Failure.

The word in itself  makes me sick.  Most people in MLM never realize that they have everything they need to succeed in Network Marketing.

Most people do not fail in Network Marketing.

They quit!

Failure in MLM is the natural fruit of quitting.

Quitting is the fruit of a Loser’s mindset.

Most new mlm distributors lack the proper mindset to get through the tough times in MLM< or any entrepreneurial enterprise. Most folks develop what I call a “Lottery” mindset and think that MLM is the lottery and they wait and see what numbers are drawn.

Dumb asses.

It is called The Winners’ Mind.

Secret: not really

The Winner’s Mindset is a mindset of knowing that no matter what happens in your life, you will keep getting up off the ground and continue to move forward till you cross the finish line.

A new distributor in MLM often plays what I call the “Try” game.

They are going to “Try” MLM and see what happens. That is a Loser’s mindset. They make their mind up that they will give this business a certain time frame, and if it doesn’t produce what they want it to, then “it doesn’t work”.

They work their home business on THEIR terms, THEIR Time Frame, not the terms nor Time Frame that MLM requires. And they expect massive success.

WRONG again!

Network Marketing requires you to have a “No matter what” mindset, and No Matter What, you will continue to work and do what is required till success shows up at the front door.

You see, success in MLM requires many things:

Skillset.

Mindset.

Determination.

Discipline.

Attitude.

Communication.

Focus.

Belief.

Action.

But…

The Winner’s Mindset requires:

DETERMINED PATIENCE.

You MUST create a Patience about this because there is a learning curve to all new skills and careers, and this learning curve is innate to Network Marketing. So that is why you need to look at what your Mindset is going to be, as it will be tested during your early months of your business.

If you study Millionaires in MLM as I have you will find that their mindset is like a run away freight train running down a mountain. They simply will not be denied, nor stopped, nor slowed down. They are focused on “All out Massive Action” and wanted to win like never before. Failure is not even an option.

Secret:

Millionaires in MLM did not take their business for granted. They saw it as their “way out” and went for it.

As a new distributor, or veteran, you must keep your mindset focused on what you need to do to create your home business success. And your mind will sometimes think thoughts that are doubtful, and negative.

That is part of being human. We all go through that, and the Winners in life learn that they can control their thoughts and create the life they want from the inside Out.

The Learning Reality must set in.

When you start getting discouraged, and frustrated, as all entrepreneurs do, that’s ok. It’s part of the process of the Learning Curve, and we all went through it. And that is the time your mindset will need to be “I will not be denied” because that is what it will take to get through it.

-Call your upline and talk to them and see what they do when they get down.

-Read a motivational book or listen to an inspiring tape, and see yourself succeeding in MLM.

-Go out to lunch with a successful upline if possible and talk to them and tap into their belief system.

Secret:

You can do whatever you make your mind up to do in Network Marketing — as long as it is powered by the heart.

A determined mindset is a fruit of a determined heart. Is your heart really into your business?

Do you have what we call the right “Heart Condition?”

If your mindset is a result of the right “Heartset”, then your success will be well on it’s way.

A Winner always has the mindset of one thing:

CROSSING THE FINISH LINE!

And it takes heart to do that. Never give up and never give in to your doubts as you WILL succeed. But most have more faith in their fear than their future.

Be Blessed and Prosperous on your journey

Tracy Garcia

Network marketing is very much hit or miss, depending upon whom you talk with. Some people have had great success and some have not had so much. Most network marketing companies will probably tell you to go after any prospect, regardless of what you know about them. This means that you probably will end up with prospects who are not actively looking at network marketing. To truly build a successful MLM business, you need to find a target market and home in on it.

Network marketing can often have a bad connotation because many people think that those involved are too aggressive and may even consider many of them pushy. Network marketers often try to get you in their downline simply by explaining how much money that you can make. They do not explain how else this can be beneficial or are not effective in providing further guidance on building a successful downline. These network marketers are not using the first key to business: who is the audience?

If you work on finding a target market, you are making a complete shift within how you will conduct business. Anyone can start a business to start a business. You are starting a business because you see a need from an audience that is not filled. Your business has found a true reason to be moving forward. Your business will work to solve the needs and concerns of an audience that are not being met. You can find as many different audiences as you want to. There are many different niches which you can fill. You have to find a niche that you are passionate about and where you can make a difference through listening to your customers. You have to focus on learning their problems about the industry you are focusing on and this can help you to continue focusing in on your niche.

