How to Make People Attend BOMs

Most people have this problem--how to make people attend BOMs.

BOM is Business Opportunity Meeting. It's used for network marketing. If you're jobless but wanna make it big being so, then try network marketing.

Okay, I'll tell you what's network marketing first. It is the easiest way to start small and make it big in business. In fact, I say it's the only way. It's more realistic than aiming to make it big someday by being promoted in your company--which most likely will never happen. Frankly, this is the only thing I could think of that would help you reach your true financial potential. Invest what you can and then give it your best shot!

If you're already rich, chances are network marketing won't have any appeal to you. And you may even call it cheap or despise it as some pyramiding scam, or curse it as some way to cheat people of their money. Because most rich people hate seeing poor people become richer than they are and through ways not popular to the traditionally rich. And if you're NOT rich and yet you despise network marketing, pessimistic people have probably con you. Would you let them do that to you? Why let them take you down with them? But if you insist...

Then, this isn't for you. Read another blog--one that would pin you down to being a mediocre earner forever. But if you're jobless somewhere and desperate to make some money or big money, why not try network marketing? It's our only chance--we who weren't rich when we started in life. And if you're not a college graduate or didn't finish grade school--but you wanna earn big--network marketing is it. Don't look for a job. That will destroy your future and potentials.

So, network marketing is all about getting people to join you do your business. Getting them to start living a life of business, a unique one. And many people are not used to being business people--they've been brain-washed that all they're gonna be in life are employees--destined to slavery making others rich. All they're worth is a miserable salary a month. So, it will be a real challenge getting them to believe something "far-fetched." Moreover, many folks have been brain-washed to believe that all network marketing businesses are pyramiding scams.

Well, first things first. Make them attend. Tell them there are no strings attached. If they don't want the business, you'd let them go Scot free. Promise. Tell them plainly that you're inviting them to a BOM. Be honest. If they refuse to go, ask them to go just this once--ask them to just give you time this once so that after this you'd stop bothering them. And make sure you keep your word. If they still insist on not going, then pester them now and then, until they finally come. Now, if the prospect does finally come, hope and pray the presentor would do his best to present the product and business well. It's a shame to see your inviting efforts go to waste just because of a lousy presentation.


So know when the best presentor would speak.

This is how to make people attend BOMs:

1. Tell them how wonderful and effective the product is. So make sure you're already a product user. People selling a product they're not using are liars. Don't be a liar. People want to go with trustworthy people. So be trustworthy. Develop that reputation. Never tell a lie.

2. Challenge them to meet networkers who are already earning big in the business.

3. Challenge them to see how the business actually works.

4. Give them free product taste at the BOM. This is a real business. Invest some.

5. Fetch them from their homes or offices. Most people wouldn't like that so they'd rather attend the BOM. That's one effective way how to make people attend BOMs.

6. Treat them to coffee or snack after.

7. Invite someone your prospect knows and tell the prospect that so and so is also coming. Better if it would be some kind of a reunion or something. But just take 2 or 3 people along. Five or more is a no-no.

8. Don't forget to say, "Just this once, and I promise no more BOM in the future."

9. Make a fun BOM yourself. Have it in your house as part of a birthday celebration or something like that. Or create an occasion to celebrate.

10. Organize regular fun gatherings where you casually talk about the business. Like a tea party or something. That's how to make people attend BOMs.

The "Loser" Who Won

He's the loser who won, and won big-time. And the winning began when he lost his job. Perhaps you'd say he was a born loser. He never finished grade one and came from a very poor family. He came to Manila to work, thinking that was the answer to his sorry plight, but it just seemed to have made things worse. Then he lost his job--and that started his breakthrough which launched him to millions! 

Literally millions. Which he would never have made if he had stuck with employment,which he had planned on doing in the first place but was prevented by some twist of fate. He felt it was the end of the world, not realizing it was just the beginning of his break--he was about to be jobless big-time. But of course, he didn't know it at the time--like you do not know if you're going to make it big someday if you risked doing an alternative livelihood now, or fail with a resounding crash.

