Imagine you are getting 4 or 5 people a day joining your team. You are absolutely killing it and making a lot of money in the process. You feel the world is at your feet, and you love your company. Then one day you get a letter from your company and all those months even years of hard work just went down the toilet. Your company has changed its compensation plan, and you are no longer paid a commission on the sales of your team. Are you prepared for this? What would you do?

Many times as someone who markets online, we forget the world around us. We get so busy at being online, making capture pages, connecting with others online, but we do not do anything offline. This can be a huge mistake.

We often hear the words offline marketing, and we get the idea of going to the mall talking to any stranger within 3 feet of us (sometimes called the 3-foot rule), chasing our family and friends, and passing out flyers in stores. Basically trying to drag anyone we can into our business. Some people can make this work. However, it is very hard to duplicate.

When I first read Magnetic Sponsoring by Mike Dillard, this one thing resonated with me and made me believe that I could make it in this industry. It is totally mind-set. In order to be successful in this industry, YOU MUST BE AN ALPHA.

As you read this, you may put yourself in the Beta or Pre-alpha group. I was definitely in the Beta group when I first read Magnetic Sponsoring . How do you start the process of becoming an Alpha when you are a Beta? It is simple, you decide that you are an Alpha.

Taking a break from talking about Marketing for this post. If you have watched any of the news over the weekend, you have seen some terrible footage of videos of what is happening in Haiti at this moment.

If you have not already, take a minute and donate to help those in Haiti. The following are two ways to donate using your cell phone. Not sure if this will work if you are outside of the US.

1. To donate $10 to the International Red Cross: Text “Haiti” to 90999. $10 is added to your phone bill to go towards helping Haiti.

In network marketing the failure rate is very high; there are a number of reasons for this. However, you want to look at those who are succeeding and figure out how are they able to succeed. When you study and analyze those who are succeeding in marketing find there are 5 elements that are a must if you are going to have a successful network marketing business on the internet.

The very first thing is you must have is a web page and capture pages (sometimes called squeeze page) that promotes you and not your company. This website needs to have YOUR story, picture, videos, it must be about you. This allows those who are visiting your site to start building a relationship with you.

Since this is my first post of 2010, I thought I would create a post about setting goals and how to turn your desires into realities through definite and practical actions. These are 6 steps from Napoleon Hill’s book Think and Grow Rich.

If you have been around business or some type of sales, you may have heard of or even own Think and Grow Rich. However, if you are not familiar with this book, it was written by Napoleon Hill in the 1930’s.  His most memorable quote is “Whatever, friend, you can conceive and believe, you can achieve.”