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What Is A Pyramid?

2011-03-07T21:52:00.000-08:00

What Is A Pyramid?

1. Egyptian tomb: a huge stone tomb of ancient Egyptian royalty with a square base and triangular walls that slope to meet in a point at the top

2. solid triangular shape: a solid shape or structure that has triangular sides that slope to meet in a point and a base that is often, but not necessarily, a square. The volume of a pyramid is one-third of the product of the area of the base and the height of the vertex.

3. system with expanding structure: an arrangement or system that has a small number of items at one point and expands gradually to have a large number at the opposite point

4. pointed body part: a pointed or cone-shaped body part, e.g. either of two bundles of fibers located in the brain

5. finance investment method: a financial risk structure that spreads investments between high, medium, and low risk

6. finance stock speculation method: stock speculation involving a series of buying and selling of shares, with paper profits as margin for more purchases

7. crystallography crystalline form: a crystalline form in which three or more nonparallel faces intersect all three axes of the crystal.

Tim Sales(http://www.brilliantexchange.com/) explains:Pyramid: The word pyramid has simply come to mean a business that seems like a scam.

Scam: A fraudulent business scheme. Fraudulent comes from the Latin word fraud, which means deceit. Deceiving someone means to trick them.

FACT: There is no activity (stock trading, charities, law firms, medical doctors, religion, M.L.M, government, etc.) that does not have a history of fraudulent activities.

In looking at scams, it is important to locate the actual source that is creating the scam; there is ALWAYS at least ONE person.

Illegal Pyramid Scheme

An illegal business that involves the exchange of money primarily for enrolling other people into the scheme, usually without any product or service being delivered.

Sometimes there may appear to be a product - but it's only there to "look" like a real business. Few people outside of the pyramid desire the product or they can get the same product elsewhere at a less expensive price.

If you enrolled me into your business and I paid $300 to join BUT THERE WAS NO VALUABLE PRODUCT THAT WAS EXCHANGED - that could be an illegal pyramid.

This does not mean that M.L.M is an illegal pyramid because people enroll others into a business. The fine line between legal M.L.M and illegal pyramid scheme (according to the Federal Trade Commission - FTC) is the exchange of a real product.

Yet, if you enrolled me and I bought $300 worth of products to see if I want to do the business - then that is NOT an illegal pyramid as long as the product is a "real" product and not some gimmicky product.

Most legitimate M.L.M companies give a thirty day 100% refund on products if you don't like them. And if you buy inventory to sell and then change your mind about the business, most legitimate M.L.M companies will give you back 90% of the purchased price.

So the primary difference between an illegal pyramid and a legitimate M.L.M company is that a pyramid does not have a "real" product. A legitimate M.L.M company has a real product that people outside of the business desire. - Tim Sales, newsletter, 14 June 2007. http://www.brilliantexchange.com/

Thank you Tim Sales (http://www.brilliantexchange.com/) for your insight about pyramids, scams and how they relate to the M.L.M. industry.

I answer the question, "Is it a pyramid?" this way. "Yes it is." That is an affirmative answer. You did not tell your prospect that they were wrong. You affirmed their thinking with "yes it is." This answer keeps them from feeling upset because you said they were right. Tell them "No it isn't" and the brick wall between your prospect and you has became higher and wider instead of coming down. Thus making the rest of your conversation more difficult. But because you answered in the affirmative now you can teach them what is a pyramid. So now you can ask them empathically, " Prospect, where do you work?" They answer, "The rubber band plant on the north of town." You then say,"Well, in your company, Prospect, may anyone in the rubber band plant earn more than the owner,CEO, President, etc.?"

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What is Gene's Mini Office Outlets?

2011-02-27T18:43:00.000-08:00

Gene's Mini Office Outlets was born from financial and health crisises in my life. Having worked since I was twleve years old and coming up with injuries, bad health and being unemployed forced me to rethink my path through life. At fifty years old I had nothing, literally nothing. Lying in a hospital very sick with Pott's disease (2009) and recently in 2007 having emergency back surgery to save me from becoming paralyzed, a broken marriage, and being laid off a little more than a month before Pott's disease put me down, I was forced to look at my future and what changes I would need to make.

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I knew going back to being a supervisor in the LTL industry and shoving money into the company's 401(k) plan for the next twenty years was not going to work and was a terrible plan. Why? Well 401(k) plans are mutual funds and mutual funds are nothing put paper investments that are tied to the stock market and everyone should know the stock market is not a place you can passively invest in. You have to know what you are doing to invest in the stock market to make money or you will lose it. The 401(k) plan representatives will tell you mutual funds is a great way to diversify your investments but a mutual fund is just a part of a stock and the stocks are paper investments. They do not give you options to invest in real estate, that you literally own, a business, or gold and silver. Tangible investment that you can see and touch.

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Going to work for the next twenty years making me seventy years old plus is not realistic because being a working supervisor, the companies I work for will want younger less expensive person to do what I do. So no one is looking out for me but I am expected to look out for the company's bottom line and retire poor on the governments dole. So I started looking at going to college to become a teacher. With government student loans, after I graduate and become certtified to teach students, I would just be further in debt at a time when my bills should be winding down or disappearing. But, of course, I had no idea what I should do. I was totally broke and I knew I could not start up a business of my own without capital. What do I do?

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Of course, I started looking for work. Not much luck there because of high unemployment, my age, health and other factors. As I was searching for work I saw an add asking me if I wanted to get out of debt. Of course I did. I sent in the submission form when this lady called me. She was with The Freedom Project. She explained to me how I could start my own home business with a small investment. Grow my home business with a proven process, recieve on going training and teaching for free. It was called The Freedom Project. What sold me was that if I was to give the The Freedom Project process five years I would be able to develop residual income and it would give me a retirement my kids would not have to finance for me. So comparing numbers, my biggest thought was I was willing to work for others for the next twenty years developing a weak retirement but with The Freedom Project I would be working for me and securing a much more lucrative retirement.

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So the question became,do I want to work for someone else and have a career or do I want to work for myself and develop an income I could retire on? The answer is obvious to me. I became a home business owner with The Freedom Project as the process to financial freedom. I know many people out there are looking for a change where they take control of their lives. I offer you the Freedom Project and a home business of your own. I know many people will feel more secure working for somebody, hoping their retirement account and Social Security will take them into the sunset of their lives. To them I say good luck. Relying on others to take care of you generally does not work. Unless you have much more than a million dollars to retire on when you retire I would say take a look at what I am doing with the Freedom Project.

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My company name is Gene's Mini Office Outlets, a home business and I am a progrem guide. Let me take you through three online classrooms for free so you may evaluate this home business opportunity with The Freedom Project. Take a hard look at your situation in regards to your retirement. If its great, great! If it is not where you would like to be give me your time and I will not ask you to invest one dollar. I will let you evaluate this Freedom Project program for free.

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What Is It Like In The Freedom Project

2011-02-12T13:48:00.000-08:00

Looking for Go-Getters, Who are Coachable, Open Minded and Ready to Start Now!

The Freedom Project

As you all know being an entrepreneur is natural to some but to most of us it is a huge puzzle. We have different avenues to learn how to own and run a business. One way is to spend many years working in an industry to gain the experience you need. This is a great way to learn how to run a business, yet many find they did not learn everything. The actual managing of a business happens behind closed doors were only the business owners work with financing, taxes, legal considerations, employee law, looking at spreadsheet information, and a multitude of other problems which are particular to the industry. Small business owners may put in 16 to 18 hours a day starting up a new business venture.

A second way to learn to open your own business is to have gone to school to learn entrepreneurship. This is a great because you will learn business theory, law, and management of business. Your education most likely would teach you how to research, use feedback information and teach you analysis. The school would also give you practical management applications as a intern at a local business.

The biggest block in the road is capital. How to capitalize your start up business is difficult and sometimes the biggest risk a prospective business owner may take on. Many mortgage their home, pull from their retirement accounts, borrow from friends and family and take out business loans to subsidize their start up business. Risk is huge and many new businesses live on a shoestring budget where any little disaster may sink the company.

No matter the route taken by a prospective business owner there is a cost to receiving professional business counseling for their new company. Many companies just cannot afford to pay for professional business evaluation and counseling. There is free advice from business groups but most likely the advice will not be targeted for the new business owner's business. The free advice will not come with a through business evaluation making the free advice to the business owner to be less useful.

There is a business model and process where capital for a start up is low as most franchises cost thousand to millions of dollars to open and where training and future business evaluation and coaching is absolutely free. The Freedom Project gives you at least three hours of classroom evaluation. The Freedom Project will ask you to do your own due diligence to research the business. The Freedom Project gives all prospective business owners all the time they need to evaluate and learn the business before committing themselves to spend one dollar on investment.

Then after investing into the prospects own business the Freedom Project follows up with free training, unlimited access to program guides (teachers)and an online training site full of information and tools. There is even an online university for continuing education at the disposal of the new business owner.

