What Were You Thinking?

This is such a critical success key in our business and throughout our lives.

Reset your thinking as appropriate and you will attract into your lives much more powerful results aligned with your purpose and who you really are.

It's so amazing to me how most people get stuck in the poverty state of mind.
I remember watching a show called ''Homeless in Paradise''.
The cameraman was following and interviewing homeless people in the Los Angeles area.

I listened to how one of the people interviewed answered when he was asked how he sees his future and what his goals are .
His answer was stunning to me, and I'm quoting his exact words:

''What my aspirations are? Well...sometimes I'm thinking about getting a job and being able to have a hotel room so I can be able to close the door...
... Where do I see myself in 5 years?....In 5 years I WISH SOMETHING WOULD HAPPEN BUT IT PROBABLY WON'T so... ( pointing to the street)... I'll still be here.''

How sad is the fact that this man will probably never know that the real problem is in his way of thinking. Do you think he has any chance of a better life with that kind of thinking?
Once you accept poverty as part of who you are you'll be stuck there forever.

I believe that we all posses the formula for Deliberate Attraction. Ask yourself : ''What do I want?'' And make that happen.
Wishing and hoping that our lives will get better will not get us anywhere. Action is what will pave the road to success, and action start with a simple thought that fortunately we are able to choose.

"The same wind blows on us all, the difference is the set of the sail"

Jim Rohn

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Daniela Riess

Stumble It!

MLM Strategy - Dangling the Carrot

Your success has nothing to to with your upline having a two million dollars home
and driving a Lamborghini.
I see people joining opportunities based on hype. I also see people that join and stick to a company with a terrible compensation plan just because '' the upline is making $900.000 per year''.
So what? What does that do for you?
That the upline can sell ice to eskimos does not matter.
It's you that matters, and what works for your personality type.
Sell...sell...sell...recruit...recruit...recruit does not work for most of us. That business model is sooooo not duplicatable, even if it does work for a small number of network marketers.
Remember... the heavy hitters have no problem replacing people over and over again...
Someone drops out, so what ? They can recruit another in no time.
They can, they are very good at it, they have the pesonality type to do it and I think that's great.

But that does not mean you and I can do it, and that's perfectly OK. We can be successful without having to try to become a heavy hitter.
Please don't listen to the ones that tell you that you have to change who you are to be successful.
Don't listen to the ones telling you that in order to be successful, you have to recruit your neighbours and make a list of your friends and family.

Another point I want to make when it comes to dangling the carrot strategy is getting paid very little, lets say 1%-2% on your first few levels of your compensation plan .

I know what most of you are going to say: ''But...if I reach level 10 I'll get 40%''.

Here is a reality check:
Most people don't go over levels 2 or 3, and that's statistics, that is not an excuse like some of you might say.
Most people are part-timers and they need to get paid early and they need to get paid fairly and often. Otherwise, what's the incentive for them to stick around?...
And please don't say ''the 40% on level 10''...

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Daniela Riess

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Vampire Network Marketing - Why No One Sells Retail To Mom!

If you talk to 100 people, 99.9 of them will tell you they’ve never sold product retail to Mom. Why?

It’s because:

1. Products are too expensive.

2. You don’t feel right making money off Mom.

What’s the answer?

You must have value-priced products that you’re not ashamed of. The problem in network marketing is, companies have such massive overhead, they have to charge tremendous prices for their products in order to pay a commission.

When that happens, you cannot sell to Mom retail, because you know the price is way too high. So you’re always selling wholesale - and probably, not just to Mom. Most people can’t sell MLM products retail to anybody!

If your payplan is all about wholesale - in other words, it’s “recruit, recruit, recruit” - where is your retail profit?

If you’re in a business opportunity and it’s always about “recruit”, new blood, new blood, new blood … it’s called Vampire Network Marketing. You need to ask yourself whether you can have long-term success in a business where nobody sells products retail.

Hint: there’s a real logical answer to this question.

By my good friend and mentor - Michael Dlouhy

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Two Little Words That Scream, “Network Marketing Scam!”

Word #1: probably the biggest scam ever run on people in MLM network marketing is the powerline.

The worst thing you can ever do building your business is to create fear of loss. It’s the worst way to build your business. Oh, yes, it definitely works … to get people in. But you have a totally false business, because you’ve got a bunch of people, and none of them ever does anything.

