Priscilla Ortiz's Journal to Prosperity - - - - - - your....Path to Freedom, Inc.

It is Possible to Replace a Habit

2011-03-02T07:14:00.006-05:00

A habit is neither bad or good -- IT'S A HABIT

A habit TELLS US MORE of WHO YOU ARE.

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Let me share with you a simple way to develop a new habit and overcome another.

Our working memory operates within a limited capacity.
As a result, most of our actions come from our stored memory (where habits live)

Now as far as our stored memory, we have -- trillions of pieces of data!!
It's a STURDY hardwiring process.

So if you think about something or do something a few times, it's going to go directly into your stored memory and show up as needed.

Of course, your brain operates to be accommodating and only provides you:
- what you have given it,
- what you have focused on more then once,
- what you have done more then once,
- what you have desired more then once.

So, What have you focused on that keeps showing up in your life?

Some work, some don't

If you'd like to know more, I would be happy to converse with you on this topic.

If you'd like to overcome a habit and create a plan of action around a new one, perhaps an better one, it would be my pleasure to serve you.

Make it a great day, you deserve it!!

Are you willing to allow things to work for you?

2008-03-10T11:33:00.007-05:00

What’s amazing is that you can take a normal person that’s living an everyday average life and they have no idea what their absolutely capable of doing; and you plug them into a program, help them shift their mindset and all of the sudden you have someone that was just struggling just to make ends meet to someone who has the potential of making a six figure income - it's absolutely mind blowing.

I have experienced this first hand and have the tools and the environment for people to lead a more satisfying life through emotional and financial wealth.

A program that helps people overcome any limiting beliefs that might be holding them back in life.

Simply by changing mindsets and habits....a personal development program that has helped people accomplish more than they thought possible, do more then they ever imagined and become more than they dreamed.

The tools to improve your life and exceed your goals.

This program employs a very simple philosophy:
You Have The POWER To Make Any Change In YOUR LIFE That You Want To Make.
Based on the premise constructed in a thorough system that works from the inside out. As you alter habits and small details in your daily routine, your life begins to change for the better.

The program takes you on an inner journey that will result in extraordinary outer growth. As you experience this program you will approach each day positively and proactively. Weight loss, improved financial results, more effective communication or better relationships - whatever you want for your life. The program shows you how to achieve the results you desire

The most interesting thing that a person will ever look at, in their entire life, is “themself”.

People have no idea how much potential is inside them, until they find themselves in the right environment, with the right community and involved with the right vehicle.

STOP LETTING YOU DAY TO DAY LIFE HOL YOU BACK
AND TAKE ACTION!!!

Wake UP to Succes - Why does Joe succeed and Tom doesn't?

2008-02-13T09:56:00.011-05:00

Joe and Tom start a business on the same day.
They have the same training, the same presentation, the same system and the same support.
And yet Joe achieves the position of success very quickly and is able to make money; while Tom is spinning his wheels.

What's the difference? Why is "Tom" not making money?

Firstly of all, this article is not directed to anyone in particular. Unless you think it is. I take the position, that every person reading this has WITHIN THEMSELVES exactly what it takes to be successful. I see everyone as successful right now.
So, this article is to provide some insight on why someone you know in a business -- we'll call him "Tom" -- who might not be getting his desired results. Maybe Tom is someone you know. Maybe Tom is someone whom you'd like to help.

The following are some things that come to mind that I believe keep people "stuck".

1. LACK OF CONFIDENCE.
Do this: picture a person standing with his shoulders slumped. He's looking at his feet. He's kicking the dirt with his toe. He's got his hands in his pocket. Now, this person might be the nicest person in the world, but everything about his posture says "Leave me alone", even if he's starving to talk to someone. Now, you can even picture what that person sounds like on the phone as well. Tom has no confidence.
Confidence is vital. It breeds success. And the recipe for confidence is simple:
- feel good about yourself,
- feel good about what you're doing and
- have a very clear vision of what your life is going to look like in the next few weeks because of what you're doing.
If "Tom" will get very clear on his goals, he'll be more confident and he will present himself as someone that people will want to spend more time with.

2. SELLING INSTEAD OF SORTING.
I see this from time to time. "Tom" is so desperate for a sale that he feels the need to use language that is meant to "entice" a person. And it doesn't work. It only makes Tom look more desperate.
What are some examples? Tom doesn't use his support system. He wants to answer all the questions. And then he announces that he made a great connection and has a possible sale, that doesn't. Or Tom might follow the system, but in the end, starts to over talk and comes across as trying to convince a prospect with his opinion. Or worse, he'll call back the prospect after a presentation to check thier interest level and try to convince a 3 to be a 7 on a scale of 1 to 10. He'll spend time "overcoming objections" and trying to get the prospect to be more interested than he is. The best thing Tom can do is to shut up and just stick to the system. Because this is not a business of "selling" people. It's a business of sorting. And the sooner Tom figures this out, the more money he'll start making.Sir Isaac Newton had it right: every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The more time Tom spends chasing prospects, the more they will run away from him.

3. GETTING READY.
This is a big reason why people like "Tom" choose to stay stuck. He's constantly getting ready to work his business.You've seen this guy. This is the guy who has been in the business for a week and has still not put a single person on the presentation calls. Not one. He's still going through his starter kit. He's rehearsing his voicemail script for the 25th time. He's calling to ask which 800Link package he needs to get.The solution for "Tom" is simply to tell him this: "Tom, if you're serious about this business, here's what you have to do: go find 6 people to put on the calls in the next 24 hours. Call me after they get off the line and we'll get their questions answered."That's it.That's the business.Not spending another week "getting ready". "Getting Ready" is a common trap for people like Tom. Make sure that you teach him to avoid it.

4. NO ACTIVITY.
This is the simplest but it seems some people fall for it. Tom is attending all the training calls. He's attending the team calls. He's "around" the business all day. But he's not calling leads. He's not putting people on presentation calls. He's not doing followups or three-ways.In short, he's not doing anything that makes money. He's "around" the business but not "in" the business.And simply put, the only solution is for Tom to get off his ass and go to work. Nothing happens until Tom moves. Tom...it's time to get going! Money is waiting on you but it's not going to come over and jump in your pocket! Go get it!

5. NEGATIVITY.
This is one that no one thinks they have. And yet every "Tom" I've met seems to have at least a mild case of it. They deny it but it's there.Here's the deal: "negativity" does not mean "unfriendly". Or "rude". Or "abrasive".I'm thinking of a "Tom" right now. He is one of the most negative people I know but he's very friendly. Very cheerful. Very happy-go-lucky. If you met him, you'd think he's a fun guy to be around.But, "Tom" is a negative person because -- underneath all that happiness -- he doesn't really expect good things to happen for him. He doesn't really think he's going to make money today. He doesn't really think that his leads are going to be any better than yesterday's. He is actually expecting things to NOT go his way.And he's always right. Because the law of attraction says we don't get what we want....we get what we vibrate. And "Tom" is vibrating a negative expectation of his goals. So, that's what he gets: no goals.This is an insidious one. Because, in good people, negativity often hides underneath a veneer of positive attitude. But it's still there, lurking underneath, sabotaging all the right things you're doing.How would Tom know if this is what's keeping him stuck? Simple. Ask Tom to make the following statement: "I am going to earn $_____ this week" and then ask him honestly if he feels like he's telling the truth or not. If the answer is anything but a 'yes' or takes longer than 2 seconds to answer....then he really doesn't believe what he's saying.And that brings me to the biggie....

6. LACK OF BELIEF.
Read this carefully! Every "Tom" I've seen in this business has got this one.....and every one of them would also claim that it's not their problem.There are three levels of belief: hope, expectancy and certainty. Obviously you have to have a certain level of belief to get started. But "Tom" is forever stuck in hope. He doesn't really believe that he's going to be the guy earning thousands of dollars in a day or a week.He'll write the affirmations.He'll carry a goal card.He'll attend the training calls.He'll go through all the motions.But, at the end of the day, he won't take ownership of his own belief system.Here's one litmus test; it's not the only one but it's an easy one: most of the time Tom has never bought his conference tickets.Why? It's not because he doesn't have the money. It's because he doesn't really believe that he's going to make enough money to recoup that cost.And -- boom -- just like that. There it is: the lack of belief that is keeping him from making sales.Belief is the bottleneck for all action. You can have all the belief in the world but you only get credit for the amount of belief that you're willing to ACT on. So, if someone says "Oh, I believe this will work...I just want to make some sales at the BF level before I buy my tickets..."...., well that person is basically saying "I don't believe it and I need to prove something to myself."And that's the problem: when you have no belief of your own, you CANNOT prove anything to anyone, including yourself.The good news is that Tom can solve this problem easily, too. If Tom didn't believe that ducks existed, all Tom would need to do is go find a duck. If Tom didn't believe that someone could type 90 words per minute, Tom would just need to find someone who's doing it.Evidence creates belief.And, if Tom wants to operate at high belief, all he has to do is see all the evidence around him for how people just like him are getting phenomenal results in their business.And then take action on that belief himself. Buy the leads. Go to the conference. Attend a training event. ANY action that is based on belief will plant a seed of achievement in your business.

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Hopefully, this article will be of value to "Tom". He's a powerful guy but he's bought the lie that he's got to struggle in order to be successful.

So, my final words to "Tom" are these:
Tom, don't ever let anyone tell you that you're not powerful. You are. And you have everything within you that you need to be successful. But you're going to have to get off your ass...you're going to have to follow the system....and you're going to have to be bold and courageous in your decision-making.And when you do that...when you take your foot of the brakes....when you leap.....when you exhibit real belief in who you are and what you're doing.........that's when you will start making money so quickly you'll wonder where it's been hiding all this time.Now. Go do it.

Wake Up to Success - BEING THE LEADER

2008-01-30T21:06:00.000-05:00

The CAR…..as simple as four wheels, combustible engine, steering wheel, seats. It wasn’t just an improvement on the horse and buggy, as primitive as it was compared to today’s cars.

Henry Ford is famous for saying “If I had given them what they wanted, I would have just given them a faster horse”

But that’s not what he did; Fords brilliance was to say….“If I want to go from point A to point B and if I was willing to forget everything I know about transportation with a horse and buggy, how would I do that?” and he completely skipped from walking to riding in an automobile, skipped over the whole concept of hooking a horse to a wagon. You see for years the world was stuck on the horse and buggy; big buggies, carriages, one horse buggies, four horse buggies and the passenger buggies. And Ford was willing to say, “If I were to completely scrap the existing method, how would I go about it?”

Point being, this is exactly what Brent Payne and Shane Krider did when they started Liberty League International. They looked at what was out in there in the marketplace and said “You know, that’s not going to work”; “All those things over there…those are designed for people that want to wait five to ten years down the road to become wealthy” and those other business models “No, that’s really designed for people who want to spend their time convincing people that they want to buy products every month” and so on. What Brent and Shane have put together is light years ahead, a simple business that’s designed for one type of person, the person who wants to play big in life and wants to get it done today, that’s who Liberty League is designed for.

So if I were to forget everything I know about network marketing and the other forms of business models; Liberty League is simply free enterprise in its most purest form; plain and simple. It’s a direct sales business with a built-in referral system. If you were to go outside of the home based business world, where people don’t understand the language, as far as, team building and you were to describe what we do to a realtor or someone in manufacturing the best way to describe it would be a direct sales business and it has a built-in referral system. It’s a drop ship business where you simple receive orders and then you pay the company to fill the orders. That’s it. It’s a simple business where we run an ad, when people respond and they sound like their more interested in becoming wealthy then working at a job, we invite them to listen to our presentation conference call. Someone else does all the explaining for us, a top earner in the company at that; then we have a follow up conversation where we bring someone else on the line to answer their questions. Customer buys the products, we get paid. Simple as that.

This is a business of putting people on presentations and collecting decisions and at the end of the day, I’m simply just a tour guide. I’m not convincing anyone to join and I’m not engaging in debates or overcoming objections (tip: if they have objections, they’re not a prospect – they’re happy where they are, they want to stay where they are)

So when you take a fresh look at what we do….to earn a substantial amount of money and allows us time freedom…. most of this business is delegated to someone else in the company. I don’t do the presentations or answer questions from my guests. My involvement is not only to be in receiving mode, but being the leader. When I show up in my business, whether it’s returning phone calls or answering questions for someone else on my team, my key role is that I’m being the leader myself. That’s the key, keeping it simple and being the leader.

I picked up this personal development magazine this pasted weekend and there was an article about a man who walked into a restaurant and a customer walks up to him and says “Hey Jack, the coffee always tastes better when you make it. I love when I see that you’re working, because I know the coffee is going to be great!” and Jack was sort of confused about this, because he was telling a friend…”everyone here makes the coffee the same way, it’s an automated machine, we fill the water to the line and all the coffee comes in pre-measured packets, we all push the same button, the water always comes out the same temperature, so how can it be that he thinks my coffee tastes better?” Well here’s the thing….Jack always washes the pots out before he makes coffee and he always uses the freshest packs of coffee and he doesn’t leave the filters dripping over the pot, dripping bitter water into the coffee. In other words Jack’s being the leader; Jack’s taking ownership of what he’s doing. He was making coffee just as simply as anyone else, but it wasn’t what he was doing, it was how he was doing it, it was who he was choosing to BE. And that is the metaphor that I’m taking on to my business today.

This business is as simple as making coffee. We run ads, we have conversations and we put people on presentation calls, then we bring a third party on the line, probably someone not even connected with the sale, they knock out a couple of questions, they’re either in or out or they’ll want to think out it, whatever, they’ll end up listening in on a Friday morning wake up call and make a decision one way or the other. And here’s the thing, the only variable in this business is me and the only variable in this business is you. We’ve all got the same system and when you really look at it for what it is; this system is really simple and we could over complicated and convolute it, but the fact is that anyone could use this compensation plan to reach their financial goals.

So it’s about our level of belief and our own willingness to show up in our business as the leader.

Wake UP to Success - Credibilty and Authenticity

2007-08-22T20:34:00.000-05:00

Being real and having results that are self evident and how so much of ones power comes from simply being someone who’s being real and getting results.

This is a very powerful yet simple topic.

Credible – having the quality of something that is believable; inspiring trust and confidence.

People are looking to connect with something that is real; that’s what people want. Ultimately on an emotional level if you were to strip away products and pay plans, money and opportunity the basic driving core need of everyone is that we want to be connected to something that is real and satisfying. That’s what people are looking for.

On so many levels here at Liberty League…
- Whether it’s who you’re being when you call a prospect,
- If it’s what the prospect hears when they attend the live orientation call,
- It’s when a prospect gets their questions answered after the orientation in a powerful way.
Through the entire process the prospect really just wants to be connected to something that’s real; that’s what their looking for and they do, there’s a reason why Liberty League is one of the fasting growing companies in two different industries, it’s because people are looking for authenticity and they’re finding it here.