For me the financial risk was right where I needed it to be. Just a few hundred dollars as opposed to thousands or millions of dollars. I did not need to take out a mortgage on my home or ask friends and family for money. I receive more training and education for free than if I ever would have paid for it. What is more impressive is I move and build my business at the pace I need and can afford. My question is are you ready to evaluate a business for free and make a change in your lifestyle to gain more time and financial freedom with your own online home business. The Freedom Project.

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What to look for in An Online Home Based Business Proposition

2011-01-28T08:26:00.000-08:00

1. The advertiser does not require any money up front.

2. The advertiser presents the business so you may evaluate the business on it merits.

3. The advertiser does not put a time limit on your evaluation of the business.

4. The advertisers lets you ask as many questions as you would like.

5. The advertiser answers all your questions.

6. The advertiser helps you do research on the business they are presenting.

7. The advertiser tells you like it is, “All businesses require some financial investment.”

8. The advertiser explains that it will take time to achieve results.

9. The advertiser explains the business is not a get rich quick scheme.

10. The advertiser gives you their number if you have any questions.

11. The advertiser offers unlimited free coaching

12. The advertiser offers unlimited training and promises you they will be there when you need their assistance.

13. The advertiser is able and willing to answer the “Is it a scam?” question that you understand and agree with.

14. The advertiser has a product that is of extremely high quality, strong desirability and a fool proof money back guarantee.

15. The advertiser is so proud of the product they use the product for themselves and their family.

16. The advertiser adheres to the highest standards of business ethics.

The Freedom Project stands by and delivers this and more. Go to www.miniofficeoutlets.com/gjr to learn more!

One Billion Dollars!

2011-01-27T11:57:00.000-08:00

ONE BILLION DOLLARS!

Of Course You Won't Get A Billion Dollars!

But you can Start Your Own Online Home Based Business!

Do you want to be your own boss?
Do you want financial and time freedom?

Earn $3000+ per month working 5-10 hours per week from home.

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Join the Freedom Project and become a program guide.

What’s in it for you?

- Security and advancement

- Free training and ongoing support

- Tax breaks

- Expense paid travel

- More time with family

- No large financial risk

You can choose how much you earn, when you work, where you work, and who you will work with.

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The more you guide, the more you earn!

Earn an excellent part time or full time income using this step-by-step duplicatable system.

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The Treadmill Of Insanity

2011-01-17T16:27:00.000-08:00

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.Albert Einstein, (attributed)
US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

We send our children to school everyday. We go to work everyday. We create bills everyday. As long as we work and produce an income we will continue to be in debt. Who are we in debt to? Who do we owe most of our time to?

Of course we do not want to answer those questions. If we do and think deeply about the answers to these questions we find we are slaves to our employment and then in retirement to the government for Social Security. A very uncomfortable feeling and thought to those caught in the cycle of this systemic insanity. Go to school, get a good job, buy a house ,have children, send your children to school, retire to the shackles of social security These answers leave many with an indifference towards their circumstance and hoping things will be okay in the end. Otherwise, having to address these questions would be added daily stress which no one needs.

This attitude gives credence to Albert Einstein's attributed quote, "Insanity:doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." The treadmill of insanity is generational. We teach it to our children to be slaves of the system. We need to teach them to be free of the system. The treadmill of insanity needs drones to keep the treadmill in motion.

Learn how to break the cycle of insanity. Join me and become a Program Guide in the Freedom Project!

The Freedom Project is a highly successful program.

The question is; "Do you have the fortitude, vision and desire to change your financial situation, improve your life and your family's life?"

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The Implications of Answering an Ad

2011-01-16T15:48:00.000-08:00

A family member calls you and excitedly tells you about a great business they have found. A friend invites you to their house for a get together. An ad attracts your attention. Your desires for a better life for you and your family drives you to investigate home based business opportunities. Multitudes of reasons have you seeking for something more lucrative than your job. That job is eight plus hours a day, forty plus hours a week. You are commuting, you are working hard, and you are loyal. The company rewards your hard work with promotions, more responsibilities, and a raise. You want a new car and you get it but your family’s circumstance is the same and really you only have added one more bill to your family’s finances. You decide to listen to your friends pitch, interesting but it is not for you. Then one day, you realize your boss is enjoying vacation trips abroad, has a new BMW, his children are going to a prestigious college and your big Christmas bonus amounts to seven hundred dollars and a gift certificate to buy a 12 pound turkey. What a blessing because the seven hundreds dollars will pay down one of your credit cards and you can use it to buy some gifts for Christmas. Meanwhile, the owner of the company is taking his family to Maui for Christmas. You begin wondering why you actually work more hours, spend less time with your family and friends, and worry constantly about paying bills.

You decide to take action against your mounting debt. You are going to put your finances under control. You drive to the local book store. Scouring the shelves of books you find a how to get out of debt book. Previewing the book you find the theme of the book is to spend less than you earn. This makes sense to you so you buy the book.

Oh, you cannot wait until your home on your couch to read this how to book. For the next hour and a half you devour each word, each sentence, each paragraph, and each page. Your thoughts are to enact a financial austerity plan with your family. They will understand because they love you and want to see their husband and father stress less and enjoy life more. You call your family together. At the dining room table you, the father and husband of the family, begin to explain the family’s finances. Everyone has a look of concern but the family seems to understand. They all want to help but as you speak, you realize as your family does, the plan is to live beneath the family’s income meaning the activities and things they have grown used to will no longer be available or dropped to a minimum. You and your family acquiesces to your plan but no one really feels good about it because the financial plan makes the family feel like the family is a financial failure compared to their family and friends.

Your austerity plan has been in place for two weeks and there has been progress but some of the old habits have been sneaking back into the family’s routine. Just yesterday you had to use the credit card to buy tires for your wife’s car even though the idea was to save up for expenses instead of using credit. Your youngest son wants and really needs to go to summer football camp with his team if he is going to have any chance of starting or playing more when the fall football games begin. The cost is staggering to your budget so again you will need to use your credit cards.

At work, you are developing a plan to cut man hours, increase productivity, and turn full time positions into part time positions thus cutting costs. By having more part time position the company will not have to pay for benefits such as medical, vacations and contributions to individual retirement plans. Your plan is met with praise from the owner of the company and his CFO (Chief Financial Officer) but the praise and your plan leaves you feeling empty. As you listen to the CFO speak of department budgets your mind wonders about your financial situation and the financial difficulties you about to push on the employees in your department. Your soul tells you something is just not right in your world. Instead of helping your subordinates you are taking away. Even though your business mind tells you this is just business your heart tells you these are peoples’ lives you are changing for the worst. This just is not you.

Your wife and her sisters have not seen or been together for years. They want to have a small three day holiday together with their mother at their mother’s house. You took your wife away from her family and friends over ten years ago to the job you now have on the other side of the country. Her wife has only seen all of her sisters only once in that time. You know you really cannot afford this trip for her but you will make it happen because you love your wife and you do not want to disappoint her. Sadly, but lucky for you her oldest sister told you she will cover your wife’s expenses while she is with them. This makes you feel embarrassed and less than an adequate provider for you wife who tirelessly takes care of you and your kids needs everyday.

Tuesday morning your boss calls you into his office. He has a huge smile on his face. He begins to tell you what a wonderful job you are doing and the benefits you bring to the company as a manager. “Your department’s productivity to cost ratio is the best it has been in thirty years!” he powerfully bellows. “Listen, we feel we are top heavy in management. I feel you can handle two departments at once and do just as good handling two departments as you have the department you are managing now.” “Of course, we will reward you for taking on this new responsibility but the direction we want to take this is to bonus you and some of the other managers we retain at the end of our fiscal year which is February. It will be based on department goals with a sliding percentage starting at twenty five percent of your current salary. So if you hit one hundred percent of both your department goals you will receive twenty five percent of your salary. Let’s see, hmm, you make $65,000 a year so twenty five percent is ah, $16,250 bonus! Now how does that sound?” Your boss excitedly says. You meet his excitement with a huge smile and tons of trepidation. You know this greatly benefits the company, doubles your work load and takes more of your free time away. You know the bonus will hardly cover the amount of time you will need to give up to the company.

Breaking your salary down you know the fifty hours a week you are doing now comes out to $25 an hour. Just three dollars an hour above the average American worker. If you hit all your department goals and receive the bonus of $16,250 your total earnings for the year is $81,250. Figuring you will put an additional ten hours a week into working for the company your hourly wage is only one dollar and four cents more. Taxes will surely eat much of the bonus. You are happy with the possible bonus but you know hitting one hundred percent of all the goals is impossible. You also know the bonus will not help you until the following year and it does nothing for your current financial situation.

