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Sunday, December 20, 2009
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
A Review of ViralURL - YOU be the judge
So you have finally stepped into the world of making money online. You too, like the others, have decided to start with the affiliate programs. Also, you must have heard that it’s not a big deal to make good money with affiliate marketing, provided you choose the right programs and do some strategic planning while promoting your affiliate products. So far so good.
Whether you are promoting other people’s products or promoting your own products – that doesn’t matter because after all it is nothing but your own business and your means to earn good money. So whichever be your case, I am sure you would not want to leave money on the table and invite others to steal your share of profit.
Even though the industry of affiliate marketing is pretty competitive but if you are cautious and are strategic in your marketing techniques then, it could be very profitable for you.
Take a close look at the industry, you will see that not every one who gets into affiliate marketing is successful. People who are doing well leave no room for failure and take all security measures and understand its importance.
Yes! Security is one of the key factors in affiliate marketing. If you do not adopt proper security measures, then your business will be at high risk. One of the most important way to restore security is to protect your affiliate links. Do not take them for granted. A bit of carelessness on your part in regards to affiliate links may cost you a lot of dollars.
Do you know the long complicated links that you send to your prospective customers not only look convoluted but they can create a lot of problems too! If you send such an affiliate link to your customers, then the smart ones will definitely figure out that you are promoting someone else’s product and they would rather visit the parent company. Also, if your link does not function then your customers have to type a really long URL into the browser, which will definitely put him or her off.
You could be a victim of even a worse situation. What if some devious Internet pirates steal your affiliate links and replace them with theirs. If they do that, then you get no commission at all.
Did I scare you off with all of the above possibilities? Well, that certainly wasn’t my intention. I just wanted to open your eyes and state facts that actually happen in the world of Internet. It happened with me until I came across ViralURL , that brought a revolution to my online ventures.
So, if you are not getting the desired results out of your affiliate marketing,don’t lose hope. There’s definitely a remedy to this problem and that is ViralURL.
Do I hear you asking, what is it and how can it help in averting any adverse situation for an affiliate marketer like me?
Be patient and read on, if you love your business.
ViralURL is a link cloaker that protects you in the truest sense. There may be many unethical people lurking around, who might play with your affiliate links by cutting them off or replacing them with their own etc. How much effort you put in towards building your business and advertising your business, if your links are tampered with, then all your hard work will be rendered useless.
In order to avoid such a rip off, ViralURL gives you full protection and sees to it that your affiliate links never get exposed to others.
So save yourself from getting ripped. Get all the commissions to your account that you rightfully deserve. All this is made possible by ViralURL.
It is a blessing for every affiliate marketer like you and me, who wants to achieve success in their endeavor.
Is ViralURL limited to only link protection?
NO!
It does much much more than that. Let’s see what ViralURL can do for us:
*ViralURL helps us in protecting commission.
*ViralURL helps in building mailing lists.
*ViralURL helps in tracking statistics.
*ViralURL helps in earning extra ad credits.
In short, ViralURL allows us to create massive business leverage.
I don’t see any negative aspect associated with ViralURL. All you have to do is join it for free, then cloak your links, promote them and see your business soaring higher and higher.
You can get all detailed information about the program from this site ViralURL. There, you can find several unsolicited testimonials from various users of ViralURL. So if you want to protect your business and see your earnings grow, try ViralURL. You have nothing to lose with it.
If you find this information valuable, share it so others can benefit too.
Whether you are promoting other people’s products or promoting your own products – that doesn’t matter because after all it is nothing but your own business and your means to earn good money. So whichever be your case, I am sure you would not want to leave money on the table and invite others to steal your share of profit.
Even though the industry of affiliate marketing is pretty competitive but if you are cautious and are strategic in your marketing techniques then, it could be very profitable for you.
Take a close look at the industry, you will see that not every one who gets into affiliate marketing is successful. People who are doing well leave no room for failure and take all security measures and understand its importance.
Yes! Security is one of the key factors in affiliate marketing. If you do not adopt proper security measures, then your business will be at high risk. One of the most important way to restore security is to protect your affiliate links. Do not take them for granted. A bit of carelessness on your part in regards to affiliate links may cost you a lot of dollars.
Do you know the long complicated links that you send to your prospective customers not only look convoluted but they can create a lot of problems too! If you send such an affiliate link to your customers, then the smart ones will definitely figure out that you are promoting someone else’s product and they would rather visit the parent company. Also, if your link does not function then your customers have to type a really long URL into the browser, which will definitely put him or her off.
You could be a victim of even a worse situation. What if some devious Internet pirates steal your affiliate links and replace them with theirs. If they do that, then you get no commission at all.
Did I scare you off with all of the above possibilities? Well, that certainly wasn’t my intention. I just wanted to open your eyes and state facts that actually happen in the world of Internet. It happened with me until I came across ViralURL , that brought a revolution to my online ventures.
So, if you are not getting the desired results out of your affiliate marketing,don’t lose hope. There’s definitely a remedy to this problem and that is ViralURL.
Do I hear you asking, what is it and how can it help in averting any adverse situation for an affiliate marketer like me?
Be patient and read on, if you love your business.
ViralURL is a link cloaker that protects you in the truest sense. There may be many unethical people lurking around, who might play with your affiliate links by cutting them off or replacing them with their own etc. How much effort you put in towards building your business and advertising your business, if your links are tampered with, then all your hard work will be rendered useless.
In order to avoid such a rip off, ViralURL gives you full protection and sees to it that your affiliate links never get exposed to others.
So save yourself from getting ripped. Get all the commissions to your account that you rightfully deserve. All this is made possible by ViralURL.
