nCircle Certifies in Symantec Technology Enabled Program; nCircle IP360 Integration With Symantec Security Information Manager Enables Customers to In

SAN FRANCISCO -- nCircle, a leading provider of enterprise-class vulnerability and risk management solutions, today announced its certification in the Symantec Technology Enabled Program (STEP). This partner program certification comes as nCircle IP360 has integrated with Symantec Security Information Manager (SSIM) giving enterprises another way to intelligently prioritize risks to their networks.
nCircle IP360 vulnerability and risk management system profiles and inventories all network assets without installing an agent on the network. The integration of this inventoried information with SSIM enables IT managers to access updated threat correlation and vulnerability information on at-risk devices on the network via a single console. The integration may be further enhanced by nCircle IP360's unique capability to provide additional vulnerability information in the context of a particular asset's network architecture. This added "line-of-sight" risk analysis allows IT managers to strategically focus resources on the highest priority risks.

"The dynamic nature of Internet security threats poses complex, multifaceted risks to enterprise networks," said Raja Srinivasan, director of the Symantec Technology Enabled Program. "The addition of nCircle to STEP and its integration with Symantec Security Information Manager gives security administrators added intelligence to proactively eliminate network exposures."
"This solution integration translates into efficient use of IT resources for customers," said Stefan Petry, vice president of product management for nCircle. "IT managers can learn which devices have been affected and what needs to be done much faster. Simply put, now IT departments have the ability to tell the difference between a real emergency and a security fire drill."

Trend Micro offers HouseCall cleaning for charitable donation

The cleaning option of HouseCall, a free online consumer malware scanning service from Trend Micro Inc (Nasdaq:TMIC), a network antivirus and content security software and services company, is available in return for a voluntary donation.

HouseCall, first introduced in May 1997, provides a web-based way to scan and clean computers of malicious code such as viruses and can now detect and remove adware and spyware. HouseCall cleaning is now being offered in EMEA and the US in return for a charitable donation to either Close the Gap, a non-profit organisation based in Belgium, or the US-based Schools Online.
Close the Gap aims to help reduce the digital divide between the EMEA's northern and southern regions and provides support to African countries. Schools Online, a public benefit organisation, provides Internet and technology access, sets up Internet learning centres, supports online cross-cultural projects, helps foster teacher development and shares knowledge.

HouseCall's browser support has been extended past Microsoft Internet Explorer to include browsers such as Firefox and Netscape, and is compatible with non-Windows operating systems such as Linux and Solaris.

Become The Hunted In Your Network Marketing Business

Attraction marketing has been a concept used for a very long time now in MLM. Let's say that you want to learn how to be a success in a network marketing business. Everything that you have been taught by your mentors so far doesn't seem to be working. So what do you do? You will start to research other ideas on how you can finally become a big success. If you want to know more about a topic like more success in your network marketing business, then you will seek out people who you feel can help you. You're looking for an expert.

Now during your research you come across someone who you feel can teach you a thing or two about running a successful network marketing business. So you start to learn more about this person and realize that they know some concepts that when applied can take your network marketing business closer to success. Now you are being attracted to this person that you know is an expert and can teach you a more effective way to build your network marketing business. So now this expert has what you want. (A Solution) and maybe you subscribed to the individuals free-newsletter so they can send you more information about what they can teach you.

Or even better, maybe you even called them at their office to learn how there service can help you in your business. How would you like it if your phone started ringing off the hook because you are an expert that can help them? I know what you're thinking, (I Would Love that). Because the expert shows you, the prospect how to be more successful, that builds a trust and respect factor. So now there is a good chance that if they have any learning material available for purchase, you will buy it. Now once the expert teaches you how to build a successful network marketing business you will be attracted to them even more. A relationship is starting to form. Now you find out that this expert has a network marketing business as well. So you check it out and you say, WOW I would love to be apart of the guys business. So you check out his business and you see value in it. So now that the expert helped you with becoming more of a success. You decide to join their business as well.

Why would you do that? Well, why wouldn't you do that?

The expert has proven himself to you by helping you in becoming more successful in your network marketing business. So of course you want to be around them more and learn more from them as well. People want to be around leaders! They want someone of value that can show them the correct way of doing things. If you want to become attractive then you must increase your value to the marketplace. You finally found a mentor that could take you to bigger and better things. So do you see how powerful attraction marketing is. You will start to see massive success when you become the Hunted in your network marketing business. Now it's your turn to become the expert an introduce yourself to your marketplace and have people be attracted to you.

Your network marketing business will grow and most of all you never even cold called any one for all this to happen. All you do is help enough people looking to become better at building a network marketing business, and they may join you down the road as well. Understand though, not everyone will join you but you will start to build a list of contacts that will be targeted and build relationship with over time. This list gives you the opportunity to market learning material as well to them down the road that you will profit from. So you see weather they join you in your business or not, it will be a win, win situation for all parties involved. As the famous Zig Ziglar says "Help Enough People Get What They Want And You Will Get What You Want"

The key to effective marketing is to promote you along with a solution instead of your business opportunity. Buy providing your prospects with valuable knowledge that will help them get what they want and make life easier instead of trying to sell them some opportunity, you start setting yourself apart from everyone else, and you start to attract them to you as the expert. Remember that the fastest way to get rich in life is to help people with their problems first and give them a solution. They must see that you have, value to give them. So you must start to educate yourself and get experience from real world situations. Once you get some experience you can create a product to help others and at the same time start to build a list of potential customers or business associates. So start becoming the expert the people will be attracted to and watch as success knocks down your door in your network marketing business.

Why Build Your Own MLM Leads List Of Prospects

First off allow me to explain what is a MLM leads list for those who are just learning about MLM leads list. Let's say that you want to promote a health and wellness product. You would then learn different ways that you can generate traffic so you can build a MLM leads list of people who have an interest in health and wellness products. All it is a list of potential customers who will use your product or service.

One day I realized that if my primary network marketing company that I'm building decided to close down tomorrow I would lose my whole downline of customers and many business builders in the process. We are talking about many, many of customers. Also a large income.

Then it got me thinking that all though I run a network marketing business from home I really do not have any control of my customers and business builders with the company I promote which means that I could loose my business over night.