Late one night at work you open your Face Book page to read some of your friends’ statuses. While you are reading you notice an ad that has a father walking on the beach carrying his daughter and holding his son’s hand. The picture elicits memories of you doing the very same things with your children when your family was young and you were able to spend time, quality time with your children. The ad harkens, “Do you want time and financial freedom for you and your family?” In your distress for wanting more time with your family and to help with your financial problems you click on the ad. You watch an up beat movie then fill in the submission form hoping with all your heart this maybe an answer to your desires and needs.

A gentleman calls you saying that he is answering your request for additional information… Begin Your Story begins with the Freedom Project!

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The Rise and Fall of American Democracy

2011-01-09T19:33:00.000-08:00

by Robert Kiyosaki

Alexander Tytler (1747-1813) was a Scottish-born English lawyer and historian. Reportedly, Tytler was critical of democracies, pointing to the history of democracies such as Athens and its flaws, cycles, and ultimate failures. Although the authenticity of his following quote is often disputed, the words have eerie relevance today:

A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.

A democracy will continue to exist up until the time voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by dictatorship.

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

• From bondage to spiritual faith;

• From spiritual faith to great courage;

• From courage to liberty;

• From liberty to abundance;

• From abundance to complacency;

• From complacency to apathy;

• From apathy to dependence;

• From dependence back to bondage.

Tytler's Cycle and the U.S.

In looking at American history, we can see Tytler's sequence in action. In 1620, the Pilgrims sailed to America to escape the religious bondage imposed by the Church of England. Their spiritual faith carried them to the new world.

Because of their deep faith, the Pilgrims left England in spite of the high percentage of deaths incurred by earlier American settlements. For example, when Jamestown, Virginia, was founded in 1607, 70 of the 108 settlers died in the first year. The following winter only 60 of 500 new settlers lived. Between 1619 and 1622, the Virginia Company sent 3,600 more settlers to the colony, and over those three years 3,000 would die.

In 1776, the Declaration of Independence was signed. From spiritual faith the new Americans were garnering great courage. By crafting the Declaration of Independence, the colonists knew they were essentially declaring war on the most powerful country in the world -- England.

With the onset of the Revolutionary War, the colonists were moving from courage to liberty, following Tytler's sequence. By demanding their independence and being willing to fight for it, a new democracy was born. This new democracy grew rapidly for nearly 200 years.

Then, in 1933, the U.S. was thrown into the Great Depression and elected Franklin Delano Roosevelt as president. Facing total economic collapse, Roosevelt took the U.S. dollar off the gold standard. At the same time, Germany, also in financial crisis, elected Adolf Hitler as its leader. World War II soon followed.

In 1944, with WWII coming to an end, the Bretton Woods Agreement was signed by the world powers and the U.S. dollar, once again backed by gold, became the reserve currency of the world.

After the war, America passed England, France, and Germany to become the new world power. Having entered the war late, the U.S. emerged as the creditor nation to the world. Our factories weren't bombed and the world owed us money. The U.S. grew rich financing the rebuilding of England, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan. The American democracy was transitioning from liberty to abundance -- maybe too much abundance.

In 1971 President Nixon violated the Bretton Woods Agreement by taking the U.S. dollar off the gold standard because America was spending more than it was producing and the U.S. gold reserves were being depleted.

In 1972 Nixon visited China to open the door for trade. What followed was the biggest economic boom in history -- a boom fueled by the U.S. borrowing money through the sale of bonds to China, one of the world's poorest countries at that time. The sale of these bonds financed a growing U.S. trade deficit. China produced low-cost goods, and we paid for them with money borrowed from the Chinese workers.

American factory production, which had fueled the American boom after WWII, was "shipped" overseas along with high-paying American jobs. America was shifting from abundance to complacency. Rather than produce, we borrowed and printed money to maintain our standard of living.

In 1976 America celebrated its 200th anniversary as a democracy. Rather than produce, we kept borrowing to finance social-welfare programs. Over the next three decades or so, America slid from complacency to apathy.

In 2007 the subprime crisis reared its ugly head. And by 2010, unemployment increased to double-digits, even as the rich got richer. Once-affluent people walked away from homes they could no longer afford. The U.S. moved from apathy to dependence.

Today we're dependent upon China to finance our debt as well as fill our stores with cheap products. At the same time, millions of Americans are becoming dependent upon the government to take care of them. If Tytler is correct, the American democracy is presently moving from dependence back to bondage.

Filling the Void

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis. Some of the more infamous despots are Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Napoleon. I find it interesting that the U.S. is now dependent upon Chairman Mao's creation, the People's Republic of China, for the things that we buy and the money that we borrow.

To me, this is spooky, foreboding, and ominous. While the Chinese people, as a rule, are good people, my business dealings with Communist Chinese officials have left me disturbed and concerned about the rise of the Chinese Empire. As you know, China doesn't plan on becoming a democracy. With money, factories, a billion people to feed, and a massive military, could they put the free world into bondage?

Although I don't like the way the Chinese do business, I continue to do business in China. I have to. They're the next world power. I cautiously believe that trade, business, and understanding offer better options for world peace and prosperity than isolationism.

Now the Western world must seek to grow stronger financially as China continues to gain power. To do this, our schools need to offer more sophisticated financial education to children of all ages.

This is not the time to be complacent or apathetic. This is the time to think globally. Putting up trade barriers would be disastrous. Instead, it's time our schools train students to be entrepreneurs who export to the world rather than employees looking for jobs that are being exported to low-wage countries.

Please be clear. I don't fear the Chinese. I fear our own growing weakness. Only a weak people can be oppressed. Today, America has too many people looking to the government for financial salvation.

In 1620 the Pilgrims fled the spiritual oppression of the Church of England. Today Americans may need to flee the financial oppression of our own government as our democracy dies. If we follow Tytler's cycle for democracy, our financial dependence will lead us to financial bondage.

The following are 10 facts about the deindustrialization of America that will blow your mind....

2010-12-30T08:42:00.000-08:00

Posted by MoreObama | 12/16/10 03:59 PM EST on Forbes.com

Not sure if this is urban legend or not but I read it in a blog somewhere...
The following are 10 facts about the deindustrialization of America that will blow your mind....
#1 The United States has lost approximately 42,400 factories since 2001. About 75 percent of those factories employed over 500 people when they were still in operation.
#2 Dell Inc., one of America's largest manufacturers of computers, has announced plans to dramatically expand its operations in China with an investment of over $100 billion over the next decade.
#3 Dell has announced that it will be closing its last large U.S. manufacturing facility in Winston-Salem , North Carolina in November. Approximately 900 jobs will be lost.
#4 In 2008, 1.2 billion cell phones were sold worldwide. So how many of them were manufactured inside the United States? Zero.
#5 According to a new study conducted by the Economic Policy Institute, if the U.S. trade deficit with China continues to increase at its current rate, the U.S. economy will lose over half a million jobs this year alone.
#6 As of the end of July, the U.S. trade deficit with China had risen 18 percent compared to the same time period a year ago.
#7 The United States has lost a total of about 5.5 million manufacturing jobs since October 2000.
#8 According to Tax Notes, between 1999 and 2008 employment at the foreign affiliates of U.S. parent companies increased an astounding 30 percent to 10.1 million. During that exact same time period, U.S. employment at American multinational corporations declined 8 percent to 21.1 million.
#9 In 1959, manufacturing represented 28 percent of U.S. economic output. In 2008, it represented 11.5 percent.
#10 Ford Motor Company recently announced the closure of a factory that produces the Ford Ranger in St. Paul , Minnesota . Approximately 750 good paying middle class jobs are going to be lost because making Ford Rangers in Minnesota does not fit in with Ford's new "global" manufacturing strategy

I Want To Know

2010-12-29T00:22:00.000-08:00

I want to know if it better to wait to win the lotto, wait for inheritance, find a large amount of cash in the street., go to work, invest in the stock market, pray for money, invent the next hula hoop or is it better to find something that is successful that others have done (not everybody) and copy or duplicate the successful people?

I want to know if it is better to wait for your ship to come in or build your ship?

I want to know if more people became rich working for someone else or working for themselves?

I want to know how many people have great ideas in their head but fail to put them in action because they fear failure?

I want to know if a person who works for thirty years and was laid off,a victim of company downsizing, fired or let go for any other reason, realizes that the job or position they had was never theirs?

I want to know if the people that are investing in 401(k) plans understand if they retire and live another 20 years after they retire will need at least a million dollars saved on their day of retirement?

(The dollar has lost over 97% of its gold value since August 15, 1971, which is about 2.6% per year.)

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Reasons Why Network Marketing Is Needed Now

2010-12-18T12:24:00.001-08:00

In today’s world there is massive change happening all around us. The changes are happening at a rapid pace. Change is inevitable. The internet, government and the ultra rich are driving the changes. Only people who want to change and embrace change will make it. Change is happening in many forms.