It is a blessing for every affiliate marketer like you and me, who wants to achieve success in their endeavor.
Is ViralURL limited to only link protection?
NO!
It does much much more than that. Let’s see what ViralURL can do for us:
*ViralURL helps us in protecting commission.
*ViralURL helps in building mailing lists.
*ViralURL helps in tracking statistics.
*ViralURL helps in earning extra ad credits.
In short, ViralURL allows us to create massive business leverage.
I don’t see any negative aspect associated with ViralURL. All you have to do is join it for free, then cloak your links, promote them and see your business soaring higher and higher.
You can get all detailed information about the program from this site ViralURL. There, you can find several unsolicited testimonials from various users of ViralURL. So if you want to protect your business and see your earnings grow, try ViralURL. You have nothing to lose with it.
If you find this information valuable, share it so others can benefit too.
Friday, November 27, 2009
Successfully grow your MLM Business
The end of Thanksgiving weekend is here in the U.S. and I find myself continually giving thanks for all the mentors I have had over the years in this business. As I have shared with my team and they share with theirs, this business is all about building relationships and helping connect people with their dreams. If I can make it easier for people by saving them some of the heart ache as well as money, then I am successful in returning some of the same that has been offered to me. Network Marketing is a fantastic business with integrity as long as the people in it hold that integrity while building their business. This is something I will always hold true to. It is unfortunate that there are many people out there that have given this business a bad reputation.
Here is where I will begin on this blog entry, giving you some advice on how to build your successful network marketing business. My blog is to give useful information on business as well as an occasional tid-bit on health. Besides, a healthy business can make for a healthier you.
There are a few basic but critical things that you will need in order to grow your network marketing business.
To truly build and achieve your ultimate goal in your business of having passive residual income, you need to have the following:
1. An easy and duplicate-able system
2. Targeted lead generation
3. Automated prospect follow-up
4. One-on-one relationship building
5. Sponsoring and
6. Training
If you have a single system to perform all these functions, the better. If your MLM company or upline group does not provide system(s) to accomplish these targets, you absolutely have to set them up yourself. But it’s a lot easier to go someplace where they understand these MLM sponsoring secrets and already have an established, tested & proven system.
Let me tell you about each aspect of the sponsoring system that I use.
1. An easy and duplicate-able system is one that the person can see them-self doing. Be sure to keep explanations and presentations simple. Your prospect must be able to see how easy it is to be successful.
2. Targeted lead generation. Why would you want to build the dream for somebody else? How do you think you’re ever going to make somebody have a dream? You only want to talk to people who have a desire to be successful and ALREADY have the dream.
Don’t put yourself in the position where you have to spend your time convincing somebody to get up off the couch to work towards their dreams. Leave those people alone, they will drain you. We need people in our lives that are looking for the doorway to success, rather than a life of excuses not to be successful.
Talk with people that have the desire for more in their life. These are the successes that are just waiting to be found. These are the people who will build the business, no matter what. Target THOSE people. Then your business will be exciting,fun & rewarding. This will lead to massive duplication when you work with targeted people.
How do you find them?
You want a system that generates leads which brings you ONLY the most qualified people. A lead who is dedicated to their success is far more likely to build long-term network marketing success than most other leads you get. That is who you must target.
How? You promote a your website that has only one objective: to capture contact information. When a somebody enters your site, their only option to get more information is to sign up. Here is where you must give value to your information and do your best to make an offer they cannot refuse. Leaders are Readers.
3. Automated prospect follow-up. The secret in network marketing is following up with people. People's lives are busy as are our own. It’s best to have an automated email system going out to these prospects. You need one written by a professional copywriter who knows how to tweak the mind, answer questions, create a relationship in print. You want your automated follow-up to create a relationship with ad copy. (Learn more about Copywriting with Mike Dillard's The Copywriters Guild)
It’s mandatory that you have a system in place to follow-up with people automatically, so you don’t have to do it. Because guess what?
You might be on a Caribbean cruise vacation, or a company-sponsored, company paid-for, week-long trip to Greece...get the picture?! You need an automated follow-up system or you will miss an opportunity and your prospect loses their interest and trust in you. Trust is a simple building block.
But that should not be assumed to replace the next most important key in building your business:
4. One-on-one relationship building: your most important MLM sponsoring secret. Network marketing is a relationship business. As mentioned above, trust is a simple building block in a relationship, and without it you have nothing. As a leader, your followers must trust you. You want to sponsor them one at a time and bring them in one at a time.
The only way you can do that is to build a one-on-one relationship with those people.
I’ve seen organizations come online and they sponsor and recruit, using some downline building system and stop there. They do not take the time to build the one on one relationship that everybody needs in order to trust one another and be successful. None of those people ever succeed or upgrade, none of those people ever buy product, because there’s no relationship. If you ever tried to call one of those upline, sponsoring individuals and say, “Hey, I’d like to talk with you, when can we get together -”, they won’t even return a phone call. These people are all about the numbers instead of the basics of this business, relationships.
As you can see, it’s most important to have relationships when you’re building the business. People must be able to sense and know that you care.
This step is crucial, so we’re constantly training people to do it. I have a friend that does a live, generic MLM “relationship-building” training call 5 nights a week. No company is EVER mentioned on these calls. No products are EVER discussed.
A lead may already be in a business but that is ok. Three out of ten people will be looking for an opportunity now or soon, and another three will change companies in the future. All you need to do is give without want, direct them to the training they need, and support them.
When the time comes that it is right for them, they will ask you about your business.
And I promise you, if you build people, then people will build your business.
