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.
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124 storiesfeature · September 2008
You Are What You Repeatedly Do
Success in Network Marketing, as in any other pursuit in life, necessitates a clear compelling vision and consistent action.
article · September 2008
Action vs. Self-Delusion
You see - affirmations without action can be the beginnings of self-delusion. And for your well-being there is little worse than self-delusion.
article · September 2008
The Twin Actions of Accomplishment
We intake information and we out put effort through the exercise of our will. The twin actions of accomplishment then are the intake of information and the exercising of our will.
feature · September 2008
JUST DO IT. Just do it. (just do it)
Many of the things that we fear are often self-concocted, misguided impressions based on wrong information.
feature · September 2008
Take the Road Less Traveled for Freedom!
I'm willing to bet that you want to experience freedom too. So the question is how do you - as a network marketer - go about getting it?
feature · September 2008
Diggin' Deep
When you're IN THE TRENCHES, showing or introducing your business to as many people as you can, learning from all those experiences is where you'll realize your true potential!
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 · September 2008
The Perfect Storm of Opportunity
You will never know though unless you expose your home based business to a lot of people before someone else does first.
feature · September 2008
In The Trenches... Just Doing It!
Seek guidance from your sponsor or someone in your upline that is willing to give you a helping hand and put you on your journey towards success.
article · October 2008
Leaving a Legacy – Principles to Live
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column · November 2008
The Greatest Networkers never appear to be selling anything!
The chosen road is the greatest networker rising above the standards of traditional selling to create an experience that benefits both the seller and the buyer.
feature · July 2014
Stop Selling! Start Selecting!
I would actually say the best networkers never sell anything.
column · December 2008
All a twitter... and it's not just the women!
Engaging in this kind of conversation is what makes twitter.com an ideal platform for establishing credentials as experts and friends.
feature · January 2009
5 Success Habits from the Inner Child
This energy feels no boundaries or fears. It’s a place where dreams are made and the keys to success are abundant. This room is filled with tools that engage the mind of the entrepreneurial spirit.
feature · January 2009
The Flash Point of Your Business
There has probably never been a point in your lifetime where more people were facing economic uncertainty.
feature · April 2009
Discover what Really Separates The Best From The Rest
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” Shunryu Suzuki-Roshi, Soto Zen Priest
article · May 2009
Feng Shui-ing Your “Maybe” List
Perhaps it's time to speak with the people you have been hoping, wishing, praying for to join you, and ask them the liberating question, "Are you ready to make the change?"
feature · May 2009
Network Marketing is just a better way to make a living!
These are exciting times to be a network marketing professional.
article · December 2009
The importance of being productive in a highly competitive world
Learn to spend some more productive hours throughout your day.
feature · February 2010
How Can I Earn More Money
Many are left staring at a grim picture of realizing that without the ability to earn more money, they are caught in a land slide.
feature · March 2010
Owning Your Future
The key to success in the future is becoming an entrepreneur and being in business for yourself. This is just the reality of the situation.
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 · April 2010
Communicating that YOU CARE!
We come home and eventually forget what success looks like don’t we? If we don’t practice it we lose it!
feature · April 2010
The Importance of Communicating Effectively
When communicating with prospects, get to the point of the conversation very quickly, without being pushy.
article · April 2010
Why brand YOUR passion?
The main thing is that you start to realize how important it is to brand YOU and you can do this several ways and you don’t have to spend hours, days or weeks building a personal website to do it!
feature · June 2010
Branding You with a Blog While At The Same Time Promoting Your Business
Blog writing centers around specific topics related to a target market.
feature · June 2010
Promotion
So what are you really promoting? You are promoting YOU! You are branding yourself by branding your name.
feature · July 2010
Manage Your Time – Set Priorities!
Choosing what to do and when to do it therefore becomes our biggest challenge each day.
article · July 2010
Projects, Accountability Circles and Business Plan Strategies
You will be the most productive if your goals are aligned with your vision and your values.
feature · November 2010
What's More Important Than Taking Action – This Day in the Life Account of Nearly Every Network Marketer Will Show You!
So what’s your problem? It’s very likely that you’re not taking enough ACTION to truly see the results that you actually want to see.
feature · November 2010
Take Action... Do It Now! Learn to Make The Most of Your Time: Live Life to It's Fullest!