In analyzing this business, you can find true authenticity in every category.
▪ Our live presentation calls have credibility, we have 21 calls every week – all live, not full of wild energy or false enthusiasm, the host is there - relaxed to get a simple message across –that if you’re willing to make a few simple but powerful decisions and you’re willing to follow a proven system, you can live a magnificent life.
▪ Our testimonials are genuine and clearly identifiable; you can’t fake the truth when a single mom is able to follow a simple system and now owns more then a million dollars in real estate. Or when you hear the results of others that they went through the Beyond Freedom course and I put back together a marriage – that’s real, AUTHENTIC and the credibility that I was looking for.
▪ And when we open the lines for questions and some of the best questions show that people are really thinking; that they are really looking for that emotional connection. When people ask “How do I know this is real” and they get an answer that serves them; it’s an opportunity for the host of that call to show leadership, power and strength that serves everyone on the line, because one person chose to be honest and ask “I just want to know if it’s really possible”.

It’s all about being real and authentic with people.

And you don’t have to be polished and in a three piece suit.
Prospects are more interested in you being you.
And when they see you choosing to live your life authentically as a powerful leader who’s on a path to a place they’ve never been and you’re reaching people by showing them what they have to do to get there. That’s what people respond to….and it’s rare, authenticity is rare, flip on the television and see the uninspiring ads that are out there, where the best the ad can do is rely strictly on hype to get someone to buy something…..and what most people are use to……some over the top message.

That’s the difference between power vs force and when you’re being authentic, the leader that really is on the path, then you have power and the people you deal with on a daily basis will get that. Being real has power and people can tell the difference. People respond to authenticity and when you bring the credibility into it, when they see someone getting results with hard facts, they realize this is an industry that people are spending 9 billion dollar - self education products - so that people can get out of what they’re into, to learn how to grow and be more today then yesterday. There are 10’s of thousands of people sitting in conference rooms hoping to learn how to get better results….better then what they have produced on their own.

Our testimonials of people sharing where they were and where they’re going are all inspiring and make you think “I’m glad I answered that ad” or “Man, if I hadn’t answered that ad” or “Man, if I had fallen into that -- this is too good to be true trap” which have kept so many people out of the right opportunity.
Or maybe people won’t even language it that way, but people know when they have connected to something real.

To the degree that you can get this….it will spring board your life.

Wake UP to Success - Law of Least Effort

2007-08-21T18:25:00.000-05:00

Parkinson Law – Work will always expand to fill the amount of time you give it.

For instance….if a guy says he’s going to build a deck and says “I’m going to build a deck this month”, it’ll take him about a month to build the deck and the same thing if he says “You know what, I’m going to build a deck this weekend”.
The funny thing is…that if you chart that guys exertion, (in terms of how much actual work is required), you’d find that he’s not working a whole lot harder to get a deck built in a weekend as he does to spread it out over the entire month. He’s working more on purpose, more efficient with his actions.

Getting more done in less time, the Law of Least Resistance – the Law of Least Effort
Holding it to a place where you can get in your personal development so that who you’re being is so unbelievably powerful that people are irresistibly drawn into your business.

The concept is that things will take as long as you expect them to take.
One of the great ways to move fast is massive actions.
Massive action creates massive results.
And here we have the idea that we want to create wealth by attraction (power) as oppose to force.
So the balance between the two is….
For example a Star Trek mental picture - when Captain Kirk wants to go on warp speed “How much extra work does he have to do?” None, he simply says “Warp Speed” and the button is pushed.
And that’s the way this business works and actually how everything in life works….it’s all about the decision….it’s all about choice…..it’s about letting go of the things that have clogged up the pipeline of prosperity; getting rid of the blocks and accepting the idea and belief that “I don’t have to work six to seven hours a day or call hundreds of leads to create the kind of income I want.” “I’m going to be able to create all the prosperity that I desire and I’m going to be able to do in record time and in an easy free-flowing experience while I’m living in my freedom right here and now.”

Easy Free-Flowing Experience – Money, Love, Physical Health, Fun and Laughter
An incredible life created on purpose.

Plan it that way!

Lead by example…Lead by attraction….Show the possibility.

I start my day with my son, journaling, listening to jazz music, on the sundeck getting things ready for the day. Every day I start my day “enjoying the day”.

I have friends that in the real estate market, they’re doing loans and they say to me “You know you’re always out doing activities with your son, going to the NY Woman’s Basketball games at Madison Square Garden, going to the water parks, out bike riding with your son. And what I say to them “The thing you don’t understand about my business is if I’m not out on the beach, if I’m not out at a baseball game or out skateboarding with my son, I’m not making money”. They stop and say “How is that?” And I explain that it’s about showing the possibility, leading by example/attraction. If I’m not having fun, if I’m cooping myself up in an office, I’m not making money. People have to see the possibility

If I’m not having fun, I’m not attracting that type of lifestyle.

Live in the flow and live by example.

Try not figuring it out….

In fact, when you figure out that you don’t have to figure it out, just do the income producing activity, you’ll start living your life and making a lot of money.

Look at how we live life; if you want to go to dinner, you get in the car and start driving, not knowing what’s in between you and the restaurant. You have no clue, so you run into a red light, what do you do? You deal with it, you stop; you run into a detour, you go around it; someone is crossing the street, you slow down for them,
Everywhere in life, we start and figure it out along the way, but when people get started in a home based business, people start to feel like they can’t really move until they know everything and it’s one of the worse things you can do.

Paralysis by Analysis

It takes a lot of rewiring of your brain to get to the point of letting your ego go on how things need to happen and really allowing yourself to follow the people that come before you and following a proven system.

JUST DO IT

So you want to know how to get into profits FAST

2007-07-17T16:02:00.000-05:00

Q: How do I get into profit fast?

A: SUCCESS LOVES SPEED!
The faster you dive into the community, product and training calls; the faster you have guest of your own on the presentation calls and calling your advisor to have them answer your guests questions; the faster you move into that activity, the faster you will see results. Keep things simple, don’t reinvent the wheel – JUST MOVE!!

Wake UP to Success -- FREE - Freedom and Free Enterprise

2007-07-12T19:37:00.000-05:00

Do you realize how unapologetically right it is for someone to want to be wealthy?

Despite some of the conditions we may have grown up with…
We all have these conditionings and dominantly the mass consciousness is that it’s more spiritual to be poor…if you’re wealthy, then you have your priorities out of whack.
And again - it is unapologetically right for someone to want to be wealthy, because your wealth is a direct measurement of the level of service you’re providing to others.
If you’re earning your money because of service, then you should want to be a billionaire, because that means you’re serving a lot of people in a grand way.

Let’s touch on how Free Enterprise works in terms of how people get more use value from something that maybe we receive from cash value and that’s how it’s suppose to work.

In my previous posting we touched on how we came to be in a position that most Americans are not involved in free enterprise and their emotionally disconnected from a lot of what’s going on around them, so the average person today has basically chosen to give up the ability to be involved in free enterprise and be employed. So their selling their time in eight hour chunks, giving away the best part of their day, their energy and emotion in exchange for a wage and that is time that they are not able to invest in relationships or connected with their families or even their physical lives to exercise, read and develop their intellectual pursuit; which all requires that a person has a reason amount of time that was sold to an employer.

(Don’t get me wrong employers are good guys, they’re the ones that are willing to take the risk and get involved in free enterprise and provide a service or a product that has real value to the end consumer, and he’s actually the hero. This is not about good, bad, or wrong, right, it’s about two people that made two different choices. One engaged in free enterprise and has complete control of his earning abilities and the other person who chose to be an employee is in a situation where he doesn’t really have any control on how much he earns and only has a certain amount of time that he could trade for dollars.)

Here’s the point, we can simply choose to do something today to make money, that’s free enterprise. Profits are better then wages.

Liberty League is engaged in the purest form of free enterprise on the planet, it’s a basic retail direct sale with a built in referral system that provides a massive amount of leverage.

Free enterprise is wonderful because it’s based on a volunteer exchange of value. Why does anyone buy anything? Because someone wants something more then they want the money in their pocket that it takes to own it. It’s a free exchange between two people. Why does someone drive a Bentley?; or Who in the world would pay $300 for a pen?; or $40K for a wedding celebration or maybe even a unique collector’s item or a hot item like the newest Apple iPhone where someone really wants the phone and is willing to pay $1K for it on ebay and because it’s a voluntary exchange of value, it’s a completely valid transaction and they absolutely deserve the $1K for the sale of the phone and the other person will be completely happy that he owns one of the hottest phones on the market that’s hard to just go into a store and buy.

There’s an unlimited amount of money in this world and when you really learn how to manifest money into your life and do it with ease and some free flowing attitude you almost feel as if it’s unfair where all you’re doing is giving someone paper in exchange for what you want, it feels unfair because you can always generate more paper. I can go manifest thousands and thousands of dollars because of being someone being involved in free enterprise, so it’s exciting to buy what you want in exchange for paper and when you’re involved with free enterprise it’s like you own the printing press. So here at LLI and free enterprise it’s a way of getting into that flow where there’s no limit.

FREE ENTERPRISE IS ABOUT GIVING AND RECEIVING VALUE!

AND THE BEST PART OF IT IS……IN LIBERTY LEAGUE FREE ENTERPRISE...OUR ROLE HERE IS JUST SIMPLY BEING AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT IS POSSIBLE; IT’S PART OF THE VALUE THAT LLI OFFERS WITH THE PRODUCT AND THE SUPPORT AND THE COMMUNITY OF PEOPLE THAT ARE ON THE SAME PATH AND THAT’S ALL PART OF THE EXCHANGE IN VALUE THAT WE’RE OFFERING HERE AT LIBERTY LEAGUE.

MY RESPONSIBILITY IS TO BE SUCCESS FIRST, TO BE AN EXAMPLE TODAY OF WHAT’S POSSIBLE WHEN SOMEONE CHOOSES TO PLAY BIG IN LIFE AND FOLLOW A PROVEN SYSTEM.

LIBERTY LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL IS A LEADERSHIP FACTORY DEMONSTATED AS A BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY. I WAS ATTRACTED FOR THE MONEY, BUT THE REAL VALUE IS WHO YOU BECOME IN THE JOURNEY.

Wake UP to Success - BOGO FREE {Free Enterprise}

2007-07-09T20:02:00.000-05:00

You can always get everyone’s attention when you advertise BuyOneGetOne Free

Freedom and Free Enterprise

Liberty League International is in the business of creating Freedom with the most powerful form of free enterprise on the planet.

We live in a country in which we are afforded certain liberties just by right of being a citizen; for example, the average American has a great deal of political freedom (generally speaking as long as you’re not imposing on the rights of others); but time and financial freedom are not something that most Americans can enjoy. And because of the two dominate issues (lack of time and financial freedom), most people also have very little emotional and spiritual freedom; the time to be able to really engage in the things that make a person feel complete as a human being.

We all know the routine well:

a man and women wake up in the morning, kisses someone good-bye, puts the kids in the back seat, then puts them in the arms of strangers or day care, then they go to a job where they’re selling their time and productivity to somebody else at whole sale prices, then pick up the kids, go to the drive through and pick up a bucket of fast food, everyone eats and after watching a couple of hours of television, everyone goes to sleep to get up and do it all over again the next day.

That’s the lives of many many many people.

There’s a Dad right now sitting somewhere thinking about how his little girl just graduated high school and is going to college shortly and he spent the best years of her life absence, having to work long hours so she could have what she needed. And yes he did it and deserves a pat on the back for doing what he had to do to help his family survive, but here’s the thing…..emotionally at what cost? Would he give anything to have those years back? There are plenty of single moms that are working two jobs to come up for extra cash to pay for necessities.

You can bear witness to the lack of time and financial freedom anywhere you go. And the two combined has created an even bigger problem, which is the emotional cost of not being connected to the people we love.

There’s a Dad out there trying to figure out how he’s going to pay for his daughters wedding and the only option he has is to go out and take a loan to pay for his daughters wedding.

And most of these emotional problems (lack of freedom and split emotional families) are connected to how the people in our society have chosen to make money.

In 1931, a young college student from Britain came to the United States on a traveling scholarship and was shocked and amazed that in the land of so much opportunity so many Americans wanted to work for companies instead of working for themselves. So when he returned to England he wrote a paper on “Why in a free enterprise economy would a worker voluntarily submit to direction by a corporation instead of selling his or her own output or service directly to a consumer in the marketplace.” That student was Ronald Coase, 1991 Nobel Laureate in Economics

A man received a Nobel Prize for asking the same question we’ve all asked ourselves - “Why on earth would I want to work for someone else?”

JOB ??? who wants a job? It’s probably the worse way to make a living. Could you make more money if you did something on your own?

Did you know the word “job” did not mean what it means today?

A hundred years ago a blacksmith would go out and get jobs...….Farmer Brown wants me to shoe his horse and Farmer Green wants me to make him some axes.

A job was something a self employed person would do. Then the industrial revolution/assembly line came along and companies started coming to people saying to them:

“If you’ll come down to our factory and punch this clock we’ll give you regularity of pay and you won’t have to worry about the weeks when Farmer Brown doesn’t need you to shoe his horse. You don’t have to do anything but show up and do what we tell you and we’ll give you a raise every now and then and we’ll make sure that your family is provided for because we’re going to give you a job."

And that’s where the word “job” shifted in meaning. And just like that the citizen gave away all his earning power by choosing to let someone else tell him what his time and productivity was worth.

It worked for a long while, companies flourished and people were happy, but not any more, that system hasn’t worked in 40 years. The idea, that a company is responsible for giving an employee lifetime employment, is a financial fairytale. That hasn’t worked since the 1950’s and the problem is that most people growing up today are basically taking financial advice from their parents who grew up in a totally different economy then we do today. So it’s amazing on how many people still buy into the idea that the secret to financial success is to go to college, get your degree and get a job at a big company and retire with a pension.

You and I both know that’s not happening, but I shared it with you so you know the difference where the American citizen basically traded their earning power for a bowl of company portage and why the word job is going extinct. Because people who are savvy, people who understand how money works are going back to where we were a hundred years ago, saying “hey let me be responsible for my own earnings.” “I don’t want anyone telling me how much money I could make.”

So this is the DEAL…..Free Enterprise is where it’s at!!
Profits are better then Wages

CONGRATULATIONS TO THOSE INVOLVED IN FREE ENTERPRISE

Profits are the money that you can earn by providing service to others.

And that’s what we’re about here at Liberty League, the service we provide is:
- an incredible product that is worth far more then it’s price tag
- the leadership we offer
- and the community to plug into

When people chose to commit to the product and be involved with the community it’s the greatest value that they will ever have in any other area of their life.

It’s the business that will let the single mom breathe easy, and be home with her child(ren) when the school bus drops off the kids. It’s the kind of business that will allow a broke piano player/assistant manager for a retail store to come in and make more in a month then they did in a year.

YES, Free Enterprise is where it’s at!! And underneath all the money is the FREEDOM…..the ability to finally have enough money flowing in your life so you can do whatever you want to do, when you want to do it with the people you’re in love with.

That’s what freedom is, that’s what I’m about and that’s what Liberty League is all about; providing people the opportunity to create freedom through free enterprise.