Donald Trump, who was being interviewed by Fox News Greta Van Sustren, said that manufacturing in America is being shipped out of country to China, Mexico and other countries. The American government facilitates this exportation of jobs by giving those businesses tax incentive to leave. This means jobs are lost, communities destroyed, families are pushed into the poor class.

The jobs that are lost to other countries may never come back. When the United States begins manufacturing again or some of the jobs return to the United States, the people that will be employed to perform these jobs will be paid at a much lower wage, keeping them in the poor class. As the American government continues to print dollars inflation will result so the cost of all products and especially raw goods will cost more to purchase. As everyone knows that last thing to inflate in price is wages. Business knows that the best way to control costs is through employee wages. In a manufacturing company the easiest way to control wages is to lay off employees or move to another country to manufacture products. Cheap labor, no employee benefits, lower taxes and incentives from the American government to move your business out of country is business dreams come true.

A major change that has duped American employees has been going on for decades are our retirement plans. Before 1974 employees could count on retirement being paid by the company they worked for. The pension plan was a defined benefit (DB) pension plan. A DB pension plan was a plan that the employee never had to contribute their earnings to. In 1974 (ERISA) Employee Retirement Income Security act was put into law. ERISA took companies off the hook for paying the entire cost of an employee’s retirement and put it on the employee to fund their retirement. The ERISA law changed the pension plans from a DB (defined benefit) to a defined contribution (DC) meaning the employee is now responsible for their retirement and has to apply their earning to their retirement.

The duping of American employees directly enriches the bank accounts of the rich and steals from the employee. The theft of the employee begins with the company bringing in people from a mutual fund company. They will offer many different mutual funds within the mutual fund company. These sales people are taught to tell us to diversify. In effect a mutual fund is diversification. A mutual fund invests in many companies. The salesperson will tell the employees that they should also diversify in different risk classes. The sales person will also tell you that you may move your earnings around to the different mutual funds online within the mutual fund company.

Warren Buffet said “Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.” Mutual funds are in the paper asset class. There are four asset classes; business, real estate, paper assets, and commodities. So diversifying in mutual funds is just investing in paper assets. Paper assets are in the stock market. The stock market moves up and down. Your mutual fund is a paper asset; your investment will follow the stock market. The stock market has not been a very good place lately for long term investors.

The salespeople will not tell you that the investor takes 100% of the risk and 100% of any loss. The mutual fund companies receive their money before the employee receives their paycheck and takes no risk because they take their fees before it is invested. When the employee’s money is invested the mutual fund continually takes more fees as any transaction is made. The mutual fund company takes their money whether or not employee makes or loses money in their investment. The risk is all on the employee. The rich become richer and the poor become poorer.

The internet is the invisible change and is moving at light speed. Business can now be conducted twenty four hours a day seven days a week around the world. Everyone has noticed many video stores have gone out of business like Block Busters Video Stores. Video stores went from VHS tapes to CD’s. Then their demise hit hard when you could order movies through the internet. That is only the tip of the iceberg. Looking at the airline industry, the internet makes it possible to communicate with loves on a moments notice lessening the need to fly to see your love ones who live thousand of miles away. More importantly, business can conduct meetings with their clients and employees on a moment notice and have real time conversations and video feeds. No need to hop on a jumbo jet to visit your clients or employees half way around the world. The airline industry is moving into a secondary system of transportation just as the railroads have. Moving freight will be the focus of the airline industry just as the railroad system is today.

Business will change. Business will see that it is more economical to pay for a computer and internet in an employee’s home than locate in an office building. With more shopping done on the internet more strip shopping malls will have empty storefronts than ever before. Home business will proliferate at break neck speed as families try to keep up with inflation by bringing in another line of cashflow. Winners in this economy will attain financial education and internet marketing education. The losers will try to maintain the outdated idea that you work for a company for security and retire with a pension plan

Network Marketing Is A Legitimate Business Model

2010-12-16T15:45:00.000-08:00

Network Marketing Is A Legitimate Business Model
Where in the world does any business or anybody have the right to discriminate against the business model of network marketing or network marketers? Many social media and social marketing platforms put many restrictions or will not let network marketers advertise their legitimate businesses. This is denying ordinary people to earn a piece of the financial pie. There is a tremendous focus on people being recruited into network marketing. The line of thought is most will never make money in a network marketing company and yes this is true. Most will fail at network marketing. Many will never make a dime and many will actually lose money. This is where the discrimination by social media and social marketing come from. Is it enough to deny network marketers the ability to advertise on these online platforms?

Yes it is. These are not government owned companies and can make up rules as they please even though and obviously these rules pertaining to network marketers are misguided. Most new prospects will not do anything or very little to make their business work. Why? The first reason I will give you is this, the start up cost is not enough incentive to stay in the network marketing business. Open up just about any business and the business start up cost will be in the thousands. If the initial outlay to start a business is twenty thousand dollars the new business owner has twenty thousand incentives to ensure the business profits. Yet, according to SCORE, half of all new businesses will be out of business in five years.

Small Business Survival Rates [i]

Small Business Openings & Closings in 2008:

· There were 627,200 new businesses, 595,600 business closures and 43,546 bankruptcies.

· Seven out of 10 new employer firms survive at least two years, and about half survive five years.

· Findings do not differ greatly across industry sectors.

Where do these individuals who start up businesses with these huge investment start up cost obtain their capital? According to 2010 Business Partners.com;

Successful Entrepreneurs Use Combinations Unlike oil and water, debt, equity, self-funding, and external funding do mix well. In fact, it's a entrepreneurial secret. The best managed companies mix their financing sources and choices. Which to use, and when, becomes a matter of individual option, although there are some pretty well established precedents. Founders' personal investments, including both personal assets and family and friends' equity and loans, are usually what finances concept or seed stage companies.[ii]

As stated in the quote, “Founders' personal investments, including both personal assets and family and friends' equity and loans, are usually what finances concept or seed stage companies.”[iii] The new business owner is willing to use his or her house, their family and friends’ assets in order to collateralize start up cost. These business owners have much more to lose than does a new prospect in the network marketing industry. Would it make sense to open advertising to network marketers so the ordinary person may grow their business without the obvious road blocks increasing the network marketer’s chances of success? More importantly, to give the individual a chance to improve their life and financial situation where they would never have a chance to start a traditional business because of start up capitalization?

Let’s make sense. The typical argument against network marketing is that it is a pyramid. Everything business has this structure. The structure is a pyramid. Follow. The owners, president, CEO, board of directors, are at the top of the pyramid. These individuals profit and receive the largest payouts from the business. Everyone else below receives less money with the least going to the employees at the base of the pyramid. The possibility of an employee ever receiving a large payout, as in golden parachutes[iv], from that business is nil. The employee never is secure in their job especially since 1970’s. “In the private sector, it's just the opposite: only one in three workers have been with their current employer for at least a decade. The average length of service for federal workers is 17 years; the average in the private sector is 3.5 years.”[v] So in corporate America, for that matter, the whole corporate world being employed is not a secure financial way of life. The individual employee is betting their company will be in business after five years, they will not be fired, laid off, company downsized sold or shut down due to bankruptcy or revenues not worth being in business.

The network marketing company is also a pyramid absolutely. The defining difference is a new distributor may build their business larger than the sponsoring distributor. Tell me one place in traditional business this may happen. In network marketing if an individual understands the basic concepts of network marketing, learns from a successful marketer, is coachable and most importantly puts in practice what they have been taught and sets a time frame of three to five years to become successful the network marketer will likely become successful.

On the other hand, an individual who does not posses the right mindset will never become successful in network marketing or any business because all businesses, network marketing included require certain skill sets and a business attitude. The inability to succeed in network marketing is not as costly as losing in a traditional business where thousand, even hundreds of thousands, or even millions maybe at stake. My claim here is why would an organization like EBay feel the need to become a big brother to individuals who may want to become a network marketer? Truly each individual has a right to try to improve their situation, as in the right to pursue happiness, even if it means there is a risk in attempting to start a business.

Many detractors of network marketers give statistics explaining most people who try network marketing will fail at a rate of 95 to 99 percent. I think that statistic is skewed because when does a prospect actually become an independent business owner? Is the prospect an independent business owner when they are first recruited or when they obtain the first level of success in the business? Why do I ask this question? Well when the prospect is first sponsored they need to be trained to start an organization. The prospect also needs to learn if they even like the products being presented to them. If a person does not like the supplier’s products it is very difficult to have a passion to want to use those products. Consequently, the prospect may never build a business. My thinking is after a prospect becomes a distributor and reaches the first level of any network marketing company they become business owners. The prospect would have used and evaluted the products, been trained to do the business and invested time and money to become a business owner. Although the percentage rate of failure would still be high, I would imagine the rate of failure would be less and equal to the norm of traditional businesses.

