Ask Tristram Lodge – MLM Mentor & Coach

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When you start out on your network marketing journey you will have a “why” as to what you want to achieve from your business.

Now this could be anything from never working again to putting your kids through school. Whatever the reason it’s your personal destination and you have a long journey ahead of you.

For me I found it very difficult to go from where I was to where I wanted to be as it seemed so far away.

However, as with everything if you break it down into manageable steps it is a lot easier to plan out your future by setting smaller goals.

My upline introduced me to this great tool and I think it is a fantastic exercise to do focus on small goals to get to your final goal.

The first thing you have to do is write a list of the 50 things that you want to change in your life through your business. This can be anything, like never setting your alarm clock again, or taking the kids to the play park every day. Maybe you want to own a Ferrari or learn to fly a plane.

You decide it’s the things that you can’t do now, but that through building your business you will be able to do.

Once you have your list give everything a score from 1 to 5.  This is the time scale that you are going to assign to each goal with 1 being 3 month from the time you write the list, 2 being 6 months, 3 being a year, 4 being 3 years and 5 being 5 years from the time you write the list.

From this you can set small goals and work your way to where you want to be. By break things down in this way you can start to build a plan of action and a path for your journey to success.

Also I believe that when you achieve each goal you set yourself you will still focused and motivated to working towards your next goal.

Oh and I found it to be a fun thing to do, which at the end of the day if it’s not fun then don’t do it.

Of course after the 5 years is up and you have ticked off all 50 accomplishments you can start a new list and keep going!

Sit down and do your list, I promise you it will really get you thinking.

I would like to take this opportunity to say Thank you for taking the time to read my post. I would appreciate any comments and feedback that you have and please share this post on Digg and with your friends on Facebook and Twitter.

Tristram Lodge

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We know there are a lot of scams on the internet but if you check out my post “ Thinking of starting a home based business? – Read this first.” For some hints and tips on what to look for in an online business and how to stay safe.

In this post I want to talk you through 5 business formats you should be wary of and in my opinion why you should avoid them. I have listed them in no particular order.

1. 1.       The Forced Matrix is one that seems to be taken off over the last year or so. Please correct me if I am wrong about that but I don’t really recall them much until that time. So what is it, well basically it involves you registering people before a launch and any overspill gets put under you. You start at the top and find 3 people who go under you. If you find 4 or more they go under the 3 below you. This makes 1st level 1(you), 2^nd level 3, 3^rd level 9, 4^th level 27 and so on. You will also get people who you did not register put under you from other people in the matrix , this is called overspill. It sounds like a great system to build a business but hang on. If you don’t to register anyone only your first 3 and you can get people from over spill why would any of your downline bother to recruit people? Answer, they won’t which breeds a downline of very lazy distributor all hoping that the people below them will do the work. My tip stay well clear.

2.       New Ground Floor opportunities sounds like a great idea to get involved with a brand new company and potentially it could work out great. However, these new companies have no track record, could still have problems to iron out and may just be a scam. You are staking your personal reputation on a business that could fold within a few months. This could cause damage to your reputation that may not be reversible which will be disaster for your potential growth.

3.       Gifting programs , at least that’s what I think it’s called. I found out about this “business” in more detail earlier this week when I received a spam email. I have seen something like this before and can’t believe that anyone would get sucked into this kind of scam.  Here is an extract from the email as to how this works:

        wk 1   Send $2 to 3 people.  Send out on Mondays
          Receive $2 from 14 = $28   Keep $7
        wk 2   Send $7 to 3 people
          Receive $7 from 14 = $98   Keep $8
        wk 3   Send $30 to 3 people
          Receive $30 from 14 = $420  Keep $120
        wk 4   Send $100 to 3 people
          Receive $100 from 14 = $1400   Keep $800
        wk 5   Send $200 to 3 people
          Receive $200 from 14 = $2800   Keep $2050
        wk 6   Send $250 to 3 people
          Receive $250 from 14 = $3500   Keep $2750
 

                You then repeat Wk 6 over and over each week. They tell you who to
                send to in your Eagles Den. If one of the 3 drops out, the admin will replace
                them. Never send money through a like this as i fail to see how this can work only for the person at the top.

4.       Surfing Credits are when you sit in front of your PC clicking on averts and watching a timer count down before moving onto the next ad. You earn something like $0.01 per advert viewed. The timer can last anything from 10 to 20 seconds so lets take a 15 second timer. That’s $0.04 a minute or $2.40 an hour. Your time can be much better spent so don’t get sucked into the glossy ad for these sites.

