5 Steps to Destroy Fear & Build Confidence in Your Life

Recently while reading through "The Magic of Thinking Big", I found these five little steps anyone could do to gain more confidence in their life and destroy fear. It was so powerful, and yet so simple!

We all face time that more confidence would make the difference between having what you want and not having it. It may show up for you as fear, or simple lack of action. Its that thing you know you should do but are stopped for some reason.

Here are 5 Steps and Practices that will work for you -

1. Action cures fear. Isolate your fear and then take constructive action. Inaction--doing nothing about a situation strengthens fear and destroys confidence. Pick one thing you are putting off or avoiding, where you know fear has a grip and take at least one action today.

2. Make a supreme effort to put only positive thoughts in your memory bank. Don't let negative, self deprecatory thoughts grow into mental monsters. Simply refuse to recall unpleasant events or situations. Pick a positive experience from your life (search for it if you have to), one where you felt good. Stop and think about it, relive it in your mind, recall every detail….dwell in it.

3. Put people in proper perspective. Remember people are more alike, much more alike than they are different. Get a balanced view of the other fellow. He is just another human being. And develop an understanding attitude. Many people will bark but it's a rare one who bites.

4. Practice doing what your conscience tells you is right. This prevents a poisonous guilt complex from developing. Doing what's right is a very practical rule for success.

5. Make everything about you say, I'm confident really confident. Practice these little techniques in your day to day activities. Try them and see they make a difference for you.

a. Be a front seater – in church, school or next meeting

b. Make eye contact – look people in the eye.

c. Walk 24 percent faster – you may be supprised.

d. Speak up – make it a point to say something constructive or ask a question.

e. Smile big - it makes a difference.

Make a commitment to put these steps into practice. Please let me know how it goes. (remember 5-d above!!)

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BE THANKFUL

Came across this little poem..seems to sum up so much --
Remember Attitude Makes All The Difference.

Be thankful that you don't already have everything you desire,
If you did, what would there be to look forward to?

Be thankful when you don't know something
For it gives you the opportunity to learn.

Be thankful for the difficult times.
During those times you grow.

Be thankful for your limitations
Because they give you opportunities for improvement.

Be thankful for each new challenge
Because it will build your strength and character.

Be thankful for your mistakes
They will teach you valuable lessons.

Be thankful when you're tired and weary
Because it means you've made a difference.

It is easy to be thankful for the good things.
A life of rich fulfillment comes to those who are
also thankful for the setbacks.

GRATITUDE can turn a negative into a positive.
Find a way to be thankful for your troubles
and they can become your blessing.

author unknown

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The Paradoxical Commandments

The Paradoxical Commandments
by Dr. Kent M. Keith


People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down

by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.

It Takes Courage

Came across this in my email on Friday. IA nice short poem that seems to say al ot to me so I thought I'd share it with everyone.

It Takes Courage
Author Unknown

It takes strength to be firm,
It takes courage to be gentle.

It takes strength to conquer,
It takes courage to surrender.

It takes strength to be certain,
It takes courage to have doubt.

It takes strength to fit in,
It takes courage to stand out.

It takes strength to feel a friend's pain,
It takes courage to feel your own pain.

It takes strength to endure abuse,
It takes courage to stop it.

It takes strength to stand alone,
It takes courage to lean on another.

It takes strength to love,
It takes courage to be loved.

It takes strength to survive,
It takes courage to live.

This leaves us all with the question,

Do you have the courage to live?

Have you been settling in your life?
Have you been putting off making the changes you know you need to make?
Are you ready to make those changes?

I know I sure was.

Steve Peck
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What's the deal with Downline Secrets 2?

If you haven't heard yet... James Grandstaff has released "Part 2" of his "Downline Secrets."

Before I get to my review, I thought I should play a little catch-up in case you have no clue as to what Downline Secrets "Part 1" is about.

Basically with Downline Secrets part 1 you get free access to a recorded call between Mike Filsaime and James Grandstaff. Mike asks James questions about the success he had using InstantBuzz.com (a free advertising resource) to grow his downline.

You get access to the MP3 and PDF transcript of the call (which is nice because I don't always like to sit in front of my PC to read or listen to content.)

During the call James reveals how he used his free Instant Buzz traffic along with his (now proven) 3 step strategy to explode his downline into the thousands on complete auto pilot.

The cool part is he did it while maintaining his full time job as a PC support technician in Michigan.

And from there you have the opportunity to buy the same software that James developed to grow his downline and use it to grow your downline in any program you happen to be involved in.

So all-in-all DownlineSecrets.com is a great site and offers a lot of great info for free on how to build your downline using the web.

What makes Downline Secrets "Part 2" so much better is that it takes over where Downline Secrets 1 left off.

What I mean is this...

With Downline Secrets 1 you were left to figure out all the technical stuff in order to duplicate James' results for your MLM business. The software and detailed videos are fantastic but you still have to come up with the web copy, the hosting, the HTML page design and so on... The yucky stuff.

Let's just say his target market is much smaller because if you don't have the much needed technical skills or the money to hire those with the skills, you are pretty much out of luck and can't fully benefit from the entire system he is teaching.