There has to be quite a few individuals doing well in the network marketing business otherwise suppliers would be out of business. Fourteen companies like Shaklee (54Years) in Nexerca’s rankings of the top twenty five MLM companies would have never survived over twenty years. All twenty five of Nexera’s top twenty five had to qualify to be ranked with at least ten years in business[vi] The problem I see with network marketing and multilevel marketing companies is they have been slow and reluctant to prove their successes and failures. Then most companies have the same thinking about opening their books. But you can look at the survival rates of companies within the network marketing, multilevel marketing companies to see the success of network marketing and multilevel marketing.

The reasons are simple to understand. Network marketing has come a long way and with the internet most large corporations will see the undeniable benefits network marketing organizations present. First distribution, as Mari explains in a blog, (What is Network Marketing vs. Traditional Marketing),[vii] “In Traditional marketing, when a consumer buys a product or service from a retailer the money are divided among 4 sectors of the supply chain:
manufacturer -> distributor -> wholesaler -> retailer -> consumer

In Network Marketing and Direct Selling Independent Distributors market the product directly to the consumer and earn the profit that used to go to the middlemen. Consequentially the profit chain is shorter: manufacturer -> distributor -> consumer.

The real genius is of network marketing lies in the advertising. Before one, let’s say a television is sold. The manufacture has to hire an advertising agency to advertise the television costing hundreds to millions of dollars before one television is sold if the manufacture decides to go the traditional route of bringing the television to market. I will stop there with just this example, because I would have to explain customer service, retail, shipping, inventories, and warehousing costs. Network marketing system is much more efficient and as soon as manufacture manufactures the television the supplier is able to make a call to the network marketing company and sell thousands of televisions set almost instantly without ever spending hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars to market and sell one television set.

Restating the question, where in the world does any business or anybody have the right to discriminate against the business model of network marketing or network marketers? As the economy is changing and secure employment is fading away individuals will need to find income to survive. The internet is changing everything and Wall Street is trying to find more ways detach money from the working class; network marketing has the ability to level the playing field. Network marketing is a legitimate business model which is inclusive to the general population and not exclusive of the general population. Money will be earned in network marketing by the entrepreneurs who want the dream most.

[i] Sources: U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy, September 2009
Survival and Longevity in the Business Employment Dynamics Database, Monthly Labor Review, May 2005. Redefining Business Success: Distinguishing Between Closure and Failure, Small Business Economics, August 2003.

[iv] Golden Parachute:A clause in an executive's employment contract specifying that he/she will receive large benefits in the event that the company is acquired and the executive's employment is terminated. These benefits can take the form of severance pay, a bonus, stock options, or a combination thereof.
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[v] HUMAN RESOURCES Government's Staying Power

[vii] What is Network Marketing vs. Traditional Marketing March 4, 2010, in Articles, by Mari

http://www.networkmarketingera.com/2010/03/04/what-is-network-marketing-vs-traditional-marketing/

We Really Need To Put Things Straight

2010-12-14T10:00:00.000-08:00

What is multi level marketing? What is network marketing? How does direct sales fit in with these two marketing models? Which one is better to be part of? There is a need to clarify these terms or define them because of the negative connotations that has been given the industry of network marketing. During the mid seventies through the eighties all multi level marketers were met by resistance by their prospects, families, friends, co-workers, and employers. Literally anyone with a pulse had a reason to be on guard when a network marketer approached them.

Let’s start with multi level marketing. Gerald Nehra, a MLMIA Board Member and Direct Selling Specialist Attorney, defines multi level marketing this way, “where certain ranks of distributors buy direct from the company, and re-sell to lower ranks of distributors and to customers.” This form of distribution is not the norm any more. A sponsor or a sponsor further upline used to have an inventory of products they would direct sell to their product only customers with a markup and would re-sell to their distributors with a smaller markup in price so the prospect may earn money on the products they sell. This system required extremely strong willed people to make a profit and build a business from this model of marketing. This system relied heavily on direct sales to product only customers and down line distributors.

Network marketing uses a different tactic to marketing and is truly a network of marketers. Again, Gerald Nehra, a MLMIA Board Member and Direct Selling Specialist Attorney, explains the network marketing distribution model, “The more efficient distribution model is for the company to directly fulfill orders to the end user consumer. This method is now the norm, not the exception. So it may be accurate to say that companies structured that way do not have a multilevel form of distribution. But most of these companies still have a multilevel form of compensation.” Okay, Mr. Nehra gave the how product is distributed in each system. Multi level marketing is through direct sales from upper level distributors to lower level distributors. Network marketers use a more efficient distribution system from supplier to end user.

The distribution system still does not define a network marketer. Here is my definition. A network marketer offers a business model to another person where direct sales is taken out of the equation unless the distributor has product only clients. The business model incorporates a multi level form of compensation to all distributors in the network but each distributor is only responsible for the products they consume. The difference in multi level marketing and network marketing is the relationship between distributors. Multi level marketers sell to their sponsored distributors and network marketing distributors are only responsible for the products they consume. Again, multi level marketers rely heavily on direct sales and network marketers only rely on the products they consume.

So which system is best? Network marketing. Why? Well here is the question a network marketer may pose to you if you are interested in becoming a business owner. Do you like sales? Do you like selling products to family and friends? Ninety five percent of the population dislikes selling anything. Multi level marketing relies heavily on direct sales, so in multi level marketing you would have to sell to family and friends. Soon you would not have family and friends. In network marketing, you, the new distributor, buy products from your own store. With each distributor buying their own products the volume of sales grows among all the distributors.

The problem is that both systems need to sponsor new distributors in order to grow a business. The question arises, is this a pyramid? Gerald Nehra, the attorney explains, “By restating what is a single level income opportunity, and what is a multi-level income opportunity, we get to what is a pyramid: When the only way an independent contractor can make money with the company is by personally generating business volume, the company has offered a single level income opportunity. If however, the company offers two ways to make money – generate business volume – and optionally – find, (sponsor, recruit, refer) other independent contractors who generate business volume – the company is offering a multilevel income opportunity. The key is that the independent contractors are empowered to find, and are rewarded for finding, additional independent contractors. That is the very definition (legal definition) of “multilevel.” BUT - The “rewarded for” above, can only be an indirect reward based on the business volume of the second independent contractor. The reward can never be an immediate reward for just finding the additional participant. Such an immediate reward is pyramidal and illegal. In an illegal pyramid, the act of finding another participant is rewarded, based on the act of recruiting, instead of based on the business volume of the recruited person. Another shortcut definition of a pyramid – Rewarding a participant for bringing in another participant.” Alright George! But for you to explain a pyramid that way to your prospect when they ask, “is it a pyramid?” question, you would scare them away with that long winded explanation. Why network marketing is not a pyramid the answer is easy. Network marketing and for that matter, multi level marketing are not pyramids because the person you sponsor has the right and ability, if they so desire, to have their business become more profitable than the person whom sponsored them.

Ok then, we have answered what defines multi level marketing, network marketing and pyramids. What is the difference in attracting new distributors? Most multi marketing programs were built around direct sales and word of mouth. Attracting new distributors was the same. Invite people to your house or to the new prospects house to show the products and business model. Hope for sales and hope someone will share the same vision as you. Multi level marketers used promotional materials, cold calling, advertising, and whatever other method that was available to them.

Network marketers have a huge advantage over the multi level marketers of the past and that is da da! The Internet. The most powerful information moving platform the world has ever seen. FaceBook itself attracts 500,000 people a day with each person averaging twenty minutes on FaceBook. Huge! Larger than Google! Place ads on Face book and just have one thousandth of 500,000 people look at your ads and you have more people in one day attracted to your business than a multi level marketer in the eighties had in one year. So keep your family and friends your family and friends. Attract people that have the same vision as you and you will build a huge business.

Network marketing found his big brother, the internet, in the nineties. The two brothers will grow together and will become the number one form of marketing the world has ever known. Automobiles transformed the world, airplanes transformed travel, the internet is a real game changer, from marketing, employment, education, transportation, travel and just about anything else will be, if it has not already been, effected by the internet.

Don’t sit on the sidelines. The economy has changed. We are a serviced based economy. Most of our production has moved out of country. The cost of education will have our children in debt for years to come. Many jobs that we have counted on will never come back. The ability to earn big paychecks is dwindling. Time to do something is now. Find yourself a network marketing company. Build yourself an income where you will be able to pass it on to your children instead of passing on debt to your children.

Now you have knowledge of network marketing. Use it. Learn more about it. Do something now.

I am a network marketer with the Freedom Project. Find out more at www.miniofficeoutlets.com/gjr

MLM Distributors

2010-12-10T20:39:00.000-08:00

Tonight I was contacted by a Melaleuca Distributor. He used my submission form to try to convert me from the Shaklee supplier to Melaleuca supplier. I am proud to be a network marketer except when someone decides to sponsor me through my website that I pay for. This person used my money to try to convert me. That is a thief. If he would like to sponsor me,he should use his own money to attract me. Not mine. That is a slimy tactic!

