Enjoy the Holidays

3 HOT Networking Tips for the Holiday Season

#1 - Keep a look out for good communicators

Be friendly. Say hello and introduce your self. Ask questions. Find out more about them than they find out about you. Ask about their family, how they got invited to the party, do they like their occupation, what they do for recreation. hobbies. Remember, it's not an interrogation, but a conversation. Ultimately, you are looking to make a new friend and perhaps even a new business partner for sometime down the road.

You may even find out when asking these questions, what would compel them to look at your business or product in the future. In other words, they may or may not qualify for what you are doing. If they don't see a perceived problem, then don't waste your time offering your "solution".

Remember it's always better to go too slow than too fast, so at first, it is better to befriend someone than to give a full sales pitch and scare them away.

#2 - Give a sincere compliment.

After having some conversation and learning more about your new contact, before the interaction ends, always give a sincere compliment if they have the kind of people skills of someone you'd be interested in showing your business and/or product to at some point.

You may or may not even bring up your business right away, unless they ask. Either way, this is ok. Remember, the relationship is more important than anything and people will do business with those that they believe in, like and trust. And this takes some time to develop unless when you first meet, sparks start flying!

Tell them that you find their people skills excellent and that you are always on the lookout for competent ambitious people who may want to keep in contact for the future.

#3 - Exchange Contact Information.

Never give any information without getting information. Don’t just hand out your card like confetti. The key is to create a new friend and relationship where both of you want to keep in touch. In this case, the fortune is absolutely in the follow up.

Just keep in mind that you must first find out what is important to them, and then, make it important to you. This is how you can turn these new contacts into new friends and business partners.

Remember you can and should have friends out side your business if nothing else just to give you a balanced perspective.

Bottom line enjoy the journey and your holidays.

Sales to soar

Specialty supplement sales to soar.

Mintel’s Global New Products Database placing superfruits among the top 10 trends

combined with the Business Insights study predicting specialty supplements offer the most sales growth potential over the next five years puts a smile on the face of our industry.

Finding the next obscure fruit with high nutrient content is big business in the

functional fruit business as originality , combined with taste and mystic scores high with consumers.

Supplement consumption has reportedly increased in the younger generations by as much as 30 percent.

A report released by Packaged Facts last year, entitled Nutritional Supplements in the US, predicted that dietary supplement sales would grow upwards of $6bn by 2011, with products geared towards specific ailments accounting for a large share of the growth.
The International Food Information Council (IFIC) commissioned a web-based national survey of US adults last month and found consumers overwhelmingly believe food and nutrition play the greatest role in maintaining or improving health.

Based on the findings that consumers understand the link between food and health

the challenge is to increase consumer awareness so as to further tap into this market potential

Antioxidant Overpowers Rivals

Picking Winners

The mega trend that has flowed through society for generations

is fulfilling the needs and desires of baby boomers. This is not going to change as they enter retirement. They are becoming increasingly

concerned with health, and the resultant market is projected to

top one trillion dollars internationally.

In the last decade Berries became popular, this was followed by super fruits.

Pomegrannate, Gogi, Noni, Mangosteen and Acai which are all marketed on their powerful anti oxidant and associated medicinal benefits. Scientists believe Anti oxidants help prevent and repair the stress that comes from oxidation,

a natural process that occurs during cell division. Companies

unknown five years ago, now have sales approaching billions.

The world wide search for unique foods with enhanced beneficial properties has identified indigenous botanicals which are more potent than the foreigners and they have been known and used for millennia.

Scientists have discovered

that the most potent antioxidant is not in a fruit or berry, it's in your body.

Celebrate another podium finish or join the gold rush.

Marketing

Promoting your business web site.

One article can only summarize some of the avenues available

to the entrepreneur marketing their wares.

Lets starting with telling friends, word of mouth works because we have credibility and are able to tell a story about the product or business (testimonial) with a smile on our dial.

Business cards, flyers, notice boards, shirts, caps, buttons and don’t forget the mobile

advertising vehicle, your car. You need a eye catching phrase or logo,

a conversation starter. Some thing that may fulfill a need or desire.

Give people a reason to remember and seek more information.

The internet is an evolving medium with huge potential and it requires study.

Let’s look at Google adwords, Yahoo and other search engines are similar.

At the bottom of a Google search page, click on the advertise programs.

They have tutorials that will lead you through the process and it does not have to be learnt in a day. You are able to modify the add and refine the budget as the promotion develops.

You get to choose the key words that will come up in searches. For example, home business, Kakadu Juice or nutritional supplement. You are able to specify the maximum amount you are willing to pay when some one clicks on your add. (cents per click –CPC). Also you determine your daily budget and the locations where your

campaign will appear.

The adds that appear on the first page of a search get the majority of the clicks. Some terms like MLM are expensive to get on the first page because of their popularity. Paying to advertise MLM on the first page of a search all around the world would be prohibitively expensive.

So we can limit the location and or the daily budget or both.

For example our Add could be.

Kakadu Juice the nutrition

Your body deserves.

www.licence2printmoney.com

Location – the state of Victoria

Key Word - CPC

Nutrition 23c

MLM 1.80c

Kakadu Juice 17c

Home Business 1.13c

Noni 22c

Daily Budget $5

Be on the look out for Free classifieds and forums that discuss topics of interest

Web 2 which is a growing resource and refers to the use of blogs,

YouTube, MySpace and Face Book. These are free and are being used by a growing number of people.

Remember there are people who get paid to take nutritional supplements and those who don’t.

Some thing to mention next time someone asks you what you do for a living.