Then it was brought to my attention that if you do not have your own MLM leads list of prospects that I was missing the boat. Now this made a lot of sense to me. If your building a primary MLM company, the customers are really there's and not yours, all though you helped in building your own downline in the process.

Now I don't mean that you should stop building your MLM business. NO WAY! I'm saying that just start building your own MLM leads list of customers that you have total control over weather your company closes down or not. When you have your own MLM leads list of thousands of contacts you can always market other products to them and still have total control over your business because you have total control over your own MLM leads list which is your customer base. I hope you see how powerful this really is.

By building your own MLM leads list of contact that trust and respect you, then you can always market to them helpful information on how to build a successful MLM business or any other helpful information, products or services. You will always have a targeted MLM leads list of people that you can sell to over and over again. having your own MLM leads list i critical in building any type of business. Especially a network marketing business. Your MLM lead list is were all your profit will come from. No matter what you decide to market to your list.

Think Like a Network Marketing Millionaire

The most important attitude for financial success in network marketing is long-term thinking. Successful people think a long way into the future and they adjust their daily behaviors to assure they achieve their long-term goals in their network marketing business. In a longitudinal study done at Harvard University in the 50s and 60s, they studied the reasons for upward socio-economic mobility and success in business such as a network marketing business. They were looking for factors that would predict whether or not an individual or family was going to move upward and be wealthier in the future than in the present.

They studied factors like education, intelligence, being born into the right family, or having the right connections like many in network marketing. In every case, they found individuals who had been born with every blessing in life who did poorly. They also found individuals who had been born or come to this country with no advantages at all who had been extremely successful. I know of many people in network marketing who are prime examples of this. What was the distinguishing factor?

They finally determined that there was only one key attitude that mattered. They called it "Time Perspective." Time perspective in network marketing refers to the amount of time that you take into consideration when planning your day to day activities and when making important decisions in your life.

Time Perspective In Network Marketing

People in network marketing with long-time perspective invariably move up economically in the course of their lifetimes. When you spend weeks, months and years developing your network marketing skills and ability and expanding your experience in order to be successful, you have long-time perspective. The average professional person has a time perspective of 10, 15 and 20 years.

Begin to see that everything that you are doing today in your network marketing business is part of a long-time continuum, at the end of which you are going to be financially independent or financially unfortunate. People with short-time perspective think only about fun and pleasure in the short term. They have what economists call "The inability to delay gratification." They have an irresistible tendency to spend every single penny they earn and everything that they can borrow.

In your network marketing business when you develop long-time perspective, you develop the discipline to delay gratification and to save your money rather than spending it. Invest your money wisely into your business. The combination of long-time perspective and delayed gratification puts you onto the high road to financial independence in network marketing.

MLM Success With Online Recruiting

Many people believe you can not be as successful online with MLM as you would be offline. This is simply not true at all. Many people create huge MLM success with online recruiting. Many people have just been hesitant of venturing into the Internet way of online recruiting for MLM success. The best way to overcome this is to just do it. Take some action and learn as your go with online recruiting. You do not have to have it all right before you begin. You just have to begin.

Online recruiting is not really all that different that offline recruiting. You still have to prospect, connect with the prospect, present the business, and follow up with the prospect and collect the decision.

When it comes to MLM success with online recruiting you have to remember and apply a few things to make your plan MLM business a success.

When you are recruiting online you have to remember that you are still dealing with real live human beings on the other end. Whether it be in email, instant messenger, discussion forums or other means of communications, you are still dealing with a real live human being and should treat them like one too.

You still need to build relationships with people when you are using methods of online recruiting. Relationships are very important to people and is the most important part of MLM success. The most successful people in MLM realize that they must create strong relationships with people whether it be online or offline.

Trust is very important when it comes to online recruiting as well. You have to be able to get your prospects to trust you when you are doing online recruiting as well. If your prospects can not trust you then you will not go very far with this business.

The most important part of creating MLM success with online recruiting is to actually make yourself available offline as well. You want to provide a telephone number or instant messenger for your prospects to reach you offline and actually be able to speak with you. If it is not you actually calling them, then you at least need to be able to make yourself available for the phone calls.

Using email is a great way to build relationship when you are in the follow up stage of online recruiting. I recommend you have an autoresponder set up for collecting prospects so you can use email for follow up. You will be able to email broadcast all your prospect and communicate with them everyday. This will save you time and be able to build relationship with many people at the same time instead of trying to email each one at a time.

So if you are not embracing the Internet for online recruiting I would suggest you start learning how you can do so. Discover online recruiting systems and information that will allow you to really learn the process of online recruiting as it will really open doors for you and allow you to really expand your MLM business.

Old School Network Marketing To New School Network Marketing

What is old school network marketing, you might be wondering. Well this term old school network marketing is referring to the way people would do business and build their network marketing business in the earlier years of when this industry really began.

Most of these methods are exactly what turns people off and has given the industry a bad name. Now some people will argue with me on this and some will agree. It really does not matter to me if you agree or disagree with me on this. I am simply telling you how it is.

The old school method of building a network marketing business turns people off and give the industry a bad name, in my opinion because this method teaches people to target and approach people who are not qualified or targeted in respects for starting a home based business. This is a method that teaches you to convince people that they should have a network marketing business, instead of talking to people who are already looking for a business.

The old school method of building your network marketing business involves writing a list of friends and family members and possibly inviting them over for dinner and just as dinner is about to begin you take out a whiteboard and start drawing circles. You are doing what is referred to as showing the plan. You try to convince them they should be involved. People eventually got so turned off of this type of prospecting that when they hear the word MLM, they come back and ask you if this is one of those things?

Now with the new school way of building your network marketing business, you are encouraged to prospect and talk to people who have expressed an interest in owning or starting a home based business opportunity. This way just makes much more sense when it comes to business. You are not chasing people down who do not want to talk to you about network marketing, and you no longer have convince people that they should be interested in network marketing.

New school network marketing teaches you how to target the right people who would be right for your business as well. You no longer have to sit down and write out a list of your friends and family to go and convince. There are now companies out there that will actually target market for you and generate interested prospects for your network marketing business, or you can even place ads yourself and generate these targeted prospects on your own.

