I feel like my eyes are going to pop out of my head after watching 7 hours of football yesterday (:)) but it got me thinking…

The NFL players on the field yesterday have worked all of the lives in order to get to where they are today – earning a very good living as a professional athlete. Did you know that network marketing has more millionaires than professional sports does?  And, it requires much less training and preparation!

But, ultimately, it comes down to “how bad do you want it”? To get to the pinnacle of any sport, not only do you have to love playing but you also have to go above and beyond what most people are willing to do. You don’t just become a successful professional athlete just because you want to be one. If that were the case, I’d be on the PGA Tour today! You need to put in the work necessary to achieve the network marketing success you desire.

Network marketing, in my eyes, in really no different EXCEPT that it’s much easier and requires much less work. It does require training and work, though, and learning new ideas and concepts. I think that’s what holds many people back in this industry from ever reaching their goals.

Everyone who gets involved in network marketing does so because they want to make money. It’s honestly for no other reason. So, why is the “failure” rate so high?

A big reason is that much of the advertising in this industry targets people with the “lottery mentality” OR it gives us that mentality of fast and easy riches. Telling us how easy it is and we’ll only need to spend 5 minutes per day…if that…to start earning ridiculous amounts of money. You know the ads I’m talking about, we’ve all seen them! Unfortunately, there is no “easy button” when starting your own business. Ask any successful entrepreneur.

There’s a saying that “nothing in live is free”. That can mean that you must either spend your time or spend your money (ideally both) to build your business. You must also have the right mindset. A mindset that excludes failure and provides you with a willingness to go BEYOND where others are willing to go. This is imperative to entrepreneurial success.

• Are you willing to learn new concepts to build your business (kind of like going back to school)?

• Are you willing to spend time on your business when you get home from work instead of watching TV?

• Are you willing to put in the time and effort required (be honest with yourself)?

Here’s a free download of an eBook called “Think & Grow Rich”. As I re-read it, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on this blog. Think and Grow Rich was written in 1937, by Napoleon Hill, and has managed to stand the test of time because of the life-transforming value that it continues to provide. Download it, read it, and live it. It’ll put you in the right mindset and enable you to break through any barriers that may be holding you back in your business or your life. Enjoy!

Alright, so I decided to join MyVideoTalk about a week or so ago and I thought I’d give you my insiders look at the company, why I joined, and an expert MyVideoTalk Review so you can evaluate the products and opportunity for yourself!

MyVideoTalk Review: Why My Video Talk?

Anyone that’s known me or read my blog knows that I’m a big believer in the “top tier direct sales” business model. I just think that’s where most people should set up shop if they expect to make a lot of money in this industry. That being said, I also like the idea of building a monthly residual income. The problem I have is much of the standard MLM industry holds no appeal for me. Most of the products, while very good in most cases, just don’t get my blood flowing. I don’t care if some juice potion was created from some never before seen Polynesian seaweed fungus and it only costs $50 a bottle…I wanted to care and pretend that I needed it but I just don’t!

For me, MyVideoTalk is different. Most importantly, I’ll actually use the products to help grow my overall business and brand AND they’re not overpriced . You won’t find any $17 bottles of shampoo here! Also, and this is a very important point, I can offer this to my fellow network marketers and small business owners as a “tool” to help them grow their business in addition to it being a business opportunity. I’ve learned that if you can promote a business opportunity that doesn’t necessarily have to be the primary business for the person you’re recruiting, it’s much easier to sign that person up. This is a business model that I can relate to and build.

MyVideoTalk Review: What Are The Products?

MyVideoTalk actually has 5 products currently: Video Email, Video Broadcaster/Webinar Room (like gotowebinar), Video Channel, Video Boardroom (for up to 16 people), Webshow (for live streaming video and stuff like that). The monthly cost to have all of these tools is only $40. Just getting an ad-free webinar room costs around $100/mo.

I’ve come to the realization that video is where it’s at and to be able to stay in touch with your customers and prospects via video email and then hold live webinars is a proven way to build a business online. I’m not even sure at this point if I’ll use the other 3 tools or not.

