This is really in my opinion one of the hardest obstacles to over come when you are getting started in the home business industry.

It always humored me when I got started in my business and really devoting the time that I needed to start to make some big things happen and got nothing but complaints and questions.

Not questions of interest.

Questions like:

How long are you going to do that for?
How much is it gonna cost you.
What makes you think you can….?
What if it…..?
I don’t understand why….?

And those are just a few of the questions that I encountered and I am sure that you yourself have encountered if you are in a relationship of any sort that does not understand what you have set out to do.

I could sit and watch television from the time I got home from work until the time that I went to bed and not a single word would have been mentioned about being lazy, boring or just wasting large amounts of valuable time.

But deciding to invest my time and my life into something more productive and learning skill sets that will be valuable for the rest of my life, was anything but peachy cream.

So how do you overcome “Spousal Business Suicide” as I like to call it?

It is really not that difficult, it will just require a little bit of extra work on your part.

Here is what I did. And remember, you are more than likely going to have to lose some sleep, but you have to be willing to sacrifice for the life of your business.

1. Do a little extra work around the house. – When you are helping out more around the house it is extremely helpful and will earn your some extra points.


2. Help out with the kids a little more. Once again more points, but NEVER use it as leverage, do it without mentioning it or using it.

3. PLAN your balance with family and business and business. If you plan your business activities, you will not waste as much time and become more efficient at getting tasks done quicker.

4. Study and learn on your downtime. Listen to mp3’s, tapes cd’s when you are driving in your car, walking, lunch breaks. Spend time learning any and as much free time as you have. This way you don’t have to do It at home and you can get family and marketing done every single day.

Those four tips should help you out major when balancing life and business. It is in my opinion all a matter of planning your business around your life.

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It seems as though every single person in this whole industry has gotten consumed by the personal branding and “attraction marketing” business model.

I was reading through some emails lately and came across a pretty quick email from a successful marketer that I don’t typically agree with.

The article was pretty much presenting the question: Why are there so many people online who can teach you to do this or do that, when they have never done this or that for themselves.

I know I know….Attraction marketing is king right?

Position yourself as a leader, bring value to the marketplace and you will generate an endless amount of free leads and new distributors to your business at will.

Doesn’t it sound just too damn easy?

Here is the deal. The marketers that are able to do this all have the same traits and I promise you that it is not going out and spouting off at the mouth about how they are trainers and coaches when they are not.

They have earned their right to be in the position that they are in through hard work and dedication and ACTUALLY PROVIDING THEIR OWN VALUE to the market place.

If you ever want to step up and really be attractive here are three steps that I strongly urge you to follow.

Step One- Learn A New Skill. If you ever want to have any short or long term success in this business then you need to be learning new skills as often as possible.

Hop on a few webinars, invest in quality training courses (not cheap ebook garbage), read real books on a daily basis.

I personally read every single day of the week because I enjoy learning.

Step Two- Implement the new skill. This for some reason is what brings 90% of the people who want to have success down. (Never trust a statistic…lol) Seriously though, why invest the time, money and energy into learning something if you are never going to use it.

You never know, it may actually work!

Step Three- Share your results. To me this is the easiest part of the whole three part process and where “attraction marketing” really starts to kick in. People can use your trial and error to benefit themselves. Continue to do this over and over and people will start to follow you to “steal” you information.

This same three step success process is what has created ever single successful person in this whole industry. Look at someone like Mike Dillard, he failed and failed and when he found something that worked…he shared it.

He turned one simple idea in a multi-million dollar a year business in just a couple years!

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We are almost finished with the first half of 2011
but there is plenty of time for you to really make
that big push to make 2011 your best year ever.

I want to share with a few things that you can be
doing right now to bring more exposure to your business
and help you build a stronger team and generate more
income.

1. Focus on Your business. Far too often are people
not paying attention to what they are doing. They are
out there just shooting into the trees as far as their business
is concerned.

This business is a business and needs to be treated that way.

2. Show people who you really are. This industry is getting
more competative every single day and you have to be
more original to get your message in front of the people that
you want to attract.

With all the “attraction marketing” systems, trainings sold in mass
and silly social media marketing strategies that are in my opinion
borderline spam, you’ve GOT to be real.

3. Read more. This is really a no brainer, but I promise if you
spend more time reading, you will find growing your business will
become easier and easier. There is more wealth in a handful of
books than you will can ever find in a overpriced training product.

4. Step outside the box. Every person who comes into this industry
is learning from the same group of people. Now don’t get me wrong,
there are time tested strategies that need to be learned and a ton of great
teachers in the biz, but you need to step outside of what everyone else
is doing and find your own power.

5. Don’t procrastinate. THis is one of the top things that I am seeing with
all the people who come into the online marketing arena. They learn all
these super cool tricks, tips and cutting edge strategies and then sit on
them until they are worn out and outdated.