Cheers

Peter

" I get paid to take a delicious nutritional supplement"

"I get paid to help people and make friends"

Napoleon Hill

Napoleon Hill the author of “Think and Grow Rich”is also know
for poetry and quotes. He has inspired generations.

“I bargained with life for a penny
and life would pay no more,
however, I begged at evening
when I counted my scanty store;

For life is a just employer
he gives you what you ask
but, once you have set the wages
why, you must bear the task;

I worked for a menial’s hire
only to learn dismayed
that any wage I had asked of life,
life would have willingly paid.”

If you cannot do great things, do small things in great ways.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blue prints of your ultimate achievements.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our mind is extracted.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Dignity

Simplicity & Dignity by Zig Ziglar

A parent or teacher who treats a child with dignity builds the self-esteem of the child and automatically increases the child's performance, which generally improves the child's conduct. An employer who treats employees with respect and dignity builds loyalty and increased productivity.

You treat another person, regardless of age, with dignity when you courteously listen to him or her and respond in a thoughtful manner. You treat others with dignity when you show them respect, regardless of their occupation, sex, race, creed or color. And when you treat others with respect and dignity, your own self-respect and sense of dignity improve.

Simplicity and dignity make a powerful combination. When you strive for dignity and use simplicity as a yardstick, you've just elevated your possibilities for accomplishment.

See you at the top!
Zig Ziglar - visit Zig on the web

Words of wisdom

It Is Up To You

One of the first things successful people realize is the old adage, "if it is to be, it is up to me." That is, for you, the fact that your success and your course is up to you. This doesn't mean that you do it all alone. It simply means that you take responsibility for your life and your career.

Too many people today look at opportunity and figure it is up to someone else to make sure they get it. They look at financial security and hope that the government will make sure they live safely in retirement or in case of disability. They wait and wait, figuring that it is up to someone else. And then the wait is over, and it is too late to do anything. Their life is over and they are filled with regret.

This isn't true for you however. You know that you must take responsibility for your life. It is up to you.

The fact is that nobody else is going to do it for you. You must do it yourself.

Now, some people may say, "Jim, that's a lot of responsibility." But here's what I think, that is the best news you can ever hear. You get to choose your life. Hundreds of millions of people all around this world would give anything to live in the situation you do just for the chance to have the opportunity to take control of their destiny. "It is up to you" is a great blessing! Here's why:

1. You get to chart your own destiny. Maybe you want to start a small business and stay there. That's great because you can choose that. Maybe you want to create a small chain of stores. Maybe you want to have a net worth of $100 million. That's okay too. The idea is that you get to choose. You can do whatever you like. Different people have different dreams and they should live them accordingly.

2. You can reap what you sow. Sleep in and go to work late and reap the return. Or get up early and outwork the others and earn a greater return. Place your capital at risk and earn a return or place it at greater risk and perhaps reap a greater return. You decide what you will sow and thus what you will reap.

3. No one else can stop you from getting your dream. Yes, there will always be things that come up and people who may not like what you are doing, but you can just move on and chart your own course. There is great freedom in that.

4. You experience the joy of self-determination. There is no greater pride than knowing you set your mind on something and accomplished it. Those who live with a victim mentality never get to experience the joy of accomplishment because they are always waiting for someone else to come to the rescue. Those who take responsibility get to live the joy of seeing a job well done.

Let me ask you a question: Where will you be in 5 years? 10 years? Or 25 years? Do you know? Do you have an idea? Have you ever dreamed about it or set a goal for it? Are you willing to take responsibility and recognize that, "It is up to you?"

You will be wherever you decide to be in those timeframes. You decide. It is up to you.

And that is very exciting!

To Your Success,
Jim Rohn - visit his a web site

How to Begin

Avoid early mistakes

One of the recurring mistakes people make when it comes to marketing their network business, is that although one of their pre-sign up objections was that they "don't want to be in sales", immediately they go out and start trying to "sell" their amazing product to their friends and family.

The worst thing you can do if you are not trained properly is approach family and friends from the perspective that you have this great exciting business opportunity and it entails this great juice product with a ton of health benefits, and we will all be rich next week.

You could get the cold shoulder and if you persist, you might join the NFL Club -no friends left.

I tried this and seen others do it as well and it wasted both time and money. After a couple of months we either get discouraged and quit or learn to give people what they want.

A better way to introduce your family and friends to your business and/or product, involves what I call "friendship marketing".

Approach life in a friendly manner and begin conversations, with the intention of learning about people. Learn to "fish" for people’s wants and needs, and then if they fit into your criteria, offer a potential solution.

For example, if you hear your contact talk about their lack of finances from time to time, you might say, "(name of contact), you know how you sometimes mention that you wish you had more money/ spare time to do more things with your family, well...if there was a way to make that happen and it wouldn't get in the way of your job or current situation, would you be open to taking a look at it."

You see, if you don't know what your contact's need is and remind them that they have it, why would they ever want to take a look at a potential solution to something that they don't even realize is plaguing them?

It can be a problem with their finances, their health, their time freedom, you name it. The key is to offer a solution without trying to sound like a salesperson who is coming from a place of desperation or greed.

When you take this approach, more often than not, your contact will be open to listening to information, visiting your website or even attending an event with you.

Just remember that some will, some won't, don’t stress. Perhaps they will be more open to your recommendation at a later date.

This is the key to your success. Continue to meet and speak with new people all the time, listen for their problems or ask them about themselves so that they tell you their problems and then, offer a potential solution.

Collect and pass out contact details and if you come across someone who you really would not want to work with, look for some friendlier people.

How long does it take to get professional or trade qualifications? Years before they start to make decent income. There are short cuts to developing a residual income but they still require time and effort.