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MLM Training- MLM Leadership Secret Beyond Influence

December 20, 2011 by Doug Firebaugh Leave a Comment

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MLM Leadership.

What is the most powerful part of MLM Leadership?

MLM team Building?

Some say:

Influence?

Communication?

Decision Making?

Would you like to learn a more powerful Force in your mlm leadership that truly will rock your home business and recruiting?

Inlfluence is key to home business success, no doubt. But yet, when you learn the TRUE Marketing Power that PULLS people towards you, you will be light years ahead of most in our great profession.

Influence is what many Leaders say DRIVE mlm and network marketing.

But…does it drive Marketing Success and Recruiting?

Or…is there something MORE POWERFUL that you need to engage in your mlm home business?

Is there something that you need to focus on more powerfully and will create the results you want for your network marketing business?

Influence is something that is very critical. But there is a RULE that you need to understand about the shift that has occurred in the home business profession.

What would that New Home business rule be?

NOTE: It is No Longer just about Influence, but IMPACT.

Read that AGAIN!

It is No Longer just about Influence, but IMPACT.

Influence is at the core of Leadership and the secret to this business is Leadership Development. But today, things are changing and Influence is no longer the “Power Factor” of Success with people in a Home business.

It is IMPACT.

People today are not looking as much for Influence as something that stirs them up on the inside in a positive way and they FEEL the message-not just hear it or see it.

Impact is the force that “something hits something else.”

What FORCE does your message for your company have?

What Impact does it carry?

What does your prospect FEEL from you and your company?

Take Nike.

That company has Impact with a slogan, or “meme” that you cannot forget. “Just do It.™

That carries with it Impact that amplifies Influence to take action.

And what today’s consumers and prospects are looking for is no longer to be Influenced to just DO something– but Impacted so they FEEL something and be moved by it emotionally and psychologically.

Many people today create a weaker influence than they should, and thusly it weakens their results as well as actions.

Create and impact with your message and product.

How?

Make a BOLD statement.

Make an Extraordinary Promise.

Ask a thought provoking question.

Create a word picture that draws people towards you.

Display an image that tells a story-liker the Apple Ipod advertisements – just a silhouette that tells a story.

Take your prospects somewhere away in their mind with the sharing of your business and where it could take them.

Amplify your Passion and get people magnetized to listen because of what is pouring out of you. THAT creates Impact.

Influence will always be important NO DOUBT.

But today, Impact is Imperative in your network marketing home business.

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MLM Social Media- 120 MLM Social Media Marketing Tips

December 19, 2011 by Doug Firebaugh 18 Comments

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Social Media Home Business.

How would you like to have a virtual gold mine of social media marketing tips for your home business?

Here are 120 Social media marketing tips for your home business mlm that will help you in marketing YOU as well as your business in social media.

Someone sent me this via email in a word doc and it blew me away and wanted to share it with you. I am not sure who the original author is, my apologies, but this really is good stuff when it comes to social media marketing for home businesses! I have added a few things to it as well myself.

Social Media Marketing.

1. Add link to social media platforms via widgets, icons etc.
2. Create a “get social page which provides easy access to your social media profile urls etc.
3. Add Facebook “like” widgets to your Facebook business page.
4. Add Facebook send and like buttons so people can easily share your content to their Facebook page
5. Add Facebook “like” button so visitors can post the content to their Facebook page.
6. Add a Twitter follow button that enables visitors to follow you with one click if they are logged into Twitter.
7. Add a Twitter widget to share your latest tweets, or a hashtag or keyword associated with your industry or niche
8. Embed a “welcome to my blog/website YouTube video on your WordPress front page or sidebar
9. Embed a slideshow from Flickr of a recent event or celebration showcasing interesting photos
10. Add the LinkedIN button to your WordPress sidebar for easy access and direct linking to your LinkedIn personal profile
11. Use PollDaddy to create a one question poll or short survey to gather market research. Poll Daddy allows easy embedding into your blog or website. You can also post to Facebook etc.
12. Provide links to social bookmarking profiles.
13. Add widgets that make it easy to share your content. One of my favs is Digg Digg.
14. Add an email opt-in widget to make it easy for visitors to easily subscribe to your email newsletter
15. Provide a free whitepaper with free tips related to your business. Require an email opt-in to download for free.
16. Embed a podcast or other multi-media with tips and tricks. I love to provide similar content in differing mediums as everyone learns differently.

Twitter
1. Create a custom Twitter background with key information and a look and feel consistent with your company / personal brand.
2. Add url to your Twitter profile.
3. Create or refresh Twitter bio to ensure it best supports your current business services, differentiation and keywords your audience is seeking.
4. Add key social media information to your Twitter background. Include url to social networking profiles, other twitter handles etc.
5. Mark a tweet as a favorite for easy viewing at a later time by your followers.
6. Create Twitter lists of your favorite and most followed Tweets.
7. Use” Formulist” to grow network, keep track and better engage with current network.
8. Use a Twitter management service or tools such as Sprout Social, Argyle Software, WebTrends and HootSuite to better maximize your time spent and measure results on Twitter and other platforms.
9. Tweet relevant and actionable content.
10. Follow people in your industry or niche.
11. Follow people who are following industry thought leaders in your industry or niche.
12. Host a tweet chat on a relevant topic to your industry or niche.