6. Be consistant. If you are going to build a business then you need to
build a business. Do you think that anyone is ever going to get better for
you if you just do a little marketing here and there?

No, you need to be on the frontlines working your business every single
free moment that you have. This is really what seperates the men from the
boys in this business. To ever make this work you are going to have to work.

These six steps are pretty simple, but if you follow them I promise that you are
going to ROCK out the rest of the year.


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After about two years in this industry I have amassed a great deal of wisdom and skills about a handful of different strategies, methods, solutions and tools. But there is one thing that I have found that is being missed by most people who come into this industry.

I am not going to sit here and tell you about attraction marketing, marketing funnels, twitter marketing, face book marketing or any of those things. You can actually find them on every blog in this industry, including mine.

This post is actually going to break the monotonous drone of so called “coaches and leaders” and share something much more powerful, and much less frustrating when trying to achieve results.

What I am going to talk to you about today is applied value vs. shared value. I am pretty sure that you have never read about anywhere else. Why? Because most people don’t actually have a clue what it is, or that they are doing it. Which is why you are reading about it right now.

So, what is it?

First things first. If you have been in this industry very long I am almost positive that you have heard the this quote “you must give value”, but what does that really mean. Truthfully, it is becoming knowledgeable. People trust doctors because they have taken the time to master their skill, they have spent years in medical school learning how to decipher the human body so that they can prescribe a solution to the problem.

This is exactly who you must become, the doctor of the industry, the person that everyone seeks for the solution to their problem. Even further, people are not looking for doctors who have read a book about doing a heart transplant or brain surgery. They want a doctor who has performed those procedures again and again, an expert in their field. No one will trust a doctor without experience with their life, why would someone trust a distributor who has read a book with their future and the dollar.

Applied value is simply this: understanding a specific concept or strategy and taking immediate action on that strategy and molding it to fit within your needs to accomplish a goal. I.e Learning a marketing strategy and actually putting it into action to generate more leads or acquire new customers.

Applied value in this industry seems to be the road less taken. More and more people are constantly learning how to do something and almost never following through with the reason that they learned it. Which is, to do it. What they are actually doing is what I like to call shared value.

Shared Value is simply this: learning how to do something, and turning around and regurgitating the same exact message as your own. This is a critical mistake when it comes to being successful in this industry. I am not saying that as you learn something new that you should not share that value with others, but relying on shared value as a way to build an organization will put a wall in your potential.

You have to be willing to go out on the front lines and take massive action to see massive results. This is a two-fold strategy in my eyes. You first have to apply the value to generate the leads and then share the value with them.

Applied value and shared value together is a 7-figure business model, alone by themselves will leave you broke and wandering why things did not work out for you in this industry.

The point of these two simple concepts is this: If you want to make big things happen in your business and your life you must go out there and take action on what you are learning and record the flaws and mistakes of your actions.

By recording and sharing the flaws and mistakes and victories, you become the applied knowledge while everyone else hit’s the wall by being in the “shared knowledge” crowd by spinning your message.

“Those who can’t do, teach. And those who can’t teach, teach gym.” -Dewey Fin

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After being a part of this great industry for quite a while now, I have learned more than most people will ever learn about real marketing and building a business in their lifetime. It is really amazing what you can do when you really make a clear decision to sit down and learn your trade.

Inside this post I am going to share with you seven (7) Deadly Mistakes that most newbie marketers don’t even realize that they are making. The fact is, that if you start correcting these mistakes as early as possible, it will allow you to change the way you do your business down the road.

1. Expecting things to happen- This is an industry where success is sololy dependant on the work that you do for yourself (with exception to duplication, but you also have to teach this). You have to be the CEO of You.Inc and run your business like a real business.

2. Procrastinating- This is truly the death of your business, you have an opportunity to make everything that you ever wished for come true. You have to dedicate your time and focus to building your business. Running around doing tasks while you are trying to market is taking you farther away from your goals.

3. Wasting Time- A lot of people get this confused with procrastination. Some marketers consider being busy being productive and really all they are doing is wasting time. Checking email, checking youtube views, too much twitter, too much Facebook chatting. These are all wasting time, your social media tasks should be done very timely with a direct plan.

4. Not Creating a Plan- If you want to treat this business like a real business, then you MUST have a plan. How do you ever expect to work a million dollar company if you are not doing what million dollar companies do. It is simple. Evaluate your goals, create a plan to accomplish those goals and create a daily method of operation to accomplish the plan.

5. Staying up with Trends- Business is business. You have to know what is going on in this industry to stay ahead. The most successful people become that way because they are the first to know. Look at Myspace marketing, face book marketing and Twitter marketing. The ones who capitalized of them where the ones who were doing it before everyone else.
**side note** the best way to stay up with trends is: 1. Google Trends 2. Google Alerts 3. Forums just like this.

