How to Start in Network Marketing

There are many people in the world today who are looking forward to starting a home business so that they can make that extra cash. This is so because of the awful economy of today, starting from students to older people who have gone for retirement. One of the best home businesses that anybody can ever do is network marketing. This is the best way to start a home business. However there are many crucial things that you should look into before you register or start network marketing. 

 

The first thing about network marketing is that you should not let anyone put pressure on you in joining his network marketing. You should first start by doing a lot of research about the company so that you get full information about the company. The person who is giving you this opportunity of joining his company is called a sponsor. If you join, it is his business to give you advice on how to make money in MLM opportunity which he is giving you. You should note that the money that you will be working hard for is his. He first gets his commission for signing you up in his company and then gets more commissions from all your sales. And so you should know that he is not signing you up because of his love for you but because of money. 

 

However network marketing is all about making commissions from everything you sell, and so if you have ever tried to be a retailer then you will find it very easy. And so this is the best home business for you. However if you have never been involved in any kind of business and you also do not have a clue about business, then this is the wrong choice for your home business plan. You can also choose to take some time and learn the psychology that is there about home business. You can also find books in the stores about network marketing, websites, blogs and also forums talking about network marketing. Network business is all about knowing how to build websites, how to use the social network so that you make sales and also the various forms of advertisement. In network marketing you should be able to know what to go for and what to avoid. 

 

For you to be successful then you must be dedicated because network marketing is a business and not a leisure pursuit. It requires hours of hard work, toiling and sweating. There are two things which can make your network marketing successful. One is a successful solid company and having a positive attitude and mindset.

Network Marketing Tips for Home Based Businesses

Network marketing has become one of the most common trades in the business sectors. Many have started their own network marketing with others even going to an extent of setting up home-based businesses. One common factor that has led to the increase in number of such businesses is the fact that you are your own boss plus the time factor. However, many believe that timing is the limiting factor when it comes to succeeding in this business. This is just but a misconception; no extent of success can be attributed to timing. In this business, success is all about you as the boss and how devoted you are to the business.

 

There are several tips that one can use in order to become the best leader he or she can be. To start with, it is only wise for you to deal with potential clients. Do not waste time talking to every Tom, Dick and Harry that you come across in the streets. Clients are interested in the nature of the products of services you offer. Therefore spend time perfecting your products rather than walking round advertising that which h you do not offer. All in all, advertising is still necessary but do it wisely. The best way of doing this is by back-linking your website with written articles or looking for cheap online leads to buy. On the other hand, you can also advertise using the pay-per click method. 

 

Still on the clients, it is quit necessary for you to make some sort of connection with them. This is the only way through which you can point out who your target clients should be. On the other hand, you will still find out what it is the clients expect from you plus their fears when it comes to business matters. You will also form some kind of connecting relationship that will extend your bond to an extent of them being your ‘personal’ clients. 

 

One very good way of doing this is by providing them with testimonials on the product you plan on offering them. This way, you will motivate them into buying whatever your products or services since they will find out that they can still benefit from the transaction. Trust me, once you create the connection between you and the clients, you will never run out of clients! Last but not least, provide the new customers and distributors with quick start guides for introduction purposes only. 

 

Are You a Positive Thinker?

All of us like to think we are positive thinkers. We tend to think we deal with generally well and cope day to day with the problems that come into our world. Yet for many people, life is about survival and not about taking advantage of every minute and feeling like we are living life to its fullest potential. 

 

How can you tell if you are a positive thinker? Here are a few questions you can ask yourself, to help you reach the correct answer to that self-discovery question. 

 

1.    How do you feel others think about you? 

2.    Do you feel confident in your skills and abilities?

3.    Do you feel confident in your decision-making abilities at home and work? 

4.    Do you look at the week ahead as full of challenges or full of problems? 

5.    Do you believe you can improve your ability to achieve new successes? 

6.    Do you feel you are trapped in a cycle from which you cannot escape? 

7.    Do the problems in some areas of your life tend to cloud your perception of other things? 

 

If you answered mostly yes to these questions, it’s possible you engage in negative thinking about your life and the things in your life that cause you distress and problems. If you said no, use that list to help keep yourself from falling into the trap of sometimes feeling sorry for yourself and starting on the negative track.

 

People who are affected by negative thinking can turn it around by first acknowledging that they are prone to thinking this way. With that in mind, it becomes easier to face it and begin to change how you approach life, if you are honest with yourself. Many people don’t recognize they are caught in a trap of negative thinking, so acknowledging is the first step in turning it around. 