Facebook
1. Add your company to your personal profile.
2. Add the url for your company blog or website to your personal profile.
3. Create a Facebook business page.
4. Create a custom photo badge and place in the left side/photo area of your business page.
5. Create a look and feel for your Facebook page consistent with your brand that supports goals and objectives.
6. Complete all profile information for your Facebook business page.
7. Create custom Facebook tabs to help people better access the content you have posted on other platforms.
8. Use the Involver tool to import your Tweets via RSS.
9. Use a tool such as Involver to insert your favorite tweets via the Twitter RSS feed for such into a Facebook tab.
10. Add the “reviews” application to enable your clients or partners to leave a review and post to your Facebook page.
11. Add photos to your personal profile as well as Facebook business page.
12. Tag local businesses and friends when posting photos to your business page.
13. Ask simple questions via Facebook post or poll. People love to answer simple questions in social media.
14. Add an opt-in to your email newsletter in exchange for download of an awesome whitepaper via one of your Facebook business tabs.
15. Add a video from YouTube or upload directly to Facebook of a topic that answers a question related to your industry or niche.
16. Subscribe to Networked Blogs and link with your Facebook account. You can have all new blog posts post automatically to your Facebook personal profile and business page.
17. Purchase Facebook ads to inspire people to “like” your page.
18. Remember not to spam your news feed constantly asking people to “like” your page. It’s what happens after the “like” that matters most. Give them a reason to become and stay a “liker” of your page!

Google Plus – Google+
1. Create or update your Google+ profile with the most accurate information possible.
2. Personalize your Google+ url
3. Upload a decent photo consistent with your brand across other platforms.
4. Add links to social network platforms.
5. Create circles and share relevant content.

LinkedIn
1. Create or update your LinkedIn profile with a goal of most accurately describing what you do while at the same time providing value to your audience. Help them be able to quickly view your profile and know how you can help them.
2. Personalize your LinkedIn url.
3. Add a video to your LinkedIn profile that introduces you, your services and how you can help your audience.
4. Add your Twitter handle to your LinkedIn profile.
5. Add the Twitter follow me button to your LinkedIn profile.
6. Add a link to your website or blog to your LinkedIn profile.
7. Add a link to your Facebook or other social network profile.
8. Create a LinkedIn group for your business.
9. Create a LinkedIn company page for your business.
10. Add a list of services you offer on your company business page.
11. Create a relevant group for your industry or niche.
12. Answer questions asked by other members in the LinkedIn Q&A section.
13. Ask relevant questions in the LinkedIn Q&A section.
14. Educate yourself on the newly released LinkedIn advanced search tools.
15. Learn how to follow companies. Follow your favorite companies as well your competitors. You can set notifications for LinkedIn to notify you when people join, depart company etc.

Youtube.
1. Create a custom YouTube background with key information and a look and feel consistent with your company / personal brand.
2. Add key social media information to your Twitter background. Include url to social networking profiles, other YouTube channels, blog, website, twitter handles etc.
3. Create or refresh YouTube bio to ensure it best supports your current business services, differentiation and keywords your audience is seeking.
4. Subscribe and/or become friends with other YouTube channels in your industry or niche.
5. Subscribe and/or become friends with client YouTube channels in your industry or niche.
6. Create videos that includes content and discusses visiting your other social platforms. Make it relevant and give the viewer a reason to do such.
7. Include your website or blog url within the video title and description.
8. Add tags/keywords relevant to your audience, content and industry or niche.
9. Add to videos opening and closing title slides or captions that include your url or Twitter handle.
10. Create a video that describes how to best engage with you and your brand via the different social networks.
11. Create a video describing an upcoming event online or offline.
12. Record a video of a client providing a testimonial.
13. Record a video at the next local networking event asking people a question related to your industry or niche.
14. Record a video about a recent blog post you wrote that your audience liked.
15. Create favorite lists related to your content and business objecitves to better organize your videos.

Foursquare
1. Create a personal account that includes a link to your business blog or website.
2. Add your Facebook and Twitter urls to your personal profile.
3. Create a custom business page inclusive of logo and url.
4. Check in to local businesses using your personal account.
5. Leave tips at local businesses you or your target audience visit frequently.
6. Follow and become friends with local and national peeps.
7. Add your logo to your business page.

Email

1. Leverage an email newsletter to nurture audience, client and partner relationships.
2. If you don’t already have an email service provider, sign up for a service that meets your needs. My favorite is Infusionsoft but I know it is more than some businesses need. Other popular services include MailChimp , Constant Contact or Campaign Monitor.
3. Add opt-ins boxes via embed code on every social network platform that supports such.
4. Create several whitepapers that provide value to your audience and leverage as a call to action to inspire people to subscribe.
5. Add the opt-in box to your Facebook tab. Require a “like” before they can see the opt-in box and be enabled to download the whitepaper or other call to action.
6. Add the urls and mentions for your top social media profiles to the bottom of your email newsletter.
7. Analyze, measure & refine your usage of email based upon key trends found within the data. What links are your subscribers clicking? What subject line inspires the most opens? What are the click thru rates?