My Video Talk Review: The Comp Plan

The comp plan pays out 77%, which is extremely high in the MLM world. There are fast-start bonuses, car bonuses, cycle bonuses, and 10 ways to earn when all is said and done. Of course, you won’t earn a penny if you don’t market the business or products but for a marketer, the company is solid as is the comp plan.

Summary

To summarize my MyVideoTalk review, I’d say that I am extremely impressed with the products to date. The customized email templates alone are worth the business start up cost in my opinion and that’s just the tip of the iceberg! MVT provides the marketer with the tools to grow any business plus make an extra income. A really good business model in my book!

Avant Home Business

I was recently approached by an experienced network marketer to join Brent Payne’s new Avant Home Business MLM company. While I respectfully declined because my business is set for right now, it is a very appealing business with a GPT business model that I like so I thought I’d provide my readers with a thorough and unbiased Avant Home Business Review.

What Exactly Is The Avant Home Business?

Avant is a Top Tier Direct Sales business in the network marketing industry. The founder, Brent Payne, is a very motivational guy whose first venture into the network marketing arena was with Liberty League International. LLI was an extremely successful top tier direct sales business until Brent walked away. He’s taken that successful business model, tweaked the compensation plan and created Avant. Avant, based in Scottsdale Arizona, actually launched in 2010 but seems to just be picking up steam with the introduction of Co-Founder & COO Michael Hamburger.

The products behind Avant are personal development related including a 72 day home study course and 2 personal development-type seminar packages. The personal development industry is big business, as is direct sales, and Avant is looking to capitalize on this trend.

What Does It Cost To Start An Avant Home Business?

Technically, it only costs $29.95 to join as an affiliate but nobody is going to do that. The vast majority of people starting their Avant Home Business will come in at the Elevate Level (and purchase the Elevate 72 day home study course) for $1,695. A much lesser percentage will come in at the Transform Level, which is a 3-Day Live Event Seminar that retails for $9,995. The third way somebody can start their Avant Home Business is to join at the Transcend Level, which is a 5-Day Live Event Global Awareness Event that retails for $16,495. We’re not talking chump change here!

BUT, I’ve found that this type of Top Tier business model is the type of business that most home business entrepreneurs SHOULD start because you need far less “sales” to make a full-time income as compared with your standard MLM business model. Most people choose to join inexpensive MLM type business and end up making zilch! In the long run, since top tier business do not have a monthly autoship, they may cost more upfront but will ultimately save you money in the long run.

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How Do You Make Money With An Avant Home Business?

The compensation plan, basically, is a 1-Up with a twist along with 4 levels deep of residual overrides. I’ll use the popular Elevate Level as an example. You join and pay your sponsor the $1695 directly. Your sponsor pockets a cool $1000 and sends the $695 to the company. The company then puts $200 aside for the residual overrides. The first sale that you make also goes directly to your sponsor (that’s the 1-Up) and your sponsor is required to give you a team qualifying sale. After all of that has taken place, you are “qualified” to earn commissions.

I’m not going to get into the overrides but your upfront commissions will be either $1000 (Elevate), $5000 (Transform) or $10,000 (Transcend). Not bad on a per sale basis!

My Avant Home Business Review Summary

I like the business model alot and recommend the Top Tier business model to anyone looking to make a 5-Figure Per Month income right out of the box with their home business. I like the overall look and product mix of Avant and the company has many strong marketers involved who agree. It’s a business opportunity worth exploring in my opinion.

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Text Cash Network Review

There a relatively new MLM on the block that has generated some buzz, particularly among newbie marketers, called the Text Cash Network. What follows is a Text Cash Network Review from an outsider…somebody who is NOT involved in this business opportunity and can provide you with unbiased information (hard to find sometimes!) so you can decide for yourself if you’d like to join.

Who Is The Text Cash Network?

