MLM Training- How to Operate in FULL Engagement Power

November 14, 2012 by 1 Comment
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MLM Success POWER.

How would you describe you in your home business?

Would you consider yourself “ALL IN” in your mlm business?

Is your network marketing business rocking or rotting?

One of the common issues in home based business is lack of POWER in the actions and results. This is a big problem for a lot of people. Most are not ALL IN or even PART IN. They are just showing up at their business and hoping someone will do something.

Same with the prospect. Most of the prospect jsut show up and lack any connection or POWER in their interest.

THAT is NOT how you build a 7 figure business in a home business.

There is a phrase that we taught for years in our group that we used to describe someone In Activity that will be totally Unstoppable:

“FULL ENGAGEMENT.”

This is the level of action that Engagement training teaches- to be FULLY ENGAGED in the activity of prospecting, contacting, doing presentations, closing people, doing meetings, or whatever else you choose to take action doing with your new
distributor.

How does that work?

Whether prospecting, contacting, doing a presentation, building your team, or any other action, you are Fully Engaged with your MIND as well as HEART.

You are engaged in action that is FELT not just heard- engaged in action that is EXPERIENCED– not just seen- and engaged in action FULLY WITH THE PROSPECT- as well as your new distributor- being a PART of the action– not just witnessing it.

When YOU and THE PROSPECT are engaged together in the action, you get them involved, and they feel a PART of what you are doing from the very beginning, you are Fully Engaged.

Give them something to look at. Ask a lot of questions. Get their opinion and input. Give them the product. Get them smiling. Get them INVOLVED and Fully Engaged WITH YOU.

Full Engagement is about getting the prospect to be WITH YOU not just listen TO YOU. I do not have the time in this e-book to give you all those secrets for that- but here is one:

Keep them tuned to KIA- AM radio.

 “Keep It All About Me.”

If you make the presentation ABOUT THEM- and NOT just about the product or business- you will have them Fully Engaged and
moving towards you easily. Talk Value, Benefits, and Rewards-and put them there in their mind. Take them on a fantasy island trip in their mind of the future they could have. Show them the TRUTH of the possibilities you offer in income
and security and taking back control of their life.

Then ask, “Wouldn’t it be incredible… you and I doing all this together…what kind of business could you and I build as a powerful team?”

Again, yes, there is a place for entertainment and education, but a small place. Engagement is where the True training is done and the Leadership building is catalyzed and engaged. Even with social media and internet marketing. Anything less than that
is training for total mediocrity and failure.

That is why I developed “Un-Learning University™” for helping people to UNLEARN much of what they have been taught in life and in this business for Success. Much of it does not work. Then to help them learn THE TRUTH and help get a revelation of what it really takes to succeed massively in this business. This is a powerful part of the 7 Billion Dollar Networker program. Most network marketing distributors are trained for utter failure. Unlearning University™ helps to move them past that and into the Success Zone.

Train your new distributors for SUCCESS- not failure in their mlm network marketing home based business.

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MLM Training- How to MAXIMIZE Duplication in your Home Business Team

November 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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MLM Duplication of Success.

How do you maximize the 4 step Leadership formula for Duplication and Multiplication for your home based business?

What does it take to empower your business and network marketing efforts?

How does the 4 step Duplication and Multiplication process work and what are the ACTIONS that need to be taken for mlm?

Knowing and DOING are  2 totally different things as many people seem to know what to do, but then do not do it. Some seem to grasp the process but yet, ignores the power actions that it takes to make the duplication happen on their home business team.

Do YOU?

Are you aware of what it takes to MAXIMIZE the 4 Step Duplication formula? That is the reason for this post. We want to get it into you this information so you can apply these actions to your home business.

They are simple but powerful actions that product powerful results.

There is a 4 step formula I have been teaching for over 20 years to move up the Training
Levels quickly. Last POST we went over the WHAT of the 4 steps, and now we are going to go over how to MAXIMIZE these steps and take action with them.

Lets start with:

 1) TELL.

TELL the person what they are supposed to know and do, and make sure that they learn it, and got it done. This is called education. Here is also where you want to ROLE PLAY ROLE PLAY ROLE PLAY!  Practice what you have told them to do. And practice, drill, and rehearse even more. Let them get a feel for what they are going to be doing.

2) SHOW.

SHOW the person then how to do it LIVE and do it RIGHT. Take them on an appointment. Get them on some calls or webinar with you so they can listen. Let them hear you prospect. Let them see you do a presentation online and offline. Let them hear you close someone. Let them SEE what you do and how to do it.

3) TRY.

Now, let them TRY what they have learned, seen and heard. After they have tried what they saw you do and heard you do, then you need to COACH them. Discuss what was great- and what needs to be improved. And then let them try it again, until they have it down successfully.

4) DO.

And then they eventually will be DOING it by themselves– and ready to teach and EQUIP others with this simple philosophy of training.

You may be asking, “How long does this take?”

Simple. No more than a week or 2 of effort. People are smarter than you think if you do
training RIGHT.

Even in social media- if people are not engaged in talking with people, connecting,
doing events, going local, and all there is to do, they will be wasting their time.

YOU have to get them on the computer and SHOW them how to set up a facebook profile or twitter account. This is SHOWING- not just learning. There are many educated people with a home business that never get started.

Do NOT beone of them. Use this post to help you accelerate your success in your mlm network marketing home business.

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MLM Training- Social Media is NOT a Replacement for Sales Strategies?

November 11, 2012 by 1 Comment
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MLM Social Media Realities.

Are you using social media in a marketing and sales driven home business?

Do you know the difference between the two for network marketing?

Why do you think that social media is THE way to develop leads for your home based mlm business?

Here is a GREAT article from SalesBriefs Training Letter on why social media will never replace the foundation of home buiness sales and home business marketing and sales strategies.

Hope this helps your home business!

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Home Business Sellers, like any other group, are a target for marketers who pitch them “things” to help them get better results. What makes salespeople good targets is their natural propensity to seek out “silver bullets” to deal with processes they don’t like, and their deserved reputation as “early adopters.”

Just the right combination for the advent of “social selling.”

We have seen the impact the Social Web and Web 2.0 have had on the way people interact, but it doesn’t follow that social selling is driving the same changes in sales. Technology has always been an enabler, but from a business-to-business (B2B) sales standpoint, it has not changed the underlying nature or function of buying and selling, it has merely enhanced or enabled the way sales are executed.

Success is still very much about strategy and execution, driven by your market and your specific customers. You need to evaluate how you use social the same way you would with any other tools.

