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Travel FHTM

2009-10-21T17:06:00.000-07:00

One of the things that sets Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing apart from so many other network marketing opportunities is the wide range of products and services we offer. As a FHTM business partner, you can be part of the lucrative travel industry through our partnership with Travelocity.

Travel FHTM makes booking your next vacation or get away easier than ever. Now you can book airline tickets, hotel and resort rooms and rental cars with the click of your mouse. Browse the travel portal for package and destination ideas, discounts and price comparisons. Everything you need to plan the perfect vacation is all in one place. With more than 60 airlines, 55,000 hotels and resorts and 28 rental car companies you can find the perfect match for your travel needs.

Even if you don’t know what your perfect vacation is, Travel FHTM will help you find it. With the travel portal, powered by the Travelocity Partner Network, you can find vacation destination ideas, package deals, activity suggestions, popular vacation cities and discounted last minute trips. It is easier than ever to plan the perfect vacation.

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Money Back Guarantee?

2009-09-29T21:42:00.000-07:00

When I became serious about network marketing, one of the first things I did was take some training - specifically Mike Dillard's Magnetic Sponsoring Course. Part of the course deals with answering objections. One of the objections I thought I'd never have to worry about - until today. Someone asked me today if I would guarantee that they would make money! Mike mentioned that as a possibility but I didn't really believe it. How can I guarantee that you will make money? That's like opening a restaurant and asking the chef for a guarantee that people will like the food. Or opening a retail shop and asking your vendors to guarantee that you'll have customers to buy their merchandise. How silly would that be?

I do want to say thanks to Mike, though. Because as soon as I recovered from my initial disbelief that someone would ask such a thing, I remembered exactly what to say - NOPE!

I can't guarantee you will make a dime. I don't know your work habits. I have no idea how persistent you are. Are you serious about building a business or are you looking for a get-rich-quick scam? Are you trainable? Will you take suggestions from me and the rest of the team? Will you quit the first time you get a rejection? Do you understand that network marketing is a great way to start a business or are afraid of being laughed at? Will you promise not to hound your friends and family and then quit when they tell you no? Will you let us teach you how to generate real leads for your business and not settle for the first warm body through the door?

I can't answer any of those questions. Only you can. So only you can guarantee that you will make any money. But I can guarantee you something. If you keep doing what you have been doing - what you know isn't working - then next year, 5 years from now, 10 years from now, you'll be exactly where you are today. How's THAT for a guarantee?!

If you think you are ready to make a change in your life, check it out! Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing is a great network marketing opportunity. Not sure? Go to WealthTogether! and learn more.

Building a Team

2009-09-13T13:36:00.000-07:00

One of the key ingredients to a successful network marketing business is a good team. While it is possible to make money just by selling the products produced by your company, the fastest way to success is to build a team of like-minded business partners. Since you receive a percentage of everything they sell as well as the profit from your own sales, you can see how this quickly adds up. My team consists of almost 500 business partners which makes a huge difference in my income each month!

If you've been in network marketing before or are currently involved with a company, then you know that most organizations encourage you to recruit what they call your "warm market" first. That's your family and friends. While I'm not saying that friends and family can't make good recruits, I encourage my team members to look at other methods. Friends and family can be a tough sell. They know you and they may want to wait and see how successful you are before they climb on board. Or, if you have been like me, and tried several different opportunities in the past before finding the right one, they may think this is just another of your latest "schemes" and that, as usual, you will drop out as soon as it gets tough.

If you don't pursue friends and family, how do you find prospects. That's easy. Start treating your business like a business. What do other businesses do to attract customers? Advertise and market. Start advertising and marketing your network marketing business and you will attract qualified and interested prospects - without hounding everyone you know personally.

The first thing you need to do to start marketing is to have a website. Yes, most companies have websites they provide. Some of them are actually pretty good. The problem is it's the same website all 100,000 reps in your company are using. You need something different that will set you apart from the rest of the crowd. It can be as simple as a blog like this one. Or it can be a simple website like the one I have at http://wealthtogether.web.officelive.com/. It doesn't have to be fancy. You just need a place to put your presentation online, provide a way for prospects to contact you, capture the contact information of those who may want additional information, and follow up with them. Having your presentation online makes it available for viewing anytime someone wants, 24/7. It means you can have unlimited viewing instead of being constrained by now many people can fit into your living room for a DVD presentation. It allows people to contact you anytime, night or day, whether you are immediately available or not. And if you have an autoresponder, it follows up with your prospects automatically.

Next, you need to know all there is to know about your business. People want to do business with leaders. Experts attract others wanting information. If you can't answer their questions, they may not come back a second time. If you have to go to your sponsor everytime I ask a question, why don't I just save time and go to your sponsor myself? Know how the comp plan works, what the products are, how promotions to the next level are earned, and everything else that may be of interest to prospective team members.

Learn how to market your business effectively and teach this to your team members. Skip the weekly "Rah-Rah" meetings unless you really enjoy them and learn how to master online marketing and prospecting. Use conference calls and teleseminars to teach these skills to others on your team. Word will quickly spread tha your team is the one to join because you know how to attract and train great people. Once you master these skills and then teach your team to duplicate them, you'll be amazed at how quickly your downline grows.

Once you master these skills, your business will be easeir, more fun, and will duplicate faster and better than any team that's dependent on the old methods! If your interested in joining a team that teaches these skills, go to http://wealthtogether.web.officelive.com/ or www.fhtmus.com/wealthtogether.

How Much Will I Make?

2009-08-30T22:01:00.000-07:00

I'll be honest...I don't have a clue! How hard are you willing to work? How much time are you willing to devote to building your business? Are you going to follow the advice of your trainers and upline? Are you going to stick with it when it seems like no one is interested in your products, services or business opportunity?

I love it when prospective business partners ask me this question. I want to pull out my magic crystal ball and give them an answer. But honesty is really best in this situation - for two reasons. First, they don't expect it and so it gives me an opportunity to show them that I really am legit and I am not going to make promises that neither of us may be able to keep. Second, it shows them that the income they earn is largely dependent on what they do...or don't do!

I have team members who are millionaires. I have team members who are making $60K or more a year. I have team members who are only making an extra $1000 or so a month. And I have team members who haven't made a dime.

I now have over 400 people on my team. Most of them are at least moderately successful. Some of them are not. And I'll admit - some of the successful ones took me by surprise. And a couple that I really expected would do well are getting ready to quit. What made the difference? Effort. Listening to me and other upline leaders. Persistence. Faith.

How much will you make? I don't know. You could change your life. Or you could continue as you have all these years. All I do know is if you don't do it now, when will you?

Ready to find out how much you could make?

http://www.wealthtogether.web.officelive.com/
http://fhtmus.com/wealthtogether

Read this...PLEASE...and live!

2009-08-17T08:37:00.000-07:00

I received this from a friend and wanted to pass it on to you, as it is exactly what Paul Orberson, founder of Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing, has been trying to pound into our heads. (A sample of the information that saved his life and helped him beat cancer.) This is by the author of the book "The pH Miracle," which Paul recommends, along with "Alkalize or Die" by Dr. Theodore A Baroody. I have both, but like the second book best because it includes food charts that assign numerical values to the different foods according to what they do to your pH balance.

Please, please "alkalize!" It takes some effort, but isn't your family worth it? You know they want to have you around for years to come! If you don't alkalize, you are a walking time bomb for cancer, as well as other "diseases!" I can tell you where to order pH test strips if you need them. (Be sure you test urine, and not saliva, which is unreliable!). I'm sure you are probably aware that "Mineral pH", one of our True Essentials products, was formulated at Paul's request specifically to help us alkalize ourselves. But it can't do it all by itself if you don't also watch what you eat! That is why it is so important for you to test your pH! There's nothing like seeing the reading "Dangerous Range. Seek the assistance of a licensed professional" to wake you up!

One word of warning: You can actually get a false "alkaline" reading if you are HIGHLY acidic! That is because your body is pumping all the minerals out of your bones, and your liver and other organs are working overtime pumping out whatever it is that they pump out to battle the acidity. All those substances that your body is pumping out are what cause the false alkaline reading. SO . . . if you indulge in meat, dairy products, sugar, bread, pasta, and/or carbonated beverages, and still get a very good, "alkaline" reading, I wouldn't trust it! You need to eat 80% fresh vegetables and fruits, and only 20% of all those other things combined! (And what American does that??)