Abraham-Hicks Rampage of Wellbeing - Awakening - Enlightenment

2007-07-04T13:07:00.000-05:00

Be Inspired!!

The Seven Critical Traits of Top Entrepreneurs

2007-07-04T09:29:00.000-05:00

1. Have passion - Mr. Trump has never said to me, “Be passionate!” Yet it’s at the core or his thinking. Exactly what is passion? He summarizes it as, “Enthusiasm on a big scale.”

2. Be tenacious-Mr. Trump is not someone who lets me, or anyone in his organization, give up on any project until every possibility of success has been explored. Consider the fact that he bought the land for Trump Place in Manhattan way back in 1974 - and it is now nearing completion. That’s tenacity.

3. Think big - We all have to start with small steps on any project, but Mr. Trump urges people to take the biggest steps they are capable of. “Thinking big can get you to the top,” he once said, “and I can tell you, it’s not lonely up here!”

4. Be a sponge for new information and ideas - There’s really no such thing as knowing too much about what you’re doing. Despite his packed schedule, Mr. Trump reads everything he can and strives to get information he can use from everyone he meets. There’s often a book on his desk, and I find that inspiring.

5. Take action - When you know need what you need to know about a project or idea, you need to move decisively. Yet Mr. Trump also has a flexible philosophy and he’s willing to take a step back and start again - tenaciously - if the time is not right to move forward. So it is a matter of taking risks, but considered risks. Mr. Trump once said, “A lot of people are afraid to fail, so they don’t try. They talk, but they don’t do. That’s the perfect formula for failure.”

6. Learn to negotiate - “Learning to negotiate is invaluable if you hope to connect in any way with other people.”

7. Enjoy competition - Your competitors are there to help you perform better in the world and - certainly - achieve more success than they have. “Competition forces me to outdo myself,” Mr. Trump has said. “I love competition because, ultimately, it makes me bigger.”

To those of you who are in the United States, I wish you a happy Fourth of July holiday. America is great place to launch a great business. And to our foreign readers, all good wishes for every success. I believe the seven traits I outline above can offer you a blueprint for winning.

Article by Michael Sexton

Abraham-Hicks Daily Quotes

2007-07-02T13:40:00.001-05:00

The ability to imagine what you are wanting, rather than only observing what-is, is what takes you beyond. You are a physical being, but you are much more.

Wake UP to Success - 3 P's to Success -- Purpose, Passion Practice

2007-06-21T21:03:00.000-05:00

Purpose

You have to have purpose before anything else falls into place.
If you don’t have guidance you’re like bouncing off the walls.
Life without purpose is like a “hamster in a ball”, bouncing all over the place, thinking you getting somewhere, but remaining in the same place.
There’s no deliberation in what you’re doing.

“The Way of the Peaceful Warrior” is a great example taking someone’s life and finding their true potential, who they are and what they want in life.
In the book, this guy was living real scattered in his life, then to realize there are three types of people in this world:
The person who makes it happen;
The other person who watches it happen;
And the person who wonders how it happens.
I used to live my life working for corporate America and just going through the motions and making it happen for someone else and wondering what was going on in my life; not very focused at all, just living my life. Then I aligned myself with Liberty League and now I wake up excited about what I’m going to create for the day. Not like I used to where it was wake up and okay….cruise through my day and go through the motions, with no guidance or purpose as to why I was there. Getting involved with Liberty League has helped me get clear with why I’m here and what I want for myself.

It’s very exciting when passion and purpose come together; it’s like that burning excitement for life. You the read cannot understand until you experience it for yourself. And an INCREDIBLE feeling it is.

It all starts with you and starting that first step into your journey and when you know what your purpose is, it only takes that first step to keep going.

Steven Spielberg’s movie - Joe vs. the Volcano:
Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan are floating on a boat and Meg says “My father once told me that almost the whole world is completely asleep, but the very few that choose to be awake live in a complete and total state of amazement.”

Wake UP to Success -- 3 P’s of Success - Purpose, Passion, Practice

2007-06-19T19:56:00.000-05:00

Passion

Passion is a natural choice and what occupies your attention.
Passion drives itself.
For instance, personal development and say goal cards are a tool designed to help you reconnect with what you used to do naturally; reminders to get connected to what you want, taking your eye off the drama and mundane stuff and get connected to what’s really important to you.

Getting clear on your goals brings you clarity and awareness and is incredibly important part of “stirring-up” your passion. The natural enthusiasms that we were born with and somewhere along the way have lost touch.

If you’re not passionate about what you’re doing – LOVE what doing and PASSIONATE about what you’re doing – you won’t succeed.

First you get clear on your purpose and passion is that natural innate enthusiasm that we all have when we’re clear on our purpose.

So go ahead and design you perfect day....AND GET PASSIONATE!

Wake UP to Success -- 3 P's to Success - Purpose Passion, Practice

2007-06-18T12:48:00.000-05:00

Some people have greatness thrust upon them….Few have excellence thrust upon them….they achieve it.
They do not achieve it unwittingly by doing what comes naturally and they don’t stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves.
All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose – John William Gardner

Practice
Practicing your craft – doing the thing….being engaged in the actual nuts and bolts that creates results.
Think Capitalism – Free Enterprise – Engaging in a business where you’re giving someone far more in value, then you receive in compensation.

Personal Development in its self is all about awareness, clarity, discovering who you are and your personal power. Practicing is getting engaged in the process that allows you to generate an income -- Linking the income producing activity.

Liberty League International is a lifestyle company that requires for one to apply the discipline and tenacity of purpose. What we have here is the ability to live an incredible lifestyle, to actually have the utmost experience of life and to live a life to the fullest. Life is about having the experience which involves taking action. It’s the action in this business that produces the income that gives us the freedom.

At LLI you have seven different ways to produce income:
Beyond Freedom Sales
Referred Beyond Freedom Sales
Liberty Conference Sales
Referred Liberty Conference Sales
Summit Conference Sales
Referred Summit Conference Sales
Revenue Reimbursement Rewards
A powerful compensation plan that rewards us for taking the actions you’re willing to take.

A mason complaining about his boss……
….. “I make $18.00 per hour and I saw my boss hand someone a bid for a job and on that bid the hourly rate was $50.00 per hour.”
The mason was upset that his boss was making $32.00 per hour while he was only making $18.00 per hour for the work he was doing. He was irritated and grumbling about the fact that he was only one of the 40 masons his boss was working with.

Yes, it’s irritating, but it’s called leverage and at the end of the day the bottom line is the employer deserves to charge $50.00 per hour and make $32.00 per hour for the job where the employee only makes $18.00 per hour, because the employer is the one who invested in the company and willing to take the risks. The employer is the one who gets up every single day and with discipline moves forward in his business, making sure he’s connecting with his customers and making sure his customers are getting what they deserve.
The employer is delivering and the employee is the one willing to pack his lunch, drive to the site and work for the employer so that the employer can make more money then the employee.

So the decision is:

Are you the one who’s going to take the risk and invest in yourself?

If not, then stay an employee and be happy about it.

Or, take advantage of the leverage and be the business owner.

IT’S ALL A CHOICE

“I had already proven that I was willing to pay the price, I was just paying the wrong price”

We’re all willing to put the time and effort into something. Are you doing it in a certain way or the right activity?

Have Purpose and Passion and then Practice

I’m a single mom determined to pave my own way and provide my son the lifestyle he deserves. I had the fortitude to believe in myself and take the risk.
The one thing, which I knew then and know now, for certain was that I was the person that could get the job done, show up everyday, forge forward and take the action.

I structure my time – practice makes perfect.

Wake UP to Success -- Purpose Passion Practice

2007-06-14T20:11:00.000-05:00

Purpose - Willingness to move forward
Purpose is the desire to create an ideal lifestyle for ourselves and our families.
We at Liberty League empower others; we offer an incredible product that is worth for more that its price tag. We benefit tremendously from pointing people to their ideal lifestyle, but ultimately our purpose is to be successful first.
That's my biggest responsibility to me, my family and the community of people I associate with here at Liberty League. By being true to my purpose I lead by example and so does everyone else here at LLI. The purpose is to discover how powerful and capable I am in creating the life that I desire. Living deliberately and on purpose.

Passion – is what moves us; drives us and will take us wherever we want to go.
Passion is the emotional reward in choosing to be the leader. Purpose is the desire and Passion is the pay off of actually living the life I desire.
The emotional payoff that will drive you to get up the next morning and continue to take the steps to reach your goals. It’s powerful to know that you’re doing what you’re suppose to be doing and your thoughts and actions are in alignment.
There is nothing that substitutes the power of the passionate person.
Being a passionate person is a choice and it’s an action you can actually choose.

Practice – life is not a dress rehearsal and everything we do matters.
The choice to be engaged in “the thing” that gets the results -- Taking the action that brings you closer to your purpose.

The Connection:
You can’t get into practice if you don’t have passion and you can’t be passionate if you don’t have the purpose.

Beyond Freedom Program

2007-06-12T13:30:00.000-05:00

Beyond Freedom is the First step to self mastery! It is a powerful 90 day Multimedia life achievement course. It provides you with the knowledge to be, do, or have anything you want for yourself and your life.

It gives you quality of life back. It can create personal growth within you and strengthen your abilities to achieve any goal you set for yourself in life.

Beyond Freedom has given many people their family back. It creates a positive influence on the people around you and they in turn get excited about life again.

In Beyond Freedom you can find your purpose, your why. It is a tool for self discovery that is created through a series of goal setting exercises, a DVD, CD'S and a journaling work book. It is your complete 90 day Personal Growth program. It has assisted many people to getting back to a point in their lives where they are enthusiastic and fired up about life everyday!

Beyond Freedom is a lifetime achievement course.

You and your family deserve to be free. Are you ready to change your life and assist many others in changing theirs, simply by offering them the choice and the tools to do so? If yes, you are ready for Beyond Freedom in your life.

T. Harv Eker's RichLifeClub.com

2007-06-10T21:52:00.000-05:00

Behind the scene!

The Secret Law of Attraction and Your Dream Life

2007-06-06T19:58:00.000-05:00

Change How You Feel

2007-06-05T15:10:00.000-05:00

Being able to manage and change your feelings is one of the most important things in personal development.

You might have all the logical and rational reasons in the world to do something, but then your emotions can just sweep in and pull everything to a grinding halt. Having your feelings for work you instead of against you can have a massive effect on your life.

There are many ways to change how you feel. Here are 10 ways that don’t include chocolate, pain or alcohol and that actually work.

All of them might not work right away, it’s a bit like learning to ride a bike. You don’t learn it by reading about it and the first times you try you might fall. But remember when you were a kid learning to ride a bike. You just got up of the ground, brushed yourself of and got on that bike again and again and again.

1. Relax
This one is easy but just remembering that you can relax when you feel all tensed up can work wonders. You might realise that much of that tension was something you just built up in your own mind.

In “A guide to the the Huna way – mastering your hidden self” King Serge Kahili writes this about effort and relaxation:

”When people are trying to change a habit of thought or behaviour, they often complain that it takes too much effort. Others may criticize them for not having a strong enough will. What actually happens is that such people are trying to force a habit to change by using their muscles against it, and this is true whether the habit is physical or mental.

This kind of forceful attempt creates tension that locks up the body’s energy and makes people feel worn out. They end up literally fighting themselves, which is rarely effective. All you really have to do is make your decision by your will, relax your muscles, and direct your attention in the way you want to go, until the new habit is established. If you ever feel that using your will is an effort relax and Start over.”

2. Ask different questions
We are always asking ourselves questions, but they might be questions that aren’t really that good. Instead of asking yourself: “why must I do this?”, ask yourself “how can I make this more fun for me?” or “how can this help me?”. Don’t ask yourself “will I be able to do this?”, instead ask “how will I do this?”.

Ask better questions that empowers you.

Questions that presupposes that you have the power over your own life.

Questions that directs your focus to solutions and opens your mind to new possibilities instead of questions that just makes you feel trapped and lousy.

3. Smile
Smiling gives you a boost of happiness. Try forcing yourself to smile for thirty seconds right now. The great feelings that make you smile works in reverse too. By making yourself smile, no matter how you feel, your body will start releasing all those wonderful chemicals that makes you feel happy. Try it right now and feel the difference.

4. Appreciate things
This is one of the most simple and effective ways to just feel so much better. Just look around yourself. Appreciate the good food you’re eating, the hot woman or man walking past you, the kids playing and just having fun in the mud puddles, all the possibilities in your life, all the great things about your friends and your family, the birds singing… Ok, so perhaps it sounds a bit corny.

But it really works. And it’s great to try to change your mindset to one where you appreciate the things in your everyday life instead of taking them for granted.

5. Interrupt your thought pattern
You might be feeling down or you are procrastinating. Maybe nothing is working out for you today. You just want to go home and go to bed. Here’s where you might want to interrupt your thought pattern. And you do that simply by doing something unexpected and totally different from what you are doing now.

Some suggestions; take a glass of water, throw it in own your face. Or jump up and down ten times singing the chorus from “We are the champions” by Queen at the top of you lungs. Or imagine your negative inner voice sounding like Goofy. Do something that totally breaks your thought pattern. Something humours is nice because it’s often the opposite to a depressed or anxious state that you would like to break out of. And laughter and smiles breaks tension too.

When you have done that you might not be able to able to find your way back to that previous train of thought. Much like when you have a conversation, someone comes up to you and asks a question and then when you turn around again back to you friend you can’t remember what the two of you were talking about. You feel confused and your state has changed. Make up five things to do that really breaks your pattern and try them out. You may also want to try and find a couple that you can do among other people too without being labelled as crazy.

6. Use an external stateboost
On one of his audiotapes Tony Robbins mentions that before one of his guest-speakers or coaches goes up on stage they watch videos with Eddie Murphy. It puts them in a great state before performing. As you might have guessed, that tape wasn’t recorded this year or even this century. Eddie’s been in a slump for a while.

This is a great idea and you probably already using it to some degree. Anyways, here are some suggestions. Change and boost your emotional state with some of your favourite music, maybe a couple of YouTube-clips, an episode of the Simpsons (or your favourite sitcom), personal development-cds, -books or –websites. Or perhaps Eddie Murphy’s “Delirious” or “Raw”. That’s some side-splittingly funny stand-up.

7. Eat. But not too much. Or too little
If you feel tired and frustrated maybe you just need to eat to get your energy back and your blood sugar up to a more healthy level. But don’t eat too much or you’ll feel tired and lazy. Don’t eat to little either or pretty soon you’ll feel just as bad as you did before you ate. Also, it you’re sitting most of the day, take it a bit easy on the carbs and the size of your portions. You may have been raised to eat large and healthy meals, but maybe your father and mother had more physical jobs…

8. Create a physical anchor
Ok, this one might take a while but it seems to work for many people. Basically you stand up, close your eyes and imagine an emotional state that you want to able to snap into on command. As an example I imagined a time when I felt really powerful and confident. I stood, I breathed and I moved the way I did that one time. Then while I was back in that state both physically and mentally I snapped the fingers of my right hand. Over and over. Over and over and over again. The theory is that you link up that emotion with the physical act of snapping your fingers.