Understanding your target audience makes business that much easier. Instead of guessing about what your target audience wants, you are bale to provide it simply through listening to what they have to say. You can also change your role from a salesperson to a person providing advice. People enjoy buying as opposed to selling to. If you provide advice and guide them through the buying process, they will come back to you time and time again for business.

One of the best ways to interact with your target audience online these days is through social networking. This is when you interact with your online communities through such sites as Facebook. You could also decide to start a blog or to pose answers in forums devoted to your industry.

If you want to be a MLM success, you have to change your tune from the salesperson to the trusted adviser. This comes through careful research of a target audience, more careful research about products for your target audience, and providing this careful research through such methods as social networking. This can help both in customers as well as building a long downline

Tracy Garcia

Are Those Fruit Smoothies Really as Healthy as you Think?

Each summer, smoothie bar sales skyrocket and lineups trail out the door. Unfortunately the unwavering belief is that these refreshingly cool drinks are a healthy snack. It’s time to shine a light on the truth: not all smoothies are good for you. In fact, you may be better off having a piece of cake than a retail-bought smoothie. The most dangerous part of a smoothie is its healthy reputation. If you believe you’ve chosen the healthy snack option, you are less likely to alter your eating habits to compensate for the snack, and therefore you will end up taking in sufficiently more calories overall. But if you’ve eaten a chocolate bar, you know it’s a splurge and are more prone to watching your diet the rest of the day, keeping the overall rise in calories on the low side.

Smoothie Danger #1:

Packing a Sugar Wallop

While fruit has traditionally been the central ingredient from which a smoothie was made, in many commercial versions, refined sugar is taking its place. In fact, many smoothies contain more sugar than a can of cola or a cupcake. The rows of flavored syrups behind smoothie bars are often made from pure corn syrup or other highly refined sugars such as beet or cane, and your smoothie may get several pumps. The added sugar content goes for ready-made “smoothie” drinks, too. Not only is this going to spike your calories for the day (most commercial smoothies range from 200 to 600 calories), you’ll also feel a sugar high followed by an energy crash that will make you crave more sugar shortly afterwards to perk you up again.

Something else to beware of with corn syrup is a possible mild allergic reaction. Because of the high concentration of corn derivatives in many processed foods, it’s common to develop an allergy or intolerance to it without your being aware. I myself discovered my own allergy to corn, which came on as symptoms similar to hay fever each spring, and disappeared after I limited my intake.

Smoothie Danger #2: “Boosted” Smoothies Contain Extra Chemicals The supplements used to give smoothies a “boost” are often genetically modified and contain chemical fillers and synthetic ingredients. Many times, the vitamin or mineral giving the “booster” its name is actually the last item on the ingredient list of the booster itself. Furthermore, the quality of the vitamin or mineral infused in the booster does not have to be accounted for, so the rate at which it absorbs in your body may be so low that it provides little extra by way of nutrition. The best way to ensure a “booster” is indeed a healthy option is to make the retailer accountable for its ingredients. The ultimate scenario is that the retailer is using a smoothie booster made from highly raw and organic whole foods in powder form, without any added chemicals. That way, the vitamins and minerals are all naturally occurring and easily absorbed in the body.

Smoothie Danger #3:

“Sugar-Free” or “Light” = Harmful Artificial Sweeteners

Before buying the smoothie with “no added sugar” to cut your calorie count, ask if there are other sweeteners added. Chemically altered sweeteners like aspartame and sucralose may be worse than sugar. Although they save you calories, they also lack any other nutrients whatsoever and still have ongoing studies exploring negative health implications such as migraines, long-term memory loss, fybromalgia, and lymphoma.

By no means should you exclude smoothies from your diet. Smoothies can be the healthiest part of your day, if done right. In fact, as a professional athlete, I know they’re essential for quick cellular regeneration.

My first suggestion is to get your smoothie fix at home, before you head out for the day. The pros of making a smoothie for breakfast: it’s quick to make, you have complete control over the ingredients, you can run out the door with it, and it’s very easy on the digestive system. I have yet to find any cons.

When making your own smoothie at home, it’s easy to unknowingly mix up a sugar-bomb more likened to a slushy than a healthy smoothie by adding too much fruit juice. Don’t be afraid to use mostly water and ice instead of juice – you’ll likely find the fruit alone makes the smoothie sweet enough. If not, you can add low-glycemic whole food options like agave nectar to sweeten it up, or use higher-glycemic whole food options like dates and offset it with plenty of fiber.