Flickr
1. Leverage Flickr to upload photos of recent events and other photos of interest to your audience.
2. Create and/or enhance your Flickr profile to ensure it best supports your business goals and objectives.
3. Add tags to your photos, albums, sets and galleries relevant to your audience and industry or niche.
4. Add the url to your blog, website or other social network profile as appropriate.
5. Tag other business leaders or businesses in the photos as appropriate and relevant. Don’t use as a form of spam.
6. Embed a widget or code in your website or blog that showcases a Flickr photo set or gallery of interest to your audience.
7. Take photos at every event you attend of interest. Focus on other people and helping highlight them and their businesses.
8. Share your Flickr album via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google Plus

TwitPic.
1. Take photos on the fly via your mobile device and upload via email to TwitPic. You can also upload via web interface.
2. Include url to other sites, event links etc. in photo uploads.
3. Add photo to profile.
4. Add url to blog or website
5. Add bio

Events
1. Integrate social media via various platforms to generate pre, during & post event buzz & engagement
2. Pre-show Facebook polls to gather research for event speakers & content
3. Pre-show Facebook contests to win free tickets
4. Ensure top social network urls are included on all event web pages
5. Instead of traditional biz cards use event biz cards w/unique urls to measure response.
6. Offer giveaway and post results on Facebook page daily and grand prize after event
7. Post photos and videos during show. Tag participants.
8. Stream content live from event booth, keynote presentations, breakouts etc.
9. Video tape clients, partners & team members at event. Leverage later for web and social platform content.
10. Trickle content to web & social platforms post-event to maximize time leverage. Don’t post all at one time.

Biz cards
1. Add urls for social profiles to business cards.
2. Purchase a unique domain for Facebook Fanpages etc. (i.e., http://www.pamsfanpage.com, http://www.pamslinkedin.com)
3. Add QRC code
4. Don’t clutter and ensure to keep brand consistent with all other platforms.
5. Add bio from Twitter account.
6. Add tweet style bubble with a favorite quote tagline or customer benefit.
7. Add a photo of yourself that is consistent with social network profiles.
8. Create a card that is a different shape, color & size that looks similar to a tweet, conversation bubble or other.

These are 120 (plus 5) social media marketing mlm tips that will help you in your home business and network marketing social media success.

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MLM Social Media- 2 Hidden Powerful Social Marketing Secrets?

December 19, 2011 by Doug Firebaugh 16 Comments

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MLM Social Media.

Do you understand what social media and the home business profession do when they are joined together?

Would you like to discover 2 Powerful Social Media Secrets for home business mlm?

How would that impact your ability to succeed?

Here are 2 secrets of Social Media MLM that will rock your world:

1. Social Media MLM Secret: It is No Longer about just Persuasion- but Permission.

Seth Godin, an amazing writer and business forecaster, wrote a book called “Permission Marketing.” It was and still is a best seller and guide to the Social Media path. It explains much about the New Rules of marketing in Business.

But for the last 50 years, it has been all about persuasion, and power. That is changing. There is a new breed of consumer and prospect out in the world that will not be persuaded by tricks, nor pressured and powered into a decision. They will resist you and ignore you. You have not asked for what they require.

They instead- want to give you permission first to market to them or to talk to them about your product and business. You do that via social networking, newsletters, emails, snail mail, or a simple phone call that asks permission to share a new idea and solution with them.

It is much easier to the do business with someone- marketing your product or business- if they have given you permission to share that with them. Many people do three-ways and surprise the prospect by having their sponsor on the line with them- and the prospect feels ambushed.

If you had called them and asked permission it probably would have gone much better. Many people have a “bait and switch” mentality and that does not work either. No matter how persuasive you are and charismatic, if you today do not seek permission to share something with someone-you will be headed down the path of rejection.

Don’t just persuade.

Show Surprising Respect for the prospect and ask permission in some format. If you do, you will find them much more receptive.

2. Social Media MLM Secret: It’s No Longer just about Moving Products- but Moving People.

Used to be that the products were king-or queen- and that moving products ruled the business world,. Well-things have changed. Products are still very important and getting your message out about the products is still imperative.

But people no longer drive Edsels.

There have been changes and upgrades to automobiles. It is the same in business. Consumers no longer want to make it about products.

They want it to be made about THEIR products and THEIR Life and THEIR Experience.

They want their products to MOVE THEM.

That is the message that many companies and distributors had better hear loud and clear. It is about moving PEOPLE-first with your Conversation and then with the Experience of being connected to your message.

If your Conversation and message do not move people today emotionally, then you will never move products. You must move them with the Promise of a better life and lifestyle. Surprise them with an understanding that you are one of them and expect the same kind of emotional experience.

Move them with New Ideas about your product that will lift them up emotionally.

Move them with images and empathy.

Move them with Connection to their dreams.

Move them to new Possibilities with usage of your products.

Move them to new heights of enjoying life that they only once dreamed.

And move them with your Passion for what you do- so they will be drawn towards you like a magnet on steroids in your mlm social media home business.

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MLM Recruiting- A Powerful Closing Secret NO ONE Teaches

December 16, 2011 by Doug Firebaugh 2 Comments

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MLM Closing.

Closing an MLM home business prospect can be difficult for a lot of people…why?

How would you like to learn a powerful closing tool that has proven to move prospects when nothing else really could?

Would that create some excitement in your daily efforts for your network marketing business?

Many people today are looking for what I call “Success Insurance” for their business. This is something that will INSURE their home business success happening on a daily basis.

Even in a hard and difficult economy.

You need to understand that with an economy like we have, we need to be sensitive to the mlm prospect’s focus and needs for their daily life. Your prospect wants hat most other people want:

A great life and worry free life.

YOU must show them the way and get them to FEEL good about where you can take them concerning their dreams. If you do that one thing alone, and nothing else, it will explode your closing ratio.

“Closing” is term that I rarely use my self as it does not fit the psychology of what the prospect wants to see happen.

NO ONE wants to be “CLOSED.” Come on….that is the truth.

