Thursday, June 21, 2012

How Being Millionaire is Not Just for the Educated


Education is vital, make no mistake about it. You'd have a better chance if you finish your studies and get a degree. I always tell my younger audience that. But some of us aren't that fortunate to get a college degree. Many either don't reach college level or dropout from it for some reasons. Are they then doomed to being employees doing menial jobs all their lives? Worse, are they stuck with unemployment, being a burden to society?

But millionaireship (how I call it) is no respecter of persons. It is never exclusive to a few. The problem is, we're made to  believe it is. And the gossip is that only the educated have access to it. Well, there are people today who prove that the above isn't so. They show us how being millionaire is not just for the educated but for the underprivileged, too. And it's all about doing a business, not getting a job. It's being jobless big-time.

It's making use of your imagination. Do you see yourself achieving success in the near future? If you see it, it can become real. The important thing is to see it, act doggedly on it, and then determine to get it. A lot of times, educational attainment has nothing to do with it. It has something to do more with imagination, guts, and hardwork. If you have these, you may be the next millionaire. Believe how being millionaire is not just for  the educated.

I've met many individuals who only had elementary education, victims of dire poverty, but who had the imagination and determination to fight traditional views on success and worked out becoming millionaires. And they did turn out thus. A street thug, a carpenter, cab drivers, and a trash scavenger. One was an undergraduate and abandoned wife. Another was a starving pastor. They all determined to get out of their life situations and make big money through business. It was genuinely being jobless big-time.

A lot of them became rich doing a network marketing business. Later, they turned to forex trading or a traditional business. Network marketing gives the marginalized--even the very poor--a chance to invest low and earn big. This is a chance to hit it big, not in your dreams, but one day soon, after you work hard to do the business. It proves how being millionaire is not just for the educated or the privileged few.

The book display on the top left is about a gang member who determined to change his financial life to become a millionaire. It can happen to you, too. The book gives inspiration and lessons on how being millionaire is not just for the educated. It can be for you, too.

Furthermore, I'm amazed how network marketing also respects no age limit. I see daily senior citizens seriously doing it and making some tens of thousands each week. I actually see their checks. And there are also college students who earn big money from it, showing clearly how being millionaire is not just for the educated and employed but even for retired folks and the youth.

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Real Networking

When people hear of "networking" they immediately think of network marketing and MLM and then conclude outright it's a scam. But let me show you what real networking is and how everyone needs it--and I mean everyone who wants big-time success.

Networking means building connections and useful relationships. First, you build connections, and this means making yourself available to all, making friends and looking for useful friendships which you build up as regular connections. Then you seek to build this to the next level of building useful relationships you can later use to help others get connected into a network useful to them. 

Humans are created to network. This was what they meant in the 1950s about "no man is an island." This was what the Hebrews writer in the bible meant when he wrote "do not neglect meeting together" stressing the importance of fellowship. This is what the internet and Face Book are all about. This is why we like connecting with people and relatives and long lost classmates and friends on FB. It's all about real networking. And admit it or not, we do it for a later benefit, consciously or unconsciously. 

We don't just connect with people because of connecting per se. Back in our minds we want to connect so we can easily reach them later for some need in the future--like a reunion, a family matter, a query about someone you both know of, a curiosity about the place where they live, a favor to ask, etc. So we keep addresses and telephone numbers and now, we add friends on FB or we Yahoo Mail. That's real networking.

And if you have a business or just want success in whatever endeavor you have, you got to have connections. It enables you to penetrate more into sources of information or power. To have connections you have to make yourself available, approachable, and accessible. That's why it's baloney trying to avoid social networking sites for fear of revealing your identity or being too wary about accepting friends online. This is the era of getting connected and expanding connections. This is the age of real networking. Personal security? The thing is to be wise like a serpent about it.

Filipinos should benefit much from networking. We like making new friends and getting connected. We value relations and easily make and grow them. We often say friends are our riches. The problem is, we fail to really monetize our connections. 

Meet Clarence. He's a real networker. And he's into sales. He keeps in touch with all his friends and relatives and grows his connections. He maintains sincere friendship with them and at the same time helps them get their needed connections. He acts like an operator connecting calls to different departments. If he learns of someone needing to buy some property, Clarence connects him with a realtor he knows. If someone in his network of connections needs to buy a car, he helps connect the need to an answer--and earns some commission from the connections.

Is that bad--earning commissions from your network? The only thing bad is stealing money. If you're an agent who connects buyers with sellers or products, you deserve commissions. It's a legal way of life in sales.

Meet Robert. He easily organizes parties, plays and performances, events, exhibits, and even simple reunions. This is because of his wide network or connections. He can even have interiors renovated fast because he has connections (and close at that) with interior designers, decor people, suppliers, and carpenters and painters.

Meet Roel. He caters to different offices for their different needs--in fact, every need under the sun. If they need carpets, framed pictures, ID pictures, passports, coffee, lunch, or if they need deliveries, he does them all for them--of course for a fee. He easily does this because he has right connections.

That's the power of real networking. The keys to fruitful networking are friendliness, sincerity, and trustworthiness. And then you become jobless big-time.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Righteous Selling


Righteous selling is simply recognizing that it's a buyer's world nowadays. The buyer should call the shots as far as buying is concerned. We don't hardsell anymore--we persuade. And persuade means intellectual negotiations where both seller and buyer end up with a fair deal. It's not anymore the seller giving the buyer a blitz (sustained strategic bombing) and shocking him so that he finds himself buying something he doesn't need.

Righteous selling is making sure the customer got what he really needed, not what you wanted him to buy so you'd hit your quota. We often praise sales people who easily make big sales and hit their targets. As long as sales are coming in we don't mind the effect on the clients. Were they satisfied with their buy? Was the product they got what they really needed? Did their purchase really solve a problem? Or did it just add to it? 

