Are you trying to build your home based business with your warm market? 

Have you hit the pavement everyday to make your 10 - 20 contacts?

Have you paid hundreds of dollars for leads to only find out later that they are old and useless?

Have you alienated your friends and relatives because you keep "dripping" on them, hoping they will finally see the value in your business and jump right in with you?  WELL STOP IT. 

Finally there is a way to get leads who actually are waiting for you to call them.  They want to hear about your business. 

Let me tell you how to build your business quickly by attracting the people who WANT to hear from you.

If you are new to the network marketing industry and are having a bit of trouble ramping up your business, then maybe you are trying to do it all alone. The greatest thing about network marketing is that you are building a successful business with the help of other people who want for your success.

The network marketing industry can provide you not only with time freedom and financial security, but with relationships for life. Tap into those relationships with your up-line, your down-line and with the many available tools, so that you are not marketing your business alone, but are relying on the expertise of those who built their business before you.

Here are 10 reasons why successful network marketing companies provide affordable tools to their distributors.

1. Increase Activity in the Field

The activity of the distributors will determine much of the success of the Company. Tools increase activity and ensure that your distributors are constantly telling the company's story.

2. Provide a Message

Tools deliver the Company's message perfectly-time and time again. Remember when you were a child and you told a secret to someone and, of course, that secret got passed from one friend to another only to come back to you completely altered than when you first told it? This does not happen when the exact same message is being delivered every time.

3. Greater Productivity

Tools are the fastest way to reach a large amount of people. Leveraging tools will help your distributors build large and successful organizations. If you purchase 100 CDs at $1 each and distributed them to 100 people and then each of your distributors (let's say five of your distributors) did the same thing and then each of their 5 distributors did the same thing, you would have leveraged your $100 worth of CDs 30 times! That means your advertising budget was leveraged to $3100 to build your organization.

4. Increase Retention

If you provide a system to your organization and teach them how to use the tools, you will generate loyalty, commitment and greater retention. An educated distributor and/or customer are more likely to continue with your company long term.

5. Proven Success

It's simple-tools work. Many powerful industry leaders have built their businesses using tools: newspapers, brochures, books, CDs, DVDs, etc. Find the tool that is "right" for you and the person you want to bring into your business or share the product with. Many leading distributors share their experience in order to help others in their organizations and throughout the company. Learn from them.

6. Add Credibility

Tools provide instant credibility with personal success stories, research from experts, and detailed information about your company and the product.

7. Simplify Your Company's Presentation

Tools allow your distributors to pass along the same powerful message every single time in a concise and accurate presentation.

8. Duplicate Easily

Duplication in direct selling is essential. Tools provide a system and a routine for distributors that are simple to duplicate. When a company makes it easy for its distributors to learn and duplicate the message and how to build the business, the rate of success drastically increases.

9. Rely on the Message

Not everyone is a great presenter, but tools can make anyone a great sponsor. This helps to rely on the message and not being the messenger. By having tools to be the messenger, everyone can build a business in the network marketing industry.

10. Enhance Your Sponsoring Efforts

Tell your story in volume. Imagine the power of having thousands of newspapers, brochures, and CDs out in communities worldwide telling your story. The more people who see the tools, the more who will be interested in your Company's product and opportunity. As discussed in #3, leveraging the tools, which leverages your sponsoring, builds your organization more effectively and more often, faster.

To build your business with greater ease, find the tools that work best for you and that you are comfortable with sharing to potential customers or business builders that you would like to be a part of your organization.

Wishing you great success in your business and remember...NEVER GIVE UP!

As a child, all I ever wanted to do was grow up, fall in love, have a family and be a stay-at-home mom.  No other option had ever entered my mind.  Yes, I went to school.  Yes, I excelled in the secretarial field.  I was even hired “off the street” as the secretary to the Vice President of a major clothing company.  Not too shabby of a feat for an 18 year old!  I was VERY good at typing (140 words per minute on an IBM Correctible Selectric!) and my shorthand skills ran rings around any other secretary that I knew!  Ok, so that was in the mid ‘70s and I am not sure they even produce “shorthand tablets” anymore.  But the corporate scene did not thrill me at all.  Although I did my best, I just was never really “there” in mind and spirit.  Well I did get married, had four children and considered my life idyllic as a stay-at-home mom.
 
So fast forward 30 years…my husband was and still is in the corporate world, but through the years added additional income to our family by owning and operating a small hobby store with his brother.  So besides the everyday grind of a 9 – 5, there were the nights and weekends of building that business.  Not to mention the Toy Shows we worked and traveled to on the weekends with one, two or even all four kids in tow.  It was not easy and put a heavy strain on the marriage and the kids sometimes.