This time around you get access to a call between James Grandstaff and Chris Zavadowski
who is also very successful in the MLM scene. He grills James for over an hour and gets all the must know secrets out of him.

The system James is offering this time is over the top! He covers all the technical stuff for us this time and everything is completely set-up. All the technical issues have been removed. This is great because more people can now truly benefit from his teachings and proven system.

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This PDF is first customized with your affiliate links to several "generic" MLM training resources. As you give this thing away you will earn commissions from those you refer who upgrade in any of the programs.

And since they're all MLM related, the conversion rates should be extremely high!

All you do is simply advertise the lead capture page via the special link you get and James' software sends an email to your prospects (with a link to your customized PDF)

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The Inside Secret to Why Network Marketing will ALWAYS work!

Some people believe that network marketing really doesn't work. To put it lightly, they're WRONG. I am going to take the next few minutes to explain to you why network marketing will always work so that the next time someone takes the time to tell you that network marketing doesn't work you explain to them how misinformed they truly are.

Here is why Network Marketing will ALWAYS work:

Even in a strong economy people will ALWAYS need supplemental income:

The truth is most people live pay check to pay check. They aren't able to buy the nice things that they want for themselves and their families. There is and will always be a constant DEMAND for more money. Network marketing is a simple, part time and low risk way for full time workers to fill this need. To put it simply, as long as people need money network marketing will ALWAYS be there to fill that need.

People will ALWAYS want freedom from jobs they don't enjoy:

Despite what you may think, there are people out there that truly don't enjoy their job. They go to work because they have to and not because they want to. Network marketing
offers a promise of true financial freedom. The ability to leave the 9 to 5 working world. This freedom will ALWAYS be to tempting to pass up.

People will ALWAYS want more free time to do with as they please:

Did you know in a past poll conducted by Money magazine that 64% of American men and 68% of American women polled said that if they had a choice between more money and more time
off they would choose the time? People covet their free time. Network marketing offers the promise of working from home and making your own hours. Again, the opportunity to
create free time will ALWAYS draw people to network marketing.

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As long as people crave time, moeny and freedom network marketing will ALWAYS exist.

The next time that someone tries to tell you that network marketing doesn't work you know that they couldn't be more wrong.

All you have to is ask your accuser 1 of 3 questions:

Do you want more money?
Do you want freedom from your job?
Do you want more time?

I guarantee they will answer yes to one of these questions. When they do they will have proved exactly why network marketing will always work!

THE DIRTY TRUTH ABOUT NETWORK MARKETING That You Must Know and Understand If You Ever Want to Succeed

Here it is:

On the surface, network marketing companies appear to be thriving communities of consuming customers all happy with the product that they are consuming and they really are, but what drives that community of thriving consumers has absolutely nothing to do with the product itself.

Let's think about this for a minute........

Let me ask you a question:

Why did you decide to get started in a network marketing business?

You don't have to say anything out loud but answer this question in your head right now to yourself.

I guarantee you answer is somewhere along these lines "Well, I started my business because I wanted to make some extra money and who knows maybe even become financially free."

Am I right?

Well let me ask you another question now.

When you prospect and talk to leads about your business what do you talk to them about?

Most likely you try to stick to the corporate script which inevitable ends up with your prospect asking you questions about your network marketing company's products or services.

And by the end of the conversation you've lost control of the call and both you and your prospect end up confused (usually get somewhere between details about your companies product or service and the compensation plan).

You get of the phone and hope that my some grace of god your prospect you paid $5 to confuse will decided to join your business.

Likely story!

Here's why:

Successful Network Marketing has NOTHING to do with selling your prospect on your product at ALL!

To the contrary, the only thing that you should EVER talk to your prospect about is the same thing that got you sold on your companies business . . . More Money and Financial Freedom!

You see network marketing is built on financial hopes and dreams and honestly, if you're looking for business builders to recruit into your organization your prospects hopes and dreams of financial success are the only thing that you should speak to them about, so they can sell themselves on it.

As an illustration of this principle think about the situation this way, if you had equal amounts of your company's product in one hand and money in the other which do you think your prospect would choose?

The top money earners know the answer to that question and that's how why make all there money!

Here's the other shift in perspective that you're going to have to make if you want to have ultimate success with your business and it's simply a logical continuation on the point just discussed.

What you think of as your company's product is NOT its real product at ALL!

Do you think your network marketing company's product is its moon juice or long distance service?

If you do you're very wrong.

Continuing on from my last point, remember your network marketing business will not grow if you just push product. It will only grow if you sell people on their financial dreams.

So if you think about it, your company's real product is it's sales training and marketing system. The better your company's marketing system is able to help you generate sales the better any more quickly you will be able to reap the financial benefits of your business.

To extend this point further, eventually you'll want your downline to do all the work so you don't have to.

The simpler and more effective the marketing system plus the stronger the training your company provides the easier your system will duplicate.

If you want to think about it in its most simple form, your company's real product is its duplicability.

If you find a system that is easy to duplicate and you can have your prospect "sell themselves" on their financial dreams you will have a highly successful network marketing business.