Then for presenting your network marketing business, you no longer have to pull out the whiteboard and draw a bunch of circles or use flip charts. You now can embrace tools such as telephone conference lines and the power of the Internet to use flash presentations so that you no longer have to give the presentations yourself.

Overall, the new school way of building your network marketing business just makes so much sense. If you really want to expand and take your network marketing business to the next level, I then suggest you embrace the new school network marketing strategies.

How To Do Effective MLM Prospecting

In your network marketing business, whether it be online or offline, MLM prospecting is the lifeblood of your business. If you are not consistently prospecting for your business then you will not consistently build your business.

Here is a rule of thumb that I recently learned from one of my mentors. You should be spending at least 70% of your time generating new business, or generating new prospects for your business. Then you should spend no more than 30% of your time with current prospects, clients, customers, or downline members. This applies to any business not just network marketing.

The good news is you can eventually use leverage and automate a lot of this process when its done right.

So here is how a prospecting system or process would look like.

The search – This is where you are on the search for new business partners or prospects for your network marketing business opportunity. This is simply where you apply many different strategies for attracting new prospects that are interested in looking at your products, services or business opportunity. You can be doing online advertising with Google adwords, ezines, or even offline marketing with post cards, newspapers etc. In this process you do not want to present the business or product and service to people, you only want to get them interested to give you their information. Then you can do the presentation afterward.

Presentation – This is where you are presenting your business to the interested prospects. This here is where you can huge automation. You can simply use tools such as online flash videos, online audio, and teleconference calls that will automate the process by doing the presentations for you. You must have a strong presentation for presenting the business for you.

Follow up – This is now where you ask for the decision. Then after asking for a decision and if the prospect needs more time and is not ready yet, then you continue with follow up. This follow up process can be done with automation as well. You can be using autoresponder systems for doing the follow up on your behalf so that you can be contacting and following up with all your prospects daily without having to do it manually yourself.

So with following through this process you can master the MLM prospecting method for your network marketing business opportunity. If you really want to create massive success in your network marketing business opportunity then this is a skill you need to master.

Questions Are Key In MLM Prospecting

With MLM prospecting you want to make sure you are asking more questions and listening to the prospect more than you telling the prospect about your business. When you spend more time actually asking questions and listening to your prospect you show that you are really interested in what they have to share. You actually show that you care. Now this is not something you just fake or put on for them. You really do have to care and have that interest in them for this to be true and effective. If you do not care about them then maybe you should not be doing this business. So make sure that you really do care, then show them you care by asking questions and listening to them talk.

There are certain things to consider when asking questions in MLM prospecting. There are some questions you want to ask and some questions that you really do not want to ask. There is a purpose to the questions you ask. For example I really do not really its all too important in asking really personal questions when on the phone with you MLM prospects on the initial phone conversation. Ask questions such as personal questions about family or whether they have a dog or cat. Some trainers teach this but I feel it just is not very important on the first initial phone conversation.

Some questions that you do want to ask are the questions that will move the prospect into the right brain or creative thought process. You want your prospect in the dream thought process so they are thinking and tell you their dreams and goals of what they really want. This is because you want to talk to them about what they want and not what you want.

Here are a few questions that will move MLM prospects into the creative thought process.

If money was not an issue what would you do with your time, or what would you do?

How much money would you need to be making to make a home business or MLM business opportunity worth your time?

If money was not an issue where in the world would you vacation? Why would you choose that place?

If money was not an issue what would your dream home look like?

Then always in closing questions after listening to your MLM prospect talk about all their dreams and goals a good question to always ask is what their alternative would be if they did not get involved with your MLM business opportunity. I personally like to get the prospect thinking of what their alternative would be. Is their alternative going back to getting a second job or is it looking for another business opportunity?

In MLM prospecting you want to ask questions to get your MLM prospect thinking creative and then thinking of what their alternative would be to achieving what they want. This will only happen when you are asking questions and then listening to them talk about it.

Internet Based Network Marketing - The Solution To End Your Cold-Calling Nightmare

Network marketing is one of the most lucrative business around. You can start this business with extremely low capital but with the ability to earn passive income in the long run. This means that you do the work once and you get paid every month even if you stop selling or sponsoring.

If this business has so much potential, why do so many people quit before they even get to earn some good money? They get so excited about the thought of having financial freedom and live the life they want when they first get started in network marketing. However, within a few months, majority will quit. Some will even say network marketing is a total scam.

The reason is very simple. Doing traditional network marketing is very tough. I used to experience that before. At some point in time, you will feel that you have hitted a wall. That's because you find that you have no more leads or prospects to talk to and you have to do cold-calling. Don't you just dread that?

Cold-calling is the number one reason why people quit their network marketing business eventually. Most people can't stand rejections. Neither can I. After talking to 100 people and none of them are interested in your products or opportunity, how will you feel? Terrible, isn't it? You will lose the motivation and negative thoughts will fill your mind. You will think that network marketing can't work for you and eventually you will quit.

So how do you solve this problem and grow your network marketing business by leaps and bounds?

The secret is to use the Internet to do your network marketing business.

That's right. An Internet based network marketing is the solution to end your cold-calling sufferings. With Internet based network marketing, you don't even have to do "warm" calling either. The days where you need to pester your friends or relatives to join your business are over.

So how does Internet based network marketing actually works? As I mentioned earlier, you leverage on the power of the Internet to do the selling and sponsoring for you.

Most Internet based network marketing companies have great online tools to help you grow your business easily. Such tools may consist of your personalized websites and opt-in page. Any prospect who are interested in doing a network marketing or home based business will give their contact information, such as their name and email, to you through your opt-in page. Either you or your company will do a series of email follow-ups to your leads.

In this process, you don't even have to cold-call anybody yet have the chance to show them your business opportunity and get in contact with them! The power of Internet has changed the network marketing industry entirely. Internet based network marketing is the new trend and is the perfect platform for those who hate cold-calling and to grow their business tremendously.

Best MLM Promotion - Why You Should Be Writing MLM Articles

Why should you write MLM articles?