A lot of sales were done due to pressure or subtle forcing or intimidation or mere abuse of relationships. The client pitifully ended up with a product he didn't need or want but which he'd forced himself to buy and consume. I even know people who fooled themselves into believing that they needed the product and bought some more--all because they valued their relationship with the seller. Yes, you may make money in a legit way   like that but you'll be making a lot of unhappy clients. It's not righteous selling, just the same.

Righteous Network Marketing

The same thing is true with network marketing. The best thing is to put people in a business they're genuinely happy and comfortable with. I know of many networkers who happily cheer their rich upline, but that's all they will ever be--a cheering crowd for the one upline on top who's growing rich because of their steady purchases--purchases they make in hopes of someday becoming like the successful upline--to no avail. 

Most uplines like that don't care whether the business is what people really need. All they want are more downlines. Sure enough, that hardselling made them rich, but the height of his career will sooner or later hit a ceiling and plateau till it starts to have a descending trend. Yeah, they'd try to help their downlines some, but how can you help someone who's in the wrong business--who was only forced there through hyped promises, hyped presentations, hyped income potentials, peer pressure, or sheer shock treatments.

Righteous network marketing is supposed to give everyone a chance to earn big--probably not all can become millionaires but at least earn big. And it's done through networking. Networking means building relationships or close links--not building an empire for an emperor whom all the subjects below hail. Real networking is giving equal chances and helping each other succeed--which should be spearheaded by network leaders, but which very, very seldom happens. Networks often degrade into mere empires. And history tells us that no empire ever lasts. 

What lasts are families, which networks should be like. A network is really a clan of networkers with the same marketing DNA helping each other pursue a common goal. I have not seen it done this way. Network leaders just get anyone even without a common marketing DNA denominator. It's all recruitment without relationships. They bombard the poor prospect with hypes and sometimes lies, and once he signs up, the party's over. You realize you've been had.

Downlines' Initiative

Downlines are also at fault. They enter the business without knowing its real nature. They think their sign-up obligates their referrer to do the business for them. They wait for their uplines to make them earn money. Why is this story repeated in network marketing year in and year out? Because they were forced or hyped into joining the business but the whole story was never stressed to them. All they were told were the easy hundreds of thousands or million checks.

Recruitment in network marketing should equal righteous selling.

Friday, March 2, 2012

Growing a Network (2)


You'd probably say the kind of duplication I espouse here is unrealistic. You'd say it can never happen. You cannot keep networkers sticking to a single business and leader through life. They will always look for another. And anyway, it is not growing a network. So, forget about duplication and just focus on recruitment en masse. So it's got to be big meetings to get a steady supply of downlines.

Well, that's how they've been doing networking, and it's not networking--it's pure recruitment. Big meetings are good now and then, but once it becomes the main bread and butter, it's nothing but desperation. It's tantamount to "hiring." And honestly, how many of the recruits really continue in the business? One or two percent or less. The rest stop and feel duped. Yeah, they do the business for a while but only to spend more than they earn, spurred on and hyped only by the uplines who are making it good on the far top. The rest are just used to create an impression of great quantity and for noise. Networking has got to stop being like this. This is not growing a network--it's growing an empire with a lone emperor on top with a few of his cohorts.

From 11 to 25,000 in 5 Years

I was amazed by the phenomenal growth of the communist rebels in the countryside in the 1980s in the Philippines. They started as a ragtag band of 11 young people who looked like they were yet on milk and never tasted wine. They had no office or company support or tools for proliferation. They were constantly in hiding and in grave danger. In 5 years they grew to more than 25,000, a growth of about 5,000 a year. They became a major threat.

How did they do it?

They had only 3 things: Undying idealism, strong belief, and duplication.

Duplication? Oh yes. That was the reason the government could not eradicate the revolution though they kept arresting and liquidating student leaders, labor leaders, and leaders of the armed front. When a leader was eliminated, another one like him replaced him. The military kept announcing the sure demise of the communist insurgency because so and so leader had been captured. It never happened. The movement continued and is alive to this day. They did it one on one, closely proselytizing their recruits and transferring their idealism, ideology, and spirits to them. There was a transfer of ideological DNA and a culture was developed. That's growing a network. Once you do that your growth will be firm and unstoppable.

There's got to be DNA transfer. It's that or nothing. Electoral campaigns can get large crowds of people but after the political meeting and election, it dies. People look for another party gimmick to be able to gather again. And they largely rely on handouts. That's rubbish.

DNA transfer creates a culture and an undying idealism that gets transferred intellectually and settled in the hearts. If the communists were able to do it without enjoying freedom and company support, why can't networkers who get company support and technology aid and all the freedom in the world? They should be growing a network that grows established and which lasts a very long time. The communist movement in the Philippines started in the 1930s (PKP) and continues to this day, taking some form of evolution (CPP), being flexible to changes to adapt to the times. That's growing a network.

We should grow a network, in the real sense of the term. A real network. A real network is founded on real and deep relationships, not just skin-deep, rubbish recruitment. A network is NOT an empire where an emperor reigns supreme. That's slavery. A real network is a fraternity of kindred spirits and intellects, committed to help each other, led by a company of selfless leaders who win by making their junior associates win.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Why Online Network Marketing


Many are asking, why online network marketing?

I've been an online affiliate and internet marketer since 2004 and have made money from it quite a bit. And it's been fun--I'm a blogging addict. Now I'm trying online network marketing with "The Next Millionaire Maker is me" (TNMM). 