Your Job is Simple:

Find people that want to attain financial freedom your way and then shorten their learning curve so that they can go out and do the same.

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Where Is All Your Time Going?

Recently I made an amazing discovery (realization actually).

You every wonder where all your time goes? Why you have things you'd like to get done but don't? I wonder those things now and then.

A little over a week ago we had tremendous storms blow through our town. Rain, winds, thunder and lighting. Seems our computer got fried! My whole family was concerned...what would we do without the computer?

Well its been over a week now. No computer....borrowing a few minutes on someone else's now and then to check email and things has been the modus operandi. (sp?) And you know what, I've been getting most of my online business work done, with so much on auto-pilot. Haven't been posting to the blog. But I've made an amazing discovery...I've found alot of lost time.

Seems that the little box with the tv on top has been eating away at my time. I normally feel like I'm squeezing a few minutes in here and there on the computer in the mornings or evenings when I get home from my day job. Now that the computer is down, when I do get a few minutes on some one's I'm only doing what's essential. I'm not reading unnecessary emails, clicking interesting looking web links, etc...... And I have more time.......wow.

The moral of this is.....are you losing time too? Perhaps a little reflecting on where your time is going would be worthwhile. I know it's worked for me.

My new plan, get focused on what I need and want to get done on line....do it, then get back to the other parts of my life. My wife, my kids, my friends, my house, my boat, golf.....

Have a great day.

Steve Peck
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Internet Success is A Marathon Not A Sprint

Listening to one of my favorite audios in the car earlier this week, he reminded me of a very important business fact. It applies doubly to online business and internet success.

What he said was that success is a marathon and not a sprint.

We all know this, but sometimes it's important to remind ourselves and really take it to heart. In today’s fast paced world of instant gratification and immediate feedback.

We want everything right now. Just look at video games, movies "on demand", and online anything. Instant gratification is the name of the game and the marketers know it. With the internet, they'll even deliver anything they can instantly. (ebooks, movies, and special access areas.)

We are bombarded by messages that tell use that this or that is the instant solution to whatever problem we need solved. Why? IT WORKS!!! We are called to action, and we take it with our plastic card or paypal account.

As sellers, we can use this to our advantage, but when buying we must realize that no matter what we're being told their will be WORK involved.

I've bought and tried just about anything and everything online that promises to help me make money quickly and guess what? Mostly it's good information, but none of it has lead to instant wealth in my life. The experiences gained while trying all these different things has given me a hard earned education. Actually it is this experience over time along with the information that turns into revenue.

We all know if you treat your business like a sprint and jump into every business opportunity thinking that if you just get in early and push hard that money will fall in your lap, you'll fail every single time. Rather real success online or with network marketing comes from consistent and persistent focused effort aimed towards your ONE goal! A goal that is different for each of us.

For instance, Internet network marketing is my chosen niche for a reason. I love the speed of results that can be created in an online world, but I equally love the security and financial freedom that a strong and thriving network marketing organization affords.

I know that if I can master both internet and network marketing that I will be able to grow a large thriving network marketing organization FASTER than if I do it solely offline. (I've done the off line thing for a long time.)

Even at this, I know that it's a marathon and not a sprint.

So stop and ask yourself right now . . . Are you committed enough to your business and your future that you would devote the next 3 to 5 years of your life to it to see big results? To achieve internet success.

Network marketing can give you more freedom in your life than you can ever imagine if you just approach it as a marathon and not a sprint. The dream is true and its there if you want it. You have to give your time and your passion to your business and your organization.

Rome was not built in a day and neither will your network marketing financially free lifestyle no matter what THEY say! Remember it is a marathon not a sprint.

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Why Punish Yourself For The Faults of Someone Else?

"Why Punish Yourself For The Faults of Someone Else?" What a great question to ask yourself when you're mad or feeling upset with someone.

I heard this the other night at a "Tea Party" given be the Tzu Chi Foundation. (http://www.tzuchi.org) One of my daughters was in a group receiving scholarship awards from this group and my wife & I were there as guests. It was a wonderful event put on by a gracious and caring group of people.

After the ceremony, there was a chance to mingle with the Tzu Chi members. One of the women members was telling me about the founder, Cheng Yen who started the organization in Taiwan over 40 years ago. It was Cheng Yen who asked the question "Why Punish Yourself.....". It really struck me.

I had to stop and wonder, where has being mad or upset taken me off task or made me less effective. Many times we all let others effect us in negative ways. This simple question shifts the perspective all around. So Simple yet So Powerful.

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When Should You Give Up, Some Thoughts

The other day I as watching a baseball game, 15 and 16 year old boys. In the 2nd inning one of the teams had a rally and got 5 runs in. (It was my son's team so I was happy) But I over heard a couple of dads comment that "here we go again, its over now!"

Wow, giving up already and there were still at least 4 innings left. It just made me wonder....where do I do this in my life? Is there someplace where this is my reaction and I don't even know it?

As I thought more about it, it was clearly an area worthy of some reflection and inquiry. Was there, or maybe there always is, someplace I was accepting defeat unknowingly. Was it in my personal life, my business.....hmmm.

I've been reflecting on this for the last several days...and then I noticed I hadn't even made this note to my blog which was part of my initial thought. Now what does that say......?