Did it work? Yeah, actually it kinda does. When I snap my fingers I get an emotional boost and go into that state again. However, the effect is not 100%. It doesn’t feel as good as it did that one time. But it’s my first anchor and by practicing more, I think especially by trying to visualize and feel that state even more intensely, the anchors are likely to become more and more accurate.

Anchoring is based on Ivan Pavlov and his experiments with dogs and bells but has been developed by people in the field of NLP (neurolinguistic programming).

9. Open yourself up to other possibilities that are more beneficial to you
Have some faith that the way you view work, relationships, money, exercise, life and those other things are not the only way to see them. Having the feeling that you are right about something and “know how things work” can feel really good. It’s instant gratification and gives you security and comfort.

But it also limits you by closing your mind to other avenues of thought and personal development. Seek out a couple of experts’ advice in the area that you are having problems with. Use google and amazon, just dive in to the subject for a while to get a basic understanding. Most likely there are things you can do both to remedy the problem and to change you perspective on this trouble area. There are often more solutions than one or two to a problem.

10. Recall your positive experiences and memories
It’s easy to be overcome by negative internal chatter. “I can´t do this, what if they think I´m incompetent, God I´m gonna fail, I´m gonna fail and this why did I take this shirt, it’s so ugly”. And so on.

When preparing for a meeting, a job interview, a presentation, asking someone for a date or anything that makes you really nervous recall your positive memories from similar experiences. Think back to when you were funny and charming in the bar. Remember the times when you were confident and relaxed during previous meetings and interviews. Let a few of your best memories wash over you. Let them drown out your negative thoughts.

This will make you remember the positive and wonderful sides of yourself. The qualities and your inner possibilities that are always there but we often forget about them when we get caught up in a cloud of negative thoughts and feelings. Focusing on these positive experiences instead of those negative ones that always seem to be closer at hand can make a big difference.

Learning to direct you feelings more and more have implications beyond feeling better. By feeling better you will more constantly start to see the world in another way and you will start to see other, more beneficial options. And your feelings will start to work for you instead of stopping you when you want to take action.

And try to use these suggestions from the perspective of yourself when you were a kid trying to learn to ride that bike. If at first you don’t succeed, dust yourself of and try again.

Focus Your Marketing

2007-06-05T11:58:00.000-05:00

Your home-based business can produce steady income for you and your family if you follow a few simple rules.Focus on people's needs, make it easy for people to make purchases or join your group, answer questions fully, and provide excellent customer service.This, combined with a well thought out Internet marketing plan, will ensure you a successful home business experience.Whether you develop your own specialized plan or follow guidelines created and tested by others (see link below), Internet marketing can be very rewarding if you create a sensible plan and implement it wisely.

What is the most important considerations for you in a home based business opportunity? It's Multiple Streams of Internet Income. Do you want to make money online and become an Internet marketing experts? Then diversification in online home based business is a good thing to consider. Making tons of money in a home based business is not the only reason record numbers of people are starting home based Internet businesses.

Before you begin advertising your Internet marketing business either online or offline, there is a general rule of thumb: identify your target audience.For example, if your home based business is promoting denture creams and related products, your target audience would not be teenagers, nor would the mature audience likely be interested in skateboards.It is important to channel your advertisements to those who will be interested in your products to avoid investing your efforts and/or money needlessly.

Wake UP to Success -- Claiming Ownership of Your Business and Taking Action II

2007-06-01T18:10:00.000-05:00

The real “bottom line” demarcation between success and not success with any entrepreneurial/self reliant type of opportunity is – the level of motivation.

Now this is the interesting part…..motivation is not something you can buy or get from someone else. Motivation is internal and it comes from knowing that your goal is a possibility. Knowing why you want to be successful with your business, the burning desires/reasons.

What I did to take action and ownership of my business, was to first figure out my goal, my WHY and I wrote it down in detail
Getting clear with “a real possibility in my life” translates into motivation and taking the action.

Keep the reward in mind and at hand at all times and you’ll be destin to realize your result and greatness.

Motivate yourself, take the action and realize the result.

Build Buzz With Video

2007-06-01T07:51:00.000-05:00

While we're talking e-business trends, let's take a look at video, which has gone through rapid and massive growth this past year. Free hosting by sites like YouTube, plus the availability of digital video recorders on cameras and mobile phones, enable literally anyone to create their own videos.

So far, one of the most successful applications of video-to-internet marketing has been to offer quality educational content for free (with or without an opt-in), and position it as a limited-time offer. Viewers watch the video, such as the first part of a ten-part course, and then pass it on to other potential customers. The more people who see it and recognize the value for their own life or business, the more they’ll take the next step and go to your website to get the next installment.

How-to videos uploaded to video-sharing sites can also draw targeted audiences. I just spotted one recently: “How to Fold a Fitted Sheet.” Don’t you think an online bedding store should’ve done that first?

Secrets of The Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker

2007-05-29T09:17:00.000-05:00

Free Audio

"There is a secret psychology to money," says T. Harv Eker, internationally known speaker and author of 11 top-selling books and courses, "Most people don't know about it, that's why most people never reach their financial potential."

Eker explains, "Your outer world is simply a reflection of your inner world! A lack of money is not a problem, it is merely a symptom of what's going on underneath! The fastest and only way to permanently change your financial situation on the outside, is to first change it on the inside." Eker should know, using this strategy he went from zero to millionaire in only 2 1/2 years!

Here's just a portion of what you'll learn!

1.The 5 critical ways rich people think differently than the poor & middle class.
2.The hidden cause of almost all financial problems.
3.How your childhood conditioning is affecting you financially today.
4.Why knowledge & skill do not create wealth.
5.How to attract so-called "luck" with money and success.
6How to train your "mind" to work for you instead of against you.

"Money miracles can occur when we get out of our own way," says Eker. "The problem is, by ourselves, we can never see what's holding us back from reaching our full potential. Einstein said it best, "you can't solve a problem with the same mind that created it." The information in this course is extremely powerful! If you learn the strategies and use them, your financial life will change forever."

10 Marketing Trends to Watch in 2007

2007-05-29T08:30:00.000-05:00

By Kim T. Gordon

Throughout 2006, I've been watching and interpreting the marketing stats and studies that impact small businesses to give you tips on staying one step ahead. Now, with 2007 fast approaching, let's look at a roundup of the hottest trends, from changes taking place among consumer audiences through what to watch for in traditional and online marketing. Here's the info you need on the most important trends and how to make the most of them to increase sales and grow your business in the New Year.

Consumer Trends

1. College Grads
If you're searching for the most effective way to reach this desirable prospect group, move your marketing dollars into online media. The internet is now the primary source of media and entertainment among college grads, whose top planned purchases upon graduation are professional clothing, travel/airline tickets, health insurance and furniture according to the “Y2M: eGrad College Graduate Survey”. Nearly 80 percent of respondents are online purchasers, making them ideal candidates for your online campaign

2. Affluent Working Women
The big news is that this group is increasing in size, and the best way to reach them may be online. According to The Media Audit, affluent working women with family incomes of $75,000 or more are growing in number, and 94.3 percent access the internet during an average month. About half are now considered heavy users of the internet, while heavy use of radio, television, newspapers and direct mail has all declined within this group. To increase sales from this expanding audience, alter your media spending to place greater emphasis online.

3. Asian Population Growth
The southern region of the U.S. boasts the fastest Asian population growth rate (31 percent), followed by the Midwest (24 percent), the Northeast (23 percent) and the West (19 percent), according to an analysis of Census Bureau data in the “American Community Survey” by Kang & Lee Advertising. Asians represent a prospect group with higher than average household incomes and education levels. Can you offer a product or service that will appeal to this growing market?

4. Word-Of-Mouth
Want to build buzz? Lucid Marketing's study, "U.S. Adults: Word of Mouth Communications," found that women were more likely than men to share a positive experience with a business or recommend an enjoyable product; full-time employees made substantially more daily contacts than those not in the workforce; and people with household earnings of more than $100,000 were more likely to make recommendations than those earning less. So buzz marketers should direct efforts to these three "chatty" groups.

Trends in Traditional Media

5. Yellow Pages
According to a study from the Kelsey group, marketers targeting younger demographics should transition away from print. Only 28 percent of teens said they would turn to print Yellow Pages first to find a local business, product, or service, while 47 percent said their first choice would be search engines. And just 44 percent of respondents between the ages and 18 and 34 favored print Yellow Pages.

6. Simultaneous Media Usage
There's no longer such a thing as a captive media audience--consumers are frequently participating in more than one form of media at any one time. Seventy percent of web users, for instance, watch TV occasionally to regularly while online, according to BIGresearch’s “Simultaneous Media Survey.” It also found that nearly 65 percent watch TV while they read, and 51 percent of radio listeners read the newspaper while listening. The rise in multitasking among consumers mandates an integrated media approach and an increased emphasis on advertising within the most relevant and engaging content.

7. Newspapers
This past year, many of the websites of major newspapers have become the number-one portals in their geographic markets and are drawing a larger, younger and more affluent readership. The audience that reads a newspaper’s website but not its print version accounts for 2 to 15 percent of the Integrated Newspaper Audience, according to Scarborough Research, and that represents hundreds of thousands of readers for many newspapers in larger markets. They’re successfully attracting 18-to-34-year-olds to their sites, and the online readers are more upscale, which can make them a more desirable audience. If you're an advertiser in the "print" newspaper, you can negotiate for a combo rate to run online as well to reach these additional readers. And if advertising in the print newspaper is too expensive for your business, you may find more affordable rates online by drilling down past the main pages to place ads on content-rich, but less frequently visited web pages.

Hot Online Trends

8. Web Conferencing
As business travel becomes increasingly challenging due to increased security, advance check-in times and transportation delays, online workshops and meetings that require no travel are coming to the forefront. It’s more desirable than ever to demo your new product to a group or make a sales presentation without anyone ever leaving home. Participants can watch your presentation on their computer monitors and hear you live on their computer speakers or by phone. In fact, I'm now transitioning to this technology to deliver webinars, and you can, too.

9. Online Research
Whether you sell exclusively online or primarily through a brick-and-mortar site, online search will have a profound impact on your sales in 2007. When asked how often they researched products online before buying them in person or in a store, 87 percent of nearly 7,500 respondents to a BIGresearch “Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey” said they did so occasionally to regularly. And a comScore research study showed that 63 percent of searchers completed a purchase in offline retail stores following their search activity. So no matter whether you sell online, off-line or both, you need a great website with deep, persuasive content that keeps your prospects and customers shopping on your site or sends them to your store.

10. Local Search
Want to know where to invest your online marketing dollars in 2007? Aim for higher rankings in the top search engines. Sixty-two percent of searchers click on a link within the first page of results, according to a report from iProspect and Jupiter Research. To win higher rankings in natural search results, you can optimize your site by sprinkling the keyword phrases your best prospects will be searching for throughout all the pages of your site, in your page descriptions and in metatags. You should also secure links to your site from other high-ranking websites. But to guarantee you'll turn up in the top search results, invest in a paid search campaign. Local search campaigns are often the most affordable and will bring traffic from your immediate market area in the New Year.

Work From Home Tips

2007-05-28T09:25:00.000-05:00

When you are working online, you must create a system and work that system. Why a system?

A system holds you accountable. A system allows you the opportunity to track and test and make adjustments. A system gives you the framework to share your success with others.

So once you have your system, are there a few tricks and tips and techniques that can help you go ‘over the top’? You bet there are!

Here are just a few:

1) Try tracking your sales rather than your opt-in rates. It is really easy to keep track of opt-in rates and use that as a gauge for the success of a traffic source. But if you track each sale back to the source, the sales might tell a different story.

2) Get more organized. Create a new folder on your desktop. ‘Online resources’ In that folder, have a collection of other folders, one for each type of product or tool or email you receive. It is too easy to save free gifts, tools, and quality emails for your swipe file, but when you are looking for them a month down the road, you have no idea how to find what you are looking for. You don’t remember the cryptic name you saved it under (as3rfgh56.xyz). You don’t remember which file your computer so helpfully suggested you place it in.

3) Send your email list a survey. What do they want you to write about? What products are they looking for? How can you better serve them?

4) Change up your signature on your email from time to time. Maybe you have a new web site or a new affiliate program most of those on your daily emailing list have not seen. After awhile, your same old signature becomes boring. Change it up!

5) Go back to the basics. When you hit a plateau, ask yourself what you did when you first started growing. You may think, but that was so amateur! But who cares, if it was creating growth. Do what works, not what everyone else thinks you should be doing.

Helpful Sites for Your Biz

2007-05-25T22:29:00.000-05:00

Sitekreatorwww.sitekreator.comSiteKreator provides DIY services to build, publish and host Web 2.0-ready websites for $95 a year. Easy-to-implement features include blogs, web forums, image galleries and mailing lists. Websites are based on templates and are customizable. The business edition starts with storage capacity of 200MB and can be upgraded to 1GB. SiteKreator allows for unlimited pages and enables you to add your logo, slogan and custom text, giving your website the look and feel you want.
Bizfilings.comwww.bizfilings.comThis site is a one-stop shop for small businesses looking to incorporate or form an LLC. The site is full of information, including a helpful comparison of LLCs and corporations. Products and services are also available, such as corporate supplies and amendment filings as well as a free guide to incorporation. More than 150,000 companies have found help at Bizfilings.com, which accommodates businesses in all 50 states. Prices vary from state to state.
PR Mentor Systemwww.pr-mentor.comPR Mentor offers a PR toolkit to help entrepreneurs get their messages heard. The toolkit enables businesses to use the same PR process as large agencies and includes templates, samples, work sheets and more. The $299 PR Mentor System includes the toolkit and offers access to a members-only online forum where you can get PR questions answered and even have your press releases reviewed. The toolkit a la carte is $129.

Daily Quotation

2007-05-22T19:22:00.000-05:00

Every being is always receiving that which is a vibrational match to whatever they are offering.

Look At What I Stumbled Upon

2007-05-22T12:12:00.000-05:00

Stumbleupon is much more than just a social network tool known from such sites as friendster or orkut. It provides addition with features like - Link Recommendation (which is the main purpose) - Topic Surfing (which makes it a great research tool) - Channel Surfing aka co-browsing (which means leaving your comments on sites, pages and people) - Web and Photoblogging - Recommend to friend via mail - Bookmark collecting - Community forums - Site promotion - And a lot of fun ! All of this adds up on meeting a lot of friendly people, that have the same interests as you have. Privacy issues might worry you: SU leaves you full freedom of entering details about you. The only thing that leaves a trace of your identity is in my view a collection of which sites you prefer and your probably everchanging IP number. You cannot be connected to your surf-preferences if you dont reveal your identity, as your email address is not visible for other users. So privacy is not really an issue as it may be in other networks you might find, and if you don't care building up a data-minable collection of likes and dislikes connected with other peoples likes or dislikes.

Journal to Prosperity - Lifesytle

2007-05-21T10:58:00.001-05:00

I’m living proof that I’m in a business with a community of people that allow me to be exactly who I want to be. I get to choose the lifestyle that I choose.