Does it bring you closer to the buyer?

Does it allow you to deliver your message and value in a way that helps buyers decide you are the provider to trust, partner with and have a relationship with?

 If so, then it needs to be part of the overall approach. If not, then as the saying goes: “A fool with a tool is still a fool.”

Social selling impacts people pitching in the business-to-consumer (B2C) sales space differently than B2B, which is my focus. Despite the hype, the B2C social selling successes have not been realized in the B2B space – in the process, this distracts people and resources from things they could be doing to make social pay.

The suggestion that traditional B2B sales strategies and tactics no longer work, and the notion that we need to abandon them for social selling or perish, is false, dangerous and a risky proposition for business owners.

What many people call social selling is, in reality, social marketing, which is why it’s more effective in the mass B2C market than B2B. While it has a role in B2B, it is a role, not the entire sales process, as some might suggest. There are definitely times when social helps a sale, just as there are times when social has no positive impact, or even hurts your efforts.

For example, social tools can enhance awareness – generating leads or casting a more targeted net, the early steps of engaging with a potential buyer. Coincidentally, the part of a sale many sellers neither like nor are good at is prospecting.

The perfect pitch for the wave of social-selling merchants is to offer a way to eliminate prospecting, but there are traditional steps you still need to take to initiate direct relationships.

The operative words in social media are “connect,” “follow,” “like,” or “friend.” In B2B selling, the focus is on direct contact: relationships, personal interaction, and occasionally intimate interaction between two people is crucial to success.

Many social sellers advocate “being found” rather than taking an active approach to prospecting and initiating first contact with potential buyers. Social media may enhance direct interaction and relationships required in B2B sales, but it cannot replace them.

Social-selling pundits who create the illusion that a seller’s role is to be “found” through the buyer’s use of social media, give them all the excuse they need not to perform a key part of their job: prospecting.

A simple question to start with is “how many of my customers are using social media to source the products or services I sell?” If few of your buyers are using social, very few will find you, no matter how well you do social.

Besides, being “found” works with buyers who decide to act on a need by going to the web. If they use search, they are less likely to be impacted by social selling. Even if they turn to their social sphere for peer input, traditional selling will play a major role in converting a connection to a direct interaction.

By the time that buyer is on the web it’s too late, you are competing with the pack. Use social media to identify, target and leverage trends, then execute a direct sale, and you will be there long before the social crowd.

A sound strategy to segmenting and targeting your market, then executing your plan with a combination of traditional marketing and social marketing, will take you further and faster than going strictly social. As with most trends, it’s not a question of one versus the other, but how to leverage the best of both.

Tibor Shanto ofRenbor Sales Solutions Inc

This is a grreat strategy for your network marketing mlm home business.

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MLM Training- The 4 Types of Home Business Training

November 10, 2012 by 2 Comments
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MLM Home Business Training.

What exactly IS Home Business Training?

How does Home Business Training work in network marketing?

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Home business training is simply teaching the new direct seller or network marketing distributor or consultant how to work and market their business. This should include recruiting as well as team building and Leadership. A good home business training should teach all aspects of success and leadership when owning a home business.

But HOW do you TRAIN when you want to multiply your home business? It starts with the 4 major parts to the home based business training.

There is what I call the “4 Training Focuses” in Home Business Training:

 1) The “WHAT” Home Business Training.

This is the Entertainment and lowest level for the most part. It teaches you WHAT you need
to do. It trains you on the NAME of the training- but not the how.

“You need to do this and this is WHAT it is…”

 2) The “HOW” Home Business Training.

This is the Education level. It teaches you also the HOW-but it is all education and
learning based. It lacks the actual action for example to the new distributor.

“You need to do this and this is how you do it…”

3)The “SHOW” Home Business Training.

This is the Engagement level. This is where you visually SHOW them WHAT and HOW to do this business by YOU doing it with them and they watch you and learn in the
trenches.

“Watch me as I do this…”

 4) The “DO” Home Business Training.

This is where you have moved the new distributor in ACTION and they are rocking the
business with their actions in the field.

“Let’s do this together…watch me first and then you try.” This
is THE most effective and powerful impact home business training that exists.

YOU and your new distributor are ENGAGED together in the actions of you being an
EXAMPLE — and SHOWING how it is done. This engages the new distributor immediately DOING the right actions –not just learning–that will start his/her business rolling with your knowledge and experience at the helm.

This is EXPERIENCE based training.

This is where you take the distributor under your wings, and truly train them as they
need to be trained. Yes, you need the webinars, and the live trainings, conference calls, and the training manuals. Absolutely. But this level does not stop there.

This level introduces REAL EXPERIENCE into the mix of training.

How?

 a) Take the new distributor on some appointments with you and let them listen to some home business presentations.

 b) Let them listen in on phone calls that you are making. Three way them on a conference line and let them hear you LIVE.

 c) SHOW them with an “over the shoulder look” at a recorded video of how you do this business with funnel marketing, landing pages, recording videos, webinars, and other online marketing strategies.

Customer loyalty is becoming more and more elusive, especially in our contemporary world. Before online transactions and exchanges became the norm, retailers were able to foster physical, and, at times, emotional interactions and connections with consumers.

This led to immeasurable value for businesses, such as repeat purchases and brand loyalty. However, as challenging as it may prove, maintaining an active and healthy brand depends on the ability to improve customer relationships and develop a loyal customer base.

Today, most brands turn to social marketing, using social media to strengthen brand awareness and build those relationships with customers. Successful brands have learned to manage and engage online customers, while others are struggling to develop and foster those relationships.

Here are a few ways to improve your customer relationships to build your brand and drive better sales

Communication Through Email

One important way brands can stay contacted with their clients is with an email list. This is a great way to tell customers about new products, tips on using a product they may not have thought of, and anything else you think your customers would be interested in.

The key to email lists is to provide customers valuable information without coming across as spammy. Emails should provide the customer with shareable and valuable content, which means if each of the emails you send out are “salesy,” you’re approaching this the wrong way. Whenever the content you provide addresses the needs of your clients and offers a solution to the problems your customers face, you’ll end up building rapport and fostering a digital relationship, necessary for your business success.

Price & Value

Most retailers often, and mistakenly, think consumers will only purchase the cheapest available products, regardless of the retailer or brand. While for some markets, this might be factual, most consumers today are willing to pay a higher price as long as they feel the price matches the product’s quality.