Now first and foremost, Shaklee explains to everyone it is a network marketing company. On the other hand,Melaleuca calls itself a CDM Consumer Direct Marketing. Both companies are direct sales distribution companies. So why does Melaleuca want to use a different term to describe their marketing strategy? To me Melaleuca is a wolf in sheep's clothing. But big deal,Multi level marketing,network marketing,direct sales marketing etc. Now Melaleuca is trying to distance itself from the MLM tag with the CDM moniker because Melaleuca decided to fool network marketers into "we have a better system." They direct sell to their customers and if one of them would like to become a distributor they are sponsored by their distributor. That is MLM in a nutshell. Call your distributor a customer or whatever they still direct sell and sponsor.

My question is why change the terms. If you are in direct marketing as a company stand up and say you are. Just as Shaklee does and the owner Roger Barnett does.Direct marketing or network marketing is the future. The internet and network marketing are a couple of brothers that have found each other. Soon everything will be sold on the internet. Why? Because ordinary consumers will make money this way and once MLMs shake their past of being badmouthed because of the difficulty to make money with direct sales. This is happening now. Network marketing is being seen as viable way to earn an income verses being employed by a company that may not last very long or downsized because of technology. Network marketing is using the technology to grow. Network marketing is in front of the bubble and not in back of the bubble like many strip mall stores are.

If you cannot find another stream of income that will support you in case you lose your job, you will be among the poor. Time is now to jump in front of the trend. Network marketing is one of the vehicles to do this. Network marketing maybe the least expensive way to do start your own business.

If you decide to become a network marketer give the Freedom Project a look. The Freedom Project presents an evaluation process that is friendly, no pressure, you make the decision and that is it. You say no and that is great because maybe this is not for you. On the other hand, The Freedom Project will tell you this is not a get rich overnight business. It will take three to five years to develop an income where you do not have to work. The Freedom Project system is a closed system. The system walks you through the whole process and there is no "ok I am here what do I do next?" Everything is mapped out and you never leave your house to do the business because it is internet based home business.

What a week!

2010-11-28T22:15:00.000-08:00

Wow! Things are beginning to pop! YES! I am receiving submissions and requests for more information in my Facebook messages. I am bringing my two candidates through the pipeline. I am stoked. This is going to happen for me.You need to jump on my back and we will go all the way baby!

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Hi Everybody,

2010-11-26T20:08:00.000-08:00

This weekend my son Gene and I went to the Rich Dad Education Seminar. This particular seminar has to do with Real Estate Investing. It was fun and my son Gene is all fired up. I suspect by the time he comes home tonight from his college classes he will have bought and sold two houses.

You know, that is the idea to get fired up about your future. Gene has called all his friends and told them he is going to be rich and he told his friends that he is going to teach them and help them become rich. He is fired up!

That is what we do. We were fired up about becoming rich and free, when we took the step to join the freedom project. And our friends, and are all of us in the Freedom Project. So do it like my son did. Tell everyone what you want to become. My son wants to become rich. So Peggy Listen I am going to be Rich, filthy rich. My timeline is three to five years where I could absolutely retire from my J.O.B. I will not quit the Freedom Project because I want to be free from corporate America.

As most of you know, Corporate America’s plan is for you to get an academic education, find a job, buy a house, have kids and retire poor. Retire poor because they have your money. I don’t want to retire just to live off my kids. I would rather give them things they want and desire.

There were many lessons to be learned at the seminar which directly correlates with the Freedom Project.

The first day at the seminar had to do with the outline of the program and putting all the participants in the right mind set. One of the things they spoke about is being in business.

I have to tell you folks, what we do is a business! And there are only two outcomes in this business as in any business. Just two outcomes; Success or Failure.

The good thing is we define our success. Yes We Define our success. If Success is an additional 300 a month to you, that is success. You met your goal. If half a million a year is your definition of success in the Freedom Project and you meet that goal, you are successful. I have not set a date with that goal yet but when I figure it out I will let you know.

I am glad Roger Barnett offers incentives like cars and trips. All that is wonderful. But that is not my definition of success. My initial success is to get a J.O.B. meaning Just Over Broke

Why do I want a job? I just started in this business so I need an income. I also want to tell the company I may work for, in two years or less mind you, I will tell my boss, Good by I won’t be seeing you! I just came in today because I want my paycheck to remind me of how broke I was working for you.

Some of you are new to this. Some have been doing this for a while. I have told everyone I can, that I am in business; my business name is Gene’s Mini Office Outlets. Have you told almost everyone you know you are in business and your business name? I have.

I think telling everyone that you are in business lets you know that you are serious about this business. I did not say that it lets everyone know that you are serious about this business. I said that it tells yourself that you are serious. If you are not serious about this business why should your prospects and your sponsored people think that this is a serious business. I spend between six and ten hours a day on my business. If I was working it may be much less but my free time I would work on my business. I have not sponsored anyone yet and all that means is I need to work harder learning what to do. I read, I watch instructional videos, I listen to tapes, I listen to recorded conference calls. I go to conference calls. It is hard for me to do the conference calls at night but soon they will be part of my schedule. I also call Peggy almost daily. As a manager and supervisor I spoke to my bosses everyday giving them reports and going over any new brilliant ideas they came up with. I don’t have much to report to Peggy but she does have a lot working knowledge and great advice to give me. Isn’t it better to receive free knowledge than have to pay for it? I think so. So I call Peggy.

Going to the Rich Dad education did two things. One it open my son’s eyes that he does not want a J.O.B. Gene wants money to work for him instead him working for money. Its called leveraging. Leveraging is where you use someone else’s money or time and effort to make money. In Real Estate you are most likely to use someone else’s money to make money. In network marketing you are leveraging your up line to educate yourself on how to do this business. You then leverage your down line to duplicate the process taught to you and to duplicate your efforts by the effect of multiplication.

The second lesson learned at Rich Dad Education is: applied knowledge is power. As a business person you may come to these conference calls every time. You may read everything the Freedom Project gives you. You may even go to Shaklee University. But until you apply your knowledge and skill sets that are taught to you. Nothing happens. Nothing happens. I learned some things about advertising this week and I applied the knowledge. They gave me a month for free. Their advertising system still will not meet my expectations but they gave me another month of advertising for free. I will take free advertising. I applied my knowledge. Applying what you have learned and applying the skill set you have practiced will make something happen. Not applying your knowledge and skill sets nothing will happen. My prospect, Mike, was the first I did the initial call and Meet and greet by myself. I was confident because I practiced and went on ride alongs with Peggy. I felt I had enough knowledge and enough skill sets to do this one on my own. Peggy felt confident in me too. By applying my knowledge and skill sets I gained experience. So applied knowledge is power. Something happened when I applied my knowledge with Mike. I gained experience.

Side note: Peggy will be helping me with the Classrooms with Mike

One last thing. Priorities. I have a real tough time with my living situation. I live with my ex wife. When we were married it did not work. I can assure you living with her now does not work.

The living situation I am in is not conducive to having a business in the freedom project. I can go live somewhere else but it would be without my kids. I will not have any of that. I did not start having kids at thirty years old to leave them now. Once I find a job and find my own place. I can assure you they will live with me. They will want to because they know they are my number one priority.

Well, you may ask, where does my business, Gene’s Mini Office Outlets fit on my list of priorities? My business is number one on the list with my children. Let me tell you why. If I do not follow through with my goals and expectations of myself in my business, I will become a burden, not a father, a burden on my children’s future. I do not want or desire this. I am sure they don’t either. This business is my priority. I would rather be a provider than my children’s burden.

Thank you

Any questions?

The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun

2010-11-15T16:36:00.000-08:00

The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun

Hello To All MY International Friends

2010-11-14T09:58:00.000-08:00

Hello To All MY International Friends

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Thank You and have a wonderful day!

What We Have

2010-11-11T00:20:00.000-08:00

As much as industrious overachievers hate to admit it, sometimes all you need to get rich is dumb luck -- multiple lotto wins, or finding a buried treasure or valuable comic books. Other shortcuts to wealth come with strings attached: marrying rich, divorce, or lawsuits, for example. Still, the point is that while the average American toils for an average wage of $22.59 per hour, according to July data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are the few who made fortunes without much labor. In other words, for the average wage earner to make a million dollars, he or she would have to work 40 hours a week for approximately 21 years. Doesn't it sound easier to buy a lottery ticket?

Most people dream of hitting the lottery just once, but Las Vegas resident Joan Ginther has been a lot luckier than that. Ginther won the Texas lottery four times over the past 17 years, winning $5.4 million in 1993, $2 million in 2006, and $3 million in 2008. Her biggest score came in 2010: a $50 scratch-off ticket that was worth $10 million (10 Shortcuts to Easy Street, Bloomberg Business Week, Nov. 10, 2010).