Read this, and help Paul spread the word!
Melodieann

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Subject: a different "slant" on what disease really is! Please read

The following is something I have come to believe after many years of "study and experience". IT MAKES SENSE if you really think about it! I do hope you will read it for your self and analyze what Dr. Young is saying. This area of physical life is intriguing to say the least! I also agree with what Sandy writes below! Sincerely, Carolyn Hook

I hope you will take time to read this article even though it is lengthy. It is by Robert O. Young, Ph.D. He is a nationally renowned microbiologist and nutritionist who speaks to audiences around the world on health and wellness. The content is actually what we have been teaching for years and very much believe in what he is saying. Becoming better informed allows all of us to have a better quality of life. I am so thankful that someone informed me about the Sunrider foods and all of the other high quality products. When Dr. Young speaks about eating good food or drinking good water (alkaline in nature), we already have that in Sunrider. Our other food choices are very important, also. At least that is what I have learned, experienced, and shared over the past 17 years in Sunrider. Sandy Besemann

There is no Disease by Robert O. Young
Disease names like diabetes and osteoporosis are misleading and misinform patients about disease prevention. There is a curious tendency in conventional medicine to name a set of symptoms a disease. I was recently at a compounding pharmacy having my bone mineral density measured to update my health stats. I spotted a poster touting a new drug for osteoporosis. It was written by a drug company, and it said exactly this: 'Osteoporosis is a disease that causes weak and fragile bones.' Then, the poster went on to say that you need a particular drug to counteract this 'disease.' Yet the language is all backwards. Osteoporosis isn't a disease that causes weak bones, osteoporosis is the name given to a diagnosis of weak bones. In other words, the weak bones are the result of excess acidity, and then the diagnosis of osteoporosis followed. The drug poster makes it sound like osteoporosis strikes first, and then you get weak bones. The cause and effect is all backwards. And that's how drug companies want people to think about diseases and symptoms: first you 'get' the disease, and then you are 'diagnosed' just in time to take a new drug for the rest of your life. But it's all hogwash. There is no such disease as osteoporosis. It's just a made-up name given to a pattern of symptoms.
As another example, when a person follows an unhealthy lifestyle that results in a symptom such as high blood pressure, that symptom is actually being assumed to be a disease all by itself and it will be given a disease name. What disease? The disease is, of course, 'high blood pressure.' Doctors throw this phrase around as if it were an actual disease and not merely descriptive of patient physiology. This may all seem silly, right? But, there's actually a very important point to all this. When we look at symptoms and give them disease names, we automatically distort the selection of available treatments for such a disease. If the disease is, by itself, high cholesterol, then the cure for the disease must be nothing other than lowering the high cholesterol. And that's how we end up with all these pharmaceuticals treating high cholesterol in order to 'prevent' this disease and lower the levels of LDL cholesterol in the human patient. By lowering only the cholesterol, the doctor can rest assured that he is, in fact, treating this 'disease,' since the definition of this 'disease' is high cholesterol and nothing else. But there is a fatal flaw in this approach to disease treatment: the symptom is not the cause of the disease. There is another cause, and , this deeper cause is routinely ignored by conventional medicine, doctors, drug companies, and even patients. Let's take a closer look at high blood pressure. What actually causes high blood pressure? Many doctors would say high blood pressure is caused by a specific, measurable interaction between circulating chemicals in the human body. Thus, the ill-behaved chemical compounds are the cause of the high blood pressure, and therefore the solution is to regulate these chemicals. That's exactly what pharmaceuticals do -- they attempt to manipulate the chemicals in the body to adjust the symptoms of high blood pressure. Thus, they only treat the symptoms, not the root cause.

Or take a look at high cholesterol. The conventional medicine approach says that high cholesterol is caused by a chemical imbalance in the liver, which is the organ that produces cholesterol. Thus the treatment for high cholesterol is a prescription drug that inhibits the liver's production of cholesterol (statin drugs). Upon taking these drugs, the high cholesterol (the 'disease') is regulated, but what was causing the liver to overproduce cholesterol in the first place? That causative factor remains ignored. The root cause of high cholesterol, as it turns out, is primarily an over acidic diet. A person who eats foods that are acidic will inevitably cause the body to go into preservation mode and produce more cholesterol to neutralize the excess acid, thus showing the symptoms of this so-called disease of high cholesterol. It’s simple cause and effect. Eat the wrong foods, and you'll produce too much acid, which will cause the body to release cholesterol from the liver to bind up that acid which can be detected and diagnosed by conventional medical procedures. You see it is not the cholesterol that is bad. It is the acid producing food we eat that is bad. Reduce the acid producing foods like beef, chicken, pork, dairy, coffee, tea, soda pops, etc and you will reduce the protective cholesterol that is saving your life from excess acid foods. Yet the root cause of all this is actually poor food choice, not some bizarre behavior by the liver. If the disease were to be accurately named, then it would be called Acidic Food Choice Disease, or simply AFCD. AFCD would be a far more accurate name that would make sense to people. If it's an acidic food choice disease, then it seems that the obvious solution to the disease would be to choose foods that aren't so acidic. Of course, that may be a bit of simplification since you have to distinguish between healthy alkaline foods and unhealthy acidic foods. But at least the name AFCD gives patients a better idea of what's actually going on rather than naming the disease after a symptom, such as high cholesterol. You see, the symptom is not the disease, but conventional medicine insists on calling the symptom the disease because that way it can treat the symptom and claim success without actually addressing the underlying cause, which remains a mystery to modern medicine.

But, let's move on to some other diseases so you get a clearer picture of how this actually works. Another disease that's caused by poor acidic food choice is diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is the natural physiological and metabolic result of a person consuming refined carbohydrates and added sugars in large quantities, undigested proteins from beef, chicken, and pork without engaging in regular physical exercise that would compensate for such dietary practices. The name 'diabetes' is meaningless to the average person. The disease should be called Excessive Acid Disease, or EAD. If it were called Excessive Acid Disease, the solution to it would be rather apparent; simply eat less sugar, eliminate all animal proteins, eggs, dairy, drink fewer soft drinks and so on. But of course that would be far too simple for the medical community, so the disease must be given a complex name such as diabetes that puts its solution out of reach of the average patient.

Another disease that is named after its symptom is cancer. In fact, to this day, most doctors and many patients still believe that cancer is a physical thing: a tumor. In reality, a tumor is the solution of cancer, not its cause. A tumor is simply a physical manifestation of bound up acidic cells so they do not spoil other healthy cells. The tumor is the solution to cells damaged by acids not the problem. The truth is cancer is not a cell but an acidic liquid. When a person 'has cancer,' what they really have is a latent tissue acidosis. They are absorbing their own acidic urine. It that would be a far better name for the disease: Latent Tissue Acidosis or LTA. If cancer were actually called Latent Tissue Acidosis, it would seem ridiculous to try to cure cancer by cutting out tumors through surgery and by destroying the immune system with chemotherapy. And yet these are precisely the most popular treatments for cancer offered by conventional medicine. These treatments do absolutely nothing to support the patient's immune system and prevent the build up of acids in the tissues. That's exactly why most people who undergo chemotherapy or the removal of tumors through surgical procedures end up with yet more cancer a few months or a few years later. It's also another reason why survival rates of cancer have barely budged over the last twenty years. (In other words, conventional medicine's treatments for cancer simply don't work.) The main reason is current medical science wrongly perceives cancer as a cell when in reality cancer is an acidic liquid, like lactic acid. This whole situation stems from the fact that the disease is misnamed. It isn't cancer, it isn't a tumor and it certainly isn't a disease caused by having too strong of an immune system that needs to be destroyed through chemotherapy. It is simply latent tissue acidosis. And if it were called latent tissue acidosis disease or urine in the tissues, the effective treatment for cancer would be apparent.
There are many other diseases that are given misleading names by western medicine. But if you look around the world and take a look at how diseases are named elsewhere, you will find many countries have disease names that actually make sense. For example, in Chinese medicine, Alzheimer's disease is given a name that means, when translated, 'feeble mind disease.' In Chinese medicine, the name of the disease more accurately describes the actual cause of the disease which is caused by acids or urine on the brain, whereas in western medicine, the name of the disease seems to be intended to obscure the root cause of the disease, thereby making all diseases sound far more complex and mysterious than they really are. This is one way in which doctors and practitioners of western medicine keep medical treatments out of the reach of the average citizen. Because they sure don't want people thinking for themselves about the causes of disease! By creating a whole new vocabulary for medical conditions, they can speak their own secret language and make sure that people who aren't schooled in medicine don't understand what they're saying. That's a shame, because the treatments and cures for virtually all chronic diseases are actually quite simple and can be described in plain language, such as making different alkaline food choices, getting more natural sunlight, drinking more alkaline water, engaging in regular physical exercise, avoiding specific acidic foods, supplementing your diet with green foods and green drinks and alkalizing nutritional supplements and so on.
Western medicine prefers to describe diseases in terms of chemistry. When you're depressed, you aren't suffering from a lack of natural sunlight; you are suffering from a 'brain chemistry imbalance' that can only be regulated, they claim, by ingesting toxic chemicals to alter your brain chemistry. When your bones are brittle, it's not acidic brittle bones disease; it's called osteoporosis, something that sounds very technical and complicated. And to treat it, western doctors and physicians will give you prescriptions for expensive drugs that somehow claim to make your bones less brittle. But in fact, the real treatment for this can be described in plain language once again: regular physical exercise, vitamin D supplementation, mineral supplements that include calcium and strontium, natural sunlight, and avoidance of acidic foods such as soft drinks, white flour and added sugars. In fact, virtually every disease that's prominent in modern society -- diabetes, cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, clinical depression, irritable bowel syndrome and so on -- can be easily described in plain language without using complex terms at all. These diseases are simply misnamed... As a result, ...it furthers the language of separation. Separation never results in healing. In order to effect healing, we must bring together the language of healers and patients using plain language that real people understand and that real people can act upon. We need to start describing diseases in terms of their root causes, not in terms of their arcane, biochemical actions. When someone suffers from seasonal affective disorder or clinical depression, for example, let's call it what it is: Sunlight Deficiency Disorder. To treat it, the person simply needs to get more sunlight. This isn't rocket science, it's not complex, and it doesn't require a prescription. If someone is suffering from osteoporosis, let's get realistic about the words we use to describe the condition: it's really Acidic Bones Disease. And it should be treated with things that will enhance bone density, such as nutrition, physical exercise and avoidance of acidic foods and drinks that strip away bone mass from the human body to neutralize the excess acids in the blood and tissues.
All of this information, of course, may be rather shocking to old-school doctors and practitioners of western medicine, and many don't like the idea of naming diseases in plain language that patients can actually comprehend. It may be that if the simple truths about diseases and their causes were known, health would be more readily available to everyday people, and that would lessen the importance of physicians and medical researchers. Although not all physicians are ego driven, there's a great deal of ego invested in the medical community, and they probably don't want to make sound health attainable to the average person without their expert advice. Doctors who want to serve as the translators of 'truth', will balk at any attempts to educate the public to either practice medicine on their own.