Pricing your products to create a higher perceived value, plus offering coupons, promotions, and sales, can further help to make customers feel that your brand offers value. Many consumers are willing to pay a little more and shop at a store that creates a positive experience. Take time to also improve the employee experience, through encouraging feedback, providing the tools and resources for them to succeed, and showing gratitude, to create a friendly atmosphere for both employees and customers. Make sure you get an Infusionsoft training package in order to give your employees adequate teaching.

Loyalty Programs

Tying discounts and promotions to loyalty programs aids in making your customers feel valued and results in frequent repeat business. When it comes to your business, providing the best possible customer experience is the most important thing and openly acknowledging your most loyal customers constitutes an excellent way of incentivizing customers and strengthening your relationship. This type of service can really help create a great experience for them.

The 80/20 rule of business states that 20% of your clients are responsible for 80% of your total sales. When correctly implemented, data generated by loyalty programs can assist your customers in finding previously purchased products or in returning items minus any receipt hassles. This data can also prove of great value when used for the better understanding of your clients’ buying habits.

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MLM Training- The Most Powerful Success Magnet: FAILURE

November 9, 2012 by 2 Comments
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MLM Success.

Are you struggling with the challenges of failure in your home business?

Are you wishing you had never wished you had started your network marketing business?

How do you FEEL about accepting sometime failure as part of Success?

Here is a great article from SmartBrief leadership letter that really NAILS it!

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The  Success Magnet:  Faulure in MLM. 

By S. Anthony Iannarino
In an acting class I am taking, we were given an exercise to ruin the scene we were assigned. The object was to get out of your head and to stop playing the character or the scene the way you think it goes, but to do something completely different—and wrong.
 I am a natural for this exercise, since I already possess the ability to ruin every scene due to my serious lack of acting skills (unless the scene calls for angry, and then I am, for some reason, gifted).

This exercise reminds me of my aikido practice. Aikido is a difficult martial art, and there isn’t any way to learn it without feeling it.  In aikido, I was taught to purposely do techniques wrong four times so I could feel what it felt like to fail.

In both acting and aikido, the freedom to fail improves your skills and abilities. When you aren’t free to fail, you aren’t free to take the actions you might otherwise take. You stay in up in your head, and you are restrained in your actions.

Are you giving yourself the freedom to fail and to learn from your failed attempts?

Learning to Make Distinctions

You are going to fail  from time to time. You are sometimes going to do your very best work, and your very best work isn’t going to be good enough. If the little judge inside of you decides that you are a failure for having failed, then you won’t have gained anything from the experience.

Failure is merely an event. The most successful people you have seen have a huge wake of failure trailing off behind their successes.

Instead of judging yourself for having failed, your job is to have learned something from that failure.

Being free to fail works because it allows you to make distinctions. You get to feel things. You learn to notice differences, like “this is too much,” or “this is too little.” You get test your assumptions: “I believed that this is what would work and it didn’t. Was it poorly executed, or was my strategy wrong?”

No Excuses Offered, None Taken

It’s normal to make excuses when you fail. We don’t want to be responsible when something goes wrong or when we don’t get the outcome we really needed. But if you make excuses why the failure wasn’t your fault, you eliminate the possibility of learning from that mistake.

Special Note to the Marketing Leader: If you punish failure, you will ensure that you get excuses instead of a sales organization that can learn from its mistakes.

There’s no reason to try to fail; you’ll get that experience without trying. But being free to fail means being free to try. It means being free to stretch. And, it’s a necessary part of learning and gaining situational experience.

Questions

How willing are you to fail?

How do you ensure you learn from your failures?

What distinctions have you made from recent failures?

If you lead a team, how do you embrace failure instead of punishing it?

These are some secrets to massive success for your mlm network marketing business!

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MLM Training- Were YOU Trained To FAIL in MLM- Unknowingly?

November 9, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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MLM Training Realities.

Do you train for your home business?

Are you using systems for training or systems for recruiting in your mlm business?

What would it mean to know the TRUTH about training in network marketing?

There is a TRUTH about training in a home business network marketing and if someone would ask me about the realities of training in mlm…

I would tell them that they had ONE choice and ONE CHOICE only:

To either learn how to successfully fail in network Marketing or learn how to
successfully succeed—it was their choice.

This Revelation is so true. After over 25 years, I have seen it all. And I have taken a look at hundreds of other trainings from other companies just out of curiosity. And most all make the same mistake.

They do not know the three levels of teaching in this business. It determines 90% of your
Success your first couple of years. And you cannot teach what you do not know or understand.

Let me explain.

There are three levels of teaching this business of network marketing.

The first level is guaranteed failure and most train at this level.

 The second level is guaranteed to help you at least stay in this business and earn a paycheck.

 The third level is preparing you for great Success and longevity in this business.

It took me almost a 100 million dollars in volume to figure this one out. I kept losing a lot
of distributors and could not figure out why. But one night- I was thinking about it and this whole idea of three levels of training was formed. I call it a “Divine Download.” And once I figured it out- it really helped explode the Success in my growing team.

Let me ask you a question:

What would happen if you were taught to drive a car and only learned how to drive in first
gear?

And you knew no other gear?

Well, it would slow you down and probably burn out the car’s engine as well.

That is what happens a lot in MLM. People are going and moving so slow in this business, their desire to do this business burns out and not too soon after that- they are out-of the business.

Here is a Billion Dollar Revelation: Learn the three levels of teaching this business and
then MOVE UP to the top level.

Ok…what are the three levels? The lowest level of teaching this business is:

 1)  ENTERTAINMENT.

I am going to make a statement that you may or may not agree with- but it is what I have
observed over the last 30 years. About 70% of the “training” in Network Marketing is entertainment and motivation oriented. Most “training” is about stories, testimonials, “feel good” talk, encouragement, edification, and making the person believe that they can succeed. It is about building belief and relationships – and enjoying the journey. Nothing wrong with that, but it takes more for success in Network Marketing.

 This is EMOTIONAL based training.

Simply, this level of “training” is focused on the emotions and feeling good. Entertainment
has it’s place in the “training” arena- but only if it is combined with more focused and action oriented step by step training. It teaches you the “what” of this business for the most part, but not how. It teaches you belief and motivation, and feeling good about what you are doing.

2) EDUCATION.

 The second level is Education. This level is beyond just entertainment. It is not just
about feeling good, but about Educating people on what to do and how to do it. It is not just motivational- but educational as well.

This is KNOWLEDGE based training.

