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I have been interested in mlm for years but have not done too well with it due to my lack of focus and discipline. I went through my warm market, then powerlines, and then on to purchasing tons of leads and ended up talking to a lot of answering machines. It got a little easier with "phone burner" but you know the drill. Now it seems like the old Amway days where everyone wants to sell tools and now it's affliate programs or online courses. I have mostly been a consumer this past year purchasing from different companies. Tom D.

My heart went out to this guy.  Why?  Because I’d been there, done that.  Walked that whole path before I found what I had been looking for all those years. 

A way to make money in my network marketing business !

Just one more course ….

I have been interested in mlm for years but have not done too well with it due to my lack of focus and discipline.  I was one who saw a shiny object over there and went and bought it or got involved in this system or that one.  The next hill, the next course, the next training I was going to would bring me the key to success.  It was just a matter of cresting that last hill.

I went through my warm market.  Tell me about it !  I went through my warm market 3 or 4 times.  I know I told you this was the best but now I think this one is the best.  “Look you can lose weight with this” and a couple months down the road it would be “Look this vitamin is synergized so therefore much better than the one in the previous company.”  Oh yah, I knew what he was saying.

Ignorance on Fire …

Then on to purchasing tons of leads.  Wow, if I knew then what I know now, none of that time and/or money would have been wasted.  That was totally my fault – incorrect training or none at all and I thought I could win them over with the sheer magnitude of my personality.  Ignorance on fire !

This system is going to work, yessirree …

And now it's affliate programs or online courses.  I jumped on that bandwagon too and I really seriously thought I was helping people.  I could justify receiving a commission from each and every affiliate program or system I was using because I was giving people what they wanted !  That was being a good business owner.  Give them what they want, I make money and we’re all happy.  It didn’t matter that they weren’t building a profitable network marketing business and making a solid residual income.  I gave them what they wanted.

I was adding to the problem …

Not once did it cross my mind that I was contributing to the problem.  Never once did it cross my mind that I wasn’t helping people by offering them another affiliate course or program.  Never once did it cross my mind that the activities I was doing was anything less than what a good business owner did.

I can’t say I was hit with a lightening bolt although that would have been very easy to remember but I can tell you, it was in December and I was sitting at my computer as usual.  A movie was babysitting the kids (again) and whether it was something I read or heard but I realized here I was a network marketer, anticipating huge residual income and everyone I knew, including myself, had put our business on the back burner as we busily promoted and sold affiliate products and systems to others who were also ignoring their primary business to sell even more people even more affiliate stuff.

I was contributing to the problem !!  Making money off other peoples’ confusion !!

What was I doing?

Some would say I’m too soft.  Might as well make a buck off the way the industry was going, right?  But I will admit it took the heart right out of what I was doing.  How could I say to someone “Here, sign up under me, I’ll guide you through setting up the system, I’ll only be a phone call away, call me anytime and I’ll help you” when I didn’t believe in what I was doing. 

So I chose to go to an event (with an agenda) to talk to a couple of the top earners and I asked them, “How are you building your primary business using this system?” because they were – building a large primary company!  The answer:  And I can’t quote them exactly as I didn’t have my notepad handy but their answer was: A lead comes in, I call them, I ask them if they are married to their current company and then I invite them to join me in mine.  Made perfect sense to me but I realized the vast majority of people didn’t have the posture to be able to pull that off.  Therefore not duplicatable.  Therefore it wouldn’t work.  I was back to square one.  I had to have something that would work for everyone !

My expectations were high …

Therein started my quiet period as I searched for the mentor and the system that could solve each and every problem I had ever run into.  It was a tall order and one not easily filled.  My expectations were high.  My standards were high.  The system had to be functional both off and online.  It had to be business oriented.  The company had to be some place that had an excellent comp plan where someone new could make money today not 90 days from now when they learned yet another new system.  The products, of course, had to be above excellent.  The company had to be Solid with a capital S.  The funnel had to be easy to set up, use and it had to be effective.  It was a system (if people wanted to learn) that could train and implement SEO strategies plus educate and implement 10x10x4, keywords and analysis of keyword data plus so much more.