You must live in the present day’s deposits. Invest it wisely so you get from it the utmost in health, happiness and success!!!! The clock is running. Make the most of today.
feature · November 2010
Create An Action Plan to Grow Your Business with Velocity and Track Your Results
Consistent (day in and day out) and persistent (following up until you get a result) action is an essential component for Network Marketing success.
feature · November 2010
If I Were Starting My Home Business Again
And if I were starting my business again, one of the first things I would do is learn a few of these basic principles...
feature · November 2010
Let Your Passion Move You to Action But Be Sure It's In The Right Direction
The point is that trying harder is not the solution to achieving more. In fact, more often than not it’s part of the problem, not the solution.
feature · November 2010
Knowledge without Action Leads to Self Delusion
I have always believed that taking action starts with #1 identifying “Why” you are doing the business. Until you know “Why” the “How” doesn’t matter.
feature · November 2010
Tired of moving pixels on a computer screen to get prospects?
When we have an abundance of prospects, we're happy. We are not desperately waiting for a single decision from a single prospect. We aren't married to the outcome of a single presentation. Instead, we're relaxed.
feature · November 2010
MLM: How to Take Profitable Action Now and Attract Leads into Your Home Business in 3 Easy Steps
The all-important 1st step in M.L.M will be to start with the end in mind.
feature · November 2010
DOWIT Now!
The habit of acting immediately instead of delaying the inevitable creates powerful momentum.
feature · November 2010
Frustration Really Does Equal Success!
So then, what’s the difference between the pilot who gets into bad weather and ends up crashing an airplane due to mental vertigo and one who doesn’t? One word: Experience!
feature · November 2010
Taking Action
Simply put there are dreamers and there are achievers. Those who do not take action are the dreamers; whereas those who do take action will be the achievers. Which one do you want to be?
column · November 2010
Take Action... Step
It makes sense; one must take certain action steps in order to get any business off the ground.
column · November 2010
Are You In The Arena or Are You In The Stands?
The path to winning is achieved by getting out of your seat in the stands and getting into the arena where the battle is won.
feature · November 2010
If it is simple, why don't we do it?
Simple means uncomplicated. Its opposite is complicated. The opposite of easy is difficult. Difficult, as in stepping out of the plane.
feature · November 2010
Why Action? Why Now?
Without knowing what to do, I am the guy that says, “Let’s Do it”
column · November 2010
Real Learning Requires Action
“Practice is critical to everything we are going to do. This is because the mind understands, but it's the body that learns .”
feature · January 2011
What's The Key to Kick Starting Your Business Into High Gear for 2011 and Beyond?
Average, general goals get you nothing but average general results. On the flip side of that however is the fact that grand specific goals will get you grand and specific results.
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 · January 2011
How To Make 2011 Your Best Year Ever!
Because nothing is stronger than a dream that pulls you right into the future. And what's the best way to add that absolute feeling to your dreams? You guessed it. Actual photographs, with you taking center stage.
feature · January 2011
Use Compound Interest In Your New Year's Resolutions
Deciding to behave a certain way is much easier than actually doing it.
feature · January 2011
Creating New Beginnings Begins With the Power of Completion!
That important element is completion. Yes, completing the year before in your own heart and mind creates a clearing for creation.
feature · January 2011
New Beginnings! - Before You Make This Years Resolutions You Must Consider
When you fully commit to a goal; then you can be confident about being guided to take the right actions steps to achieve your goals.
feature · January 2011
A Blank Canvas and Paints of Many Colors
Before life begins to happen for you in 2011 I encourage you to take some time for reflection so you can image your year exactly as you want it to be and truly become the author of 2011.
column · January 2011
A New Beginning
Instead of making a resolution write down what you are going to change.
feature · January 2011
New Year – New Beginning
If you know me, then you know that I for one, will never ever stand or accept such reality to be true. If you can dream it, then you have it in you to grow and become the person that can achieve it.
column · January 2011
New Beginnings
New beginning begins in the 6 inches between your ears. You determine when, how and what this new beginning will look like.
feature · January 2011
The Blessing of New Beginnings
This new beginning should find you examining your skills, talents, activities, resources, goals and desires with the INTENTION of creating or revitalizing them for your success in 2011 and beyond.
feature · January 2011
Learn From the Past and Craft a Vision
There are many different ways that we get from where we are to where we want to be. We are in a transformational business.
article · February 2011
The Difference is you
The truth is that in building your network marketing business you come into contact with all kinds of people everyday and you do make a difference.
feature · February 2011
The Truth About Commitment... and Why Those Who Don't Reach Their Goals Don't, and Those That Do... DO!
