Help For Your Dreams

Moving Day

guskamassah — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:19:46 +0000

This blog has moved on to a new home down the street. The new location is www.networkingclues.com

Hope to see you there!

Be Yourself to Succeed

guskamassah — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:06:24 +0000

You might have heard or read that MLM is about YOU – It’s not about products or companies! This is as simple as it can be put. Your success in this industry depends on YOU. You determine how far you can go. The road to success may look long from the beginning and this is when FOCUS comes into play. You’ll need it to beat all odds to succeed. Anything less than that will be failure. Why do I say this? Making it to the top require some work and you must be
prepared to take the bull by the horn and tackle it. No one said it is going to be easy. There is no shortcut to success, because non exist. Don’t ever take your eyes off the goal that you set for yourself from the onset. Always remind yourself that you’re in it for the long haul.

One way to be successful at what you do is to position yourself as a leader and be viewed as such. And to be seen as a leader, you have to do the things necessary to be a leader – you must give value to others. It all begins with self-development. A willingness to learn is a critical component of the roadmap to success. This should be like a passion for you. Success will be the result of working on yourself day in and day out for improvement. You should see yourself as your most important asset and pursue your development with all the resources at your disposal.

You get what you want by being who you are. It makes no sense to pretend to be someone you are not – don’t try to sell when you are not a salesman. You have to be YOU!

For more information on what some do to become successful leaders, download and read this FREE eBook – Success In 10 Steps.

Augustus Kamassah

Mentoring Help For Your Success – Part 2

guskamassah — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:32:05 +0000

In this age of information, a mentor can be book, recordings on
tapes/CDs, or a person. My personal preference is to be mentored by a
person who can answer you questions on the fly. Yes the tapes, CDs,
and MP3s are great and convenient. You can plug them in and listen to
them at your convenience, but there is no accountability. A real
person will watch over you and direct you. This is the route you
should take for your mentoring needs. Look out for someone or a group
of people who have been mentoring for years – long timers!

If there is a single word that decides between success and failure, it
is YOU. Your mindset and motivation level is critical to your success.
You could have all the mentoring from the top gurus in the industry
but if you are not committed to the cause, you are bound to fail.

Whether it is free or not, one must be coachable to benefit from
mentoring. If you are someone who frowns at directions, please save
yourself and your mentor, the time that will be used for mentoring. At
the end of the day what mentoring is all about is someone taking you by
the hand and showing you the paths they have taken to be where they are
today so that you don’t have do endure the failures and struggle that
they went through when they first started.

For your MLM success, look for a mentor. Your mentor can be your
sponsor and/or upline. Look for a successful person who has already
learned valuable lessons from trial and error and can pass that
knowledge along to you. That person must be willing to teach you. If
there is no one in your upline that has these characteristics, look
elsewhere in your company. If you cannot find someone to work with in
your company, then you will need to look elsewhere. But before you go
this route make sure you have exhausted all avenues of finding
mentoring help in your company. Find a network marketing trainer whose
credentials you can check and who has a good reputation. Use them as
your mentor until you find someone that you can work with more closely.

For more information on a free mentoring program, check out this Mentoring For Free site, and to be educated on how to be successful in your networking business download and read YOUR free ebook called Success In 10 Steps.

Seven Steps to Remember When Building Your Network Marketing Business

guskamassah — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:43:00 +0000

Why does success in network marketing seem so difficult? Let’s agree to start teaching “The Seven Steps” of network marketing success to those who actually want to create the life of their dreams, and leave the rest of the world alone. After all, we’re involved in a great industry, with terrific people, offering unlimited opportunity. And we should be proud to speak the truth.

1) Network Marketing is a business.

Networking is a unique form of enterprise, and you’ve got to understand the game you’re playing. Therefore mentally consume every page of your distributor manual the day it arrives. Listen to your training tapes again, and again, and again. Like a song on the radio, you learn the lyrics by hearing the music one more time.

2) Freedom by the numbers.

Understand the numbers, and your compensation plan. Start by involving three or five people, whatever number your plan dictates. By your fifth year, the commissions paid on your invested efforts could well equal a mid six-figure annual income. After that, the sky’s the limit.

3) Attend every live event.