Truly, why will most of the people struggle all their lives? Answer: we were taught that way. Our parents, our schools, our government teaches us to be employees. Most employees will never be rich. We are taught to be good employees or good professional servants. The United States, as many other countries did, modeled our education system after the Prussian education model. The Prussian Education System was eight years of mandatory schooling that attempted to fully prepare students for the modern world. This educational system instructed students on basic educational concepts, such as mathematics, writing, and reading. At the same time, it also taught things like obedience, duty to country, and general ethics (How public education cripples our kids, and why By John Taylor Gatto).High schools teach economics but no school teaches financial education. The education needed to become financially independent.

The great H. L. Mencken, who wrote in The American Mercury for April 1924 that the aim of public education is not

“to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence. ... Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim ... is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States... and that is its aim everywhere else.”

What Mr. Mencken is articulating is the school system is to develop a citizenry of workers so the rich would always have a supply of workers for their businesses and needs. The government also looks at the Prussian system as a system to “to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.” American slave owners knew that an educated black population would bring the end to slavery, so they outlawed black slave education. Although education is not outlawed the conspiracy of the rich and powerful is to dumb down the American public. Why do we see people with doctorates going broke in retirement?

No financial education. We let other people, who have no financial education sell us mutual funds within 401(k) plans. Once we give them our money we have no control of investment. These mutual fund companies take their fees and cost before the money is invested because they know the next day the mutual fund may lose a great deal of its original wealth. Ba Da Bing! The rich get richer while the poor get poorer.

This is why The Freedom Project Builders are different. We are taking control of our financial education. First we learn how to build and earn. Then as our income grows we learn to invest. We have mentors all the way to the top and we are lucky we have a man like Roger Barnett that is willing to open a business where we could grow our financial education and wealth as opposed to businesses like banks and insurance companies who pay their employees little and take all the profit. The Freedom Project business is a gift. Open it up and fulfill your dreams!

When I was Young

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Actually when I was in my twenties my dad introduced me to A.L.Williams Company. I was twenty three, twenty four. A.L.Williams sold term life insurance and they also sold mutual funds. The big pitch was the customer would buy the less costly term life insurance, dump their whole life insurance and then use the difference to invest in mutual funds. BUUTTTT this was all done as a multi level marketing program. So you, the builder could grow your company and earn incredible wealth. Nothing wrong with any of it except it was a real door to door, one on one sales program. And there I was twenty something, an ex army medic, an office cubicle installer, now an expert in life insurance and investing money. Their money. Yep, Yep, Yep! I was to go into somebody’s house to tell the forty something year old they should listen to my advice. I did not have a single nickel in a bank savings account but I knew how they should invest their money!

I am 51 years old now. Not much smarter but a little more experienced. The older you become the larger your rear view mirror becomes. The rear view mirror is big, not huge, but big enough to see your own life so clearly. There are many, I should have dones and many, I wish I hadn’ts. This is why I am writing this article. I am writing this article to tell the young Freedom Project people they need to really take hold of this business because the Freedom Project is a viable business which works under two great market engines; the internet and network marketing. These two entities will become more prolific as the years forge forward. Everything as it is now will have changed or become extinct because of these two game changers. I would not doubt the business you grow now in the Freedom Project will not only represent Shaklee but maybe two or more other suppliers in the future. So the time is now to build your business.

I wish the knowledge I have now I had as a young man, the knowledge of network marketing when I was in my twenties. You see, I would have made my money, my kids would have had easier lives and maybe the physical tolls on my body would have never taken place. My business would be wide and deep and instantly ready to take on any opportunities, changes and challenges the future will bring. Instead I am starting now. My advice is to stick with the Freedom Project. Learn what you need to learn, do what you need to do to grow your business and become the shining stars to your children.

It's Time For You to Jump Aboard the MLM Train

2010-10-27T22:39:00.000-07:00

Most people do not have to look into a crystal ball to see what their retirement will look like. Problem is most people will not look at their retirement until it is too late. Do you really have a secure financial future? Let me point out some things that are affecting your future retirement. President Nixon took the dollar off of the gold standard in 1971. This meant that the dollar is now backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government meaning you and me through taxes. When President Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard he turned money into an IOU currency. Let me explain, before 1971 gold was $35.00 an ounce and there was a finite amount of gold that the U.S. had. Our government owed money due to the Viet Nam war so our gold reserves were being depleted. The United States was heading for bankruptcy. To keep the United States from going bankrupt and keep the gold that the government still had, Nixon turned us into a debtor nation because now the government is able to print money whenever it wants to. Guess what that does to the dollar. The more money the government prints the faster the dollars drops in value and gold increases in value. Gold is selling around a $1,000.00 an ounce now.

Real Estate inflated in price as did everything else since 1971. But the dollar lost value. The reason is because real estate, gold, silver are tangible, something you can see and touch. The dollar, on the other hand, has no value because it can be printed at will by the government. This is why President Bush and President Obama tried to stimulate the economy with an influx of cash. The government can print money.

Okay what does it have to do with me? If you are working you probably belong to a company retirement account, 401(k) and have an IRA. You also have been told to diversify, diversify, diversify and diversify. So you invest into mutual funds and market accounts. Before you receive your paycheck money is deducted and sent to Wall Street where they diversify your money into their pockets first. So the rich get richer. But your accounts follow the stock markets right? Lately what has happen to your retirement accounts? Alright then, what happens if you plan to retire today? The dollar you invested in these mutual funds in 1985 is worth less today. Meaning that you will not be able to buy as much of the things you need in retirement as you would have if you retired in 1985. On top of that you may have lost a substantial amount of your principle investment. Not looking to good.

Well what do we do? You need to arm yourself with a financial education. One good way to do that is network marketing. The people in network marketing teach how to operate a business with a very low start up cost. I am with the Freedom Project. The Freedom Project has the best training program going as their business education program is absolutely free and on going as long as you need it. The reason I recommend network marketing is the money you profit from is always at the day’s market rates. Meaning, that if you sell a bottle of soap today for a dollar and a year from now prices inflate due to the economy and that bottle of soap is two dollars your profit will come from the inflated price. Let’s say your profit margin on all the products sold through your organization is 20 percent on each dollar. You made .20 cents on the soap bottle that sold for a dollar. The next year prices rose making that bottle of soap rise by a dollar, so two dollars. Your profit is .40 cents. Over simplified but true. You are making money instead of losing it in the stock market. With the Freedom Project your business will develop residual income, basically meaning you will have an income whether you are working or not and an income that will out perform the stock market or mutual funds. It's Time For You to Jump Aboard the Freedom Project Train

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No Business Training? No Problem! Network Marketing Made Easy!

2010-10-24T21:18:00.000-07:00

In 1860 traveling salesmen were known as canvassers, peddlers, hawkers and drummers. Some of these former peddlers created trained sales organizations. Had it not been for their influence, many of the corporate names we’re all familiar with today might never have been. Names like Heinz, Avon, Fuller Brush, Nutrilite, Shaklee, Stanley Home Products, Mary Kay, Tupperware and Amway. These companies paid commissions to distributors for the products they sold and were given bonuses on sales volume. If the distributor was able to recruit others into direct sales of the company’s products the distributor’s sales volume increased and so did his sales volume bonus.

Direct sales or multi-level marketing required these sales men to go door to door and demonstrate the products. Stanley Home Products sold household cleaners, broom, mops, etc. Stanley Home Products decide to sell to organizations to increase sales. This was the beginning of home presentation parties. New distributors were recruited and had to be taught how to use and demonstrate the products they were selling. Distributors bought their products at discount and sold them to their customers at full price. They also sold their products to new distributors with a smaller mark-up so the new distributor could make money. The regional distributor would also share in the sale volume bonuses with his distributors.

In the 1980’s multi level marketing shifted gears with a business model of I’ll pay for my products for personal use and you buy your products for personal use from the same supplier and this way we can create sales volume and build individual distributorship business. Still direct sales were and still are a major component of any multi-level marketing company. The distributors were still required to hold their own inventory, deliver their products and collect money. In order to grow their company the distributor would have to sponsor new distributors. This was hard because you would start trying to sponsor family and friends and normally be soundly rejected. Except for that one prospect who believed in the product, or system, the distributor would be turned away. It would take some tough people to persevere in the multi-level marketing business. The multi-level marketing system unfairly gained unfortunate notoriety because of people trying to market to family and friends.

Yeah, okay but it is still a pyramid. Yes it is a pyramid, inverted. In any traditional business the business owner, CEO, President is always at the top and everyone below him or her works for him or her. All the employees earn a paycheck. All net profits go to the one on top of the pyramid. This is leveraging. The one at the top leverages your time and effort so they can extract the profits from the company and you take home a defined amount of money for your efforts no matter how loyal and hard you work. There is a 99.999 percent chance you will never become the business owner, CEO, or President of the company or corporation.