 

Next make sure you don’t allow yourself to be around negative people, but be positive and focus on being positive. Ask a friend to help you see the positive side of things and to help you learn when you are not being positive about something. Write down those moments and make an effort to think of an alternative way of responding to whatever caused the negative thoughts and talk. 

 

Remember positive thinking usually attracts positive people and outcomes. This is a sure way of realizing your full potential. 

 

Are Your Friends Dragging You Down?

We all love our friends and we all want plenty of them. Good friends are like jewels in our crown and they are priceless. They can be our biggest cheer squad, they can help us to find perspective and support when we are under pressure and they are great to hang out with in our free time. 

 

But what of friends who drag us down by their negativity or their enjoyment of gossiping or putting others down? Too many of us hold on to friendships for fear of having no friends. The reverse is often the case. We become like the people with whom we spend most of our time. Their outlook will eventually affect our own outlook. Negativity breeds negativity and breaking free from negative people will help us to remain positive and attract other positive people to us. 

 

When we share our problems with others, men and women tend to respond in different ways. Men will either try to fix the problem and offer solutions, and if there are no obvious solutions to the problem, they will, usually remain silent and offer no comment. Women generally are more inclined to try to empathize with their friends and often will reflect back negativity. 

 

Researchers are increasingly discovering that women who share their problems with other women may not necessarily find the relief they need to a problem or distressing situation, by sharing problems with other women. If the discussion continues to be negative then the situation can be exacerbated by sharing the problem with others, rather than actually providing relief for it.

 

It is important that children and teenagers learn appropriate ways of dealing with negative emotions so they don’t need to rely on others when they are feeling them. Dealing with our negative emotions is a skill that many adults also need to learn. Perhaps the most important realization for all of us is that sadness and anxiety are normal parts of everyone’s life and whilst we may think at times that we are the only person facing a particular situation, this isn’t true. 

 

Every day people live through similar feelings and experiences and so will we if we just learn to be patient in them. However, the damage that results from our feelings of anxiety and despair may be the result of the comments of well-meaning friends, rather than the problem itself. 

 

Do You Expect Good Things to Happen in Your Life?

Research has shown that if we expect good things to happen in our life they often do. Feeling positive isn’t some magic formula that guarantees good, but there is a direct link between our feelings of positive expectations and the release of endorphins in our brain that act as natural painkillers. These in turn help us to deal with the stress and difficulties and to think clearly enough to be able to create possible solutions to them. 

 

The reverse happens when we have low expectations of positive outcomes. If we think negatively about things, the release of these same endorphins is inhibited. We tend to feel more depressed and it becomes difficult to think about positive outcomes when the situation appears hopeless. Once this cycle continues, we need something to happen to change the perspective and provide us with some optimism to kick-start the flow of hormones again. 

 

The influence of others positive expectations of our performance and us also influence our expectations on ourselves. Teachers and parents who have positive expectations on a student’s ability to produce a specific standard of work that is within the capability of the student often see continuous improvement in their work. Low expectations often produce low results.

 

There are numerous examples of underachievement in our schools. Those same students, when provided with teachers gifted to help them believe in themselves, often can improve their grades and excel. This same attitude can turn a failing business into a profitable company if those charged with strategic planning believe in the products and services they are marketing to customers. 

 

A motivated person with high expectations of themselves and belief in what they want to achieve, will seek ways to achieve their goals and dreams and this in turn produces endorphins that help to maintain the focus even when there are barriers in front of them. Each small success increases the positive expectations and outcomes. An unmotivated person is weighed down by self-doubt, risks focusing on negative outcomes and expectations and often cannot see the small successes as necessary stepping stones to more significant ones. 

 

If you are in a state of low self-expectation and negative thinking, surround yourself with positive people who can help you to re-focus and believe in yourself and in what you want to achieve with your life. Do you expect good outcomes in your life?

 

Do You Take Risks for Career Advancement?

If you play it safe in the current economic climate and do your work each day with no thought of career advancement, no one could blame you. Keeping the job you currently have is probably your focus and you may be thinking there is plenty of time to consider career advancement in the future. 

 

If this is your approach no one will blame you for thinking this way. However, people are taking risks and making career advancements and there is no reason for you to think that just because there is an economic crisis that you must settle for what you have. As someone has said, “nothing ventured, nothing gained.” Being cautious is different to being negative about risk. As you consider the impact of risk on your decisions, you can make life-changing decisions even when there is risk involved.

