As we discussed on a recent Business Strategy webinar, a fundamental of success in your business is to keep the main thing the main thing…
And that main thing is building your list.
More on Basic List Building Techniques
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Thanks to John Powell who posted the following GDI Business model to out FOL Team Support forum. These are excellent steps you can take to build your GDI business.
I recognize we all do it our own way, John says, but this helps me knowing that we have our own schedule and some have more to adjust than others who are not that busy already.
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I've discovered that those who are most successful with their business are INVOLVED in their business.
One significant way you can become more involved in the Follow Our Lead team is to participate in our weekly training and opportunity calls. Those who fully participate in the conference calls are learning new skills every time to help build their business.
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Why People Succeed Or Fail
Parkinson's Law is one of the best known and the most important laws of money and wealth accumulation. It was developed by English writer C. Northcote Parkinson many years ago and it explains why most people retire poor.
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I've posted a new article about creating your business plan and specifically a business plan outline for your FOL business. Read the Personal Business Plan and print out the FOL Business Plan Outline.
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This Quick Start training system has been specifically developed to help you get a quick start in building your Follow Our Lead business and to give you a solid plan for success. Each practical step will help you to accelerate your learning curve and help get you in positive cash flow quickly with your new business.
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Dave Ramsey shares some valuable information about starting your business. I would echo his warning against using a credit card to finance your business – not a good idea. If you don't have the cash to get started, well… it's not the right time for you to start. Have enough cash to pay off those credit cards in full each month and never carry a balance.
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Here are some great ideas for making your first million.
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Members of the Follow Our Lead Team regularly use Instant Messaging for communicating with one another and for finding prospects for our business. This is a powerful and easy way to stay in communication with your team on a daily basis and to be notified of important events to help your business.
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You do have one, don't you?
If not, the smart thing to do is to start one TODAY!
Your to-list will be one of the MOST profitable tools you'll ever use and will help you become a person of mass production. If you don't begin using a to-do list, I can almost guarantee that the things you need to get done will NOT get done.
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A business plan is probably the most important and often overlooked necessity for people starting a business. If you don't have a "written" plan, most people will not really consider you to be in a business but a hobby. If you indend to take advantage of the many IRS business deductions available to business owners, you better take this section seriously.
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Take a look at what I consider REQUIRED READING for the home business entrepreneur starting an MLM business.
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In order to be most successful, you need a…
S D A (Single Daily Action)
With everything before you to accomplish, it can seem overwhelming to you. Many times we are likely to procrastinate doing the things we need to do today because there is so much to accomplish.
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MA = MR (Massive Action equals Massive Results)
Conversely, SA = SR (small actions equals small results).
Remember this formula as you begin building your business. What your business eventually becomes will depend upon what you put into it and how fast you do it.
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There are a few things you'll need to begin doing NOW to lay the foundation for your success:
Become a Product of the Product:
Begin to explore the many benefits you have in your Member's area and begin to use them.
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Here's a very POWERFUL technique that really works well… TAGGING.
Let me explain what tagging is…
It basically is a way to conduct a "virtual handshake" with a new member of the team or a potential team member.
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5 minutes per day commitment to your Network Marketing business
by Sherrie Murray
In five minutes you can:
Strike up a conversation with someone around you. A person you are standing in line with in a store, a coworker over lunch, the UPS man, the mailman, someone in a group you belong to.
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I've had Awesome FREE Traffic to my web sites using the e-biz rotators from NoMoreHits and Traffic Swarm which are set up as my home page on my browser. I use both on my two computers, however, if you only have one computer, I suggest using Traffic Swarm.
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The 30 Day Taking Action Program has been recently updated with some great new training topics including:
Day 1 – Getting Started
Day 2 – Getting Ready
Day 3 – Getting to Know Us
Day 4 – What It Takes
Day 5 – Goals
Day 6 – Time Management
Day 7 – Starting Up
Day 8 – Know The Language
Day 9 – Know The Plan
Day 10 – Market Share
Day 11 – Marketing 101
Day 12 – Relationship Marketing
Day 13 – Article Marketing
Day 14 – Blogging
Day 15 – SEO
Day 16 – Lead Generation
Day 17 – How To Generate Leads
Day 18 – E-Mail Marketing
Day 19 – Write an E-mail That Gets Opened
Day 20 – Emotional Response Writing
Day 21 – The Bounce Back
Day 22 – Instant Marketing
Day 23 – Phone Marketing
Day 24 – Community Marketing
Day 25 – Target Marketing
Day 26 – Autoresponder for Marketing
Day 27 – FOL Marketing
Day 28 – The Follow Through
Day 29 – Tagging
Day 30 – Promote The Team
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For a variety of reasons, not everyone who joins the Follow Our Lead team will do the simple steps necessary to be successful. What is likely to occur follows the Pareto Principle (or 80-20 Rule) which asserts that 80% of the productivity in your team comes from 20% of the team
members.
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The best way to achieve time freedom with your business is to become better organized.
This is YOUR business and you've got to treat it like a business if you want to reap the rewards of a business. Like any business, you're going to have to maintain some records so you can track your progress and complete the required tax forms when the time comes. Plus you'll want to have important reference material easily available to you when you need it. Spending a few minutes now in organizing your business will save your hours in the future.
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It's great being part of a team that is so willing to share with one another – even folks that are not in their direct downline. There are those team members that frequent the Yahoo message board (http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/FollowOurLead/) and our weekly online meetings that have much to share with you and are willing to help – if you only ask.
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I really like search engine traffic because visitors search you out, rather than the other way around. Would you rather talk to people who ARE looking for you… or chase after people who may or may not have a serious interest?
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Derek has recorded and posted most of our Monday night training meetings for you to listen to at your convenience. You will find many of the recordings in your FOL team backoffice.
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CONSIDER THE DUPLICATION FACTOR & WHAT EXPONENTIAL GROWTH ALLOWS YOU TO ACCOMPLISH
Let's assume you and everyone in your organization sponsors ONLY THREE persons per month. (In reality some may sponsor none, some 5 or maybe even 10). But for this example, let's assume everyone sponsors just three new persons every month.
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