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Last Updated: 8/16/2009

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Age: 54
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009 


This is an opportunity meeting I did over a webinar and recorded it. If you are interested in having a mentor who really cares about you and your life and your career, let me know. Let's talk!

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Tuesday, May 05, 2009 

Category: Jobs, Work, Careers
Network Marketing Survival Guide For Donald Trump

In case you haven’t heard yet, The Donald purchased a MLM/Network Marketing company.  So what does Mr. Trump know about running a successful MLM company?  Nothing!

Dear Mr. Trump, it is too important for you to succeed/not screw things up in our industry for me to remain silent and let your deal just happen.  Well, let it happen without me throwing in my two cents.  I want you to win big.

First, put your name on it.  Network Marketers are traditionally a bunch of Rodney Dangerfield’s.  Everyone thinks when they participate in MLM “they don’t get no respect!”  For the most part, they’re right.  They hear “pyramid scheme” far more than they hear “thank you for the opportunity.”  Donald Trump is a credible and potentially powerful name in the Network Marketing industry.  Provided you don’t blow it.

Products…I understand you have purchased a company that makes custom nutritionals for your customers.  Big, Big mistake if you choose to continue down that path.  The last thing you need in a day and age of the FDA big brother is a bunch of MLMers running around playing doctor.  Nutritionals are good, custom nutritionals is a guaranteed failure.  Have a good company build you a nutritional product line with custom formulas and great packaging.  Price them higher than anyone else in the industry.  Price and perceived quality are synonymous.  Don’t build any products that people will make claims that they cure something….the FDA will make your life hell.

Compensation…never, never, never pay out more than 45%.  You are going to have a cost of goods sold in the 15%-18% range, you simply won’t have enough money to stay open long term paying out 55% or more.  Distributors love to say “we pay out more than anyone.”  However when it comes to running a company, distributors are dumb.  Also, look at a unilevel with a multi-tiered bonus pool or a binary.  Do not launch a matrix.  The last thing you want to do is change your comp plan in mid-stream.

Cash…Bring enough cash to survive growing your MLM company.  We have had a few big shots start companies in our industry.  They don’t love MLM, they think it will make them rich from day one.  If you are willing to deal with a little pain, get the heck away from our industry.  We don’t need another big name know it all sticking his mug in where it don’t belong.

Location, Location, Location…stay out of New York.  Go to Dallas, Texas.  Abundance of trained people available and good corporate types from our industry hang around there.

The Suits…Hire experienced people to run your company.  You need MLM experience.

Ok, bud, I think you get the idea.  This is a great industry that you can make even greater.  But unless you do it right from the start, you’re going to fail.  That’s bad for all of us that love it like I do.  So just do it right.
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Friday, May 01, 2009 
I was reminded of something this morning that you may find useful at times.  When things are bothering us, when we are angry, sad, disappointed, we often think we are the only ones going through something like this.  The guy next door my be dying of cancer but our newly acquired stubbed toe is far worse to us at the moment.

We all hurt inside and contrary to popular belief, the guys who do all the winning aren’t void of challenges in their life.  Every time you let one of life's challenges take you out of the game, you are cheating yourself.

The only difference between champions and ordinary people is champions keep on keepin on even when they are hurting inside.
Visit my website at: GregArnold.com
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 

Category: Jobs, Work, Careers
I am the world's biggest coward.  I don't do cold calling.  Yep, I'm afraid to ask total strangers to join my opportunity.  I don't send out opportunity offers to my MySpace friends list.  I know many people do, but I don't like to bother people.  Call me an aggressive non-aggressive.  I make it a personal rule never to sponsor anyone until they tell me that they want to join me in my opportunity.

It's true, they have to ask me to join before I ever call them and talk to them for the first time.  10 to 20 people per month currently do just that.  Of those that ask, I sponsor about 60% of them.  

The other thing you should know is I don't participate in any free or one pay or low premium opportunities.  It costs $180 to join me then about $140 per month.  I tell you this because I want to impress upon you that you don't have to beg people to join you.  In fact, it simply doesn't work.