Word #2: Many companies that do a powerline - or even a binary or a matrix - focus their promotion talk on spillover. Now, I have met people who have gotten spillover, definitely. BUT - none of the people that were spilled over on them ever did anything! Why?

Because the promise of “spillover” creates a welfare mentality. What happens when you tell people, “Oh, get in NOW, and you are going to get spillover!”

They’re afraid of losing something for nothing. So they do get in now … and then they sit and wait for all that spillover to make them rich.

Isn’t That A Wonderful Business Plan?

It’s like joining a binary because you can get a position that already has $1 million volume in the strong leg. The reality is, you don’t make a dime, unless you build the weak leg, But people get so worked up about losing that “$1 million position”, they join … and never do anything, and never earn any income.

So never forget those words, powerline & spillover. Anytime you see them, their purpose is to promote the welfare mentality. Something for nothing, something for nothing, something for nothing.

The fact is, you are in network marketing. Network marketing is a business that takes work. It’s net-work marketing, ok? it’s not net-free marketing. It’s not net-spillover marketing. It’s not net-zero marketing, it takes work. Anything you do that promotes the “something for nothing” mindset will not work. End of story.

But you will draw in a bunch of couch potatoes who are convinced that you are going to build it for them. Matter of fact, you can even give them your bank account number, and you’ll just pass the money directly to their account. They don’t have to leave the couch. They can stay on the couch, drink their beer and watch a football game. No problem.

Use Those Two Words As A Tip

Whatever company or whatever distributor is saying them to you, that is not the company or the person you want to depend on long-term. They will not be successful. Keep on looking. There are lots of good companies & MLMers out there. Keep looking, and you’ll find the right mentor.

by my good friend and mentor Michael Dlouhy

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Daniela Riess

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Handling Criticism in Your MLM Business

I have a plaque on my wall that says, “What anybody else thinks about me is none of my business.” I like that sentiment, because it’s easy to get caught up in what other people say about you, or to you. You have to please yourself first. It’s always possible that criticism may give you a helpful hint, but too often, it’s just misplaced anger. Somebody else sees how you do things and it doesn’t match with how they would do things, so you must be wrong. Taking comments like that to heart can really hurt your network marketing progress.

Sometimes we attack the criticizer. That’s not too productive. It just puts more focus on the negative, makes you think about it longer, takes you away from result-producing activities.

If the guns are being fired directly at you, the real key is to stay cool. Keep your focus. Do whatever you need to do to not begin some back-and-forth battle. What works for me is thinking of my perfect day. Anytime I feel the start of an outside attack, I picture my perfect day in great detail. The result is, the anger does not draw me in. I’m able to stay calm and talk to the person, and the mean words just roll off my back.

One thing I know for sure is that if you react to it, the battle will ramp up. The criticism will get harsher and there will be more of it. The better able you are to relax and maybe picture YOUR perfect day in great detail, the beauty of that day, the sooner the other person will just let go and relax, too. You can’t fight long with no opponent.

by my good friend and mentor Michael Dlouhy

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Daniela Riess
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You Don’t Produce More Milk By Squeezing Harder

Network marketing companies are like a dairy farm. If you needed more milk, would you squeeze harder, or would you get more dairy cows?

Companies call it “raising the bar.” Suddenly, distributors have to buy MORE product to qualify for commissions. So the company forces the distributors to pay for the new $28 Million Home Office. Or the 100 new operators in the Call Center.

Companies that charge reps $19.95 or $29.95 or $39.95 a month for the website to look at their downline genaeology … THAT stuff should be free.

That $20 or $30 or $40 a month is virtually 100% profit to the network marketing company. They want to increase their bottom line. But instead of getting more cows, they squeeze harder.

More Squeezing

Companies that change compensation plans are squeezing harder. They know their reps have built to maximize rep income from the current comp plan. So a totally different comp plan will ALWAYS throw a monkey wrench into the rep’s design and increase the income to the company.

Companies that want more milk start changing comp plans, they charge for more Back Office doohickeys, they force you to order more product to qualify for commissions.

Or they do the RIGHT thing, and get more cows.

