When you start something new is hard to know ahead of time what tools and knowledge you’re going to need. Combine this with a natural resistance towards spending money on an unknown venture and you’ll likely wind up lacking something that’s essential to your business.

Funny thing is when I was a traditional entrepreneur, I spent thousands and thousands of dollars a month on rent, employees, marketing and so much more BUT when I began a home based business…..I got cheap!

This is not totally true but there is a tendency to “hold back” and not spend money and I can understand being careful but the reality is you need to make right decisions for your business and this often means spending in the right areas when it comes to tools, services, marketing and lead generation AND the right business model.

By the way, my first attempt developing an online business utilized cheap domain names (.biz, .info) and web hosting which impeded my ability to have a professional looking web site. The truth is I felt overwhelmed entering a new industry and market. There was simply too much to know and I didn’t know where to get the right information to make my business a success. When things looked liked they weren’t working I often times switched gears or abandoned that idea but this meant a loss of time and money. It took some time but I began to turn the corner.

Knowing When And Where To Ask For Help… This is key and you need to find the person(s) that will help you get where you want to get WITHOUT all the HYPE and GURU stuff as this tends to only empty your pockets and has little to do with putting money into your bank account.

Simply take a step back and look at your business with “objective” eyes. Does the model make sense and what is your expected outcome? If you are building an M.LM do not over think it but realize you may need to apply yourself for 3-5 years in order to build a sizeable organization that pays well.

If you’re into affiliate marketing and have a gross commission of $30 per sale; analyze that and realize you will need to sell 100 of them in order to earn $3,000 monthly (less marketing expenses). The above is not good or bad; simply look at this from a business point of view as I did for many years in my traditional and offline businesses.

Yes…great advice but what does this have to do with tools, your mindset and making money?

Your mindset can be destroyed if you see failure and after failure and weeks, months and even years go by without the success you’re dreaming about. So, look at your business and decide if it’s the right “vehicle” to get you where you want to go. If it is, great! If not, pick another “horse” and ride it.

Next, seek a coach or mentor to advise you on the tools or services that are “must have” to help you succeed and avoid the $3k Guru programs for now and just get practical advice. This doesn’t have to be expensive.

Finally, develop you inner game, your mindset. Who are you talking to, who are you connecting with and what books are you reading?

Just to let you know, hanging out on Facebook is not the secret to getting rich…great social media but you need to take action and implement. More on this later….

Reach for Success!

Coach Al Rodriguez

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It’s kind of funny to see the MLM guys in one corner and the Top Tier guy in another as to what is best. I have to tell you the truth; marketing is marketing and you just have to find something you like and then apply yourself.

I want to explain in detail a system called the Press 1 Marketing System and you can see the pros and cons and see if it is applicable to your business and style. I’ll be blunt and direct and on the surface it may seem like just a voice broadcasting service and it may stir up the emotions of that being old school or “I always hang up on those things” and you would be partially correct, but…. The Press 1 Marketing System has gone well beyond a simple calling service as they have incorporated sizzle calls, which is old school but believe it or not work very well to get people to take another step forward.

At the end is just simple, they combined a few tools and bundled it in such a way that it’s a turnkey marketing system for any business. One tool using a simple to use system whereby plugging in a keyword you search for active network marketers online by company name, niche and you can even search by geographical area and more. You can have 100 or thousands of prospects.

The net tool extracts leads of active people in a home based business and/or MLM off of Craigslist and it is so easy to use that a 10 year old can do it.

Now you have fresh leads of network marketers; now what? Well, you use the system to contact them (about $20 US for 1,000 network marketer connects) and the system presents via a landing page, sizzle call and a webinar presentation in a completely turnkey manner. That means, no more cold calling, no more chasing friends and no more buying old and stale lists of “opportunity seekers”.

Okay, then the system takes all these leads into the built in auto-responder with all the messages loaded to bring those people back to you. I want to address the “I hang up on all those messages” argument because I thought the same.

Two things:

1) It targets people already active and in the business and the professionally recorded calls are, awesome and meant to attract their attention.