What do I do.  Well, I am an online social animal.  I write blogs, I post in others blogs, I participate in forums, I send out greetings in my social networks two to three times each day.  I have a Monday morning radio show, I do a Wednesday evening webinar, I write articles, and I give tons of free advice out.

Doing all this creates a steady stream of traffic to my website (http://www.greg-arnold.com/) which is set up in four pages, each a squeeze page or landing page.  This creates a steady stream of highly targeted leads.  Some of which are ready to ask me to sponsor them.  I send all my leads an invitation each week to come to my webinar.  

All of this creates 6 to 12 new sponsorships each month.  It all takes a discipline to be consistent everyday, but it is worth it.  I can teach anyone to do it, but I have already given you a pretty good outline right here in this blog.  Making money doesn't have to be difficult.  Most people make it a lot harder then it really is.

BTW, I have sponsored 3 terrific people from Successville in the last week, as well as 1 from my blog, 3 from Facebook, 1 from Amazon books and 2 from MySpace.  All in the last week.  Ok it's been a little better than normal.  But I still can't stress enough, anyone can do it.

Best of success to you,
Greg

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Thursday, April 09, 2009 
It’s high noon and the sun’s at your back…

Attracting top quality people it’s a lot like hunting. When you go hunting, it’s important to know something about the beast you’re hunting. You need to know where they live, what and when they eat. You need to know something about how they live, their families, what they like and don’t like. If you know these things you can figure out how to be more effective hunting them.

The same thing applies when you’re gunning for new team members. It is very important to understand human nature. Read How to Win Friends and Influence People. This book is a very valuable tool in understanding human nature. You should read it and re-read it each year.

People are emotional creatures. Almost every decision they make is an emotional one. At first I thought we were ruled by logic. What I found out is that people make their decisions based on emotion and they justify those decisions with logic. I also found out that when I approached people about joining forces with me, the more logical reasons I gave for the alliance, the more skeptical they became.

It was only after I became very emotional about what we were putting together did they begin to respond to me favorably. What I learned by this was, the more logically you approach someone, the more skeptical they become. And, the more emotionally you approach someone, the more excited they become. I also found that if you speak from your mind, people will respond to you with their mind and become skeptical. If you speak from your heart, it bypasses their skeptical mind and hits them straight in their emotional heart. Then they start to get excited about what you’re doing and want to join you.

People need to be part of something special. They need crusades. If we don’t stand for something, we’ll fall for anything. I always speak of the big goal and how it can change all our lives for the better. As we begin to see the big goal together, we begin to move towards it together.

An interesting challenge with mlm is it is typical to have wonderful products or services to sell. So wonderful, most people get very wrapped up in them and lose sight of what business they are in. While it is true that each of us is a retail outlet for our products, it is also true that - He who has the most outlets wins!

It seems to me that if you are aiming at a retail sale, it would take a lucky ricochet to hit a new team member or outlet. At the same time, if you are aiming at a new outlet, the worst that could happen is you would get a retail sale, because you demonstrate your products even with a recruiting presentation. So, I believe it is important that you only set appointments with potential new team members based on the opportunity and never on the products or services that you offer.

The secret to out-drawing the fastest gun in the west

Everyone needs a crusade or a goal that is bigger than himself; something that is good and has purpose. Something that makes them feel good and gives their life meaning. If you have a crusade, you can attract others to it. If you are in it only for the profit, you will have nothing special to attract the big guns, and they will be suspicious of your motives. Leaders are offered tremendous profits by amateurs everyday. On the other hand, the great recruiters always offer leaders the challenge of their lives.

Once you begin to attract the gunslingers, you have to sit down at the poker table with them right away. Ask them to give you a list of 52 people they know, which will be potential future crusaders. Also have them identify their top four people on the list or, as in a deck of cards, their four aces. Once they have identified their four aces, take them out to present your crusade, two on one, or on a three-way call to those four aces within the first 24 to 72 hours. Two-on-one, leader-to-leader recruiting is the most powerful and dynamic way you can build your organization. These first few recruits will possibly be your team captains and these team captains have the ability to build much faster and much stronger than most team members do.