Consider this “classroom” teaching or education where people are gathered and taught
this business and educated about it. This is “training” that you get is found on conference calls, webinars, live trainings, national conferences, and even CDs and DVDs. This is where you can be educated enough about the industry and be taught how to earn money and make a living in Network Marketing. This level is about 25% of the training done in the industry today. It teaches you the What as well as the How in this industry. It can include a lot of topics
concerning this industry.

3) ENGAGEMENT.

This level is the POWER level. This level is not about just entertainment- don’t get me wrong–there is a place for that.

And it is NOT just about education.

 NOTE: There are a lot of dead broke, going nowhere, totally frustrated, well educated distributors in the industry.

This level is about TRUE TRAINING. This is the LEADERSHIP Training level. This is where
you move past the entertainment and classroom –and jump into the trenches with your people and get them IN ACTIVITY and KEEP them there. You help them engage
ACTION in their business and action that will PRODUCE the right results- TOGETHER.

Most distributors do not train their new enrollees like they need to. They teach
them the WHAT—and sometimes the HOW– but rarely  SHOW them the WAY – to do it successfully.

Engagement training moves beyond the Learning- it steps into the DOING and SHOWING.
Most do not do these 2 important steps in their training – nor are taught to.

These are some of the realitites of training in mlm home business network marketing.

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MLM Training- How to Use Failure to Drive Powerful Success

November 8, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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MLM Success Drivers.

Do you ever read Entrepreneur magazine for your home business?

Do you like learning from Billionaires for your network marketing business?

Here is an article that will rock your world from a Billion Dollar marketer that we all can learn from on how to use failure to DRIVE Success!

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Sir James Dyson, British inventor and founder of the Dyson company, is a firm believer in failure. In fact, he sees it as an essential part of his success — a step toward a truly innovative solution.

When Dyson invented his first Dual Cyclone vacuum cleaner, which hit stores in 1993, he spent 15 years creating 5,126 versions that failed before he made one that worked. The payoff was a multi-billion dollar company known for its creativity and forward-thinking designs.

We caught up with him over the phone on a recent trip to Chicago to discuss how failure has driven his success. Here is an edited version of our conversation:

Entrepreneur: You often talk about the value of failure. How has it helped you?

Dyson: Failure is interesting — it’s part of making progress. You never learn from success, but you do learn from failure. (When I created the Dual Cyclone vacuum), I started out with a simple idea, and by the end, it got more audacious and interesting. I got to a place I never could have imagined because I learned what worked and didn’t work.

Entrepreneur: How do you embrace a long series of failures without letting frustration overwhelm you?
Dyson: We have to embrace failure and almost get a kick out of it. Not in a perverse way, but in a problem-solving way. Life is a mountain of solvable problems and I enjoy that.

Entrepreneur: Your cyclone technology is often held up as a model of creative problem solving. Does failure help spur your creativity?
Dyson: It absolutely does. You don’t have to bother to be creative if the first time you do something, it works. Creativity is creating something that no one could have devised; something that hasn’t existed before and solves problems that haven’t been solved before. Making something work is a very creative thing to do.

Related: 3 Ways to Think Outside the Box

Entrepreneur: When you fail, how do you approach the next iteration?
Dyson: What I often do is just think of a completely obtuse thing to do, almost the wrong thing to do. That often works because you start a different approach, something no one has tried. You get a different perspective and view of (the problem).

Entrepreneur: What do you do to encourage taking risks among your employees?
Dyson: You must remove any sort of criticism. A revolutionary suggestion often sounds stupid and you don’t want people who make cynical remarks. It’s a matter of having the right attitude — humble, curious, determined, willing to fail and try. (I hire people who) embrace the fact that failure is interesting.

Entrepreneur: What would you say to entrepreneurs or inventors who feel afraid to fail or worried that they’ll be judged?
Dyson: That’s a sort of lesson in life, isn’t it? You mustn’t be worried about what people will say about you. If you want to do something different, you’re going to come up against a lot of naysayers.

Big companies tend not to take risks, so there’s a big opportunity for entrepreneurs to take them and march on competitors. Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving. You’ve got to try things out.

This was  an article from Smartbriefs training letter which will help build your mlm network marketing home business.

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MLM Training- 5 Recruiting Connection Questions for Finding The Right Person

November 8, 2012 by 3 Comments
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MLM Recruiting Right Person.

Are you working too hard to recruit the RIGHT people in your home business?

Are you asking the WRONG questions for your network marketing efforts?

Do you want to know how to connect with prospects online as well as offline in mlm?

There are many ways to connect to your home based business prospect, but finding the RIGHT person often is a challenge.

Today, people are more worried about finding the right person, then ever becoming
the right person. We are taught that you must go out and find that “special person’ and they will make you wealthy.

That is why most people struggle in this business. They are engaging the wrong action with
the wrong focus and the wrong intentions. This business is about Finding- there is not doubt. But we make it so much harder than it really is.

Understand my friend…the people that you are looking for, are NOT looking for the next best
product or the next best big opportunity. Far from it. They are NOT looking for the next great recruiter or “hypester” to come along.

They are looking for something that they can powerfully connect their heart and
destiny to —in order to help empower and enlarge how they feel about themselves, their
lifestyle, and their future.

You want to find people that have a heart to do something more in their life, to become
more, to help others more, and make it the best that their life can be than just the average person.

A New prospect’s words often are listened to -and believed–when they say that they are going to enroll and work your business-and they never get going. They never get started.

They “Stay on Stop.”

And you wait. And you wait. And you wait. And you wait some more.

It happens everyday.

How can you get past that frustration?

Simple. I have taught this for over 40 years.

It is called “The 5 Connection Questions.”

These are questions that will show you IF they truly are CONNECTED to the idea and
dream they say they have with THEIR HEART and it is REAL— or if is just a lot of talk — as much of it is.

In a conversation, ask them these questions…

1) “Tell me, what is your heart truly set on when you think about what you want to do with your life?’

They may tell you that it is too late, or they have a family now, or they think that
there is too much going on to think about an extraordinary life.  Many will say that there are too many things stopping it.

Ask them, ‘What would your heart be set on if that (or those things) was not a factor?”

Or….. they may tell you exactly what they want to do.

 2) “How would your life change if you accomplished that?”

LISTEN CLOSELY to what they are saying.

Get them back into the emotion of wanting that dream in their life. This will help them
to reconnect to the power and emotion of their dream.

Ask, “What would that change look like?”

 3) “How far are you from (starting or accomplishing) that in your life?”