I have been into offline network marketing since1996 though, and have made LOTS of money. I and my wife are always partners and our present brick and mortar network is Purple Networx. Nope, I haven't earned money from TNMM as of this writing--it's only been a month since I joined, and I'll doggedly work it out because it's a great and unique opportunity. 

Why did I go online? For simple and practical reasons. One is the products. TNMM offers products on blogging that I need. And if you want to make good money online I suggest blogging. Aside from the pecuniary rewards, writing to a big audience (which is the world at large) de-stresses big-time. It relaxes you so much and dispels cognitive diseases like Alzheimer's. Writing strengthens your mind. Now, if you want to start blogging, get TNMM's products. 

Another is the online networking global market.Your business easily goes worldwide through the Net. That's more people to prospect and better sales possibilities. What more when mixed with blogging?

Is blogging for everyone? Well, is writing for everyone? If you think it is, then start blogging away!

Offline MLM

But why online network marketing? My question however is, why not? It's so easy to do--though it takes lots of patience and persistence and hard work and faith in God and yourself. With offline network marketing, you have to seek out people and meet with them and treat them to snacks and sometimes even pay for their transportation fare. That's a lot of expense, but I do it anyway because it's my business career. Traditional business folks pay rent, water and electric bills and salaries monthly--and these cost them dearly--but they still do them anyway. Business is like that. The difference is that network marketing is easily sustainable especially for folks like us who have limited capital--for now.

Online MLM

Online MLM is even much easier to maintain. All you have to do is pay the very minimal entry fee, go online, and post your links on proper forums. That's it. No need to meet people and treat them to snacks or accompany them to the BOMs. There's very minimal expense and yet a really big income potential--like with TNMM you only invest P1k plus and yet have the potential to make $1,500 plus. You see now why online network marketing? 

I do both offline and online. The offline Purple Corn Juice business costs only P7,988 (you get products plus) and the online TNMM costs P1k plus (you get products plus). That's just P9,000. Both businesses have great income potentials. Both give hefty bonus incomes. Where else can you find a P9,000-investment that gives you two businesses, offline and online at that? What traditional business can you do with a P9,000 capitalization and could give you $1,500 plus a month or a day or P20,000 a week income?

Why Both Offline and Online?

Offline is for reaching offline people--people in your geographical location. Many of them do not go online as often as you do and do not own PCs. Online, on the other hand, is when you cannot go out of the house to network and would have to work from home--like when it's raining or when you don't feel like going out.

But I do both daily. At least you have two money sources--if one messes up you still have another. I do my online business and blogging in the morning and my offline MLM in the afternoon. And it's all fun and adventure meeting new people in my city and region and in other parts of the world.

Simple Solutions to Successful
Online  Network Marketing
And sometimes work complementary--I got a P100k offline sale once from Australia through my online activity, and got some referrals offline for my online business.

Finally, why online network marketing? Your business works for you 24 hours a day even while you sleep. The links you post on your blogs or social sites continue to work for you long after you posted them. Day and night they "sell" online to people from all over the world. Each time people online see them and click and join, you earn.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Growing a Network (1)

One-on-One: Luke and Jedi Yoda
on a one-on-one training
 to beat the empire.
BOMs, promos, orientations, free tastes, freebies, big events--we think of everything to grow our network quickly. And they're all costly. Yeah, gimmicks can grow a network in leaps and bounds fast and you get fat checks out of it, but then later you find it's not sustainable. It's short-lived. It's not growing a network in the true sense--just making it look busy. It has a peak and then descends uncontrollably. Then you feel the need to get new blood because many have left looking for other networks to workout, others got burnt out, the rest simply got lazy. 

In a funny way, it looks like church. Church work is also growing a network. You launch costly crusades and big meetings, the church explodes and then dwindles down again. And then it's recruitment time again--what they call "evangelism." It's a vicious cycle and we always have the same remedy formula--meetings and more meetings. Our thick skulls never seem to learn. By the way, you see the similarity between church and network marketing? That's why I say, networking is God's design for church--but the church never gets the hint. They prefer to beg.

OOO

Anyway, you try asking networks big and small what to do and they'd say it's got to be through big this and big that. Everything's got to be big. We got to make lots of noise and do everything to attract, everything that is except do a one-on-one. One-on-one (OOO) sounds slow and too small-time. They don't have the patience to wait. Everyone wants big profits--if not today then tomorrow. We're fascinated by guys who made it big overnight or after a few weeks. We don't believe in sowing and reaping seasons anymore. We want overnight farming, if there's such a thing. And the same thing goes for the church.

One-on-one is actually explosive and also sustainable. It's the key very few people use to unlock doors to higher levels of growing a network--church or marketing. It looks weak, but power is made perfect in weakness. It starts with only two. Get dedicated two. Look for 2 to 3 individuals who will really stick with you through thick and thin and want to prove that the system works--not just try the system but see its potential and believe it works--and they're out to prove it, come what may. Until you get these two or three, your big events and BOMs and parties and circuses will be all big wastes of time and resources. They're plain stupidity.

Where Two or Three Gather in My Name

Jesus knew the power of 2. It's actually Kingdom power. The universe and the vastness of God's Kingdom were the handiwork of the Trinity--that's only 3 People who were intent and focused and of one mind and were radical and fanatic believers of their system. Jesus taught the church the power of 2 (or 3). But no one wants to listen. They still want big. They don't see that in the Kingdom, small is big and vice versa.

When the atom splits in two, a whole country can be changed dramatically. It doesn't divide into multiple parts at once but initially only in two. Jesus said 2 or 3 initially is dynamically powerful, able to move heaven and earth--and even the heart of the Father. Let's listen to the Master Networker.