In order to provide you with a thorough Text Cash Network Review, I’d like to first provide you with some boring company information! TCN is a brand new company headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. It was founded by Dalton Johnson and Brett Hudson. Doing a Google search on the 2 principals, it does appear that Mr. Hudson brings an impressive business resume to the company having built and taken companies public in the past. This is a real positive in my book.

The Text Cash Network is FREE to join and, according to their website, will always be free to join. This is an interesting business model that I’ve seen before in network marketing. Companies like TCN are trying to mirror the massive success of Groupon by using the same business model.

How Do You Make Money With The Text Cash Network?

How do you make money when people join for free? Well, it’s a pretty cool concept but will take a very long time to build. When you join, you agree to receive 5 text marketing messages per day. These are ads that advertisers who sign up with TCN are sending to the distributor base. The people you bring in to the business also agree to receive 5 text messages per day from advertisers. For this you can earn UP TO $1.50 per person in your 2×10 matrix. This means you can earn up to $2302.50 per month in your 2×10 matrix if you fill it completely (which nobody ever does).

There’s also a 3×10 matrix with matching bonuses that you can participate in. While the compensation plan and business model are legit and there’s nothing that indicates that the Text Cash Network is a scam, I’ve seen similar comp plans and the vast majority of distributors won’t earn more than a few bucks if that. I’ve found in my experience that “free to join” business opportunities do not provide people with a vested interest to work the business. At least if somebody has to reach into their bank account first the chances of them at least trying to build a business are far greater.

That being said, it is free so if it’s a business that appeals to you I say “go for it”!

Text Cash Network Review Summary

To summarize my Text Cash Network review, I’d say that it’s a legitimate business model that may work long term. Time will tell. It’s just very difficult to make money in a business that’s free to join. I personally wouldn’t recommend working it as a primary income opportunity but if you want to work it part time I see no reason not to. Just remember that you’ll need to be able to generate a LOT of leads in order to get the large number of sign-ups you will need to make a decent income from TCN.

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Mlm Leadership

I learned early on that you need to seek out training in this industry. It’s not that there’s not a tremendous amount of network marketing and internet marketing training available on the internet because there is A LOT! But you need to seek out the best and then actually go through the training yourself if you’re serious about your business and making money in this industry. The thing is, the majority of the people who you recruit will need to receive training and will look to YOU as their sponsor for guidance.

One of the best ways that I’ve found to help new team members to get off to a fast start is by creating my own  team site. Creating your own team site serves a few different purposes:

1. It can be the difference between someone joining you or joining another sponsor. When people sponsor shop, they want to know that they’ll be provided with training, direction and everything else they will need to succeed with their new business.

2. It can and should help with duplication. Especially for newbies and network marketers who haven’t yet experienced much success in the industry, providing a mapped out strategy for success with tools and trainings will help more people succeed in their business.

3. It can help to brand you as a leader. As you know, I’m a big believer in attraction marketing and MLM leadership and a simple team site is another way you can build YOUR brand and help in your own personal recruiting.

To create an effective team site, I believe you should include the following:

• Your contact information
• Some motivational “words of encouragement”
• Some trainings of marketing strategies that work – they can be yours if you have any or any trainings that your company or upline provides. I’ve found that by having everything in one place for your downline really helps rather than having trainings in various emails.
• Any important team or company phone numbers, webinar information, etc. People must stay connected with their business and participate and it’s important for YOU to make it easy for your team to do this.

Here’s a sample of a Team Site that I’ve created – www.teamsite.com on WordPress. There are many people who may take a slightly different approach but they accomplish the same thing…to help your team succeed and by doing so you will succeed! Take the time to create your own team site, build your MLM leadership, and watch your income and business grow!

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Network Marketing Business

When most new people get involved in a home business they are full of excitement with dreams of fast cars, big houses and working on their laptop from the beach. They’re finally going to hit it big and become successful home business owners. This is THE ONE! So…

They go to their upline or read their company marketing manual (if there is one) and are told to approach their “warm market”, sign up a few of them who will in turn repeat the process, and that’s how they’ll grow their MLM and build their organization. In my humble opinion, this “training” (I’m using that term very loosely) contributes to the high network marketing business failure rate!