How I did this was by taking personal responsibility for my life.....when I did ~ everything became possible.

I allowed myself to be open and I made the decision to make a significant change in my life.

I asked myself “What do I want?” and I got real specific with what I wanted.
I wrote down exactly what I wanted and had a visual picture of exactly what I wanted.
I knew it was exactly what I wanted, because I felt it emotionally and it had nothing to do with money or anything else, but everything to do with me.

SMART goal:

S – specific, clear, detailed goal
M– measurable
A– attainable
R– relevant
T– timely

PERSIST WITHOUT EXCEPTION!!

7 Great Ways To Finance a Startup

2007-05-19T09:07:00.000-05:00

No matter how groundbreaking your idea for a new business, you won't get past the starting gate without funding. While there are many ways to find money, most are generally more appropriate for more established companies. Still, there are some smart tacks for start ups. Here's a look at seven options: read more...

Journal to Prosperity

2007-05-17T15:59:00.000-05:00

Question to journal about today:
What would I do today if I knew I could not fail?

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Wake UP to Success -- Claiming Ownership of Your Business and Taking Action

2007-05-17T14:24:00.000-05:00

FACT:
Personal development and the law of attraction are on the forefront of the public consciousness.

The business that I’m affiliated with Liberty League International is leading the charge, in terms of showing people how to create their lives on purpose.

The commonalities of people that get consistent results take ownership of their business and take action.

First ask yourself:
What could I do that I haven’t done?
Where is it that I could be more effective?
What decisions can I make that I haven’t made yet?

~ Its one thing to be around the business and yet another to be in the business – to be the business ~

In my case with Liberty League International, I’m in the business of Transformation/Liberation; so when I think about what I can do that I haven’t done….it’s up to me….if I’m a person of integrity and my word….then YES I’m going to accomplish those things……and it’s up to me to take the actions I’ve yet to take.
For example, part of that is going away for the weekend on a whim, because my business is a lifestyle company and that’s what I came here for, so it reveals the lifestyle. Its part of the actions that I must take to reach the goals I set for myself. Which, in fact, are out of my comfort zone, taking a weekend jaunt to a spontaneous place and spending money on hotels and everything else involved. And for you the reader, there are all kinds of things you have to do; and the things we have to do are not mysterious to us because they are the things we aren’t comfortable doing; if we were then we would already have them.

Michael Losier the author of The Law of Attraction says – “if you’re wondering what you’ve been expecting or attracting, just look around, you already have it.”

PEOPLE THAT TAKE THE ACTION GET THE RESULTS

Ask yourself:
What’s the price that I have to pay?

So when I ask myself…..What do I want to do least?....and I know what it is, as I try my hardest to avoid recognizing it, well that’s the one that I do first! I get uncomfortable and it moves me toward the unknown, the next level. I abandon “comfort zone” and I get unreasonable and I take the action.

So ask yourself:
What actions can I take, that I’m seeing others take that are bearing fruit in their lives?

And without questions or hesitation TAKE THOSE ACTIONS!!

Do the thing to succeed, not to try not to fail.

Fear gives away you’re power

Be powerful and go beyond your fears….if you desire to succeed, play full out, no questions, no hesitations, if it moves you in the direction of your goals, take the action immediately, but if you think…what if it doesn’t work for me? POOF you’ve already lost.

BE UNREASONABLE,
BE IMMEDIATE
BE OUTRAGEOUS

I don’t operate my business with an escape path or a plan B. That’s claiming ownership.

Claiming ownership means….I create my life, I create the exact amount of financial success.

T Harv Eker's Millionaire Mind

2007-05-15T17:55:00.000-05:00

Your financial blueprint is made up of the "programming" you have received in the past, especially as a young child.
If you have been set in the wrong direction, with negative associations or emotions around money you must reset if you are ever going to get more money. T Harv Eker's Secrets of the Millionaire Mind reveals how to set your blueprint for success.
Your blueprint is like a thermostat. If the temperature in the room is 72°, chances are the thermostat is set for 72°. Is it possible that because the window is open, and it's cold outside, the temperature can drop to 65°? Of course, but what will eventually happen is the thermostat will kick in and bring the temperature back to 72°.
The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat.
Similarly, the only way to change your level of financial success on a "permanent" basis is to reset your financial thermostat, otherwise known as your money blueprint.

Be Productive

2007-05-10T07:19:00.000-05:00

These days our lives are busier than ever. We work more than ever. We are more stressed and exhausted than ever before. And yet we get less done and are not as happy.

It doesn’t have to be that way.

The problem is that we are overloaded with information and tasks, and we try to get everything done instead of just the most essential things. Solution: focus on only the essential, eliminate the rest, and allow yourself to get into that beautiful state known as “flow”.

And although it can be hard to give up all the busy-ness that we’ve grown accustomed to, the change will have tremendous benefits on our sanity, our stress levels, our happiness, and yes, our productivity.

Here are 10 simple ways to be more productive with less effort:

Clear your head. It’s impossible to gain perspective, and to know what is truly essential, if we are in the middle of an information stream. Take an hour, or half a day if possible, to shut off the information flow, and to get a larger view of your life and your job. The time you take off will be well worth it. Tell everyone that you are unavailable, shut off all communications, shut yourself in somewhere private, and take some time to think about what is important. What do you want? Where are you going? What will it take to get there? Another good way to clear your head, which is necessary for focus, is to write down everything that you need to do, all your tasks and projects and ideas. Dump the contents of your mind on paper, and then stop thinking about them for a little while.
Focus on the essential tasks. Once you’ve gotten your head cleared, you need to figure out what tasks are most essential. Ask yourself this magic question: “What task can you do that will get you the most return on your time?” Figure out the project that will get you the most recognition, win you awards, or get you the most business. Something that will pay off big. Not something you’ll forget about in a week, but something that others will remember you by. This is an essential task. Make a list of these types of tasks — they’re your most important things to do this week.
Eliminate the rest. Now look at your overall list. What’s on there that’s not essential? Can you just drop them from your schedule? Or delegate them to someone else? If not, put them on a “waiting list”. Then, as you focus on your essential tasks, check back on this waiting list every now and then. Sometimes you’ll realize that the less essential tasks weren’t really necessary at all.
Do essential tasks first. If you’ve got a list of things to do today, and one or two of them are truly essential, do those items first thing in the morning. Don’t wait until later in the day, because they’ll get pushed back as other urgent stuff comes up. Get them out of the way, and your productivity will truly soar.
Eliminate distractions. You can put essential stuff on your list all year long, but if you are constantly interrupted by email notifications, IM, cell phones, your RSS reader, gadgets and widgets, social media, forums and the like, you’ll never be productive. Turn these things off, disconnect yourself from the Internet if possible, clear your desk of all papers, clear your walls and surrounding areas, and allow yourself to truly focus.
Use simple tools. Don’t fidget with a bunch of gadgets or the latest and coolest applications. Find a simple notebook for writing things down, a simple to-do list (no frills) and the simplest application possible for doing your work. Then forget about the tools and think only of the task at hand. If you’re too worried about the tools, you’re not actually doing anything.
Do one thing at a time. Multi-tasking is a waste of time. You can’t get things done with a million things going on at once, pulling for your attention. Focus on the essential task in front of you, to the exclusion of all else, and you are much more likely to get it completed, in less time, with less effort.
Find quiet. In addition to a quiet working environment, you need time every day that you can call your own, where you don’t have to do work. This could be through reading, taking a bath, walking in nature, going swimming at the beach, going jogging, meditating. Not reading your feeds. Get away from the information overload and find that peace that will allow you to truly focus when you do work, and to review your day in your mind, and to get the perspective to see what is essential.
Make the most of your work. It’s one thing to write something great, or to create something fantastic. But it’s entirely another thing to make that great thing explode, to get you attention, to earn the recognition you deserve — which will lead to more business or more opportunities. Once you’ve created the Next Great Thing, promote it, show it to others, find a way to have it carry you as far as it can take you. Don’t just create something and move on to the next thing. Use your energy and talents to their fullest extent.
Simplify some more. Once you’ve simplified down to the essential, and eliminated distractions, you should become productive. But distractions and the unnecessary have a way of creeping back in and accumulating. Every now and then, take a look at what you’re doing, at the information coming into your life, at how you spend your time and the tools you use. Then simplify some more.

Condemned To Google Hell

2007-05-08T19:00:00.000-05:00

Beginning in September 2006, Skyfacet no longer showed up on the first few pages of Google's results when users typed in search terms like "diamonds" and "engagement ring." The site's traffic vanished, and Sanar says his sales dropped $500,000 in three months.

What happened? Sanar isn't completely sure. But he does know that his site has been condemned to the supplemental index, a dreaded backwater region of Google search results that goes by another name in online marketing circles: Google Hell.

Google Hell is the worst fear of the untold numbers of companies that depend on search results to keep their business visible online. Getting stuck there means most users will never see the site, or at least many of the site's pages, when they enter certain keywords. And getting out can be next to impossible--because site operators often don't know what they did to get placed there.

Google's programmers appear to have created the supplemental index with the best intentions. It's designed to lighten the workload of Google's "spider," the algorithm that constantly combs and categorizes the Web's pages. Google uses the index as a holding pen for pages it deems to be of low quality or designed to appear artificially high in search results.

Those pages are scanned far less frequently than those in the main index, meaning that once a page is marked for Google Hell, it can languish there for as long as a year before Google even deigns it worthy of a reappraisal. And as Google tries to manage an explosively growing Web, more and more sites are finding themselves thrown into the search engine's digital dungeon.

If that makes the world's leading Web-crawler sound judgmental, consider Google's difficult position. The search juggernaut is faced with the endless task of reading and ranking the ever-expanding Web's billions of pages, the equivalent of putting the Earth's population in order from tallest to shortest every few minutes. Meanwhile there are growing numbers of pages filled only with junk text and advertising, designed solely to fool the engine. It's Google's task to sort out the trash from the worthwhile, and to do it better and faster than competitors like Yahoo! (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ), Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ), or InterActiveCorp's (nasdaq: IACI - news - people ) Ask.com

The Success Formula

2007-05-06T08:11:00.000-05:00

Every year, hundreds of thousands of businesses are started. Most will fail, some will muddle along, and a few will thrive. Which ones thrive, and why? The reason some businesses experience spectacular sales and profit growth from the start isn't because they had a lot of money at the beginning. Their fast growth can be attributed to the fact that they were put together the right way.

In every instance, the founders either had or acquired the experience and knowledge they needed to start up and run the business. They recognized what their weak points were, subsequently nurtured alliances, and acquired the skills they needed to start their company off right. They also understood how the various parts of the business fit together to form a total structure and knew that if one part was missing, the total structure would break. For example, they knew that a successful sales plan is directly dependent upon support from the marketing and promotional plans, and that the strategic business plan acts as the glue that holds all the sub plans together so that they work in concert.

DEVELOPING IDEAS
Clever product and service ideas are a dime a dozen. Everybody has one, and most of them never get implemented. The successful entrepreneur starts with a basic idea. This idea is first tested to staying power. Can it be used to grow a customer base, and will it be profitable? The pseudo-entrepreneurial itch often ends before the basic idea gets tested. Studies show that a high percentage of people who open new businesses do so because they are frustrated with their current job. They'll jump into any business venture that comes along without first checking it out. Ninety percent of this group will go out of business in their first year.

Those that make it are smart enough to recognize the symptoms of their emotional state. They are acutely aware that they may be in a vulnerable position. As a result, they may hang on to the security of their current job and start a business on the side. They'll make the move to become a full-time entrepreneur when the time is right for them and after they have thoroughly checked out their business venture ideas. There are three basic concepts to keep in mind as you develop and refine your business start-up ideas.

Be Creative
The opposite of creativity is rigidity. Entrepreneurs are not rigid in their thinking. If you cling to the old ways of doing things because "that's the way we have always done it," you'll never come up with the new solutions that are demanded by today's small businesses. To test your creative ability, practice finding ways to tie together seemingly unrelated ideas.

Resolve Problems
You must have a clear understanding of what it is you are trying to achieve and be able to identify the obstacles that stand in your way. Break each problem down so that you understand it and know what you need to do to eliminate it. For example, the problem may be that you need more space. Why do you need more space, and what are the alternatives? An alternative may pose a new set of problems, but if they reduce the magnitude of the original problem, the alternative may be a more viable option.

Brainstorming
When you come up with a solution to a problem, brainstorm the solution with as many qualified people as you can find to avoid judging your own answer. Accept modifications that make sense, and be prepared to replace the solution with a totally new and better alternative. The key to the brainstorming process is to be objective. Brainstorming is an excellent way to come up with a new set of ideas for new products, services, or improvements that could accelerate the growth of your business.

The Most Expensive Movie Ever Made Spider Man 3

2007-05-04T22:14:00.000-05:00

Even before filming began in January 2006, Sam Raimi promised to pull out all the stops for his third Spidey film (likely the last he'll direct in the series). He wasn't kidding. As production dragged on into late summer—it had been scheduled to conclude in June—stories about the project's ballooning budget started popping up all over town. But in the end, even the most hyperbolic of observers may have underestimated the final tab. Industry insiders claim that Sony spent $350 million or more on production alone. With marketing and promotion factored in, the total price tag will approach half a billion dollars—positioning Spider-Man 3 as the most expensive movie of all time.

Get The Word Out On Your Home Business

2007-05-01T22:16:00.000-05:00

Are you ready for a year of guerrilla marketing?

Podcasts
Never before has the online community had such an opportunity to reach its audience offline. On top of that, the spammers and hackers haven't yet found a way to infiltrate podcasting. (They probably will, but not like they've done with e-mail.)

Podcasts, like any information you put out, should be of interest and value to your target market. What do they need to help their businesses or their personal lives? What solutions do you have that they would like to hear more about? These are the things people find interesting in podcasts. A once-a-month delivery promoted through all your other marketing channels will give a real synergistic boost to your marketing.
Blogs
There are 100 times more blogs than there were three years ago, according Sifry's Alerts' August post on the State of the Blogosphere. At first, it was only the most tech-savvy businesses that had blogs. Now blogging is on the increase with all types of businesses because it's a cost-effective way to create marketing buzz and communities of support.

Blogging is like having a conversation with your target market. It also provides an interactive forum for your target market to talk back to you. And a blog done in conjunction with your website gives you one more way to reach your prospects.

The best part is, many blog programs allow you to set everything up yourself with little or no technical know-how. If you're not sure you'll be able to support a blog on your own, contribute to someone else's. This'll help you gain exposure and position you as an expert in your field.

Online Advertising
Ad dollars are continuing to shift to the internet and will continue to do so as new opportunities such as video open up. Online ad spending increases have been driven by the growing ability to measure campaigns effectively and a relatively high ROI. As a result, for many businesses, the question isn't whether to advertise online or even where or when, but rather how to stretch every dollar spent.