5. Sponsoring. I love that word, “sponsoring.” I take that word differently than most people. Why?
Because I take YOUR success personally. It is my goal to sponsor successful business partners...meaning everybody that I sponsor will be successful.
When I’m your sponsor, I’m your sponsor for life. If I’m your sponsor, that is the way it is. You & I will be in business together the rest of our lives. You are in business for yourself, not by yourself. Do you see why relationship building is important now?
So wouldn’t you rather sponsor people that you want to associate with? My mentor told me, “Only sponsor people that you’d want to be in business with and could spend a 1-month vacation with.”
Wow! How important is that? Don’t just sponsor somebody with smoke and mirrors. ONLY sponsor people who you really want to build a business with.
6. Training. Absolutely the lifeblood of your business is teaching, training, coaching & mentoring new people on how to do network marketing.
You’d better have a step-by-step Action Plan. You’ve got to train them. Be interested in their success and outline what it is they need to do to achieve their success.
They need to learn the skills of how to do MLM. That’s critical in the training process. You can train a dog. But for people, you have to teach them the skills they need to do this business. Remember to keep it simple. Everybody must be able to see themselves doing the same. Being duplicate-able is key in a successful MLM.
Ninety-two per-cent of the world’s population is sales resistant. They don’t like to sell, don’t like to be sold, but they sell everyday by recommending things they believe in. Don’t waste your time studying about the super-duper elixir drink or youthful skincare where the ingredients are unpronounceable or have to be scraped off the rock by blind leprechauns every other full moon that falls on a Tuesday. Don’t study the product ingredients, study the people.
You’ll learn how to listen to people, and discover what it is that these people really want in life. This is key to connecting people with their dreams. You will be in business, and people are your business. Learn this and you will own your life. You’ll learn how to talk to people so that they don’t put up walls immediately with you. Listen more than talk, the people will tell you what they want and it will be your job to show them how to get what they want. Again, building relationships.
You can just plug your people right into a training system, and the cycle begins again. DUPLICATE-ABLE, LEVERAGED and RESIDUAL.
This is what you call a successful and automatic working sales funnel. Step 1 flows smoothly into Step 2. Step 2 into Step 3. Step 3 into Step 4. Step 4 into Step 5. And step 5 into Step 6. Step 6 into Step 1.
And so on and so on.
The term successful and automatic working sales funnel means there are NO bumps along the way. Nothing whatsoever to even slightly slow the flow of a prospect from one step to the next. Every step of the way easily transitions into the next step.
To be long-term successful, you MUST have a successful marketing system for your opportunity. The one that I use offers total training in the skills of working in today's online marketing as well as with people, so that you can learn quickly and begin building easily‚ and your people can plug into exactly the same system, making it far easier for you to help them as you gain more & more experience.
If you would like to have a way to help grow your business with the confidence of knowing that you have the tools, training, and support that you need, sign up here on my blog for my free training. Once you begin receiving and implementing the steps I outline, you will know more than 98% of network marketers and will begin your journey into becoming a successful network marketer!
Cheers to YOUR success!
If You Enjoyed This, Please Share!
Here is where I will begin on this blog entry, giving you some advice on how to build your successful network marketing business. My blog is to give useful information on business as well as an occasional tid-bit on health. Besides, a healthy business can make for a healthier you.
There are a few basic but critical things that you will need in order to grow your network marketing business.
To truly build and achieve your ultimate goal in your business of having passive residual income, you need to have the following:
1. An easy and duplicate-able system
2. Targeted lead generation
3. Automated prospect follow-up
4. One-on-one relationship building
5. Sponsoring and
6. Training
If you have a single system to perform all these functions, the better. If your MLM company or upline group does not provide system(s) to accomplish these targets, you absolutely have to set them up yourself. But it’s a lot easier to go someplace where they understand these MLM sponsoring secrets and already have an established, tested & proven system.
Let me tell you about each aspect of the sponsoring system that I use.
1. An easy and duplicate-able system is one that the person can see them-self doing. Be sure to keep explanations and presentations simple. Your prospect must be able to see how easy it is to be successful.
2. Targeted lead generation. Why would you want to build the dream for somebody else? How do you think you’re ever going to make somebody have a dream? You only want to talk to people who have a desire to be successful and ALREADY have the dream.
Don’t put yourself in the position where you have to spend your time convincing somebody to get up off the couch to work towards their dreams. Leave those people alone, they will drain you. We need people in our lives that are looking for the doorway to success, rather than a life of excuses not to be successful.
Talk with people that have the desire for more in their life. These are the successes that are just waiting to be found. These are the people who will build the business, no matter what. Target THOSE people. Then your business will be exciting,fun & rewarding. This will lead to massive duplication when you work with targeted people.
How do you find them?
You want a system that generates leads which brings you ONLY the most qualified people. A lead who is dedicated to their success is far more likely to build long-term network marketing success than most other leads you get. That is who you must target.
How? You promote a your website that has only one objective: to capture contact information. When a somebody enters your site, their only option to get more information is to sign up. Here is where you must give value to your information and do your best to make an offer they cannot refuse. Leaders are Readers.
3. Automated prospect follow-up. The secret in network marketing is following up with people. People's lives are busy as are our own. It’s best to have an automated email system going out to these prospects. You need one written by a professional copywriter who knows how to tweak the mind, answer questions, create a relationship in print. You want your automated follow-up to create a relationship with ad copy. (Learn more about Copywriting with Mike Dillard's The Copywriters Guild)
It’s mandatory that you have a system in place to follow-up with people automatically, so you don’t have to do it. Because guess what?
