Day 2: What My Son Has Taught Me About MLM – Routine
by Tristram Lodge on Jun.09, 2010, under MLM Mindset
Welcome to day 2 of my MLM training and what I have learnt from my son over the past year.
If you missed yesterday’s post “Day 1: What My Son Has Taught Me About MLM – “My Why” then go check it out so that you can catch up with the videos.
So back to today, I am going to be talking about routine, and as a parent and network marketer why it’s so important that you have it in your daily business activities.
Just like any small child or baby it’s important to get into a routine so that you can spend more time with your family and get more done on your business.
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Day 1: What My Son Has Taught Me About MLM – “My Why”
by Tristram Lodge on Jun.08, 2010, under MLM Mindset
At the end of June last year I become a Dad for the first time when my wife Vicky gave birth to our beautiful son, Joseph.
Since he was born, I have changed the way I look at my life and my business, inparticular my “why”.
My “why has changed due to my new responsiblities but it has changed for a positive reason.
If you have to change your why then change it for a positive reason not because something is to difficult or you want to lower your own expectations. Keep focusing on your “why” and you will achieve your goals.
Tweek your “why” only to improve your life or something in it not as a cop out as the only person you will be kidding is yourself.
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Goal Setting Success
by Tristram Lodge on Jun.04, 2010, under MLM Hints And Tips
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.
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Tristram Lodge
5 Business Opportunities To Be Wary Of On The Internet.
by Tristram Lodge on Jun.03, 2010, under MLM Hints And Tips
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. 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), 2nd level 3, 3rd level 9, 4th 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
Al Pacino’s Inspirational Speech
by Tristram Lodge on Jun.01, 2010, under MLM Mindset
I found this great clip from the film Any Given Sunday where Tony D’Amato, played by the great Al Pacino, has to inspire his team to success.
This is the difference between a team and an individual, the difference between winning and losing, living and dying.
I love this clip. It shows great leadership and a great way to inspire a team.
Now I’m not going to tell you if the team win or lose, you’ll have to watch the film but needless to say I think you’ll agree that he certainly got the team fired up.
Apologies for the sometime more colorful language but if you like this the please leave a comment and share with your friends on Facebook and Twitter and don’t forget to Digg it. Thanks for reading.
Tristram Lodge
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