This gets them thinking again about a starting point. If you can get them thinking about
a starting point to possibly pursue their dream again—they can become very
recruit-able.

Most people still have their heart connected to a dream although most though have buried it
and moved on.

4 “I want to ask you a very serious question, and would like a serious answer. If there was an option that could help build that extraordinary life or dream-
without really changing what you are doing-would it be worth exploring and
knowing about—with absolutely no strings attached?”

If they say, “No,” simply ask or say, “That is interesting. Help me understand why you
would feel that way.” Listen and see why they feel that way and see if they truly feel that way or if they have been taught to think that way.

5)  Then…you go one of 2 directions depending on
their answer:

a) YES — “Great- here is what we need to do first…”

or:

b)  NO —“That is fine- I understand. But let me ask you this-what honestly are your options you have right now to change?”

The 5 Connection questions will help you FIND or REVEAL the right heart that is
willing to truly go the distance in network Marketing.

Now do NOT get me wrong. If they are simply too scared or programmed to move towards your business, then do NOT push them. That is just where their heart
is. Accept that and move in a different direction for now.

Why?

 People can change — and so can their circumstances.

Now it is time for YOU to show the right heart. Simply say,

 “Thank you for being honest with me as I only want what is right for you. Tell you what- why don’t we take a look at the product and see who you know that it might be a good fit for. Who do you know that has a ___________ challenge in your family?”

And that has worked to the tune of nearly 9 Billion Dollars worth of heart.

Understand— it is NOT the right talent that will make you wealthy in network marketing. There are many broke VERY talented people in network marketing.

It is NOT the right thinking that will make you wealthy. Sure it helps, but there are
a lot of broke positive thinkers in network marketing.

It is NOT the right actions that will make you wealthy. They help in the long run, but there are a lot of VERY busy, highly trained people going broke in network marketing.

It is NOT the right beliefs that will make you wealthy. I know people who truly believed they would succeed, but could not perform at all as needed in the marketplace. They were not trained properly.

And it is NOT becoming a “professional student” who learns all there is to know about MLM and looking for THE ONE SECRET that will make you wealthy. I know some people who probably know this industry better than I do- and are totally broke and have been for years.

People want to CONNECT- to the Idea you are sharing, the Product you are introducing, and
the Hope you are Giving- with their heart.

Yeah, yeah, I can hear you now talking about this being “hairy fairy” and that is just not
who you are. THAT is why you have been struggling in network marketing if you have been.

 It is ALL about the prospects heart being connected to YOU, the PRODUCTS, the VISION of
the Company, and mostly the HOPE of this business working for them and their
family to increase their LIFESTYLE.  TALK LIFESTYLE and connect their heart to that picture you paint with your words.

It ALL Starts there and Ends there, whether you want to believe it or not.

They want to FEEL GOOD- about their life and future. You can help them do that.

How?

Quit looking for the right person. You will not find them. Start looking to connect to the right heart and somehow—someway–the right person will end up right in front of you.

 Use this information in your mlm network marketing home based business!

blessings…doug firebaugh

(c) 2012 all right reserved

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MLM Training- 3 Kinds of People You will Find when Recruiting

November 6, 2012 by 3 Comments
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MLM Training on Prospects.

Do you know the 3 types of people you will find in your home business?

Are you talking to a ot of people in your network marketing endeavors?

Are you comfortable with change in your mlm business?

“You will never realize change in your income or business until you realize that change is constant, and all around you. There is GOOD change- and BAD change. Successful people have learned to distinguish between the two and act accordingly.”

This post will help you start to understand what lies ahead for you, but it
is only the start. It is only the beginning, There is more to learn and embrace, and empower. And that is why that your actions will determine the seriousness of your intentions. Our intentions are simple- to help you create a business that will set you free financially-and that is based on what is current and working NOW- not what used to work but does not work anymore.

Are you ready for that kind of Mega learning and engage in a path that has no limits, and will change every part of you?

Then you are in the process of becoming a “Marketing Warrior” in this industry -a person that has GOT IT.

There are only three types of people in the world.

1)   People that do NOT GET IT.

These fine folks will always be behind the curve and a victim of change- not a victor. They are always a step behind and always playing catch up. Nothing wrong with that- but NOT where you are headed.

These people generally resist change.

2)   People that GET IT.

These fine folks are the ones that GET IT- mentally, intellectually and in their mind, and
then do something about it. Their mind set is solid about an idea of change, and they understand what is going on, and are willing to move in that direction and become a part of the wave of change.

3)   People that GOT IT.

These are the “Marketing Warriors” of the home business industry. They not only understand and get what is going on in their minds, but also get what is going on in their HEARTS. They get emotionally connected to an idea of progress or change, and then become so a part of it that they become an “evangelist” for it.

Hence, a “warrior” if you will. They teach others about the idea and the potential transformation for their life, and then teach others to teach that powerful message as well.

That is what a Marketing Warrior is- an “Agent of Change” that wants to spread an idea of personal growth and an enlarging life change around the world because they are so emotionally connected to it and want to unleash a Storm of Success in people’s lives.

 WILL YOU JOIN THIS POWERFUL SUCCESS FORCE?

That is the secret to this industry. Take the message of your company and product, and
become a Massive Success with it. And you can also engage in being part of the Home Business Marketing Warrior Team that will help you create and build a business that sets you up for wealth and a lifestyle of your dreams in your home business and mlm network marketing.

FREE Social Media Recruiting ebook- Social Recruiting Power-over 50 secrets

blessings…doug firebaugh

(c) 2012 all rights reserved

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MLM Training- 20 Content Marketing Secrets from Jimi Hendrix

November 5, 2012 by 3 Comments
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Do you listen to “classic rock and roll” while working your home business?

Do you know who Jimi Hendrix is or ever heard of him?

What does he have to do with content marketing for your network marketing business?

Copyblogger has done it again. Here is a post on content marketing that will rock your home based business and blogging for your mlm business!

Here is the post- enjoy and learn!

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What would it be like to live forever?

To become immortal (in the online sense?)

Why don’t you ask Jimi Hendrix? He knows.

Really? But isn’t he, um, dead?

Yeah, but his spirit lives on. His legacy. His music.

Umm … OK if you say so. But …

Go on. Ask him.

OK. Here goes …

A (fantastically fictional) conversation with Jimi Hendrix

Mark Hermann: So Jimi, I see kids walking around today in t-shirts with your likeness on them. And they were born 20 years after you passed away.

Why is it that more than 40 years after your death, your name still resonates across the generations?