Because it's nuts not to. You're building a future for yourself. You're building a presence online. You'll be able to take advantage, leverage your writing forever.

It's like putting $2000 into an IRA. In fact, think of it as your "Online IRA". Talk your stories into a microcassette recorder. I just got a new Sony M-470 for $29.95 at Staples. My old one that I'd had for 10 years started acting up.

Go for a walk every day. Pick an idea or two to focus on. An incident in your life, maybe. And then just start talking about what happened, and how it relates to now and how it relates to the business you're building. You talk and hit "pause," then un-pause and talk and pause, then un-pause and talk and pause. It's very simple.

Tell what you learned from the experience, and how you use that knowledge now. And if you don't use that knowledge now, talk about how you SHOULD be using it now.

Your job is to teach others how to do network marketing. So do it. Pick an incident from your past - even if it's only from this morning - and talk about it in detail. Answer who, what, when, why, where, how. Tell what happened and when and where, who was involved, why it made such an impression on you, and how you use the experience now. Tell how it affected your interpersonal relationships and the effect it has had on your network marketing. Mention any funny elements. Look for any delicious irony. Feature it.

And that's all there is to it. You should be able to come up with 400-700 words on just about any incident, and that is perfect to submit to the online article directories to get a link back to your website.

These MLM articles can be producing leads for you ten or twenty years from now. They can be the start of having YOUR name become one of the most recognized names in network marketing. Your writing can be the building block of your empire.

Commit to 2 or 3 MLM articles a week, or one a day, or whatever you are comfortable with. And then do it.

As you go, you'll figure out lots of other ways of using your writing. You'll figure out other ways of MLM promotion. Every time you write, it's an ad for you as an MLM mentor.

I learned years ago that whatever work you do, leverage it to the hilt. Squeeze every last ounce of income and benefit out of the work that you do. When you write an MLM article, you will figure out ways to use it over and over and over and over and over and over.

Whatever you write tomorrow ... you may figure out 3 new ways to use it ... FIVE years from today! And there's nothing to it then, because you did the work 5 years ago! You're investing in yourself, in your future, in your family's future. You're improving your skills, making yourself more valuable. You're having fun. You're not spending one cent on gas.

You're putting one more building block in your empire. The more you do it, the better you'll get at the skill, and the better you will get at marketing.

You'll quickly reach the point where you can teach others. You'll become a magnet, and you'll gain MORE skills. So you'll become MORE of a magnet. People will join you. Your business will build.

And all the time, day after day after day, all you do is you just keep talking into that microcassette recorder, telling your stories. And then transcribe them.

I now walk 3 miles every morning. Depending on how active my brain is, I can do 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 MLM articles each morning, as I walk. Then it's just a matter of transcribing and a little editing.

Is Zrii Really A Chopra Center Endorsed Juice?

I couldn’t believe my ears! Could it really be? Would this be the company that brings credibility back into network marketing?

You can imagine my reaction when I found out about a health juice called Zrii that just came into the mlm arena and is backed by the world famous Chopra Center! The Chopra Center has never endorsed a third party product before…let alone an mlm product.

For those of you who don’t know about the Chopra Center, it is a world famous health and well-being facility co-founded by one of the world’s most recognized doctor’s, Deepak Chopra. For a network marketing company to have a product endorsed by the Chopra Center…let’s just say I’ve never seen anything like it in the history of the mlm industry.

Not only does each bottle of juice have the Chopra Center endorsement on it, but Deepak Chopra will be at some of the Zrii conferences talking about the main ingredient, amalaki. Amalaki is the cornerstone of ayurvedic medicine which is traditional Indian medicine over 5000 years old. People in India consider amalaki to be a holy fruit. In fact, some of the ancient medical texts list over 5000 herbs and fruits and amalaki is touted as being superior to all of them.

When people hear about a network marketing company that is backed by the Chopra Center, they pay attention. Having such a well recognized, world brand such as the Chopra Center adds unbelievable credibility to Zrii. But, that isn’t all that Zrii has going for it…

Zrii is founded by a mega-millionaire named William F. Farley. Bill Farley is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in American history. His friends consist of Presidents and many celebrities, one of which is Deepak Chopra. In fact, it was Deepak Chopra (Bill’s 25 year old friend) that first introduced Bill to amalaki. Deepak told Bill that there is no other fruit in the world that compares to amalaki and that it is relatively unheard of in the West.

Bill knew that liquid nutrition is the wave of the future so he put together a team of 5 doctors that formulated an ayurvedic juice known today as Zrii, amalaki being the main ingredient. Zrii is not just a fuit juice but a powerful ayurvedic formulation backed by the prestigious Chopra Center. But more importantly, Zrii is an opportunity unparalleled in the network marketing industry. It has not even had its pre-launch and already the world is starting to awaken to its magnificence.

I have never witnessed so many leaders coming into one company in such a short period of time. I truly believe that this company is going to revolutionize the industry as we know it. The credibility it brings is unmatched.

If you have ever considered starting your own home business now is the time! For those of you who have never really made it in network marketing, now is your chance to prove yourself. The world is at your doorstep…people are scrambling to get into this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and you are hearing about this at the very beginning!

For more information about how you can get involved with Zrii please visit http://vassdave.com

Dave Vass is a internet network marketer that is interested in helping the average network marketer succeed by giving them the knowledge needed to use the power of the internet for the growth of their business.

And it is my pleasure to bring all of my experience and knowledge together to create a internet network marketing system for a once in a lifetime opportunity...Zrii. My desire is to give others an advantage above 97% of the other network marketers out there so that they can actually make money!

Network Marketing - Success Can Be Yours

The thing you need to know is that Network Marketing does work, and it can work for you. It is a great way for anyone to earn a great passive income and gain Financial Freedom. To achieve this you must have the right mind set to make it work for you. The reason why it does not work for a lot of people who get involved is they did not have or were not willing to develop this mindset. Remember this is not a regular job and it must not be treated as such.

Most people do not give this business long enough to work for them. To be successful you must have personal growth. People study, educate or get trained in certain skills so they can perform certain careers or jobs. The same applies to Network Marketing, you must educate yourself in the business. This education or personal development as it is often called is about developing a range of personal attitudes that will ensure you are successful in both Network Marketing and in life as well.