Sometimes, we need a bit of a push of fate, or have it literally drag us to success because of our timidity and stubborn insistence to cling to our jobs and our comfort zones which we think is a refuge and a fountain of life.  Fate sometimes even has to cruelly force us or shake us violently just to loosen our desperate clutch to employment and the usual run of things and put us in our rightful place.

So it demolishes our "hopes" and leaves us with nothing so we can start anew. Nope, we cannot build from the remnants of the erroneous past. We must walk on its ashes and find a new site to build on. Like what God told the Israelites--leave Egypt, go through the wilderness, and build in the Promised Land. And if you choose to build in the new territory of being jobless big-time, you must go through the wilderness first.

Then you'd be the loser who won.

I Don't Know How to Sell

"I don't know how to sell!" I can almost hear you say that.

Well, nobody does at the start. We all have to learn how to sell. So, if you think you don't know how to sell, that's a good place to start. We all start there--admitting that "I don't know how to sell." But it is a must to have the desire to. If you are jobless or wanna quit your job and be your own boss (and are really serious about this), you've got to learn how to sell--unless you are about to inherit a million dollars and don't have to earn a living and live happily ever after like that. But if not, believe me--you have got to sell something to survive.

For most of us (who are not inheritors), we have to do something to survive. Sell something. How? Well, just do it. I can share here a thousand and one sales tips but frankly, it all boils down to you selling something. Just start selling, and the rest would just fall into place. You'd learn along the way. I may tell you good sales tips but if you don't go out there and sell, you'd just be an informed bum. But if you start selling and keep selling, you'd learn the tips by experience first hand, by yourself, and that will make you a master salesman. Nothing like learning something yourself.

What I can suggest is that you have to hone good character in you. You cannot be in sales and be snobbish or unfriendly orunapprochable. You have to learn how to be a Mr. Nice Guy a bit. Just a bit. Being too nice wouldn't bring in sales either. You have to be shrewdly nice. You get what I mean?

Simpler put, just use your common sense. Using your common sense makes you nice and smart and honest. And that should make you lots of good sales, even repeat sales, and lots of money. I cannot overemphasize honesty. I've seen a lot of liars make big money in sales, but they lost more through the customers they lost--and the loss of their souls. So, you tell me, "I don't know how to sell"? Just find something worthy to sell and be nice and smart and honest selling it.

Take Me, for instance. I'm not a real estate agent, I'd never made a sales in real estate all my life before this caller called me up. I don't know anything about selling properties or houses. I told myself, "I don't know how to sell!" But I wanted to make money--I badly needed money. I prayed and then asked a realtor friend if I could sell some of her properties. She said sure. So I put one property on my website and promoted it. I posted photos and details. I prayed again. Then, one day (about 4 days after) while in the comfort room, the phone rang. My heart pounded wildly--could it be that....?

To make this short, the caller bought the property and I made P40,000. That was last year. I didn't know how to sell properties, but I was able to. I didn't know or apply any special selling technique except display the property on my website, which anyone can do. I also sold a car doing the same even if I didn't know anything about cars or how to sell cars.

Don't be tied up to your inability to sell, always telling yourself, "I don't know how to sell." Just sell. Just do it. So what if you don't know how. Ask someone's help. Ask for referrals--who's likely to buy your product. Go ask around.

Selling is like walking. Nobody was born already able to walk.You've got to try it, fall and hurt yourself, but you've got to try it any which way. Then later, you learn how and much later do it very naturally. The same with selling.

So go sell something.

So You Just Lost Your Job..

So, you just lost your job and you have a family to feed. Or perhaps you are about to lose your job (you can forsee it happening) and are wondering how you're going to live life jobless. It seems there's no life outside employment. We fear unemployment because that's how we were programmed to see it--terrible, tragic, and hopeless. If you're haunted with the thought, all you need to do is see things differently.