And what could you teach us down here on Earth to help us on our journey to find our own personal legend? To become immortal?

1. You have to want to change the world

Jimi Hendrix: Yeah, well I guess that kind of blows my mind, you know? People still talking about me and my music and all. It’s really cool. But like, maybe it’s because I changed the world, dig?

I showed people a glimpse of another reality. The one you used to play in naturally as a child before they taught you to color between the lines, you know? When you still remembered the place you came here from.

MH: Well, yeah. That and the fact that you were the most amazing guitar player in history.

JH: Well, thank you man. But now dig. When you chose to come back into the physical world, you were given a message from the creator that you and you alone get to deliver during your life on Earth. It’s like your gift, you know? And you have to realize the power you possess within you to do amazing things, man. It’s the same for each and every living soul.

But it’s really a drag that most people when they get down there and they start to grow up they forget. They get caught up in their daily realities, dig? But that’s all just an illusion, man. Nothing but a room full of mirrors.

I guess I just delivered my message.

2. Create something that has never existed before

MH: Jimi, you were voted The Greatest Guitar Player Of All Time by Rolling Stone Magazine. You shattered the boundaries of what was sonically possible on the electric guitar along with electric music as a whole, creating sounds never heard before.

Songs like Purple Haze and Foxy Lady, no one before or since has ever sounded like you. And you accomplished all this in like three years, before we sadly lost you when you were just 27.

How did you do that?

JH: Well you say I shattered all these boundaries, but I was just trying to hold up a mirror to reflect the unlimited possibilities of your own true potential. There are no boundaries, man. The only limitations are your imagination.

You know, most people just see the light coming through the window. I was trying to show you a glimpse of the rainbow that you really are. All the colors, man.

Whether you play music or write or teach or heal or lead nations, you are a creator sent from the original creator and your life is a blank canvas that you get to color in any way you choose.

So why would you waste your precious time on Earth painting by the numbers and copying what some other cat has already created when you could be a total original?

3. Become the dream

JH: Now, you’re talking about my career as though it began after all the hoopla started with The Jimi Hendrix Experience. But I had the dream back when I was real young.

See, my old man never bought me a guitar. But in my dreams I was already playing one. So I was walking around my elementary school strumming a broomstick I made to look like a guitar. People thought I was crazy but I didn’t care, man. My teachers wanted to kick me out. I didn’t care.

I wasn’t going to let a little thing like not owning a guitar, or people trying to put me down, stop me from playing one anyway until the dream became a reality, dig?

Your dreams are real. But you got to believe in them or they start to fade if you don’t pursue them, OK?

You can’t sweat what other people think. A lot of people are stuck in this reality they think is solid. But it’s not, man. It’s fluid. You can change it. You just got to do your thing your own way and follow your heart. It will lead you to the truth.

4. Be passionate (to the point of obsession)

MH: They say you were so obsessed with music that you slept with your guitar, Jimi. Care to elaborate on that?

JH: Well, yeah it’s true I guess I did do that. But you know, if you really want to get to the essence of anything you do and understand it on a spiritual level, you got to become one with it.

If that something is a woman, you got to make love to her, man. Join in that physical union with her. That’s the only way to know her completely, dig? To expose her deepest secrets. That union is our connection to the universe.

The guitar was that woman for me, dig? She would only reveal those secrets if I could know her on that deepest spiritual level. Music was all I could think about.

So yeah, I guess you could call that obsession.

But that’s what you got to do if you want to shine your incredible light. You’ve got to ignite your passion and lose yourself in those flames. And if you can surrender completely to them they will fuel your soul.

That’s where you will find your truth.

5. Putting in your 10,000 hours

MH: They say you practiced religiously when you finally did get that first guitar.

JH: Yeah, every day and night. Without fail. I got lost in it. But I was on a mission, you know?

I just knew deep down that if I wanted to be the best, I had to become the master of my ship. And to do that you got to pay your dues and put in the hours, man.

You sweat. You get frustrated. You make your mistakes, but you keep at it until you begin that ascension. No way around that. That’s how you steel yourself for the journey. On Earth that’s the only way you’re gonna climb that mountain and reach the summit, dig? You got to do the work.

But this was love. So it never felt like work. It was joy.

6. First you imitate then you innovate

MH: How do you learn to invent something that never existed before you?

JH: First thing is you got to pay your respects to the masters who have come before you. I remember some jazz cat once told me early on,

First you imitate, then you innovate. If I can’t hear your influences, I don’t trust you as a musician.

You could apply that to anything you do in life, right? So you need to start there.

Now I always loved the blues, you know? B.B. and Albert King, Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Howlin’ Wolf, cats like that. I worked really hard until I got their licks down cold under my fingers.

And I was also sneaking into the clubs any chance I could get, watching the more experienced cats in my area doing their thing live. I would soak it all up, man.

Then you take everything you’ve learned, you melt it all down and put your own spin on it. Transform it into something else.  Like alchemy, man. This becomes your sound. Your bag of tricks. Then it’s not stealing. It’s just adding your spoke to the wheel, right?

But like anything in your Earth life, you can’t build a house, a castle or reserve your place up here in the Kingdom without a solid foundation. You got to be able to show ‘em where you came from, dig?

Remember that, brother. First you imitate. Then you innovate.

7. You have to study with a master

MH: You wound up playing with guys like Little Richard and some of the other great R&B artists of that era. How did that come about?

JH: Well, you know my dear friend and bass player, Billy Cox (Band Of Gypsies), who I met while serving together in the army, he hooked me into this heavy gig scene down South.

They used to call it the Chitlin’ Circuit. Man, we played every back alley juke joint, theater and dive there was to play down there. It was rough. But it also whipped me into incredible shape.

And yeah, we ended up backing up cats like Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, and Little Richard too. I always said I wanted to do with the guitar what Little Richard could do with his voice. He was an amazing cat.

I learned everything I knew about show business and showmanship playing with those cats.

But now dig. If you want to become a master you have to study with a master first. And I only got that opportunity because I put in the time back when. You got to show them you’re worthy.

Don’t ever forget that. There are no shortcuts, OK?

So my advice to you is if you aren’t or you can’t find a way to work with the heaviest cats in your scene, why don’t you reach out and ask them to help you?

Seems to me with all those powerful little boxes y’all spend so much time carrying around these days, you can get in touch with just about anyone, right? All you got to do is ask.

Dig, here’s a little secret from the universe.

Ask for what you want. It’s more powerful than you can ever know. Don’t ever be afraid to ask. No matter how big the request. If it’s from your heart, know that the universe is listening. And the universe will respond.