Besides the time it took to develop, there was the expense of the overhead and inventory, the time consuming paperwork and employees.  Well, the employees were family members, but still trying to coordinate and count on everyone was not an easy task.

I must say the extra money afforded us many things other young families did not have…a paid off home, a small condo on a lake, a boat, new cars, and the kids not wanting for anything.  But it was all at the expense of trading time for money.  When you have all of those things are just things unless you have the time to enjoy them.

After the many years of doing that, but always keeping my mind and options open for something else to come along, my mom had introduced me to the Direct Selling Industry.  Yep, we got to buy a ton of merchandise and schlep it to other people’s home to put on presentations…through rain, or snow or the gloom of night!  Mom was a great presenter and I was an awesome “roadie,” but that really is work.

Along came the wonders of Network Marketing.  I had been introduced to a product that was suppose to aide me in my few discomforts of an aging body.  I was desperate to try anything, so I did and much to my surprise I was beginning to feel better.  I never really looked at the Network Marketing Industry and believed it to be a sort of a scam.  But BOY WAS I WRONG. 

It was actually nothing I was doing different then hauling all of that merchandise around and sharing what the merchandise could do to change the “feel” of their home, but this time all I had to do was to build a business was use a little bit of the product and share with others how they two can build a home based business do the same thing.  Without having to constantly buy things I didn’t want, drag them all over the place “doing shows” and then ordering, receiving, packing and delivering!

I believe that Network Marketing is without a doubt one of the few industries in which an individual can become financially independent and build a large sales organization with very little overhead, no paperwork, no inventory and no employees, when compared to 'brick and mortar' alternatives.

What is the greate thing, is that now I realize we could have had all of those things with building a business in only a few hours a week leaving the rest of the time to enjoy them and the family.

Many people who begin a Network Marketing business forget the importance of the word 'network'. The path to success in this business model is to build a team organization and you receive commissions for building that team and introducing them to the business opportunity. There are a few different terms for this role as you build your business, but the one that is widely accepted is Sponsor. You are sponsoring people into the business opportunity.

This type of business model is a numbers game, pure and simple. You have to keep expanding your network, assessing the people in it and deciding if someone is worth approaching.  It is a people helping people business.  However, not all people will understand or even accept the concept of Network Marketing so you must learn to accept the “No’s” and move on to the next.  Remember, you are building your business with like-minded people who you do not have to convince that the business opportunity you are offering will give them the things they desire.

You can build your network either offline or online or maybe a mixture of both. The process normally involves the person you are sponsoring agreeing to buy the product you are representing. This then gives them the right to market the product/service they purchased and receive a commission on a sale and/or receive a commission for each person who decides to become a business owner doing the same as you.
The key to success is your marketing approach. Many people starting in network marketing have never actually been involved in sales or marketing before. This is where the quality of training offered by the opportunity is the key to your and their success.

What you have to realize and must know is that you are NOT marketing the product. You are marketing YOU.  If the business opportunity or your potential Sponsor cannot demonstrate to you they are experienced at training you how to market you then you are in trouble. You can still make a suitable income selling the products of a company - that's direct sales as opposed to network marketing. However, the real money is in leverage. You create a team of motivated business owners who can each then go on to create a team of motivated business owners themselves.

So, yes, if you love the product that is being introduced to you and you only want to sell the product as retail that is ok, but again I will repeat; the real money and road to time freedom and financial security is in the leverage of people who understand that being in this business is just taking the product and finding a few key other people to take the product and for them to find a few key people.  Remember, it is not about selling the product, but rather it is about people helping people build their team.

If you have 8-10 hours a week to devote to building your business, if you have a desire to help people achieve their dreams, if you are willing to commit for a minimum of six months to learn how to build your business, then network marketing may be the perfect business for you.

Are you one of the many looking for ways to add extra income in this tough economy?  Were you "downsized" and need to replace your income?   Or are you just tired of the corporate scene and not getting appreciated or paid what you are really worth? Maybe you have thought before how wonderful it would be to start your own business, but just didn't have the capital to begin.  Or maybe you had the money, but didn't like the idea of all of the overhead, inventory or employee problems that come with the "brick and mortar" business, not to mention the hours upon hours of building that business.  Basically, "buying" a job!  Starting a home-based business just may be easier than you might think and network marketing may be the answer you have been searching for.

Here are 10 important considerations before deciding which company to pursue for your new career in the home-based business industry.

1.  Is the Company Stable?

A stable company means that the company promoting the product has to be a debt free company in existence for a period of many years.  Avoid "here today, gone tomorrow" companies that try to sell the concept of getting in at the top to make a huge income. Look for companies that have been consistently growing.   