They want doors OPENED, and a new future OPENED, and a new destiny OPENED to their life.

This little mlm recruiting secret will help address that concern the mlm prospect might have when you are talking to them.

(NOTE: Here is a post that is a powerful post on Closing the prospect:)

“How to Close ANY MLM Prospect in 5 Seconds Flat”

Here is a powerful MLM Recruiting truth that has proven to be what I call a “Velvet Sledgehammer:”

MLM Recruiting Secret:

The Best INSURANCE is REASSURANCE when recruiting a home business prospect.

People are looking for “Destiny Insurance.”

They are not looking for “The Same ol same ol Life as it always has been Insurance.”

They are looking to be “insured’ and no matter what happens, they will be ok, with their income, jobs, housing, mortgage, and cars.

They are looking for “Lifestyle Insurance.”

Some are even looking for “Excuse Insurance” —so their excuses will be valid during these tough times and they can continue to use them.

If you are worried about protecting your business from false claims or culprits then their is Insync Insurance to protect your business.

But the best insurance for today’s tough times is REASSURANCE that reassures the prospect that they will be ok, they will be moving forward, and they will be in a BETTER PLACE next year then they are now- by working with you.

This is a Leaders’ way of communicating and directing the prospect to your business.

People are looking for Reassurance in their life direction.

Say this: “I understand that you are concerned- but let me assure you that you do not have to feel that way, as there is an incredible answer that has proven to be amazing with helping people like you and me . It is taking control with your own business from home. How would you like to never have to worry about money again? How does partnering up an building a big business sound? ”

People are looking to be reassured that NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS– they will be fine and their family will be as well.

Reassure your prospect- to insure – their moving forward with you in your mlm network marketing home business.

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MLM Home Business- The Powerful MLM Recruiting Secret of “SV”

December 15, 2011 by Doug Firebaugh Leave a Comment

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MLM Home Business.

What is one of the most powerful mlm home business tools do you have in social media?

What would it do for your business if you could discover a powerful revelation that could turn your business into a success inferno?

Here is a Rule for Home Businesses that will rock your world:

It’s No Longer just about Surpassing Volume- but SUPRISING VALUE.

What do people value in their life?

Obviously family, faith, friends, security and the like. But they also Value things that Improve, Increase, Enlarge and Empower their life and lifestyle. People today have so many more choices than they used to.

Turn on the TV.

Turn on the radio.

Open up a magazine.

Connect to the internet.

You will find the eyes and mind inundated with messages that are trying to sell them or get them to do something and create Volume and revenues for their company.

Nothing wrong with that.

But which companies and home Businesses today are rocking their bank accounts – while others are racking their brains – trying to figure out what they are doing wrong?

The companies and people that are focused on bringing a message of Surprising VALUE to the consumer and potential distributor are the ones that are setting themselves apart from the crowd. They are bringing Value so powerful and so strong with their message and products, that it is unexpected and surprising the consumers at the amount.

Take Apple Computer, Take Fast Company Magazine. Take Best Buy. Take Dell Computer. All are focusing on VALUE front and center, and then volume second, if they have done their job. THAT is the New Rule for Success-and you.

YOU must bring Surprising Value to people that they do not expect – as an expert in your field. Then show how your products and business bring Surprising Value to the prospect and then – go beyond that

Include things that are not expected.

Throw in an extra product. Give them a free e-book or download.

Give them a half off discount just as a surprise.

Package your products in something special and make it seem like they are opening a gift.

Make your prospect’s jaw drop by the value they get-just by doing business with you and being connected with you. Go overboard with Value.

That is the New Rule for the Future Millionaires in Network Marketing. Surprise them with Unexpected great Value- and they will spread that word to everyone they know about your MLM home business.

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Home Business Training- Top 50 Home Business Ideas

December 14, 2011 by Doug Firebaugh 19 Comments

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50 Home Business Ideas.

How many home business ideas are there? Thousands?

Occasionally I will run across a post that I want to share with you, and this post is one of them.

It comes form a great site, Financial Highway and it really is a great site. A lady named Miranda penned this list. They give some great advice in many areas and home business is one of them.

During the holiday and Christmas season you may be looking for a more traditional home based business that suits your needs. Here are the top 50 ideas that i believe will work for anyone looking for an alternative income and lifestyle:

One of the best ways to get started with a home business is to use your skills. Stock traders like Nathan Michaud make a constant living from day trading the markets. A number of business startup ideas grow out of the skills possessed by the business owner. If you have the skills — or if you can learn the skills — here are a few ways to make money from what you’re good at:

Writing: I always list this first because it’s what I do. If you write, and have reasonably good grammar, you can find gigs providing content, working for print and online magazines, preparing whitepapers (and doing other technical writing), and providing ad copy and press releases. All form the comfort of your home.
Graphic design: Create logos, newsletter layouts, images for ads and other visuals for a variety of clients.
Web design and development: Set web sites, and even maintain them. Develop different aspects of web sites, and design web sites for usability.
App development: Those who know how to develop apps for different mobile devices, and even those who develop web apps, can make money with their skills. Create apps for others to use, or even for them to sell, and you can get your cut and make a profit.
Social media/SEO services: If you are good online, and build social networks, you can leverage your skills to make money by providing your services to others. Help companies and web site owners build their brands in the social media space.
Photography: Use your skills to take photos at different events, and even take portraits. Take stock photos and sell their use on stock photo web sites to create a tidy passive income stream.
Videography: You can also make videos of special events, and put together montages for special events like birthday celebrations. With huge variety of innovative chairs covers available at cvlinens.com, your clean-up time will be a breeze, perfects for your event.
Presentations: If you have skill at putting together presentations, you can create presentations for others.
Make music: Those with musical skill can make money by hiring themselves out for events, as well as by playing in different venues. Many restaurants like to have live music at least some nights a week, and you could make money from the tips people provide for your playing.
Consulting: Any skill and experience that you have in a number of areas can be used to help you start a rfp consulting business. From knowledge of statistics, to communication, to image, to public relations, it is possible for you to put your knowledge and skill at others’ disposal and make money.