Give yourself time to develop; if you do your business will be successful.

Along your personal development journey you should be focusing on mastering the following things.

HAVE BELIEF IN YOURSELF

You must have belief in your Network Marketing Company. Make sure you have chosen the company that suits you best. know in your heart that this is the business for you. It will deliver what you are looking for and you are totally loyal to it, remember it will provide the future you deserve.

SET GOALS

You must get your self short term and long term goals. Be consistent and focused. Aim high, set small achievable goals especially in the beginning. When you set goals also set a suitable reward for achieving them. You will be surprised how quick you can achieve a goal if a reward is attached.

REMAIN FOCUSED

To build business success you must be consistent and focused. A couple of years spent totally focused to achieving your dream your "Why" will set you up for life.

GET A MENTOR

Every successful person has a mentor, whether it is in business, sport or other parts of our life. They often get called coaches. A mentor should be someone you admire and usually have had the success you wish to have yourself. Top sports people don’t take advice from people who know nothing about their sport? Get yourself a mentor you can trust and work with.

These are only the basics but they are a starting point. When I first got into network Marketing I struggled at first until I realized that I had to grow personally so that my Network Marketing business could grow also.

On the Edge Network Marketing!

You're sick and tired of being sick and tired! Bills, loans, cards, friends, family. How about shut offs, tire goes flat, not enough for food, clothes, kids.

Anyone been there? Although it's not a part of our story below, going from a full time Teamster in the SF Bay Area to full time residual at Lake Tahoe, there were plenty leaps of Faith that created internal growth, God is the potter, we are the clay, Isaiah 64:8. But then, suddenly, something changes within you. You've had enough. You are ready to call people on their stuff. You gain total conviction about yourself, your program, your confidence, your leadership!

You've heard it before and it almost sounds cliche, but there it is, "You must have conviction..." Well, until you really, really take a moment and look at all the things you won't stand for anymore and tell it goodbye once and for all... conviction, real 100% total "I must rip this thing!" conviction... it will probably elude you. Welcome to the edge. Time to decide, "To cut off from..."

People buy what they hear in you, your true body language and posture. It's ALL talk until you decide that you are 100% committed to success. Until you reach the point where you absolutely must succeed. Zero doubt, zero failure, one option, to win. Then, then you will be someone who can go all the way because your able to sort and not be attached to the outcome at all. This is where the real "next!" term truly comes into play.

In the story where Cortez ordered his own ships destroyed for total commitment, it is not that you burn bridges, it is only for that sense of complete commitment as instruction. The posture, the absolute face that must win and will win offers no retreat mentally. The Aztecs saw faces of men who had zero doubt. It's not about the story, but the lesson in total passion. You're not in the ring to survive, you're in to win. It's not the victory, the outcome, it's the journey... you play, you play all out... expect to win, but never be attached to the outcome.

Now... you're ready to get on the phone and ask questions of leads from anywhere. They will sense your leadership, your courage, and total conviction. People all want leadership, direction. Your focus must be like a rock. This is where people say, "It's never crowded at the top." When you decide that you've had enough, dump it, focus only on the positive results, great connections you're making, you will be in the small percentage who go toward their goals with zero doubt, and people desire to be swept into that vortex of passion because they don't want to miss it!!

Network Marketing Strategy - How To Put Your MLM Recruitment On Steroids

What is your network marketing strategy? Do you even have one? If not, don't feel like you are unique.

Despite all the good intentions of MLM uplines, the simple truth is, not everyone joining a network marketing business is going to be receptive to the system.

Is this a good thing? Who knows but with building an MLM business built on the principles of following a system I guess perhaps it's not in the best interests of those involved if everyone else is following the same network marketing strategy.

On the other hand, someone new coming into a business with fresh ideas shows a certain amount of initiative and that's what you like to see in a new distributor. There is no network marketing strategy that is a magic formula to growing your business. But there is something pretty close to it.

Targeted Prospects

The bottom line is...find a group of prospects who are firstly interested in your business model and secondly, getting them to take a look at it. You're probably cringing at this minute and thinking "Duh! Isn't that what everone does?"

Sure, but how many distributors are actually successful at achieving just one of these principles let alone both. If you get these two things spot on consistently, you cannot help your recruitment efforts and build your downline with this network marketing strategy.

Granted, there is still plenty of work to do down the track with people but that's for another article. For the time being, you need to find prospects interested in your business and then getting them to look at what you have to offer. The simplicity is mind boggling but when these two factors are married into one exciting things will happen.

Duplicating Your Efforts

Once you have these two recruiting strategies down to a fine art and you teach your team to follow your system to a tee and effectively then the magic begins to happen. It's a network marketing strategy which has stood the test of time and will continue to do so.

The Hard Truth About Multi Level Marketing

You might as well know that many companies are using multi level marketing plans to market their products. Can you make money with their MLM plans? First, let’s examine what they will tell you about their MLM products :

1.The world is your market place.
2.Our products is the best in the world and everyone will need it.
3.Our members are making thousands of dollars per month.
4.Your income is unlimited.
5.Work in your spare time/part time.

Now, let’s go to the brutal truth about what they claim:
1.Their products will be too expensive to buy because they need to pay the uplines when someone joins under them.
2.Its just sales pitch to say that their products is the best because if its really the best then it should be available in all shops and stores in the world.
3.The person who join early will get more money than those who join later due to the matrix calculations. Not all members will get thousands of dollars per month , many will get nothing if they did not recruit anyone or their down lines are not active promoting the products. In fact it is a fact that about 97% failed in their MLM ventures & only 3% succeeded.
4. You will get nothing if you or your up line did not recruit your downline continuously.
5.In MLM, working in your spare time is a false statement because you need so much time to recruit your downline and you even need to work harder than your permanent job.

How did I know about all this?
I knew because I join 2 MLM companies and what they said is the opposite of what I need to do in order to be successful in MLM.

To know more about MLM scam, type “MLM scam” in the search engine and read all you can in thousands of websites about MLM marketing scams.