6. Not Targeting The Right People- If you are not out there targeting the exact people that you should be, you are wasting time once again. Building a random list of Twitter followers or Facebook followers that you found on Ashton Kutchers fan page is NEVER going to make you any money no matter how hard you try. (in the case of social media it is about quality, not quantity.)

7. Lack Of Follow-up- I know you have heard this 1,000 times and I am going to say it again. “The fortune is in the follow-up”. Whether it be passive (mailing list) or active (phone call) you have to have a system or procedure for following up with your prospects.

8. Not tracking your results- This is one of the most important things to be doing regardless of long or where you are at in this industry. Understanding what your marketing is doing is so important that I can not stress it enough. If you don’t understand what is working and what is not working in your marketing, there is no way to improve it.

There are literally thousands of ways to advertise yourself on the internet so tracking helps you analyze what is wasting your time. **side note** I highly recommend using Google Analytics and Yahoo Web Analytics

9. Neglecting Your Education- If you are not out there learning the skills that are required to be successful in your business, you don’t stand a chance to be success. Success is no accident, it requires learning and actually following through with what you learn. I can hand you three of the most successful pieces of marketing education like Magnetic Sponsoring, Building On A Budget, MLM Traffic Formula and if you don’t adopt those marketing strategies into your own business, once again it is a waste of time.

10. Not Taking Action – The last nine bullets all lead down to this one. You want to know what really seperates the 97% from the 3%? It is simply action. You have to take decisive action in every single part of your business. No mattter what strategy you choose, no matter how free, how expensive, how easy, how hard, how tedious or anything else you have to take DECISIVE-CONSITANT action.

These ten things are in no specific order, they don’t have to be. The simple outline of the biggest mistakes are not simply mistakes that are only made by newbie marketers. All of us tend to let some of these go sometimes, but what happens is we all learn from the mistakes that we make on a day to day basis.

You can’t be perfect all the time. You can’t win every game, you strike out every player and you race all year without having a couple blown tires or busted up fenders.
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Wow. The year has literally flown by faster that I could have ever imagined. The reason for this post is I want you to take a look at your business, and even more importantly I want you to take a look in the mirror and see who you have become.

Many of you may read this and say, “Jeff, I look the same, what does this have to do with my business.”

This is one of the most powerful industries in the world, you can create success that is far beyond most of your dreams. I have spent the last couple weeks, setting up my goals for 2010, evaluating my business plan and setting up my first ninety-day plan for the first quarter.

It is crazy, I have been so focused and exited about creating my plan for next year, that I have let go of a few important things in my marketing this month that were providing me a steady supply of fresh new leads.

But you know what…It does not matter. You can’t lose what you don’t have. I cut out some resources and I don’t have those leads coming in anymore…oh well. You can’t lose what you don’t have. I have monster goals for 2010, and I am literally putting together 100’s of little pieces that I have slowly picked up over the last 18 months.

This blog that you are reading right now, is going to become a major part of my overall business plan. While small now, which this blog is relatively new at only about it’s 4th month of existence. it is quickly becoming a source of information and will only get stronger as the new year and myself move forward in this industry.

Now back to looking at yourself and your business. There are really three things that are going to make your 2010 your best yet.

I don’t care whether or not you were a 7- figure earner, 6-figure earner, 5 figure earner or you did not make a single dime in this industry for the past 20 years it does not matter.

All those things were.

Last Year.
Last Month
Last Week
Yesterday
12 hours ago
10 Minutes ago.
10 Seconds ago.

If you are wanting success so bad you can taste it, you have to understand that the past is the past. Your business is now. All of the things that you did not accomplish before this single moment in time (excuse the French) don’t mean shit.

If you are sitting there watching t.v, flipping through the newspaper or reading the newest edition of G.Q magazine you are wasting time and not producing for your business. If you want to be in the G.A.M.E for 2010 here are your three things.

Goals- This sounds so cliché but if you want to have a real business, you have got to have goals. I am not talking about.. “ I want to Make 50k next month” king of goals. You need to have goals that are achievable so that you can accomplish them step by step and feel like you are constantly moving forward. Write your goals down, memorize them and say them out loud. Place your goals in a place that you can see them every morning when you wake up. Engrain them deeply in your mind, so that you NEVER stray away from them. Never lower your goals…always be making them harder to accomplish. (this is growth)

90 Day Plan- This is your outline for achieving your goals. Creating yourself a 90 day plan will allow you to visualize how close you are getting to your goals. Here are a few questions you can ask yourself that will help you create your own mlm 90 day plan.

