Click Here If You Want A Million Dollars 

Click here if you want a million dollars "was what the ad read as I eagerly clicked my mouse to find out exactly what was in store for me inside the website. But what I found was empty promises and a bunch of marketing hype and garbage. Have you ever found yourself in my position before?
The internet is so vast and so easily accessible for the average person now that almost everyone wants a piece of the pie.So they are either starting up companies to sell widgets and e-widgets or they are affiliates pushing someone else's and making great commissions doing it too.

I can't recall the number of these types of products I have purchased now but most of them have a few gems of information and the rest is just recycled from the last e-book I read. I don't know about you but im getting fed up with this unscrupulous type of marketing where the only people making the serious money are the one's peddling the garbage information.

I have returned so many of these products because they simply didn't live up to what they promised on the sales page.

Some of these people are such masters at the art of gentle persuasion that they could persuade you to remove your pants and run up and down the street naked .

So I want to pose a few questions to you and make some suggestions that I have found relevant to being successful on the internet myself.

"Don't ever take advice from those that don't have what you want" is a mantra that I live by and it makes sense generally that if I wanted to become a bodybuilder for example that I'm not going to ask the joe blogs on the street corner or the local shop owner for advice.Im going to speak to the man with the body of steel at the gym who has done it and ask him for advice or pay him for it.
So with the internet and entrepreneurial ventures we have to use the same basis. But there is a challenge that we face on the internet with this scenario,How do you know that the guy with the flash website that has pictures of money,cars,boats and houses actually owns those or even knows who owns them ? Sadly in a lot of cases you have been conned right from the outset to believe these guys have made it big and they want you to pay them for their advice and wisdom. So be careful who you take advice from is what I'd say.

It's all very well that they can show you their click bank or paypal accounts to prove they make great money but that's because they have recruited thousands of people like you to be affiliates and spend their own money and time driving traffic to the owner's website. Yes they make sales and commissions too but not always and the winner in all of this is always the site owner. He has noting to lose and doesn't really care if you make nothing from promoting his site because he knows for every person who fails and leaves there is another coming right behind him to start promoting his site and paying for the privilege.

So my advice here is before you start spending your money promoting someone else's business you might want to consider spending it to promote your own. Why make someone else rich even if you are making money yourself when you could very easily turn the tables and sign up affiliates for your own site or promote your own service or product that you have created yourself ? And if you actually provide useful products and services that are meaningful to peoples lives you might get paid handsomely.

All I am saying here is be careful because we live in a buyer beware culture and my experience tells me that there are just so many people selling snake oil on the internet that you can very easily get caught out over and over and end up broke.

So what products and services should you promote? Well to answer that question I'd be looking at trends in the market place. For example the baby boomer generation are aging and we know from history that wherever they have been as they age there have been great opportunities as they make up about one third of the world's population. Now that they are aging rapidly there is a huge market to be tapped in products and services that help the elderly and aging. So position yourself to up and coming markets before they occur and you can almost print your own money if you can successfully negotiate a market or niche.

I am involved in this area as I am affiliated with a world class company that manufactures pharmaceutical based nutritional supplements that are used by thousands of people including many top level athletes and sports people. They pay a handsome royalty not only for the sales I make personally but also the products purchases and sales of anyone in my organisation. So I get to leverage the use on many people and also in return I help those people become successful themselves. This is the ultimate win win scenario as I can't be successful without assisting others to do the same. So I have found a great niche area that's growing rapidly across the world and I help others succeed too. So the next time you come across the sales page that guarantees you thousands of dollars each week on the internet with little to no effort just beware things aren't always what they seem.

So What Essential Vitamins And Nutrients Does My Body Really Need ? 

This was a question I had been asking myself for a while. The fact is a large number of vitamin,mineral and antioxidant products just can't give your body what it needs everyday to maintain optimal cellular protection from the free radicals and oxidative stress that are the root cause of almost all of the chronic degenerative diseases that plague the western world today.Now I could go into the real nuts and bolts of how and why we are living too short and dying too long in todays toxic society but that will have to be another article.