Also, you must challenge all your team captains and team members early in their association with you. In addition to their list of 52 names, have them write down their goals and expectations for their first 90 days and first year in the business. Have them give you a copy of these goals and every time you counsel with them about their business, work with them toward accomplishing their goals. Always talk to your team members about their goals, and help them to achieve their goals. By helping them to make their dreams come true, your dreams will come true also. So you cannot help them too much!

Do not pick your team captains too early in their association with you. You must assume that everyone on your team is going to be a team captain. However, we know from experience that they won’t all be leaders. In fact, most of the time, the more wonderful they tell you they are, the bigger disappointment they become. When someone sticks his head up and begins to assume a leadership role, through their actions and deeds, you must begin to work very closely with that person and take an active role in their career.

Always challenge your team to reach a little higher and run a little further. Keep the big goal in front of them. That is why it is so important that you know what your team members’ goals are. When they know how much you care about their success and their families and their lives, they will be loyal to you for life. And you will be rewarded richly with many wonderful friends….And a really big MLM Team!

Visit Greg at http://www.greg-arnold.com



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Sunday, April 05, 2009 

Category: Jobs, Work, Careers
Live Dinosaurs Don’t Lie…

Over 30 Years in the business and I find myself making my first serious run at it in a long time. When you’ve been around a long time you don’t really have to work that hard to make money, so you might get lazy. I did. I woke up one morning and realized that I’m over 50. An old guy, a MLM Dinosaur. I also decided I haven’t done everything I’ve wanted to and it was time to reawaken the giant within. Here are a few things I did in starting over. Maybe they’ll help you too.

First I went looking for a company that I could call home for the next several years, hopefully for the rest of my life. No, I won’t mention names. This isn’t a recruiting pitch. Unless you want to follow this link. The things I went looking for may not be what you would look for, but you should. I wanted to find a company that was over its basement stage and was already stable yet hadn’t exploded yet. In other words doing about a half-million a month or so and had a good quality product that people wanted and would use month after month. I wanted to market nutritionals also. That is just a preference for those of you who like services or appliances. Those things are fine, just not my preference.

The reason for the pre-explosive state is frankly, I wanted to be the guy who caused the company to explode. If you build your business to the point where you touch off your company’s explosion then something interesting happens. If you have 50% of the company in your downline at the time of the explosion then you will have 50% of the company in your downline when the dust settles. I figure you take a half-million a month company to about 5 million a month over a 12 to 24 month period and you get to light the match. I like lighting matches.

Once I found a company that I believed fit the mold the next thing I was looking for was; I wanted to see what was going on with the ownership and management internally. Being a former company owner I might look for a few things you wouldn’t. Here they are: I want to see what their percentage of payout is. You might too, but I suspect you are looking for a fairly high percentage while I am looking for just the opposite. I’d like to see a number somewhere between 42% and 46%. If it is closer to the higher percentage I’d like to see that percentage offset with a lower cost of goods sold. Say around 12% to 15%. The reason for this is that I want to know that the owner is keeping his responsibility to me by keeping his company in good financial shape. Product based companies that payout in the 50’s or 60’s percent to the field don’t stay around long term.

Another thing I look for is the ego factor. Most owners tend to micro-manage their companies. It is important for them to do so in the initial stages of their growth. A $25,000 mistake in the early stages will cost them their business. So in an owner’s mind, if someone is going to make that kind of mistake, it is going to be him. However, when a company hits the half-million dollars a month range, I want to see that owner beginning to delegate internal operations to an expert. I want to see him spending big bux on a guy who has administratively already taken a company from 10 million a year to 200 million a year. Owners are supposed to be the keepers of the vision, not department managers. This is a tough transition for an overwhelming number of owners. Again, it is their responsibility to me and to you to make that transition.

I also want to see a quality product but more important, I want to see an efficient supply line. I want to have reasonable confidence that when we pop this baby open, we won’t run into a ton of back order problems. Additionally, the owner needs to have a good reputation, not only with MLM distributors but with his suppliers too. Yes I ask questions of the people he buys his products through. It isn’t always easy to get this kind of information, but it is your life so why not make the effort. Here are the things I don’t care about; I don’t care if I like the owner or he likes me. I don’t care if the pay plan is a binary or unilevel or breakaway or hybrid combining the three together. All pay plans have a built in guarantee: If you work you get paid, if you don’t you won’t.

