MLM Residual Income

In my last post on "Being a leader" I talked about "Googling" information and not asking anyone for the answers. Well, sometimes you have to get some team help.

I understood the general principle of using the Windows Movie Maker and the different things it can do. But when it came to actually finding everything and setting a few things up, my eyes glazed over and I got that little voice coming from the pit of my stomach saying - "help!"

I long for the good old days of written instruction booklets.

So I called a friend on my team, sideline to me, who has helped me before with the voice recording program and he, with lots of patience, walked me through.

Now this is the beauty of an extended team where everyone leaves his or her ego at the door.
Another close friend and mentor Michael Dlouhy, author of the e-book Success in 10 Steps and founder of Mentoring for Free says that a successful team has no room for greed and ego. My friend Kim gets no monetary benefit from what I do, but he's a buddy and willing to help.

Not only did I learn how to find different tools and learn, finally, how to set up a file folder on the desktop, but my Kim discovered a few things he hadn't noticed before. He said he could make use of those.

Also, speaking of team help, he knows I'm good for composing a jingle should he need one for his videos. I am, after all, the singing network marketer.

So being a leader does mean you solve problems. But every leader has other mentors and leaders and friends and you have to know when to ask for help, yourself. For some people that's really hard. I'll go over that in another post.

An extended team of persons with a variety of talents and expertise means strength. Strength of the team and, in turn, strength of the company.

The strength of the whole is always greater than the sum of the individual parts.

Wishing you success with MLM residual income and team help,

Wendy Weber, The Singing Network Marketer
602-404-1626 - Anytime
E-mail Wendy
www.wendywebermentor.com

I never desired being a leader, especially. I grew up contented to be a "worker bee", not the queen. That may have had something to do with not having a lot of confidence in myself, although I did well in school and have always had the ability to be creative with words and music. While I had friends, I was rather a loner, and that also had to do with my family situation, another story sometime.

What is it that makes leaders different? How can anyone look into the future to see who will rise from follower status to becoming a recognized leader – someone who is widely accepted as a guru? Probably a lot of people figure that when you look at a leader, you see certainty and passion and enthusiasm. With those elements, a person inspires confidence in others. You probably don't have a bunch of statistics to back it up, but I'll bet you've noticed the same thing in your life. Man or woman, the person who exudes confidence is easy to follow. And what about the one without it? You may not even know they exist. That was pretty much how I felt.

For people to follow you, you must have chosen a path you have very strong belief in. It's important to be 100% sure, because any doubt in your voice or in your actions comes through loud and clear to everyone who is looking at you. When you show the clear mental toughness to lead in one definite direction, then you have a real opportunity to gather followers. On the other hand, if you run around in several different directions, then people will keep on looking for a leader.

It's always surprising how many people look to others to guide them when, if they just Googled their question, they’d have an answer. True leaders don't wait for others to make a move to do it for them. They find a model of what they want, then they figure it out and make it work. When a leader doesn't understand how to do something, they try it anyway. This isn't revolutionary. Every one of us learns to drive by driving. Success as a leader means you have a "think REALLY big" mindset, and then doing the necessary actions. A leader absolutely knows that they are the ONLY one responsible for their future, so they do the logical actions that will bring the results they want.

It took me a long time to really "get" this. I am just starting to do videos and have a friend standing by to walk me through Windows MovieMaker. However today, while I had some time, I "Googled" it and the answers were there. So, I'll try it without him and will call him only if I get really stuck. Why? Because I grew into a leader.

Wishing you mlm residual income success by being a leader,

Wendy Weber, The Singing Network Marketer
602-404-1626 - Anytime
E-mail Wendy
www.wendywebermentor.com

I have been catching up on my taxes and was thinking that I should have been using more of The Slight Edge techniques all along.

I had 2 years to catch up on before I even got to the 2007 return.

Don't know about you, but tax preparation is something I dread so much each year that I'll even put housecleaning and pulling weeds ahead of it. And I even send them off to my accountant to complete. Of course, that's not the basic reason I didn't do the prior-year taxes, but that's another story.

Anyway, I was thinking that what I should have done, and have started to do, is to do something small each day relative to record-keeping. Whether I record the receipts in a ledger or, now into my "Neat Receipts" scanning device, I just do that every day, or whevever I get a receipt, and then compiling the info is easy.

Well, I did do that for 2007, but evidently missed a few and then couldn't remember what a few were for. Perhaps an easy spreadsheet for those expenses that are online and I don't have physical receipts for unless I print them out, probably a waste of paper and ink. But there is progress.

If you're familiar with The Slight Edge process from the book of the same name by Jeff Olson, you know that you can do small, easy things every day, or not do them, and your progress will go up towards success or down towards failure. I'm working on going up towards success - there is a chart to check off which way you went each day.

Formula for Success

Where am I going with this? Well my good friend and mentor Art Jonak teaches that network marketing is as simple as doing a few simple things every day. He says that the formula for success is "getting a large number of people doing a few simple things over and over for a long period of time".

That makes sense. The key is the KISS system - "keep it simple, sweetheart".

I can address that in another post.

In the meantime, I'll finish my 2007 tax info to send off to my accountant to complete properly. And I'll work on keeping notes every day for expenses. And I'll check off the boxes above the median line on the slight edge chart as many time in a month as possible to keep my progress in the success mode and not failure mode.