For the everyday entrepreneur and guerrilla marketer, this translates into a focused pay-per-click campaign on Yahoo! or Google AdWords. You can focus on a particular target market searching particular keywords and test your campaign instantly, all for fewer dollars than the old mass-market banner ads and certainly for a lot less than the cost of print ads.

Expanding to Global Markets
Borders are being removed in the business world because international labor rates and talent levels make location irrelevant on the Internet. No longer is going global just for large corporations; Sally’s e-commerce bead shop that's operating from a home office can now do business in as many countries as have Internet access.

For the aggressive entrepreneur, marketing globally is done mostly online. Using pay-per-click campaigns, a focused opt-in e-mail campaign or other traffic-generation techniques, a local entrepreneur can easily reach a global market.

The Internet has also greatly reduced language barriers. A lot of e-commerce is done in English, so there's not necessarily a huge need to translate. However, translated websites do open up new opportunities.

Expanding to global markets can be done with your e-commerce website or as an affiliate of the many thousands of retail portals available online, like Amazon.com and eBay.

Direct Marketing
No longer are awareness ads or even branding ads generating enough results to justify their use. Today's consumers want to know what’s in it for them. They want a deal, a discount or something special. These all have implications for increased direct marketing. In addition, with all the technology available to us for managing databases, target markets can be more tightly defined, segregated, sorted, compiled and marketed to, providing a higher return to those employing direct marketing.

Work-At-Home Moms

2007-04-29T07:46:00.000-05:00

The ability of at-home moms to earn an income is also being driven by technology such as high-speed Internet access, the increase in home computers and a greater willingness by cost-conscious companies to rely on free agents rather than hiring full-time staff.

The work-at-home moms might work irregular hours, after their husbands come home from work or when their children are in school. They often work as independent contractors; most don't get health benefits.

Networking services for this labor pool are also growing. Home-based working moms are organizing their own business conferences, and many glean business tips from others through Web sites devoted to making money while staying at home with children.

How Couples Run a Home Business Without Running Each Other Down

2007-04-26T07:28:00.000-05:00

Combining marriage and business is not an endeavor to be taken lightly. It requires serious consideration and answers to some tough questions. Here are 10 tips for running a successful home-based business with your spouse:

-- Determine if you can work side by side. Ask yourself honestly if you can work patiently alongside your spouse day in and day out, and then go from business partner to life partner after work. If you can't picture yourself making this transition, then you probably should not run a business together.

-- Discuss your goals. Are your visions for the business the same as those of your spouse? Even the strongest marriage will be tested if you are working at cross-purposes.

-- Write a business plan and solicit feedback. Once you detail your vision, show it to a consultant for an objective opinion. There is tremendous value in feedback from an unbiased source.

-- Define each person's role. The roles can be flexible (and will likely have to change over time) but must at least address the basics: who will keep the books, who will do the shipping, etc.

-- Keep the lines of communication open. Don't be critical of one another -- and don't be dismissive or contemptuous of your partner. Confront the challenges of the business, not one another.

-- Be circumspect when talking with clients. Your customers don't need to know that your partner in business is also your partner in life. Confiding in a client about your relationship with your partner can poison your relationship with your customer as well as your marriage.

-- Form a united front. Do not allow employees or customers to pit one of you against the other. Never put a sale or a customer ahead of your spouse.

-- Set firm boundaries and honor them. Set up your office in a space that doesn't disrupt the entire family.

-- Hope for the best, but plan for the worst. Draw up legal agreements detailing how the business will be divided if you split up or if one of you decides to opt out of the business. Also, have a contingency plan in place in the event that your spouse falls short of his or her business obligations.

-- Don't deal with family matters during business hours. Running a small business and being a good partner and parent are each difficult on their own. To do both concurrently will almost ensure that you fail at both. Set specific times outside of business hours for discussing family business.

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Russell Simmons And His New Book 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success

2007-04-24T22:07:00.000-05:00

Living legend Russell Simmons shares his experiences and beliefs on how to be successful. Blending business insight, universal spiritual truths and an inspired sense of purpose DO YOU crosses the lines of age, race and background with wisdom that will lift you up and motivate you to pursue your vision. Russell Simmons, the original and eternal Hip-Hop Mogul, is one of the most innovative and influential figures in modern American business and culture.

How Do You Look Online?

2007-04-24T10:54:00.000-05:00

Today on the Web, there are literally thousands of reviews on small businesses that range from restaurants to health spas, retail stores, and real estate agents. More and more consumers are searching for positive referrals before they use a product or service. To take advantage of this growing trend, you need to get the word out about what your business does and utilize your existing customers.

Here are a few ideas to get you started:

• Make sure you're listed. Get your business listed in major search engines and the online directories, such as maps.google.com, local.yahoo.com, city.ask.com, local.live.com, cityguide.aol.com, and citysearch.com. In most cases, getting your business listed is as simple as filling out a free online form.

• Understand your buzz. Determine what others are saying about your business. Start by going online to a search engine and searching on your business name.

• Spread the word. Create your own buzz by encouraging your customers to go online and write positive reviews about your business and service. Depending on the business, consumers can post reviews on sites like InsiderPages, Yahoo Local, and CitySearch. Don't sit back waiting for others to do it for you. Market yourself through your satisfied customers.

The Entrepreneur: Mentors Are A Must-Have

2007-04-22T09:47:00.000-05:00

Article By The Bulletin
One of the biggest influences on my business career has been my mentors, and I have had a handful of them. I can say without question that I wouldn't have achieved a quarter of what I have accomplished without their guidance and support.There are plenty of quality mentors available, and people are usually honored that someone would respect them enough to ask. Mentors are people who:
* Share their experiences
* Listen to problems without solving them, but help their protégés think through problems so they can solve them on their own
* Ask the tough questions
* Point out mistakes
* Rebuke their charges when they are out of line
* Provide guidance on how to methodically nurture a career
* Make introductions to people who bring different skill sets that will improve the protégé
* Rebuild broken psyches

If you are launching a new business, a division of a company, entering the management ranks or aspire to be a leader, a mentor is invaluable. A good mentor can be an incredible boost to your career, and you are never too old to seek out people more experienced than yourself who can teach you the ropes, provide constructive feedback and encouragement.

Yahoo Makes 1 Billion Offer

2007-04-21T08:20:00.000-05:00

Article By Fast Company.com

Mark Zuckerberg’s life so far is like a movie script. A super smart kid invents a tech phenomenon while attending an Ivy League school and launches it to rave reviews. Big shots circle his dorm to make his acquaintance; he drops out of college to grow his baby and Change The World As We Know It.
Just three years in, Facebook which started as a networking site for college students has become a go-to tool for 19 million registered users, including employees of government agencies and Fortune 500 companies.
According to comScore Media Metrix, which tracks Web activity, it is now the sixth most-trafficked site in the United States–1% of all Internet time is spent on Facebook. ComScore also rates it the number-one photo-sharing site on the Web, with 6 million pictures uploaded daily. And it is starting to compete with Google and other tech titans as a destination for top young engineering talent in Silicon Valley. Debra Aho Williamson, a senior analyst at eMarketer, says it is on track to bring in $100 million in revenue this year–serious money indeed.
The New York Times and others reported that Yahoo had made a $1 billion offer to buy Facebook and Zuckerberg and his partners had turned it down.
“I’m here to build something for the long term,” Zuckerberg says. “Anything else is a distraction.”

Who Is Dr. Joe Vitale?

2007-04-20T07:33:00.000-05:00

Dr. Vitale currently lives in the Hill Country outside of Austin, Texas with his pets and his love, Nerissa. To browse an online catalog of his books and tapes, to read dozens of free articles by him, or to sign up for his popular free e-newsletter, see his main website at http://www.mrfire.com/.

DOUBLECLICK UNVEILS ONLINE MARKETPLACE

2007-04-17T10:33:00.000-05:00

Article By Doubleclick Digital Advertising

The DoubleClick Advertising Exchange service solves both problems by providing advertisers, agencies, publishers and ad networks with a dynamic marketplace where they can buy and sell online display advertising - impression by impression - with greater efficiency, transparency and control.

Video on the Internet has become increasingly sophisticated thanks to advances in technology that have enriched the experience for consumers. Additionally, online video provides advertisers the opportunity to interact with their audiences in a way that is increasingly dynamic—with live, streaming video taking this new media even one step further in advancement. Read More

Strategies: Faith, doubt, effort go a long way

2007-04-17T10:14:00.000-05:00

Article By Rhonda Abrams, USA TODAY

1. Great Faith: To build a business — or start anything new — you have to believe in yourself and your ideas. You can envision something that others cannot. You think up a new business, process, design or technology that hasn't existed before.
It is not only the quality of your ideas, but the strength of your faith in your ideas that will help you succeed. Moreover, it is your faith in yourself that attracts others to work with you, invest in your vision and support you as you pursue your dreams.
Great faith is exhilarating. But it is also exhausting. It's impossible to stay on an emotional high, even if things continually go well. And the reality is they will not always go well. When your business encounters the inevitable pitfalls, detours and slowdowns, you will be the one others will look to for reassurance.

Retire Young, Then What?

2007-04-13T11:07:00.000-05:00

Article From CNN Money:

You may be ready to quit your day job - but that doesn't mean you want to sit around all day. These places, selected by Money Magazine with Bert Sperling of BestPlaces.net, all offer thriving economies and plenty to do.

Are you on track to retire early? Take the test and find out!

Get The Most Out Of Home Tax Advantage

2007-04-13T11:01:00.000-05:00

Being a homeowner means you are entitled to a number of tax breaks.
Article By Gerri Willis, CNN

One of the most important tax advantages of home ownership is the deduction of your mortgage interest. But there are also plenty of tax benefits for people who just bought a home. For example, you should be able to deduct points, or costs, that your lender charged you when you took out your mortgage. One point equals 1 percent of the loan amount borrowed.

Oprah Wants To Know : How Happy Are You?

2007-04-13T09:23:00.000-05:00

Are you truly happy? If you were presented with a group of people you've never met, could you determine who was really satisfied with their life? A panel of five people took a test to see how happy they really are. See if you can tell who is the happiest, and then take the test yourself!

Happiness is in the mind of the beholder.

Daily Quotes

2007-04-12T22:00:00.000-05:00

The Universe does not know whether the vibration that you're offering is because of something you're observing or something you're remembering or something that you are imagining. It just receives the vibration and answers it with things that match it.

The Jar System by T. Harv Ecker

2007-04-12T07:19:00.000-05:00

T. Harv Ecker is a famous author, public speaker, and personal development leader. We attended his "Millionaire Mind" seminar, and learned a good deal of information. This one topic of the Jar System was repeated at a different seminar we put on, by Myron Golden, with different names and titles. Both speakers felt it one of the central principles for achieving financial freedom. We do as well, and have begun adopting it into our life.

The Jars

This is a system of jars - but it can be bank accounts, envelopes, or anything else that segregates one amount of money from another. We use different bank accounts, plus a single jar for our loose change, which goes into a bank account.

There are six jars altogether, five of 10% each, and one of 50% each. You can vary the percentages as you need to, but not the categories. All six should stay in place.

Jar 1: FFA - Financial Freedom Account

The most important jar.
10% of your after tax income.
Paid BEFORE anything else, including bills. This is the "pay yourself first" jar.
It is for passive income streams, such as laundromats, parking lots, positive cash flow managed real estate, stocks, and some types of internet businesses. Start out with mutual funds, then stocks, and when you have enough money, buy into passive businesses.
This money can NEVER be spent on anything else.
It must be transfered to the next generation when you die.

Jar 2: GIV - Charity

Amount varies from 5% to 10%, depending on your opinion of charitable giving.
If reduced to 5%, Necessities account increases to 55%.
This is intended for true charities, not Christmas and birthday gifts to friends and family.
Jar 3: EDU - Education

10% of your after tax income.
This is YOUR OWN personal development and career advancement education, not your children's college education. They should have their own account, and work to save for it. Use them to help you in your home based business, and pay them as a contractor for this purpose.

Jar 4: LTSS - Long Term Saving and Spending

10% of your after tax income.
Save for cars, college tuition, room additions, or expensive trips. Don't buy these luxuries on a credit card. Pay with cash that you've saved. You can put this in a money market account, CD's, or other interest-bearing vehicle while you're saving up.

Jar 5: FUN - Fun Account

10% of your after tax income.
This money MUST BE BLOWN COMPLETELY every month. If you have some great plan, you can save up and blow it in a second month, but the idea is to drain it regularly.
Come up with special events, spectacular things, that you'll enjoy and remember.

Jar 6: NEC - Necessity

50% to 55% (depending on your GIV account) of your after tax income.
This is the money you pay your bills with.
Pay your credit cards with checks from different check books, as you identify which items are fun, education, necessity, etc.
If you can't make ends meet with 55% of your after tax income, change your habits! Sell or get rid of whatever is draining you. Simplify. Cut back. Get so you can get by with your necessities paid out of no more than 55% of your after tax income.
Pay off your highest interest rate credit card completely before you pay more than the minimum payment on any other credit cards. Pay off credit cards before other liabilities.
As your income increases, your necessities can increase also, but only in proportion.
These money management principles can turn your life around, and whip them into shape.

I've added to them one more principle, which has to do with TIME.

The FFA (Financial Freedom Account) TIME Principle

"Pay yourself first" with 1/2 HOUR A DAY devoted to actually DOING the things that your IDEAL WORKING SELF would do. (In other words, I don't mean relax for 1/2 hour a day - I mean work at what you love.)
For example, if, in your "heart of hearts" you really want to be an inventor, but you earn a living doing something else, BE that inventor for 1/2 hour a day. DO what that inventor would do.
Also, this doesn't mean "prepare" for that eventuality, by going back to school or something significantly delayed. It means IMMERSING yourself IMMEDIATELY in the REALITY of BEING that eventual person. DO exactly what that person would do.

What Is Podcasting?

2007-04-11T07:59:00.000-05:00

Podcasting is a simple way for us to distribute MP3 files and for you to receive them. By subscribing to our podcast using a podcast reader, you'll receive automatic updates of our new shows. Podcasting's initial appeal was to allow individuals to distribute their own "radio shows," but the system quickly became used in a wide variety of other ways, including distribution of school lessons, official and unofficial audio tours of museums, conference meeting alerts and updates, and by police departments to distribute public safety messages.

I've never used podcasts for marketing but I know that all the "BIG" dogs are doing it. They're relatively easy way to get friendly with your prospects.

Want to listen to your favorite radio shows and audio and video programs anytime? The iTunes Store offers tens of thousands of podcasts, from both big names and independent creators.

The Automatic Millionaire by David Bach

2007-04-10T08:17:00.000-05:00

Article By David Bach;
What makes you happy at work?
What makes you happy at home?
What makes you happy with your friends and family?
What makes you happy when you're by yourself?
What do you love to do?
What would you do with your life today if you weren't afraid of failure?
What's not working in your life?
What are you currently doing that prevents you from experiencing joy?
What's working in your life?
Who's not working in your life?
Who in your life is subtracting value from and adding misery to it?
Can you fix any of these relationships, or should you let them go from your life?
What relationships are working in your life?
If we were getting together one year from today, what would have to happen for you to be able to tell me that you now have more joy in your life?
What's the single most important thing you've learned about yourself as a result of answering these questions?