1. What marketing worked for you business last year.
2. What are some of the up and coming trends in your niche
3. What is your competition doing.
4. How are others achieving your goals
5. What marketing did you not learn that you want to implement

Daily Method Of Operation- This is where it gets fun. The daily method of operation (DMO) is a daily action plan that you follow every single day. Set yourself up on a time frame for each and every piece of your overall marketing strategy.

Here is a simple example:

30 Minutes Writing and Posting An Article
30 Minutes Posting Classified adds
30 Minutes Shooting a Video And Posting It
20 Minutes In Your Favorite Forums
15 Minutes on Twitter Adding friends and commenting
15 Minutes on Facebook adding friends and commenting
15 Minutes On Youtube adding friends and posting comments.

This is a great example of what you need to be doing every single day. If you are consistently following through with your Daily Method Of Operation, you will be completing your 90 Day Plan thus you will be achieving your goals.

It is that simple my friends, when it comes to creating leads, cash and new distributors in your business the three things that I have outlined for you is your success plan for 2010.

You don’t have too much time left to get 2010 planned so it is time to get going on these things.

What are you doing. Get going.

Jeff Mitchell
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I know I know, The Power of now. Come on Jeff Mitchell Really?

RIght now, this whole country is going through the worst recession in like 30 years or so…

Which to be honest is longer that I have even been alive. But now matter how young, old, ignorant or just plan neive, you have to understand that opportunities like this for the home business industry don’t come around very often.

More millionaires are going to be made from this recession then ANY and I reapeat ANY other time in HISTORY. I highlight those words to force you understand that if you really want to make your dreams come true with whatever business that you are in…Now is the time. People are running scared trying to everything that they possibly can to save their house, pay their electric bill, gas bill and working their asses of just to put food on the table.

You can be the bridge that takes the person who is losing everything to the person who has an opportunity to have anything. It is you duty as an entrepreneur to put your business in the hands of the people who are ready to make a difference. It is your responsibility as a human being to strive to better the lives of as many people as you possibly can.

The power of now is getting to work as of this single minute in time to accomplish your goals and achieve your greatness.

Now is the time to Believe in Yourself

Now is the time to Get Educated

Now Is the time to Master New Skills

Now is the time to Network

Now is the time to shut the T.V Off—(You don’t want to get brought Down by that anyway)

Now is the time to “step outside your comfort zone”

Now is the time to Motivate Yourself

Now is the time to take MASSIVE ACTION

The power of now will change your life if you take advantage of it.

This is a pretty short post but if you truly take this in and realize the power of now, the time that we are living in, then you’ll move on the opportunity RUN the path less taken, while everyone else sits at the intersection trying to decide where they want to go.

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We have all heard of the term “personal branding” and the majority you understand the concepts involved with getting your name out in your niche and positioning yourself as a leader and an expert.

But where do you draw the line when it comes to branding yourself and building an effective marketing strategy?

Can the two work hand in hand to create a powerful long lasting sales relationship?

Yes and No.

Marketing And Branding Should Be Kept Separate

Personal Branding is a necessity in the marketing world this day in age, the general public is tired of getting sold to. They are tired of commercials, spam mail, snail mail ads and even more tired of telemarketers calling their house while they are trying to sit down and enjoy a nice dinner with their family.

Prospects and customers want to feel that they are inviting themselves to view your opportunity or buy your products. Corporate America understand this and so should the work at home entrepreneur. Times are changing and those who keep up with these strategies are going to profit 100x more than those who don’t.

The more time that you spend trying to brand yourself with fancy websites, capture pages, blogs the less time that you are putting focus on your prospects and your customers. It becomes more about you looking “high profile” and building your own ego and less about fulfilling needs.

Yes, this industry is built on You.Inc as the business model, but you should be spending time researching your target audience and finding out what motivates them to take the action that you want them to take. i.e Joining your business, Buying your products.

Personal Branding is NOT Marketing.

Branding is not about getting your prospect to choose you over your competition, it is about your prospect seeing you as the only person to solve their problems. If you don’t really know their problems and how to solve them, you will be marketing to a crowd with deaf ears.

Marketing is about putting yourself in position to brand yourself.

We hear all the time about the front end and the back end of the marketing funnel. Marketing has the sole purpose of getting people in front of your message so that you can capture their information (front end), with creating a relationship and brand on the back end. This is why back end profits are were the money really is. Because you have done the marketing to have the ability to build the trust and the trust is the brand.

It goes back to my post yesterday “Lord Of The Three Rings” with Market, Message and Media.

All of these things must work together as a slick funnel that brings in leads on the front end, sifts and sorts through those leads and produces sales and new distributors on the back end.

Building your brand should be a byproduct of providing solutions to your prospects problems. So be the solution and earn the brand.

Jeff Mitchell

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