Essentially there are a lot of half truthes and "BS" when it comes to what a vitamin and mineral product should contain.And as its always prudent to only take advice from world reknowned experts in any field, the Nutritional Supplementation field is no different to any other. So what should a product actually contain ? Great question and the answer can be found in " The Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements" Written By Dr Lyle MacWilliam,BSc,MSc,FP and a team of seven expert Bioscientists from around the world.

Lyle was a Canadian Parliamentarian several years ago and became concerned at the flood of these products onto the market place in North America and Canada.So he assembled his team with the goal of providing independant,non biased ,Science based answers for the public and health professionals.After reviewing countless hours of data and research they all agreed on an international standard called "The Blended Standard" which is the top 39 minerals,antioxidants and nutrients that your body needs everyday and the dosages required to maintain optimal cellular protection.By the way the dosages to help prevent chronic degenerative disease not just the RDA allowances which are so grossly outdated and were devised back in the 1950's to provide a guideline for things like scurvy and rickets.

They then used this benchmark to compare around 500 products off the shelves at random,scoring them all from 0-100% percent based on a very strict criteria.The results were shocking,I used to think that most nutritional products were of good quality until I read this book.Without going into too much detail (you'll need to get a copy to read yourself) most products scored less than 50% .Thats right, you read that correctly.In fact only about 20 products out of 500 scored higher than 2/3rds (66%).And only 6 made higher than 90%.

Most of the common products available in the supermarket,drugstore or healthfood shops registered a score of less than 10%.I was outraged,shocked and disgusted that these companies could put such low quality products out into the population.

I quickly learned that the major reason for the difference in quality across the board was caused by many factors but the major one was manufacturing standard.Almost all of the products are made to Food grade standards and only a few select top quality products were made to Pharmaceutical and Pharmacopaea guidelines or Good manufacturing practices (GMP's).

This he same standard to which all drugs are made to whereas food grade is what your pizza is made to as an example. So comparing the two standards is like comparing pizza and penecillan in relation to the way they are made.

If you are as health concious as I am, finding and using only the best products available makes sense and has actually made a considerable difference to my overall health as well as the health of my family.Because our bodies are constantly creating and replacing billions of cells everyday, if we aren't providing the necessary building blocks to get the job done correctly then over time we are very likely to contract a major illness like cancer which is killing 1 in 3 people in most western countries on current statistics.

Without spelling out to you how this process actually takes place in our bodies, wouldn't you want to do everything you possibly can to not only protect yourself from chronic degenerative diseases,but also protect the ones you love ? Because the statistics worldwide are only getting worse as we treat the effects rather than prevent it from happening in the first place.

Go fishing in you network marketing business 

Successful Network Marketing requires many things but one of the most important of all is to get started.A lot of people put off prospecting and making contact calls because of FEAR.Well fear really means false evidence appearing real so just do it and make those calls .The more you make the easier it becomes to the point where you actually enjoy making new contacts and prospecting calls.One of the best ways to think about prospecting is to linken it to fishing.

You have to have various lures in your tackle box and which particular fish could be caught with each lure. I've learned how important it is to have several "lines in the water" because we simply don't where our prospects will come from or what will pique their interest.There are countless lures you can throw out there, including:

Initiating conversations with people you know, face-to-face Telephoning people you know Sending a personal letter to people you know Running a small, classified ad directing people to your voicemail Purchasing lists for a direct mailing Asking friends and family members for referrals Posting flyers Conducting an opinion survey Leaving business cards everywhere Participating in a lead co-op Operating a booth at a fair or convention Sticking audio tapes under windshield wipers Mailing postcards Internet promotion

The lures in your Network Marketing tackle box are many and varied. They can cost nothing but your time or expand to sophisticated advertising campaigns that are very expensive. The important point is that you must always have several (at least three) lines in the water!

You are the one casting the lines so it's up to you to determine which lures best fit your talents and financial resources. With some testing, you'll learn which lures pull for you.

Remember, fish are comfortable where they are. They're not going to just jump in your boat. And chances are pretty slim that your upline is going to fill your boat with fish for you. So go ahead post a note on your office door - "GONE FISHIN!"