2.  Look to the Founders 

The best way to judge the stability and future of the company is to look at the past of the founders of the company.  Are they new to the network marketing industry or have they been involved in the industry before.  Better still, if they have been actively involved for years and have gained substantial experience in order to serve their new found company and its distributors in the highest and most ethical manner. Are there at least three founders?  Is their belief system based on heart and not on themselves.  Do they give back to the community?  To the world?     

3. Is there product in demand?

Is the product of the company a "category creating" product?  In other words, is it readily available elsewhere.  Category creating products are products that the company is the first to bring to market.  That is very important and creates a high demand and a unique business opportunity, which means the products cannot be readily found.

4. Can it produce a good income for me?

Study the compensations plans.  Not all are created equal or even fair.  There are many, such as: bianary, matrix, and unilevel.  Read the fine print.  Some companies offer "up to" 50%, when in fact, it is more like 27-32% when the compensation plan is used to full advantage.  It is better to find a company that does not have "breakage" in their plans.  That is not good and will actually hinder your income.  A fair and just compensation plan states a 50-50 split amongst the company and the distributors.  Also look for Dynamic Compression and a Global Bonus. 

5. Is the product affordable?

The end customer who purchases the product should find value for the price they are paying. It does not matter to the customer how many levels of up line are being paid commissions. The business opportunity should come second to the product value. If the same product is available elsewhere for a greatly reduced price, then it would be difficult selling such a product. However, remember in consideration #3 that you are looking for a "category creating" product and should not be available elsewhere!

6. Will the product produce repeat sales?

Depending on which type of company you want to represent and offer their products, you must find highly consumable products to offer. A one time sale will produce only a one time income. Products that keep producing repeated income is exactly what will provide you with the main benefit of a network marketing business, and that is residual income. For example, if you sell an ebook information product you will have a one time profit from each client, where as if you were to sell monthly membership access to several ebooks that are updated every month, then you have an income that will continue every month as long as the member remains subscribed.  Highly successful products in the network industry are health and wellness products, beauty products and daily consumables such as coffee and even chocolate 

7. Does the company provide a strong back-end marketing system?

The marketing system for the company and the product should be able to clearly and professionally present the product to the potential client. The tools that you will need to use to build your business should be offered affordably and not be an income source for the main company.  The backend system on your business website for the product you promote should be able to present the product to your client, follow up on leads, provide statistics and track the downline of your clients. 

8.  Does the company provide training? It is very important to have a team that can guide you and train you and help you build your business.  Network marketing is a people business and people helping people is how you become successful.  There should be ample availability to webinars, meetings, conference calls and always someone answering the phone at corporate should you have any questions.  Are the training tools they offer readily available and affordable? 

9. Is this a product you will use with confidence and be comfortable promoting?

Yes, there are some people who can sell ice to an eskimo, and doesn't use ice themselves, but would make for a very rare and successful home-based network marketing business.  It is very important to be a product of the product and have a very high belief in the product and the company. Your confidence, sincerity and enthusiasm will shine through and people will naturally want what you have.

10.  You want to build a home-based business.

It really is all about you.  It is about selling yourself and representing a product and a company.  People buy into people and want what we have if we are friendly, knowledgeable, and offer value to our everyday lives.  You decided to treat a home-based business as a business and not as a hobby.  Most network marketing businesses have a very small start up fee.  Usually around $35!  It is very important that you treat it the same as if it cost you $100,000 or even a million dollar business, because that little $35 can truly begin your million dollar business right out of the comfort of your own home. 

If all of these considerations are satisfied, they you are on your way to a wonderful new lifestyle and the comfort and security of building a residual income can provide. In conclusion, you should look for an affordable, "category creating" company and product line that produces repeat sales from a stable company with a good income potential and excellent backend systems founded by people who have a very strong background in the network marketing industry.

Good luck in your search and I am here to help if you need any.

Andrea

Oh what a beautiful day here in Winston-Salem, NC.  Clear blue sky, a gentle breeze and I can smell a hint of autumn in the air!...my favorite time of year.

Growing up and living in Chicago for 48 of my (almost) 51 years, I always loved the seasons. Autumn always brings back sweet memories of my childhood. Not really sure why, but it just gives me such a sense of home and family and I probably really liked all the candy at Halloween!  Actually it was probably the cute, but goofy costumes my mom used to make and dress me in.  This one Halloween (I wish I had a picture) I was a big sunflower.  You should have seen me trying to keep this big poster board thing with pointed flower tips, which would probably be classified as a weapon today, around my face and on me head.  Not to mention the jacket she sewed tons of green crepe paper leaves on.  Would not have been a pretty sight if it rained.  Hmmm, funny because that is when we use to scour the neighbor for hours at a time with pillow cases going door to door....ahhh the good ol' days. 

