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Happy Halloween everyone!Â
I thought we’d all get a kick out of sharing what our kids will be dressing up as tonight and pictures too if you care to share those.
My little guy is going as none other than Tony Stewart the NASCAR driver…what about your “little pumpkins”?
First off, I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted. I’ve been busy on a strategic SEO product for small business owners that no one has ever taught before and that’s taking up a lot of my time. However, that’s not what this post is about.
What I wanted to write about today is how you can take advantage of all of the economic issues by getting your name out there in front of people to see.
I don’t know what it’s like for you locally, but here where I live we’re having layoffs almost weekly. And these are large companies, not just small Mom-and-Pop places who are laying off workers. Businesses you never would have dreamed in a million years would lay off hundreds of people are doing so today, as we speak.
But this does not have to be a time of concern for you if you’re in a Network Marketing company and here’s why.
First of all, these workers need to bring in cash NOW. They have been side-swiped with the fact that they’re now out of a job. And I guarantee you that they’re frantic. Worrying about how they’re going to pay their bills, their mortgage, keep their kids in sports, and even just feed the family.
It’s these same people who are now looking to their local market trying to find some kind of work to bring in that much needed cash that used to be so *guaranteed* from their employer.
As a network marketer, regardless of what business you’re in, you can reach out and help these people who are now in a state of chaos.
Here are some ways you can approach people who might be looking for ways to bring in some much-needed extra cash now:
There are countless ways to reach out to people who need some extra cash rolling in. And it doesn’t even have to be due to a layoff.
The Fall season is notorious for new sign-ups in home based businesses because people need that extra money for Christmas gifts, etc. And with gas prices the way that they are, food prices going up and the economy slowing down in general, more people than ever will be on the lookout for a great opportunity for themselves.
So take this time to advertise like crazy for your home based business. And whatever you do, do it honestly and ethically. Remember, the folks who have been laid off are in a very serious situation right now. Don’t take advantage of them simply because they’re currently down-and-out. If you truly have a superior product and a way that you truly can help them rise above all of the chaos, then get your name out there today and help the people who want to be helped.
- Kristine
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…you are reminded that your network marketing business is a “face-to-face” business and not an “internet business”.Â
There’s good reason for that from the Network Marketing company’s perspective.Â
Just consider for a moment where they’re coming from. Here’s an example. A couple of network marketing companies that are common household names are AVON and Tupperware. Visualizing these two companies, consider where they came from…how long they’ve been around and how they’ve reached the success that they have today.
It’s always been through contacting people face-to-face, talking to your family and friends, approaching people you don’t even know on the street, and even spending your hard-earned cash on advertising in the local paper or by direct mail.
Those days are not necessarily over, but we’ve certainly come a long way in forming relationships and are no longer tied to just our local market.
Just considering myself for a moment, I have met people all over the world whom I consider good friends, friends from Canada, Australia and even New Zealand. Do you think for a moment that I could have formed these relationships without the Internet? Not a chance.
But, where network marketing stifles an associate with their own network marketing company, is that they have adopted the mantra “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Which leaves you, the associate who wants nothing more than to grow their business, out in the cold.
It can somehow feel though the network marketing company you’re with has a strangle-hold on what you can and cannot do. Plus, they’re often very late in adopting new ideas and ways to help you market your business.
I know that you understand what I’m talking about.
So what are you, the network marketing associate supposed to do?Â
Well, I’ve got some good news and some bad news…
The good news is, I’ll be releasing a report that not only shows you all of the different ways you can market your network marketing business online but will also show you how to stay in the good graces of any network marketing company you’re affiliated with.
Now, before you go thinking that this is all just “fluff” junk, rest assured that I have been using these methods with amazing success for many years. This isn’t coming from some person who doesn’t know crap about what she’s talking about.
The bad news, it will not be free. But it will be very affordable. I give a LOT of stuff away but this is too good to simply let it go for free. Plus it will weed out those of you who really won’t do anything with it.Â
This report is only for those who are really serious about their network marketing business. Not those who are just looking for freebie giveaways that are going to let it sit on their hard-drives taking up space.
Look for the reports release within the next few weeks.
- Kristine
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Hi Everyone -
It’s come to my attention that some of your very legitimate comments have ended up in the Spam folder. I guess it’s better than the other way around 
Just know that I’ve now made it a regular habit to check that folder just to be sure that your REAL comments get seen.
For those of you who have waited for some time, I apologize. Your legitimate comments have been updated and are live on the site.
- Kristine
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When you have your own network marketing business, regardless of what that may be, it’s important that you are found by folks. Especially those that are within your local area.
A very easy way to do this is to put a free hCard on each page of your site. This little hCard is a simple business card that you can add to your website. This is important because Yahoo! Local will use this information to find your local business whenever someone searches on a term related to the business that you’re in.
As with any business card, you enter your address, phone number, etc. so that people know how to contact you.
Also, because it’s an online card, you’ll want to add in words and phrases that relate to your business. You can place these within the “tags” area of the form at the hCard Creator.