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Tuesday, March 31, 2009 

Category: Jobs, Work, Careers
The Ultimate Leader Is The Ultimate Servant

Leadership is a funny thing.  While true leadership is the ultimate act of service, most people see leaders as the ones who give the orders.  While they do lead the charge, it is the act of leading that causes the troops to follow.  Often your MLM army has a greater fear of being left behind than they do a sense of adventure about what’s up ahead.  MLM bosses are a dime a dozen and rarely find more than a hand full of followers.  Crusaders who are willing to withstand the massive amount of rejection that lies between them and their vision normally end up with legions of eager followers.

Leaders rarely have the hunger to be right.  My friend, Jerry Clark, says the greater your need to be right, the less likely it is you will make any real money in the MLM industry.  In other words he would rather be rich and wrong than right and poor.  Arguments with your downline or anyone for that matter are easy to resolve.  Just say you’re sorry.  Some, who have a real hunger to be right may press on and give you several more reasons that you are a terrible person...but even the most emboldened “right people” normally will give up after 5 or 6 apologies and go ahead and forgive you for whatever trespasses they perceived you made against them.  As a potential leader, you just have to decide which you want more, to be rich or to be right.

Leaders rarely have the desire to control how their downline members pursue their dreams.  Leaders often have a system that they follow toward their vision, and they are willing to share that system, but they never force it on others.  It’s remarkable that it is often true that only the other leaders on their team, who are the ones who choose to follow that winning system.  98% of the people on their team, who don’t make a lot of money, follow the system to a lesser degree or not at all.  Leaders also make it a habit of providing what their downline leaders ask for rather than telling them what they need.  This leadership support is usually the most powerful building tool you have.

Leaders spend most of their time being an example of successful behavior.  Leaders prospect.  Leaders sponsor new team members.  Leaders make themselves available for 2 on 1’s and three-way calls.  Leaders continue to work on their own shortcomings and very little time pointing out the faults of others.  Leaders are far from perfect, no matter what their downline members think they should be.  However, they do know that they are a work in progress and normally have a long to-do list of their personal shortcomings.

Great leaders spend little time worrying about managing their organization and much time in the actions of increasing its size.  Leaders stay on offense or in building mode.  Leaders build from event to event.  Encouraging their team members to give it all they have for the next 90 days until the regional rally.  Leaders make sure there is an impending event to look forward to at least every 90 days.   Leaders know that anyone can work like a madman in 90-day spurts and then celebrate at the events.  This is the way many leaders grow giant organizations.

Leaders wait for their team members to call them.  Leaders know that their leaders will call and that their product users don’t need reminders of when to take their pills.  Leaders provide monthly communications that inform their entire team of new product offers, who the team leaders are, product profiles and even recepies.  These communications build team culture.  Local leaders may even hold a monthly potluck get together to enhance this sense of culture.

Leaders are servants.  They provide the vision of what is possible.  They take the no’s first.  They break through all the pin barriers first.  They attend all the company functions.  They create live training events.  They develop a recognition system for their team.  They invest both time and money in generic live training, cd’s and books that will enhance their knowledge and mental disposition.  They build lasting relationships with their team members and families.  They help when and where they can.  Oh, and they truly do get paid the big bux!  The ultimate leader is the ultimate servant.

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Thursday, March 12, 2009 

Category: Jobs, Work, Careers

“It’s the economy stupid.”

This of course is the now famous advice given to a presidential candidate several years ago that got him elected. Because today’s economy looks as though it’s dangerously anemic (oh what the heck, it’s going in the toilet!), literally hundreds of thousands are looking for ways to supplement their income. And some want to create a backup position as a hedge against the very real possibility of losing their job. It isn’t about having a strong desire to own their own business or even building financial independence, it’s about survival!

175,000 People joined Network Marketing companies in the U.S. in the last 30 days!  Yet there are millions of Network Marketers running around like the sky is falling because they spend too much time watching the news.  Bad news sells.  The more sensational, the better.  You simply wouldn’t watch “Kitty gets rescued from tree!”  You want to see “718,512 Jobs lost last month”  For those of you that love to wallow in the bad news, forget that I started this paragraph with “175,000 People joined Network Marketing companies in the U.S. in the last 30 days!”  Go back to worrying.