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The Red Marble

Here is a story I've heard before...read it today again and just thought it was worth sharing. Enjoy!
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A Red Marble

During the waning years of the depression in a small southeastern
Idaho community, I used to stop by Mr. Miller's roadside stand for
farm fresh produce as the season made it available. Food and money
were still extremely scarce and bartering was used, extensively.

One particular day Mr. Miller was bagging some early potatoes for
me. I noticed a small boy, delicate of bone and feature, ragged
but clean, hungrily apprising a basket of freshly picked green
peas. I paid for my potatoes but was also drawn to the display of
fresh green peas.

I am a pushover for creamed peas and new potatoes. Pondering the
peas, I couldn't help overhearing the conversation between Mr.
Miller and the ragged boy next to me.

"Hello Barry, how are you today?"

"Hello Mr. Miller, Fine, thank you. Just admiring those peas...
sure look good."

"They are good, Barry. How's your Mother?"

"Fine. Getting stronger all the time."

"Good. Anything I can help you with?"

"No, Sir. Just admiring those peas."

"Would you like to take some home?"

"No, Sir. I don't have anything to pay for them with."

"Well, what have you to trade me for some of those peas?"

"All I have is my prize marble here."

"Is that right? Let me see it."

"Here it is. She's a dandy."

"I can see that. Hmmmm, only thing is this one is blue and I sort
of go for red. Do you have a red one like this at home?"

"Not exactly...but, almost."

"Tell you what. Take this sack of peas home with you and next trip
this way let me look at that red marble."

"Sure will. Thanks, Mr. Miller."

Mrs. Miller, who had been standing nearby, came over to help me.
With a smile she said: "There are two other boys like him in our
community, all three are in very poor circumstances. Jim just
loves to bargain with them for peas, apples, tomatoes or
whatever."

"When they come back with their red marbles, and they always do,
he decides he doesn't like red after all and he sends them home
with a bag of produce for a green marble or an orange one,
perhaps."

I left the stand, smiling to myself, impressed with the man. A
short time later I moved to Utah but I never forgot the story of
this man, the boys and their bartering.

Several years went by each more rapid than the previous one. Just
recently I had occasion to visit some old friends in that Idaho
community and while I was there learned that Mr. Miller had died.
They were having his viewing that evening and knowing my friends
wanted to go, I agreed to accompany them. Upon our arrival at the
mortuary we fell into line to meet the relatives of the deceased
and to offer whatever words of comfort we could.

Ahead of us in line were three young men. One was in an army
uniform and the other two wore nice haircuts, dark suits and white
shirts...very professional looking. They approached Mrs. Miller,
standing smiling and composed, by her husband's casket. Each of
the young men hugged her, kissed her on the cheek, spoke briefly
with her and moved on to the casket. Her misty light blue eyes
followed them as, one by one, each young man stopped briefly and
placed his own warm hand over the cold pale hand in the casket.
Each left the mortuary, awkwardly, wiping his eyes. Our turn came
to meet Mrs. Miller.

I told her who I was and mentioned the story she had told me about
the marbles. Eyes glistening she took my hand and led me to the
casket. "Those three young men, that just left, were the boys I
told you about. They just told me how they appreciated the things
Jim "traded" them. Now, at last, when Jim could not change his
mind about color or size...they came to pay their debt.

"We've never had a great deal of wealth of this world," she
confided, but, right now, Jim would consider himself the richest
man in Idaho."

With loving gentleness she lifted the lifeless fingers of her
deceased husband. Resting underneath were three, magnificently
shiny, red marbles.

We will not be remembered by our words, but by our kind deeds.

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Breakthrough Discovery - Checking Your Thinking On This Could Mean The Difference Between Success and Failure

Recently while listening to one of my many personal development audios I focused in on one very important topic discussed. The speaker was talking about the essentials of taking full financial control of one's life. He said that in order to have everything that you want you have to help enough people get everything they want. I think Zig Ziglar said this first. Simple concept.

But then I searched deeper.... and this hit me square between the ears.

It's not necessarily the quality of the service rendered to others that we have trouble with, but rather the QUANTITY.

This was huge! T his truth struck home with me because as I've watch my team grow and leaders begin to emerge it's not the ones that are meticulous about every detail of the business that do the best it's the ones that take massive action that make the big things happen.
You might want to re-read that last paragraph a few time.

It's all about your frame of mind.

For instance . . .

We do training calls every week and I get asked these questions all the time:

"What should I do with the leads that don't join? Is there any way to get them to join?"

I always reply the same way.

"Don't worry about them . . . Go get more prospects."

I think sometimes we get caught up in the singular interactions of network marketing to realize that it's NOT so much about doing every little thing perfectly, but rather getting your message out to as many people as possible.

My whole theory is . . . Why waste time trying to change someone's mind when you can in that same period of time and with the same amount of energy find 20 more people that may be interested in what your doing?

So for today I want to leave you with a little homework.
Ask yourself NOT how can I do it better but how can I do MORE?

Let me know what answers you find.

Steve Peck
DigitalSuccess.info

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Is Internet Network Marketing Really That Different?