The beauty of a smoothie is that you can add superfood boosts such as flax, hemp, and even greens like kale without greatly affecting the flavor. By using this technique, you can actually ensure your smoothie contains all the nutrients of a complete meal. Good protein sources to use in smoothies are whole foods with a high pH, such as previously mentioned hemp, which has a very high protein content and high digestibility. Other great protein sources are pea and rice protein.

Maintaining an alkaline pH in the body is very important for optimal health, so I make all my smoothies with plant-based ingredients. Here is one of my favorite homemade and nutritionally complete smoothies:

Never mind the fact that this smoothie contains romaine lettuce; you’ll find it’s surprisingly delicious. The natural sweetness of the romaine leaves blends with melon to give the smoothie an especially fresh taste.

3-6 leaves of romaine lettuce
2 fresh or soaked dates
2 cups water (or 1 ½ cups water plus 1 cup ice)
1 cup honeydew melon
1 Tbsp ground flaxseed
1 Tbsp hemp protein
½ Tbsp grated fresh ginger

Blend and enjoy!

Article Written By Brendan Brazier; Brendan Brazier is a professional Ironman triathlete, two-time Canadian 50km Ultra Marathon Champion and bestselling author of “The Thrive Diet”. He is also the creator of the award-winning VEGA line of whole food products. www.brendanbrazier.com www.myvega.com

The ultimate measure of your MLM success is how large your downline is and how active and prosperous their downlines are. This article will look at how you can discover the secret to building a massive downline.

If you have been around network marketing for awhile, you may have attended meetings used to advertise different business opportunities. Many prospects come to these meetings and ultimately some people will sign up to be a part of the business. Many of these prospects do not understand the system and ultimately turn out to be unsuccessful. Many people’s downlines are filled with individuals who do not work actively at the business. How many people in your downline are active and involved in the business? That right there is how you discover the secret to building a massive downline. You have to find those individuals who have a keen interest in networking marketing and will be active in building their business. You have to help them become successful and this will make you more successful.

To truly attract people, this can happen through attraction marketing. With attraction marketing, you are focused on marketing that will attract people who will come to your website on their own. This is very cost effective as far as your marketing. This can happen through positioning your business correctly and then focusing on how you can communicate your business to others. This can work very effectively when you are using social networking in connection with attraction marketing. With social networking, you will interact with online communities focused around the interest areas that are of importance. If these do not exist, create online communities focused around those interest areas.

Tracy Garcia

When prospects are looking at any business opportunity, they will assess it based upon what they feel comfortable with and with which company they have the best chance at success.

Any MLM business will first start by looking for prospects. Building a downline can only happen when you have identified prospects. The question is how will you identify these prospects? There are many different ways to do this such as buying a phone list of business opportunity seekers, asking family and friends to join the business, or to talk with people at places you regularly visit such as a coffee shop. These are often methods that are not highly effective in building interested prospects.

The approach that can work very effectively for you is attraction marketing. This is simply a type of marketing where you work on attracting prospects to your website. You do not have to worry about selling but rather about getting people to visit your website and to give them information so they will buy from you. It is very important with attraction marketing that you have a deep well of knowledge about your product and industry. When people come to your website or to you, it is important that you are able to provide the information they are looking for. This can start building a bond so that they will eventually buy from you.

Attraction marketing is the simplest method of marketing you can do with your MLM business. It is not a quick solution to building a business but sets you up with the ability to consistently bring in new prospects and customers by following these same steps on a regular basis. With your knowledge, you are working on solving your customers’ problems. Instead of being a pushy salesman, you position yourself as a trusted advisor to your customers. They will welcome your advice when you portray this message both in words and in action.

One of the best MLM prospecting tips is that you must be the face of the business. People often will not sign up for a business without having an idea that someone can help them. This is where you need to put yourself forward as a good resource for anyone who may want to join your downline. When you are doing attraction marketing, one way to leverage this powerful resource is to combine it with social networking. This is the way business has begun to move both currently and into the future. It is a way to interact with your customers. People are not happy with simply reading websites for information. They want to be able to interact with business persons and with products and services. With social networking, you interact with your customers in different ways on the Internet. You can post regularly to forums your customers visit. You can keep a blog that you regularly post on. Follow up on comments by your readers. Post on your customers’ blogs. Offer a free webinar to explain a solution to common customers’ problems.

These are two very important prospecting tips for your MLM business. The business becomes easiest when you work on bringing the people to you. This shows their interest in what you have to offer. It is then your job to understand what they are looking for and to provide it. You can do all this through social networking and be sure to use different ways to interact with them. This can ensure that your MLM business has a great deal of success.

Tracy Garcia