2) As all things in sales; it’s a numbers game. How long would it take you to call 1,000 people? Let’s say you really committed and called 50 people a day and did this 5 days a week…it would take an entire month as opposed to doing this for about $20 to call those same 1,000 network marketers. The best thing is no negative people, no rejection, no leaving tons and tons of voicemails and it calls them in less than 15 minutes!

At the end not everyone will join your business but all of them want a way to make more money in THEIR business and the strong and automated affiliate aspect to the program monetizes your efforts along the way. Hey you won’t get rich but this alone can add $1,000 a week to your bottom line and maybe more.

This is bigger picture thinking; but imagine if you had just 5 or 10 people on your team (whatever MLM) to do the same and you all called 1,000 people a day or a week?

WOW! that is something that not only duplicates but even if 10 people sent out just 1,000 messages each and only 3 times a week would mean over 100,000 exposures on your team monthly.

My last opinion about this system is that on the negative side it will take about an 60-90 minutes to set up the system and you will need a little bit of marketing dollars after you have paid and signed up for the program. On the positive side it is “done for you” with no special knowledge or expertise needed, you don’t have to be a superstar salesperson and in addition to the great training calls and webinars; it’s just a turnkey system to either build your present business or go full bore marketing the Press 1 Marketing System as the affiliate and overrides are very good.

Want to verify for yourself, how the system works step by step and the compensation model; Please take a look here: http://www.GetLeadsRightNow.com

Coach Al Rod (Al Rodriguez) is a home based entrepreneur earning a living full time from home and using non-hype and make sense tools and tactics to simply earn a great living from home. His blog is http://www.CoachAlRod.com

Stay Strong!

Coach Al Rod

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After all my evaluations about how to build your MLM and Home Base bussiness, I want to share with you the series of Mindset articles to help you build your MLM, Direct Sales or Top Tier program. Before I go over the 6 steps there are three things you really, really need in business and they are:

A) You MUST have the right mindset. Now I know that you hear about all the personal development talk and some of you may wonder if it really matters or whether it’s all a waste of time. I can assure you this is the most important part of your success. If your mind is right, then the rest will get figured out.

B) You MUST have the real WHY. That’s right WHY do you do what you do? This needs to be an emotional, gut wrenching process that will get you into action and I can assure you it is not about the $10,000 a month. Your; WHY will get you through the tough times and sticking points in your life and business and this needs to be in writing and referred to on a regular basis.

C) You need a strategy to get enough people to see your opportunity. A steady amount of people looking at what you have to offer is simply a numbers game. This holds true whether you are doing offline or online marketing or both. More on this later.

The next 6 steps are taken from my recent study (re-study) of Napoleon Hill and the book, Think and Grow Rich. In chapter 2 a short exercise is discussed to help you achieve anything you want and I have outlined it here for you. Please write on a paper and do each step and make sure to review regularly:

1. Fix in your mind the exact amount of money you desire. It is not sufficient to say that you want plenty of money. Be definite in the amount. There is a psychological reason to be definite. When you study in a MasterMind group that teaches you to Think And Grow Rich it will become clear as to why this exercise is important. When you study in a MasterMind group that teaches you to Think And Grow Rich it will become clear as to why this exercise is important.

2. Determine exactly what you intend to give in return for the money you desire. There is no such reality as something for nothing. The only way you can get massively rich is to contribute massively to society. It is the law.

3. Establish a definite date when you intend to possess the money you desire.

4. Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire. Begin at once, whether you are ready or not to put your plan into action. You can refine the details of your plan. It is important to not just think about the plan, but do something now. By taking action, you will have made that commitment to your subconscious mind.

5. Write out a clear and concise statement of the amount of money you intend to aquire, name the time limit for its acquisition, state what you intend to give in return for the money and describe clearly the plan through which you intend to accumulate it.

6. Read your written statement aloud, twice daily, once just before retiring for the night and once after arising in the morning. As you read, see, feel and believe yourself already in possession of the money.

You may or may not have been familiar with this in either case TODAY is the day you can apply this in your life and business.

Coach Al Rod is a former coach for the Real Estate and Mortgage professions and now dedicates his time working from home to help other entrepreneurs cut through the hype and nonsense to simply make money and build their business on their terms. His blog is http://www.CoachAlRod.com You can also see additional training at http://www.Join-The-Tribe.com at no cost; enjoy!

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