What's wrong with Tiger Woods?

2007-04-06T14:57:00.000-05:00

As PGA reports:
...four-time champion Tiger Woods was heading in the wrong direction midway through his second round at Augusta National on Friday. Woods played his first nine holes in 39 to fall to 4 over par, seven shots behind the surprising Wetterich, who was 3 under through 15 holes.
>full story<

Is Distraction the Culprit?
Is Mindset Everything.
Has the young Tiger lost interest?
What attracts your attention? When you take charge of your mind, what are you capable of creating? >>>Wealth Theory

Who Is Jack Cranfield

2007-04-06T08:23:00.000-05:00

Jack Canfield is an American motivational speaker and author. He is best known as the co-creator of the "Chicken Soup for the Soul". Canfield and his writing partner, Mark Victor Hansen, were the top-selling authors in the United States in 1997.

Check out his site

Bob Proctor on The Ellen Show

2007-04-06T08:16:00.000-05:00

Just in case you missed it!! The Secret and Law of Attraction are catching on all over the world. The second I discovered The Secret I noticed more and more buzz. Watch the video and experience it for yourself!

The Pros of Running Your Business Like a Girl

2007-04-06T07:57:00.000-05:00

Provided By Entrepreneur.com

How many times have you heard something like this? Accusing a person of doing something "like a girl" has become so common that even women are guilty of saying it--despite the negative connotations it holds toward females.
In her new book, How to Run Your Business Like a Girl, Elizabeth Cogswell Baskin turns the idea of doing something "like a girl" on its head by exploring common female traits and how women entrepreneurs--and all entrepreneurs--can use them to their advantage when running a business.

Marketing Planning

2007-04-05T22:00:00.000-05:00

Provided By Know This Marketing

For marketers planning is an essential task that must be continually undertaken. As we will see, shifting market conditions, including changing customer needs and competitive threats, almost always insure that what worked in the past will not work in the future, thus requiring revisions in how a product is marketed. Marketing planning is also important since it is often a prerequisite for obtaining funding whether one is a marketer in a large corporation seeking additional money for his or her department or is part of a small start up company looking for initial funding.

Do You Have What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur?

2007-04-03T08:37:00.000-05:00

What does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? While there's no such thing as the perfect entrepreneur -- even Bill Gates has made mistakes -- a number of personal qualities can help you to build a successful business. If you pass muster on most of these traits, you're off and running.

• You Can Delegate. No matter how smart and energetic you are, it's a mistake to try to attend to every detail yourself. Unless you're a solo act, you're going to have to trust employees to do their jobs so that you can run the business.

• You Are A Teacher. In order to delegate successfully, you will need people with appropriate skills -- and they may have to learn some of those skills from you.

• You Are Self-Motivated. As a small business owner, you won't have a boss to tell you when to get to work. If that's a problem, keep your day job.

• You Can Work With Numbers. You will spend a fair amount of time keeping track of money -- expenses, revenues, taxes and the like. A math phobia won't help.

• You Learn From Mistakes. You will make them; the trick is to learn from them and move on. Not everyone finds that easy to do.

• You Like To Work. Contrary to myth, you don't need to be a workaholic to start a successful business. Many entrepreneurs find that it makes more sense to establish a reasonable working pace -- one that lets them strike a balance between work and their personal lives. That said, don't start a business unless you enjoy work. There's going to be plenty of it.

• You Don't Mind Selling. You'll have to sell products to customers, of course. You may also need to sell lenders or other financial backers on the prospects of your company. And you'll need to convince potential employees to accept jobs with your firm rather than go to work for the competition.

• You Don't Quit. You'll encounter obstacles that might stymie some individuals. You'll have more success if you are the type of person who relishes such challenges. A dash of optimism helps; it will help you handle the uncertainty that is part of every venture.

Provided by Allbusiness

T. Harv Eker and Millionaire Mind

2007-03-31T08:54:00.000-05:00

Eker is the author of the best-selling books, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind and SpeedWealth. He has also developed several highly-acclaimed courses such as The Millionaire Mind Intensive, Life Directions, Wizard Training and Train the Trainer. He is also the producer and trainer of the world-famous Enlightened Warrior Training.

The thing I like the most about T. Harv Eker is his perspective on abundance. The money is out there, we just have to figure out what it is we love to do and profit from that. I've always been a huge fan of personal development which makes it easy for me to promote. T. Harv Eker states that if you don't enjoy what you do then you most likely will not succeed. Choose something you love and take it to the bank!!

Who Is Stephen Pierce?

2007-03-31T07:58:00.000-05:00

A young man hanging with the wrong crowd, Stephen Pierce wanted desperately to make his break in the world with every “next big thing” advertised in the back of magazines. After numerous failed attempts and hitting bottom after being shot and left bleeding in the street, Pierce studied and equipped himself with a new mindset for business that today has made him one of the most successful Internet marketers, marketing consultants and optimization strategists in the country. I have used many of Stephens' ideas in my home business marketing. The advantage of using his information is seeing marketing for what it really is, simple and to the point.

Why Should I Settle?

2007-03-27T17:15:00.000-05:00

Lifestyle plays a huge part in my life more than ever!!!

Before Liberty League, my life consisted of work, sleep and eating sometimes. Ever since I was a little girl I could remember daydreaming of spa treatments, vacations and the right man in my life. At some point in my life I stopped dreaming. Something got in the way. Was it jobs, friends or bills??? It was MEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

I got in my way. I stopped thinking of what I wanted. Would you believe that 20 years of my life was dedicated towards everything but my dreams. So, long story short, I was introduced to Liberty League and all was changed.

So today I live the life of leisure. I know what it's like to see the sunset in exotic parts of the world. I know what it's like to be on a sail boat in the middle of the ocean. My gut feeling would be to thank Liberty League, but I thank myself for making the right choices.

Where You Born An Entrepreneur?

2007-03-26T14:38:00.000-05:00

I'll be the first one to say that it took some work to become an entrepreneur. There were many reasons for me to take the path of an entrepreneur. First of all I was incapable of being bossed around. I needed to face the facts, I just had to do it myself. If you would like to know if you were born an entrepreneur than check out this quiz from Forbes.com.

Dr. Wayne Dyer and The Power Of Intention

2007-03-20T16:53:00.000-05:00

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, Ph.D., is an internationally renowned author and speaker in the field of self-development. He’s the author of 29 books, has created many audio programs and videos, and has appeared on thousands of television and radio shows. He has influenced me more than any other speaker in the field of self-development. His words ring true to me. I also recently purchased his children's book for my son and he loves it. If you haven't bought it yet you need to.

Who Is James Arthur Ray?

2007-03-17T10:22:00.000-05:00

James Arthur Ray is one of few spiritual teachers who have achieved top honors in the business world as a thriving entrepreneur. James' background in behavioral sciences, experience as an entrepreneur, and his avid quest for spiritual knowledge give him a unique and powerful ability to address life issues from an integrated and comprehensive level.

James has devoted over two decades to studying the thoughts, actions, and habits of those...

The 5 Qualities Needed For Business Success

2007-03-17T09:05:00.000-05:00

What is it that sets a successful businessperson apart from an average businessperson? Is it down to pure and simple luck, or is it all about having an amazing idea and a successful and strategic business plan in place?

Well, these factors do indeed go a long way to turning a good business idea into a successful business operation, but they have nothing to do with what makes the ‘person’ succeed at business.

Every great entrepreneur naturally has 5 key attributes that sets them aside from their competition and that ensure they will succeed where others may fail. These 5 personal qualities will all reflect upon the entrepreneur’s business and they will mean the entrepreneur grows and develops every area of their own personal expertise to become not only the strategic thinker behind the business, but the strategic manager poised to lead the company forward to achieve even greater success.

The 5 qualities that every entrepreneur shares and that are the keys to their business success are:

1) Desire – To succeed you have to have a massive desire to break out of the average 9 – 5 grind, to step off the employee-job-salary treadmill and to put your ideas, ideals and beliefs into action. An entrepreneur’s desire for personal fulfilment and professional success is his number one key strength and that which will force him to start out in business in the first place. This desire to achieve will become a desire for success and this desire for success will be reflected throughout the business.

2) Positivity – Entrepreneurs have a positive mental attitude towards their life, their business and themselves; they are not restricted by disappointments and regrets and they look forward not backwards. A naturally positive person sees opportunities where others see obstacles, a naturally positive person frees their mind from negativity and disappointment so that it is free to dream, imagine, develop and expand.

3) Commitment – To succeed you have to be committed to putting in the hard work necessary to build a business from the ground up. You have to commit to your beliefs and desires, you have to commit to your business idea and you have to commit to the employees within your company. With commitment comes effort, with effort comes results, with results comes success!

4) Patience – Patience and commitment go hand in hand, and the patient entrepreneurs who dedicate themselves to working away at their business day after day will reap the rewards of their patience when the steady and focused hard work pays off in the form of positive and successful results.

5) Persistence – Nothing is ever straightforward or without contradiction or change and the future is unknown. These factors mean that the final key entrepreneurial attribute is simply critical to success. When obstacles appear, when goal posts are moved and when ‘these things are sent to try us’ you have to persist with your ideas, persist with your hard work and keep focused on success. With patient and committed persistence the desired results will come.

Who Is Lisa Nichols?

2007-03-12T15:10:00.000-05:00

Lisa Nichols is a dynamic motivational speaker and powerful advocate of personal empowerment and emotional healthiness. Her audience’s range from teens to educators, business professionals, CEO’s and parents.

See Lisa Nichols on "The Secret"

Financial Planning & Advice By Ameriprise

2007-03-09T19:58:00.000-05:00

You may already have a financial plan, or you might be thinking about setting one up. In either case, the detailed guide, 6 Keys to Successful Financial Planning from Ameriprise Financial, can help. In it you'll learn financial planning elements that you need to consider so your plan keeps you on track to reach your financial dreams.

Your Own Company Is Your Road to Riches

2007-03-06T19:47:00.000-05:00

Trump Blog

When you think of starting a company, you probably think about all the hard work it will take. Hopefully you also envision all the benefits, such as wealth, freedom, and a sense of personal accomplishment and significance.

But have you also thought about how efficient owning a business really is? If not, think about these benefits. Read More

Abraham-Hicks Daily Quotes

2007-03-05T21:42:00.000-05:00

Abraham-Hicks
As you identify the thing that you want and you achieve vibrational harmony with it, by Law of Attraction you summon the Energy through you, and that is what life is. When someone stops desiring, Life Force no longer flows through them, and then they re-emerge into the Nonphysical where you have all kinds of goals and intentions.

Michael Beckwith On CBS News

2007-03-05T18:59:00.000-05:00

Reverend Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith is one of the most inspiring teachers in The Secret. Dr Beckwith’s vision is to create a world united on an ethical basis of humankind's highest spiritual and social development. He is seeking authentic spirituality, personal development and transformation through selfless service to humankind.
As a non-aligned progressive thinker he founded the Agape International Spiritual Centre in 1986. This is a trans-denominational spiritual community whose doors are open to all seekers of genuine spirituality. Dr. Beckwith is much sought after as a meditation teacher, for scientific prayer, and as speaker at conferences and seminars.

Do You Have Desk Rage?

2007-02-27T19:16:00.000-05:00

Are you tired of being tied to your desk? NBC reports that workers have many reasons for feeling stressed out. The biggest problem is that stress come out in many different ways. Back pain, head aches and even skin problems are just a few. Check out this interactive questionnaire for more information.

Making the Secret Work For You

2007-02-26T16:45:00.001-05:00

The law of attraction has been all over the media lately from Oprah, Ellen to Larry King. And everyone is talking about it... Just the other day, at my favorite health food store, I overheard two people speaking about The Secret on Oprah. I love to being part of it. If you haven't heard of Michael Losier, yet....you will. His book "The Law of Attraction" is the #6 best-selling book on Amazon.com. He's going to be speaking at the next Liberty Conference coming up in Cancun, Mexico in March of 2007. If you haven't had a chance to experience Michael, enjoy the video below of him speaking at one of his workshops. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne as shown on Oprah and Local News

James Arthur Ray

2007-02-25T11:45:00.000-05:00

James Arthur Ray is one of few spiritual teachers who have achieved top honors in the business world as a thriving entrepreneur. James' background in behavioral sciences, experience as an entrepreneur, and his avid quest for spiritual knowledge gives him a unique and powerful ability to address life issues from an integrated and comprehensive level.

Liberty League International Joins With Michael Oliver

2007-02-24T12:59:00.000-05:00

Liberty League International, the leading developer of personal development systems, announced that Michael Oliver of Natural Selling Inc., will join the Liberty League International marketing team as their International Sales Trainer. Michael will be supporting Liberty League by demonstrating how to use the Natural Selling Process to easily and effectively attract and help more potential partners and customers in less time and with less effort by understanding how to eliminate objections, rejection and the high attrition rate.

“Michael will bring clarity to the psychology behind the selling process as we the founders originally intended it” said Shane Krider one of the co-founders of Liberty League International. “We look forward to his contribution and are proud to have him as a member of our team.

Since its creation in 2001, Liberty League International has been one of the world’s fastest-growing personal development companies. They provide the tools and environment necessary for their customers to lead a more satisfying and fulfilling life through emotional and financial wealth. Their flagship product Beyond Freedom is a complete personal development system which helps individuals to change the way they approach life.

The Reaction To Oprah And The Secret Video

2007-02-24T11:22:00.000-05:00

Oprah After The Show, Unlocking The Secret 02/16/07

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Just in case you missed it!

Check out the "After Show" from The Secret.

Marketing Method For Your Home-Based Business

2007-02-17T15:52:00.000-05:00

Part of running a successful business is its growth. Home-based businesses are no exception. In fact, it can be even more important if you are just starting out or lack a potential client base. The key to growing a business is marketing.
Marketing is how you connect with individuals who may become customers or clients and includes methods such as affiliate programs, newsletters, trade shows, web sites, brochures, advertising, and more. The potential marketing methods available are almost limitless in scope and deciding on an approach may seem daunting, but a little preliminary effort can help you narrow down the field of options and help you make the best choices for your business.

–Determine Targeted Audience
–Set a Budget
–Evaluate Marketing Methods

Marketing Your Home-Based Business on the Internet

2007-02-17T15:45:00.000-05:00

The Internet has opened up a whole new world of advertising and marketing for home-based businesses. Instead of having to spend tens of thousands of dollars on expensive print campaigns or mailings, you can now reach a global audience on a shoestring budget. Here are some of the popular and cost-effective ways that you can advertise your home-based business on the Internet.
Internet advertising can be broken down into three main categories:

1. Cost-per-click, where you only pay for actual clicks or leads for your advertising.

2. Cost-per-impression, often referred to as cost-per-thousand impressions or CPM, where you purchase a set amount of views for your ad.