Initially Jesus had 3--Peter, James, and John. Then it became 12. The 12 had 6 each and became 72. The 72 became 120. Then the network spread from Jerusalem, to Samaria, and to the outermost part of the world. Jesus had big meetings that helped launch the "product" (which is life in the Kingdom of God, and mind you, the meetings weren't costy), but he treated big crowds lightly. Instead, he relied on his few close-in proteges. His vision was 2 to 3 initially. And the system used was OOO. That's surefire way of growing a network. 

Get Two

First, master the system and the product. Your first direct downlines can only be as good as you are. The Master says no student is above his teacher. They can only be like their teacher, and that's it. That's duplication. You cannot duplicate yourself on the multitude. That's why Jesus often hid from the crowd. It's not productive to aim at big assemblies. The bigger they are the more hopeless is duplication. Big assemblies are bonuses. They're not the main thing and you can't expect anything from them--they might even crucify you in the end. So he spent the 3 crucial years of his earthly ministry with only 12, which started with 3 and ended up with only 120 when he ascended to heaven.

The bible says "Would 2 walk together unless they are agreed?" Your 2 should fully agree together, and together agree with you as leader. Lots of networkers today just gather physically together but are not agreed mentally. They will follow only those who have the big earnings. But with their immediate upline who hasn't earned anything yet, they won't bother listening to. This bad attitude leads to a natural death of the network, if not sooner then later.

First, the leader should be knowledgeable and skillful and well experienced--never mind if he or she isn't earning yet. The 2 directs should obey this leader and be with him or her through thick and thin. The two should then get their 2 each and train them the way they  are trained. The training method should be the same to achieve real duplication and establish a network culture. Remember, culture keeps people stick together.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Honesty in Sales

The only reason I agreed to join the pool of writers on Jobless Big Time is its commitment to righteous business. And it's high time to promote honesty in sales big-time. This is so vital. You can never enjoy the fruits of your labor unless you sell honestly. And few sales people understand this.

Here's what I mean. Do you know that your number one duty as a sales person or sales consultant is to help your clients get the best product or service he or she needs? Selling your product is only second to this. If you sell leather shoes but the customer badly needs rubber shoes, are you going to do all you can to get him to buy shoes he doesn't need? Or are you going to refer him to a rubber shoes dealer?

Some would take that as a challenge and try hard to convince people to buy products they don't need. They'll doggedly insist on the leather shoes even if the customer will use it to play basketball. And lots of times this happens--people get carried away by good presentation and hyped hard selling and buy, only later to scratch their heads wondering why they bought something they didn't need--"What am I doing wearing leather shoes on the hard court?" And the smart guy who made the sale thinks its a job well done. He's a killer salesman!

There are doctors, they say, who convince patients to have an operation even if they don't need them. The medical practice is one big salesmanship, and I'd like to make some kind of analogy here. I think I was almost a victim of hyped medical salesmanship twice. When I was younger, I had some problems that a doctor-surgeon at once recommended for surgery--a heart surgery at that. I sought a second opinion and the lady-doctor said what I had was nothing that bad and could be remedied with a simple pill. The doctor-surgeon later reviewed the findings and, indeed, he confirmed that what I had didn't need surgery. He just laughed off his error. You see that? That's so lacking honesty in sales. Even if it doesn't involve heart surgery, never be like that if you're a salesman.

Another time, I went to see a thyroid doctor-surgeon and she at once recommended surgery. Do I look like a perfect specimen for surgery? Do I look like I have the word "Surgery" written all over my face? Why always that diagnosis? Later, I sought another doctor-surgeon on thyroid--a more experienced one--and she at once remarked that my T3-T4-Tsh was normal and I didn't need any surgery. In fact, she was even angry at the rushness of the other doctor. She said some doctors are out only to make money. Aren't we all are? But we should do it with honesty and accuracy.

Honesty in sales is important. We should look after the welfare of our clients first before our interests. And this is more so with testimonies on health supplements. There is, some say, a practice where people are paid to say false testimonies on video. I wouldn't be part of any of that, and let's determine to help put a stop to all that. Righteousness in business is important. There should be rigid honesty in sales.

Monday, February 13, 2012

BIG Effort Tiny Output

Introducing Becky. She's hardworking. She has lots of big dreams for herself and family so she works hard to earn the money needed to build her dreams. You know what she's doing for this end? She's distributing promo leaflets in parks and malls for a hotel receiving P200 for half a day (about P5,200).

In the afternoon, she sells cosmetics and women's wear earning extra something like P300 to P500 every other day (around P7,500 a month). That's big effort tiny output.

But not bad. That's admirable courage and determination.

But if she becomes realistic and computes her target budget and actual financial output, it'd go something like this. She wants a house and lot costing P3M (just right for her family), a small car costing P500k, and quality high school and college education for her 3 kids which would be something like P100k each, equals P300k. All in all, that's P3.8M, excluding their monthly rent and daily food.

Monthly she earns P12,700 in all. That's P1.5M plus a year. It will take her 3 years to workout her dreams, if prices do not increase by then and if she stops buying food and paying rent. She may be able to workout her dreams, but it will be very difficult with big-effort-tiny-output.

Now, with the same effort it would be different if she did a network marketing business. She would be pursuing her dreams with big help from her team (downlines) who she doesn't have to pay salaries to. With 5 downlines as committed as she is in working out their dreams, it would take just 6 months to a year to realize them, or shorter. And chances are, they'd hit not just P3.8M but P3M a month or even a week continuously. This is not a theory anymore. This happens in network marketing businesses. It's a fact. And yet many do not believe. They still prefer lack to prosperity.

