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Building the Momentum Necessary For Your Business to Fly

As I write this analogy, I am reminded that sometimes a message is meant to be told. And, apparently this one is. After my family, being a private pilot is my greatest passion in life. There are so many great parallels with success and aviation, probably because aviation itself is drawn from man’s pursuit of greatness. Understanding momentum is critical to your business success. Let’s think out of the box for a minute and look at how momentum applies to aviation and how this seemingly odd little analogy might just help you in your business.

Momentum is both a physical property and a psychological one as well. We all have had times when things just couldn’t feel any better, couldn’t go any smoother, like we were on cloud nine and nothing we did seemed to fail. Likewise, we’ve all had times in our life where we felt no matter how hard we tried things just wouldn’t turn our way - momentum is the common denominator in both, both as a positive and a negative.

One of my clients asked me the other day what I did to transition into success in this industry. He asked me what I meant when I said to take massive action. As I began to explain to him about the concept of massive action and building momentum, this aviation analogy came to mind. I’m just going to tell this from an aviator’s perspective and let you draw the parallels yourself…

As a pilot probably the most critical part of any flight is knowing your destination - knowing where it is that you are going and when you intend to arrive. After that, of course, you must do your fair share of planning, but, rest assured, all of the planning in the world will not prevent the head winds from coming, or the abrupt change in weather that inevitably alters our course, and, plan as we might, planning alone will never take us one inch closer to our destination. For planning itself is useless without actually “taking off”.

The experienced pilot knows that there will be deviations along the route. He doesn’t obsess about them, but he does plan for and acknowledge them. Furthermore, the experienced pilot knows that the most important aspect of flying is to ARRIVE at your destination. Sometimes that means some pretty major deviations along the way. Sometimes it means that the destination itself must be changed during the flight. But commitment and resolve to make it to that destination are unquestioned. Can you imagine being in a small, single engine airplane with a pilot who says (after you’re airborne), “we’re gonna give it a try and see if we land safely, if not at least we can say we gave it a shot”? Yet how many of you have taken that exact same approach to your network marketing business and then later pondered as to “why” it has not worked out for you?

Whether you’re flying a Leer Jet (as one of my clients does) or my humble little four passenger Cessna, there are two points in time when flying is at it’s most critical juncture - take offs and landings. Today I want to discuss “taking off”. Again, if we go back to our prime objective of reaching our destination, I think we can all agree that a successful departure is the most fundamental step. After going through the preliminary systems checks and ensuring we are safe to fly, we turn to the runway. One last glance at everything and then comes the moment of truth.

Once aligned and pointing down the runaway, we reach down and begin to apply power. How much you ask? Do we apply “just enough”? Do we think to ourselves, “What is the minimum amount of power I might need to probably get airborne?” Do we add an extra little bit for safe measure? Or do we give it EVERYTHING WE’VE GOT and apply full power, thrusting the throttle forward until our knuckles rest on the dashboard? I’ll tell you what, I don’t want to fly with a pilot who is trying to save gas and use “just enough” power to “maybe” get airborne! Likewise, do you really think that people will join you in your company if they see that you take the same approach to your business? Are you really giving your business every possible opportunity to take flight? Or are you perhaps loading it down with unnecessary baggage and weight and giving it a half-hearted “I think that should be enough effort” attempt?

You see my little Cessna weighs 3100 pounds fully loaded and it takes a lot of momentum to persuade it to get aloft - where it was designed to be. On the ground my little plane is awkward, uninspiring and even boring. Taxiing around the ground it is cumbersome, slow and awkward. But once you apply the necessary momentum it needs to become airborne, it transforms into an agile, docile and elegant machine - doing what it does best with the grace that can not adequately be described, it must be experienced. But without tremendous force and will, it would never get off the ground.

If you were to consider becoming a pilot, don’t you think that one prerequisite would be your complete and unwaivering belief in flight? Could you possibly fly a plane if you didn’t fundamentally know with every ounce of your fiber that that little Cessna could fly? Would you have the belief necessary to allow you to get the courage to apply full throttle that very first and magical time you departed the ground if you questioned the principal of light? Likewise, how strongly do you believe in yourself and your ability to make your business “fly”? This believe must be beyond question, beyond doubt - it must be known to you and just as real to you as “gravity” itself.