Getting Comfortable with Prospecting In Your Network Marketing Business

Prospecting is the water of life of your network marketing business. Quite simply, it is impossible to survive, let alone prosper, in network marketing if there is not a steady supply of new people joining your team. Network marketers can be separated into three distinct prospector groups and it is worthwhile knowing which group you are in now and whether you need to change groups or not.

The first group are those that enjoy prospecting. It is so natural to them they probably don't even think about it. These people can easily succeed in network marketing.

The second group are uncomfortable with prospecting but they have a great enough reason to succeed at their network marketing business to continue prospecting anyway. Very often these people will, through sheer persistence, soon discover that practice makes perfect and begin to enjoy prospecting, often moving into the first group.

The third group is made up of people dislike prospecting completely. Unfortunately very few have a strong enough reason for being in the network marketing business to succeed. The result is generally failure, but not always if they are prepared to have a rethink.

When you distil the difference between the three groups it boils right down to how comfortable a person is with prospecting. How quickly we achieve something is directly related to how quickly we become comfortable with what we have to do.

I was monitoring some drainage work being done on some land adjacent to our house the other day, and I got talking to the overseer. His ambition was to open up a bookshop. He loved books. He had a library of over 500 books in his home. Each evening he shut himself off from the rest of the household and with a glass of wine in his hand he would settle down in a comfortable chair to read a book.

As we talked, it became obvious to me that this man wasn't ready to open his book store. He didn't have the money to fund a business and the idea of raising the funds through a bank loan was uncomfortable to him - frightening, in fact. He had never attempted this before. He didn't know if he could do it. He didn't have a big enough reason to make him take action. It wasn't that he wasn't capable of being where he wanted to be, he wasn't totally comfortable with the thoughts and feelings yet.

As you know, whatever we do - our actions - are governed by our thoughts and feelings, so if you are uncomfortable with having to do something today, you will tend to put off doing it till sometime in the future. That is what the overseer was doing - procrastinating

How do you get comfortable with the thought of something? By having enough knowledge on how to do something, so that you know that when you take enough action you will achieve the results you want. That knowledge on how to do something is often referred to as know-how, or competence. Competence precedes confidence.

If you are uncomfortable with prospecting, you must decide whether your reason for building a network marketing business is strong enough to sustain you for long enough to gain the knowledge and the practice necessary to change you into a competent, confident prospector.

Work From Home Success

Many of us share the dream of working from home. Those who do work from the comfort of their homes and make real money think it is the best, but for many, making money working from home is not as easy as it may seem. Regardless, this popular way to make money is a goal for thousands of people around the world.

Starting a business from home is easier said than done. It can be very complicated and complex. To make a full-time income working from home, you will need to work full-time hours. You must be a self-starter, be very organized and be prepared for grueling challenges. To ease your workload in the beginning, choose a business that is fun and interesting to you. If you know a little bit about the business, or if it is a business that you have always wanted to learn more about, chances are you will have much more success.

Being productive is probably the biggest challenge you will face when running your own business. Here are some helpful tips:

1. Make a list of what needs to be done in the order of importance. Make sure you do at least one item on this list each day.

2. Set up your workspace so that it is functional. Working from your kitchen table or the living room could be distracting so try to make your home office in a quiet space away from other family activity.

3. In order to be productive, you need to learn how to get the bulk of your work done via email and telephone.

4. Even though many work from home programs stress the fact that you can work when you want, you will be more productive if you set yourself up with a specific time schedule. The key is to not become too ridged otherwise; you are chaining yourself to your home office instead of your J.O.B. office. Working from home does allow you to be flexible.

Once you have yourself setup in a home office that is comfortable for you, learn to use the tools of the trade (i.e. email and telephone), your daily task list will be much more manageable and you can avoid many common pitfalls that happen to people who work from their homes.

Working from home is not as easy as you think. It may not be easier than your J.O.B.; in all honesty, it will probably be harder. Working from home is not for everyone. If you can find a suitable business, separate your work life from your home life and discipline yourself to be task oriented, you can be productive and have great success working from home.

Home Based MLM Business Opportunity - What These Opportunities Fail To Let You Know

Do you know the sad reality with any home based mlm business opportunity or network marketing business opportunity?

It’s the staggering failure rate!

It’s around 95% with only a dismal 5% achieving the ultimate success to quite their job, buy that dream home or go on that fabulous vacation. I personally know of a multi-level marketing company that pays out 80% of the commissions to only 20% of the people building their businesses for that company.

In theory, though, multi-level marketing business opportunities were never intended to have such a high dropout and failure rate. They were constructed for the average person, educated or not, that had a desire to change their current financial status, have a better quality of life or being able to spend more time doing the things they desire.

With the incredible power of the internet today, there has never been a better time to build an mlm business and I will explain more on this below.

Here’s some helpful POWER TIPS to help you in your quest to be successful in your own home based mlm business:

POWER TIP #1 - You need an automatic downline builder website.

BECAUSE IT IS ALL ABOUT DUPLICATION! DUPLICATION! DUPLICATION!

(sorry if it seems like I am shouting)

Why? If people that you sponsor or signup in your own organization can’t duplicate your efforts, how can you possibly build a successful mlm business?

This is where the true power of the internet can really help in the duplication process. First, the automatic downline builder should allow all your potential downline members to easily build their own businesses without much effort from you, being their sponsor. Second, a downline builder website should be made available for free to allow complete duplication for your members. In other words, the steps that you followed in building your business should be easily transferred to your members.

POWER TIP #2 - You need traffic to your automatic downline builder website.

Without traffic, building your mlm business is equally doomed.

There are many places on the Internet today (especially free places) to drive traffic to your website. You can begin with traffic exchanges, online classifieds, directories, and forums to name a few. Or if you have an advertising budget, you can do some pay per click ads, get listed in paid directories or pay a professional website submission service to help your downline builder website increase in the search engine rankings.

A good duplicatable downline builder system should have step by step information for you and your members on how to specifically drive traffic (especially targeted traffic) to your website.

In a nutshell, this can be a difference between sponsoring 10 people or sponsoring 5,000 people in your organization.