Which way does YOUR company play it?

by my good friend and mentor Michael Dlouhy

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Choose a Company For The Long Term

My good friend and mentor- Michael Dlouhy- taught me so much...
I really hope that people will decide to read the Success in 10 Steps e-book.
It has changed my personal and business lives, and it could do the same for you if you choose to read it.






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Quick cash = quick crash.

Normal people can’t sleep at night when they have ripped off people and stolen their dreams. You have to get this understanding.

Network marketing is a business that can pay you and your children and your children’s children for the rest of their lives … when you build it with a “5 Pillars” company. For details on a “5 Pillars” company, go HERE

But so many people get sucked in to “build it fast.” I just did a call with a very excited lady. She’s in a binary and tells me, “Oh, they put me in a spot where I’ve already got 700 people down one leg.”

Good. How much money are you making?

“Well … none, yet!”

And that is because they don’t pay anything on the strong leg. They pay it on the weak leg … which no one will ever give you. You have to build that one. But they’ll promise you all those people on your strong leg, because it doesn’t cost them anything, and many people will just sign up because they don’t know any better.

Don’t fall for the scams. Build for the long-term.

Michael Dlouhy

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Strange Practices of People Who Never Succeed

By my good friend and mentor Michael Dlouhy

Over the years, I’ve observed a lot of people who have not achieved what they want in life. These people often have a lot in common. I thought it might benefit YOU to have a list of things NOT to do. So, following is what seems to be a mental “To Do” list for non-achievers:

1. Don’t listen to anyone who has had actual success.

2. Take advice from everybody you know who has never achieved a dream.

3. Plan, plan, plan, and plan some more. Get everything 100% right. Then check it a few more times before you actually DO something.

4. Blame others for your failure to achieve what you want.

5. Take time every day to remind yourself what a loser you are.

6. Repeat the same mistakes over and over.

7. Keep going in the same direction that has never gotten you where you want to go.

8. Don’t do anything to replace those limiting, negative thoughts you’ve always had.

9. Keep spending time around those people who assure you you’ll never be successful.

10. Insist that you are right, no matter what the outcome of any action, because being wrong is worse than failure.

Is there anything on this list that YOU ever do?

If so, how can you change it?

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Daniela Riess
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''Prelaunch ! Ground Floor Opportunity !!!''

I've heard it many times before ''Prelaunch ! Ground Floor Opportunity !!!''

I even fell for it a couple of times, that was before I listened to the ''5 pillars'' call and before I've read ''Success in 10 Steps'' e-book .

Michael Dlouhy is so right :

Some people seem to be forever joining the next ground floor opportunity.
And the next and the next and the next … alluvasudden, somebody who made some
money sometime a long time ago … this one is so good, they came out of
retirement for it!
The Blue personality type is especially susceptible to
this. (I know – I’m a Blue!).
You’re looking for excitement, and what could be
more exciting than something new? So you just jump, jump, jump, and you’re never
in one place long enough to ever build anything.

Unless you own the Fountain of Youth, you’re going to get older, just like the rest of us. The worst words to hear in network marketing are: “ground floor opportunity”. Over 90% of the companies that get started, don’t make it 2 years. And most of the rest are gone after 5 years.
Your chances aren’t much worse playing the lottery.

It’s important to choose a company that has proven it will be around long-term.
Pre-launch deals don’t qualify. Only a very small percentage of them will last even 2 years.
Your benchmark should be at least 2 years. It takes that long to knock the cobwebs out of it. It takes 2 years to get their ducks in a row, to get their campaigns together, to get everything approved in different countries, to get warehouses built, and all that stuff.
They’ve already survived a lot of the normal growing pains. They have much better long-term prospects than any “pre-launch”. Make them prove themselves by being around 2 years before you commit your time & money to that business.

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Daniela Riess
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MLM Strategy: The Other Reason Not To Recruit Friends & Family

I'm sharing a few reasons why we should not try to recruit friends and family in our business.

Michael Dlouhy wrote this and I've decided to repost it

''Almost everybody in MLM knows the feeling of being avoided and/or rejected by friends & family. When you recruit friends and family, three things can happen … and two of them are bad:

1. They are successful in your business and your relationship strengthens.

2. They reject your idea and don’t want to join your business, and they’re annoyed at you for what they might see as trying to take advantage of them. This leads to tension at future family gatherings.