8. Exude total confidence and lead

MH: So Jimi, with all that experience and practice, you were already a master long before you ever got your big break.

JH: Let’s just say I was ready when the call finally came.  Look, in your very brief physical life on Earth, you only have this moment. This is your time and your creative space. And you got to own it.

Ain’t nobody gonna hand you the keys to this kingdom, dig?

So after playing with those great cats for a while, my soul was starting to grow restless. Every time I tried to shine my light a bit on stage, they would shut me down and say I was showboating.

So I had to move on and try to find my own way. You know, eventually every bird has to leave the nest and spread its wings, right?

9. But can you really put the walk to the talk?

MH: So how did you climb that mountain?

JH: Well, you know when you’re young and trying to prove your mettle, you want to become the greatest swordsman in the world. So you’re going to have to get into a lot of swordfights and win, right?

So I would show up at jam sessions in whatever town I was staying and wait for my chance to play. And when I got it I made sure you were going to have a real tough time following my act.

I know that sounds childish now, but back then, when it was my time on Earth, I had to figure out how to rise up to a place where my light could be seen so I could finally deliver the message, right?

If you want people to remember your name, you got to put yourself all the way out there. Show ‘em all your colors. No holding back. You got to blow people’s minds, dig? So they have no choice but to become your messenger to help spread the word.

This is the path to the Kingdom.

10. Do you believe in the dream enough to persevere when no one is listening?

MH: To say that you simply showed up on the scene and the rest is history would be oversimplifying the story.

JH: Yeah, the truth is that when I first set out on my own, people didn’t really get it. I didn’t fit into one of those neat little boxes they set up for the pop artists of the day. I was a bit of a freak show, I guess.

But you know, I didn’t just shrivel up and throw in the towel when nobody was listening, man. I knew I had this message the world needed to hear. So I persevered.

And gig by gig, city by city out there in the shadows, I got my act together and polished my show. I got better and better, turning people on one by one until my day in the sun finally arrived.

You got to be dedicated, and patient too, when no one’s listening, OK?

Who was that cat? Emerson I think, who said, ‘God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.’ That’s truth, brother. This journey will test your faith.

Still, I couldn’t help but wonder if I’d ever find my audience.

11. How far would you go to climb the mountain?

MH: You finally left the Chitlin’ Circuit and set out to try your luck in New York City.

JH: Yeah, I settled in Harlem. I immediately started jamming all over town to get into the scene, you know? You got to connect with your peers, man.  Let them know you exist. People started to take notice. Eventually, I won the amateur contest at the Apollo Theater, which caught the attention of some pretty heavy cats.

But still, even after meeting cats like that, people like (Rolling Stones’ manager) Andrew Loog Oldham and (future Sire Records President) Seymour Stein, neither cared much for my act or my music and passed on me. So I wasn’t sure where to turn next.

But in England, the British Invasion was just starting to explode. Chas Chandler, from The Animals (House Of The Rising Sun, We Gotta Get Out Of This Place) was visiting the U.S. and caught my act. He knew they would dig it in England. So I signed a deal with him and he brought me over there.

But dig, I left everyone I ever knew behind. It was kind of scary. Traveling to a new land where you don’t know anyone. But that’s what you got to do sometimes if you want to climb that mountain.

And I guess that’s where the stars began to align for me, you know? When I left my comfort zone. Almost immediately, I was playing in front of the very cats I had been hearing all about in the States. Cats like Clapton, Jeff Beck, Pete Townshend. They all came out to see me.

That’s what it takes. You got to be willing to travel across that desert to find your oasis. Knowing you might starve before you find it. That’s when you find out if you really believe.

I made it across the desert, man.

12. Don’t fit in. Stand out.

MH: Jimi, you never did quite fit into the conventional mold. Pretty much right from the start. Can you talk about that?

JH: Yeah, you know I couldn’t really hold down a job very long and couldn’t cut it in this man’s army. Never could deal with people telling me what I could and couldn’t do. They said I was untrainable (laughs).

Same with my music. They had these little boxes they wanted it to fit into and my music just didn’t fit any of ‘em. So I made my own box, dig?

A brother in hippie threads playing distorted white rock and roll combined with R&B / soul influences? In the Sixties? Man, white people weren’t sure what to make of me. And black folk thought I wasn’t black enough.

You can’t waste time worrying about what other people think. Trying to fit in. Just make your own scene and throw a better party. Wave your freak flag high. That’s what I did, man. Eventually the world had no choice but to gather round my box, dig?

13. Be totally outrageous in your work

MH: You didn’t just stand out, Jimi. You were totally outrageous! That takes real courage.

JH: At some point you got to stop trying to please everybody. Always being polite and playing it safe, dig?

Look, most people walk around their whole lives totally asleep. Your job is to wake them up and show them the light. So you have to give them something unforgettable. And the only way to do that is to do something outrageous.

That’s what happened at the Monterey Pop Festival. They say that was my defining moment, where America and the world got to know my name.

So I already knew The Who had their act where Pete Townshend would smash his guitar and they would trash the stage, right? And I had to follow that act and close the show. So I had to figure out how I was going to top that. That’s when I decided to burn the guitar.

I guess some people viewed it as sacrilege but it was always meant as a sacrifice, OK? As in the one you love. Like making a sacrifice to the gods of music for the gift of this amazing opportunity.

Like I said, man. You got to put yourself all the way out there if you want people to remember your name.

Yeah, some people were offended by what I did at Monterey but that’s all right. Let them love you or hate you, man. At least you know you got their attention. Everything in between is worthless.

14. “Very good” won’t get you invited to this party

MH: Jimi, down here on Earth we speak about the immortals. People who live on forever in our hearts. People like Gandhi. Mozart. Albert Einstein. John Lennon. Miles Davis. Leonardo Da Vinci. And Jimi Hendrix.

You weren’t just famous. You were all remarkable in some unique way. Iconic. One of a kind.

What is the common thread that leads mortals to become immortal?

JH: You left out Jesus Christ, Moses, The Buddha, and Charlie Chaplin too, man. He was another amazing cat.

Well, it’s pretty simple really if you can just open your mind to it.

Most people can’t see past their own nose, dig? You have smart people and simple people, rich people and poor people. There are famous people and a whole lot more who are totally unknown. But it’s all just two sides of the same coin, man. The same illusion.

But everyone you mentioned, eventually they climbed that mountain and found their truth. They remembered their message and became a direct channel from the creator, dig?