The Secrets Of Mlm They Dont Want You To Ever Know 

The Secret to making money with any MLM business is to find something you can get really passionate about.If you are totally convinced that what you are doing is not only helping you but helping hundreds or even thousands of others you will never lose your passion for sharing it with everyone who you have contact with.

There are a few vitally important things to consider before plunging head on into any MLM or networking business.I have a crtiteria that should be used as a guide to all aspects of viability,they are Company,Product,Management,Longevity,Publically or Privately held and compensation plan.

A Publically held company is always better as its much more transparent and open,i.e you can go online and see the companies figures and who is actually running it,they really can't have anything to hide if anyone can get access to the financials of the company.With Private companies you have no idea how they or the management are performing, and most importantly the compensation plan.Some are better than others as some only reward those people who got in first and pay the most to them.Other plans spread this out evenly across thousands of people meaning you trully get paid what you are worth.Put the effort and hard yards in and you'll get paid that,do just a little and thats what you 'll get paid.NOT MUCH!!

The best example of scrutinising the compensation plan is this:

There is only ever so much money that can be paid out to associates every week.If I were to ask you which of these is better I'm sure you'd all respond the same way.Would you rather have a 30% payout or a 70% payout ? pretty easy answer right ? Wrong and this is where so many people get taken for a ride.Let me explain here.Firstly if the company is paying 70% to its associates its not going to be around for very long,industry research has it that around 30-40% is the maximum a company can pay out for any sustained period without going bankrupt or having other financial challenges that threaten your income stream.And as there are many example of companies that have failed throughout the last 50 years these stats are very important and relevant.So the next time someone says "you have to join xyz company with me as we pay 70 % which is sooooo much more than anyone else" you'll be able to tell them where to get off.

Next is another overlooked piece of the puzzle.Lets say you find a company that is paying 40%, which is a good commission rate, are they paying millions every week to the top associates of the company or are they sharing that around to all ? This is another trap for young players.If the company is paying 80% of all commissions to the top 20% of associates there wont be many new people making pay checks when they get started.This creates a large casualty list and means that you need to work even harder to maintain your organisation as it grows.If the company is spreading that 80% across a larger pool of associates it allows new people to earn paychecks right out of the gate and keep them motivated longer.The rule of thumb here is that if an associate doesnt make a check in the first 2-3 months they will most likely lose motivation and interest and leave and there is statistics to prove this.I have infact seen this many times personally in my own business.

When researching a companies products dont use sales statistics to try to prove whether a particular product is better than another.A friend of mine tried to convince me that a certain companies product was the best because it had $50US Billion worth of sales per year and the second ranked company had only $30 Billion.Sales figures are one thing but what does the science tell us? This was a Nutritional Supplement product that has been around for years and is a recognised brand .But is it better that the rest just because of the sales figures ? NO. Seek out non biased independant scientifically balanced knowledge not just sales stats or any other fluff that people use to tell you "ours is better".

Longevity is another important piece of the puzzle to.NEVER EVER EVER EVER jump into the latest start up craze company that just launched and everyone is saying "get in at the top or miss out". Most of this is just junk and lies.look for a company with at least 5 years trading record ,look at the share price ,is it growing or declining ?. Is it a field that is set to grow massively in the next ten years ? eg the health and wellness industry is set to explode due to baby boomers aging.History tells us that where ever this group of people have been as they age they have created a need for products and services.Dont join an mlm company that sells the rubix cube for example as that craze is over.

And finally dont forget to chose an industry or company with unique consumable products that people need.

If you joined a company selling laptops do you think you'd make millions here ? Probably not, and why ? How often do you buy a new laptop ? probably every 3-4 years. Repeat sales are the backbone to your success in any mlm company.If the product is ordered on the first of every month over and over again you'll be creating a lifetime of residual income in one of the most exciting and changing industries in the world.Good luck and my last tip.Once you have chosen your company.NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER quit ,follow this and I guarantee 100% you will build a successful business that will be around for years to come if you duplicate that down through your organisation.

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