Share What You Know

Some home business ideas grow out of what you know. You can base a home business on your knowledge and expertise in a certain area. Some ideas that can help you put your knowledge to use can include:

Tutoring: Start a tutoring business out of your home. You can approach by providing tutoring help in an area you specialize in, such as math, or English, or test-taking. You can also start a business that allows you to work with others, paying tutors and helping clients get the academic help they need.
Music lessons: For a brief period, I taught piano lessons. (I discovered that teaching was not my forte.) If you know music, whether it’s playing a musical instrument or using your voice, you can share that knowledge, and earn some money.
Art lessons: Teach children and others art. If you have a knowledge of painting or drawing, you can teach others.
Online teaching: One of the growing areas of interest is in online teaching. If you have a college degree, you can teach college level courses in some cases. There are also virtual K-12 schools. You can, if you are ambitious enough, and get the right licenses, open your own virtual academy.
Gardening: Many people need help learning to garden. You can offer your services in helping people set up gardens, and learn to grow their own food. Container gardening classes can help clients learn to grow food in small spaced. If you’re also into indoor gardening, you know it’s a daunting task to keep those plants alive. That’s why it’s advisable to opt for the best led grow lights.
Preserving food: If you know how to can, bottle or dry foods, that’s something that others might pay to learn. You can teach classes and even sell small recipe booklets with ideas for what can be made using preserved ingredients.
Guide: Do you know your local area? The best places to go for fishing or hunting? Do you know a stretch of river? You can start a business guiding people in the area. Even if it’s just a restaurant tour of the tastiest places in town, your guide efforts can be profitable.
Technology: Start a business teaching others how to use technology. There are a number of people who need help setting up their computers, phones and gaming consoles. You can use your knowledge to your advantage.
Craft classes: Hold craft classes in your home. If you know how to sew, crochet, knit, work wood, sculpt, or frame photos, you can teach these classes, earning some money and doing something you love.

Provide Services

Look around your town, and see if there are any services that you might be able to provide. You might be surprised at the need in town — and the way that need can turn into a side hustle to help you make more money or a full time home business:

Pet care: Take care of others’ animals. From walking pets, to sitting pets whose owners leave town, to grooming services, if you know to take care of different pets, you can start a home business.
Yard care/landscaping: Provide lawn care and yard care services, as well as landscaping. You can even design yards to look more attractive. Provide services form mowing the lawn, to fertilizing, to planting bushes. You can even install sprinkler systems.
Hauling: Many people need help hauling, but don’t have the vehicles for it. You can haul refuse away, or you can bring bulky purchases home from the store for someone whose car is too small.
Tax prep/accountant services: There is actually an account in my town who works out of his home. He has a home office, and provides tax preparation services and other accountant services. You can do the same. In many cases, clients need only drop something off, and you can work on it at home.
Run errands: There are a number of people who don’t have time to do their own shopping, pick up the dry cleaning, or run other errands. You can provide these services for others, giving them more time in the day while you take care of the annoying errands.
Elder care: If you have the right certifications, you can start an elder care business from your home. This can include taking care of the elderly, checking up on them, or just providing companionship.
Massage therapy: If you have the right certifications, and the right licenses, you can provide massage therapy services from your home.
Home health exams: You can base out of your home, and travel in your local area, to perform home health exams. In fact, the last time someone came to draw my blood, weigh me and take a urine sample for my life insurance, it was an independent contractor running a business out of her home. Insurance companies and others can contract with these professionals. You have to have the appropriate training, though.
Personal care: If you have the right equipment, licenses, and the know-how, you can cut hair in your home, or provide manicures and pedicures, or provide other personal care services. One of my friends invested in a barber chair, and it’s set up in her home, where she can cut hair and earn a little money.
Babysitting: Take care of others’ children and get paid for it. You will have to meet state regulations, though. However, if you set up properly, you might actually be eligible to receive state assistance to provide meals for the children your watch.
Sell stuff for others: Help those who don’t have the expertise or the time to sell their own stuff. Help them sell items on eBay or on Craigslist. Keep a portion of the sale as a commission for yourself.
Bookkeeping/payroll: Offer your services to small businesses in town, or offer them over the Internet. Keep track of others’ books and payroll, saving them time.
Virtual assisting: You can provide your organizational and other skills to others with the help of the Internet. You can offer services to locals, or you can offer them to those on the other side of the country. Make phone calls, schedule appointments and more.
Transcription: Many people need notes transcribed. There is also a need for voice records and other other records to be transcribed. Charge for your services, and you could set up a good home business.

Life Skills: Help Others Improve Their Lives

Do you think you could help others improve their lives? If so, you might be able to try one of these business ideas — which you can do from your home.