The truth is offline and online network marketing are not all that much different.
When promoting a network marketing opportunity offline, whether it's through buying and cold calling leads or a direct mail campaign, your job is to expose your offer to as many people as possible.

I was with a mlm company that promoted using flyers, "pull-tabs" and signs to generate leads. Talk about work, for 10 leads it took 1,000 flyers a day, thats 5,000 a week, 20,000 to 25,000 per month. Sure it worked, but who could do that continuously on a "PART TIME" basis. But the objective was still the same - exposure to as many people as possible.

The story doesn't change when you promote your business online. The objective is getting your offer seen by as many people as possible. This translates online into: targeted TRAFFIC generation.

The amount of targeted TRAFFIC that you can generate to your lead capture page is directly proportional to the amount of success that you will have promoting your opportunity online.

It's that simple!

The challenge is most network marketers don't know anything about generating unique and highly targeted traffic online, so many of them fall into traffic generation traps that waste their time and money.
My goal is not to have this happen to people. I discuss traffic generation methods that are tried and true.

These are methods that I've learned work over the past few years after falling for most of the traps myself. The traffic generation techniques that are to follow work - and will ALWAYS work. They are the ONLY traffic generation methods that you will EVER need.

What does targeted traffic mean?
The term targeted traffic is any traffic generation method that will get your offer in front of as many interest people as possible. Here's the principle that all of the traffic generation methods to follow are be based on.

FIND TARGETED GROUP + GET CLICKS = HIGHLY TARGETED TRAFFIC

It's a simple formula.

The principle above is extremely powerful, so don't underestimate it!
Now here's the deal . . .

Some of the traffic generation methods that we're going to discuss here are "free" and some aren't. Don't automatically assume that either free or paid traffic has an inherent advantage over the other. They both work. Free methods aren't really free because they will in most cases cost your time. ( IMPORTANT: Your time is just as valuable as your money. )

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The Secret Of Network Marketing Success

Sometimes we are lead to beleive that network marketing is easy. I won't lie, it is not easy. It can be simple but not easy. But there is a little know way to absolutely ensure your success, The Secret.

This secret is seldom used yet for those that do hold true to the principle I'm going to share they can not fail. That is right, success is virtually guaranteed. We need to set the backgroud for this secret to quick success in network marketing. The level of success and freedom in life that network marketing offers the average person is unlimited and that's the appeal, but there are some ways to help ensure that success occurs for you as quickly as possible.

Most people jump into a new home business on a hope and dream. They look at the compensation plan and the testimonials involved with the network marketing company that they are about to join and see the vision. They say "Man ... IF I max out this plan I'll be making $40,000 a month and I'll never have to work again! Let's give it try!"

They fill themselves up with anticipation for the windfall of cash that is on the way and they sit back and wait for the money to come to them. Then a month later after they go through a few trails and try a few things unsuccessfully they say . . . "Why isn't this working?" Then the next month when they put in half the effort they put in their first month and nothing happens again they quit and say they were scammed.

Were they scammed?

You see, before you start any Network Marketing business you have to do a little bit more homework than just look at the compensation plan and the testimonials. You have to really research what you are about to get yourself into.

What type of research do you have to do? What questions should you ask?

Here they are:

" How long has the company been around?
" What is the product?
" Is the product unique?
" Does the product have mass appeal?
" Is the product a front runner in an emerging market?
" Can you become passionate about the product?
" Does the business have a powerful marketing system in place?
" Who are the successful people in this business?
" What are the successful people doing to create that success?
" Is the product something that the majority of the public can afford?
" Am I personally financial stable enough to start a new business?
" What type of a monthly marketing budget will I have to set aside to be successful?
" What are the conversion statistics for the marketing process?
" Is the business truly duplicable?
" What would be my break even point?
" Is there a way to make money quickly with this business or is there a way that I can create a quick income in marketing
this business?

You see it's not just the opportunity that has to be correct. You have to be a correct match for the opportunity and you have to be in a financial position to take advantage of the opportunity at hand.

Way too many times I see people joining my business that jump in on a hope and a dream. They have barely enough money to pay for there monthly membership commitment and yet they still want to know the fastest way to grow their business FREE.

When people get caught up in the emotion of opening the possibility for more in their life sometimes they don't think clearly. They think if they can just get themselves in they will get rich.

It's not just about getting yourself in. It's about getting yourself in and putting yourself in a position to be able to fully maximize the opportunity at hand.

I get asked the following WRONG question all the time.

"How long until I make money?"

It's not about how long until you make money it's about what you have to do to make money.

The truth is you could put yourself in a profitable situation tomorrow or today, but it would take resources and a good deal of learning to know how to do it.

The truth is. The fast way is never the FREE way. It's either going to take you a good deal of money to put yourself in a profitable position or a good deal of education, and most of the time both.

There is no luck factor.

You don't earn money until you are worth of the income you produce. As the great Earl Nightingale always says "You have to be worth more than you are getting paid for your income to grow." This is the natural state of all things and it's not going to change. In order for your income to grow you must grow.

Now . . .

Let me back up for a second to say that you CAN create a large amount of success in Network Marketing for free, but not until you know how.