What really is employment? So, you just lost your job--so what? Don't equate your job with life. It's not like oxygen that kills you when it disappears. A job is just a job. You can remain being in love with your wife and kids even while you're jobless, and they can be the same with you. Being jobless does not have to diminish anything you value in life. You can go on being happy in life while jobless.

The problem is, some people's norms told us that being jobless is the end of everything. It makes you feel less than a person and gives the impression that you are irresponsible. When in fact all you don't have is a job. That's all. How can that make you less than a human being? I know of people who are gainfully employed and yet are less than human when it comes to character. I know of folks who have great jobs with great pays but have broken families due to their rotten marriages.

So, you just lost your job--or probably about to lose it. Fear or fret not. It's just a job. Just make sure that you are a human being at heart. And if you are a spouse or a family member with your life partner or someone in your family who is jobless, make sure you fully support him or her. Being jobless is not that bad or tragic. Don't have yourself further brain-washed by people who want us to think that joblessness is a sin. It isn't. It's really an opportunity, a new page turned in your life.

Now, if you want to be useful and able to support your loved ones financially but you just lost your job (or about to lose it), it's a wonderful opportunity to choose a new livelihood path. It's actually your chance to become jobless big-time by trying a new income source. Try a new and unique business that suits your person and preferences. Believe me, there are a lot more alternative businesses available than you can imagine. Joblessness is not the end of the world. It's even a blessing in disguise. It can be a way out of your financial enslavement for good.

Some people think that there's only employment in life, and that life is only for employment. And they live it till they die. I pity these people. They lost all sense of freedom and adventure. Some people think adventure is climbing up heights till they get lost or tying their feet with a rope and jumping off cliffs till the rope stretches and they dangle suspended in the air. But then after all that excitement what do they do? They just go back to their jobs. That's not adventure. That's recess time--when you get your lunch box and eat your snacks---wow! And after that you go back to your classroom to listen to your boring teacher.

What's real adventure is going all-out for time and money freedom. So, you just lost your job? Congratulations! You just got your life back! Now use your life for your own enjoyment. Start doing a real livelihood that you like. Or, start doing an alternative livelihood or small business!

He Started with Street Food

Let's call him Manny. He started with street food. Well, when we were younger he graduated from Mapua, a primier engineering college in Manila. Then he passed the electrical engineering board. He tried lots of jobs but one day lost them all and became unemployed a long time and worried much about it. He had a family to feed.

In desperation--and much pride-swallowing--he finally ended up helping his brother sell street food, and that's literally selling finger food out in the streets near UP Los Banos. I once dropped by their small place years ago, but before they had that small place, they had been street vendors selling siomai on street corners with makeshift stalls--like the small-time vendors you see along busy roads looking like squatters. By the way, his brother (also an engineer) also had earlier quit his job to be jobless big-time. Oh yeah, he made it big with street food, able to buy his own house and send his kids to a private school. His wife had died; she formulated the special siomai mixture.

Then Manny decided to go solo with street food. He used to get a salary from helping his brother sell siomai in the streets. Now, he decided to go jobless again, but jobless big-time this time. He had a small capital he and his wife used to start their small business. He and his wife, both college grads, decided to hit the streets each night selling siomai. Just imagine what people thought about their financial condition and their livelihood choice.Imagine how they were mocked.

They were even harassed by policemen who chased them away for selling on the streets. So they worked out their business license when they had enough money, and gradually got a small legit stall. They worked that out for years.

Today, Manny has his own luxury van, a driver, and 4 small restaurants with steamed siomai as their specialty. Besides, they're looking for a property and house to buy as their own. He's stuck with being jobless big-time. He resolved never to go back to employment. He started with street food. Imagine that. If he did it (with enough imagination) you can, too.

Are you jobless now? Good! That's your break to start anew and be jobless big-time now, like Manny is. Yes, it entails sacrifice--great sacrifice, guts, imagination, and perseverance, plus lots of risks. But with God, you'd surely make it, if you don't give up.