I really didn't much like the winters.  Once the first snow fell and you admire the beauty of the snowflakes and the bitterness in the air....well that was all for me.  Of course if you know anything about Chicago, after Christmas and once all of those twinkling lights are dimmed, it really can get dreary.  However, I must admit that I believe there is no better place than Chicago, no matter what time of year.  Although that could be because there is "No Place Like Home." 

I am searching for people in the Chicago area who would like to be taught how to start a home-based business of their own.  I will teach you everything I know for FREE.....get me back to Chicago!!!!! 

"Sweet Home Chicago!"  See you soon.  Andrea

Home-based businesses are good for the economy and good for economic stability, so Congress has pased legislation tht gives HUGE tax breaks to those who run a home-based business that qualifies.

Those "breaks" have come in the form a long list of tax deductions ranging from rent and utilities, to furniture and furnishings, to cars and trucks, to trips and entertainment, to the kid's allowance!

A home-based business has helped many people slash their taxes by 40-50 percent and more!

See how home-based business tax benefits can help you.  WATCH NOW

"If you really want to learn to be rich, you must begin to understand the power found in networks.  The richest people in the world build networks."

-Robert Kiyosaki, on the concept of network marketing

START BUILDING YOUR BUSINESS TODAY!

Dedicated to your success,
Andrea Pekarik Welch

What is the big fuss about Xango? Well, Xango is a company that has brought a great health product into the the Health and Wellness Industry. Not only is their product good for your health, they also have a great compensation plan so you and I can have an opportunity to live a better life style. With Xango on the rise goes to show that Paul Zane Pilzer wasright when he said the wellness industry would be the next trillion dollar industry.

Watch The Industry video below about Xango and their compensation plain built for us live a healthier and wealthier life style. When you're done watching the video, fill out the form below to learn more.

XanGo is the 9th fastest growing company on United States soil.  We are now also in 33 countries and counting!  If you are looking for a way to generate extra income or even full time income on a part time basis, you owe it to yourself to learn more about all the XanGo has to offer. 

XanGo is the category creator in the industry to Mangosteen, the Queen of Fruits.  XanGo is the category creator of the first all natural, non-toxic, chemical free, green technology skin care nutrition.  XanGo is the category creator to well-being (Are you tired, stress, or depressed?) with their latest product ELEVIV.

Here's to your health and wealth.

Andrea Pekarik Welch

Most brochures are nothing more than a collection of a few pictures and a few details about a business. However, brochures can and should be used as powerful tools that distinguish your company from your competition. Here are a few things to keep in mind that will turn your brochure into a powerful sales tool.

1. Focus On The Customer.

Most brochures are written with the focus on the company. When you do that, it tends to be to “braggy” and you must remember that customers care very little about your business, but are only interested in fulfilling their own wants and needs.

So talk about how your product or service meets those wants and needs. Focus on the customer and they will love your business and they will reward you by making a purchase. Make your brochure all about the benefits they seek.

2.  What Have You Got?

With your customer in mind, it is important to show how your business and what you have to offer them out performs your competition.  Be specific.
Are you faster?  Tell the customer how that will benefit them; such as saving time in their very busy day.

Is your product better quality? Tell why it is better and the benefits from the better quality.
By doing this, not only will you be persuading prospects to do business with you for the first time, you will also be preventing them from doing business with a competitor in the future.

3.  Give.

To ensure that your brochure will be kept, be sure to put a special offer on it. For example, give them a discount on their visit or offer them a FREE sample product.  By doing this, your brochure becomes a valuable asset to your customer and to your business.

4.  Less is more…more or less?

There are a couple ways to look at this.  Depending on the type of business you have and what you are trying to accomplish, your brochure needs to reflect this.

Think about it:  do you need to describe everything to the tiniest detail or can you just give them a bit about each of the things you offer?

As much as we all like to give ALL of the information WE think the customer wants; it is far more important to give the customer what he or she needs.  If we give them too much information, we run the risk of not attracting them enough because there is nothing more they need to know.

If we give them too little, then we run the risk of not having them interested in what we have to offer.

Give them enough information to entice them.  Draw them in. Get them to call.
Being that I was in the beauty industry for over 10 years, my brochures reflected the services I offered:  haircuts, color, nails, massage, facials.