5.       Home crafts which I’m sure everyone has seen these companies everywhere. A company asks you to assembly a product, like a picture frame, dolls house or just about anything. They send you the kit and it will either be so complicated you need a degree in engineering to assembly the thing or you can put it together but when you send it back it won’t meet the companies strict quality standards. It does not matter how well you put them together you will never meet the guidelines. You end up with a load of products that you and noone else wants.

These are just some of the dodgy business opportunities that are out there with 100s more that I have not mentioned. So if you are looking at working from home do your research first and check out the business.

I would like to thank you all for reading and would love to read your comments and feedback. Also please share this with your friends on Facebook and Twitter.

Have a great day.

Tristram Lodge

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There are two ways that you can build your Network Marketing business. First chase your family and friend and keep badgering them until you become an NFL (No Friends Left). You can stand in shopping malls pestering complete strangers and leave fliers on cars.

Or second, you can work from the comfort of your own home and all your leads and business come to you.

Which one would you prefer to do?

Well mine, like most  people is the second and it’s called attraction marketing. I want to share with you my 5 reasons why you need attraction marketing in your business. These are just my 5, there are many more but these are the ones that have really made my life so much better.

1. First and foremost, you position yourself as a leader even if you are brand new to this industry. You can start simple by learning a particular skill, say how to generate leads on Facebook. Write some articles and post them on the internet. By helping others first you will help yourself in the long run. Who you would prefer to do business with, somebody who has taken the time to show you how to do something like generate leads on Facebook or somebody who has no interest in you and just pitches their business opportunity to you?
2. Attraction marketing coupled to a great Lead Generation System will sort all the time wasters from the serious people for you. All this can be done on auto pilot so you only talk with the most qualified people. Imagine cold calling 50 people a day who have no interest in what you have to offer. How much time is that going to take? You have no idea that they don’t care about your product or service so all you are on is a fishing trip. You might get a bite but don’t count on it.  With an attraction marketing system and lead generation system you can show your product or service to 10 times that amount 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year. Sounds good right!
3. No selling. When I started out I did not want to sell and was informed by my upline that this is not a selling business. Great I thought until you find out you have to sell products to make money. I’m not a sales person and I never wanted to be but with attraction marketing there is no need to learn how to sell. This is because it’s about building relationships and trust with people. I only ever buy from people who I trust, never from people who offer no value.
4. Attraction marketing is about branding you and not your company. There could be millions of people all promoting the same MLM company but there is only one you so you can stand out. If all those people are using the same replicated website and company literature what differentiates them from each other? Nothing, they are all offering the same thing but if you are using attraction marketing you will be marketing yourself and your skills to help others by adding value. This was a breakthrough for me when I found attraction marketing and paired that up with a lead generation system which can be fully customised to brand me as the product. This is very important.
5. The ability to start earning an income from multiple sources so I could learn the skills needed to become successful in this industry. By making small commissions on products but having different commission streams money can be made from day one. I look as my primary business as a pension fund, it’s where I will get my residual income from and the biggest part of my income. However I am not relying on my primary business as an only source of income which can take years to build up. By learning attraction marketing and having a lead generation system in place has kept me in the game for longer as it has never cost me any money.

That’s my 5 reasons why you must learn attraction marketing. Yours might very well be different from mine and they will be the reasons why it has helped you.

I want to thank you for reading this post and I would love to read your comments and thoughts. Also please share this with your Twitter and Facebook friends, I’m sure they would appreciate your for doing that.

Tristram Lodge

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We’ve all been there, you start your computer up, get ready to start writing that article or blog post and …….. nothing.

No matter what you try you simply can not get the words onto the screen. I have spent hours wasting away trying to think of things to write, pacing up and down the room but i just couldn’t make anything work.

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Thank you for reading. I hope that you enjoyed this post and if you did please feel free to leave a comment and share this with your friends on your social networking sites.

Tristram Lodge

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Well I’m glad the title caught your attention but this is not that kind of blog!

I was looking around Youtube today and I found this great post from Buzzy Boxer on the key to 3-way calling success which I wanted to share with you.

This is a great training video done in Buzzy’s own unique way. Three way calling can be a very powerful tool to use when starting out and also to use with your own downline.

With special Thanks for Buzzy Boxer aka Todd Falcone. If you like this video please share this with your friends on Facebook, Twitter and other social sites. Also I would love to hear you comments.

Thank you for watching.

Tristram Lodge