So I wonder why very hardworking people I see in malls distributing leaflets do not do a more realistic livelihood, using lesser effort and shorter time, and yet yielding higher income? Why stick to big effort, tiny output? In the end, people like Becky use up their youthful energies enriching other people and later end up with nothing plus illness in their old age. The story goes on and on, from generation to generation, and it seems no one wants to put a stop at everything and re-think everything. Some even say that not everyone is made for business; the majority of us, they insist, are for employment.

That's why we have to opt for being jobless--to escape the big-effort-tiny-output bottomless pit. If you're a Becky, I suggest you get out of that trap. You are worth more than a job. God placed more potentials in you than you think. You have to discover them by trying and risking.

You wanna get out of big-effort-tiny-output? Be jobless big-time! Join us try alternatives to employment and enjoy freedom and escape the curse. Financial freedom is possible and it can be done online.

Trying is 70 Percent of Work Done

Few would try and risk. Majority would heckle and discourage and bad-mouth. That's easier and often idlers and losers love doing them. They'd tell you all sorts of scary stories and doomsday forecasts. They will pull you down with them if you don't persist in trying. But fret not--trying is 70 percent of work done.

Watch what kind of life these hecklers have. Chances are, they don't have much and have no plans of having a bit more. But you have to get out of their circles and aim higher. Try. And if at first you don't succeed, just keep trying. Trying and failing is better than just sitting there doing nothing and die with empty mouth open. And I tell you, most of the time, trying is already 70 percent successful. Trying is 70 percent of work done. Continuing takes care of the remaining 30 percent.

Today, you have to try something a bit radical to earn a bit radically, too. If you want a meaningful life--a life used for helping other people meaningfully--you have to go farther than helping an old woman cross the street or caring for your family only. You have to help poor people financially. Yeah, I would dare go radically that far  and be willing to invest on people, especially the marginalized. I'd like to die leaving some people behind whose financial lives I have helped improved.

And you know what? Hecklers and negative folks are the last people you need with this kind of noble ideals. Eagles should leave hens behind because they're made for soaring and hens only for making noises, later to be slaughtered for dinner. And that's the first thing you have to do--stop mingling with chickens. You're an eagle. Try flapping your wings to soar. And when mother eagles teach their eaglets how to fly, they throw them from a tremendous height and leave them alone to learn how to fly and later soar.

And the eaglets will try. Oh yeah, they'll try, even if it's life threatening. They're created to soar above everyone else. Trying is 70 percent of work done. Without that step of trying, all ideals are nothing. Trash. Pfft. And your life is meaningless. Soon you'd turn into an ugly heckler telling every eaglet "it won't work. You're just a chicken, like us." Whatever you become, don't be a chicken.

To earn something substantial from your usual, you have to do something different to get a different result. Even something radical. You have to try and risk. You have to keep trying until you get what you want. This, of course, with God's help, leading, and empowerment. That's why God says nothing is impossible with him and with anyone who has faith. He said that to encourage us to try and risk and not be content with the status quo. Trying and risking is faith. And trying is 70 percent of work done.

They say you should try only what's sure and proven. Again, only hecklers say that. Where's the trying and risking there? You don't have to risk trying something already proven and stable and sure. 

The first time the Wright brothers said they could fly, hecklers were there saying it was stupid to try to fly.  It could never be done. "Only birds can fly," they must've added. Today, those hecklers would be dumbfounded to see flying objects made of steel. History has always shown that hacklers and doubters and negative people are always wrong in the end. So, why listen to them. Go ahead try and risk, until you get what you aim for!

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Qualities of Good Leadership

Leadership is essential for growing your business. If you want your business to proliferate and birth branches and expand and even diversify, you need to be a leader. Don't just be the boss--be a leader. Here are surefire top qualities of good leadership we must possess in business, be it traditional, direct selling, or MLM. 

Man of God

Whatever business you're in, you should first be a man of God. God is the Author and Creator and Master of everything, including business, marketing, sales, advertising, accounting, leadership, etc., and yes even your line of business. Thus, Jobless Big-Time espouses righteous business because we believe that without God we can do nothing. Yes, you may build a business empire while being an atheist or in wickedness, but in reality you've built nothing. Zero. Trash. Pfft! Man's glory is like the grass in the field--here now burned tomorrow, or even the next minute.

You've got to hear from God. Others call this the right hunch. There are wrong hunches, you know, and a lot of businessmen use hunches now and then no matter how well organized and systematic and educated they may seem. And the last thing you need is having God working against your business. A man of God has Him as a business partner. Nope, I don't mean you become religious and start going to church every Sunday. I mean be a man of God always attuned to His still, small voice. For more on this just daily visit GOD's FLESH. Being God's flesh is among the vital qualities of good leadership.

Integrity

Under integrity is honesty, trustworthiness, reliability, and honoring your word. People should see your life (not just business) as trustworthy and honest. If people see you like that, you can command their attention and commitment. Well, not all of them. Even good leaders have more detractors than followers--like Jesus did. He was crucified for being a very good leader. But to be able to lead 3 or 5 people is good enough, people who are really your followers and are committed to train their followers likewise. And if you train them to be like you--with your godly integrity--and have 5 people under them doing and being the same, then you're a true leader. 

Leadership is really "laddership." No one is born a leader. You have to start from ground zero and work your way up the ladder of success. So, true leaders are proteges of true senior leaders. You must be a good follower to be a true leader. And that's a great part of integrity. Integrity means being accountable to your leadership mentor. That's among qualities of good leadership.