 

Risk taking is a very personal experience for most of us. Some of us will take risks emotionally, but we won’t take risks financially. Others will take financial risks, but avoid physical risks. Taking a risk for career advancement is both an emotional and financial risk, but as in all risk taking, once the hazards are assessed, and the appropriate actions taken to minimize them, we often can complete the riskiest of activities safely and then enjoy the fruits of our achievements.

 

How would you describe your risk taking? We can measure our risk taking willingness by asking ourselves if we are tend to be more cautious or more impulsive when we are considering different types of risks. Do we take a while to make decisions or are we more inclined to be impulsive? Do we impulsively spend money on a new electronics gadget, but give a cautious yes to going on a date with someone we have not met before? Do we happily jump out of a plane with a parachute attached, but would never invest money on the stock exchange? 

 

If you are considering changing your job, err on the side of caution, don’t be impulsive, but consider the advantages of taking the risk. If you chose to take this journey, you would not be alone on it. Many people have already done this. Some have left work altogether and opened their own home businesses, others have returned to study and up skilled so they can apply for work as better paying positions become available. 

 

Experience Your Emotions; Don’t Be Led by Them

Jackie M Johnston once asked her audience. “Have you learned to tell the difference between “experiencing your feelings and being led by them”? The answer to this question is very individual and one each of us must ask ourselves. We cannot become holistically whole people if we don’t answer this question with an instant “yes”!

 

We cannot begin to act and think positively until we have learned to experience and deal with our feelings, without being pulled down by them. Most people are led by their “gut instincts” when making decisions. How people feel about something often dictates whether they do it or not, or enjoy doing it or not. They may even choose not to do something because of how they feel about it. 

 

The issue with this type of reaction is that it is deeply rooted in the emotions and not in logic, although logic and our feelings may lead us to the same conclusion. This is what is meant by “experiencing your feelings” Have you learned to tell the difference between “experiencing your feelings and being led by them? .Experiencing your feelings, enables you to rise above consider your feelings about something, but then logically decide what action to take. 

 

This is particularly important if have an argument with a spouse or teenage child. It is very easy to be led by feelings as the argument becomes more heated. A wise spouse or parent, on recognizing and understanding the increased feelings of frustration and anger welling up inside them, will suggest time out to give each person time and space to think and respond logically rather than emotionally.

 

Learning to differentiate between our acting on our feelings and understanding how they can help or hinder our actions and our reactions is essential to achieving positive thinking. Negative feelings can hold us hostage to ourselves and to never achieving anything in our life. We don’t feel happy or contented with what we have, so we strive for more. We feel depressed so we isolate ourselves from others or we over eat. We feel angry so we take it out on in our attitudes with our children or our spouse. 

 

As we learn to channel our negative thoughts and feelings into more positive decision-making, we are able to use them to help us choose behaviours but we don’t let them dictate our actions without first challenging them by thinking through alternative options that can affect positively on our lives and the choice we make. 

A Man's Secrets to Successful Online Dating

People have taken to online dating like a duck takes to water...because it works...or, at least, it can work. Women are, in general, terrified of meeting a man that she has been chatting with online. All they have heard about are the scary things that can happen...and, I must say, they have a right to be careful to the extreme. That’s not only wise but vital. So what’s a nice guy to do? You aren’t a pervert, a sexual predator, or a weirdo. You are just a nice guy looking for “the” girl for you. 

 

You must be patient. Don’t press her for personal information like her real name or where she lives. Keep your conversations light and fun until she feels comfortable talking with you online. Don’t try to rush her into meeting face-to-face. She will think you are desperate or a pervert. Patience. Patience. Patience. 

 

Be absolutely honest about your physical appearance and job. A good relationship has never been, and will never be, built on lies and deceit. Eventually she will find out the truth anyway and there you are back at square one. 

 

A picture really is worth a thousand words. Post many pictures of yourself doing your everyday activities and make them full body shots, not just head shots. If you were dating a girl in the real world she wouldn’t just see your head. 

 

Once the discussion has been opened about meeting face-to-face for the first time, suggest that you meet in a very public place, during daylight hours and that she bring a friend with her. After all, you have nothing to hide. You’ve told her the truth about yourself and she has already seen a lot of pictures of you. The only thing left is to make her feel safe meeting you.