If you don't have the answer to this question of how to create a large amount of success for free now and it is a burning desire for you learn how to do this, then get out there and do the necessary leg work and research to get yourself into to the position in which you can grow your network marketing organization for FREE.

Enough of this banter . . . Are you ready for "The Secret"?

If you want to have HUGE success in Network Marketing quickly you will need to obtain or create a powerful marketing system that is highly duplicable. If you want do this on the internet here are the critical factors that you should look for in the least:

" A high power lead capture page
" A strong follow up email system that incorporates the fear of loss.
" A direct marketing style website that sells so you don't have to.

Now, let's talk about the secret that will absolutely guarantee that you succeed in Network Marketing.

Ready?

Well remember when I gave the example above of the typical mindset for people entering into network marketing? They say: "Man ... IF I max out this plan I'll be making $40,000 a month and I'll never have to work again! Let's give it try!"

All we have to do is change one word in this statement to give you the little known secret to guaranteeing you network marketing success.

Change the word "IF" to "WHEN". Don't make it a possibility to succeed in network marketing make it a conviction.

It's the people that see the compensation plan and do all the research that I've noted above and then say to themselves that it's only a matter of time until they max out their compensation plan that truly and always without a shadow of a doubt succeed.

Network marketing is not something that works part of the time or if your lucky. It always works as long as you do everything in your power to make it work.

Set a goal in your network marketing business and don't stop until you get there and you WILL get there. I guarantee it.

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HOW DO YOU KEEP YOUR NEW RECRUIT!

Portions of one of my recent articles:

Retention is one of the keys to Internet Marketing Success or the success of most any business for that matter. It takes the most time and effort to attract and recruit members into your group....let's make sure we keep as many as we can.

Here is a common question asked of most sponsors:

"I've got a new sign up in my business, now what do I do? How do I make sure I keep them?"
This always makes me smile. Smile because of my excitement for them but also in part because this question reveals how green this new team member is.

Pay close attention to what I'm about to say. Some of what I am about to reveal may shock you and some of
it will prove to be just common sense.

Let me start by saying if I knew the definitive answer to this question I'd be a billionaire right now.

I think one of the biggest mistakes that we all make as human beings in our daily lives is that we try to take responsibility for things that are truly out of our control and when they don't turn out how we expect we blame ourselves. If we could each just rid ourselves of this unneeded burden I think we'd all live a much happier and fuller life.

I've fallen victim to this thought pattern myself and I receive emails from people that fall victim everyday.

We all do it.

In my case, in my last network marketing experience, I put out a whole lot of effort and cash out and didn't receive the reward I expected. I blamed myself. I thought that it was ALL my fault when in reality my success or failure in this situation only partially had to do with ME. I'm not saying you aren't responsible for your own success.

I assumed that I just wasn't good enough. I was putting out all this effort so I thought how come IT wasn't working?
It must be me. Well, the truth is it takes two to tango as they say. My leads weren't biting not only because of me, but also because the business opportunity that I was leading them to was confusing and didn't appeal to them. (Which I didn't see at the time.)

Some of the blame should have been placed on the shoulders of the company and the way that I was taught to interact
with my leads, but while in the situation the natural assumption is to blame yourself. I'll tell you right now if you're not having the sort of success that you want to have it's NOT all your fault, so let that weight on your shoulders go.

I know your thinking. . . what does this have to with retention in your network marketing business? Well it speaks exactly to the question of retention. Whether or not your new team member stays or goes it's NOT your fault. (Unless you actively make efforts to drive them away)

Think about it like this . . .Every decision you or I make is OUR decision and no other person can change our mind once that decision is final. If you choose to leave your current business is there anything that your upline could do to keep you once your decision is final?

Well it works the same way with your recruits. Ultimately they make the decision of whether or not to stay or go. There is no magic formula to retaining your entire team. And although ultimately you can't control who stays or leaves your network marketing team there are some things that you can do increase your retention.

While there are no guarantees, if you do these things and people still leave your team it's NOT your fault and there
is nothing more that you could have done to retain them.

So how do you increase your team's retention rate?

1. Get people moving right from the beginning

As soon as someone new comes into your team give them something to do. Get them active in their business. This is important because it keeps them interested and starts their momentum. The first thing that I tell all of my team members to do is download a copy of our team marketing guide. Read it. Mark it up with questions. Get aquainted with the product. Right out some questions that they may have and then get back to their sponsor to set up a game plan.

This is a good route to take because it makes each person accountable for their own success and it will quickly show
you who's serious and who's not. (The people that get back in touch with their sponsor are SERIOUS.)

2. Be there.
The next thing that you can do for your team to keep them active is just be there. Give them your contact info and let them know when it's acceptable for them to call you with questions and for advice and then be there during that time frame.

3. Hold yourself accountable

If you make a mistake or you don't hold to a time commitment own up to your mistake, make good on it and apologize. We're all human and we all make mistakes. This will also show your team how to behave when they make a mistake. Its not about blaming yourself, or someone else. Its about growing and getting better.

4. Motivate

One of the most powerful ways to keep your team is to help motivate them. There are several ways to do this, but here
are a few.