The reason is nearly ALWAYS without a doubt due to not only their level of commitment, but how they carry out their commitment, and what they accompany their commitment with.
feature · February 2011
How To Commit To The Actions That Make You Money
Showing up and doing the things that expand your business and make you money, that’s what it means to be committed to your business.
feature · February 2011
Straddling The Fence
Once you have decided to head down a particular path you have begun the commitment process. If we make a commitment and pursue that course of action we will feel like we are climbing because we took the action. When we stop and take no action then we begin to slide. We can alw…
column · February 2011
Commitment, It's All or Nothing
People with commitment can be committed to different things, work, career, family, God and many other things. The ones that are committed have a special intensity - they are not the ones that are just involved.
feature · February 2011
A Hen and A Pig
Make a Choice to do something or decide to do nothing. Either way you have made a Choice!
feature · February 2011
Harness The Power of a Truly Committed Decision
You have a 'Whatever it takes!” attitude. In your mind it's as good as done! It's not that your journey will be free of challenges but you have clarity about your direction. And that is powerful.
feature · April 2011
Booking Preparation
The most common sabotage is the mistaken choice to "pre-judge" or decide for a person why they "would" or "would not" want your service!
feature · April 2011
5 Tips for Mentoring Remote Team Members
Supporting remote team members is certainly more challenging than supporting those who are local, but if you follow a few simple guidelines, it's really not as challenging as it may seem.
feature · April 2011
Home Party Plan Bookings Are Key!
The party plan system or business model is basically a viable system to reach many customers and yet no business can be built by depending only upon friends, family and acquaintances for lead generation.
column · April 2011
LIFE
To learn one must ask questions and some seem to feel like having to ask questions makes them seem less knowledgeable!
feature · May 2011
Visualize Your Way to Success
Contrary to public opinion, it is not difficult to be a practicing Visionary, although you must cultivate a few skills, take action daily and never, ever be willing to give up your dreams!
feature · May 2011
Visions: Are They Minefields to Failure or Roads to Success
Most of us don’t like failure. Which really is a shame. Because failure is going to happen. There is no getting away from it. Failure is a fact of life, like death and taxes. You cannot avoid it.
feature · June 2011
You Are Your Values
Our values become our Coda, the music by which we orchestrate our lives, the BASELINE of Life from which we do not wander.
feature · August 2011
Starting and Promoting Your Network Marketing Business
You do have to talk to people and let them know that you're in business. No business will grow on it's own. You must plant seeds and get the word out.
feature · August 2011
Universal Gravity
I learned an important lesson through that experience. The only way I was going to be able to continue working and running a home was to ask for help.
feature · September 2011
Perspective and Customer Service
What I found most interesting in this conversation was we each had different perspectives. When we are delivering customer service it really doesn’t matter what the giver perceives rather what the receiver interprets.
feature · September 2011
5 Service Excellence Principles to Propel Your Profits
“We really aren’t a moving company. We’re a customer service company that happens to move.” Know in your bones that you are a customer service company and your customers will feel the difference.
feature · September 2011
Customer Service, THE Age Old Secret to a Thriving Business!
She studied with excellence as her goal and with a desire to embrace the tribes people with compassion and a desire to give them MORE than the service they required. She set herself above the rest by doing so and gained the respect and admiration of the tribe.
feature · October 2011
Being a “Product of Your Product”
Even though I had read many books on self-improvement and was quite a deep thinker, I wasn’t much of a doer. I would dispense advice with the notion that it was fine and normal for people to do as I say, yet not as I did.
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 is consistently doing things that BUILD your business that keep your business growing
Now a certain amount of managing is necessary in terms of communication with the group and scheduling meetings, but the problem is that all too often, when the leader starts “MANAGING”, they simultaneously STOP BUILDING.
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.
feature · December 2011
Breaking Habits That Don't Serve You
Change is hard work and there is no short cut except to do it. The steps a person needs to take, however, can be very simply outlined.
feature · December 2011
To Be Consistent, Give Up Giving Up
The difference this time was that the pain of my reality was FINALLY worse than the fear of being persistent.
feature · December 2011
Know When a Consistent Habit Needs to Change
I had the word “nice” all wrong. I thought it was nice to put myself last. I thought it was nice to not make waves. It was painful to be nice by that definition, but it seemed like the right thing to do.
feature · February 2012
CUSTOMERS – The Life Blood of Any Business
The bottom line is this: Without customers, eventually there would be no company.
feature · July 2012
Seminar: The Mathematics of the Business
Even with high tech, the people need to be taught HOW to implement the USE of the high tech or it just will not be effective. This business is all about relationships!
feature · July 2012
Duplication ~ Can your Team DO what You do? No? Are they SUPPOSED TO?
Incredibly, duplicating OURSELVES should not be the goal, and it IS NOT a factor in true leadership and success of an individual OR a team.
feature · August 2012
Presenting – Show The Plan
Understanding that the majority of aspiring marketers (and future leaders) come to us with this fear gives us a big advantage if we know HOW to help these folks overcome their fear.
feature · September 2012
Coaching – the missing piece!
