You’ve got to prepare for the marathon, not for the sprint. You see I had a heart attack at age 24, and a nervous breakdown at age 25 because I totally sacrificed everything in my life for making millions of dollars—which looking back absolutely wasn’t worth it.

So many people today are so busy chasing after so many things and are dealing with high stress levels at home with the kids, with finances and jobs. The truth is we are not operating optimally. Just imagine for a second there’s a brain surgeon who has a fight with his wife or with his teenager about not spending time with the family and he comes in to perform major surgery. That’s not the guy I want operating on me—there’s no question about that. Most of us make mistakes in our jobs and add on extra stress because we are not focused on the one task at hand.

So I had to learn how to prioritize my husband, my 5 children, and 5 companies. Identifying your true priorities, then strategically planning your time and sticking to your plan will make or break your long-term success and true happiness in your life. Start by asking yourself, if I died tomorrow, and looked back on my life, what would I have done more of and who would I have spent more time with? Then start to block out time daily, weekly, monthly to do these things. I promise you, if you learn to do this you will be able to run the marathon instead of burning out like you’re running a sprint.

If you’re not clear on what you want, and where you want to go, then life will live you instead of you living life. You really can chart your course and create the life and lifestyle of your dreams if you’re willing to learn a few, simple skills and shortcuts to get the results you want.

*Written by Dani Johnson

Stay tuned for Millionaire Success Tip #2 coming son!

Q: Some friends continue to try to recruit me into network marketing deals that seem like some type of money game or pyramid. Other friends tell me they’re illegal and I’ll get into trouble. How do I know what’s legal and legitimate?

A: To help you understand what network marketing is, I must first explain what it isn’t. First, network marketing isn’t a pyramid scheme. Pyramids are programs similar to chain letters where people just invest money based on the promise that other people will put in money that will filtrate back to them and somehow, they’ll get rich. A pyramid is strictly a money game and has no basis in real commerce. Normally, there’s no product involved at all, just money changing hands. Modern-day pyramids may have a product, but it’s clearly there just to disguise the money game.

Network marketing is a legitimate business. First, it’s based on providing people with real, legitimate products they need and want at a fair price. While some people do make a lot of money through network marketing, their financial benefit is always the result of their own dedicated efforts in building an organization that sells real products and services.

Pyramids are illegal and are based on taking advantage of people. For a person to actually make money in a pyramid scheme, someone else has to lose money. But in network marketing, each person can multiply his or her efforts, skills and talents by helping others be successful. Network marketing has proved itself as part of the new economy and a preferred way to do business here and around the world.

Network marketing isn’t about taking advantage of your friends and relatives. Only a few years ago, network marketing meant retailing to, and sponsoring people from, your “warm list” of prospects. Although sharing the products or services and the opportunity with people you know is still the basic foundation of the business, today we see more people using sophisticated marketing techniques such as the Internet, conference calling and other long-distance sponsoring techniques to extend their network across the country.

Network marketing isn’t a get-rich-quick scheme. Of course some people do make large amounts of money very quickly. Many would say those people are lucky. But success in networking isn’t based on luck. (Unfortunately, money won’t sprout wings and fly into your bank account no matter what someone has promised you.) Success in network marketing is based on following some very basic yet dynamic principles.

Now let’s discuss what network marketing is. Network marketing is a serious business for serious people. It’s a proven system where the design, creation and expense the corporate team has gone through becomes a road map for your own success. Just follow the simple, proven and duplicable system that the good companies provide.

The real key is this: Network marketing is all about leverage. You can leverage your time and increase the number of hours of work effort on which you can be paid by sponsoring other people and earning a small income on their efforts. J. Paul Getty, who created one of the world’s greatest fortunes, said “I would rather make 1 percent on the efforts of 100 people than 100 percent on my own efforts.” This very basic concept is the cornerstone of network marketing.

For example, most successful people building a network marketing business do so in an organized method. They work a few dedicated hours each week, with each hour of effort serving as a building block for their long-term business growth. Then they sponsor other people and teach those people how to sell the company product and sponsor others who duplicate the process.

By helping the people you personally sponsor to sponsor others, you duplicate yourself. As this process continues, you create compound growth that can lead to hundreds or even thousands of people coming into your business. You leverage your time by helping others be successful and earn an income from all their efforts.

With network marketing, there are no big capital requirements, no geographical limitations, no minimum quotas required and no special education or skills needed. Network marketing is a low-overhead, home based business that can actually offer many of the tax advantages associated with owning your own business. Network marketing is a people-to-people business that can significantly expand your circle of friends. It’s a business that enables you to travel and have fun as well as enjoy the lifestyle that extra income can provide.