3. They do join you, and they fail. Result? See #2 above.

And then there’s another problem that often comes up. When you share your dream with people you care about, they often are sizing you up based on past experience. They’ve known you a long time. Maybe they’re jealous. Maybe your past success annoys them. Maybe your past failure helps them feel superior to you. Maybe they really don’t want to see you be successful.

Total strangers, on the other hand, have no bias. It’s a new relationship, and they often become your biggest fans. Unlike friends & family, their impression isn’t formed by what they know about you (or think they know).

None of us is perfect. We all have weaknesses. The idea is to succeed despite your limitations … and along the way, work at eliminating those weaknesses. To succeed, you will need others to follow your lead. It may well be easier for people who don’t know you to believe in you than it is for people who do know you.

And for sure, you don’t want to put yourself in a situation where you’re trying to lead people who’ve already decided they don’t believe in you.

Just one more reason why - for most people - it’s best to avoid recruiting friends and family until you already have built a successful business. THEN, if their perceptions of you are positive, invite them into your business.''

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Daniela Riess
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The MLM Attitude - YOU Are In Charge

By Michael Dlouhy

As you know, your personal life and your MLM business life don’t always run on an even keel. The more aware you are of that fact, the more important it is to you to focus your attention on the good and positive, and to minimize or change the bad and negative.

Some people can get really caught up in a “down” mood. In a good mood, you feel great. Your common sense is in charge, and you see life as it really as, and as good as you can make it become. Problems aren’t any big deal. Relationships are easy. You can handle anything.

But when we’re on the dark side of the moon, life is a lot tougher. We can really beat ourselves up. And we distrust others and take what they say very personally.

Here’s the craziest thing. When you are in that dark mood, it is 100% of the time going to change back to a good mood, even if you do NOTHING! And you can certainly help it along. Good books, good audiotapes, a good listener … all of these can help you with a fast turnaround.

We’ve all seen the swings in others, and we’ve seen them do some pretty weird things when they are in the “low” mood. And then a little later, we see them and everything is right with their world.

Since your mood is going to change back anyway, what is the point in getting all upset, feeling we live under a dark cloud, that our whole life has fallen apart in the last 45 minutes? Doesn’t that seem pretty ridiculous?

Anytime you’re feeling low, just recognize it as a mood. “This, too, shall pass.”Why let yourself get sucked into a downward spiral? Someone once wrote that people in bad moods tend to come up with permanent solutions to temporary problems. I’ve never heard it said better.

YOU are in charge. YOU know the mood will pass. Whatever bad thoughts you have about your personal life or your MLM business at any time, they will soon be replaced by good ones, whether you do anything or not.

And the good news is, you CAN do things to speed the process back to a positive state of mind. The more you take charge, the happier you will be, and the longer your “good” moods will last.

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The Best Network Marketing Opportunities Focus On Part-Timers

By Michael Dlouhy

Ninety-five to ninety-seven per cent of your team will be part timers. Your compensation plan needs to focus on the part-timer, not the Heavy Hitter.

Let me tell you a story about that. There is a company out there that’s really rocking and rolling right now. They have a single product. Talking with the top distributor in the company, his group is growing fast. They added 13,000 brand new distributors last month. Only problem is, 14,000 dropped out the back end.

I Call That “Vampire Networking!”

Vampire networking means, you look for new blood. You are always, always, always looking for new blood.

So why is it that these people drop out? The reason they drop out is, they are not making money. Part-time people are not making money. That’s why the network marketing companies need to focus on the part-timers.

And don’t tell me that your super star space commander guru leader is making $200,000 a week. Tell me you have 10,000 part-time people making $200 a week. Because again, 95 - 97% of your group, no matter how big you build it, how small it is, 95-97% are part-time people.

These are part time people, working a 2 or 3 hours a week, maybe 5, 7 hours a week. A half-hour here, an hour there, building their business. Those are the people that have got to get a checkk.

Most Compensation Plans Focus On Recruit, Recruit, Recruit

Problem is, only about 3-4% of the population can recruit. The rest of the world can share.

What’s so amazing about this is, people their whole lives have recommended and promoted. They recommend and promote a good book, good movie, good restaurant. And when they get into network marketing, all the sudden it’s top secret. They don’t tell people about their amazing product, because some idiot Heavy Hitter told them, “You got to start selling people!”