The old "fake it till you make it" trick

Yet, and this was so key to me, anyone who signed up, with me, in my business, would not do a lick of training until they were ready: trained, knowledgeable and certified.  Never would I throw someone out there to fake it until you make it.  Never would anyone else ever be associated with me, be training someone else until they themselves had achieved a level of success where they could truly say: “I am a leader and here’s my proof !”

Could anyone meet the standards…

My standards for my mentor were equally as high.  He had to live and breath integrity, had to care about the little guy, had to be smart enough to work with the big guys, had to have a good solid business background and he had to be able to teach me not tricks or techniques (I knew enough about that) but solid business building strategies in a network marketing business both off and online.  Not another affiliate program although that does play into it later.  

I’ve been around the block a few times and I knew exactly what I wanted and needed and I was not going to settle for anything less in any area.  Never again was I going to be sucked into following someone’s advice who hadn’t built a successful business.  Never again was I going to get into frustration mode of “success is just over the next course or system.” 

Day one – I got on facebook.  Contacted 10 people.  Six got back to me after they watched the first videos (nice job on the videos but I’m blah, blah, blah….), 3 haven’t gotten back to me yet (as of this writing), 1 opted in to watch the final and more comprehensive video.  On our team call I wondered if I should get back to these six to find out what they didn’t see, what I could help them see if I explained a bit more about ‘xyz’.  My instructions?  “Leave them.  They’ll be back in touch when I post the pictures of you, on stage, getting your first $100,000 company cheque.  Leave them, the system is designed to do the screening for you, so it’s working.”  

Hard to get out of that “I have to call everyone” mode we’ve all been in for so long.  But I’m working on it.  “Joyce, work only with those who are serious about getting off the hamster wheel (frustration with) of online marketing.”  OK, OK, I’ve got it !

The Game Plan

So here’s my game plan.  Connect with 10 people a day for the next 10 days, give them the link, copy and paste 7 (and only 7) pre-written emails for those who don’t join me, call and welcome to the team the ones who decide to join me and then step out of the way and let the certified qualified mentors take over as I connect with 10 more people. 

Now that’s the answer I was looking for.  Something anyone can do.  The system that would work for everyone and anyone and we would all make money. 

That’s what network marketing was designed to do.  Create wealth !

Attraction Marketing works

Now just so you can have the same opportunity, here’s the link http://www.joycepennerpro.com 

I’d like to see you on stage with me, getting those big, fat cheques, but if the time isn’t right for you, or you don’t see the power in having such a system, that’s perfectly OK and I wish you well on your journey.  One of the key things about “Attraction Marketing” is, I’ll be surrounded by people who want the same things I do – freedom to live as I choose, doing the things I want to do, where I want to do them and when I want to do them!

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Follow my blog Are you relaxed in your MLM? Or driven?

The kids and I just got through Spring Break.  You know the time when someone decided the kids should go home for a week and drive mom crazy?

Well, this year it was fun.  Mom (me) could relax and enjoy them.  Sure work was waiting, or I could have been doing some work, but with Team Inc Pro, all the frustration, all the intensivity (is that a word?) was gone.  I could just have fun, play soccer, swing higher than ever before, jump on the trampoline, cheer the kids on when they rode their bikes faster and faster !

We made popcorn and curled up together in our PJs as we watched a movie, plotted what we were going to make for supper, got covered with dog and horse hair as we brushed their winter coats off and went for walks to discover where the nests were of the Canadian geese and ducks who’ve found our yard.

None of that would have been possible on the treadmill I’ve been on for years.  I would have intensely been concentrating on selling the latest affiliate program or system I was involved with.  Keeping my name out there so if someone wanted to sign up they knew they could connect with me.  I had to be diligent as the money dried up as I knew. through personal experience that retention in an affiliate program is about 3 months. 

People were always searching for the next great program/training/system that was going to be THE one to create success for them.  I had to stay one step ahead of them so when the gold flaked off this one I could offer them the next shiny thing.

I was dedicated.  I was focused.  I was determined.

I was also driven and I couldn’t figure out why I had to work so hard and get so little out of it.

Every day, driven to succeed.

So you can imagine how wonderful it felt to relax and enjoy my kids.  Enjoy being with my kids.  Enjoy playing with them.