Siomai

The thing is to determine to believe in yourself (your God-given potential), be your own boss, quit your job, and aim to succeed in a business you love doing. Look for something to sell. Yeah, you've got to sell something. Later, you can leverage and benefit from other people's time and effort, but still you have to continue selling now and then. It all starts with selling, and you maintain it by selling now and then, even if you are doing a network marketing business.

Keep selling. Teach your children the art of selling.

You think you're not designed for selling? But if you're getting an imagination for selling and beginning to develop an interest for it, you can be developed for a sales business. Sales people are made, not born. If you see it, you can make it happen, with God's blessing and guidance.

Now, Manny took the long way to success, but you can opt for a shorter way--not a shortcut but a shorter way. According to Manny, he started with a kilo of pork a day, and that's something like P3,000 a day (including the ingredients, condiments, utensils, gas, and packs). Per day he earned something like P500 or a bit more.

With some alternative businesses, like network marketing, you just start with P8,000 and can earn at least P3,700 a day or more. The P8,000 is your capital for the whole duration of the business, and that means years and years until you call it quits. You don't have to buy pork and ingredients each day, prepare siomai mix each night, wake up early to cook, set up shop on street corners each time you sell, and sell each night. And you don't have to hide from street cops. You don't need to get a place and pay monthly rent. You don't have to pay salaries or supervise employees. You just have fun with your teams, relax, and make money. I call the business Fun Team Building Net, where everyone just have fun making money.

Are you jobless? If not, quit your job!

Employment is the Problem, Not the Solution

YEHEY!!!

You heard (or read) it right--employment is the problem, not the solution. Governments range through the earth trying to provide employment for their jobless citizens, thinking that to be the solution. They've been doing it for years--but has employment solved anything except providing short-term, skin-deep remedies to people's finances?

Politicians have been promising us more jobs and more jobs, to no avail. More jobs have indeed been produced but the financial crisis continues. And still they think more jobs is the answer to our economic problems. So they invite investors and capitalists to set up business on our soil. But still the problems go on.

You know what? They haven't tried this solution this blog is militating for--remain jobless, but jobless big-time. More jobs is not the answer; being jobless is. The majority think being jobless is such a bad thing that they want to get out of the situation pronto to save themselves from dishonor and shame and cling to employment. That's what some people want us to think--that being jobless is shameful. But the truth is far from it. Being jobless is an opportunity to see a better opportunity.

You have to see that employment is the problem, not the solution, before you can see the logic in being jobless big-time. Employment shackles you to being free to explore more possibilities with your true potentials. I haven't seen a more close-minded person as one who has been employed for years, getting comfy and secured with his or her job. This guy will never see anything in life beyond his or her work. If it isn't employment, it's bad and bound to fail--that's how the guy thinks.

Are There Better Alternatives to Employment?

Are there alternatives? You bet! A lot of folks cannot be in business because of the big capital needed to start one. But there are lots of alternatives to doing a business aside from the usual big-capital businesses. The problem is, most people dismiss them as scams without really finding out for themselves if they are. Some people tell them it's a scam and they believe them outright. Such people show that they do not have the imagination and the boldness to find out the truth about things. They just listen to gossips.

But you should find out for yourself. You need to, because it's the only way out of your financial crisis. Your job is the cause of your financial lack because it only limits the worth of your abilities. You're worth more than what your boss wants you to believe. And to get your effort's worth, you need to try out non-traditional income sources. And I cannot overemphasize this--you need to try them out until you find one that suits you.

Of course, in your search for the right non-traditional business, you may have to suffer some losses. But it's better to risk to find a livelihood that will bring out your true potentials, than to waste your life and die doing a job (or waste your youth giving your best to an employment, enriching your boss). God designed your skills so you can use them for your enjoyment, says the bible. Employment allows other people to enjoy your skills.

Employment is the problem, not the solution. Don't look for a job--look for an income source that will let you enjoy your skills and enrich your life, at the same time giving you freedom to enjoy your family and do what God really wants you to do. And God has provided us more than enough ways to do a non-traditional business needing only a small capital but which can earn you big profits...something like investing only P8,000 but earning P924,000 a month out of that! Yes, there are such business programs, online or offline!