Following

You must have a following. Now, this does not mean that because they are your employees, they follow you, and you have a following. Or, just because you have lots of downlines, you now have good leadership qualities. That's farthest from truth. Truth is, a following means disciples or proteges that you have mentored, who are following not just in your footsteps, but also your business style and strategies--in fact your life. They want to become like you, not just financially (people who want to have your financial stature are not your followers; they want to dethrone you), but they want to live your good life. So this isn't just about making money. This is about righteous leadership.

Followers respect you so that just one call from you makes them scurrying to be there for you. And very few leaders have followers in hundreds or even 50s. Some people say such and such a guy is a leader because he has a big group. But the reality is, yeah, he has lots of victimized downlines, but his real following is probably just 5 or 7 at most. Jesus had 120 disciples, he even had multitudes of "followers," but only 11 really followed him. And out of that he had only 3 close-in. 

So don't waste time trying to "duplicate" yourself on all your downlines. They're not all your following. Choose those who really cling to you like glue, respect you, and believe you, and then duplicate yourself on them, and they do the same to theirs. That's among important qualities of good leadership.

Vision

Never mind if you're not intelligent. You can hire someone to be that for you--figuring our accounting stuff, computing figures, analyzing matrices, etc. But you need to be a visionary. This means you can see yourself not just a year from now but 5 or 10 years from now. And you know how to get there. You know where you're heading. You see ahead, and that's a definite edge.

Well, a lot of people can see things, but you're different. You see things and you know know to make them real. Sometimes, to realize a goal or vision, you may need expert help, and true leaders are humble enough to admit and accept help. That's part of realizing your vision--being realistic. And it's among important qualities of good leadership.

Resourceful

Network marketing "leaders" who cannot present well their businesses to an audience are not resourceful. Yeah, they will resort to inviting resource speakers, and to them that is resourceful. Being resourceful means you have the imagination to make things come true. And if you cannot make even a simple thing as speaking effectively to an audience come true, how much more other really difficult matters? How resourceful can you be?

Being resourceful means you have lots of good and new ideas back in your mind. You  have to be knowledgeable. And a big help comes from being a wide reader. That's how you become "resourceful." In fact, that's how you become a "resource" speaker--you know a lot of things to talk about.

You have these 5 qualities of good leadership, then you're a real leader. True leadership is not how you receive wards and citations for "leadership" or management or directorship. It's not how your small business is able to make money daily. It's not how you have lots of downlines in your network who follow you in whatever networking business you do because they want your financial stature. True leadership is how your life inspires others to follow, not just your business, but your righteous business life, in fact your model life as a whole. Just like how Jesus inspires disciples even up to this day.
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Useless Questions and Concerns

"Are you earning from it now? How much? How come you're not yet earning from it, and you want me to join you? Is it legal? Do you have license?" and lots more other bla,bla,bla...all useless questions and concerns.

Hello there! Please don't be offended. I'm a jolly guy and I talk like that sometimes, to make a point. A guy once asked me if I was already earning money from TNMM and how much. I said "Not a cent." She was shocked. "How can you join in something like that? And you want me to join you?" I laughed out loud. I laugh at anything that sounds dumb. 

Zero Earnings Period

All businesses have periods of lows, even zero earnings, especially if you've just joined an MLM. You spend about P50,000 for a small street corner store or shop, for instance. Now, during your first month, do you expect earnings? No you don't. What profits you gain is not yet "earnings." You're still in the process of ROI. After your investments return to you, then you start to earn. See that?

So I told this young lady, I haven't any earnings yet because it's just been two days. And yes, I wanted her to be in my TNMM team. How else are you going to earn from MLM unless you invite folks into your team? To think that this lady was already a network marketer and MLMer. That's why I just laugh at useless questions and concerns.

Any Upline Will Do

And anyway, if you join someone who already earns millions in MLM, it'd be too late for you then. The guy will hardly notice you're there. And anyway, he'd just connect you to a new member who joined a bit earlier than you did. Yeah, it's tempting to join millionaires or high earners in MLM but logic will tell you it's perfectly OK joining an upline who's new in the business. Newbies are aggressive and will tag you along with them in their dogged efforts to start earning.

License?

Online businesses are licensed in their home territory. If you're not a citizen there, you don't need to hassle with license. If you want, then get your own license--because you're doing the business. But where are you going to register an online business? It's just common sense. That's why I just laugh at useless questions and concerns like that. License is when you're occupying a physical place in the country or city in question, doing business there. But what if your business is in cyberspace? 

The questions are legit if the business is offline. You need a permit and license and every legality for that. But with online businesses, it will remain moot and debatable. So why waste time on that?

Just Grab the Opportunity

The thing is, just grab the opportunity. Start doing the business and when the money starts pouring, then pay your tax. Register your "business" if you want to. But before we can talk about legalities, we have to earn money first and forget about useless questions and concerns.

Monday, February 6, 2012

Low Risk Investment: Your P1K Plus for $16K Plus!


Super super low risk investment...you see that? How else can your P1000 plus turn into $16,000 plus? Peso to dollars. My goodness. Have you seen anything like that with employment or even common traditional businesses? Honestly, I don't know of any real investment that's as low risk as MLM, especially online MLM. In fact, I dare say, ZERO risk. 

You pay something like P1,000 plus and get the same amount back in terms of products. So where's the risk there? If you buy a mobile phone worth P3,000, do you feel any risk after you get the brand new phone? Of course not. You've got value for your money. The same with MLM low risk investment.

There are lots of MLM programs out there that cost P8,000. If the amount is for a shopping spree, it's a costly and nonsense waste--like buying a cell phone or dress. But for a real business investment that will give you and your family financial freedom and be jobless big-time that's small. Really now, where can you find a real business for P8,000 that allows you at least an income of P2M a month? 