All because of Team Inc Pro.  The one system that allows me to relax as it does all the work for me.  Well maybe not all.  That would be a blatant, out and out lie.  But it does allow me to introduce anyone (off and online) to a company and a system that leverages the experience of successful business builders to train, mentor and coach anyone who enters the system.  Releasing me to do what I’ve spent years doing – filling a funnel ! 

That was the problem I had for years.  (Yes, I said “years”!)  Generating leads, talking to leads, weeding out the tire kickers, spending hours helping someone for peanuts who wasn’t even in my company!  Only to have them move onto the next shiny object that maybe I introduced them to and maybe I didn’t.  The spinning, hamster wheel of internet marketing.

Now with Team Inc Pro, I had a system that was going to do all the presenting, qualifying, sorting and yes, even the selling for me and the input, (all that I have to do) is keep the funnel full and be an accountability partner.  Talk about taking the pressure off !  I’m leveraging all the expertise I have, backed by a solid 26 year old company, at my disposal !

I was almost sorry to put the kids on the bus this morning as they went back to school.  They were excited to see all their friends again and I hope they didn’t notice the melancholy I felt as I waved goodbye to them.  I hope they didn’t notice I waved far longer than most moms would (or could).  I hope they have a fantastic day today.

As I know I will.  Relaxed and confident that I can make someone’s life better today just by introducing them to Team Inc Pro.

Is that someone you?

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Follow my blog Does your MLM leader manipulate YOU?

I didn’t get it.  Here Richard Bravo was extending an offer to sign up for a $48 course with personal coaching until you make 5x the amount you paid, which was going to teach anyone how to

• Discover Your Interests -- "You Are Your Own Target Market!"
• Setting the Foundation for Success... Building an Evergreen Business
• Market Research: How To Select the Most Lucrative Niche
• Understanding Monetization and Proper Product Selection
• How To Create a "Remarkable" Brand
• DIY Graphics Design and Photoshop Secrets
• How To Create Your Authority Hub in 48 Hours

PLUS MORE !

Bonuses including:

• Personal access to Richard for a Q&A session during this test phase

• The entire finished course, FREE! ($298+ value)

• A lifetime membership to "Evolutionary Training," a private community that evolves with the marketplace to teach you what's working now ($456 value)

• The exclusive chance to make 75% commissions on the final course (everyone else will only make 50%)

PLUS MORE !  And I could just feel the scepticism rolling off people.  “Just another course.  I’ve signed up for so many.  I’ve not made any money yet.  What is it about this one that’s going to be different?”  So I asked.  I put it out there.  Is it because everyone has been so hurt, so disillusioned by the industry that they can’t see a great thing when it hits them in the face?

A friend of mine contributed a different view point:

Marius Lombaard my view is that most people join the sales arena out of desperation, then listen to the absolute worst sales advice from so called "experts" and then (after swallowing the magic positivity pill that’s supposed to solve all our financial problems) suddenly believe they can sell a steak to a vegetarian. The vegetarians have hated us (salespeople) ever since.

Is that it?  The magic positivity pill that everyone has swallowed?  Being stuck on the personal development, the positive affirmations that are going to create success, the “you can’t be rich until you grow into it” scenario? 

Whatever it is, are you really going to let an offer like “personal coaching until you make 5X the amount of money you invested” get away from you?  Really ?

That $48 offer is gone tonight.  After that it’s $298 if you want to get in on the training.  The commission drops from 75% to 50% after tonight.

And you are going to miss this?  I hope you choose to take advantage of this once in a life time offer.  You will NOT regret it.  I guarantee that.

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FRUSTRATED?  Are you suffering from the lack of progress you promised yourself.  Are you still living on hope?  Still propping yourself up because you “believe”.  Still sear

Their favourite meal was on the table:  buns, ketchup, hamburgers.  I suggested to my little guy that maybe he would like to put more than ketchup on his hamburger and he could choose whatever else he wanted to add.

I saw the protest in his eyes when he glanced up at me but relented.  Then I watched him as human nature took over and controlled his every action. 

