are dedicated to all of those single moms out there.

feature · December 2006

MLM Moms

2. Realize that as a mom with small children, you will have to balance and prioritize in a different way.

feature · December 2007

Profits over Wages

It's true what they say that when you get to a certain dollar figure it's no longer about the money.

article · December 2007

The 7 DEADLY Mistakes Made

I attribute much of my success in sales and business to my desire to always learn from the best.

feature · March 2008

A Map to the Fast Track

The most powerful goals are those that engage and inspire us well beyond the initial writing. The power within a goal is the commitment and intention that it represents.

feature · March 2008

Ready, Set... Zip it!

"If You Do What We Did... You Can Have What We Got!"

feature · March 2008

Get'r Done

The key here is that in order to finish first, you have to get started and in this article I'm going to address how to get started right.

feature · March 2008

Getting Started to Finish First

In NWM, it's important to start out right and then to keep on the proper course so that you can "finish first."

article · March 2008

Getting Started... in something new?

With a proven track record and something that has been around for a while... you don't need to guess...the work has already been done (so to speak).

article · March 2008

Be There at the Finish Line

We can also say that our subconscious mind may play a bigger role than we first imagined. In fact, our subconscious mind can make or break our success; in anything we attempt to accomplish.

feature · June 2008

The Taming of the Hairy Beast

It seems that as long as I was left to network in my natural style oblivious to what I was doing, I was ok with it – even successful; then once it was defined and parameters were imposed, it became a big hairy monster with yellow eyes and toxic drool running down its chin.

feature · June 2008

Prospecting

Although Network Marketing has evolved, it always was and IS a relationship Business.

column · June 2008

Prospecting, for what?

Because they can fog a mirror, doesn’t necessarily qualify them as a GREAT prospect for you!

column · July 2008

Consistency

First one of the most important activities you must spend consistent time doing is to discover your core WHY, that all important, why are you doing this business.

feature · September 2008

5 Tips to Taking Massive Action!

Building your business, growing your team, becoming more successful both professionally and personally requires action. Action brings progress. Progress means results. Results bring success.

feature · September 2008

Are You Walking the Walk?

If you want to walk the walk, you must be there too. Plus, you will learn new things that will help you build your business and these meetings are great for prospects and new distributors.

feature · September 2008

Building the Dream with your Team

You need the dream because that causes you to find the hours. You need the ten to 15 hours a week, because that’s how much time the business really takes to start.

column · September 2008

In the Trenches... Just Do It!

You need to shake it up. You need to begin and experience Getting Started . It doesn’t matter if you’re starting today or starting over after 4 years of false starts, it’s time to get started.

feature · October 2008

Model Success

I finally recognized one of the primary keys to success. Find a successful upline person and do what they are doing.

feature · November 2008

mONEy

In the middle of the word money, you will find the word ONE. Network marketing is about building teams and that requires focusing on helping others achieve their dreams and goals.

feature · November 2008

Mastering the ART of Networking

But it can also be one of the best opportunities to promote your business you'll ever run across if you approach it in the right way.

feature · November 2008

The Five Failure Factors

The key is to have something that can be sold automatically through the Internet - the best is an information product (i.e. e-book, training program, etc.).

feature · November 2008

Ignorance Can Make You Wealthy!

She said, "In the first month no one told me I was in the sales department. All they told me during my training was that people would call looking for a phone service and that I was to help them find what they needed and help them buy it."

feature · November 2008

CAMELOT is NOT a Myth

Networking is still the best way on this planet to build that trust.

article · December 2008

Who are the Next Baby Boomers?

They started the growth, and continue to be the majority of the population of the fastest growing companies of all time; major new companies of today.

feature · December 2008

Tis The Season... for IMbalance!

It is the fact that there are more than 7000 network marketing companies –all offering hope and optimism and oh by the way- A Way OUT of your financial mess!

feature · March 2009

You Keep That Which You Give Away

As a marketer, you have to understand that your income is in direct proportion to the value you offer to the markets you serve.

feature · March 2009

Three Steps to Adding Value

On a blank sheet of paper, write down all of the benefits that you have received personally, or seen other people receive as a result of being involved in NM.

article · February 2010

Crush What

Sometimes we have to go take a peek at the other side of the fence to realize what we have right on our side of the fence don’t we?!

feature · March 2010

You Can Do It

History tells us that, in America, many billion-dollar businesses have been started on a shoestring in garages and in back bedrooms.

feature · March 2010

Take Control

The Dream (as a bunch of us called it) all through University with many of us students was to get the degree out of the way, get out there in the corporate world, work hard so that one day we hit it big - a six figure income salary package.

feature · January 2011

Have You Decided To Become a Millionaire?

Now get this, less than two months after the DECISION was made , an opportunity came to me that allowed me to earn in excess of 10 million dollars over the next 5 years. The question I will always wonder about... Would the opportunity have come if I had never consciously made…

feature · October 2011

Belief VS Technique

When belief and technique are pitted against each other - belief always wins.

feature · October 2011

Build MLM Part-Time

The first thing you MUST do when doing the business part-time is DECIDE to do it - no matter what you have to do or what you have to learn.

article · November 2011

Never Give Up On Your Dreams

The best thing we can do to elevate our profession is to start helping people to become entrepreneurial leaders. We can do this by teaching them right from the start to get set up as a 'real' business and develop realistic goals to achieve their dreams.

feature · December 2011

How and Where to Be Consistent

Your business cannot and will not succeed or better yet thrive if you are not serious about the time you spend on that business. Furthermore the business can not thrive if you work on your business inconsistently.

feature · December 2011

It's Who You Become

Straight out of college, Margie became a junior high school music teacher.

feature · December 2011

How Badly Do You Want It?