In reality, health is attainable by every single person. Health is easy, it is straightforward, it is direct and, for the most part, it is readily available. Don't believe the names of diseases given to you. Those names are designed to be obscure, not to inform. They are designed to separate you from self-healing, not to put you in touch with your own inner healer

The $299 Business Opportunity

2009-08-12T08:38:00.000-07:00

I asked some friends of mine who are all business owners what it cost them to start their ventures. Are you ready?

The Business Broker: $16,000
The Event Planner: $7,000
The Day Care Center Owner: $33,000
The Computer Expert: $550
The Caterer: $1,100
The Pizzeria Owner: $65,000
The Personal Trainer: $2,700
The Organizer: $25,000
The Personal Shopper: $2,500
The Landscaper: $5,000
The Housekeeper: $500

Most of these women started their businesses a few years ago, so with the economy the way it is right now, I'm sure the costs would be higher.

What if I told you there was a business opportunity that only required a $299 investment? And for that $299 you received everything you needed to be successful - the products, training, a great support network. Sounds a little bit too good to be true, doesn't it? Now, what if I told you that you didn't have to worry about invoicing your customers or collecting payment. You don't have to worry about stocking and delivering products. You don't have to purchase a pricey sales kit or buy "X" number of products yourself. And what if I told you that the products were all nationally known, name brand products and services that most people are already using anyway? From companies like AT&T, Verizon, DishTV, GTE, Travelocity, True Essentials, and Peter Lamas Cosmetics? Is it possible that such a company exists?

Well it does. It's called Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing. And yes, it's network marketing. Why network marketing? What other business can you invest only $299 in and have everything you need to be up and running right from the start?

It's tough out there right now. Although the news media keep saying that the recession is ending and the economy is getting better, frankly, we're not seeing it here. I know people who are still out of work and can't find a job. I see people who are still struggling just to pay bills and feed their family. I talk to people everyday who want something better and wish they had my luck. It's not luck. It's work, it's a business, it's a $299 investment that changed my life.

Would you like to start your own $299 business? Join my team! http://www.fhtmus.com/wealthtogether (and yes, it's the company website? Why reinvent the wheel?)

School's in! Time to look back

2009-08-03T12:28:00.000-07:00

I took this entire summer off and we still earned more than we used to make going to work every day. Would you like to duplicate our results? I assure you that it is easier than you think to accomplish this goal!

More on this in a minute. I first want to share with you why I am choosing to blog about this today. There are several reasons.

I am sure you are aware that is now the beginning of August. Summer is just about over and we will soon be looking towards the end of 2009. I will be going out shortly to take Carter and Morgan shopping for new school clothes. Morgan is VERY excited to be starting preschool this year at the same school her big brother attends.

Several years ago I learned the power of reflection from the incredible Mr. Jim Rohn. Jim teaches you should set aside some time to reflect - at the end of each day, each week, each month, and finally at the end of the year. After all, if you don't monitor your results how can you ever know if you are on track to claim your dreams? The truth is you can't. And so, I set aside some time each evening, just before bed, to look back on my day or my week or my month and take stock of where I am and where I want to be. Since I have adopted this philosophy the results in every area of my life have been amazing.

As I write this, it is almost 3:00pm CST here in Arkansas. And while it's not the end of the day or even the week or the month, the grandkids and our upcoming shopping trip for school made me realize that summer is almost over and fall will soon be upon us. Before you know it, we will be planning Halloween costumes, whose house to spend Thanksgiving at, and what to get the grandkids for Christmas. It made me start looking back on my year so far and getting extremely excited for what's ahead.

How has 2009 been for you so far? Are you on track to achieve your goals? Are you one step closer to achieving your BIG dreams? I truly hope you are. However, the sad but true fact is that most people are not making progress in their life. They are either exactly were they were last year or even worse they are quickly moving backwards.

If what I described sounds familiar to you... intimately familiar (if you know what I mean) I have GREAT news for you. You can decide today to make 2009 the best year you have ever lived. It's not too late!

Every year I strive to improve on last years results. As 2009 rapidly winds down I am extremely proud to say that we are finishing up our best year EVER financially. Here is the key. Every year in late December I make the decision to make the following year even better. I may not always know exactly how I am going to do this at that point. But I set the goal and that's the first step. The how-to's always come to me along the way.

Now, I don't tell you this to brag or impress you. I simply tell you this to demonstrate that you too can create amazing results, in every area of your life, if you are just willing to take consistent, persistent and massive action! I learned that from the fabulous Barefoot Exec - the key to success is massive action to completion!

I also want to let you know that my success did not come over night. At one point right after I left the military, I was earning a whopping $500 a month! Try living on that! Now, we can thankfully look back and laugh at it.

Even back then when we were extremely broke financially our spirits were NEVER broken. This may be hard to believe but we were still very happy. I grew up poor (and I do mean poor!) so I knew all about making every nickel work. We may not have had the big cars and the fancy clothes or the house we live in now, but I learned from my childhood that none of that really mattered. We had our family and working together to meet life's challenges each day just brought us closer together. We knew our financial predicament was just a temporary inconvenience and we would be in better shape soon enough.

It was never a matter of if we were going to be successful it was just a matter of when! I used to tell my children "we could only go up from here." That was really the only direction we could go at that point.

Since then, we have experienced success beyond anything we ever dreamed. We still don't have the big cars or the fancy clothes - because they aren't important. But we have a house with room for all the kids and grandkids, and land for them to run and play, and have dogs or whatever sort of pet they want. The youngest wants a goat. I don't know anything about raising goats but I expect I'll be learning soon enough! We have the luxury of sending them to a good Christian school where we know they are not only getting a firm academic foundation but a MORAL one as well. We travel when we choose and spend time with each of our 7 grandchildren as often as they want - which is not as often as we want!

Although we have been fortunate enough to experience incredible results, especially these last few years, we didn't do it alone. I had many mentors who guided me along the way. One of the BIGGEST keys to our success is the fact that we have always been and continue to remain willing to listen to the advice of those who have gone before. Why reinvent the wheel?

As you read this you are probably asking yourself what in the heck does this have to do with me. Here is what it has to do with you...

Dearl and I, as well as the incredible business partners and leaders we personally work with want to mentor you to MASSIVE SUCCESS in 2009 only if you fit the following criteria:

#1 You are the type of person who is willing to listen to the advice of those who are already where you want to be.

Most people fail in life because of two reasons - they are continually trying the "next big thing" and they don't listen to the advice of others. There is no need for that. We already have proven methods to teach you that are working tremendously well right now!

#2 You have a burning desire to make 2009 the absolute BEST year of your entire life. And in every single area of your life, not just financially. Balance is KEY to massive success and TRUE wealth. I repeat - it's not too late! You can still have a year that is filled with success!

There is much more to life than just being successful in business. If you are ever going to be TRULY wealthy you must have abundance and wealth in every area of your life. I know plenty of people who are well off financially but they absolutely hate their lives.

I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the two above ingredients are all that you require to make tremendous transformations in your life.

Now, once you have these ingredients, the last piece of the puzzle is a vehicle to get you to your goals and dreams quickly. I have been working from home for almost 5 full years. I am involved with an opportunity that I feel gives average people, like you and me, the GREATEST shot at massive success from home. In a moment I am going to provide you with a link to review this opportunity 24/7. But you don't even have to be part of my team achieve success.

Let me first tell you what this opportunity has done for us.

In this past month I have earned more than most people make. (We do this every single month. Believe it or not this is not the amazing part.)

Here is the best part... I took nearly the entire summer off and still achieved these incredible results. In early April my newest grandson was born. I took time off to help my daughter with her two other children while she accustomed herself to having one more little one in the house. We also spent nearly three weeks Corpus Christi visiting our other daughter and our new granddaughter. We were only back home in Arkansas for a few weeks and then left for Jacksonville for the birth of yet one more grandchild. Those were all happy occasions and I know some of you are thinking that those trips weren't necessary. You don't travel that much and you don't pay for private school. You make enough to pay your bills and still be comfortable. But shortly after we returned home, Dearl had a heart attack. I took time off to be with him while he recovered. How many of you have had a major illness with a spouse or child and wished that you could be there but instead you had to go to work every day? Our business still rolled on bringing in the cash for us.

Much more important than our own results are the results of the people we work with. There our countless people on our team generating amazing results for themselves and their family as well. This is where my true passion is. I get the most excitement from assisting others to create tremendous results in their own lives!

If you know you have what it takes to be MASSIVELY successful in 2009 you owe it to yourself to take a VERY serious look at what I am doing.

If you are sick and tired of being sick and tired visit www.fhtmus.com/wealthtogether
RIGHT NOW and review all of the information. (Yes, this is the canned company site! I want you to see you don't even have to know how to build a website! I didn't when I started!)

If this opportunity isn't for you, then please - find something. There are so many good business opportunities out there. Once you find your vehicle to the top, stop by this blog and take advantage of the coaching we provide here. Tune in to my teleseminars and listen to my amazing guests as they share their knowledge and experience. Some require a fee but many are absolutely free! Visit the sites of the many mentors I list and learn from them as I have.