Today I came across a great article that I believe all Mom’s who either currently work from home, or want to, should read. I’d love to hear your comments on this one.
Originally Posted: http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/worklife/07/14/working.moms.look.back/
When Christine Durst, 45, had her first child in 1987, she received a package from her boss while recuperating in the hospital. But instead of a baby gift, she found something else: year-end tax forms to complete.
“My son lay sleeping in his bed next to mine while I toiled away in the middle of the night,” Durst recalls. “I was the business manager. If I didn’t do the work, it wouldn’t get done.”
She worked at that job until 1993, two years after the birth of her second child, a girl. Today, her children grown, Durst works from home. But she regrets missing those early years with the kids. “I felt tremendous guilt about being away from home, and I felt terrible about the stress I brought home from the job.”
While Durst, of Woodstock, Connecticut, looks back with regrets, Karol Rose, 64, of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, doesn’t. Rose, an executive with FlexPaths, a women-owned consulting business specializing in workplace flexibility, raised two boys while working full time, taking off only a few months when they were born. “I think my sons liked that I had a job,” Rose says. “You know, too much focus isn’t great for children, either.”
Motherhood brings many difficult decisions, but perhaps the most fiercely debated is whether women should work outside the home, especially when their children are small. Whatever their decision, the choice is rarely easy.
Mixed messages
Both mothers who go back to work and those who care for children at home agree on one thing: A woman’s decision to work outside the home is scrutinized by her peers and society in general. Even experts are divided on the benefits or risks of mothers working full time.
Debra Condren, author of “Ambition is Not a Dirty Word: A Woman’s Guide to Earning Her Worth and Achieving Her Dreams,” says women face an impossible double standard.
“[Society says] we’re bad mothers if we go back to work and that we’re pampered or foolish if we stay home,” says Condren, a psychologist and founding president of Business Psychology Solutions, a business coaching firm.
These mixed messages women receive can be unhealthy. “We end up being our own worst enemies,” she says. Moreover, Condren adds, mothers who work and those who stay home often end up judging one another.
But Dr. Scott Haltzman, a clinical psychiatrist and an assistant professor at Brown University, says it’s important that mothers focus on their children. “It’s very clear to me, from what I’ve seen in my clients, that children who are put in day care, not raised by their mothers at home, feel a real loss,” he says. “They feel the absence of those parents and it affects how they want to parent their own children.”
Haltzman, who wrote the book “Happily Married Women: How to Get More Out of Your Relationship by Doing Less,” says women suffer when they try to juggle career and parenthood. “If you have a conversation with women who have their pedal to the metal in the workplace and trying to excel at motherhood, you’ll find that these women are juggling and they are exhausted,” he says.
Besides his own research into marriage and motherhood, Haltzman also cites a study — “What’s Love Got To Do With It? Equality, Equity, Commitment and Women’s Marital Quality,” released last year by University of Virginia sociologists W. Bradford Wilcox and Steven L. Nock — that found women are happiest in clearly defined and traditional marital roles.
Condren disagrees. She says women can balance career and motherhood, despite what she sees as media bias against working moms. “Each time the media reports an interview with yet another professional woman who has seen the light and taken time out for motherhood, everyone breathes a collective sigh of relief. Finally, this woman has figured out what’s really important,” says Condren. “But keeping yourself from your own ambitions, dreams and career goals can be soul destroying.”
Can you have it both ways?
Barbara Curtis, 60, of Washington and a mother of 12, believes a mother’s foremost responsibility is raising her children.
“I’ve been a single mom and I know there are circumstances where women need to work, but there are a lot of women who choose to work when they don’t have to,” she says. “They crave that attention and status a job gives them.”
Curtis, whose blog, Mommylife.net, is about her experiences as a mother, teacher and writer, thinks more women should stay home. “You have to cultivate those early years. The most important work in the world is raising children,” she says. Moreover, “it takes a certain kind of maturity and self-awareness to be comfortable, because you don’t get your ego stroked or awarded like you do on a job.”
But other women say they wouldn’t be happy or feel healthy if they spent every second with their offspring. Their solution is a mix of work and caring for their children.
“My brain would turn to mush, and I love being with my children,” says Jennifer Cooper, 32, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, who quit her job as a scientist to raise her children, now 3 and 4. Cooper says she found the perfect solution: She turned her love for wine into a work-from-home job with the Traveling Vineyard.
She works a few evenings a week when her husband is home and spends days with her children. Cooper plans to continue her wine business when the kids start school, but she’ll never go back full time. “Some of my friends have their kids in day care and they only get to see their children for a couple of hours a day,” she says. “Looking back, I don’t want to have missed a moment of their lives.
“My parents had to work to make ends meet and I missed having them at home. I don’t want to have regrets.”
With gas prices going up and nearly everything else from food to clothing heading skyward as well, many people will choose this year to open up their own home based business. Whether this be an online business, using eBay, or getting into a network marketing business, there are things to consider first.
Take it from someone who has worked from home exclusively since the year 2000. Regardless of what people tell you, you will not make thousands of dollars overnight and no one is going to out-and-out hand over to you a money-making business.