First of all, very few if any have ever truly built a large network marketing business by approaching friends and family. This strategy simply doesn’t work for most people for a number of reasons. The primary being most people hate rejection and the last thing they want is to be rejected by those closest to them so they never approach their warm market to begin with.

The second reason is let’s say you do recruit your Aunt Vera into your business. Does she have the same mindset as you? Is she an entrepreneur or is she a loving relative trying to hook you up and do you a favor by signing up? It’s more than likely the latter! Now, many people will know a few people with the entrepreneurial drive required for network marketing success and that will certainly help to kick start your business but that’s still not enough.

Building a network marketing business is a numbers game and, to give yourself the best chance for success you need to know who your real target market is and then learn how to recruit from that prospect pool. And, you need to consistently GROW that prospect pool to play the numbers game.

So who is your target market (and most companies don’t tell you this by the way!)? Other Network Marketers! Why?

It’s simple really. You immediately get passed having to explain the viability and legitimacy of the industry AND you get someone who is much better suited (maybe even trained) to hit the ground running after you sign them up. You don’t need to “convince” them that MLM is not a pyramid scheme or money game, which can be a major objection of the uneducated.

I was listening to a training by Rod Stinson yesterday who validated my opinion. Rod has been a very successful network marketing business owner for over 20 years and has built his business by targeting other network marketers.

Then, the question becomes “How Do You Find Other Network Marketers?”. There are numerous strategies to do this, using both online and offline marketing strategies. The key really comes down to YOU being willing to put in the time and effort to get some network marketing training, learn a few strategies that work for you and then being diligent and consistent in working those strategies. Make it a great 2012!

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Zip Nada Zilch

The following is a new Zip Nada Zilch Review written by guest poster April Hugie. This Zip Nada Zilch review will provide an unique insider’s viewpoint as April is a relatively new network marketer. If you like what you hear and would like to learn more, I encourage you to visit April’s site below.

Hello, my name is April Hugie, I moved to Texas from California 15 years ago. I’ve got a wonderful husband and 6 kids. So as you may assume, life can get pretty hard sometimes. That’s when I started searching for additional forms of income, yeah I got burned a few times, but hey, you’ll never know if you don’t try, right? Anyway, one day I stumbled upon something that initiated a turning point in my life and way of thinking.

Zip Nada Zilch is an affiliate program that will pay you when a lead signs up for FREE offers. Sounds simple enough right? Initially, I thought it was too simple, but I decided to give it a try…can’t beat free.

So the deal is, you sign up for both Zip Nada Zilch programs: ZNZ One and ZNZ Big Cash. You complete 1 credits worth in both by signing up for FREE trials…its FREE…and then you are given your own affiliate link to market. Now, anybody that signs up under you has to do the same thing you did, complete 1 credit by signing up for free offers. The kicker is, once they do that in ZNZ One, you get paid $20 dollars, in ZNZ Big Cash, you get paid $78 dollars! That’s per person!

I’m still skeptical, but like I said, I jumped in and am doing it. I completed my credit in both and then I marketed my link. You have got to imagine the shock I felt when I received a notification from Pay Pal saying that $118 dollars was just deposited into my account! I was like, you have got to be kidding me, this actually works! That was the turning point I was talking about earlier. Zip Nada Zilch is definitely NOT a scam. $118 dollars wasn’t much but the fact that I was actually able to earn cash money on the internet was blowing me away. I kept marketing, and I kept getting paid. Sitting behind a desk from 8 to 5 or breaking your back in a warehouse is not the only way. I now know that for a fact, and you better believe that if I am indeed on my way to the top, I am taking as many people as I can with me. There’s no way I am going to be blessed without spreading the love. Right now, as of today, I am on a mission to success and I’m welcoming all that want to join me.

I hope you enjoyed my Zip Nada Zilch review. To learn more, please visit my site below.

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