Dearl and I look forward to working with you very soon! One of our main goals for 2009 was to assist as many people as possible to turn their annual income into their monthly income. I am VERY proud to say we assisted many, many people to achieve this goal. In 2010 we are looking to dramatically increase the # of people we assist to do this.

The only question right now is will you be one of the people who achieves this goal in 2009 or one of the people who lets opportunity pass them by?

Here's the website again: www.fhtmus.com/wealthtogether.

And now I'm off to do some school shopping with two of my biggest reasons for doing what I do!

Is This One of Those Pyramid Things?

2009-07-18T22:29:00.000-07:00

One of the first questions I inevitably get when presenting Fortune is "Is this a pyramid scheme? Aren't those illegal?" So let me state once and for all - NETWORK MARKETING IS NOT A PYRAMID SCHEME. Pyramids do exist and sometimes it's hard to tell a legitimate business from a scam. What makes them different?

1. A legitimate network marketing business will have a genuine product or service. This product or service will have value of its own and be priced accordingly. In a pyramid, there is usually no real product or service. If it does, they are often priced well above fair market value. Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing products and services include: cell phones and cell phone service from AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Nextel and others; DishTV, Peter Lamas Cosmetics, Travelocity, GTE Home Security systems, True Essentials nutritional products, Life Essentials weight loss products, Fabs Cyberfitness, and many more.

2. A legitimate network marketing business will disclose any information about the company to anyone interested in knowing more. Pyramids offer little to no information offered about the company unless an investor purchases the products and becomes a participant. Fortune H-Tech Marketing has been featured on several news programs and magazines. Anyone is free to visit the website and learn all they want about the company before joining.

3. Network marketing businesses encourage the sale of the products or services offered by the company. Commission is paid on these sales to reps involved in the business. Pyramids promote an income stream that chiefly depends on the commissions earned by enrolling new members or the purchase by members of products for their own use rather than sales to customers who are not participants in the scheme. In FHTM, there are several ways to earn money. We do receive bonuses for enrolling new members and we do receive commissions for the products and services we use ourselves (I get commission from my Verizon cell phone!). We also are encouraged to encourage others to become customers by purchasing our products and services. We receive commission from those as well. I currently have over 300 customers.

4. In a network marketing company, the money to pay commissions comes from the sale of products or services. In a pyramid, the money to pay commissions comes primarily from the participants. There is a $299 fee to join FHTM. There is a cost to become involved in any legitimate business. This cost does not even begin to cover the commissions and bonuses I receive from my downline and customers. Our profit comes from the sales of our products and services. FHTM is AT&T's best customer. Last year, we sold more cell phones than the AT&T stores. We aren't #1 with DishTV. We had to settle for being #2. And because of this, each of these companies, along with all the others we represent, happily pay us commission instead of paying for advertising elsewhere. That's where our money comes from.

5. In a network marketing company, you can earn a decent living. In a pyramid, 90% of the participants never recoup their initial investment. Dearl and I paid $299 for our entry into the business. I pay for my cell phone (which I would pay anyway), a website, some vitamins and other nutritional products (which I would only buy somewhere else if I didn't buy them here), some cosmetics (ditto for the cosmetics), a virtual office which provides me with an 800 number (which I was going to get anyway) and a Travelocity website. Now I probably wouldn't have purchased a Travelocity site except for this business. But I travel a lot and so do my friends and family. So booking this travel through my own Travelocity site and then receiving a commission for it sure made sense to me. We made our $299 back within our first 2 weeks. We have made much more than that since then. I can't guarantee you won't lose your money in Fortune. If you sign up and then don't enroll anyone in your downline or don't get some customers, you surely will. But if you invest in a McDonalds franchise and then don't promote your business, you'll lose money there too.In a pyramid scheme, those at the bottom can never advance higher or make more than those at the top. In network marketing, this is not the case. I am a Regional Sales Manager with FHTM. Since joining the company I recruited several team members who have now promoted to the level above me - Executive Sales Manager - and make far more than I do.

Pyramid schemes do exist. They get more sophisticated and harder to spot all the time. And everyone wants to be sure they're not getting caught up in some sort of scam. But there are many good, solid, legitimate network marketing companies also. If you are looking for a way to make some extra income, or even one day replace your job with a business of your own, I highly recommend you consider one. Of course, I think Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing is the best one to work with. But there are many others. If you aren't sure if it's a legitimate business, review the checklist above. If anything about the "opportunity" makes you uncomfortable, look elsewhere. And if the person you are speaking with about the business pressures you to get involved, RUN! That is a definite warning that they are more interested in recruiting other people into the business than in selling products. I will ask you to look at my business. I may even get a little pushy because I care about you and want you to have the same opportunity I did. But if you look at the compensation plan, the business overview and the products, and still tell me you are not interested - I will NEVER, EVER push you to be on my team!

#1 FHTM Rep Ruel Morton

2009-04-20T13:24:00.000-07:00

I have had the pleasure of actually meeting and learning from Ruel Morton. He's amazing! Watch this video and see for yourself!

Top 5 Network Marketing Business Building Tools

2009-04-08T01:13:00.000-07:00

If you are new to network marketing, you have one question on your mind. How do I build my team? If you have been in network marketing for years, you have one question on your mind. How do I continue to build my team now that I've exhausted all my friends and family contacts? Here are 5 great resources that I have personally used to build my own downline - WITHOUT have to recruit friends or family!

1. Black Belt Recruiting - How to sponsor 20 reps a month with ANY company!

2. Building on a Budget - Generate leads and build ANY business, even if you are on a tight budget!

3. Magnetic Sponsoring Course - Free videos show you how you can literally have an endless new stream of distributors knocking on your door, ready to join!

4. MLM Traffic Formula - Learn how to use the power of the internet to generate free leads.

5. PPC Domination - Learn how to generate free leads using Google AdWords.

These are the tools I have used to build my network marketing business. Do you have a resource to recommend? Post it a comment and let other network marketers share in your success!

All My Friends Told Me This Will Never Work!

2009-03-29T21:14:00.000-07:00

When I first started network marketing, my friends all told me the same thing. It will never work. I was with a different company then and they were right - it didn't work that well. Not because network marketing doesn't work or because that company wasn't a good one. It just wasn't the right one for me. I realize that now. But back then - when I failed - I thought they were right. This stuff doesn't work.

A few years later, desperate for extra money, I let myself get talked into trying network marketing again. A different company this time, with great products. And all my friends laughed and asked hadn't I learned my lesson the first time? But as a newly single mom, I really needed some extra income and so I tried again. This time I had more success. While I wasn't making millions, I was making enough to help make ends meet without having to get a part time job. My friends saw my success and yet still insisted it wouldn't last. And besides, if it worked so well, how come I was only making a few hundred dollars a month? Despite their disbelief and lack of support, I remained with that particular company for many years, eventually building it so I was making a few thousand extra dollars each month. Not enough to support me, but it did pay for things like private school for my children, band and choir camps, and cars for them when they turned 16.

Fast forward to 3 years ago. That's when I was introduced to FHTM. It sounded like a great company with a good comp plan. Even my husband was impressed. We joined the first time we saw the business plan. And of course, all of our friends lined up to tell us the same thing we had heard before - these things never work. It didn't matter that they had watched me over the past years continue to make more and more money with network marketing. They still took great delight in telling us about all the people they knew who had tried "one of these" before and it didn't work. Well, once again, I am delighted to tell them they're wrong! It does work - quite well.

I look back at all of this and I have to wonder - why? I see how they live. I know many of them aren't happy in their jobs, or are struggling to keep up with bills. I know they want the extras for their family that my family has. I can't begin to imagine what's holding them back. And those who ARE making decent money are often sacrificing time - time with family, time to worship, time to relax and recharge. Life is passing them by while they 50-60 hours a week in the office or factory. They slave away day after day making their employer wealthy while they receive a few dollars an hour in compensation.

But I guess the real question I need to ask is this: Why am I taking financial advice from my broke friends?

Paul Orberson and Excel

2009-03-21T20:10:00.000-07:00

Paul Orberson is known as the most successful earner in the network marketing industry. He had made the most amount of money in the least amount of time of anyone in the history of this industry. Before retiring before the age of 40, Paul was making well over a million dollars per month with Excel long distance. He started with Excel in 1989 trying to supplement his income as a history teacher. It took him 3 years to average $2500. per month. The next year what he built started to pay. By 1996 he was making over a million dollars per month. He did this for 44 months.

Paul Orberson was born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky. Early in his career, Paul was a high school teacher, as well as a coach for various sports. Although he had a passion for teaching young students and helping his teams to victory, raising his family on a teacher's salary had always been a challenge.

Paul finally decided that for him to provide his family with a better life financially, he needed to make some changes in his life.

In 1990, Paul Orberson jumped into a company called Excel Communications. At the time, the company was just a small start-up company that didn't know what was about to hit them.
With an unwavering determination to succeed in this new venture, Paul set goals and monetary expectations for himself and the company. The result: he helped to make Excel a multi-billion dollar company in just a few years.

Eventually, Excel became publicly traded on the NYSE. Paul soon realized that by doing this, though, the company was doomed.

He had always believed that the best was for this type of industry to grow, the majority of money made needed to flow to the representatives. This was not likely to happen once the company went public. Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing pays 98% of it's revenue back to the reps.
Soon after, Paul left the company. Ultimately, Excel went bankrupt, just as Paul predicted.

By the time Paul Orberson left Excel, he had earned more money in a shorter period of time than anyone had ever done in the history of network marketing. By doing so, it allowed him to retire before the age of 40.

