For example, Facebook is spoken a lot of; some people are suggesting to me that the Facebook craze will burn out and people will get tired of it. I’m hear to tell you that you need to get off this thinking because the truth is, Facebook hasn’t even scratched the surface when it comes to having people from social to business backgrounds use it’s service.

In fact, the aim is to make Facebook your existence away from your existence. Does that make sense? In other words, Facebook is where many people will virtually be living. And according to a report at techcrunch.com they are building an online destination that people will never have to leave.

Does that scare you or get you excited? Are you still thinking should I use Facebook for network marketing? The report looks at some of the key social media trends for 2012 and what areas you need to be concentrating on. Read this several times and let it sink in. This could be the most important time you spend on your computer this week.

In 2011, social media had its share of growing pains. Large brands and corporations took to social media in force to try to find footing in this expanding medium. Some brands found success, while others found peril and new PR nightmares. One person who has helped brands navigate the proverbial social media minefield is Amy Jo Martin. She is the founder of Digital Royalty, a social media firm that has set itself apart by helping A-listers find their social media voice.

Amy works with people like Dana White of the UFC, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson of acting/WWE fame and brands like Nike and Fox Sports (and now Joel Stein). Her specialty is working with organizations or individuals and making them look good online. Since the online world is in perpetual flux, I wanted to get Amy’s take on the social media landscape for 2012.

Here were a few key trends Amy said we should look out for in 2012:…..

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How important is social media in your business? Are you using it? Are you still trying to figure out how to use it? We will be delving into this a little more soon so stay tuned. But for now, look at platforms such as Facebook and study how other people are using it for business growth and expansion. You’ll notice the successful ones aren’t really selling…they are teaching and sharing.

This is a concept that will take your business to the next level. Ann Sieg has been teaching it for years. The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto is the bible when it comes to selling through teaching and sharing.

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I thought long and hard about doing this post but after a couple of incidents I recently became aware of within my sphere of influence, I needed to look at the ethics of some network marketing.

As a business model, network marketing is a brilliant concept but like any business, endeavor or activity, there are going to be those who exploit it to their advantage. For example, a very good friend of mine was devastated recently to learn her top producer has shifted his entire business from hers to take advantage of an offer from an upline member to service some of his potential stars in a leg he is trying to get maxed out.

To be honest, I was flabbergasted to learn this and just advised her to let her company know what was going on and also alert the governing body of network marketing to what had happened. She is so disgusted with it that she is thinking long and hard about getting out completely. That’s her decision to make.

So is it network marketing’s fault? No it’s not. It’s the individual “bad eggs” within an organization that can give the industry a “black eye”.

The following video looks at the question of “is network marketing an ethical business?” The first point made is an excellent one; “network marketing is ethical depending on ones motives and methods”. That just about sums it up.

So, how about you; do you think network marketing is ethical? Why not leave a comment and let us know your thoughts. This is an argument that has raged since network marketing first began.

If you are “sitting on the fence” about joining the industry based on your doubts about the business model being ethical then we are here to tell you don’t. As far as we are concerned, it is. But as mentioned above, those who choose to impose their own motives and methods to gain an edge unethically are what gives it a bad name. Play by the rules and treat others as you would like to be treated. What do you think?

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Excuses come in all shapes and sizes and we all have them. I’ve come up with some of the world’s greatest as to why I couldn’t do something. After listening to Wayne Dyer, I got a new perspective on how to beat excuses and bad habits as he put it in such a way that it made it so easy to understand.

As network marketers, you have probably heard the best of the best when it comes to making excuses. You’ve probably created the best of the best and I don’t say that to be mean. Excuses connect with some of our previous posts on self defeating or self sabotaging attitudes. For network marketers, it’s the biggest enemy you can have.

So I never tire of listening to training that teaches you in how to overcome excuses and succeed. Because most of the time, the only thing standing between you and succeeding in something is an excuse. How about the next time you had an opportunity to do something great that would benefit you and you decide to ignore the excuse and go with it? How different would your life be then?

Anyways, a couple of videos for you today; the first was an interview Wayne Dyer did on “Fox & Friends” a couple of years ago promoting his “Excuses Begone”. It’s short but full of great tips. The second video was part of the show I was watching on PBS and while it’s only an eight minute grab from the show, it will give you some nuggets of gold in beating excuses and habits that have been holding you back.

Now I’m not going to mince words here; the main reason people don’t succeed in a home business is because of excuses and being unable to break bad habits. Remember those same patterns we talked about several posts ago. You have to be willing to break those if you want to move forward.

