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Marketing List is Necessary To Ensure Success in Your Home Based Business

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

When I sold a home care system door to door we sold on average only one machine per household. We contacted our customers occasionally if we were in their neighborhood. We fixed minor service issues and sold them supplies. What if we could have had our customers opt in to our list?  How many more additional sales could we have made? The rapport and trust was already established so additional sales would have been much easier. The entry of the World Wide Web years later makes repeat business possible. The capability of the web makes it possible to develop this marketing list.

A marketing list is a database of people who have opted in to your “site” to receive information from you voluntarily. Your marketing list is equity in your business that you can take with you if you are terminated or leave your current home based business company. When I sold this home care system door to door a great relationship was established. I could stop by that home anytime I was in their neighborhood to say hello. Your list offers you the same benefits, because you may contact them anytime through your auto responder. The people on your marketing list will not opt out as long as a win-win relationship exists. They are following you not the company that you are working with.

You must abide by different rules and standards when you work for most home based business companies. For instance using the home based business company’s name in your advertising is prohibited. If you violate these rules the company may strip your rights to market their products without warning. Your company replicated website and all the leads that you had in your funnel would be gone forever. When you are placed in such a precarious position your financial future is very uncertain. Your marketing list is the best way to ensure continued success in your business. It does not matter the home based company you work with because your list allows you portability. Your success in your home based business is dependent on the relationship that you have with your subscribers.

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Quote of the Day

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

“Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly.  Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, We are changed forever.” Author Unknown

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Which One do You Prefer to Live With Regret or Discipline?

Friday, July 10th, 2009

“The fear of failure is a very powerful thing, but regret is even stronger. We must not give into this fear because our whole life will be filled with regret.” this is a quote from the Discovery series in Life Path Unlimited. Fear of the unknown is an irrational fear that is paralyzing too many people.

This fear could simply be something such as making that first phone call to follow a program that will make your life better. This fear is so crippling that the phone may feel like it is over 200 pounds, therefore you fail before you start. The fact remains that no matter how much other busy work you find instead of picking up the phone to call you will eventually regret your inaction.

Procrastination is a direct result of irrational fear, the ringing of the phone might make you pray to the phone god, hoping nobody answers. The conversations that you have might be so strained that you can’t wait to get off the phone. The beautiful thing about these fears is that the more you pick up the phone, dial the numbers and talk to your prospects the easier it gets.

Habits are a behavior that you keep repeating whether good or bad. If you continue to refuse to pick up the phone then it will become a very bad habit. This bad habit will lead you to closing the door on an opportunity that might be the one thing to make you financially sound.

“Successful people have successful habits and unsuccessful people don’t”, so overcome those fears that inhibits your growth as an individual.  You must not allow the fair of failure phobia to set in; otherwise you will be in dire straits. We will succeed from consistent and persistent actions that are taken on a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis. If you don’t perform these actions, then you life will be filled with regret, because “failure offer no alibis’.

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How to Get Back on Track When a Mental Setback Occur in Your Home Based Business?

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

The results are not always rosy in your home based business opportunity everyday. Your income generating activities does not always equate into riches.  The best athletes in the World have a period where they are unable to hit the ball out of the park.  The main cause during this slump period is normally their mindset. Greg Norman lost a 6 stroke lead in the final round of the 1996 Masters because his confident deteriorated as he saw his dreams evaporating. We will discuss one method for turning things around and getting back to winning ways as soon as possible.

The fundamental thing that you must do first is recognize that you are in a slump.  Your masterminding group of your mentor, friends and family will be needed to help you re-think, re-energize and refocus.  The worse thing you could do is try to get back on track alone without any support.  We tend to be our worse critic so if we keep analyzing the situation in our mind.  We will end up over analyzing and over emphasizing the reasons why.  Visualizing is a great way to overcome the slump.

You must think back to a time when you were hitting the ball out of the park.  You may also look at your past achievement, rewards etc of your most positive memories.  This type of positive reinforcement is necessary to get you back to a level of success in your mind.  Thoughts manifest our destiny so forward thinking into future success is a great way to build your confidence.  Back to the basics is the next step to help overcome a slump in your home based business opportunity.

Doing the fundamentals is the best way to knock the ball out of the park again.  Using the system in your home based business opportunity is the best strategy.  You must do the things that brought you success in the past and not the easy things.  The main ways to succeed in your business are lead generation and making contact with your leads, yet you spend your time learning.  The acquired knowledge is great, but if you don’t apply then it is useless.  When you are mentally and physically drained, then taking a break is one the best way to get re-energized.  You will eventually work your way out of the slump because life is full of cycles that don’t last forever. You must focus on one goal at a time on a consistent basis to get your juices flowing again. You may easily get back on the road to success in your home based business opportunity.

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11 Crucial Attributes of Leadership That Are Necessary to Succeed in Business

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Leadership is defining as a person or thing that provides direction and guidance to others that follows. The dictionary is static so that definition is boring. People are more dynamic therefore the definition of leadership means different things to different people. I will be writing about leadership as defined by Napoleon Hill in “Think and Grow Rich” over the next 10 Articles.

The  are 11 leadership attributes are listed below:

1. Unwavering Courage
2. Self-Control
3. A keen sense of justice
4. Definiteness of decision
5. Definiteness of plans
6. The habit of doing more than paid for
7. A pleasing personality
8. Sympathy and understanding
9. Mastery of detail
10. Willingness to assume full responsibility
11. Cooperation

When we were growing up people always commented that it was okay to be confident, but not cocky. The person who is strutting around like a peacock was not respected. The person who had a sense of reliance or certainty without throwing up on you with it garnered respect. The unwavering courage of a leader is more self evident in the time of crisis. Henry Ford had a reputation of being obstinate, yet without this characteristic the Model T would never have been developed. Henry Ford believes in making decisions quickly, but was slow to change them. He commanded his team to continue to develop his V-8 engine, even though year after year they failed.

He had an unwavering courage in the midst of countless failures, so finally his vision was accomplished. If you were in charge of making those decisions how would you react? The most successful people make decisions quickly, but are slow to change them. The unsuccessful people make decision slowly and change them quickly. If he had stopped the gold might have been within three feet and he would never have known it. Henry Ford was a well respected individual in his time and still respected to this day. I will be discussing the other 10 attributes in upcoming posts on this blog.

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