After a short retirement, Paul realized that his new goal at this point in his life was to help others achieve the kind of success that he had. He wanted to start a company that would enable regular folks like himself, to be able to reach their financial goals as well.

Paul began doing research to create a business to do just that. Through his research, he looked at a variety of marketing programs and compensation plans. He analyzed the good and bad in each plan so that he could extract the key elements that he would enable him to create a company that would be very successful for the reps that joined.

Soon after, FHTM was born. He began to build a business that millions of average people could become a part of in order to change their financial futures. Paul immediately partnered with name brand companies such as Dish Network, Alltel, Verizon, and AT&T, and Travelocity to name a few. There are now numerous products and services available in areas such as communications, entertainment, technology, and nutrition.

Paul Orberson has taken everything that he had learned while being the top earner at Excel, and created this company. He has taken away the large risks that crippled Excel, as well. FHTM can never be sold, traded on the stock exchange, or suffer from debt. These are some of the reasons that Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing has become a company that has been breaking industry records every since it started in 2001.

Paul takes enormous pride in helping other people like himself to achieve their own financial goals and improve their lives in ways they had never imagined. Thanks to Paul Orberson's great mind and vision, as well as the help of his incredibly dedicated team, there has never been a greater opportunity for earning potential offered.

I've tried "these" before...

2009-03-08T17:11:00.000-07:00

For the first time in a very long time, I actually walked away from a prospective team member - willingly - happily even. Why? Let me tell you the story!

I met up a friend I hadn't seen in a quite a while. Several years, in fact. She was still working for the same store I met her in. I used to work there part time to make ends meet. She asked what I was doing and I told her. She expressed some interest so I gave her the DVD of the business presentation, not really expecting she would watch it or get back to me. Surprise! She did and called me the next day. She wanted more information. Usually all it takes for someone to make up their mind is to see the DVD, but I'm willing to give someone all the information they need. So next I got on a conference call with her and the number 2 guy in the entire company. She was very excited after that. When can we get together? She wanted to know. I told her I would stop by today, even though it is Sunday and I normally don't work much on Sunday.

I arrive at her house, paperwork in hand, thinking this is it. She is so gung-ho and excited, she is going to take this and run with it and truly change her life. I knock on the door and she invites me in. We sit down, I take out the paperwork, ask her what name she would like her checks in, and hear, "I'm not sure about this. I've tried these before and none of them worked." Well, I stopped dead. Which of "these" has she tried? The list is long - Mary Kay, Avon, Quixtar, Melaleuca, Excell...she's tried just about every business opportunity in existence and NONE of them have worked for her.

Now I know that every opportunity is different. And I truly think Fortune is the best. But still - to have tried that many and not had any success at any of them? That's almost impossible. So I asked her why she didn't have any luck with her previous endeavors. The list of excuses was almost as long as the list of things she had tried and failed. No time, no money, didn't know anyone to show the products or business plan to, no support from her sponsor, no training...on and on she went. She blamed everyone and everything and took absolutely no responsibility for her failure.

I know most of these companies. They are all fine companies with good products and great people working them. I could understand if she had tried one or two with no luck. But according to her, she's been involved in 7 different businesses, none of them more than a year, and all of them a dismal failure.

I listened to her a little while longer telling me how most of "these" companies were just successful for only a select few. And then I said something I almost never say. "Perhaps you're right. Maybe you aren't ready for this yet. Why don't you think about it some more and call me when you are ready?"

I expect she never will be. Meanwhile, I'm just moving on. Next!

Paul Orberson's Cancer

2009-02-25T02:41:00.000-08:00

Your health is close to the heart of Paul Orberson. His successful battle with cancer made helping others realize the healing power of antioxidants and natural herbs a primary goal. This is what led to the creation of the True Essentials line of products. True Essentials offers an array of products for men, women, and children, including:
- CoQ10 Cellular Health
- Joint Essentials
- Hair, Skin, and Nails
- Power Antiox
- Men's ProCare
- Appetite Control
- Energizer Tea
- LE Combo Packs
- Fat & Carb Control
- Fiber Powder
- Hoodia
- Protein Shakes
- Women's Essential Pack
- Essentials for Women Multi-Vitamin
- Essentials for Kids Multi-Vitamin
- Men's Essential Pack
- Essentials for Men Multi-Vitamin
- Essentials for Teens Multi-Vitamin
- Fruit & Vegetable Essentials

However, the key ingredient in Paul's quest to eradicate cancer is Mineral pH. Based on the latest research which shows that an alkaline body is resistant to cancer, Mineral pH is a nutrient dense whole body enhancer, rich in minerals and amino acids to detoxify the body and help balance overall pH. Newly advanced and even more powerful, Mineral pH now includes barley grass juice powder and acai berry—both among the most powerful antioxidants ever tested.

Proprietary Humate Mineral Blend, consisting of 71+ plant-derived minerals, is naturally ionic and more easily absorbed across the intestinal walls. Rich in fulvic acid, Humate deposits have been linked to antioxidant activity, electrochemical balance, increased nutrient absorption, increase cellular transportation of nutrients, favorable enzyme reaction, enhanced cell division, increased metabolism, and increased vitamin bioavailability. Together, these powerful minerals and antioxidants work together to balance the body and help cells stay strong.

Potential users are adults who are:
• interested in balancing intestinal pH
• interested in decreasing negative stress levels, thus potentially impacting cortisol levels
• interested in adding ionic (plant derived) minerals to their diet
• interested in enhanced antioxidant activity

Common Questions
Q: What is the benefit of ionic materials?
A: Ionic minerals come from plant material. Plants absorb minerals through their tiny root hairs. Through a complex biochemical process known as photosynthesis, elemental (inorganic) metals are transformed into organic matter to be used by the plant. Ionic minerals are easier to absorb than inorganic minerals.

Q: From the mineral list on the label, it states that there are several heavy metals. I have been told that most heavy metals are toxic to the body.
A: The problem with this advice is that it often confuses those who don’t know the difference between plant-derived, organic minerals and minerals from rocks. The implication is made that these minerals are dangerous in any form—organic or inorganic. This simply is not true. There is a world of difference. Unfortunately, many nutritional ‘experts’ group plant-derived minerals with metallic minerals regardless of the fact that elemental minerals can come from sources such as soil, clay, oyster shell, limestone, and sea salts—among others. Due to this illogical grouping, they assert that the heavy metals that are contained in elemental minerals are the same as those found in plant-derived minerals. This just isn’t the case. Once fulvic acid acts upon a metallic (elemental) mineral and transforms it, the mineral can then be stored in plant-tissues as an organic substance. So, even though the mineral, which is now organic, retains its former title (e.g., lead, arsenic, etc.) it is chemically altered so that it is no longer toxic to our body.
This unclear classification has led many people to believe that the so-called toxic minerals are bad regardless of their source. The aluminum which is found in foods is a good example. This type of aluminum is not only tied to oxygen or silica (hydroxide or aluminum silica), but it has been preassimilated by a plant and is naturally ionic. Both of these types of aluminum are organic and beneficial and are used as food additives throughout the world. They are not toxic. The point is: If you eat vegetables or fruits, you are going to eat aluminum, arsenic, lead, and a host of other supposedly heavy metals and toxic minerals. The following is a list of plants or foods that contain aluminum in quantities of at least 45 - 160 PPM according to ATL Agronomy Handbook, Plant Analysis Guide Nutrient Sufficiency Ranges: bananas, peas, coffee, peppers, pineapple, potatoes, oil palm, root crops, asparagus, tomatoes, beans, corn (at tasseling), brussels sprouts, mint, celery, peanuts, cucumbers, small grains, head crops, soybeans, leaf crops, wheat (high yield), and melons. A chemical evaluation that further supports this data was performed on a random sampling of produce. This evaluation conclusively showed that the following fruits and vegetables contained many ‘objectionable’ elements in an organic form:
Almonds: Aluminum, barium, nickel, rubidium, silicon, strontium, sulfur, and titanium.
Apples: Aluminum, arsenic, barium, lead, nickel, silicon, and titanium.
Broccoli: Aluminum, nickel, silicon, strontium, sulfur, and titanium.
Carrots: Aluminum, barium, lithium, nickel, rubidium, silicon, strontium, sulfur, and titanium.
Grapes: Aluminum, barium, lithium, nickel, rubidium, silicon, strontium, sulfur, and titanium.
Tomatoes: Aluminum, barium, bromine, lithium, nickel, silicon, strontium, sulfur, and titanium.
It is clear that the minerals found in plants are not the same as those found in the ground. They are non-toxic and non-metallic.

Feature & Benefit
Proprietary Humate Mineral Blend - 71+ ionic (plant-derived) minerals which assist in balancing pH in the intestinal track. Rich in fulvic acid which carry naturally occurring minerals and trace elements found in decomposed plant materials.

Chlorella - Referred to as one of the “green foods”—from unicellular green algae. Known for its detoxification activities and immune function benefits.

Magnolia Bark - A mood balancer, anti-stress and anti-anxiety agent linked to controlling the body’s primary stress hormone, cortisol.

Amino Acids - Bind to minerals in the process of chelation to assist with absorption.

Barley grass juice powder - Premier green food and potent cellular antioxidant. Detoxifies by binding to heavy metals and helping elimination. Contains abundant chlorophyll, antioxidants, enzymes, and other phytochemicals that neutralize free radicals and other unfriendly chemicals, including pesticides and food preservatives.