You might be on a Caribbean cruise vacation, or a company-sponsored, company paid-for, week-long trip to Greece...get the picture?! You need an automated follow-up system or you will miss an opportunity and your prospect loses their interest and trust in you. Trust is a simple building block.
But that should not be assumed to replace the next most important key in building your business:
4. One-on-one relationship building: your most important MLM sponsoring secret. Network marketing is a relationship business. As mentioned above, trust is a simple building block in a relationship, and without it you have nothing. As a leader, your followers must trust you. You want to sponsor them one at a time and bring them in one at a time.
The only way you can do that is to build a one-on-one relationship with those people.
I’ve seen organizations come online and they sponsor and recruit, using some downline building system and stop there. They do not take the time to build the one on one relationship that everybody needs in order to trust one another and be successful. None of those people ever succeed or upgrade, none of those people ever buy product, because there’s no relationship. If you ever tried to call one of those upline, sponsoring individuals and say, “Hey, I’d like to talk with you, when can we get together -”, they won’t even return a phone call. These people are all about the numbers instead of the basics of this business, relationships.
As you can see, it’s most important to have relationships when you’re building the business. People must be able to sense and know that you care.
This step is crucial, so we’re constantly training people to do it. I have a friend that does a live, generic MLM “relationship-building” training call 5 nights a week. No company is EVER mentioned on these calls. No products are EVER discussed.
A lead may already be in a business but that is ok. Three out of ten people will be looking for an opportunity now or soon, and another three will change companies in the future. All you need to do is give without want, direct them to the training they need, and support them.
When the time comes that it is right for them, they will ask you about your business.
And I promise you, if you build people, then people will build your business.
5. Sponsoring. I love that word, “sponsoring.” I take that word differently than most people. Why?
Because I take YOUR success personally. It is my goal to sponsor successful business partners...meaning everybody that I sponsor will be successful.
When I’m your sponsor, I’m your sponsor for life. If I’m your sponsor, that is the way it is. You & I will be in business together the rest of our lives. You are in business for yourself, not by yourself. Do you see why relationship building is important now?
So wouldn’t you rather sponsor people that you want to associate with? My mentor told me, “Only sponsor people that you’d want to be in business with and could spend a 1-month vacation with.”
Wow! How important is that? Don’t just sponsor somebody with smoke and mirrors. ONLY sponsor people who you really want to build a business with.
6. Training. Absolutely the lifeblood of your business is teaching, training, coaching & mentoring new people on how to do network marketing.
You’d better have a step-by-step Action Plan. You’ve got to train them. Be interested in their success and outline what it is they need to do to achieve their success.
They need to learn the skills of how to do MLM. That’s critical in the training process. You can train a dog. But for people, you have to teach them the skills they need to do this business. Remember to keep it simple. Everybody must be able to see themselves doing the same. Being duplicate-able is key in a successful MLM.
Ninety-two per-cent of the world’s population is sales resistant. They don’t like to sell, don’t like to be sold, but they sell everyday by recommending things they believe in. Don’t waste your time studying about the super-duper elixir drink or youthful skincare where the ingredients are unpronounceable or have to be scraped off the rock by blind leprechauns every other full moon that falls on a Tuesday. Don’t study the product ingredients, study the people.
You’ll learn how to listen to people, and discover what it is that these people really want in life. This is key to connecting people with their dreams. You will be in business, and people are your business. Learn this and you will own your life. You’ll learn how to talk to people so that they don’t put up walls immediately with you. Listen more than talk, the people will tell you what they want and it will be your job to show them how to get what they want. Again, building relationships.
You can just plug your people right into a training system, and the cycle begins again. DUPLICATE-ABLE, LEVERAGED and RESIDUAL.
This is what you call a successful and automatic working sales funnel. Step 1 flows smoothly into Step 2. Step 2 into Step 3. Step 3 into Step 4. Step 4 into Step 5. And step 5 into Step 6. Step 6 into Step 1.
And so on and so on.
The term successful and automatic working sales funnel means there are NO bumps along the way. Nothing whatsoever to even slightly slow the flow of a prospect from one step to the next. Every step of the way easily transitions into the next step.
To be long-term successful, you MUST have a successful marketing system for your opportunity. The one that I use offers total training in the skills of working in today's online marketing as well as with people, so that you can learn quickly and begin building easily‚ and your people can plug into exactly the same system, making it far easier for you to help them as you gain more & more experience.
If you would like to have a way to help grow your business with the confidence of knowing that you have the tools, training, and support that you need, sign up here on my blog for my free training. Once you begin receiving and implementing the steps I outline, you will know more than 98% of network marketers and will begin your journey into becoming a successful network marketer!
Cheers to YOUR success!
If You Enjoyed This, Please Share!
Monday, November 23, 2009
Mike Dillard's Copywriters Guild Release
My friends...this past week Mike Dillard has once again released an amazing course called The Copywriter's Guild. Anybody in Network Marketing that is serious about building their business should take a serious look at this course The Copywriters Guild. I am half way through the course and I have to tell you, this is going to blow my business out of the water.
Stay tuned for my next blog entry that will discuss how to build a successful MLM business. In the meantime, for more information and the resources that I use in building my business check out the resources page of my website www.AllanFigi.com If you want to begin learning, sign up for your free training from me here to get started. I hate spam as much as you so your information is safe. You get free information from me to help you build a successful business.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
MLM LEAD GENERATION SYSTEM
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Hi,
Do you know the difference between a successful Network Marketer and an unsuccessful Network Marketer?
The difference is the way they market their business. Most people don’t have a clue how to do this. I am here to share a system with you that is second to none, but before I do, let me tell you some more.