And with the P8K cashout you get products worth every cent of it. So there's no "risk" because your P8K is all accounted for. Doing the business then is just a bonus! If you don't do the business (or don't "earn" from it) you actually lose nothing because you got your products' worth anyway.

You see the logic here? I mean, if you're honest about it, MLM is the ideal business especially for low and middle income people. If you have your PC and internet connection--plus a minimal P1,000 plus capitalization and at least 2 hours a day--you're in business. 

And just imagine--your P1,000 plus for $16,000 plus, which could grow into a weekly and later daily income, once your network under you starts growing. I'd grab the chance right now, if I were you.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Selling Without Selling

Many people find selling so odious. I don't know why. Do you? I enjoy selling a lot, especially when the prospect is all ears to your sales pitch. But even if he or she isn't, I find the challenge to eke out a sale from the cynical an amusing adventure. No, I never hardsell. I'm not that desperate. I still can afford meals even without making any sale in a day. But I keep selling anyway. I just love to sell. It's what I call selling without selling. 

It's more an experiment. Like a dare. You dare yourself to sell like some kind of a game. Never mind if the prospect doesn't buy. Just experiment. Don't target any goal. Just start talking. It starts with a silly thought about making people react and watching them do so. You're like a sociologist or psychologist taking a survey. How would he react when offered to buy an elephant? Would this guy buy at least the idea? Would he bite the bait of my sales closing?

You may try selling an elephant or the North Pole or a real product--your product. Make an adventure of it, instead of a serious sales talk you must close into a purchase. Selling without selling is fun. I know--you have a sales target, a quota, right? No matter. You can try selling without selling. Do it during casual meets with anyone you meet. Don't be too talkative, just get into a conversation naturally. Like what I did one fine Sunday morning...

I and my wife were talking to a friend we've not seen in months. We talked about her work and her coming wedding and her other plans. It was she doing most of the talking. You wouldn't see a trace of me readying a sales remark to be inserted somewhere in the conversation. I was just enjoying everything and obviously relaxed. That's how you settle your prospect and get him or her off guard.

Then I released the bomb. I asked her about her plan to resign from work soon and how someone might try to talk her into doing a direct selling business after she quit work, the latest business that's been somewhat the talk of the town. "What business?" she asked. Well, she shouldn't have asked. That was the opportunity. I casually talked about the product and how it's been benefiting many people and bla, bla, bla. My wife joined in the chorus.

Did she buy? You bet. And she'd be buying more because we've arranged for a demo soon. And the whole thing was so casual. Like how friends would talk about a movie they've seen and then suddenly you remember somethings and say, "Oh by the way, have you heard about the new restaurant in town? You should try it!" No tension, no pressure, and you lose the friendship of fewer people. You know how some people tend to shy away from you after you try to sell them something, as if you've turned into a criminal.

Of course, it's different when you have to present the business during an orientation or during an appointment with a referral who's a total stranger. Get ready for the stress and pressure. But even then, just relax. Do your best, but if no sale materializes, so what? Just enjoy everything and do better next time. Learn from the mistakes or shortcoming if any. Just keep selling without selling.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Never Mind If You're Ugly..

Yeah, never mind if you're ugly..as long as you're rich! That's what an apparels magnate told me recently. Money can make you look much better, in fact the best in looks may even fall madly for you. The worse tragedy is being poor and ugly, too. Jobless and ugly big time is tolerable. But poor and ugly? Oh my...

Some people can live with good-looking but poor. Poor is not a problem. Simply workout a business, like a networking business, which affords image buildup at the same time that you're growing a network. But take my advice; if you're ugly (and be honest if you are), by all means work out a way to be rich. Grace does not cover remaining poor and ugly. Everybody's given a chance to get rich. Then, if you do, it lends that optical illusion that makes people see you as good-looking. So, never mind if you're ugly, as long as you have fat checks.

Looks do not matter to God or after you die. But it matters while you're alive and mingling with fellowmen, especially your loved ones--and if you think of others' welfare. Don't be egotistic or selfish; know for sure that your looks affect other people so much. You may not realize it fully well but people close to you or even those unrelated to you are affected about how you look. I mean, if people scowl at you or reject you because you're ugly, how do you think your family would feel about it? 

I know of people who lose their appetites once they see ugly people. No kidding. Yeah, it's bad character to be thus, but that's how they feel about it. At least they're honest. You may say you don't care how they feel about you as long as you're not doing them any wrong. But to them you are--your looks make them sick. Don't impose your high principles about how beauty is really in one's heart, not how you look physically. If you believe that, go on  doing so, but you should also think about others. And that's what counts in good character--how you think about other's welfare more than how you think of yours. Like how the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve.

No it's not about pleasing everybody. It's about being presentable enough as best as you can so that less people are offended.

This is not do degrade you or anything but to make you see that there's hope. There's a way. If you use the ability God gave you to produce wealth (and He's given each one of us that), then that wealth can do a makeover and transform you (in people's minds, at least) into someone good-looking, almost like a miracle. No, it's not about turning too materialistic; it's about turning into something human beings can identify with and relate to. Once you get this, you can say that never mind if you're ugly as long as you got money, better if you got lots of it.


And this is what going jobless big time is all about--to be able to say, never mind if I'm just like this, the type that people despise because I'm not good enough to them. As long as I have lots of money--more money than  what my detractors have--I'm good. I'm able to live freely, independently, with dignity and self-respect, and nobody can just push me around. Most people respect money. And even if some of them don't, at least they cannot touch me or my loved ones--or at least have a hard time trying to do so.

Money's God's gift to make the world around you a bit tamer. Jesus said make use of worldly riches to gain friends for yourself. You can only be friends with abusive people or opportunists if they cannot make a slave of you. Moreover (and this is the best thing), you can help needy people more if you have the money. Then you become good looking to everyone, friends and enemies alike. Then it doesn't matter how you look--never mind if you're ugly.