Wishing you mlm recurring income success through using "The Slight Edge" philosophy,

Wendy Weber, The Singing Network Marketer
602-404-1626 - Anytime
E-mail Wendy
www.wendywebermentor.com
"Be a Mentor with a Servant's Heart"

PLEASE DON’T ASK TO JOIN MY TEAM if you don’t have a conscience!

What do I mean by that?

When I was doing Arbonne International as a business, we learned to do the “Puppy Dog” method. It was all the rage in the company and what everyone was training. This entails buying the top of the line skin care product – 3 or 4 or more sets – to get them out into the field for testing. The theory is that once people tried it, they didn’t want to give it back and would purchase – just like people not wanting to give back a puppy. Unless, of course, you’re like me – I prefer cats and birds. Not together.

But in reality, those sets are too expensive for most people, so they’d be encouraged to join as a wholesale buyer to get the discount.

What behavior does this drive in the field? Recruit, recruit, recruit.

Would you really buy these products if there was not a business opportunity associated with it? Or alternatively, a wholesale opportunity?

Think about it. The discount is generally 35%. But if most people only buy as a wholesale buyer, for the basic consultant they would get only 4% on a wholesale buyer under them and nothing on their own orders. For the first step of management, now you would earn 8% on everyone under them down a certain level (won’t go into that here) and including their own orders. But you have to have a lot more people buying to make the money you’d make from a retail purchase. Of course, most people won’t pay retail.

Doesn’t that sound like a recruiting rather than a retailing behavior to you?

Anyway, back to my story. I tried the “Puppy Dog” on a young lady who wanted to do the business. She spent $1000 or so on 4 kits and I was ready to train her. But she was shy, didn’t know many people and I could never get her and her boyfriend to come to train. Eventually she changed her phone number and e-mail and I couldn’t reach her.

Deep in my heart I knew it was wrong to have recruited her this way. It was front-loading. It is contrary to my personality and certainly to hers. She did have good product, and hopefully used it or sold it or something. But I still feel terrible about what I did and cannot do it again.

I had to switch to a company that pays 20% to 40% on retail products. That also means that the retail price is the same as the wholesale price. That sounds better than 4% to 8% to 14% (for the next higher Arbonne management level). You can make more money on fewer people. It also means that I can retail and it is not necessary to recruit. Most people don’t want to sign up – just get their product.

The upshot is I was never meant to recruit. Do people join me? Sure, if they want to get bonuses and get some extra income and be trained and plugged into a system that is proven and works. Most people just want to be customers. Not only is that okay with a company like mine, it’s encouraged – the idea is to sell product, not just to recruit.

The other benefit to being with a company like mine is that not only the retail customers tend to stay, but there is a higher retention rate for the business builders. What a concept! Retention.

You don’t even have to join me to get free training from Mentoring for Free. We say we’ll help anyone in any company for free if they want to stay where they are. We mean that. You great folks out there still have to work within the plan and policies of your company. We can’t change that. But we can teach you what to look for, or look out for, and we can teach skills.

Wishing you success, but also reminding you to please don’t ask to join to join my team if you don’t have a conscience,


Wendy Weber, The Singing Network Marketer
602-404-1626
E-mail Wendy for network marketing or health coaching information
www.wendywebermentor.com
"Be a Mentor with a Servant's

I must apologize. I have a Tom "Big Al" Schreiter Training and MLM Residual Income Success correction.

The training in Phoenix on 3/17/2007 is not the 1 Minute Presentation, but is considered a Super Saturday training.

Tom will be teaching us exactly what to say and what to do to get our distributors to stop "trying" and to start "doing". He has a very simple technique that could make a huge change to your downline.

Sign up through this link - fortunenow.com.

Also, Tom will show us a great local place to get "hot, hot leads for cheap, cheap, cheap". He says these leads will be be exclusively ours and this will be fun.

See you there.

Wishing you success through a Tom "Big Al" Schreiter Training and mlm residual success correction,

Wendy Weber, The Singing Network Marketer
602-404-1626
E-mail Wendy for network marketing or health coaching information
www.wendywebermentor.com
"Be a Mentor with a Servant's Heart

I'm out here in the Tallahassee, FL area visiting my fiance (sorry fellas!) working on creating mlm residual income success, and I do it anywhere I go. You can do it, too.

How do I do that? I just keep my eyes and ears open, wear any t-shirts, buttons, or use my products on the plane, in restaurants, stores, etc.

When people ask you about the button or products, you answer the question simply and then find out about them - those who ask.

Listen and observe carefully to find out what color personality they are, and then you know how to talk to them. This is a great way of having them be attracted to your.

Of course, you have to move products to have network marketing success, but it is, in the end, a relationship business. People join those they know like and trust. What better way to instill trust by showing others that you know them, and can help them.

To learn the skills of recognizing personalities, contact me fon information on the Mentoring for Free training calls to acquire skills. I - and you - can get on these calls from anywhere, too.

Wishing you mlm residual income success anywhere you go,

Wendy Weber, The Singing Network Marketer
602-404-1626
E-mail Wendy for network marketing or health coaching information
www.wendywebermentor.com
"Be a Mentor with a Servant's Heart