Most Network Marketers, if they do try to market, receive all their information from multiple sites. The problem with this is that it eats up all their time very quickly.
You ask how do I know this, it is because I was once there myself, until I found this fantastic MLM Lead Generation System.
There are 4 Main Components To This System:
1. Lead Generation
2. Personal Branding/Relationship Building
3. Autopilot Cash flow
4. Downline Team Building
Let’s talk about these 4 components individually for a moment.
Lead Generation
* Generate Leads with Personalized and Customizable websites
* Build your list using an autoresponder
* Qualify and filter you leads – sorts out the tire kickers from qualified leads
Personal Branding/Relationship Building
* A personalized capture page
* Personalized videos throughout the sales funnel
* Personalized email autoresponders
* Automatic follow-up which adds value and creates trust
* Turn cold suspects into warm prospects
Auto-Pilot Cash Flow
* A single streamlined sales funnel strategically designed to maximize commissions
* Automated follow-up & promotion of multiple income streams provide up front cash flow that can support your business & marketing costs (over 10 income streams)
* Profit from the 95% of prospects who say NO to your primary opportunity and still continue building a relationship with them.
Downline Team Builder
* Provides your team with a duplicable website marketing system that actually works.
* Train your new distributors the most effective online marketing strategies. (Tutorials & Webinars) creates leverage. You don’t have to train them individually.
* Here is the best part. It puts money in your new distributors hands in their 1st 90 days.
Why Does This System Work?
Because it is based on the principals of Attraction Marketing.
1. Promote yourself as a professional entrepreneur, a business owner, someone of value… not as a consultant or salesperson.
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
Get $25 from my online investing broker
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
What Soft Drinks are doing to your body
This is an article I found by Dr. Maoshing Ni a Yahoo! Health Expert for Alternative Medicine.
I am continually telling friends and family about the harmful effect that soda has on people's health, now here is information from a Doctor. After reading this article, I hope you will think twice before you reach for the next so called "refreshing" drink.
I am continually telling friends and family about the harmful effect that soda has on people's health, now here is information from a Doctor. After reading this article, I hope you will think twice before you reach for the next so called "refreshing" drink.
Besides, why not drink a Rev3 for an energy boost?! It's a healthy alternative that is all natural. More information on Rev3 DrinkRev3 (I happen to know where you can get it too..click on "Shop online" on my website -->FROM ME!!)
Soda, pop, cola, soft drink — whatever you call it, it is one of the worst beverages that you could be drinking for your health. As the debate for whether to put a tax on the sale of soft drinks continues, you should know how they affect your body so that you can make an informed choice on your own.
Soft drinks are hard on your health
Soft drinks contain little to no vitamins or other essential nutrients. However, it is what they do contain that is the problem: caffeine, carbonation, simple sugars — or worse, sugar substitutes — and often food additives such as artificial coloring, flavoring, and preservatives.
A lot of research has found that consumption of soft drinks in high quantity, especially by children, is responsible for many health problems that include tooth decay, nutritional depletion, obesity, type-2 diabetes, and heart disease.
Why the sugar in soft drinks isn’t so sweet
Most soft drinks contain a high amount of simple sugars. The USDA recommendation of sugar consumption for a 2,000-calorie diet is a daily allotment of 10 teaspoons of added sugars. Many soft drinks contain more than this amount!
Just why is too much sugar so unhealthy? Well, to start, let's talk about what happens to you as sugar enters your body. When you drink sodas that are packed with simple sugars, the pancreas is called upon to produce and release insulin, a hormone that empties the sugar in your blood stream into all the tissues and cells for usage. The result of overindulging in simple sugar is raised insulin levels. Raised blood insulin levels beyond the norm can lead to depression of the immune system, which in turn weakens your ability to fight disease.
Something else to consider is that most of the excess sugar ends up being stored as fat in your body, which results in weight gain and elevates risk for heart disease and cancer. One study found that when subjects were given refined sugar, their white blood cell count decreased significantly for several hours afterwards. Another study discovered that rats fed a high-sugar diet had a substantially elevated rate of breast cancer when compared to rats on a regular diet.
The health effects of diet soda
You may come to the conclusion that diet or sugar-free soda is a better choice. However, one study discovered that drinking one or more soft drinks a day — and it didn’t matter whether it was diet or regular — led to a 30% greater chance of weight gain around the belly.
Diet soda is filled with artificial sweeteners such as aspartame, sucralose, or saccharin. These artificial sweeteners pose a threat to your health. Saccharin, for instance, has been found to be carcinogenic, and studies have found that it produced bladder cancer in rats.
Aspartame, commonly known as nutrasweet, is a chemical that stimulates the brain to think the food is sweet. It breaks down into acpartic acid, phenylalanine, and methanol at a temperature of 86 degrees. (Remember, your stomach is somewhere around 98 degrees.) An article put out by the University of Texas found that aspartame has been linked to obesity. The process of stimulating the brain causes more cravings for sweets and leads to carbohydrate loading.
Carbonation depletes calcium
Beverages with bubbles contain phosphoric acid, which can severely deplete the blood calcium levels; calcium is a key component of the bone matrix. With less concentration of calcium over a long time, it can lower deposition rates so that bone mass and density suffer. This means that drinking sodas and carbonated water increases your risk of osteoporosis.
Add in the caffeine usually present in soft drinks, and you are in for even more trouble. Caffeine can deplete the body’s calcium, in addition to stimulating your central nervous system and contributing to stress, a racing mind, and insomnia.