Like any J.O.B. it takes work and dedication; even more so if you work from home.
Here are some things to consider first before taking the plunge into a home business:
These are just a few questions you need to ask yourself before you jump the gun and start your own home-based business.
Nothing happens overnight, but believe me, if you stick with your passion, follow-through and continually work to grow your business, you’ll have a successful business on your hands.
Working from home is a wonderful thing - I think all of us who do would attest to that. But there does come that time of year when the kids are home ’round the clock and classes cease for the summertime break. How do you balance working from home and taking care of the kids so that your business doesn’t suffer?
These are just a few tips for keeping your business active during the summer months.
Do you have any ideas? We’d love to hear them! Feel free to post your comments below.
Image via Wikipedia 1. Leave one with your grocery store clerk.
2. Give your hairdresser one as you hand her (or him) the tip.
3. Give the gal who does your nails one as you hand her (or him) the tip.
4. Give one to your doctor. You give them business too.
5. Give one to your doctor’s receptionist.
6. Give one to your dentist. You give them business too.
7. Give one to your dentist’s receptionists.
8. Place one on the boards at all the laundromats in town.
9. Give them to your bank tellers.
10. Add them in with the bills that you pay.
11. If you have kids (or grandkids) that you take to the playground, give them to other Moms and Dads.
12. Leave one at your chiropractor’s office.
13. Check out local coffee shops for public bulletin boards and stick one on.
14. Send one to your real estate agent.
15. Offer to do a joint venture with another Network Marketer and include your card with their items and vice versa.
16. Hand them to greeters at Wal-Mart (better still if you can include a brochure they can look at).
17. Visit Bridal or Tuxedo shops and ask if you can leave your cards out.
18. Visit small Mom & Pop stores locally and see if you can leave your cards.
19. Send flowers as a thank you to customers and include your business card.
20. Give one to the photographer who took your professional photo.
21. Give one to the UPS Man or Woman when they deliver a package.
22. Place your business cards on a magnet and attach them to your car for people to take.
23. Ride the bus? Give one to your bus driver.
24. Child at Daycare? Hand them to the daycare workers. (This would be a good time to bring up fund-raising as well).
25. Children in Dance? Give them to the dance instructors (again, a good time to bring up fund-raising).
26. Someone in Cheerleading? (ditto).
27. Leave your card along with a tip when eating out.
28. Add a card in with your insurance bill.
29. See if you can leave cards & brochures at a local Welcome center.
30. Leave a card at your local video store.
31. Go Tanning? Leave a card with your tanning salon.
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The Better Business Bureau has warned of some work at home scams that they’ve uncovered that targets online job hunters according to this news story.
The Better Business Bureau says beware of scammers targeting online job hunters. They offer seven warning signs to prevent potential employees from being victims of fraud.
Job Scam #1: Employer e-mails filled with grammatical errors. The Better Business Bureau says most online fraud originates in countries outside of the United States. The scammers first language is usually not English, which may lead to poor grammar and misspelling of common words.
Job Scam #2: E-mails from job posting websites claiming there’s a problem with the job seeker’s account. The BBB says after creating an account on sites like Monster.com or CareerBuilder.com the job hunter may start receiving emails saying there’s a problem with the new account or they need to follow a special link to install new software. The BBB says beware. This is the classic sign of a phishing scam and following the link could actually install viruses or other system damaging software on their computer.
Job Scam #3: Employers who ask for extensive personal information. The BBB says in some cases people searching for jobs online manage to score a job without an interview. Once the hiring process is underway the BBB says beware if the employer makes contact asking for personal information like social security or bank account numbers. Experts at the Better Business Bureau say regardless of the reason or excuse the employer may give NEVER give out social security numbers or bank account information over the phone or internet. Giving out this information could make job hunters more likely to become victims of identity theft.
Job Scam #4: An employer offers the opportunity to get rich without leaving home. The BBB says while there are some legitimate businesses that pay people to work from home many are scams. Their targets are usually stay-at-home moms, students, senior citizens or the disabled. If you come across a promising work-from-home job opportunity, make sure it’s legit by checking with the Better Business Bureau first.
Job Scam #5: Employers that ask for money up front. Outside of buying a uniform the BBB says it is rare for a new employee to have to pay upfront fees or make any kind of purchase to get a job, that includes paying for background checks.
Job Scam #6: Salary and benefits that seem unreal. Remember, if something sounds too good to be true it probably is. According to the Better Business Bureau, fake employers will use an exceptionally high salary and excellent benefits package to lure unsuspecting job hunters. And once they reel you in they take their bite.
Job Scam #7: Jobs that requires its employees to send money through wire transfer services like Money Gram or Western Union. Experts at the BBB say the phony jobs may send a check by mail and ask the prospective employee to cash the check and wire a portion of the money to someone else. While the check may clear the employee’s bank, it’s probably going to be a fake. In the end the employee hoping to make money will end up losing it instead.
Take care when you’re considering working from home for an employer you’ve never met. Do you research and visit the BBB’s website to find out more information as necessary.
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