Now most everybody knows that a salon or a spa offers these types of services.  So all I needed to do what list the service and the cost, but I projected with my brochure the “feel” of my salons and spas with the colors, my mission statement and a couple tastefully placed pictures to entice them into my doors.

5.  Brand Your Business.

As important as it is for your brochure to project to your customers what type of business you have, what products or services your offer and what it is going to cost them, you must remember to use your brochure as a branding tool.  Your brochure needs to have the same “feel” of the rest of your business.

When people see your business, do they see your logo?  When they see your logo, are they seeing your business?
Most companies that use brochures are not getting the maximum possible result from them. By following these simple steps you can turn your brochure into the ultimate sales weapon.

Over the years, I have spent thousands of dollars on brochures trying to get them right.  I am one that likes to talk and gives everyone all of the information that I THINK they need to have, only to find out that I could have condensed it to get my message across and not be so “busy” and cluttered.

Once I learned that, my brochures were graciously received and accepted as pieces of art with information that was valuable.  You can do this too.  Remember…

1.  Brand your business…USE YOUR LOGO!
2.  Think like your customer.  What do they want and need?
3.  Use it as a sales tool.  GIVE them an incentive to use your business.

Dedicated to your success,

Andrea Pekarik Welch

I recently asked a friend if they would be interested in keeping more of their paycheck if they had a part time home based business? I explained say for example what if you could keep forever starting right now an extra 100 dollars a week or 5 thousand dollars a year of your paycheck that the IRS would normally take?

Their reply shocked me! “You don’t understand I’m not worried about what the government takes because they give me a great bargain and I get a huge refund at the end of the year!” I didn’t know whether to cry or just scream!

What kind of a bargain is that! They take HALF your paycheck lets say 17 thousand a year then say oh sorry we took 2 thousand too much and you get 2 thousand dollars back that was yours anyway and without interest. That’s NOT a great bargain! You just got Flim Flammed my friend.

I think it all starts when we are kids and get that first summer job making an hourly wage. We can’t wait to cash that check and have some fun. Then out of the blue the government sends us a tax refund a year later for 3 or 4 hundred bucks! Wow Free money! But what actually happened is they did some kind of weird mystic Voo Doo Mojo mind trick! Many accept this cruel opiate and forever become sheep for the slaughter others lie and cheat on their taxes forever in fear of the dark cloud of the IRS looming over their heads. Believe It or Not!

OK, it’s not all gloom and doom I’ve got some GREAT news that you CAN BELIEVE for sure! There are some sensible men and women in Congress who said “Hey! It’s not good for the country for people to be unemployed, why don’t we offer tax breaks to individuals who want to supplement their incomes with a home based business!” I’m talking about legitimate, legal super easy to understand TAX BREAKS not loopholes!

I didn't want to do it! But I did. Then I was glad that I did! Sherman said; “Go see Ron Mueller at Carolyn Johnsons XanGo meeting and write about tax breaks for people with a home based business.” BEAT ME! SHOOT ME! KILL ME! Anything but listen to someone talk about taxes! Fact is I bought Ron’s book “It’s How Much You KEEP That Counts! Not how much you Make” about a year ago but never could muster the courage to open it, I was terrified. I thought maybe if it sat on my bookshelf long enough I might somehow absorb the information.


Ron Mueller .MBA, PH.D. Is an investigative reporter who spent more than a year researching and documenting home-business tax breaks that have been authorized by Congressional Law. You could say that Ron Mueller boldly went were no man has gone before! He also has an incredible gift, he can take all the complicated legal Mumbo Jumbo sift through thousands of pages of Tax Codes and translate it into a super simple FUN and EASY to understand formula. When I got home I read Ron’s book in about an hour, I had the same feeling I get when I read an exciting novel, I couldn’t put it down and I was surprised at how easy it is to read and how to legally keep thousands of dollars of your hard earned money a year. Ron is also a XanGo distributor just like you and me.

WHAT'S THE CATCH? It’s simple. You must have a legitimate home based business and an intent to make a profit. Instead of thinking of your home as a place were you also happen to have a business, think of it as your business where you happen to sleep.

Some of the many Deductions include; your Childs allowance, gasoline, rent, utilities, repairs, insurance, travel, entertainment, Bottles of XanGo you consume! Etc, Etc. You’ll even understand how an AUDIT can be a GOOD THING! You will know more about home based tax code than the expert that prepares your taxes; you might just want to get an extra copy of Ron’s book for them.

91% OF ALL FORECLOSURES COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED IF PEOPLE HAD AN EXTRA $500 A MONTH!

Learn how you can have a lucrative home based business for yourself.

Dedicated to your success,

Andrea Pekarik Welch