 

Ask the Right Questions First

OK. You have joined a couple of dating services and written a killer profile. You’ve uploaded a good picture and now you are going to chat with a contact. What now? How do you start separating those who have real potential and those who don’t have any potential at all? You need to find out something about who this strange woman really is and not just who she wants you to believe she is. It would be nice if women wore labels like “Gold Digger” or “Daddy’s girl”... but they don’t so it’s up to you to find these things out and you can’t just ask direct questions. You need to know what mistakes you can avoid making and how to impress this lady if you decide you want to do that. 

 

After you are past the initial small talk, ask her, “What are the biggest mistakes guys make when dating online?” Listen carefully to her answers. She’s going to tell you a lot about herself and her views on men in general. 

 

Next you should ask her, “What do you really think about online dating?” Now she will tell you if she has had any bad experiences dating o line and help you to avoid making the same things wrong. 

 

Now for the all-important one.....”What caused the break up in your last relationship?” If she puts all the blame on the guy, you should probably move on to the next prospect. If she takes all the blame herself, you should probably do the same. If she says the breakup was by mutual consent or that the relationship just wasn’t right for either of them, you’ve heard the right answer. Move forward but always with caution. 

 

Asking the right questions will give you insight and make you more confident when you meet the lady for the first time.

 

Signs of a Healthy Relationship

Most people cannot differentiate between a healthy relationship and an unhealthy one. To them, as long as the two of them are together, then the relationship is still strong. As a matter of fact, many cannot tell when their relationships are on the rocks. They only get to know that the relationship was heading in the wrong direction when it is too late. All in all, there are still signs that can tell you whether or not the relationship is heading in the right direction. 

 

“Look at the bright side of life”; this is a common phrase that is used in all sectors of life. Well, in this case, it is one of the ways through which one can tell whether the relationship is healthy or not. Basically, it simply involves concentrating on the good things and ignoring all the negativity that surrounds the positivity. All the good couples tend to look at the bright side of their relationships even when nothing is going right. Take for example when one of them losses his or her job, the other will console him by telling them that the good thing is that they still got each other. This just shows how positive minded they are. Actually, this is the main characteristic of a healthy relationship. As a result, their bond will be so strong that nothing can separate them, nothing!

 

The other sign of a healthy relationship is the amount of commitment each one of them shows when it comes to matters pertaining to their relationship. Commitment is mainly defined by the amount of time and effort one puts into achieving something. The same applies in this case. Effort, money, time and even creativity; these are the main items that both of them should fully utilize to bring that spark into their relationship. Do everything within your power to make each other happy, this is the kind of spirit that will strengthen the bond between you two.

 

Finally, the character of the two individuals can tell you a lot about their relationship. A wise man once said that a relationship is like a tower, it can only be supported by two strong pillars. The main word here is ‘strong’. It two of them are independent and strong hearted, then they have got what it takes to hold the relationship. On the contrary, if one of them or all of them are not strong at heart, then be sure that what they have will not last.

 

Tips for Long Distance Relationships

There are several types of relationships especially in this recent time. They range from the normal kind of relationship to even online relationships. We have even heard of cases where people get married through the internet. It might sound absurd but it is true. However, there are certain relationships that happen not out of will but they are forced to be like they are. These are distant relationships. Such kinds of relationships have gained a lot of popularity over the years as more and more people practice them. All in all, there are particular tips that one should follow in order for them to work. 

 

To start with, it is vital that the two of you plan just how you expect things to run in your relationship. Some of you might claim that this is next to impossible due to the distance. On the contrary, it is more than possible. All it needs is for both of you to sacrifice some time and money and sit down and discuss.

 

This does not necessarily mean that you meet in person; technology has made the world a smaller place. There are several modes of communication that the two of you can use the most convenient ones being Skype or a telephone. Discuss on matters such as the insecurities you face, your sexual desires and ways through which the two of you can help the relationship thrive. Do this as often as possible and you will be amazed at how tasty your relationship will be despite the distance. 

 

On the other hand, the two of you should generally keep in touch. It should not be necessarily that you are discussing something, just check on each other. Use emails, text messages, phones, mail, web cameras or even social sites. You can also decide to chat every three days a week via Skype and catch up on what has been going on in each one’s life. You can even go to an extent of sending each other videos of the last basketball game you went to alone or something of the sort. Just make sure that the two of you remain in touch. This will ensure that you do not feel separated. The two of you will always feel like the other is right beside them and the bond will be stronger than ever. Finally, think of ways to do romantic stuff despite the distance. Creativity might come in handy.