He put some cheese on, then a slice of tomato.  He looked up at me again.  His eyes asked “is this good?”  A nod, a smile of encouragement and he focused once again on his burger.  A goodly chunk of lettuce, a few cucumbers, he picked through and found a couple of perfect onion slices.  He was on a roll here.  Pickles, then a dollop of mustard, another slice of cheese, more lettuce, one olive, carefully placed in the right spot and the hamburger was starting to look like … (I can’t describe it).  I cautioned him that he had quite a beautiful hamburger there but maybe it was time to stop.  He nodded and reached for the ketchup bottle again.  Placing the other half of the bun on top, he was done, he was ready.  He just had one problem.  It wouldn’t fit into his mouth.  It was too much and he was stumped.  Now what?

As any good mom would, I stepped in to help him out of his dilemma.  He chatted away about how all that stuff was good and how come he couldn’t eat it all at the same time, and if a little bit of a few things makes his hamburger taste good then it wasn’t fair that he couldn’t just get his mouth around all of it at one time and he went on and on and on.  Only half my mind was listening to his chatter as I rearranged some of his choices on his plate.

The other half was absorbing the lesson this little guy had just given me.  How similar this 6 year old was to the adults online who are still struggling to build a business.  Even at 6, he was exhibiting “more must be better” concepts, focusing on them and forgetting the experience was to enhance the hamburger (the business)!

We’ve got the basics (the hamburger and bun).  We add the ketchup, cheese and tomato (two or three marketing techniques) but then we go overboard.  We have to add the Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus 1, article marketing, solo ads, forums and blogs and we have to become specialists: teachers and trainers of all of them.

Then we teach others to focus on all this good stuff and our burger (the basics of our meal: our business) lays forgotten, overwhelmed, overpowered as we focus on things that in and of itself are good, but don’t get the foundation of our business (the burger) into the consumers hands.

My brilliant little boy just showed me how adults can get so focused on adding more stuff, we forget our priorities are upside down.  The point of our purpose is way off.  The purpose of adding lettuce (twitter) or pickles (blogs) is not just to add them because we can and everyone else is doing it and we can become “experts” at something but because it’s going to enhance our (business) hamburger. 

Our business – the purpose of it all.   The residual income part, where the money is?  Remember?

You’re not one of those …..? 

You’re probably not one of those who skips all over the place looking for the next training or the next system that is going to teach you the training so you can perpetuate that cycle – Are you?  Still looking for the elusive formula which just seems to be one course or training away?

You recognize results are TRANSFORMATIONAL?

No, you’re probably one of those people who recognize that we are in the business of “Results”.  We don’t need to provide more information to a market that’s saturated with more “how to” trainings than it would already take a lifetime to absorb.  Agreed?

Your definition of success is ………

Success to you is focus, a clear easy to understand duplicatable process, automated where you step in and work with only those who say “yes”, created by a team of professionals focused on YOUR success and on YOUR business results.

Yes?  Is it time to focus on RESULTS?

I’m willing to give you a sneak peak at what’s going to bring you results, if you focus, if you can screen out all the stuff you’ve been taught by those who don’t know how to but are eager to say they do.  All the BS’ers who are going to offer you one more course, one more training, one more tip and then you’ll be successful. 

Are you ready for results?

Good.  Head over to my blog and on the top right hand corner, fill in your name, best email address and phone number.  Hit submit.  You’ll have to approve the subscription and then you will get ONE email from me with a link to a website.  Watch the videos (still in beta version, links are not live) and decide whether you want to become a part of what Frank Kern refers to as a Magic Bullet in the making.

“You have successfully created a Magic Bullet when you can efficiently guide a customer toward an end result which will provide massive transformational value in his/her life.”  - Frank Kern

Then call me or email me (contact info is in the email) but be ready to transform your life !  

Agreed ?

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She was tiny, beautiful, native, 19 years old and she wanted to make a difference in this world.  She also had Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorder (FASD).  Her biological mom drank when she w

Is there a lesson here for others?  Probably not.  But maybe you can comment and tell me if there is something you’ve learned from this story.

Apathy.  We Canadians are known for it although some call it a social conscious, peacekeepers versus fighters or how about the “we’re just nice people” label?

George was a pretty smart guy.  A