Once airborne, we pull back the power to “normal” ranges; we don’t want to over tax the motor that we need to take us to our destination. No longer are we concerned about giving every last RPM of power - we now have other things to concern ourselves with. Principally, keeping on course so that we ensure we arrive at our destination. This may surprise you, but any pilot will tell you that they are off course 90% of the time. But no pilot will ever tell you there is a doubt in their mind of where they’re going or that they will get there (if they do, I suggest you find another pilot to fly with). The destination is known. The general course is known. The approximate arrival time frame expected. But it is never that simple, and neither will your business be that simple. There are the winds to contend with, the clouds, the fog, Temporary Flight Restrictions to be navigated, the lighting strikes or the icing layer that must be avoided - flying can be a challenge, so can piloting your course as an entrepreneur!

Many of you as entrepreneurial business seekers have the “dream of flight”. You have prepared. You have studied. You have dreamed of arriving in style at your destination (maybe driving a new car, buying a new house, making that $20k a month). But ask yourself, have you truly pushed that throttle all the way to the dashboard until your knuckles are white with force? Ask yourself if you really are deserving of your dream? Have you really taken the massive action required to ensure your dream becomes a reality?

I started this off by saying that some stories are meant to be told… Well here is what I mean. I’ve had this in my mind for a couple of days now to write this analogy to you. Then today, I sat down and began to read a book that I have read many times before. Every time I re-read it some parts come alive again as I remember them, others are if I’ve never read them before - perhaps I wasn’t really tuned in the last time I read it. Let me quote you a paragraph from “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen R. Covey:

“Those of us who watched the lunar voyage of Apollo 11 were transfixed as we saw the first men walk on the moon and return to earth. Superlatives such as ‘fantastic’ and ‘incredible’ were inadequate to describe those eventful days. But to get there, those astronauts literally had to break out of the tremendous gravity pull of the earth. More energy was spent in the first few minutes of lift-off, in the first few miles of travel, than was used over the next several days to travel half a million miles.” (page 46)

When I read this paragraph, I knew I needed to pass on my little aviation analogy to you. What gravitational force is preventing you from achieving lift off in your new business venture? Are you really applying enough energy to “break free” from your current circumstances? Answer this one question: If you could not fail, what would you try to achieve? How much better would your life be if you truly pursued your dreams with the belief of a child - unaware that it “can’t” be done?

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” –Aristotle.

One last thought. Above I said that my little plane was designed to be ‘aloft’ - that is where it is at it’s best, graceful and true. Can you imagine how disappointed the engineers who designed it would be if the pilot never had the desire to apply full throttle? Never had the courage to give it all it deserved? You too, were designed to be successful. Each of you was born with all that is necessary in life to succeed. Only one question remains; do you have the courage to apply the momentum necessary to transform your dream into reality?

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How To Outsource Your Way To Home Business Freedom

Because an internet marketing business has many different moving parts, from web design to traffic generation, outsourcing some of these task can be extremely helpful. When you think of all the new specialized skills you’ll need to learn, outsourcing expert help can be a lifesaver.

Oftentimes when Internet marketers start out with their small home business, they don’t have a clue about the potential and growth their business can achieve. I remember several years ago when I started an eBay store I had no idea of the amount of success I would have early on.

After several months I needed to hire an assistant to help me with shipping, customer service and auction posting as it grew so fast. The point is that your internet business will grow to a point where it is impossible to manage every detail and this in when outsourcing becomes your best friend.

That said, you must be especially careful to choose the right people to handle the tasks with the same level of professionalism and expertise that you would. It is also important to outsource tasks that are very mundane and straightforward as opposed to tasks that can ultimately determine the success or failure of your internet marketing business.

Examples of this are tasks such as answering emails, keeping track of stocks and sales figures and so on. These jobs are very simple and often repetitive which make them easier to learn and less likely to screw up. Again, never let someone else make decisions that will greatly affect your internet business if you do not want to risk losing it overnight.

Now let’s get down to the bottom line, how do you pay your new hires. It depends on how often you need their services. In the beginning you may be able to hire a freelancer on a periodic basis as you need them, but as business picks up you may consider hiring them on a full or part time basis. Full timers would be paid hourly and your freelancers would be paid on a per project basis.