Dr. Wayne Dyer has a way of putting things that makes learning to beat this stuff easy. Not sure if you can get a full copy of the program on PBS but you can get the book, “Excuses Begone” by clicking here. It will be money well spent. But only if you are serious in making a change and breaking those same patterns that keep holding you back.

And don’t forget, I always like to hear your thoughts and opinions so leave a comment below.

And taking action on the information and training you get rather than letting it build up on your hard drive or on your bookshelf is a success step many, in fact, most fail to take. There are a lot of “junkies” out there who simply love to consume information and training but don’t ever act on it. That’s fine and everyone will be ready to move in their own time.

But the reality is, these folks won’t ever act because of things such as:

- procrastination
- information overload
- they want everything to be perfect before they start

Love this quote and this is something you can send to your prospects who are having trouble getting going; even making a phone call:

“When there is a start to be made, don’t step over! Start where you are…Edgar Cayce”

Ann Sieg has recently posted a training article called “Here’s How To Structure Mini 30 Day Bursts Of Activity To Focus Your Efforts Into An Income Producing Machine”. It’s as it implies…creating 30 day bursts of activity. You’ll see a lot of these being done right now by people energized by a new year but the truth is, why stop at one 30 day burst? Why not do one each month? Imagine how your business would look at the end of the year?

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What do you think? Are you up for it? Remember, being successful is taking action on something that will improve your current situation. Being productive means getting into the zone and using your time wisely to increase your bottom line.

Let me know how you are doing. Take action.

And remember, don’t forget to download your free copy of Ann Sieg’s brilliant training guide, The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto. Click here.

Time management is one of my passions. I even started a time management site several years ago and simply named it TimeManagementSite.com. But not to digress and because we are heading into a new year the biggest tip I give home business owners this time of the year every year is to learn how to manage your time better working at home.

Working from home, whether as an internet or network marketer, is tough. Many people fail simply because of how they manage their time. I tell a lot of people who can’t make working from home work to go back and get a real job.

Why?

Because they cannot work unsupervised. Being productive is all about pleasing their boss and when they get into a familiar environment such as their home they relax. They keep putting what has to be done off. Let me make it clear; when working from home in your business you need to imagine it being a job and there are things that need to be done otherwise the boss is not going to be happy. He might even fire you!

So learning how to be more productive in your network marketing business starts with managing your time more effectively.

So how do successful people become so productive? A clue? A lot has to do with how much they value their time. They are almost ruthless with it. You need to be like this too, but in a nice way. Don’t go snubbing the people you know but just make it clear that there is a time for work and a time for play.

I couldn’t resist bringing you the following tips at inc.com when I saw them. The first couple of lines sum it up perfectly when it comes to fighting “unproductiveness”; “people love distractions”.

Would you agree? This might cause some of you to really take some action and start to get productive again. Remember, no one is going to build your business for you. Why should they if you can’t even get motivated enough to do it?

You probably don’t want to admit it but you love distractions. In fact, just like monkeys, you get a shot of dopamine every time something pulls you in another direction. Why do you think you check your email so much?

Want to be more productive and get your focus back? There are no secret tricks here… do one thing at a time. Stop multitasking—it’s just another form of distraction.

Easier said than done, I know.

Recently I sat down with Tony Wong, a project management blackbelt whose client list includes Toyota, Honda, and Disney, to name a few. He’s an expert in keeping people on task, so I thought he’d be a good person to ask.

Here are his tips for staying productive:…..

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My favorite point is to work in blocks. I actually work in 50 minute blocks, take a 15 minute break and then do another 50 minutes. One of the things you need to do is give yourself a goal to work towards at the end of the 50 minutes. It could be anything, even a cigarette although I am not recommending you take up smoking. I have coaching clients who are doing this much to my horror but…

Whatever works for you. We just need to get used to the idea of being productive.

Love to hear your feedback.

Meanwhile, have you downloaded Ann Sieg’s The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto yet? It’s free. Click here to get your copy.

The truth is, there are quite a few but the problem with most of them is that they don’t come all inclusive. In other words, you get the piece of the puzzle in one area and then need to fork out more dollars to get the next piece. That is one of the annoying aspects of trying to build an online business.

But if you are a network marketer, you need to have an online presence at some stage, whether it’s today or sometime in the future. I really encourage you to start a blog. It’s easy. And it’s even easier with Ty’s MLM Blog Secrets course. I actually was in the process of putting a course together before MLM Blog Secrets came along; in fact, had started it but put it on hold when Ty released his. I couldn’t fault it.