If I have a success or if I try something new and it works well I make sure to let the whole team know. For instance,
when I first started when I would run a successful ad campaign I gave my team all the details of what I did, how I
did it, and how they could do it to.

If I have a team member that has success I try to let the whole team know. If anyone on the team is doing great I make
sure to send an email out with a case study. I know I like it someone highlights me as a success so it's good to pay it
forward as much as possible. It motivates the team member with the success and lets the others know they can do it too.

You don't have to have all the answers or be perfect, but as long as you let your team know that you are there and you
are doing all that you can to help them be more successful you will start to create a community of like minded individuals.

Send your team emails that give them your thoughts, your ideas for success, and your passion and they will see that your
cause is more than just money.
5. Create a community

The most important thing that you can do to help maintain and increase your team's retention rate is to foster a sense of community. Once you create a community around you both above and below, you realize that you have much more than a business - you have a thriving community of individuals that are all striving for the same goal. And know that many people have a strong need to belong to something.

As a team we do weekly team online conferences where we all can all interact personally. One of my team leaders even
started a forum! Anything you can do to foster a sense of community will pay for itself in spades over the life of your business.

So when I am asked the question . . .

" I just got a new sign up how do I make sure they stay?"

I reply . . .

Support them and share anything you can to help them to be successful and if you've done this you can't worry about whether or not they stay or go.

The people that should end up on your team do and that's the magic of it all.

Steve Peck
Digital Success Coach
http://DigitalSuccess.info

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It's been awhile since I added a personal update. My foray into internet marketing is going well.... have a Pay Per Click campaign running in Google Adwords. Also, I've been writing and publishing articles.

I've been learning a lot about the ins and outs of marketing online. Amazingly, one of the most valuable things I've done is research. From research I started in the PPC efforts, I've discovered all kinds of information and approaches used by the various Guru's. It really is quite interesting.

While I'm doing all this, I'm working my way through the training in the Power Prospecting System. And as you can imagine, I've already made some of the mistakes.

Fortunately, I wasn't making them for too long before the pitfalls were pointed out to me in the training. I've been around for a long time (in marketing since 1979) and I'm extremely impressed with the content and approach of Daegan Smith. He shares how he really got his business going, what he focused on and mistakes he made. My previous exposures to MLM top guns always left me a little wondering how did they really do this. In many cases I thinks some of them just lucked out and didn't really have a system they could use to teach others.

I'm focused on One Goal. I'm building from scratch, something I'm confident I can share and teach others to do too. I'm committed to paving a path for others to follow, stepping beyond what they previously thought possible for themselves.

Yesterday, I ran across a listing of legal notices of real estate foreclosures in our local paper. It must have been 4 or 5 pages long, in that fine print of legal notices. It made me realize how important this can be for people. An extra $500 or $1000 a month could have meant the difference for many of these folks keeping their homes.

If you are reading this and wondering.....take action. You'll be glad you did.

Have a great day,

Steve Peck
Digital Success Coach
http://DigitalSuccess.info

Internet Success Is In The Numbers

From a recent article I wrote: Internet Success Is In The Numbers

A key to success in any business is in the numbers. Maybe that’s why there are so many accountants!

Why?

Your numbers give you a concise and predictable roadmap to follow as you grow and expand your internet business. Some people call these their gauges, just like the ones a pilot uses to navigate. The pilot uses his gauges to see if he's on course and to make corrections if the plane starts to get off course. What happens if his gauges don't work.... the pilot gets lost or even my crash and burn. These numbers must be important.

What does this mean to internet marketing success? Knowing your exact conversion statistics gives you a guide or a set of gauges for your business. As you check your gauges, you'll be able to tell if you are on course. More importantly, if you start to get off course you'll be able to tell where you need to make adjustments or refinements. Is it your ad? Is it the place your ad is running? Is it your sales message?

Now if you are also looking for MLM internet success, the value goes even higher. Just think, once you've plotted a course. Have the gauges to see if you are on track, and can share this with your team. What do they have? Of course, they now have a course to follow with predictable results. And with the gauges, if they aren't getting the results you and others are getting...you have a tool to help them pin point what to adjust in their efforts for there internet success too.

In my own off line, traditional MLM business I had gauges and statistics. One of my biggest hang-ups from the days when I was less than successful was not knowing the conversion figures of my business, and to tell you the truth, when you spend your time calling leads or personally interacting with your prospects early on, it's hard to even keep track of how reliable your figures are because you as a rep directly influence them.

You or the Person involved was personally a big part of the system and the results. If you are great on the phone and others aren't, they won't get the same results. The system wasn't really duplicateable. Results weren't predictable once you got to the step where the person became a part of the system.

This is why I am such a large proponent for internet network marketing. Internet Success still requires effort but the results are more predictable. The figures never change and they never lie because the system does the selling NOT you.

I can confidently tell my team if they can generate 100 leads in the course of a month they will at least recruit 5 new team members into their business. I know this because the numbers say.

Just knowing your sign up conversion ratio is just the beginning.
* Do you know your retention rate?
* Do you know what percentage of people upgrade to the premium level in your business?
* Do you know how many people go out and duplicate your results?