Now when it comes to project work, you are only required to pay them once based on a job done according to your previously agreed specifications. You can find reputable freelancers in several places right on the net. A couple popular sites you should familiarize yourself with are www.rentacoder.com and www.elance.com.

Okay, now that you have a couple of strong resources to outsource freelancers for your internet marketing business, it’s time to build it up to the point where they are needed. The leverage and time freedom that comes with outsourcing is a very freeing experience and will give you the opportunity to increase your sales and profitability exponentially. When the time comes, don’t delay and have fun with it.

One last thing, Dream! Continue to set your vision and goals for your business in such a way that you are forced o move from you comfort zone. It can only grow if you exercise thoughts and ideas that perhaps you thought too lofty at once. To your continued success!

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Put your emotions of failure aside and sponsor more

There’s no question about it. A good company is essential, a great product also, and a back office full of tools helps you create success a lot quicker. All tools when kept in good shape will always be beneficial, and do what there suppose to do.

When I made the decision to quit worrying about my products pricing and all of the competition, even every feature no matter how good it was. My business started growing at a much faster rate. I learned my business was about marketing and promoting. Not about people joining my opportunity, or about selling my product.

When I stopped worrying about features and price point of my product, and stopped worrying about my competition, I became a lot more successful. I realized my business wasn’t about selling my product or getting people to join my business. My business was about marketing.

This is a bit confusing I’m sure. But you have to understand the majority of business owners in this industry have never been business owners before. All the skills necessary and the discipline needed, they don’t always understand.

Spending money, investing time, and pushing outside their comfort zone for the first time out of a very strong and emotional desire to achieve, coupled with a strong fear of failure. This is the same as sink or swim, your running a business on emotion because of that.

These emotions develop because we all fear poverty. This mind set is al to familiar in the work at home industry. Everyone just getting started has a ton of enthusiasm, than when challenging things come their way, that emotion quickly fades. This is how so many fail in their new business.

The first year I got into this industry was like a roller coaster of failing, and at the same time learning every single day. I can tell you one thing, if you let these emotions get the upper hand in your business, you are doomed! To develop a strong will to push past the pain is essential.

Professional net workers are no strangers to this failure and success emotion. But they know how to live in a abundance mentality, it’s a part of doing business every day, and that’s all it is to them. So, to succeeding in a network business, you have to develop that mind set.

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Kiiera - Compensation Plan Overview

Most Network Marketing insiders will tell you, to become a successful network marketing company it is all about the comp plan! In order for the organization to grow people need to be able to quickly and easily make money in the company, otherwise it will stagnate. Enthusiasm is necessary, but real enthusiasm in network marketing comes down to how quickly your people can get into the money.

Network marketers know that the secret to growing their organizations is a complete understanding of their comp plan and how to get their people taking advantage of it quickly. You simply cannot find a top earner who is not skilled in their understanding of how to maximize their income and the income of their organization.

Duplication is a lot easier to talk about than to achieve, but rest assured, the very successful 7 figure earners in this industry know it well. Duplication is the process wherein you are able to bring new people into your organization, retain them, train them and see them be able to duplicate your effectiveness. This is something that the leadership of Kiiera recognized from the beginning and took the time necessary to get it right when they designed the comp plan for Kiiera.

The company knew the basic model that they would use - a unilevel binary. Binary comp plans have been proven in network marketing to be highly successful, of that there is no doubt. But Kiiera wanted to make it better, refine it, find ways to help people just getting started. This is where things get interesting. The company knows that duplication is vital to the growth of the company and what better way to stimulate growth than to create incentives for people just getting started with the company to allow them to be successful quickly. You see many people will simply not stick it out in the trenches if they’re not getting into profit quickly. While binaries can become highly lucrative over time, they have been criticized for their slow initial income growth for the average salesperson.

Innovations to the comp plan were needed so that the new affiliates would make money quickly and stay with the company. So, the management team of Kiiera came up with some great ideas. They pay you on your “large” leg in the binary as well as your “lesser” leg. They also have some very easily achievable rank advancement bonuses. Lastly they created a bonus pool that is specifically not available to the veterans of the company, only the new affiliates in their first four to six months. The reason is that by restricted access to the bonus, the bonus pool will be divided amongst fewer people and each will make more money - the main goal.