Acai berry - This antioxidant rich pulp contains high levels of oleic acid and is rich in palmitic and omega-6 fatty acids as well as anthocyanins and proanthocyanidins and resveratrol. Acai fruit is associated with a reduced risk of chronic and oxidative stress related disorders. In the form of a freeze-dried fruit pulp, Acai has been shown to inhibit the action of COX-1 and COX-2 enzymes, important in both acute and chronic inflammation, and targeted by many anti-inflammatory medications (NSAIDs).

Order Mineral pH or any of the True Essentials line of products.

Want a copy of my upcoming teleseminar?

2009-02-22T14:42:00.001-08:00

Just rewrote the home page to my FHTM site. I'd appreciate it if my readers would take a look and give me your opinion. If you do, I'll send you a copy of the CD of my upcoming teleseminar "Passion + Skill = Profit" as my thank you gift to you. Thanks! http://wealthtogether.web.officelive.com/default.aspx

How do I build a network marketing business?

2009-02-12T08:30:00.000-08:00

I just returned from jvAlert Live, a wonderful internet marketing conference hosted by my friend Ken McArthur. And believe it or not, I met a fellow network marketer there. Actually there were several. We spent quite a bit of time talking together about how we built our businesses and what techniques worked best. Want to know what we discovered? There is no one absolutely correct way to build a network marketing business.

I can hear you already - What?! There aren't any tips or tricks you can share that will help me do this? I didn't say that. I said there's no ONE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT way. Network marketing is like anything else. What works for me may not work for you.

What's the best advice I can give you? Sit down with your upline sponsor or another leader in the business and create a game plan that meets your goals and your skills. If you aren't good at public speaking, don't include a bunch of live presentations in your business plan. Use video or teleconferencing. If you like that personal touch and can do a great presentation, try some one-on-one presentations or even a home meeting. But whatever you do, make sure it utilizes your strong points and meets your needs.

What else can you do? Stay plugged in! By that I mean stay connected to your upline. If there is team training provided (and there should be. Why would you join a team that won't train you?) make sure you're there. Conference calls? Be on them! Training videos? You should have them all. And remember, being connected works both ways, so be sure you are staying in touch with your downline. Train them, coach them, support them, and help them grow their business. Their success is your success.

Read and learn! There are so many great books and websites about network marketing. If you need some ideas on where to start, I suggest anything by Mike Dillard. Here's a couple of his videos to get you started.

http://mwhiteley.buildingonabudget.com/

http://mwhiteley.magneticsponsoringonline.com/

http://mwhiteley.mlmtrafficformula.com/

http://mwhiteley.blackbeltrecruiting.com/

http://mwhiteley.freeppcleads.com/

I have been a fan of Mike's for many years and have used many of his techniques while building my own business.

The point is if it works for you - it works! So pick up the phone right now and call your upline sponsor. Set up an appointment to meet and create your marketing plan. Lay it out step by step. And then IMPLEMENT! The best plan is useless without action to back it up!

If you don't have a sponsor that will work with you (there are some out there unfortunately), contact me. I'll help you get your business plan together.

FABS Cyberfitness

2009-01-30T23:25:00.000-08:00

Do you want to get in shape and don't have the time or the money for a gym membership? Let me introduce you to one of the many unique products offered through FHTM - FABS Cyberfitness.

Just what is FABS Cyberfitness? FABS is Fitness and Aerobics Broadband Services. What it does is provide group fitness and personal training programs directly to you at your convenience, in the privacy of your own home via internet streaming videos. Never purchase another gym membership you will never use. No more home-gym equipment to collect laundry. You will never even have to watch the same video twice!

FABS online exercise programs address all levels of difficulty to meet your specific fitness abilities and new videos are added regularly. These exercise programs encompass varying degrees of difficulty so that no matter which program you choose, there are beginner, intermediate and advanced levels of the program to meet every individual's fitness abilities. Whether you are at home, on a business trip or at the office late, the FABS service meets the fitness needs of your ever-changing and busy lifestyle.

In addition to your online exercise programs, as part of your start up fee, you’ll receive a complete fitness and nutritional analysis. Once you complete your online analysis, FABS will start your journey to fitness with a personally designed program for your specific needs and goals.

How does it work? It is quite simple. Once you become a Subscriber, you then are provided access to all of our full length club quality fitness videos. You can then sign-in from any computer, anywhere in the world and follow a video workout at your convenience. It is no different than exercising to a fitness DVD, with the exception that for a single monthly subscription fee, you have access to much more than just that one video every time.

How do you sign up? Go to www.fhtmus.com/wealthtogether. Click on FABS Cyberfitness at the bottom of the page. From the home page, select Sign Up at the top right and follow the instructions. You will be required to give some personal information as well as a valid credit card for billing purposes.

Resolve to get in shape now and start working out with FABS today!

How Can I Find the Time?

2009-01-23T16:43:00.000-08:00

Q. I have a full time job and an extremely busy life with 3 kids and my husband going back to school part time while still working his full time job. I want to get started in a network marketing business - although I'm not sure which one yet - but I don't think I have the time. How can I make it work?

A. You DO have the time. You just may need to make some adjustments.

First, let's take a look at your expectations. If you think you are going to put in a couple of hours a week and yet be able to quit your job in 6 months, you need to adjust your expectations. That is just unrealistic. But if you and your husband are willing to continue to work your jobs and start your business part time, you can soon be bringing in a nice supplemental income while you continue to grow your business.

If you have decided that a part-time business is fine while you grow, then the next thing you may need to adjust is how you spend your time. Get a calendar for the month. Let's start with February since it's right around the corner. First, pencil in your and your husband's work schedules. This is time that is already blocked and can't be used to grow your business. Next mark any other dates and times that are absolutley locked in - anything that can't be rescheduled or cancelled. Next, pick one day that is for you and your family. No work allowed. My day is Sunday. That's the day I very rarely do any type of work, but instead devote myself to church and family. Now look at your calendar. Allowing for sleep of course, the remaining hours are the times you have available to work your business. Start scheduling yourself some "appointments." These don't have to be real appointments to meet with someone, but I have learned that if you write down a committment to do something and schedule a time to do it, you are much more likely to actually follow through. So let's say we skip our favorite Monday night TV show and use that hour to call three prospects. Tuesday night perhaps your husband doesn't have class but he's on the computer doing homework anyway so let's schedule him to send an email to friends and family telling them about your new business. Wednesday, if you're a member of my team, is our training call, so let's schedule an hour for training. Thursday send a follow up email or make a follow up phone call to prospects who have already seen your initial presentation and haven't said yes or no yet. Friday perhaps you could invite some friends over for a business presentation. Saturday schedule lunch with a prospect and do a one-on-one presentation.

My point is that in the beginning it's not so much the quantity of time spent as the consistency. Do a little something - ANYTHING - but do something every day to help your business grow. Read your company's materials, listen to training calls, watch DVDs, make a contact list of prospects, make a few phone calls, send some emails, mail a brochure, hold a business presentation. Every day do at least one thing to grow your business and you'll see that slowly but steadily, your team will grow, your income will grow and you WILL one day be able to take your part-time business to a full-time lifestyle. Good luck!

The FHTM Introduction

2009-01-15T17:07:00.000-08:00

You Can Get This Stuff Anywhere!

2009-01-09T17:34:00.000-08:00

Just when I thought I had heard every objection in the book. I had a prospect turn me down today. Why? "Because this ain't nothing new. You can buy this stuff anywhere. Why would I want to sell something you can get anywhere?"

My friend - that's exactly the point! It's a tough economy right now. People are not spending like they used to. So who has a better chance at picking up a customer?

Two products - one I have never used, am not sure I really need it and haven't budgeted for it in my finances. It looks great, seems like it might be useful, but hey -I've lived without it this long so why should I commit to spending $40 a month on something I'm not even sure I need?

My products - are you currently paying for cell phone service? Great! Would you consider renewing your next contract (no matter what provider you use) with me? After all, you're already paying this bill. The only difference is instead of helping Alltel, Verizon, AT&T, Nextel, or Sprint make more money, you're helping me make a living.

Do you have satellite TV service? Great! Would you consider renewing your DishTV service through me? Are you considering changing from cable to Dish? Great! Would you mind getting it from me? After all, I'm not asking you to purchase anything new. Just use what you're already using and purchase it from me.

Do you shop online? Great! Would you consider signing up for our rewards mall? It's free to join, contains most of the online merchants you already use, and you get a rebate every time you shop - and I make a commission. It's not going to cost you anymore than you are going to spend anyway - in fact you get that rebate. The only difference is that instead of making money for the merchant only, you are helping me make a living too.

Do you book travel online? Great! Would you use my Travelocity site? It's Travelocity so you know it's good. And I get a commission from any travel you book. You were going to pay for it anyway and you won't pay any more than you were going to. The only difference is you'll be helping me out.

So tell me - who has a better shot at making the sale? Of course you can buy my products anywhere. You probably already do. That's the beauty of it!

Meet Mike Misenheimer!

2008-12-28T18:33:00.000-08:00

Meet the #2 money-earner in Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing. He lives just up the road from me in Gravette, Arkansas. Mike has taught me a great deal about this business and as a member of my team, you benefit from his experience too! Meet Mike Misenheimer!

Christmas Gifts for the Network Marketer!

2008-12-18T13:01:00.000-08:00

What do you get for the network marketer on your list? Well, I just happen to have some ideas. As my holiday gift to you, I want to share some great free resources that will help you build your network marketing business. You don't have to be on my team to take advantage of these. You just have to want to succeed in network marketing.