3. Set-price advertising, where you can purchase a specific amount of advertising for a given length of time.

Cost-per-click advertising offers small business owners great value for their advertising dollar. There are several sites that offer the ability to pay only when customers click on your ads.
Google AdWords is one of the most popular advertising venues for small businesses. With the AdWords program, you bid on keywords related to your business, and your text ad is displayed when Google users search for that term. You pay only when a user clicks on your ad, and the cost per click varies according to the popularity of the keywords you select. Google AdWords does not require a minimum purchase, and you can easily spend less than $25 for a successful advertising campaign by using AdWords properly.

5 Marketing Tools for Home-Based Businesses

2007-02-17T15:34:00.000-05:00

Because a home-based business doesn’t have a storefront for passers-by to notice and no opportunity to generate walk-in business, home-based businesses need marketing other types of businesses, not less.
Not marketing your home-based business will almost certainly doom it to failure.

1. Direct mail. still a cost-effective way to advertise in many industries.

2. Voice mail. Even the outgoing message on your answering machine or voice mail system can help promote your business when utilized correctly.

3. Press releases. The only thing better than cheap publicity is free publicity, and well-timed, professional press releases can result in just that.

4. Referrals. Referrals are probably the single best way to find new customers. If you do something well, chances are people are going to talk about it.

5. Radio interviews. If you can speak knowledgeably about your product or service and tie it in well with current events, radio interviews are a great way to reach a wide audience and improve your customer base.

Direct Selling An Option for Mini-Preneurs

2007-02-17T15:24:00.000-05:00

According to the Direct Selling Association (www.dsa.org), more than 13.6 million people participated in direct selling in 2004 with an overwhelming 73 percent of them being women. Buying and selling in the comfort of a home still seems to be the heart of the direct selling industry, with 62 percent of all direct sales being made that way in 2003. About 16 percent of total sales that year were made by phone, followed by about 10 percent via the Internet. While the Internet doesn’t allow for face-to-face selling, it does give direct sellers a worldwide customer base.

Top Five Tax Breaks For At-Home Entrepreneurs

2007-02-17T15:04:00.000-05:00

Forbes.com:

By the Census Bureau's last count in 2002, half of all businesses in the U.S. are home-based. The U.S. government encourages this kind of entrepreneurship. Dig deep and at-home entrepreneurs will find a few precious tax deductions, say Mark Birge and Steve Mentzer, accountants with Aldrich, Kilbride and Tatone, an Oregon-based accountancy firm.

Alterations to the tax code in 1999 made it easier to qualify for home-office tax deductions. For instance, engineering and construction types who spend lots of time in the field, but do most of their administrative work at home, can still qualify for certain deductions.

1. Infrastructure (utilities, phone service, housekeeping services, landscaping) Run-of-the-mill homeowners and renters can’t deduct these expenses, but at-home entrepreneurs can.

2. Home mortgage interest and property taxes. U.S. taxpayers can deduct these anyway, but as a small business owner, you can save even more by applying a percentage of mortgage interest and property taxes to the home-office section of your tax form.

3. Travel expenses. You can’t deduct fuel expenses if you commute to work each day, but if you work from home, you can deduct the costs of traveling away from your home for any business-related activity.

4. One-time office equipment purchases. Section 179 of the tax code says you can take a one-time deduction–up to $105,000–for the purchase of office equipment, as long as you don’t purchase more than $400,000 of equipment in a calendar year.

5. Family affair. Sole proprietors with children under 18 who work for them can deduct their children’s “wages.”

The Reaction To Oprah And The Secret

2007-02-16T16:17:00.000-05:00

This week Oprah focused on the reaction to The Secret. The testimonials were very moving and hit close to home. Hope you saw it and if you didn't I will be posting it soon.

Ask Donald

2007-02-13T19:36:00.000-05:00

Have you ever had the desire to ask Donald Trump anything you could? Now is your opportunity to do so. What's next for The Donald? Ask him yourself.

The Secret on Oprah Was Incredible!

2007-02-10T16:01:00.000-05:00

The Secret on Oprah 02/08/07 Part 1

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If you haven't seen it yet then you don't know what your missing. The Secret was thrown into mainstream. It was a great show and I think Oprah covered it to the tee. She spoke about how she has always lived her life in the manner of The Secret and I couldn't have agreed more.

The Secret on Oprah

2007-02-05T19:12:00.000-05:00

The Secret is making its way around the world and the buzz keeps building. It's the secret to creating the life you truly want. How to make more money, lose weight, fall in love, land your dream job.…this is life-changing! Tune in to learn The Secret, and see why people everywhere are talking about it. Thursday, Oprah will interview authors of The Secret.

Part V - The Seven Decisions That Determine Personal Growth

2007-02-04T15:24:00.000-05:00

5. Today I will choose to be Happy - I am the possessor of a grateful spirit.

Happiness is a CHOICE! I know now that happiness is not an emotional phantom floating in and out of my life. Happiness
is the end result of certain thoughts and activities, which bring about a chemical reaction in my body. This reaction results in a euphoria that, while elusive to some, is totally under my control. I will greet each with laughter. Within moments of awakening, I will laugh for seven seconds. Excitement will begin to flow through my bloodstream. I feel different. I am different. I am Enthusiastic about the day! Laughter is an outward expression of enthusiasm, and I know enthusiasm is the fuel that moves the world. I have laughter in my heart. Today, I choose to be happy. I will smile at every person I meet. My smile is my calling card and is the most potent weapon I possess. My smile is my key to my emotional make up. When I choose to smile, I become the master of my emotions. Discouragement, despair, frustration, and fear will always wither when confronted by my smile. The power of who I am is displayed when I smile. I am the possessor of a grateful spirit! In the past, I have found discouragement in particular situations UNTIL I compared the condition of my life to others less fortunate. It is impossible for the seeds of depression to take root in a thankful heart. I am grateful for sight, sound and breathe. If ever in my life there is a pouring out of blessings beyond that, then I will be grateful for miracle of abundance.
I will greet each day with Laughter!
I will Smile at every person I meet!
I am the possessor of a grateful spirit!

Today I Will Choose To Be Happy!

by Andy Andrews

You Get What You Settle For

2007-02-04T14:37:00.000-05:00

You always get what you settle for. Did you know that? It's true. Maxwell Maltz wrote a book called "Psycho cybernetics" in which he referred to the mind as a "goal-seeking mechanism". It's like a heat-seeking missile. It will "hone in" on whatever goal you give it. And provided you're using the right principles, it will ALWAYS deliver to you what you want. In fact, you're already doing it. Think about it. Everything that you've ever TRULY wanted and decided that you would NOT do without.....you got. You want a new iPod and you get it. You want a new job and you get it. You want a new refrigerator and you get it. And what most people don't understand that it's a system. And it will work with ANYTHING, large or small. It's not the "wanting" that does it (although that's part of it). It's the fact that you are putting yourself in a mindset that says, "I will NO LONGER SETTLE for not having this in my life." And when you do that...magic happens. And it's the same thing with wealth. You get what you settle for. Do you want to know what you're settling for? Simple: look around and see what results you're getting. That's what you're settling for. And, as soon as you commit to settling for something different...your "goal-seeking mechanism" will go into action to make that your NEW reality. If you settle for luxury, you get luxury. If you settle for prosperity, you get prosperity. If you settle for abundance, you get abundance. So....what are you settling for today?

If You Think You Could...

2007-02-01T17:57:00.000-05:00

Here you have a classic example of teamwork. Sometimes in life you need a little push to let you know you could do more than ever thought possible. Team Hoyt spoke at one of my companies events in Hawaii.

Oprah And The Secret

2007-02-01T10:06:00.000-05:00

As you may have heard, Oprah is hosting a show dedicated to The Secret... She's invited Rhonda Byrne, the producer of The Secret, to be on the show, along with four of The Secret's teachers: Dr. Michael Beckwith, Jack Canfield, Lisa Nichols and James Ray. I've been a huge fan of "The Secret" since the first time I saw it a couple of years ago. It has changed my life!

Talk About Having A Vision!

2007-02-01T09:18:00.000-05:00

Fortune magazine named Oprah Winfrey one of the 50 most powerful women in the world. She came from a life of adversity and broke free. I can remember her role in The Color Purple and how much she moved me. Oprah is a prime example of designing your path in life. She didn't allow life to dictate her journey, instead she kept her vision clear. We all need role models and I'm proud to have chosen her as mine!

Part IV - The Seven Decisions That Determine Personal Growth

2007-01-30T20:31:00.000-05:00

4. I Have A Decided Heart – My destiny is assured

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Knowing this to be true, I am taking my first step today. Criticism,
condemnation, and complaint are creatures of the wind. They come and go on the wasted breathe of lesser beings and have
no power over me. The power of control belongs to me. Today I will exercise that power. My course has been charted. My destiny is assured. I have a decided Heart. I am passionate about my vision for the future. I will awaken every morning with
an excitement about the new day and its opportunity for growth and change. I will freely give my vision for the future to others, and as they see the belief in my eyes, they will follow me. I will lay my head on my pillow at night happily exhausted, knowing that I have done everything within my power to move the mountains in my path. As I sleep, the same dream that dominates my waking hours will be with me in the dark. Yes, I have a dream. It is a great dream, and I will never apologize for it. Neither will I ever let it go, for if I did, my life would be finished. My hopes, my passions, my vision for the future are my very existence. A person without a dream never had a dream come true. I have a decided heart. I will not wait. I am not timid. I will move now and not look back. I do not procrastinate. All my problems become smaller when I confront them. If I touch a thistle with caution, it will prick me, but if I grasp it boldly, its spines crumble into dust.
I will not wait!
I am passionate about my vision for the future!
My course has been charted!
My destiny assured!

I Have A Decided Heart!

by Andy Andrews

Bill gives workers time off for kids

2007-01-30T14:09:00.000-05:00

Businesses, schools leery of mandate

Rep. Rodney Hubbard, D-St. Louis, is sponsoring a bill that would require employers to give employees four hours of paid leave every month - six days a year - to spend in their child’s class. For the rest of the article click here.

I work from home so the idea of not seeing my child is foreign. I left my job 2.5 years ago and never looked back. My main purpose for doing so was to spend more time with my son. Now I participate in his school activities and volunteer all the time. I pick my son up from school every day and spend quality time together. My home business is portable and convenient -- from anywhere at any time.

Quality vs. Quantity

2007-01-30T00:24:00.000-05:00

Anyone in business knows, the quality of leads is the key to making it or breaking it. You can call thousands of leads, but if the leads aren't responding to the right advertising, you'll be wasting valuable time. Yes, you may make a sale or two, but your conversion rate will go up significantly in correlation to the quality of your leads. In my business, I teach people how to market effectively with a simple proven system so that their leads are of quality. One lead can equal one sale when it's the right lead. Whether it's a home based business, a work at home opportunity, direct sales, network marketing or traditional business, having the leads that convert to customers means dollars in the bank and a successful venture as an entrepreneur.

Think Like an Entrepreneur

2007-01-29T23:58:00.000-05:00

Sixty percent of all Americans are dreaming about starting their own businesses. Why? What's their motivation? I recently heard some fascinating answers to that question while I was listening to recorded transcripts from The Entrepreneur's Success Codes, a Trump University course that's taught by Jeff Burrows. In those transcripts, a group of Trump University students - all successful entrepreneurs - answered Jeff's question, "Why did you decide to become an entrepreneur?" Let's take a closer look at the reasons they gave:

Motivation #1: An unstoppable passion for the work itself. It could be making real estate investments, restoring old cars or designing computer systems for businesses. As one student in The Entrepreneur's Success Codes class said, "I loved my work so much, I couldn't not do it."

Motivation #2: A drive to help others. It might be a desire to help other people be healthier, or more successful, or richer, or more beautiful. One student said that her longing to help people started after she recovered from a serious accident.

Motivation #3: The need for freedom. One class member said that after working in rigid corporations for years, the desire to control his own work took over his life.

Motivation #4: A hunger for challenge. For some entrepreneurs, the greatest motivator is the challenge of starting a business itself. Other concerns are secondary.

Motivation #5: Security. One entrepreneur said he started his own company because he hated working for companies where he could get laid off at any time. Of course, starting a company is risky. New companies fail. But despite those risks, running his own company put him in control of his own destiny."
**This article taken from Trump University.

Web tips for entrepreneurs

2007-01-28T22:10:00.000-05:00

I know first hand that starting a home business has it's challenges. This article will come in handy for anyone in need of a business website. Bravenet, Freewebs, and Hitcounter offer free website hosting.

Six Reasons Why Most Home Based Businesses Fail

2007-01-26T23:32:00.000-05:00

1 - Most new opportunities do not help you make money. They will give you some ideas for making money, but then leave you out in the cold by having you do everything on your own.
2 - Unfortunately, some home business opportunity owners will take your money and run. There are too many fly-by-night operations out there that will not hesitate to scam you.
3 - Some home based business opportunities will have you working long hours for little pay. This is a good way to get burned out, tired, frustrated, and eventually quit.
4 - Many home business opportunities offer products nobody really wants. You should never try to market any product that people couldn’t care less about.
5 - Many home based business opportunities force you to become a salesperson. There should already be an established market for the product or service and a system in place to eliminate as much of the “selling” as possible.
6 - Some home based business opportunities pay small sums of money and no residual income. Stay far away from these! If you market products or services that don’t sell for very much money and don’t offer any residual income, it’s going to be almost impossible for you to make any real money or obtain financial freedom.

What Do You Deserve?

2007-01-25T14:56:00.000-05:00

There's never a right answer to a wrong question. So, what question should YOU be asking in 2007?
In my opinion, these are all WRONG questions:

how can I get promoted at my job?
how can I figure out how to save money on childcare?
how can I get an extra weekend off?
will I get a vacation this year?
how can I get more overtime?

Those are unproductive questions, in fact.

Here are the correct questions:

how can I quit my job and make more than my boss?
how can I raise my own children instead of paying a 7-dollar=an=hour stranger to do it?
how can I have all the free time I want?
how many vacations do I want to take this year?(We took six this past year)
how can I never work more than 25 hours a week?

That's what you should be asking. You are a powerful, beautiful, wonderful human being who has the ability to create whatever results you want in your life.And don't let anyone tell you any differently.

Need a plan?

Unplug your TV for a month.
Get your head into some good personal development.
Watch the movie The Secret at least twice a month.
Start a business.
Get rich.
Rescue a pet from the Humane Society.
Forgive somebody.
Heck, forgive EVERYBODY. Most of all yourself.

There's Enough For All of Us

2007-01-21T09:03:00.000-05:00

We must understand that coming from a place of competition stops us from growing as a business. It gets in the way of our creative process.

How do you know if you are on the creative or competitive plan?
1. Are you nervous and frightened that someone has an edge you don't?
2. Do you get stressed when you feel others are passing you by?
3. Do you feel you have to force your results, or are you peaceful and calm, simply visualizing your results and moving forward confidently in your actions?
4. Do you find that everything you require for your success simply arrives right on time, without you giving it any energy?
5. Do you find that you are fearful, scared, stressed and worried through sleepless nights that you won't achieve what you set out to achieve?

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