And when you can show someone a glimpse of the divine, it gives you great power over them because they don’t believe they can achieve this themselves. They need a leader. So they feel they must return to you again and again to be reminded. It becomes a kind of religious experience for them, dig?

But you have to be able to take them to the top of that mountain and show them the view.

So immortality is about becoming extraordinary in your work.

15. Do you electrify your audience?

MH: It’s been said, Jimi, that when you played the Star Spangled Banner at the close of the famous Woodstock festival in 1969, that your image with that headband and the fringe jacket along with that stunning rendition of the song encapsulated the entirety of the Sixties in that one iconic moment.

When we see old footage of some of your performances, the audience is mesmerized. What did you do to them?

JH: Well, I just tried to bring them to my electric church every night, dig? See, electricity is within you and all around you. It’s beyond thoughts and words. That’s why I played electric music, man. It was about getting past people’s eyes and ears and connecting directly to their souls.  This is what you have to do in your own work.

And in my church, through this electric music I would show them all the colors of this life experience. The pleasures. The pain. The horrors of war, the fire of passion, the power of love. All through our universal connection to the music.

And like any good sermon, I would take them higher and higher until they gave in to the experience. I would try to show them the top of that mountain every night, man.

Once you have given that experience to someone, they will have to come back again and again.

16. Can you walk on water?

MH: Jimi, you created sounds both live and in the studio no one had ever heard before. How did you accomplish that?

JH: Well, I always saw sounds as images, colors and shapes and needed to somehow express that in my music, you know? But the recording technology at that time didn’t easily allow for that.

That’s when I met (producer / engineer) Eddie Kramer. He was a magician. He was the translator. He turned the recording studio into a whole new instrument of expression for me. A bridge from the cosmic to the physical, dig?

I would say something like I wanted the guitar to sound like Medusa. So he would turn the tape upside down and have me play a guitar solo normally so that when you put the tape back on correctly the guitar would play backward and create this whole other serpentine kind of vibe, dig?

We come here to Earth to create together, man.

In your journey, there’s always someone you’re supposed to find who possesses a key element missing in you. And if you find them, when those two elements come together, sparks fly, man. It’s beautiful. That someone for me was Eddie Kramer.

The wheel keeps on turning. You tear things down, rearrange the elements and you build something new. That’s how new worlds are created. Alchemy.

17. Be totally and fearlessly you 24/7?

MH: Jimi, you would walk the streets and show up to recording sessions dressed to kill, like you were about to walk out onstage. The consummate rock star. Were you acting out a role? What did the real Jimi Hendrix look like behind closed doors?

JH: Does a peacock change his feathers when he walks into a new room? When I was in the physical world, what you saw was what you got, dig? I was just expressing myself in all my colors, man. The clothes, how I talked, what I believed, the music I played, it was all a reflection of the same thing, Jimi Hendrix.

At some point in your life you got to take a stand and be you. All in 100%. There was no god of wishy washy, dig? You got to say it. You got to play it. You got to live it.

Do you think when John Lennon got home each night he hung up his cape and became the mild mannered Clark Kent again?

How you gonna change the world if you’re afraid of your own reflection, man?

18. You Cannot Fake Your Way Onto Mt. Olympus

MH: Jimi, I hear people talk about faking it until they make it when they talk about how they found success in life. Just acting like you’re an expert until you become one. Do you think that applies to becoming immortal?

JH: I don’t know. Maybe that would work to get over on someone or to sell something someone doesn’t really need. But it’s just a human thing, I guess.

Dig, throughout history mortals have always been obsessed with status and celebrity. And they would do anything to get next to it. To move up the ladder, you know? And there have always been those people of means and influence who have ingratiated themselves into the party, Ok?

But there is no advertisement you can buy or political figure you can try to get next to who can grant you access to the place you’re speaking about.

Dig, you can’t fake your way to immortality. Because it speaks to something deep down in the soul that resonates on a level beyond words or thoughts or ideologies or social status.

Music is either true or false, man. It needs no words to help you decide. It’s like a direct path. Either it connects with you spiritually or it doesn’t.

It’s the same with your work. Truth is universal. If your work comes from that place, it connects and resonates far and wide. If not, there’s only disconnect, dig?

So to become immortal is to do or create something so profound that it shows people their own connection to the creator. To the truth.

And no earthly possession can hold a candle to that.

19. Jimi’s secret weapon

MH: Jimi, it seems like there was this X factor that attracted people to you that seems to defy all the typical explanations of how one obtains legendary status. What was that secret sauce?

JH: Well, OK I’m going to lay some mojo on you now (laughs) and let you in on a little secret.

Did you ever wonder why all those romance novels women just eat up always had that same character? The tall, dark and handsome stranger who did forbidden things to them. Stuff their man could never do? Awakening feelings from deep dark places they never knew existed?

Because it’s dangerous, man! It’s erotic. Taboo. It makes them feel alive. It’s that freedom from our physical being that comes when we climax and catch a glimpse of the creator, dig?

That’s what I would try to bring out every night through my music. You ever seen footage of one of my live performances when I would take the guitar and approach the amps as they howled with feedback, and I would start driving myself into the guitar and the amp?

I wasn’t making love to the music, man. There was no subtle innuendo, Ok? I was f**king those amps! Dig? (How else can you say it?)

That’s what you have to do in your work, man. Whatever you do. You got to stir up something deep down in people that resonates on the most intimate level, the place where we all share that divine connection. You have to ignite all the senses, dig?

You have to show them the truth.

20. Become a beacon

MH: So how can you know when you’ve crossed over and are walking with the gods, Jimi?

JH: I don’t really know, man. Those are things that get decided later by the Wind and the Earth and the Sky long after you’re gone.

Allow the creator’s message to shine through you. Become a beacon for all humanity to see and navigate by. Become that perfect mirror that reflects the extraordinary potential in each and every soul that walks the Earth.

To dare to be different and stand up for what you believe in a world that prefers conformity and maintaining the status quo, you run the risk of being shunned or looked at as an outsider. Hang out there and welcome that place, man.

Life begins on the outside. That’s where you will find your truth. And you would be in good company too.

That’s what I did, man. I hope you do too.

Blow people’s minds. Do something dangerous. Be misunderstood.

You just might be on your way to becoming immortal.

Dig, every one of you has been given this incredible gift. Life. Don’t squander it, man. And please don’t forget your assignment, if this content marketing thing is what you’re in to.

Shine your light. We’re counting on you.

Peace,

Jimi

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