Life coaching: Help others find their calling in life, or get back on track with their lives.
Career counseling: If you are connected in your career, and know how to help others create resumes and improve interview skills, you can charge others to help them get a foot in the door as a career coach.
Financial planning: Many financial planners offer services out of their homes. Create plans to help others get back on the right financial track.
Stress management: Hold meditation classes and/or yoga classes in your home. You can also help with other stress management techniques, teaching constructive ways to control anxiety.
Spiritual consultations: There are a number of different ways that spiritual consultations can take place, depending on spiritual choices. However, in some cases, if you are a practitioner of different methods, you can help others find peace and connection with their spirituality. This can include astrology, Reiki, and other traditions.
Mediation: Set yourself as a mediator. Solve problems between family members, and even help in cases of divorce. You may need the right certifications, though.

Make Something — And Sell It

Another way to start your own business is to make something, and then sell it. There are a number of places to sell your handmade goods. From local craft fairs and shows, to online marketplaces like Etsy and eBay, it is possible for your to earn a living from making things. Here are a few items that you can make, if you have the skill, and sell:

Fishing flies: Fly-tying is a great art — and fishermen and would-be fishermen will pay good money for high quality flies.
Sewing/knitting/crochet/quilts: If you can produce handicrafts by sewing, knitting, crochet or quilting, you can sell the results for money. You can create custom pieces, made to order, or you can produce items to sell later. My sister-in-law even creates patterns to sell so others can make her designs.
Woodworking: Create beautiful items out of wood. You can produce items to order, or see what sells.
Jewelry: My wedding band was made, custom, by a jewelry maker who created items out of a workshop attached to her house. Create jewelry, and sell it to others.
Scrapbooks: Put together albums for others. Create scrapbooks and other memory books for those who want to capture the essence of life. You can even use your skills at digital scrapbooking to make items for others.
Get creative: There are a number of other things you can make to sell. An enterprising young man in our neighborhood makes wallets out of duct tape and sells them. Consider what else you can make, than might be creative and useful, to sell.

Passive Income

No home business list is complete without passive income ideas. It’s true that no income is truly passive, since you will need to do some work to maintain your income stream. But it is possible to set money-makers in motion, under the name of a home business, and cultivate revenue.

Income investing: Create an income portfolio with dividend stocks, bonds and P2P lending. Resources like www.forex.academy can teach you more about trading and investing in a way to achieve passive or residual income.
Real estate/rental property: Buy income property and earn money. Whether you lease it out a business, or get renters, you can receive income regularly. Hire a manager, and you won’t have to do much at all.
Web property: Buy web sites and monetize them. Yes, this can be work at the beginning, but once you get things going, it can provide income. Hire others to write for you, or do other tasks, and you won’t have to do as much work.
Affiliate marketing: You can sell items through affiliate programs. As long as others keep buying in, or participate, you can earn money.
Royalties: Create something once, and keep receiving money from it. You can also do this without sharing the profits with someone else. Create your own ebook and sell it yourself on a web site, or even on Kindle.

These are the top 50 home business ideas that can rock youre world duing the holiday and Christmas season. Do your research and see which one fits you for a powerful home business.

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Social Media MLM – Do YOU Know the New Rules of Home Business?

December 13, 2011 by Doug Firebaugh Leave a Comment

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Social Media MLM.

How does someone go about changing their home business success DAILY?

Would you like to discover how to do that?

Do YOU know the New Rules of Home business and what they can do for your network marketing business?

There is a reality for 2012 that will hit every network marketer between the eyes:

In the Home Business arena today, there are three very important words that are more than true.

Things Are Changing.

Those 3 words are right at the very core of a shift in the Home Business and Network Marketing Profession. What worked 5 years ago, may not work today, as there are New Rules that have been laid over the Home Business grid, and either you play by them-or you don’t.

If you do not, then that can end up possibly working against you in the long run.

Many MLM companies have come and gone over the years, and I have seen some succeed wildly, and others struggle massively. And there many times is no rhyme or reason why it happens. But today, with the introduction of the new Rules of Social Media and Mobile Marketing and Recruiting in Home Business, things are transforming right before our eyes.

The same traditional unchanging principles will always work for your Home business, but the approach to them are changing as we speak, and transitioning many companies either into dynamos – or dinosaurs.

Depending on the decisions being made, the same thing can be said for Teams in Network Marketing. Some teams are accelerating their growth like crazy through mobile recruiting and social media, while others look at those teams as if they are crazy. All this is occurring because of the introduction of Social Media Marketing and Mobile Recruiting and Marketing in the Home Business Profession.

There is a New Marketplace evolving in the network marketing arena and we must accept that.

There are New Rules that we have found that absolutely must be embraced and internalized, if you are going to embrace Success in this New Social Mobile Marketplace. Yes, you can still do it the old fashioned way and succeed, but it today is a longer and harder path than what lies before you with the New Rules of home Business Success.

Let’s see what they are.

New Rule 1: Today, it is NO Longer about just Conversion, but Conversation. Conversion is VERY important, but Conversation is IMPERATIVE.

The focus of Network Marketing has always been and generally always will be converting people into customers or distributors. That is the thrust of most businesses –at least gaining new customers. But today’s companies that are accelerating sales massively are not focused on just conversion, as many people today are tired of “The Pitch.” Ask anyone you know.

They are looking for something MORE- Conversation.

People today have been pitched, sold, recruited, called, pressured, hassled, manipulated, congregated, and have become totally frustrated with the old ways of communication from Network Marketers.

People are tired of the mlm pitch-and want THE PATH.

They want a Conversation that leads them to NEW Ideas, New Possibilities, New Thinking, and New Solutions to problems that no one else has taken the time to give them.