As I’ve mentioned before, Ty Tribble is someone I listen to and although I am not connected with him in any way, he gives out a lot of information aim squarely at helping people attract leads into their network marketing business.

One of the things I have been saying all along, ever since attraction marketing became a buzz term five years ago, is that you cannot hope to go wholly and solely online and hope to build a sustainable business. You need to find a happy medium between online and offline. Ty Tribble says the same thing and while I took a little heat on it I never waivered from my thinking.

Network Marketing is all about creating relationships and if you think you can attract people into your business online and never have to talk to anyone then you are kidding yourself. Your business will crumble at some stage. There has to be an interaction between you and your prospect…that’s what network marketing is all about.

Anyways, Ty did a 30 minute webinar a little while ago and he outlines five simple steps to getting started online. He mentions some paid products in the video and seriously, ignore them if you have to. I have listed the links to some of the resources he mentions below. But as far as a free information webinar is concerned, they don’t come much better than this.

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Click here to get Ty Tribble’s MLM Blog Secrets.

Click here to get Blogging For Prospects.

If you haven’t downloaded Ann Sieg’s outstanding free report The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto you can get it by clicking here.

As a network marketer, branding is crucial when it comes to using social media and how you come across to people is going to have a big bearing on how many people take an interest in what you have to offer.

In the dating scene, profiles are the key to attracting people into your life you want to meet. In fact, in many cases, the profile is the make or break reason why someone will contact you or be attracted to you. It’s the same in creating interest in a network marketing business.

A recent report posted at mashable.com revealed the results of a study which showed how people looked at your Facebook profile, or any profile for that matter posted on social media sites. The results are interesting and you can use this information to your advantage.

In a nutshell, here are the four most important aspects of a profile that get attention:

- profile pictures
– job titles
– the people you know listed in the thumb nails
– prominent content

That’s just a quick summary but the profile picture is listed on top and that makes sense. It’s like window shopping; first impressions make all the difference. For branding purposes, it’s you people want to see, not a cartoon image or something way over the top.

Anyways, check out the images which revealed what the eye tracking study showed. This is pretty solid stuff if you are thinking of making an impression on potential prospects to your business through social media.

When potential dates, employers and friends glance at your online social profiles, what do they see? EyeTrackShop, a startup that runs eye-tracking studies for advertisers, helped Mashable find out by applying its technology to the profile pages of popular social networks.

The study used the webcams of 30 participants to record their eye movements as they were shown profile pages from Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Flickr, YouTube, Klout, Reddit, Digg, Tumblr, Twitter, StumbleUpon and Pinterest at 10-second intervals. What participants looked at on each page and in what order is recorded in the images below.

It’s not a perfect study. Thirty is a small sample size, and what draws attention on a profile likely varies depending on the content displayed. But we’ve hazarded making a few observations:…..

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So, what did you think? Is that information you can use to advantage in your business? Are you using social media to attract attention? Please feel free to comment and add a tip or two of your own if you are already using this stuff to attract prospects.

Meanwhile, Ann Sieg’s still making her latest book The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto available for free. You can download your copy by clicking here.

But most of us don’t get it until later in life; not until we’ve been weather-beaten to a point where we decide it’s too late to do anything about it or we get the inspiration to make something of what we learn and make a late rush to success.

We’ve been talking about how most of us self-sabotage ourselves either through being comfortable when we reach a minor goal or being afraid to have success.

In network marketing, the key to reaching the high income levels where you feel you’ve created an income safety net that will sustain you for a lifetime takes “pushing the boundaries” all the way. Most will give up after a certain point; mainly because we’ve been conditioned to give up. People have patterns and the truth is, it’s very hard to change those patterns.

But to change that pattern takes some work and it won’t happen overnight. Well, one of the people I listen to a lot online and consider him somewhat of a mentor is Harlan Kilstein. Recently, Harlan did a webinar with us and talked about how people hit a personal plateau and then give up. Among the personality types he talks about are the:

- the dabbler
- the obsessive
- the hacker
- the master

I guaranteed each and every one of you is one of those personality types mentioned above. The keys to long term success can be attained if you understand what personality type you are and what you need to do to get out of the pattern you’re in.

The good news is that Harlan has posted the webinar at You Tube and I’ve posted it below for you. If you are at all serious about improving your chances of breaking out of the current pattern of self-sabotage you’re in and want to hit the master level and be like those people you want to be like in your company who are successful, then spend a hour and watch this presentation. And share it with people you care about.