Skip the soda and go for:
• Fresh water
Water is a vital beverage for good health. Each and every cell needs water to perform its essential functions. Since studies show that tap water is filled with contaminants, antibiotics, and a number of other unhealthy substances, consider investing in a quality carbon-based filter for your tap water. To find out more about a high-performance filtration system, click here.
On the go? Try using a stainless steel thermos or glass bottle, filled with filtered water. Enhance the flavor of your water with a refreshing infusion of basil, mint leaves, and a drop of honey.
• Fruit Juice
If you are a juice drinker, try watering down your juice to cut back on the sugar content. Buy a jar of organic 100% juice, especially cranberry, acai, pomegranate, and then dilute three parts filtered water to one part juice. You will get a subtle sweet taste and the benefit of antioxidants. After a couple of weeks, you will no longer miss the sweetness of sugary concentrated juices.
• Tea
Tea gently lifts your energy and has numerous health benefits. Black, green, white, and oolong teas all contain antioxidant polyphenols. In fact, tea ranks as high or higher than many fruits and vegetables on the ORAC scale, the score that measures antioxidant potential of plant-based foods.
Herbal tea does not have the same antioxidant properties, though it is still a great beverage choice with other health benefits, such as inducing calming and relaxing effects.
If tea doesn’t satisfy your sweet tooth, try adding cinnamon or a little honey, which has important health benefits that refined sugar lacks. For a selection of healthy teas that promote total body wellness Drink up!
I hope you find the ways and means to avoid soft drinks. I invite you to visit often and share your own personal health and longevity tips with me.
May you live long, live strong, and live happy!
--Dr. Mao
Soda, pop, cola, soft drink — whatever you call it, it is one of the worst beverages that you could be drinking for your health. As the debate for whether to put a tax on the sale of soft drinks continues, you should know how they affect your body so that you can make an informed choice on your own.
Soft drinks are hard on your health
Soft drinks contain little to no vitamins or other essential nutrients. However, it is what they do contain that is the problem: caffeine, carbonation, simple sugars — or worse, sugar substitutes — and often food additives such as artificial coloring, flavoring, and preservatives.
A lot of research has found that consumption of soft drinks in high quantity, especially by children, is responsible for many health problems that include tooth decay, nutritional depletion, obesity, type-2 diabetes, and heart disease.
Why the sugar in soft drinks isn’t so sweet
Most soft drinks contain a high amount of simple sugars. The USDA recommendation of sugar consumption for a 2,000-calorie diet is a daily allotment of 10 teaspoons of added sugars. Many soft drinks contain more than this amount!
Just why is too much sugar so unhealthy? Well, to start, let's talk about what happens to you as sugar enters your body. When you drink sodas that are packed with simple sugars, the pancreas is called upon to produce and release insulin, a hormone that empties the sugar in your blood stream into all the tissues and cells for usage. The result of overindulging in simple sugar is raised insulin levels. Raised blood insulin levels beyond the norm can lead to depression of the immune system, which in turn weakens your ability to fight disease.
Something else to consider is that most of the excess sugar ends up being stored as fat in your body, which results in weight gain and elevates risk for heart disease and cancer. One study found that when subjects were given refined sugar, their white blood cell count decreased significantly for several hours afterwards. Another study discovered that rats fed a high-sugar diet had a substantially elevated rate of breast cancer when compared to rats on a regular diet.
The health effects of diet soda
You may come to the conclusion that diet or sugar-free soda is a better choice. However, one study discovered that drinking one or more soft drinks a day — and it didn’t matter whether it was diet or regular — led to a 30% greater chance of weight gain around the belly.
Diet soda is filled with artificial sweeteners such as aspartame, sucralose, or saccharin. These artificial sweeteners pose a threat to your health. Saccharin, for instance, has been found to be carcinogenic, and studies have found that it produced bladder cancer in rats.
Aspartame, commonly known as nutrasweet, is a chemical that stimulates the brain to think the food is sweet. It breaks down into acpartic acid, phenylalanine, and methanol at a temperature of 86 degrees. (Remember, your stomach is somewhere around 98 degrees.) An article put out by the University of Texas found that aspartame has been linked to obesity. The process of stimulating the brain causes more cravings for sweets and leads to carbohydrate loading.
Carbonation depletes calcium
Beverages with bubbles contain phosphoric acid, which can severely deplete the blood calcium levels; calcium is a key component of the bone matrix. With less concentration of calcium over a long time, it can lower deposition rates so that bone mass and density suffer. This means that drinking sodas and carbonated water increases your risk of osteoporosis.
Add in the caffeine usually present in soft drinks, and you are in for even more trouble. Caffeine can deplete the body’s calcium, in addition to stimulating your central nervous system and contributing to stress, a racing mind, and insomnia.
Skip the soda and go for:
• Fresh water
Water is a vital beverage for good health. Each and every cell needs water to perform its essential functions. Since studies show that tap water is filled with contaminants, antibiotics, and a number of other unhealthy substances, consider investing in a quality carbon-based filter for your tap water. To find out more about a high-performance filtration system, click here.
On the go? Try using a stainless steel thermos or glass bottle, filled with filtered water. Enhance the flavor of your water with a refreshing infusion of basil, mint leaves, and a drop of honey.
• Fruit Juice
If you are a juice drinker, try watering down your juice to cut back on the sugar content. Buy a jar of organic 100% juice, especially cranberry, acai, pomegranate, and then dilute three parts filtered water to one part juice. You will get a subtle sweet taste and the benefit of antioxidants. After a couple of weeks, you will no longer miss the sweetness of sugary concentrated juices.