I trust that the only people I am speaking with now are those that love snatching victory from the jaws of defeat.  Fear and worry are your friends.  Not your fear and worry, but that of the millions across America who have lost their jobs, or think they will.  These skilled, intelligent, ambitious people are looking for a way out.  As a Network Marketer, you have the solution to their problem.  The economy can be your friend, the worse it gets, the more cuddly it becomes.  It’s time to start rescuing a few worried middle managers out of the tree.


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Tuesday, February 24, 2009 

Category: Jobs, Work, Careers


My three major RED FLAGS if I am speaking with someone for the first time about their business and they feel it necessary to bring these up as part of their sales presentation.

1. "Trust me!" I have never dealt with anyone who has said this in his/her presentation who hasn't later proven to be untrustworthy.

2. "I am going to make you rich!" Yup, you guessed it, these guys are looking to make one and only one person rich.

3. "I am a born-again Christian." This one may sound strange. I am a Christian too, but I never use this as a selling point. Those that do, it's been my experience have proven later to act like anything but a good Christian in their business dealings with me. I want to be clear on this one. I am not saying that my business dealings with Christians have worked out badly. Just the ones who feel they have a need to express it during their initial sales presentation to me.

Just my three major red flags when people say them during an initial business presentation.

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Tuesday, February 17, 2009 

Category: Jobs, Work, Careers

Choosing A Sponsor Is More Important Than Just Choosing A Company or Product...A Lot More!

If you aren't shopping for the right sponsor, you simply won't enjoy the success you are looking for.

Why?

Because the two most important questions you should ask yourself when you are considering becoming involved with Network Marketing are:

1. Which company should I join?

2. Who should I choose as my sponsor?

In reality, you'll want to reverse the order of those two questions, because when you find the right sponsor, you will have also found the right company.

If you ask yourself these two questions, the answers you'll discover will save you a great deal of time and money!

Most distributors in our industry never make any real money.  In fact, many of these distributors never get a bonus check at all.  Over 90% are wholesale buyers of the products or services and only hope they will one day be financially successful.  Chances are, their brother, sister, cousin, friend or co-worker shared a product with them that they liked so they joined as a distributor to get the best pricing.  From that point on, if they ever sponsor anyone, it's pretty much by accident.

I am not saying that inexperienced or under-skilled distributors are bad people, only that their chosen company is often by accident rather than design.  In other words because someone of some influence showed them a product or service that appealed to them, they basically fall into the company they end up representing.

Then, at best, they become what is know as a "some-timer" or someone who works their business sometimes.  Meaning they go right to work when you happen to drop by their house and ask them why they have all those products on their kitchen sink or in their bathroom.  Then you join their company because you like the products too.  The problem with this method of due diligence is most Network Marketing companies fail in their first few years.  Or to put it another way, you have about a 95% chance that any time you spend building your Home Based Business, is probably going to be wasted time!

"It's the economy stupid."

This of course is the now famous advice given to a presidential candidate several years ago that got him elected.  Because today's economy looks as though it's dangerously anemic, it's obvious that many people are looking for ways to supplement their income.  And some want to create a backup position as a hedge against the very real possibility of losing their job.  It isn't about having a strong desire to own their own business or even building financial independence, it's about survival!

That's why the sponsor you choose is so IMPORTANT!  You simply cannot afford to take a chance on a friend or relative or under-skilled networker trying to teach you how to build a successful business when they have never been able to do it for themselves.  And you certainly can't leave it up to them choosing which company you will represent.

The bottom line...

You don't know how to build a Network Marketing business and you don't know how to choose a rock solid company that is beyond the failure stage but isn't a sluggish, lumbering giant.  Choosing the right sponsor and the right company is too vitally IMPORTANT to leave to chance!

The fact is, I have the experience and the track record you are looking for...or should be.  Why not click on this link when you do, you can also explore some information about the company I have chosen and why.  Click here now to start the process of getting more information.


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