Don't Leave Money on the Table - How to Maximize Your Marketing Plan

Professionals in traditional business, medicine, law as well as network marketing, multilevel, mlm or, as I prefer to call it, “home based business” all have something in common. They’ve learned how to maximize and get the most out of their efforts by obtaining and applying specialized knowledge in their fields. They understand that to be called a “professional” they must be willing to continuously increase their skill set so that they stay at the top of their game. Professionals understand that the marketplace pays for value so whatever profit your business is generating right now indicates what value you currently bring to it.

If your business isn’t where you want it to be it is because you don’t know how. So how long can you continue to say you don’t know how before you decide to do something about what you don’t know how to do? How long are you willing to stay on the path of not knowing the shortcuts and strategies that will bring you a professional level of income? A few of you won’t stop until you find the answers to these important questions. You will rise up and do what it takes to get the results that increase your personal production of income as well as your residual income.

There are 2 types of people reading this right now. The first are the ones that think they know everything already. These people usually hit a brick wall with the end result being inactivity. The second are those of you who want more results and are willing to do whatever it takes to learn how to do the things you don’t know how to do. You are hungry to discover how somebody can go from nothing to 6 figures in a month, 3 months or 6 months. You want me to show you how I was able to make $250,000 my first year starting with nothing!

I’m going to teach you a few simple strategies that will help you activate your profit center so you too have a chance to go from nothing to six figures this year or even the next 6 months. I’m going to share simply what I’ve done over the past 17 years, not what I’ve read, not what I’ve heard somebody else do or what I thought was a good idea. You’ll discover how to find extra money in your compensation plan so that you’re not leaving any money on the table. These are the same strategies that I have personally used in business and trained thousands of others to help them advance into the 2% of the population that is financially independent.

First, you need to know the answers to your compensation plan questions. How much money do you make when you get someone started in your business opportunity? Go ahead and write this down. Do they need to start with some inventory or a certain level of service? What is the package you are focusing on? Too many options are not good because it breeds confusion which will lead your prospects to stop and “think it over”. I represented a company that had so many products that, when I looked at the order form I said, “oh my gosh, where do you start?” You don’t want new prospects to be overwhelmed with too many options.

To avoid confusion and help new prospects make a quick decision, I came up with a starter package that contained a specific amount of the company’s weight loss programs that contained about 5 of their products in each box. The beauty was in the simplicity in that new reps didn’t have to decide which out of hundreds of products to order. Top packages vary from company to company. Some top packages are $300 and some of my clients will offer up to $70,000 starter packages. The amount doesn’t matter. What matters is how your new reps can set themselves up to get the most out of your pay plan.

Ask your self the question, what is the best way for a new person to start inside of your business? Is the best at the bottom with nothing but a $40 dollar application? The answer is NO. Average, mediocre reps think it is ok to start people this way. I’m not here to help you be mediocre. Some of you are already really good at that. I apologize if that seems a bit harsh. I’m writing this to show you the way to make a LOT of money NOW not 10 years from now! It sickens me to see 98% of the population settle for a mediocre broke existence, that’s why I’m giving you this information.

Where there is no commitment, there is no gain. When people start at the bottom they don’t do anything. And if they do, they don’t make anything. Are they gonna stick around? If you don’t have them making money right away they will be gone within 90 days or less. You now have this new person in a poverty mindset that they can make a whole bunch of money with a tiny startup cost. That’s the lottery. Do you know anyone who’s won that lately?

Wherever you start your new prospects will duplicate throughout your business. Plain and simple, it is best for your new people to start at the top package. It will mean the difference between making $20 or $200 for the same time and effort … duh! What’s best for your newbie is for them to learn the skill of how to market your company’s top package. The fast track to 6 figures is duplicating people starting at the top package. Is it possible to bring in 10 people per day at the top package? You bet it is. I have clients doing it. They’re making more money in 3 days than when they were working 80 hours per week! If your $1,000 top package earns you $200, that’s $2,000 per day.

Some companies don’t offer a top package so create one, that’s what I did. Why did I direct people to start with a significant amount of product? So that they could go out and create a story right away. The most important thing for your brand new person is for them to make money. When a new person starts with $1,000 worth of product to market, the goal is for that product to be moved within 1-2 weeks. They have now turned a profit of $4-500. That would be their story. You have to set people up so that they can succeed.

How much money are you losing by not knowing how…

to get people to show up for a presentation?

to close 90% of the guests with an effective presentation?

to get somebody started at the top package?

to create momentum out of thin air?
You are losing 6 and 7 figures that are available to you NOW!

It’s your turn to become a professional in your home based business by knowing how to do it. A Professional will invest hundreds of thousands of dollars and up to 10 years of their lives to earn a 6 and 7 figure income. I guarantee you it won’t take that long when you invest in the specialized knowledge like many of my clients have done. I made more money than most doctors and lawyers in my twenties because I was willing to invest in the one thing that could never be taken away from me …my SKILL. Anything is possible when you know how!

Dani Johnson is an author, speaker, trainer and founder of Call to Freedom Int’l. She went from living out of her car with $2.03 to her name to earning her first million in two short years by the age of 23. Dani regularly consults, mentors, and coaches business owners, entrepreneurs, and career professionals on business, leadership development, personal achievement, marketing solutions, profit strategies, relationship marketing, and team development.

MLM Training and MLM Lead Generation - How Much Has This Mistake Cost You?

MLM leaders usually use systematised MLM training to create pyramid recruiters.

I know it's a bold statement that strikes at the heart of distributors and upsets them. But this is an important lesson you should learn, and I'm not trying to make friends by teaching it.

MLM network marketing companies such as USANA, Herbalife, and ACN are all legal businesses because they carry quality products/services. They make money by distributors selling more product. Notice though, the emphasis is on product, not recruiting.

Yet MLM is often marketed as a pyramid.

Why? Leaders find it easier to recruit new people than to try to teach someone with zero sales or marketing experience how to market right. They just keep looking for better people. It's that simple.

As a result, the newbie distributor is trained on the same emphasis. They try selling the product at first, but their leads don't buy because the distributor has to educate the prospect in order to justify the (usually) high price.

Because of their lack of experience, they don't know how to justify the price. They say things like, "It's not about the product, I don't care about the product, you can make a lot of money with this."

Recruiting people on the hype of money talks to the natural greed of humans--getting something great for nothing. This receives a lot more interest as well as scepticism.