I have learned that in order to maintain a consistent effort, we must have two things: 1) a mature understanding of what it means to own a business; and 2) an indomitable desire to succeed.

article · February 2012

Are You Winning?

You are winning today because you are in the game, striving to accomplish goals you have never achieved! Each step, each day, each race, each failure is winning!

feature · February 2013

Sales Vs. The System

Salespeople aren't born great. Sales people are made great!

column · March 2013

Powerful Beginnings

The power starts with beginning! Yes begin. Without beginning, or starting into action, at most, it's just a dream.

feature · September 2013

Being an Entrepreneur with a Home based Business

However, to be successful you have to do what makes you money first. Income generating activities are the key to a successful entrepreneur. ALWAYS do the income generating activities first.

feature · October 2013

Wealth Building

Keep your content fresh, original and transparent. This is the first step to creating a successful business.

feature · January 2014

Attracting Network Marketing Prospects with Classified Advertising

The most effective ads create rich value-laden benefits for their readers. The more effective they are at specifically targeting their intended customers or prospects with those benefits most important to them, the more responses they will draw and the more qualified those lea…

feature · August 2016

Can Network Marketing Be Done Part-Time?

So, let me ask you, are you ready to transition over to full-time? Do you have the persistence and desire to excel in this profession? Persistence and a burning desire to succeed are common denominators found in all organic networkers who reach the highest levels of success.

column · April 2017

Abundance Mindset

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article · September 2017

ULTIMATE NETWORKING

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article · January 2019

Our Better Self

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feature · January 2021

Getting Started

Take the time to go through the 5 step process of Getting Started properly in your network marketing business

column · June 2022

THE FAVORITE UNCLE PHENOMENON

THE FAVORITE UNCLE PHENOMENON: How to Conduct the World’s Most Effective 3-Way Calls To Build and Support Your Team.

article · July 2022

You know words matter

You know words matter... But have you done this?? Try it On...

column · August 2022

Wednesdays With Ruby

As a network marketing leader and teambuilder, there is no more foundational key to lasting success than being fully present.

column · September 2022

The Positive Pygmalion

As a network marketing leader and learner, have you ever thought about the impact our thoughts, beliefs, and expectations have on others?

column · December 2022

Your Compelling-WHY!

Do you remember the movie Apollo 13 starring Tom Hanks?

column · February 2023

Be Easy to Impress and Hard to Offend

In a world filled with so many WOOs (windows of opportunity), why do so many of us miss out on so much possibility and happiness?

feature · February 2023

YOUR GOOD NAME IS THE CORNERSTONE OF YOUR SUCCESS

While your character and reputation are vital to the success of your business in any sort of business, their importance is vastly multiplied when you are in network marketing.

column · March 2023

De-fang the Energy Vampire!

Anyone who has ever taken the leap of faith and dived into Network Marketing has run into what I call, energy vampires … naysayers, and critics who question your sanity and decry the business as a scam or pyramid scheme.

column · April 2023

Move to the Front of the Line!!

They are the center of my world, the starting point for my calendar, and the source of my greatest joy.  So, many years ago when a speaking gig meant that I would be two-thousand miles away from my daughter Kelsey on her sixth birthday, my heart ached with guilt, disappointmen…

article · April 2023

HOW TO CATCH A BOATLOAD OF FISH – 3 ESSENTIAL RULES!

It was probably in the mid-1980s when I came across an article about selling that compared it to catching fish. It could have been Dan Kennedy who wrote it, but even after much research, I don’t know for sure who should get credit for my original inspiration.

column · May 2023

The Most Precious Present

Whether in your network marketing business or your personal life, what is the most important gift we can provide to our teammates, prospects, family, and friends, that truly lets them know that they are significant to us?

column · June 2023

The Most Precious Present

Whether in your network marketing business or your personal life, what is the most important gift we can provide to our teammates, prospects, family, and friends, that truly lets them know that they are significant to us?

column · July 2023

The Impact of Consistent Presence!

When we are present for WOOs that are a bit outside our comfort zones, we may just find hidden treasures we never dreamed existed.

feature · July 2023

The TAPROOT Success System

In fact, even after several decades in network marketing, I’ve never personally heard anyone else teach this publicly.

column · August 2023

Just Listen!

For many of us, one of the biggest challenges in our personal and professional lives is dealing with the people we’re pretty certain God put on the planet to bug us.

technology · August 2023

MENTAL TECH: How to Be Smarter Faster

What ORANGE JUICE, DISH SOAP, & BURNING ANTS can teach about how to become ultra-successful with your network marketing business!

column · September 2023

The Breakthrough Experience!

I love that I am called America’s Breakthrough Speaker because helping people breakthrough is my passion!

column · October 2023

Breakthrough Belief #1

Most of us when not creating the results we want in our business or life immediately focus on strategies or tactics. We look for a new ‘how.’ But, the most powerful creative source in your life is your purpose.

column · November 2023

Breakthrough Belief #2

Breakthrough Belief #2: I will only become a true giver when I learn to receive!

technology · November 2023

MENTAL TECHNOLOGY:

HOW TO MANAGE AND OVERCOME YOUR STRESS AND ANXIETY. 5 Sure-Fire Tips That Deliver Positive Results… Fast!

column · December 2023

Breakthrough Belief #3

Breakthrough Belief #3: Success means giving 100%. It’s impossible to fail so long as you give your best.

column · January 2024

Enjoy every precious moment!

These four words have become a basic creed for me, a reminder that this gift called life is truly an extraordinary honor and opportunity.

feature · April 2024

YOUR TRUST FUND

You want it from your “significant other,” your family members, your co-workers, and your downline team members.