See, they have been sharing their whole life. It’s not a problem. They have recommended and promoted their whole life. since about age 5. Now all the sudden they get into a business and they can’t do that anymore.

Now all the sudden it’s about sell, sell, sell, recruit, recruit, recruit … when in reality, all it is is recommend and promote.

Part-time people can do that. They’ve been doing it since age 5. Just let them do it. But the Heavy Hitters try to change people into this person that they are not.

And it doesn’t work.

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MLM Strategy - Curb That Ego!

By Michael Dlouhy

To be as effective as possible in both your personal life and your MLM business, you must have balance.

To start, you’ll achieve a lot more when you focus on understanding others rather than getting them to understand you. For your communication ability to nourish you both personally and in business, you first have to understand and really hear others. Concentrate on understanding the message they want to get across, and you will understand what’s important to them.

Most of us spend our time struggling to get our own message across to others. Here’s the problem - they can hear all the effort you put into having them understand you, and they decide that you are just like everybody else. They’re looking for someone to listen to them. They want understanding. But all you want is for them to listen to you. Result? A big battle of egos. You may win that battle, but you’ll sure never build your network.

To paraphrase Zig Ziglar, “To have what you want in life, you just need to give enough other people what THEY want in life.”

What others really want is understanding. So give it to them. Really listen to them. Really understand. Soon enough, it will be returned. And your personal and MLM network will build effortlessly.

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Your MLM Team - Acknowledge, Admire, Appreciate Them

Your MLM Team - Acknowledge, Admire, Appreciate Them

By Michael Dlouhy

When you are building a team that you home will take you to the promised land in network marketing, it’s very important that you make a point of liking, admiring, and appreciating them. That’s important in your life with everyone … but especially with your MLM team.

You are the leader of your team. You will get plenty of credit for team accomplishments. Don’t waste a second thinking it might be a good idea to reserve some of the credit for yourself. Instead, recognize everyone around you, let them know how much they mean to you, tell them what they are doing that is really terrific. Acknowledge, admire, appreciate.

Some people have reasons for not doing this. They think the team members already know how much they are appreciated, that they don’t need to hear it again. Maybe they think it sounds phony or over the top.

I think I’m safe in saying that the recipient of appreciation NEVER feels that the thanks is unwarranted. They aren’t embarrassed. They are way more accustomed to not being acknowledged for the things they do. So when you acknowledge them, you create a bond and a trust that is rare. If you think people already know their strengths, so you don’t need to tell them … well, that is wrong. They may well know their strengths … but they often think others don’t recognize it. So when you do point it out, that is a special moment for them.

Even more … it means you are focusing on what is right with your team. They will all appreciate that. When you focus on what is right, you will get more “right” in return. That’s what they will all strive to do. So your appreciation of others also helps build your business.

Make it a point to appreciate team members - and others in your life - every day of the week.

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Effective MLM Thinking - Garbage Out, Garbage In

By Michael Dlouhy

It’s easy to sometimes resent some of the little things that you have to do on a day-to-day basis, just to keep from losing ground. There’s not much that could be less glamorous or exciting than taking out the garbage. Nobody WANTS to take out the garbage. But it’s got to be done, or there will be serious consequences of one kind or another. We all have tasks like that in our lives.

And that makes it easy to sometimes focus on what a pain in the neck our responsibilities are … and lose track of the fact that others in our groups and our relationships also have boring, monotonous responsibilities that they do every day. It’s really easy to picture everything YOU do to support others. But consider the responsibilities those others perform, too. Think for a moment what your life would be like if you had to do all that yourself.

Sometimes we get in the mode of “keeping score.” We keep track of who is doing what, who is doing more, who is doing less, how it all pales in comparison to what we are doing. The result of this thinking is usually resentment and often, less inclination to do what really needs to be done. Anyone who follows that path very long is headed for failure.

Worrying about whether someone is taking advantage of you is very similar to beliving you have to be right. What is really important to your success is that the jobs get done. That is where to focus, and to set the example for all in your MLM group or in your family. When you just focus on the getting things done part, you’ll free up a lot of energy for the really important activities in your life.

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