• Tea
Tea gently lifts your energy and has numerous health benefits. Black, green, white, and oolong teas all contain antioxidant polyphenols. In fact, tea ranks as high or higher than many fruits and vegetables on the ORAC scale, the score that measures antioxidant potential of plant-based foods.
Herbal tea does not have the same antioxidant properties, though it is still a great beverage choice with other health benefits, such as inducing calming and relaxing effects.
If tea doesn’t satisfy your sweet tooth, try adding cinnamon or a little honey, which has important health benefits that refined sugar lacks. For a selection of healthy teas that promote total body wellness Drink up!
I hope you find the ways and means to avoid soft drinks. I invite you to visit often and share your own personal health and longevity tips with me.
May you live long, live strong, and live happy!
--Dr. Mao
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Overcoming objections
“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.” -John Quincy Adams
The network marketing industry is a difficult one to master because of the negative perception many have of the industry. However, when presented and explained, network marketing can be quite an enlightening experience. There are many tools available to help a network marketer explain the business to potential entrepreneurs. The largest obstacle for me, and one that is most difficult to get past is simply getting a prospect to listen. Often the first reaction is to dismiss network marketing because of the negative image. It is extremely important to listen to an entire objection before trying to explain. Once you have heard all the reasons the prospect has to why they would not look at an opportunity that is when you can truly answer.
There is a great deal of skepticism on how network marketing works. However, once an individual understands the integrity behind the business they will be much more open to discussing opportunities. Understanding true leveraged residual income is where the inspiration lies in building a successful network marketing business. When a group comes together to promote this business model as a team effort that is when inspiration takes over – and revenue follows.
The benefit of a team environment gives enormous credibility to your business. Adhering to the main objective is crucial while building those team dynamics. Your prospect needs to trust you and your team. A leader is not measured by how many followers they have, but how many followers they have inspired to lead. Be sure that your team knows how to identify the prospects objection(s) by asking questions to clarify concerns before trying to give any response. Asking questions of your prospect will allow you to acknowledge their concerns. Be prepared to record concerns as they arise. Then read them back to clarify with the prospect so they know you have a full understanding of what those concerns are. Now, while explaining the truths of network marketing, be sure to incorporate their questions in to your response. Ask them if they understand to ensure comprehension as you are explaining. Once your prospect achieves awareness of how network marketing works, they will be excited by the true potential. Once this phase is complete, your prospect will be able to make a better business decision. Again, the prospect must feel they can trust you and your team. By clearly identifying their concerns will add credibility to you and your offering to teach them how to build their own business. This approach should also lead to referrals. Do not be afraid to ask for them.
Do not be afraid to ask questions of your up lines, cross lines and even down lines. True team collaboration is what will propel your team to excel in achieving their desires and goals. Never stop looking for information. Knowledge is the best tool you can obtain and share with not only your team, but also your prospects. Displaying your knowledge and actively pursuing education will reflect in the relationship you develop with your team and your prospects.
A positive self-image is extremely important to being successful. Watch this Denis Waitley clip from Success Video http://video.success.com/experts/positive-self-image/ and remember B.A.G. “Blessings, Accomplishments & Goals”
"It's not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude." - Zig Ziglar
The network marketing industry is a difficult one to master because of the negative perception many have of the industry. However, when presented and explained, network marketing can be quite an enlightening experience. There are many tools available to help a network marketer explain the business to potential entrepreneurs. The largest obstacle for me, and one that is most difficult to get past is simply getting a prospect to listen. Often the first reaction is to dismiss network marketing because of the negative image. It is extremely important to listen to an entire objection before trying to explain. Once you have heard all the reasons the prospect has to why they would not look at an opportunity that is when you can truly answer.
There is a great deal of skepticism on how network marketing works. However, once an individual understands the integrity behind the business they will be much more open to discussing opportunities. Understanding true leveraged residual income is where the inspiration lies in building a successful network marketing business. When a group comes together to promote this business model as a team effort that is when inspiration takes over – and revenue follows.
The benefit of a team environment gives enormous credibility to your business. Adhering to the main objective is crucial while building those team dynamics. Your prospect needs to trust you and your team. A leader is not measured by how many followers they have, but how many followers they have inspired to lead. Be sure that your team knows how to identify the prospects objection(s) by asking questions to clarify concerns before trying to give any response. Asking questions of your prospect will allow you to acknowledge their concerns. Be prepared to record concerns as they arise. Then read them back to clarify with the prospect so they know you have a full understanding of what those concerns are. Now, while explaining the truths of network marketing, be sure to incorporate their questions in to your response. Ask them if they understand to ensure comprehension as you are explaining. Once your prospect achieves awareness of how network marketing works, they will be excited by the true potential. Once this phase is complete, your prospect will be able to make a better business decision. Again, the prospect must feel they can trust you and your team. By clearly identifying their concerns will add credibility to you and your offering to teach them how to build their own business. This approach should also lead to referrals. Do not be afraid to ask for them.
Do not be afraid to ask questions of your up lines, cross lines and even down lines. True team collaboration is what will propel your team to excel in achieving their desires and goals. Never stop looking for information. Knowledge is the best tool you can obtain and share with not only your team, but also your prospects. Displaying your knowledge and actively pursuing education will reflect in the relationship you develop with your team and your prospects.
A positive self-image is extremely important to being successful. Watch this Denis Waitley clip from Success Video http://video.success.com/experts/positive-self-image/ and remember B.A.G. “Blessings, Accomplishments & Goals”
"It's not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude." - Zig Ziglar
Friday, August 28, 2009
An event without limits
I don't know where to begin, but I'll certainly do my best. I just returned from attending the International Convention for my primary business. To say it was an incredible and life changing experience for so many people really is an understatement. For me it started out with my flight. I met a woman who is a certified Law of Attraction trainer. If you have not read/watched "The Secret", you are missing out on a key ingredient for your business. Knowing how to focus on the positive things in life is a must to being successful.