My first gift is a great free video series showing you how to build your business on a budget. If you are tired of running yourself in circles trying to building your home business and spending more money than you are making, this is one series of videos you need to see. You no longer have to spend yourself stupid building your business. These videos are by Mike Dillard, a network marketing expert who personally sponsored 254 reps in one year. They are great!

http://mwhiteley.buildingonabudget.com/

Along with these, I must recommend the other set of videos by Mike called Magnetic Sponsoring Bootcamp. Discover how you can become the hunted instead of the hunter. Attract an endless stream of new distributors and customers to you, with credit card in hand ready to join. Say goodbye to chasing people down to join your business and actually make money from all the people who say "no" to your opportunity. Find out all the details in this Free Bootcamp series.

http://mwhiteley.magneticsponsoringonline.com/

Next, I have to tell you about the 10 Insider Sponsoring E-course offered by sponsoring superstar Mark Weiser. If you're serious about turning your network marketing business into a career, then you need to learn all you can from this guy. Go to Surefire Sponsoring at http://www.surefiresponsoring.com/ and sign up for the free 10 day e-course.

Next in my Christmas gift box to you is a great blog. Yes, there is someone else out there who writes a blog on network marketing. And if you are going to read any one's (in addition to mine of course), then this is the guy you should be following. His name is Todd Falcone and he is considered to be one of the rising stars in the world of recruiting and training in network marketing. Check him out at http://www.toddfalconeblog.com/.

One more goodie in the box - The Network Marketing Business Journal. Yes, network marketing has a real trade journal! Each issue is full of news all network marketers can use, no matter what business you are in. http://www.nmbj.com/

Merry Christmas! I hope you enjoy my gifts to you this year. More importantly, I hope you use them to achieve the success you want for yourself and your family in the coming year. Have a joyous holiday!

Meet My Sponsor!

2008-11-28T14:24:00.000-08:00

A couple of years ago, a good friend of mine invited me to come to a meeting to learn about something she thought was wonderful. She had gotten involved in it and she couldn't wait to show it to me and my husband. Now, I must admit, I was not overly eager to go. I've been to hundreds of these things and none of them ever really excited me. But eventually she convinced me and I went. All I can say now is Thank You Linda! You changed my life. Now I want her to have the opportunity to change yours as well. Read her story. Take all that she shares and really think about it. Then join my team - and her team too, since she is my sponsor - and be part of what we have discovered! Meet my friend and sponsor, Linda Gracy...

1. Linda, tell us about yourself.

I feel so very blessed to be living such a rich, fulfilling, joyful life! God is so good!

I am a real homebody who loves working from home with my two cats, one dog, and the love of my life, my husband of 35 years. (Yes, that's right; I admit it, I got married when I was 4!) I have four wonderful grown kids: a daughter and a son, a daughter-in-law, and a "for-all-practical-purposes-son-in-law." (Just what IS the socially-correct term for the significant other of your unmarried daughter, anyway??) I also have 4 granddogs and 4 grandcats, whom I get to babysit quite often. We all love to travel and take cruises together (the people, not the fur-people,) and to go boating, camping, and four-wheeling. I love to play cards, entertain friends at home, and do really daring, adventurous things like read and work crossword puzzles. All but one of the animals in my life are either animal-shelter adoptees or rescue animals. Not only do we do all we can to help the homeless-animals cause, but we feel they always make the very best pets. (Any typos, by the way, will be blamed on my cat, Walter, who is curled up in my lap purring, making it difficult to type. Walter has the biggest, fluffiest tail I have ever seen on a cat. It looks like a racoon's tail.)

I am a big fan of the movie The Secret, and anything written or produced about the Law of Attraction and other laws of the universe. I love how the latest research in quantum physics is providing evidence, soon to be proof, of these laws, and the very existence of God! I have been a student of Bob Proctor and Mary Manin Morrissey for years. I love passing on their valuable, life-changing information to anyone and everyone who will listen.

2. Tell us about your business.

Forgive me if my passion about it shows, but I am truly convinced that I have the very best home based business on the planet, and that nothing else even comes close! It is the answer to most people's prayers. It has transformed my life and the lives of my entire family. What I do is: I help individuals or families create an additional stream of income, which doesn't interfere with their jobs. In a very short period of time that additional income can actually surpass the income from their jobs. When that happens, that person has options. In fact, my husband just exercised HIS option a few months ago to quit his job, and now he stays home and works our business with me. We are loving our freedom to stay home with NO alarm clock, or to travel at will, since we can work our business wherever we are. One thing I love about my business is that we don't sell anything. Instead, we provide a way for people to get paid commissions on bills they are paying every month anyway! It's ingenious. Who wouldn't want that? It's such a no-brainer!

3. Why did you start your own business?

Twenty-two years ago, I was teaching high school math. I loved it, at least until my daughter was born. But once I became a mom, those maternal hormones kicked in, and it just killed me to have to go off and leave her every day. Then when my son came along, it was even worse. In the morning, when it was time to head off to school, my kids would lock their arms around my leg and hang on. It would tear my heart out of my body to have to pry their little fingers off, and to walk to the car with both of them crying and my daughter saying "Mommy, don't go!" There were days I actually cried half the way to school! The day the nanny excitedly told me that she had witnessed my son's first steps, it absolutely broke my heart! I decided right then that there HAD to be a way, in this great land of America, that a mother could stay home and raise her own kids! That's when I started searching for a way to make money working from home.

4. Why did you choose to get involved in network marketing instead of a different type of business?

Initially, it was because I HAD to find something that would replace my teaching salary if I was going to be able to quit my job and stay home with my preschoolers. At the time, I searched and searched, and checked out every work-from-home scheme I could find. Network marketing was the only thing I could find that would do that. Then I stayed in network marketing because I knew that I could never make enough money with just my own efforts to support the lifestyle I wanted for myself and my family. There's just one of me, and there are just 24 hours in a day, so there is obviously a limit to how much money I could make in a traditional career. But with network marketing, there is no limit because you leverage your time. If I have a team of 100 people, for example, and we each put in 5 hours, I get paid on 505 hours of work instead of just the 5 that I put in myself. The bigger your team grows, the more hours you get paid for. (If Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki are promoting it, you know it's lucrative!) I also love helping other people. That's why I went into teaching. But with network marketing, I can help way more people, and I get paid much better for my efforts.

5. Why did you choose Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing?

Because it's exactly what I had searched for for 20 years! It's like it was custom made just for me. When I started working from home 22 years ago, I joined an excellent company, Mary Kay Cosmetics. But I knew when I joined that it wasn't really "me." I wasn't "into" makeup and skin care, and certainly not sales! But Mary Kay had the very best compensation plan I could find. So I figured I could put up with selling skin care and makeup until my youngest (my one-year-old son) started kindergarten, at which time I planned to go back to teaching. But I quickly discovered how much I LOVED my freedom! So I decided, instead of going back to teaching, to stick with Mary Kay until I could find something else that I could do from home that I liked better and that paid just as well. Meanwhile, my Mary Kay career grew and flourished, and as I drove the pink Cadillacs and conducted meetings and training classes, no one suspected that I was actively searching for a replacement career! Even though a Mary Kay career was never "me," I loved Mary Kay Ash, the others at the home office, and the sisterhood of MK Consultants. I will be forever grateful to Mary Kay for providing the means for me to stay home with my preschoolers, and for giving me the confidence to step out and become an entrepreneur.

What I was searching for was the best network marketing company, with the best corporate leadership, products and compensation plan. I also wanted something that didn't require me to sell anything. That's a tall order! It took me 20 years to find FHTM, but once I did, I realized that it was exactly what I had searched for all those years. I love the fact that I don't sell anything; I just help other people achieve their dreams and goals. When I met Paul Orberson in person, that's when I knew that I knew that my search was over. He is the real deal! He's the most generous person I've every met. He started the company just to help other people, and he sincerely cares about them. When the cover story about FHTM came out in Millionaire Blueprint Magazine in January 07, it was really good to hear the experts confirm what I had concluded: That FHTM is the best company, and Paul Orberson is the best person, to be in business with. I only wish it hadn't taken me all those years to find it! But once I did, it only took a few months to replace my "pink Cadillac" career income.

6. What do you like best and least about network marketing?

I love the relationships and close friendships that you develop with people. I love helping other people. It is so rewarding to see their lives change for the better, and to know that I had some small part in making that happen. A good example is one of my team members, Matt Morse. In less than a year he went from barely scraping by with a lawn service that he owned, supporting his wife and two babies, living in a one-bedroom apartment, to National Sales Manager in FHTM, driving a company Lexus, and building their dream home with NO mortgage! Just think how all four of their lives have changed! I just get teary-eyed when I think about it.

What I like the least about network marketing is when people give up too soon, in spite of my efforts to encourage them to hang in there until they are successful. I know that if they will just hang in there, success is right around the corner. I don't understand why people will give up on network marketing just because it hasn't yet made them rich after only a year or so. After all, the traditional job they've been at for 15 years hasn't made them rich yet either! What they don't realize is that the traditional job will NEVER make them rich, but the network marketing career WILL, if they will just stay the course! A traditional job won't continue to pay a passive residual income for years and years after you've stopped working. But so many times I want success for them more than they want it for themselves.

7. What personality traits and skills to be a successful network marketer?

You have to like people, and like helping them. It helps to have a sense of humor, and the ability to not take "rejection" personally. After all, if I offered coffee to a room full of people, some would want some and some wouldn't. I don't feel "rejected" by those who don't! Then you usually need a good dose of perseverance. Some people get lucky and have "overnight" success, but for most of us it does take sticking to it for awhile. Most people who are used to working for salaries don't realize that in network marketing, you do the first 80% of the work for only 20% of the return. But by hanging in there, you will then receive 80% of the return for only 20% of the effort. You have to be able to see the end from the beginning, and when you don't get rich overnight, realize that it will happen if you just hang in there.