If you don't, stop now and take the time to find out. Once you know your numbers a clearly defined path to your own Internet success will show itself to you. Then all that's left for you to do is put it to work for you!

Steve Peck
www.DigitalSuccess.info

Commom MLM Pitfalls

Here is a summary of an article I submitted today to several article sites.

10 Biggest Mistakes In Internet Network Marketing And How To Avoid Them
Network Marketing is a simple business model. Anyone should be able to succeed, but they don't. Why? Turns out there are several common reasons. Here is a list of the biggest mistakes that make MLM success so elusive. Overcome these and your chances for success skyrocket.

1. Believing that people will just click on your links.
Though an internet network marketer's job is focused pre-selling, pre-selling involves more than just displaying your links. This is still network marketing and you need to build trust and a sense of relationship. Your prospects want to know the benefits of your products, why use them? Your prospects also want to know why they should do business with you. This can be accomplished online - don't overlook it.

2. Believing that there's such a thing as organic traffic.
Organic traffic, or traffic that is naturally generated by your website, is a myth. There is no such thing! You will have to promote your site and develop effective marketing strategies. These aren't hard but they do take effort.

3. Believing that employing one marketing strategy is enough.
This is a fatal mistake. Limiting yourself to a single, or even a couple of traffic tactics will just limit the number of visitors to your website. You don't want to miss whole segments of your target markets. You can start with one or two tactics to get traffic, but make sure you are flexible enough to expand as you grow.

4. Failing to study your campaign's performance.
Most of your competition merely check on how many leads they've generated per day, and if the number of leads are at low levels, they fail to make adjustments. Why? They don't know which aspects of their campaigns need improving. It's important to study every facet of our marketing strategies. How many visitors are you generating for your website? How many of them are unique? How many are returning? How much time do they spend in our pages? Where are they coming from? Where do they go with they are done? These are the questions that can be answered by an excellent visitor tracking software program, and these are the questions that can help you improve the performance of your marketing endeavors.

5. Failing to find an mlm business with sellable products.
Some mlm businesses offer attractive compensation plans. But if the products are impossible to sell, you'd never realize the growth in your business the program promises.

6. Failing to find an network marketing business with a proven record of consumer satisfaction.
The credibility of an enterprise depends on how people perceive it or view it. If the company has great relationships with it's members and its target market, then it has established a brand which is recognizable for its excellent service.

7. Failing to keep abreast with the latest developments in the industry.
This is a fatal error in any business or profession. Our industry strategies and tactics becomes obsolete if we don't keep up. More so in the field of internet marketing where technology keeps improving and everything moves at lightning rapid pace. You have to constantly update yourself with the newest trends, techniques and news in this field to keep your competitive edge.

8. Failing to invest on knowledge.
Knowledge likewise evolves and you have to evolve with it. Buy noteworthy eBooks, special reports and the likes… those which would teach you the latest tactics to help you conquer your field.

9. Resting on your laurels once begin seeing some success.
Success is not eternal. You have to sustain it. If you leave your business alone once it shows the promise of success, you're just setting it up for failure.

10. Believing that network marketing is a "get rich quick" scheme. It is not. You have to invest a commitment, a lot of time, some financial resources on occasions, and a whole lot of effort. Network marketing has many wonderful things to offer but it takes effort.

Steve
Digital Success Coach

Wow My First Blog!!!

It's amazing since I first got on the internet in the early 1980's. Way back then it was all text based with services like CompuServe and Delphi (I think that was the name). Bill Gates hadn't even pulled one over on IBM yet when the first personal computer arrived on my desk. It was an Apple II (not to be confused with Apple IIplus or IIe), with 64k ram, one floppy drive and a crude graphics monitor. You could nicely outfit a small office with PC's for what that first one cost.

Much of the time since then has seen me focused on the application of these technologies for someone else (namely my employers) with much success. Network marketing has also played a part in my past. More about these later or some other time.

Why do I start by telling you all this?

This gets to the purpose and direction of the blog. It's to share what I've learned over the last 25 or 30 years and what I'm learning now on a journey to apply and harness the internet's power for my family and me. One of the goals is to make a difference for others...to pave a path for others. This is an open invitation to come along as we walk a path to business success and personal development.

Off line, I've spent several years in network marketing - traditional network marketing! Over ten years of that was with one of the BIG MLM companies, 5 years full time. I LOVED IT! It just wasn't duplicatible. Four years ago I was forced to go back to a JOB. That will be another good topic for later on.

Suffice it to say, I've been to the other side of the mountain. It really is beautiful there and it’s worth taking the trip back.

Why I'm so excited now?

Knowing there had to be a better way back up and over the mountain has kept me searching. A path that would allow me to take many more people with me, one that didn't involve all the same pitfalls I've encountered before. One that allows for a different paradigm, one that is flipped around - where the prospects are coming to me. People looking to make changes, people looking for more time with their families, money for the things they need and want and the freedom to pursue their dreams.

It's all coming together again. I've found a new path over the mountain. One that unlocks the potential of the internet. You are invited if you'd like to come along for what could be the ride of your life.

Have a great night,

Steve Peck