The entire event was jam packed with amazing announcements and jaw dropping developments. I may be partial to my business, as most network marketers are, but when I say this company is the best, I say it with passion and conviction of purpose. It truly is a vehicle to take individuals to their dreams. The network marketing industry has been recognizing this company for several years as the best. There are no smoke and mirrors and cleverly worded marketing tactics. Pure integrity with a superior product line. Our last quarter was the best in the company's history to date. When it comes to compensation, we truly have THE BEST. Having the highest payout percentage of profitable reporting companies is an accolade which should make all network marketers stand up and take notice. I heard from leading authorities in motivational speaking and #1 best selling authors like, Robert Allen. The remarkable Les Brown is an individual that inspires an entire arena and is truly a blessing to have been able to listen to, along with his son John Wesley. As Les Brown said, are you a thermometer or a thermostat? A thermometer measures it surroundings (accepting things as is) and a thermostat changes it's surrounding (taking charge and moving forward to make things happen.) Listening to motiviational speaker Dr. Denis Waitley always places things into a real world perspective and making an individual grow by thinking positive. The lessons learned from industry leader and trainer, Tim Sales, are unmeasureable and will forever be paying dividends in my business. Your business will continue to evolve with you as long as you continue to educate yourself and evolve with your business.
I strongly suggest that you never stop searching for information and continue to share your knowledge with the people in your business. The more you invest into yourself, the more valuable you will be to your business which will in turn attract people to you AND your business. This simple concept is what I am using with my team as well as sharing with people that read this blog. I want to give as much credibility to network marketing as possible by sharing the tools and training that I feel have the highest integrity and are the most beneficial in building a successful business.
As I continue to reflect on the past 4 days, I am excited and motivated at sharing my ideas and experience to help people that want something better out of their life. This industry, when presented properly, can change lives. An individual's dreams are truly attainable when they remain positive and never give up. As said by Eleanor Roosevelt “Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.” Build your dreams and never give up on yourself and those dreams.
The entire event was jam packed with amazing announcements and jaw dropping developments. I may be partial to my business, as most network marketers are, but when I say this company is the best, I say it with passion and conviction of purpose. It truly is a vehicle to take individuals to their dreams. The network marketing industry has been recognizing this company for several years as the best. There are no smoke and mirrors and cleverly worded marketing tactics. Pure integrity with a superior product line. Our last quarter was the best in the company's history to date. When it comes to compensation, we truly have THE BEST. Having the highest payout percentage of profitable reporting companies is an accolade which should make all network marketers stand up and take notice. I heard from leading authorities in motivational speaking and #1 best selling authors like, Robert Allen. The remarkable Les Brown is an individual that inspires an entire arena and is truly a blessing to have been able to listen to, along with his son John Wesley. As Les Brown said, are you a thermometer or a thermostat? A thermometer measures it surroundings (accepting things as is) and a thermostat changes it's surrounding (taking charge and moving forward to make things happen.) Listening to motiviational speaker Dr. Denis Waitley always places things into a real world perspective and making an individual grow by thinking positive. The lessons learned from industry leader and trainer, Tim Sales, are unmeasureable and will forever be paying dividends in my business. Your business will continue to evolve with you as long as you continue to educate yourself and evolve with your business.
I strongly suggest that you never stop searching for information and continue to share your knowledge with the people in your business. The more you invest into yourself, the more valuable you will be to your business which will in turn attract people to you AND your business. This simple concept is what I am using with my team as well as sharing with people that read this blog. I want to give as much credibility to network marketing as possible by sharing the tools and training that I feel have the highest integrity and are the most beneficial in building a successful business.
As I continue to reflect on the past 4 days, I am excited and motivated at sharing my ideas and experience to help people that want something better out of their life. This industry, when presented properly, can change lives. An individual's dreams are truly attainable when they remain positive and never give up. As said by Eleanor Roosevelt “Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.” Build your dreams and never give up on yourself and those dreams.
Monday, August 24, 2009
New Beginnings
My first blog entry...here we go...As I continue to venture further into the world of Network Marketing and helping people build successful business for themselves, I find it exhilarating. There is so much information available and so many different ways to communicate with everybody; it is hard to determine the best route. I am finding the more that I learn, I am able to share with others that have been, or are in the same area of building their business trifles. It is a huge relief to be able to find somebody that is willing to take the time to share their struggles and give guidance through what has worked for them.This is the beginning of my blog to help people. It will be a venue for people to follow my thoughts as well as offer theirs. It is my belief that the more open people are with one another, the more successful we can all become. Network Marketing is all about relationship building. We hear that over and over again, so what better way to build a relationship, then to have an open and honest area to communicate and build relationships. As this blog evolves, it is my most sincere wish that it helps people find the path that works for them in evolving their life and business.I will share on here the tools that I have found to be the most beneficial in my business as well as the lessons that I learn, and will continue to learn. "TEAM" (Together EVERYBODY Achieves More) really is the basis behind network marketing. Building relationships is all about building teams with honesty and having strong ethics and integrity. Together, we can all be successful by sharing and enhancing each other’s individual strengths and weakness. Where one person may be a little weak, they can learn from another "team" member how to strengthen. I really believe whole-heartedly the fundamentals of being a team and pulling each other together towards success. This is what I build my team on and will expect from all of my team.
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