Here are the facts…to the point…no fine print:

• 2Plus7.com is an online subscription based website that provides hundreds of opportunities to save money using the business benefits and/or services. In other words, this website is a “one-stop-shop” destination when looking for discounts on various purchases or services. This site is also affiliated with 14 different professionals in 14 different industries that will offer advice to you for things like medical questions, lowering mortgage payments, tax help, fitness, nutrition, personal development, and much more!

• The subscription fee is only $27 per month. However, if you choose to participate in the referral program, this will truly be a ONE TIME fee only!

• This referral program is designed to pay individuals who would like to share this money saving/making opportunity with others. As a result of this unique compensation plan the income opportunity can be very large for individuals who choose to refer. In the first 90 days of operation, this company gave out over $718,000 in commissions to the people referring this opportunity!

• The uniqueness of this compensation plan is present in its “Single Line Matrix.” This means that anyone in the 70+ participating countries of the world that subscribe to this savings benefit business will be placed under you in your personal business. Every 7th person (in the world) who subscribes to this plan after you have enrolled could mean $27 to you! As you can imagine, the sign up rate is increasing very rapidly on a daily basis!

• Take a look at the following links for more information on the savings and earning sides of this business. Copy and paste these links in your web browser or click on them to view the information.

o http://ping.fm/o9Yo4

(“Business Presentation” video is only 100 seconds long)

o http://ping.fm/XhJ28

(“How it Works” video is only 161 seconds long)

o http://ping.fm/ZRG6t

(This is my site and where you would sign up. Just click Subscribe Now! When you are filling out your required information, make sure that you do not use any dashes or periods…the system will not let you through)

Remember…this is only $27! If you would like more information or have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me!

David Hanscom
(904) 735-5275 cell
davidhanscom@me.com

It is true, there are many millionaires in the MLM business. Well, there are also many millionaires in professional sports. Th question though is, how many schoolyard ballplayers make it to the professional level? I don’t have to tell you, VERY few..

This is the case for earnings opportunities for network marketers as well. While the earning opportunities are unlimited, it is also a fact that relatively few, probably less than one percent, will ever make the “big money.”

Statistics indicate that less than ten percent of the distributors in the business are full time. By and large, network marketing offers a great part-time activity for folks who keep their day job. Realistic expectations and goals for the average distributor should be an extra $400 or $500 per month as auxiliary income to their permanent job. Most network marketers who are locked into expectations of the “big money” will soon be disappointed and drop out. In addition, a sponsor who recruits other distributors with expectations of the “big money” will soon find that he or she has lost credibility with those that he or she has sponsored. In other words, be hopeful, be realistic, and your down line will likely be around for a long time.

2. Go For the Product, Not the Plan

Too often, network marketers are seduced into a program by promises of instant riches are held out as the result of compensation plans that are “break-through,” “revolutionary” or whose payout guarantees instant riches.

In fact, history has demonstrated that no company has been successful on the basis of its compensation plan alone. It may get a jump-start and zoom like a rocket, but it will fall like a rock in short order. Of course, a fair compensation plan that provides good incentives is important.

3. Don’t Think Short Term

The MLM business is like any other worthwhile endeavor. Network Marketers who look for success in the short term are preparing themselves for failure. Realistically, a network marketer should not be expecting to see the true fruits of his or her labor until at least six months into the business. Those who have been truly successful have been at it long term. Give yourself some time.

4. Easy Money, It is Not

Often times, the MLM recruitment pitch is one of “easy money.” Prospective network marketers are told that they don’t have to work, they don’t have to sell, they just make lists and $20 bills will sprout wings and fly into their mailbox.

Those experienced in business will tell you that this is not an easy money “game.” It is not merely a recruiting game. It is not a game. Network marketers who are successful know their product, know their customers, know the company’s vision, and are prepared to do that which is necessary “hard work.”

5. “Gimmicky” Product – Forget About It

If you’re looking for an amusement park ride, go to the amusement park. Getting on to the roller coaster of a company with gimmicky “fad products” will yield a lot of ups and downs, but the ride will be over quickly.

6. Don’t Ignore the Company Track Record

It is true that the “big money” is often made by those who get in on the “ground floor.” And yet, for the average individual, the ground floor opportunity may be of little value if the ground falls out from under them in a short period of time. The success ratio of MLM companies is probably no different than that of other small businesses. For better or worse, there is a significant failure rate.

Therefore, a network marketer who is looking to increase his or her odds should pick a company with a track record, preferably a company that has been in business at least for a year and has demonstrated quality management. For those, however, who are not faint of heart, and wish to take the plunge at the very beginning, they should do some significant due diligence as to the principles of the company, their prior success in business, their infrastructure and talk to other distributors that are coming in on the ground floor.

7. Run Away From the “Front-load.”

The company that needs to “front-load” distributors with unnecessary inventory will require substantial “cash investment” and is unconsciously sending a signal of failure to the prospective recruit. In a day of UPS and Federal Express Next Day Delivery, no distributor should be asked to carry large investments of inventory. The only true rationale for such a practice is to generate large sums of money for the payment of large commissions to “heavy hitters” who develop “recruiting machines.” These programs are disguised pyramids and, when the recruitment slows down, the opportunity will also disappear.