The weekly presentation is part of the process. You need to be in attendance every week, to see the presentation again. Remember the music? You need the association, and the environment to showcase your company for your prospects. True, not everyone attending every meeting earns $10,000 a month. However, everyone earning $10,000 a month attends every meeting. Now that’s a refined study of the obvious.

4) Work only one company.

Leaders understand this truth, because no man or woman can serve two masters.

5) Have a compelling written “Why?”

Success in Network Marketing is 20% how to, and 80% why to. The best part is, if your reasons are strong enough, you’ll learn everything you need to know along your journey.

6) Invest in yourself first.

Some people are still trying to earn 2008 money using a 1982 education. It can’t be done. If you want to earn more, you’ve got to learn more. Therefore, read all the books, attend all the classes, and learn everything you possibly can.

7) Decide in writing you’ll be here a year from now. Long-term written goals possess the power to pull you right to the top of your company. Put your dreams for your future on paper, and begin building your dream life!

These “Seven Steps” will take you to the top!

How to Be Successful in Network Marketing – #1 Don’t Buy Leads!

guskamassah — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:30:00 +0000

So, you’ve tried and tried, and worked and worked, and paid and paid! I know, I’ve been there. I’ve lost a lot of money and was frustrated at my lack of success. But Network Marketing can and does work. But you have to know what you are doing, you have to learn the ropes, and you have to be with a good company, where management has the higest integrity and is looking out for you.

You want to be successful and financially free. And Network Marketing is a good way to accomplish this. But there are lots of scams out there. Or companies that are just not looking out for their reps.

Are you buying leads for hundreds or thousands of dollars each month. Trust me, buying leads does not work!! I know, I’ve tried it. I once spent $1,275 on leads in one month, and you know how many people I signed up? Zero!!! Yep, that’s right, a big fat zero!

There is a way to make money in this business, but you have to know what you are doing, and you have to work with great people who know what they are doing, too. And nobody should charge for this information. A good mentor will mentor you for free.

So, where do you go from here? Well, you need to be educated, and you need a great mentor. Check out my links for a free e-book called Success In 10 Steps, and the Mentoring For Free site.

Crazy Policy & Procedures (P&Ps!)

guskamassah — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:56:00 +0000

This is a great research article from my friends Bob and Anna. They did a lot of research on several different policies and procedures (P&Ps) from many different network marketing companies. This is a sample of some of the crazy things they uncovered!

“Promotions are approved at the discretion of the upline leader, but company distributors may choose the automatic promotion option.”

This one made no sense until we realized that the company has a stairstep breakaway comp plan. When people promote below you, they take part of your check. This company allows your upline to stop your promotion, even though you have earned it!

“In keeping with the Company rule that a husband and wife cannot hold separate sponsorship positions, they must choose which one of them will transfer to the distributorship of the other, while leaving the transferring spouse’s sponsorship group behind. If for some reason a dispute should arise over the choice of sponsorship lines, the company reserves the right to decide each case independently.”

This means that if Alice is a successful distributor and she wants to marry Bill, also successful, one of them must give up his/her business! We wonder where that other business goes. To the company? Hmm. This company is looking for ANY reason to steal your check. This is breakage at its finest.

“In order to maintain status as a distributor, the distributor, spouse, family, household member, or distributor’s business partner are required to not actively participate in any other network marketing or direct sales company.”

Can you say indentured labor? Dictatorship?

“The distributor must fully, at all times, disclose the fact of ongoing income being received from any other network marketing or direct sales company.”

Picture your boss requiring you to disclose your earnings from your second job. This is what we meant in our first article about MLM companies controlling you more than any employer ever would in the ‘real world’.

“The Company expects associates to make good judgments when referring customers and avoid situations that may lead to fraud or high customer turnover. Associates will be subject to a charge back for any incentive, bonus or commission earned if a customer fails to become active or is deactivated or canceled for any reason or suspended for non-payment within 180 days after becoming active.”

Does this mean that if a customer of mine fails to make one payment in the sixth month, I must pay back EVERYTHING the company has paid me?

To learn more about how to protect yourself, start with your free e-book, Success In 10 Steps. It will save you years of failure and frustration, and perhaps an unpleasant termination.