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Two Networkers: Unscrupulous and Conscientious

There are two kinds of networkers: the unscrupulous and the conscientious. The unscrupulous are, of course, what you should stay away from, but ironically most networking companies like them. Most of them are called “leaders” or “icons” simply because there are people silly enough to idolize and follow them without realizing who they’re following. And these “leaders” often have a big following.

Er...may I haste to add that, however, not all leaders and icons are unscrupulous. 

Unscrupulous

The unscrupulous only have one thing in mind: their selfish interest. And they’d do anything for it. I’ve seen them do it. They look for loopholes in the system and take advantage of them, even if it means the company’s demise. They’d say something about them being businessmen out to make money, not to show compassion for any company, and all that garbage. They don’t care about people down them who’d lose their hard earned investments if they go on with their malicious schemes. They don’t have the heart to think of that because they’re docile robots of greed. The more they get the greedier they are. The more they have the less they are! They're like hell--never satisfied.

And I see through them--the more money they have the sadder their hearts are. The more miserable.

They hate spending for their own business. They’d exhaust all means to have the company shoulder all the expenses in their favor. They don’t mind if novice and small networkers pay their own expenses while they, the big earners, always request company full support. They’d even borrow your pen and not return it. I know two guys who earned big checks weekly and yet borrowed P200 from me for their lunch. They promised to pay me in the afternoon. They forgot about it. I even had to remind them. And when I did, they acted innocent, as if the loan never happened. I thanked God they paid me back. God is good. Unscrupulous networkers are not.

These unscrupulous networkers are no different from hoarders during scarcity or a calamity—they don’t care if small folks starve to death as long as they make a killing. These hoarders mouth the same doctrine—they’re in business not for charity or showing compassion but for making money. If unscrupulous networkers say it’s not their fault that the company system has loopholes or weaknesses they can manipulate, hoarders also reason that it’s not their fault that there’s scarcity and the government didn’t make allowances for it.

Unscrupulous networkers are cheats. They cannot be trusted though they can appear trustworthy. That’s why they have a big following. Unthinking people just see how big their checks are, their posh cars and stylish mansions, and their pretended kindness. Then they willingly make a fool of themselves for these crooks, carrying their “icons” on top and making them richer. They see these icons as fulfillments of their own failed dreams and frustrations.

Most networking companies are pleased to have unscrupulous networkers around them because of their influence and manpower. They literally carry an empire. But sooner or later, these companies find them pains in the neck and later, enemies. That’s why it’s vital to find a networking system with enough safety nets to guard small and well-meaning folks from unscrupulous networkers.

Now, I’m not saying all unscrupulous guys have big followings. There are small ones in the making.

Scrupulous

Scrupulous or conscientious networkers may be big or small but they have this common trait: they won’t do anything they know is wrong and would adversely affect the majority, especially the small ones. I’ve seen them, too. They’re the minority. They always play even and fair, even if the rest don’t. Few rich networkers are like this; most conscientious networkers earn just right with some extras that enable them to live comfortably well.

Most networking companies either don’t appreciate their worth or only have eyes for arrogant hypers. Most companies do not see the gem that conscientious networkers are because these good guys work simply and often quietly. They naturally exude excitement but they never artificially hype.
So, what type of a networker are you?

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Making Good Money Selling Sign Pens

Recently I got a text message from a mother who was worried sick about her cervical diagnosis: she had a lump in there somewhere. She needed an ultrasound to see what it was about. She said she was so worried for her only daughter who she might leave behind if something bad happened to her. She's just a kid, the mom added.

This mom asked for my prayers, which I assured her was easy for me to do. But prayers alone are sometimes not enough. Sometimes God uses such situations because He wants us to search harder and explore more possibilities so we can discover things He had already made available for us, and once discovered, God wants us to share and announce it to all and sundry. God is a good Provider and He's been providing all our needs. The problem is, we spend more time in useless things or wrong mindsets than discovering and using His provisions.

So, I and my wife talked to this mom more and we discovered that she's now making at least P1,400 a day selling sign pens here and there. It's a special kind of sign pen with some special gimmicks, and she's been marketing it of her own initiative since she came home from working abroad. She doesn't want to go back working abroad and being away from her only child. Good and wise decision!

But the problem was her genital disease. I told her God loved her and she shouldn't worry.


After a while, the ultrasound result came and it was benign. I said God answered our prayers! But she was still worried nonetheless. She thought about her daughter's future.

Yeah, she may be earning P1,400 a day now, but what about when she grows too old for selling pens? I appreciated and marveled at how she could start a good business with ordinary pens and established it so that today she has several distributors and has managed to put up a small company. All she has to do is do the daily rounds of supplying the pens to stores and later collecting the profits. She gets the pens at a discount somewhere in Divisoria.

But going back to the question--what if she grows too old to do the business, which surely will happen soon? So we introduced to her the networking business. Yeah, she's heard about it, but she never thought of actually doing it. So we explained how it worked. My wife told her, her great skill in direct selling is a big asset here. It will work powerfully for her network marketing. She loved the idea and will soon be joining us in one networking business. She already has wide connections, besides having the talent to talk and persuade people.

In network marketing, it pays to be friendly and a bit persuasive. You don't have to go all-out for befriending everyone; just be friendly and kind and patient to all, without favoritism. And with selling, don't hardsell. Just sell. Just present the business and that's it. Be truthful and sincere. It'll help to look a bit enthusiastic about the product and business. But never tell a lie or exaggerate. Righteousness in business is a powerful tool for a good and lasting network marketing business.