In addition, there is a cash incentive for the MLM distributor. Recruiting new distributors earns bonus commissions from the high-priced starter kits. And let's not forget that there is the recurring "autoship" order which new distributors are now forced to purchase monthly to remain eligible to make that "$10,000/week".

Essentially, new MLM distributors who have never owned a business before are not use to doing work without pay for longer than 2 weeks. When they don't get the "now" cash they quit anyway. It's no way to build a long-term business.

On the other hand, if distributors were to begin by learning to market an inexpensive retail product that educates their prospect instead, they would see "now" cash in their first few days.

Remember that MLM is about selling products. You should be learning to get 5 new product customers for every one distributor you recruit.

You then train the one new distributor to get 5 new product customers and one new distributor.

In this way, you stop operating your MLM business like a pyramid and you run a business with integrity. Make sure when you receive your MLM training that you first master selling a retail product, followed by learning to enrol repeat customers, before you finally learn to recruit new MLM distributors.

MLM Training and Quality MLM Lead Generation - 4 Tips For A Product With Magnetic Lead Pulling Power

So you're looking for a quality MLM lead source or you're attempting to use your own MLM lead generation efforts to get targeted leads. Ponder, for a moment, the following question:

Who's more likely to join your business and soak up everything in your MLM training program - Your couch potato mate or someone who attends seminars on wealth creation and who bought The One Minute Millionaire, Think and Grow Rich, and Rich Dad Poor Dad?

Exactly. Anyone actively looking for and buying information on success wants a solution you have. As a result, the quality of leads or prospects you get is going to be tied to the type of information you promote.

That's why I NEVER cater to weakness when recruiting. Neither should you.

What were you searching for when you came across this article? I bet you were looking for solutions to help you grow your downline. Were you looking for MLM training, prospecting tips, or leads?

I don't know how you got here, but whatever it was, you're reading this right now because you are a leader.

Those are the kind of people you should be targeting.

So let's get specific and talk about 4 criteria you MUST have in your front-end product if you want to A. attract high quality MLM leads, and B. make "now" income off even the prospects who don't join right away.

1. HIGH DEMAND:

* You're statistically more likely to sell information on how to solve a problem than to actually sell the solution (eg, more people will read a book on how good nutrition helps control joint pain than are prepared to buy and use an advanced nutrition product).

* Attracts a lot of qualified leads giving you a large audience for your product or business pitch = more income.

* Higher conversion ratio of MLM leads into buyers (big problem => bigger need for an immediate solution) = faster income.

2. INEXPENSIVE:

* Higher conversion ratio - people find it easier to part with $20-$50 than $200 or $2,000, especially their first time buying from you = front-end income

* You want more people to buy the "sampler" front-end product because it creates trust and repeat sales = front-end + back-end income

3. SOLD AUTOMATICALLY:

* This keeps it simple for new distributors who have no sales experience. The system sells for them, they only need to master advertising to begin with.

* Leverages your time because the front-end product is sold around the clock, qualifying prospects for you. That way you're only spending time talking to the ones willing to take action -- not the tyre-kickers.

4. RELATED TO PRIMARY BUSINESS:

* Every lead, whether they join your biz or not is a lead that raised their hand to say they are interested in your expertise. So you make sales off related products and services too = more front-end income.

* Build your business by enrolling whoever qualifies for your time = front-end + passive + leveraged + fast-start income.

If you create an informational product that satisfies all the above 4 criteria, you will collect a lot of income you've been missing out on. At the same time, you've built a quality MLM lead source that attracts the right prospects to you.

Network Marketing Tip - How To Create Your Own Sizzle Call From Scratch

You can make your own sizzle call for any business. The easiest way to do that is by recording exactly how you want the call to sound on your PC and then playing that recording into your telephone as the outgoing message for your sizzle call.

You could spend a lot on high-end audio recording software to create your sizzle call but there are two great programs that can accomplish the same thing and they're both free.

The first one is called AudioGrabber. Do a Google search for AudioGrabber and you should have no problem finding it.

AudioGrabber is nice because you can use it to capture any audio that goes through your computer speakers. To do that, just go to File | Line in Sampling. You can save these audio files as WAV files.

If you want to save them as MP3s you have to install a special DLL (called the LAME DLL) on your computer. To find out how to do that, go to the Links page on the AudioGrabber site.

I've used AudioGrabber to turn phone teleconferences into MP3s that I can listen to on my iPod. To do that, I hook up a microphone to my computer's audio input, place it next to my phone headset, turn on Line In Sampling in AudioGrabber and start recording. Then I save it as an MP3 (because I have the LAME DLL installed) and transfer it to my iPod.

The other free audio program you should get is an audio editing program called Audacity. You can download Audacity for free from the Sourceforge site.

Now you can open one of the audio files you created with AudioGrabber and edit it with Audacity. You can do pretty much anything you can imagine: you can delete dead spaces or unwanted sounds, add noise effects, copy and paste sounds together, work with multiple tracks, etc.

Give yourself some time to become familiar with how Audacity works. If you can cut and paste and delete in Microsoft Word you can start working with Audacity. But it has a ton of features so don't get intimidated.

I've used AudioGrabber and Audacity to put together lots of sizzle calls. Basically, I find testimonials of people talking about my products or business and I record them with AudioGrabber. Then I pull those recordings into Audacity and clean them up (get rid of dead silence and "ums" and "ahs").

I record myself giving a quick intro and quick outro for the testimonials. I record myself directly into Audacity but I could go through AudioGrabber, too.

Then I use Audacity to stitch all the tracks together.

To hear an example of one of my calls, listen to this one:

1-866-598-4028

Once you have the audio for your sizzle call you need to have a good voicemail service to use it with.

The voicemail service I use is with VoiceNation. I like VoiceNation because they have toll free voicemail for about $5 a month. The features of their service include unlimited length greeting, Caller ID, monthly call detail reports and you receive an e-mail every time someone leaves you a message.

Once my sizzle call is ready, I record it as my outgoing greeting with my VoiceNation service and I'm ready to start taking calls.

Follow these steps and soon you'll be creating your own sizzle calls, too!