In network marketing and I prefer to call it network marketing instead of multi-level marketing because network marketing is a network of like minded individuals who are entrepreneurs that are equals in every way except that some have built stronger businesses than others. Multi-level marketing suggest there are people above you and hold domain over you. This is not true because an individual through their own efforts, desire and talents could earn and produce a sizable business that is greater than their sponsor.

In the picture on the left, the darker shade of the pyramid represent the traditional business model. The employees are on the second level and below. Creating the base are the employees who generally put in the most effort and are paid the least. All employees have almost a 100 percent chance of never making it to the top of the pyramid. The inverted or lighter shade of the pyramid represents network marketing. The sponsor at the bottom of the pyramid networks or sponsors other people to build their own business always teaching, coaching and pushing up their new business owners. By networking the base is on the top as the network of business owners grow. Every new business builder has the choice how large their business will be and that may be larger than their original sponsor.

How has network marketing become easy? Network marketing is not easy it is simple but not easy. In any business endeavor it takes time and energy. It takes short term goals, long term goals and a lot of dreaming. It takes failures and disappointment. It takes reeducating yourself from an employee mentality to a business owner mentality. You can no longer work behind the scenes. This is your movie and you are the star, director and producer. This is your baby and you have to nurture and guide the business to what you want it to be.

Why is the network marketing simple? Well the missing ingredient has finally made it presence known – the internet. The internet is still trying to find itself. The internet is still in its infancy but it has found a good friend and that is network marketing. In the past you would burn up fuel, money and time going to house to far away house as you built your down line. Your appointments would not show up after you drove a hundred miles to show them your business. With the internet you are as close to anyone in the world as soon as you sit down with your computer or laptop. How about that? Top that off with the products that customers and business builders buy are directly shipped to their house and they pay for their products on line under your name. Now prospects find your advertisement on line, connect with your website, qualify themselves, and submit their information to you asking you to call them! I am in the Freedom Project and this is my business. I don’t have to make speeches in someone’s house, deliver products to them and collect money from them. You cannot find a better business for such a small monetary investment. This is why network marketing particularly the Freedom Project is simple.

Network marketing is not easy. You still have to advertise, you have to wait for business to come to you, you have to learn new internet advertising skills, and you have to change your employee mentality to a business owner mentality. You have to be coachable and you have to want to coach others to be successful. You have to want and desire change to be successful.

As the automobile and airplane was a major change in transportation. The internet is a major change in the way people will shop for goods, work, socialize and educate themselves. The internet and network marketing is the future as business continues to grow on the internet and soon you will see more stores in strip malls closing because they will not be able to compete in the new world of business. So where do you want to be? In the fore front of the new business model or fall behind and compete for the ever increasing low paid service job? Come build a team with me and together we will build a very nice income and lifestyle. http://www.miniofficeoutlets.com/gjr

Economic Change-What are we looking at?

2010-10-23T11:37:00.000-07:00

We have seen change come. In our history,just to name a few, we saw the development of the automobile. The horse and buggy mode of transportation is just a romantic ride in a large city now. We had the baby boom generation that has fueled just about everything from the use of the automobile to the laptop computer. We went to the moon and after that developed space stations and shuttles. Our country, with Ray Kroc,established the fast food industry,now McDonalds is all over the world. Just about anything that was imagined was invented. More inventions are on their way to make life more simpler but not easier unless you are willing to change.

What will change is the way you work and live? I predict soon most office jobs will be home based jobs because it will be cheaper to buy a computer than rent a large building. As people become more internet savvy and the use of social sites become more predominate the way you work,get paid,your benefits, your commute,your family,your children and your education will be affected by the internet. Change will happen more rapidly as the government struggles with health care and the cost of running the government. Many doctor appointments will be held over the internet to drive down the cost of health care. Airlines will no longer depend on business flights because the internet can set up a conference with your team around the world on a moments notice. Business will be able to speak to their clients through the computer and not have to fly to see them. Families will not need to fly to visit each other as much because you can see and speak to your children and grand children through the internet. The automobile will have less an impact on society because many people will not have to commute to work. Society will depend more on shopping through the internet than going to the mall. All modes of transportation will suffer as they exist now.

The internet is the engine which will drive economic activity in the future as it is beginning to now. The baby boomer generation is getting older and is retiring at a clip of 7,000 people a day. Most will not have enough money to sustain their retirement as people are living to an older age. Bank saving accounts,company retirement plans,IRAs, life insurance plans will not hold any water as the government continues to devalue the dollar by printing more dollars. A dollar is nothing more than a piece of paper meaning I owe you because our debt is owed to countries around the world. That means a retirement account that is large today will not be enough to live on when you retire. Many retirements where wiped out during this last economic disaster. What are you to do if your retirement account will not be enough to last you 20,30 years into retirement and you then turn toward your children to sustain your living needs?

I have been educating myself as I have seen family and friends suffering in retirement. I have seen many friends lose their jobs as I have. I have not been able to find meaningful employment. Many jobs are doomed to extinction because there will be another seismic change in the economy soon. The amount of cars,airplanes and other modes of transportation will not be produced because the demand for them will go down. The need to have high rise buildings in the cities will no longer exist because of telecommuting. Employees will be able to live anywhere in the world to do their office job. Meaning that competition will drive down the salary for these telecommuting jobs. The rich will get richer as they are positioning themselves for the future while the number of poor in our society will grow because people will not let go of long held beliefs about going to school. get a good job and save your money for retirement. Financial education is what is needed along with an open mind to change your circumstance. I have opened my online business and my son and I will be opening a new venture in November/December.

If any of this concerns you, email me at ad909394johnson@yahoo.com or leave me note on Facebook. Read my blogs at www.genedjohnsonjr.blogspot.com. I am also posting on ezines. If you want to look at my online business go to www.miniofficeoutlets.com/gjr.

What Is My Business?

2010-10-23T00:08:00.000-07:00

What is my business? If you cannot answer this question you do not have a business. You don’t have a commitment. You don’t have a vision. You don’t have a plan. You don’t feel a responsibility or have a belief in yourself to endeavor and you don’t have a dream. Even though this business is a relatively new business model, it is a business. This business, network marketing, has many of the hall marks of any traditional business. Failure rates are about the same for any new business. You have to invest money, time, sweat, worry, self education, mistakes and undeniable feelings of doubt. You know people that just don’t believe that this business will ever go anywhere or make enough money to have you quit work and fire your boss. Most of them will be family and friends who will doubt your abilities to cope, to become someone different, someone stronger and confident, someone richer in life and wealth.

Why is the network marketing business more difficult than traditional business to become successful? Answer: It isn’t. Not by a long shot. Network marketing is all about you and your commitment to yourself, your family and your dream. As long as you find the right supplier, an ethical company whose goods are desirable and consumable for repeat business and an ethical network marketing company that the business plan is focused on the training and success of every new prospect with front end earnings and back end earnings (residual). The huge difference between opening a business like an auto repair shop and a network business is in a repair shop there are no coaches, no training, and no one concerned if you fail or not. In network marketing there is ton of training, great coaches and many people concerned with your success.

In The Freedom Project, I should say, especially in the Freedom Project you are afforded free training and lifetime free training! Where could you possibly receive free training, coaching, advice or mentoring for the lifetime of your traditional business? No where! You would have to pay for all of your advice and who might you be asking for this advice? Are they in the same business as you with the same commitment to the same business as you? Not likely because those are your competitors. Or are they in business with a commitment to make money from you and not with you?

In baseball, hitting is always the same. Your initial batting stance maybe be different than others (I will call it their personality) but when the pitchers start their motion to throw, the batters hands come down to the proper hitting position and all the mechanics to hit a baseball is the same in all batters. The only difference in the batters is their talent. From the time a professional baseball player starts playing Little League baseball and all the way through to his professional career he is taught to duplicate the mechanics of hitting. The Freedom Project teaches duplication. From the family who is making half a million dollars a year to the brand new prospect. Each person is taught to duplicate the business. You are taught to duplicate a winning process.

Okay Gene, if it is so easy, why isn’t everyone doing it? Well there are a lot of answers to that question. First is all of us were raised and taught to be employees. Get a good education, get a good job, work hard, save money and retire with your savings. Well that model has Phds’ going broke as they try to live on savings lost by the economy and social security. But for us rookies in the Freedom Project my thoughts are you do not believe the Freedom Project with our supplier is a true business. You feel safer with a job and benefits. I felt safe for twenty five years with a job and benefits. I still have nothing, I lost my job ( it wasn’t really mine because I could not take it with me or sell it), I lost my benefits and anything I have saved in the company retirement plans are gone. We rookies and others that have struggled for a while have to look in the mirror and tell the truth to ourselves. Do we treat this network marketing Freedom Project as our own business? If you do you would have a commitment, a vision, a plan, belief in yourself to endeavor and you would have a dream.

What is my business? This is my business to coach and teach the Freedom Project duplication process. I am in it for the long run. I am a Freedom Project builder.