The main purpose of all of these extra bonuses in the comp plan is to get new affiliates making $300 to $500 a month quickly. Most people looking to start a home based business are looking to make that extra $500 a month, so these numbers are critical. Obviously Kiiera is in touch with the market and knows what is necessary to get their company on the fast track to growth and expansion.

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Advantages of the MLM Home Based Business Opportunity

MLM is a great, legitimate, and potentially lucrative way to work from home for your own MLM business opportunity.

By directly selling products while creating your own upline downline, you can work your MLM business opportunity part-time, from home, and at your own hours. Even with all the potential for making money, you should decide, though if an MLM is for you.

Many people are blinded by all the benefits of an MLM when determining if this type of business is right for them. You don’t need to have a college degree or any experience to get into the industry.

The products are already manufactured and are usually shipped by the company directly to your customers. Plus, you choose your hours and your work location. Many MLM business opportunities are taken by people who work from the comfort of their own home.

Other benefits of an MLM business opportunity that is worked from home is that you have leverage; you continue earning commissions on a single effort. You do not need to come up with your own business or marketing plan, because the company does it for you. Recruiting and training systems are provided for you by the company.

The work is selling, so you need to have a pretty strong backbone. Many people will tell you, no instead of the much-coveted yes. Therefore, it takes a lot of effort and motivation. In order to make the most potential income, you need to continuously recruit new representatives. Plus, if you are working from home, your MLM business opportunity require that you purchase a certain amount of product each month or quarter, adding in a financial commitment.

Working at home works for some people. But other people find that it takes a great deal of discipline and motivation to get the job done. Before you decide to take up the MLM business opportunity and work at home, make sure that you get all the information that you need to make an informed decision.

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My personal online success system that never fails me

Quit spending your money on leads, you really don’t have to. The answer is in this simple concept, where you don’t have to have this expense to build a successful home business. Unless you want to spend on leads that always turn out to be tire kickers.

I’m always amazed that the majority of networkers spend more in their business than they even come close to making. There’s no reason for that with a program that teaches how to build your business at zero cost, a system that’s been around for a couple of years now.

I was caught off guard by the incredible number of quality leads of people interested in my business. I had to use a automatic system to follow up with them, because know I have several other ways to profit from, and keep my costs at zero.

This has taught me a specific step-by-step process for using a targeted information product to not only attract highly qualified prospective partners for my home business, but also how to convert my marketing from an expense to a additional profit center.

Now let me go over this. I have no business expense and even turn a profit. Oh, and that missing piece of the puzzle that I didn’t see before, that builds my primary business, was now securely in place, unbelievable!

When you put this system into motion, you’ll see you won’t have to spend another dollar on leads. This is a business building strategy that will change your life forever in minutes. So stop buying those expensive, useless leads!

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Do you hate calling prospects, cause your clueless?

The dreaded phone call. You have everything written down, what your going to spew at your new prospect. Then hopefully they sat yes, and you don’t have any questions to answer where you just babble on some more.

Hey, I know. Maybe when you go to take a breath to start a new part of your speech. You’ll realize no ones there, hello, hello. You didn’t even hear them hang up. But that’s ok, just another 3 buck lead, I have more, it’s part of doing business. That’s right!

If this sounds familiar, well I’m willing to bet your sponsor, and probably most of your upline is having the same problem. They just haven’t mentioned it. Don’t get fooled into thinking, they are having any more success on the phone promoting the opportunity, any more than you are.

Being in a home business, and networking opportunity and products for a pretty long time now, I have a system where I never have to pay for leads. These people come to me, I kid you not. But it didn’t do me any good when my phone skills stunk to high heaven.

I’m always looking for new ways to market. I like to keep learning as much as I can about this industry, always searching for new things. I came across a very interesting interview, a 1 hour video that showed me what exactly it was I needed to know about phone prospecting. It made so much sense, and it works like nothing else.

I am able to position myself so much better, and developed a relationship with my prospects. Because of this, my business has taken off dramatically. This information is a must for anyone involved in a mlm program, network business or home business. You’ll become an ace when calling on your leads.

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