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What do you think? Did you see yourself in one of those first three personality types? Scary isn’t it. I saw a bit of myself in each one of those. I need to get to the master level and think I can without too many problems now. How about you? Love to hear your feedback.

Meanwhile, you can get George Leonard’s Mastery by clicking here.

And if you haven’t grabbed Ann Sieg’s The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto remember it’s free. Click here.

Why is that?

Well, people just don’t know how to use it properly as a business building tool. The truth is, there is very little in the way of training courses in how to use Linkedin for business growth and for this reason, people will say things like “yes, wow, Linkedin is amazing” and then do nothing. That’s because they don’t know how to use it.

So I looked around and came up with a basic course on how to use Linkedin for business. Many now consider Linkedin even more promising as a business building tool than Facebook if only they could figure out how to use it. For example, Linkedin has nearly 140 million users with about four in five of them aged 25 or over and their average household income is just over 100k. Those are pretty impressive stats and for a network marketer looking for serious business builders, then it’s a prime prospecting target.

Here’s a basic boot camp training of how to use Linkedin which should get you off to a good start. The first thing you need to be able to benefit from it is to get in the game initially. This will help immensely.

LinkedIn is the proverbial dark horse of social media: we all know it’s there, but few of us use it to its full potential.

With just a little bit of effort you will see how the powerful social site can help you market yourself and your business far more than you imagined.

With help from the LinkedIn guru himself, Lewis Howes, we have enrolled you in our basic LinkedIn boot camp training to give you the fundamental tools necessary to use the site for all your business and personal marketing needs…..

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There is a lot more to using Linkedin creatively and effectively to canvass potential prospects and we will bring you more in due course. But remember, don’t simply join the site and start blasting sales messages to everyone. These are professionals who need to get to know and trust you first. Same attraction marketing rules apply. Don’t forget that.

Speaking of attraction marketing; have you downloaded Ann Sieg’s The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto yet? Download it today and get a head start on 99% of network marketers not using the principles of attraction marketing.

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Funny how that happens. An opportunity comes calling in whatever shape and it’s your time to become successful yet you usually come up with some lame excuse not to pursue it. That folks is because resistance is talking to you.

Okay, if a voice inside your head tells you to jump off a 100 yard cliff then welcome resistance but it doesn’t work that way; that voice seems to be at it’s loudest every time we have the chance to be inspired to success and unless you recognize it and know how to defeat it, it will guarantee you stay where you are right now. If you’re happy with that, then that’s fine but I know most people dream of something better and the truth is, it’s up to you. It always has been.

We’ve spoken about self-sabotage lately and this is continuing on with the conversation. I have lost count of how many times resistance has beaten me. But the good news is you just need to defeat it once in your life to make a difference. That’s why some of the most successful people in whatever field in history have been successful later in life or after a long period of persistence.

Steven Pressfield wrote a book called “The War Of Art” and I highly recommend it. He wrote:

“Resistance will reason with you like a lawyer or jam a nine-millimeter in your
face like a stickup man. [It] has no conscience… if you take Resistance at its word,
you deserve everything you get.

“Resistance is always lying and always full of sh*t.”

That’s about it in a nutshell. So today a lesson from Stephen Pressfield. He talks about how to beat resistance in the following vide and talks about a concept of treating the things you do in life as a pro. Confused? It makes sense and this is only a short two minute message. It could totally change your fortunes against resistance.

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That will be the best two minutes you’ve spent in front of a computer today if you have been battling resistance in the shape of that little voice in your head that always seems to be at it’s loudest when something comes along that could inspire you. Steven Pressfield makes a lot of sense. His latest book is called “Do The Work” and teaches success through actually doing the work.

I remember recently needing to put together a report for a client which I wasn’t looking forward to but it was worth a lot of money. I kept making excuses for putting it off. Then I got a severe sore throat and the deadline for the report was almost due. I used that pro approach. I wrote it reluctantly at first despite the pain but as I got through it I started to feel better. When I finished, I was on such a high that I didn’t even feel my sore throat. It was all but gone.

This is a topic that has cost me big time in the past and we’ll continue to look at it and ways to beat self-sabotage and resistance in future posts.

Meanwhile, if you have resisted getting a free copy of Ann Sieg’s The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto my question to you is why? This is one of those rare marketing manuals that will turn your thinking around about what it takes on how to attract leads into your business.

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