Instead, look for a company that demands modest investment from its distributors and ask its distributors to purchase product in an orderly fashion for intended expectation of personal use or sale.

8. Look for Products with Profit Margins

Too often distributors are distracted by the compensation plan or the earnings hype to spend time looking at the profitability of the products and services sold by a company.

Services represent a significant future in the MLM industry, but such services as telecom or internet access carry a much smaller margin of profit. These are fine products, but a distributor who embarks on a career selling low profit, low margin services should be prepared for the fact that it will take a much larger volume of customers to achieve the same residual income as selling products with high margins. In addition, distributors should be careful to study the program and determine that the long-term future of the company is not built around the redistribution of high-priced training fees for distributors as opposed to the residual income from service sales.

9. Don’t be an MLM Junkie

There are a few distributors in the industry who have developed the ability to “work” multiple programs. Those professional distributors are few and far between. Since the average distributor is part-time to begin with, he or she should carefully pick a company and stick with it. History favors the long-term committed distributor rather than the MLM junkie who hops from company to company to company. It is difficult enough to focus energy on one company and its products, let alone several.

Splitting your time and energy among several companies will probably yield thin results compared to focusing “like a laser” on one company.

10. Don’t Sit Around

Activity is the name of the game in MLM. It may sound odd, but the expression “you snooze, you lose” is very applicable to this business. It is not enough to join the company, call all your friends at once, and expect the money to come rolling in. One of the worst mistakes a network marketer can make is to sit around rather than getting “proactive.” The most successful network marketers are ones that are constantly recruiting, constantly selling, calling upon the same prospective customers and recruits multiple times, and reinvesting a substantial chunk of their commission check back into the business of recruiting and selling.

2. Find your mentor. I have more than one coach on my way to becoming a social media guru. I have mentors now and plan to have more mentors in the future. Get yourself a mentor. As I am sure you have heard, “The ultimate shortcut is doing it right the first time.”

3. Don’t wait until the conditions are perfect for launching your campaign. Remember, “You don’t have to get it right. You just have to get it going”.

4. Join one business networking site at a time and take the time to master it. Social networking sites can be intimidating at first. Learn a new feature, practice it, and go on to the next. Do not over extend yourself.

5. Start out blogging once a week. It’s hard to begin, especially if, like me, you’re not a professional writer. You can increase your posting frequency later.

6. Realize that there’s a steep social media learning curve. Do not quit. So many people join Twitter or Facebook or begin blogging and quit shortly thereafter. They expected to sprint a 100-yard* dash, not to run a marathon.

7. Don’t forget about the “social” in social media. Get to know a lot of people and have a blast!

I hope these tips will help you in your journey of Social Media and Networking. Please contact me if you would like to discuss in more details.

For as long as I have been going I have pretty much always lucked up and been placed with a female student. Now before you get the wrong idea, I say “lucked up” because I would always have this stupid, as I look at it now, phobia of a man should not be able to make my body feel “this good”. I am sure you are probably busting a gut at this point and thought of every joke in the book. Well, the truth is I was very serious about it even to the point of walking out on an appointment once because they set me up with a male student and I just wasn’t cool with that.

Well here I am today, I have not been for a massage in a long while and I know I am overdue…you guessed it, a male student. I said to myself in that split second that seemed to be much longer that it time for me to break out of this thing that has controlled me for so long.

As you can probably guess, he did an excellent job. It actually never once felt awkward and to be honest I would argue that it may have been one of the best massages I ever received.

Well, there is a much bigger lesson to learn from this. Too many times in life we let meaningless, superficial and shallow roadblocks prevent us from experiencing potentially life changing moments. Now I would not go as far to say that a massage is life changing but it did make me really stop and think about the other phobias that I have that may preventing me from reaching my full potential in life.

In closing I challenge you to look inside yourself, what are the things that hold you back? What can you do to remove those fears and open yourself to all that life has to offer. I know it i snot always easy but take it from me, It is not so bad to have a guy give you a massage after all…Talk to you again soon!

I’ve lost almost 300 games…

26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed…

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life…

And that is why I succeed.”

Who said it?

The legendary icon himself, Michael Jordan.

That’s what I’m looking for. A champion. A heart of pure gold, of pure desire. That’s what it takes.

You WILL fail in network marketing over and over and over again, there is absolutely no doubt about that and no way around it.

It takes that one final game winning shot to make it over the hump…and over that hump is everything you’ve ever wanted in life.

It’s here:

http://ping.fm/B6mIX

Be like Mike…

David Hanscom
641-715-3900 ext 58791
Skype: thedavidhanscom

http://ping.fm/4PwTx