8. What has been the most difficult part of being involved in network marketing?

Turning loose of the people who have given up on their dreams for a better life and have gone back to settling for their dead-end jobs, and living from paycheck to paycheck. You want to save everyone, but you just can't. As much as you want to, you can't do it for them.

9. Do you have any resources you have used to build your business that you would recommend?

All kinds of self-development books and tools, such as You Were Born Rich by Bob Proctor, The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles, How to Sell Network Marketing Without Fear, Anxiety or Losing Your Friends by Michael Oliver, and any of Bob Proctor's and Mary Morrissey's books, audios and courses.

I have a GoSolo line that is a toll-free number with a recorded message about my business. I have the number on the back windshield of my company Lexus, and I occasionally place an ad in a newspaper or online, directing people to that number. They can call and listen to a 2-minute message, then if they're interested, leave their name and number for more information. This system completely removes any "rejection" from the equation, because I'm only returning calls to people who requested more information.

Vista Print (http://www.vistaprint.com/) has a great deal on business cards! They have lots of great graphics to choose from, and it's so quick and easy to order them online.

10. Do you have any tips to share on promoting your business?

I prefer "Attraction Marketing" techniques. Join the Chamber of Commerce, civic organizations, networking clubs, etc., and volunteer your time to worthy causes. Get yourself out there where you are around a lot of people. Accept leadership roles. You are really selling YOURSELF, because people who join your business do so to work with YOU more than to work with the company that you're with. People want to be in business with successful business people. If you are friendly, self-confident, and have the air of someone who is super-successful, people will want what you have, and THEY will ask YOU to show them what you do. It is far more effective when they approach you instead of the other way around. I use the "elevator speech" when conversing with people. Then IF they ask for more information about what I do, I set the appointment to show it to them. If they don't, I usually don't mention it. I use my recorded message and GoSolo line to attract prospective business associates. If they aren't interested after listening to my recorded message, they simply don't leave their name and number. I love never having to deal with "rejection!"

11. What other advice do you have for someone starting their own business?

Someone starting a business needs to be aware that it will take time, and it will take work. But remember that once you get it up and running, it will actually free up your time, so it will be very much worth every bit of the time and work that you put into it. Of course, ideally, it will be something you love doing, so you won't mind. If you resent the extra time and effort required in the beginning, then it may not be the right business for you!

Don't worry about what other people think! Realize that they hardly spend any time at all thinking about what you're doing anyway! They are too busy with their own concerns.

Know your "why." Focus on WHY you are starting your business. To become debt-free and financially independent, to pay for your kids' college educations, to provide a more-than-just-comfortable retirement income, or whatever. Focusing on the reason WHY you are doing it is what will keep you going through the tough times, and keep you from throwing in the towel.

Like Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki, I recommend network marketing as the best way for the average person to be able to build a successful business. Franchises cost too much money, and you're really just buying yourself a round-the-clock job. A traditional business takes a few years to get off the ground --- and that's if you're lucky! The vast majority fail within a few months. With network marketing, all the expensive, time-consuming groundwork has been done for you. All you have to do is plug in to the system already in place. And best of all, you won't have to mortgage your home and your first-born to get it started!

In selecting a network marketing company, there are several critical points to consider. I have covered the main ones in a free report, "Ten Things You Should Know Before Joining Any Network Marketing Company." I would be happy to email that report to anyone who requests it. (send your request to: bestparadisefound@gmail.com)

12. How can we contact you for more information about FHTM?

Email me at bestparadisefound@gmail.com or call me at 479-636-2221

Or visit my website at http://www.getafreelexus.com/.

13. Is there anything else you would like to share?

You really don't want to get me started! lol I could talk all day about how important I believe it is for everyone to study materials that teach the laws of the universe, such as The Secret by Rhonda Byrne and You Were Born Rich by Bob Proctor. The topics are just fascinating to me. There is so much about the universe that we are just beginning to comprehend. I think it's a crime and a shame that those things aren't being taught in school. The human body is the finest, most powerful electrical machine ever created, but unfortunately, we aren't born with owner's manuals!

Another thing I also wish they would teach in school is how to make money! After all, it IS a lifeskill that would come in handy. People graduate from college financially illiterate. I know I did! I recommend any of Robert Kiyosaki's books, such as Rich Dad, Poor Dad, and the new one he co-authored with Donald Trump, Why We Want You To Be Rich. (I also have a short article about that book I'd be happy to email to anyone who requests it.) Everyone needs to read that book! Kiyosaki and Trump are warning the American public that the middle class in America is vanishing. Before long everyone will fit into one of two categories: rich or poor. We are witnessing the transition today. When I was a kid, most moms didn't have to work! Now it takes both partners working, and sometimes more than one job, to provide the same standard of living we used to have with just one bread-winner in the family. Thankfully, they also recommend what to do to make sure you end up in the "rich" category! But we need to spread the word. I'm trying my best to do my part.

Too new or too many!

2008-11-14T10:58:00.000-08:00

I heard two new objections this week and I really wanted to address them here. The first was from an young couple that said they had heard that the Arkansas FHTM team was the biggest in the company. Since that was so, there couldn't possibly be any more potential in Arkansas for them to build a business and so they were not interested.

Let me tell you about my team. I have team members in 16 states, Canada, and Puerto Rico. That's one of the benefits of network marketing. Your customers and your business partners can be ANYBODY - ANYWHERE. With all of the technology available today and all of the resources Fortune and some other network marketing companies have to help you grow, you can build an international business and never leave home. I remember when Dearl and I discovered we had Canadian team members and had become "international." It was fun and exciting - and truly made us realize what we had gotten involved in, since we had never been to Canada and had never pursued business there.

Being part of a large team can be beneficial. It could mean that these are successful people who have learned how to build a network marketing business and are willing to teach you what they have learned. It could mean that because of the support given to the team from those in leadership positions, there isn't much attrition and the team just keeps growing. It could be the opportunity for you to "hitch a ride" on the successful coattails of those who have been where you are and are doing what you want to do.

My other lost prospect had just the opposite complaint. He had heard of Quixtar and Melaleuca and Herablife and several others - but he had never heard of Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing. So we must not be that great since he had never heard of us.

My answer to that. Great! If no one knows about FHTM yet, think of the potential market. That could mean you are the first in your area to be part of this. What an incredible stroke of luck! Perfect timing! Can you imagine opening the first McDonalds in your town, or the first Wal-Mart? Imagine being the first to share your network marketing business! If you don't want to take advantage of this potentially huge market, let me know. I will HAPPILY come and share the business and products in your neighborhood. I LOVE tapping into new markets.

These objections are just that - objections. The truth is that both of these prospects were afraid to take a step into the unknown. And rather than admit to me that they were scared, the settled on the only objections they could come up with at the moment. FHTM is either too big - or too small! The truth is we are whatever you decide we are. If we are too big and you believe that the market is saturated, then you will bring that with you into your marketing and prospecting efforts and those you show the plan to will hear the same thing - there's no room for more business. If you think we are too small, then you will sell that to your prospects - and they'll leave thinking that network marketing might work but perhaps they should join a "more established" company. But if you are excited about the growth of your team or by the fact that your reaching into untapped territory, that excitement will come across in your presentation - and excitement is contagious!

I Don't Want to Sell Vitamins!

2008-10-26T13:54:00.000-07:00

Great! Because if you think you are going to make a ton of money in network marketing by just selling the products, you're in the wrong business! Network marketing is not about sales. It's about building a team and coaching them to success.

Now don't get me wrong. You do need to sell the products. Where do you think the money comes from to pay your commissions? And how long do you think great companies like AT&T and Travelocity will work with you and pay you if they aren't seeing some sales? And your downline members will also have to sell some product. (If someone tells you that you don't have to sell anything, watch out. They either expect you to buy a lot of it yourself, or it's a scam or a pyramid).

The beauty of network marketing is that you can combine some sales work with lots of coaching and team-building work and generate a very nice income. For example, when I joined Fortune, I immediately became my own customer. My cell phone, my nutritional supplements, my skin care products, my online travel bookings - all these are now purchased through my Fortune business. Then I went to people I knew already used the products and services that FHTM offers and asked them if they would purchase them from me. Since I wasn't asking them to buy anything they weren't already paying for, most of them said yes. So I started out with six customers. Then I started building my team and coaching them to do the same. At last count my downline is over 300 people. So with a some beginning sales work I started earning a small commission. Then with some coaching and team-building, I built a strong team and taught them to do the same thing I did. So, assuming that each of my 300 team members has 6 customers, I now receive commission on 1800 customers, not including my own. And in the course of building my team, I picked up some additional customers. I know have 25 customers of my own.

I built this team in a little over 2 years. How long do you think it would have taken me to find 1825 customers on my own? Quite a while? That's the beauty of network marketing. I have 9 direct sponsors. They each went out and sponsored some people of their own, who sponsored some of their own, who sponsored some more...and on and on until I have over 300 team members and 1800 customers.

Selling isn't the most important skill in building a successful network marketing business. Coaching and team building are far more critical skills. If you aren't strong in those two areas, I'd suggest you start learning. Because that's what will make your business grow.

By the way - if you're in the market for cell phone service, DishTV, a home security system, skin care, nutritional and weight loss products, on-line travel services, identity theft insurance, or health and dental savings - call me. I am always looking for a new customer!