READ THAT AGAIN.

You be the one.

You be the leader they are looking for and lead them with words that guide and direct to Value and Solutions-not just Volume and Selling.

Look at the highly successful companies today. They are playing by New Rules and adopting New Tactics.

So should you.

The new way to start the conversion process today is back off—and hold a CONVERSATION- about the prospect, their challenges, your solutions, and how the two can intertwine. It can be online through Social Media Conversation, or through Mobile devices, or it can be offline and through face to face or voice to voice Conversation.

Make each prospect the superstar of your conversation and make it about their wants and desires. Take them to places of possibility that they never thought possible through the New Media. If you do, you will be holding many more conversations with them as your new Success partner in your mlm home business.

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MLM Training Secrets- 3 MLM Secrets on How to Soar Above a Bad Economy

December 13, 2011 by Doug Firebaugh Leave a Comment

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MLM Training Secrets.

If you could learn three secrets to Network Marketing– would you LEARN them and not just read them?

Would accelerating your home business be something that you would want to happen in a DAILY BASIS?

Here are 3 MLM Training Secrets that will help explode your MLM business quickly.

MLM secrets 1:

The Best INSURANCE is REASSURANCE.

People are looking for “Destiny Insurance.”

They are looking to be “insured’ with their income, jobs, housing, mortgage, and cars. They are looking for “Lifestyle Insurance.” They Are looking for “Excuse Insurance” so their excuses will be valid during these tough times.

But the best insurance for today’s tough times is REASSURANCE that reassures the prospect that they will be ok, they will be moving forward, and they will be in a BETTER PLACE next year then they are now- by working with you.

People are looking for Reassurance in their life direction. “I understand that you are worried- but let me assure you that you do not have to feel that way, as there is an incredible answer. It is taking control with your own business from home.”

People are looking to be reassured that NO MATER WHAT HAPPENS– they will be fine and their family will be as well.

Reassure your prospect- to insure – their moving forward with you.

MLM Training Secret Secret 2

Talk Smaller Goals and Goals that are more reachable. That is where people are During Tough Times.

People during tough times have a tendency to “downsize their dreams.”

They have a tendency to think, act, and accept smaller due to the Fear factor. When you are talking to a prospect- TALK WHERE THEY ARE.

Do NOT make the mistake of talking where they are NOT and they miss your message. You start talking to them where THEY ARE– not where you are.

Start where their mindset is.

Talk where their focus is.

Talk where their heart is.

This is what they understand and comprehend. Ask, “What is the ONE THING you want to do this year because of these tough times?’ And then listen to what they say. They are telling you what they want and are looking to happen.

Then you help them make that happen with your business. “I agree- that is important and I am there with you. This is what I have done and would love to walk this path of Success together as a team.”

MLM Training Secret 3

The Secret is LISTEN- CONNECT- AGREE- TRANSITION.

You first must LISTEN to the prospect and listen to their language. If they are saying anything about the economy and the times, you need to make a mental note of that. They are worried and looking for help.

Then you CONNECT with the prospect. “I can relate to that and you are so right. Things are a little tough right now- but we can help change that.” Connection is the forerunner to New Direction.

Then you AGREE with the prospect. “I agree with you that you must do something-change something-and I am right there with you.”

MLM Training Secret: “Agreement is the forerunner to Partnership.”

Read that AGAIN!

Then you TRANSITION them to a New Possibility. ‘Here is an idea that we have found that has really helped people during these times, and I think can help a lot of people. Imagine NOT being worried about the economy because you have no income worries. How would that FEEL?”

LCAT — Listen-Connect-Agree-Transition.

That is a MUST during any economic times- but especially TODAY for your mlm home business success.

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MLM Recruiting- What Can We Learn from a # 1 Corporate Recruiter in the Nation?

December 9, 2011 by Doug Firebaugh Leave a Comment

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Social Media MLM Recruiting.

How would it help to discover some Corporate recruiting secrets for your MLM business??

What if you knew how similar Corporate Recruiting is to MLM Recruiting? Would their secrets of recruiting make more sense?

I have a friend named “Scott” who is the # 1 Corporate Recruiter in the nation for a recruitment firm, and he and I were talking recently and we discovered through that chat how similar recruiting is in the home business profession.

We also discovered some powerful recruiting secrets that will help YOU in your MLM Recruiting:

Similarities between Corporate Recruiting and Home Business Recruiting.

There are many defined similarities between corporate recruiting and home business mlm recruiting. Let’s take a look at some of the ways that corporate recruiting and home business recruiting are similar:

HUGE Hint: Every similarity between Corporate Recruiting and Home Business Recruiting is a Potential Hidden Secret to Social Recruiting Success.

READ THAT AGAIN.

Social Recruiting starts in social media and ends with the social candidate they have connected with, being placed for employment with a corporation.

Social Recruiting for home business starts in social media and ends with the social candidate (prospect) they have connected with finding their place, and enrolling with the home business corporation.

NOTE: Both are pretty much doing the same thing, only in different ways.

One is sourcing candidates for employment, and the other is sourcing candidates for being an entrepreneur.

Both processes focus on connecting a prospect with the right company. One candidate goes to a corporate business, and the other candidate starts their own business.

The corporate recruiter is looking for a MATCH between what the corporation is looking for, and what the candidate is looking for.

The home business recruiter is looking for a MATCH between what their company is looking for, and what the prospect is looking for.

The corporate recruiter locates a candidate, connects with them, builds trust, and then helps find the job of their dreams.