We believe that coaching is the #1 retention tool in the direct selling profession and yet, it is not a part of most direct selling company cultures.
feature · September 2012
To Coach or Not to Coach
If knowing what was driving you (your why) and elbow grease (hard work) were truly all it took to build a successful network marketing business, there would be many more success stories. Many. More. Success. Stories.
feature · September 2012
If You're Really Serious About SUCCESS, You Need One of These
“When you’re really SERIOUS about ANYTHING... you need a COACH!”
feature · October 2012
Extreme Productivity for Your Business and Life!
The starting point is to be clear on what your outcome or goal is that you want to achieve.
feature · October 2012
Duplication: The Key to Residual Income
The most difficult part of creating duplication on your team is getting clear about what you are trying to duplicate.
feature · October 2012
Replicate Yourself?
The contributing writers, the Staff and YOU make TNNM the valuable asset that it is and will continue to be. The Network Marketing Magazine can be your Personal Success Replicator if you know how to use it properly!
feature · November 2012
Listen Your Way to Success
Once you find out what your prospects’ needs, skill sets, history, desires, goals and talents are, you can Begin to understand their motivation(s) for success and whether or not they are a good fit for your company and team.
article · December 2012
A Plastic Chair Worth $1 Million
I see people attend meetings and seminars only to leave the information they acquired somewhere between the meeting room and their car. They just don't begin the process to implement what they just learned. Now there are those that will take the information and turn it into go…
article · December 2012
Knowing vs. Doing
my son KNOWS how to plan ahead – clearly. But he doesn’t APPLY what he knows to school work. What will it take for him to make that connection? It will take Coaching and leadership; and in his case, it is a joint venture between his teachers, his Mom and me. He hasn’t translat…
feature · December 2012
Women and Network Marketing – A Great Match
Women are great teachers and mentors. They've been raising children to be independent, critical thinkers capable of making their own contributions to the world for eons.
feature · December 2012
Uncover the Incredible You
As adults we must acquire those childlike attributes again if we are to ever accomplish our deepest dreams and desires. Words, such as faith, confidence and vision are all powerful words. They are only words if we don’t put them into action.
feature · November 2013
Cultivating Culture: What's Growing on You?
Culture GROWS. It’s actually ALIVE. Ever hear of a CULTURE dish?
feature · December 2013
Have A Contract with Yourself to Be 1000% Responsible for You and Your Own Success
Are YOU Working? The critical question to ask yourself is... "Am I working?"
feature · February 2014
Not Just Customers
This is our business model. That’s why it’s called, NETWORK Marketing! It’s created through duplication!
technology · March 2014
Is There a Technological Magic Wand or Silver Bullet?
Interestingly enough the organizations that grew the slowest have lasted the longest.
feature · April 2014
Approaching Strangers Part 1 – Warm Market
Stranger: A friend you have not yet met. But in this case they are people you may have met, but you just have not become friends yet.
feature · April 2014
Power Prospecting for Aces
The glue that holds all these characteristics together is belief , the unshakable conviction that success is inevitable.
technology · May 2014
STOP! Start With Self Leadership First
To develop others, start with yourself.” — Unknown
article · June 2014
Taking Action... As Soon As I Know Everything
And I was. I was rolling in self doubt paralyzed by the “I need to know everything before I get started” syndrome.
feature · July 2014
K.I.S.S
So the new Acronym is Keep It Simple Simon , which means in this article I'm speaking to the upline leaders and those striving to be leaders in the industry.
feature · January 2016
Ignite Your Life!
Decide what you want this year. What is it - exactly? You will never pursue it, nor get it, if you do not know what "it" is. Crystallize it in your mind. See it. Know it.
feature · January 2016
2016 - Excuses or Excellence, Your Choice
Excuse #1: "I got busy. I had to do this or that," versus "I chose to do something else instead of building my business. This something else is more important to me… even more important than the commitment or promise I made to you and my future."
article · July 2016
Must Have Tools for Growth in Network Marketing – Not Using These Tools Could Be Detrimental to Your Success
Network marketing is a business of systems, I think you’ve probably heard that over and over again right?
column · October 2016
Publisher's Final Word: 3 Reasons That are Essential to Know Your Why
There are three essential reasons you MUST identify your why to succeed in your business.
feature · November 2016
Baby Boomers and Network Marketing
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column · November 2016
“Coach Steve” – Mindset of Finding Balance –
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technology · January 2017
The HOT Technology In Network Marketing Today is LIVE CHAT
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column · November 2017
So what is this 27% annual success membership all about?
No source excerpt was available for this article.
column · August 2018
We’re Offering Success in Network Marketing
No source excerpt was available for this article.