The home business recruiter locates a social candidate, connects with them, builds trust and then helps the candidate achieve their dreams.

The corporate recruiter takes the time to get to know the candidate, interviews them, and then gives the candidate well suited options for possible employment.

The home business recruiter takes the time to get to know the social candidate, interviews them, educates them on what the business offers, and gives the candidate options for possible wealth.

The corporate recruiter looks at online resumes, and then from those details, decides who would be right to talk to about certain corporations.

The home business recruiter looks at profiles, videos, tweets, posts, and conversations in social media, and then from those details decides who would be right to talk to about their business.

The corporate recruiter has a “patient sense of urgency” as she is patient with the candidate, but has a sense of urgency to find the right fit for the client.

The home business recruiter has a “patient sense of urgency” as she is patient with the candidate, but has a sense of urgency to find the right fit for her company as well as the prospect.

The corporate recruiter builds strong relationships with the candidates by showing VALUE in everything that is done and said.

The home business recruiter builds strong relationships with the social candidates by giving VALUE in everything they say and do.

The corporate recruiter knows who they are looking for and does NOT waste their time on people that do not fit their criteria.

The home business recruiter knows who they are looking for and does NOT waste their time on prospects that are not a fit.

The corporate recruiter has a good “assessing people” skill set as well as listening skills to size the candidate up quickly.

The home business recruiter has a good “assessing people” skill set as well as listening skills to size the prospect up quickly.

The corporate recruiter spends time on Linkedin and other professional social sites, looking for possible candidates.

The home business recruiter spends time on LinkedIn and other networking social sites, looking for possible social candidates

The corporate recruiter knows the market and can speak both to the candidate and corporation as an expert.

The home business recruiter knows the market and can speak both to the social candidate and to their dreams as an expert.

They corporate recruiter can show their true value with facts, figures, and metrics that they can show the candidate and the corporation.

The home business recruiter can show their true value with powerful presentations and results to the social candidate and their future.

The corporate recruiter can close the candidate and place them in a suitable business that fits both the company and the candidate.

The home business recruiter can close the candidate and help them start building a suitable business that fits their dreams.

Both MLM Recruiting and Corporate Recruiting have ONE GOAL:

Locating the Right HIGH QUALITY TALENT, This is your focus for your home business and mlm prospecting and mlm recruiting as well.

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MLM Training- 3 Secrets on How to EXPLODE Business During Tough Times

December 8, 2011 by Doug Firebaugh 4 Comments

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MLM Tough Times? Not Here.

What would some secrets to getting through tough times with a home business help?

Are you open to looking at your mlm home business through a different perspective then the average do?

There are many secrets to this business and working it during tough times can be a bit of a challenge. But if you know what to do, then it can be a piece of cake!

What are some of the things that you need to do to create a business explosion with your network marketing business?

MLM Success Secret 1:

Understand the Psychology of People During Tough Economic times.

People today are worried about their income and lifestyle. It is that simple. They are worried about being laid off, not being able to pay their bills, and what the future holds. Let’s be real folks…The last thing they want from a network marketing professional is a “pitch.” ‘Pitching” people during “Tough Economic Times” (TET) is the last thing you want to do.

People you talk to want more than to be another “pitch’ or presentation.

They are looking for CONNECTION to something that will guide them and lead them to a more powerful income possibility and more secure future for their family. People today aren not looking for another “job,” but something beyond that. Something that makes sense to them. Something that they feel can move them forward during these TET.

You want to CONNECT to them, and then CONNECT them to an emotion that says ‘Things are going to be OK.” You need to be understanding, and empathetic to the prospect, and come across like you care.

Do NOT pitch the prospect. Listen. Empathize. Understand. Offer a path out of the worry they are feeling.

MLM Success Secret 2:

Deal in Reality- NOT Misery.

When you are talking to your prospect, do not agree with their misery if they are talking that way. Deal in a NEW reality -the reality that they can change their position and place in this economy with your help. Most people are dealing in a Misery of FEAR. You need to move them past that fear. You need to move them past that emotion. You need to get them to see that there is a Success Reality that is available and not just an economic misery.

Give them a DOOR- Dose Of Ongoing Reality.

And lead them through that door with showing them how normal and average people that are in your company, are getting past the misery and fear that you see all over the media. Let them know that they do not have to settle for what the media and news is telling them.

Reality is what you decide it is. Let them know that. What is REAL for you, is what you decide is real. Success is as real during tough times as it is during prosperous times. Show them the way. Give them a path. Open the door. Lead them through it. Say, “You can have the life that you want, and during tough times, it is easier than during great times. More people are open to change and doing something different.” Give them the Reality of Hope and keep them focused on that.

MLM Success Secret 3:

There were more Millionaires Birthed during the Great Depression than any other 7 year period in the history of our country.

This secret is HUGE. When you are talking with folks, you need to say that. “You may not be aware of it, but there were more millionaires created during the Great Depression than any other time in our nation’s history. This is THE time right now- to start creating wealth in our lives. You just need a direction and a plan-would you agree?”

TET are what you are looking to change as a marketer.

You need to change the Great Depression to the Great Incubator.

During these times, you are going to be either outside of the Millionaire Incubator, or INSIDE of the Millionaire Incubator. You need to ask what makes more sense to the prospect.

“Which makes more sense to you? Taking advantage of these economic times, or letting them take advantage of you?”

The LISTEN to what they say.

Their answer will speak volumes.

These are three secrets for getting through tough times in your network marketing home business.

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