Hello Champions,

Today I want to talk a little about The Journey to Greatness in your home based business.

What makes it a profession; and us professional? Quite simply, professionals get paid and many can earn a great income.

Often I’m asked, “What does it take to succeed in a home based or network marketing business?”

First of all, it takes at least 10-15 hours per week to build a solid business and really grow. Beyond, that professionals concentrate on “Rainmaker” activities, things that produce results. To be clear here; results are producing volume, since that is what generates your income.

In other words in the 10-15 hours per week we cannot count busy work, listening to the company CD, calling and asking your upline (again) about this or that, surfing the internet, etc.

Focus on High Payoff activities that will actually grow your business and here is what you need to do:

Learn the ability to:

1) Meet people and work a candidate list (online and offline)
2) Invite people (to what you have: links, webinars, teleconferences, company DVD, etc)
3) Follow up
4) Presenting (yes, how to present your business is critical)
5) Leadership (people want to lead those going somewhere and offering value)

Wow! “Do I have to do all that?!”

Listen, the steps are simple but you must master them, teach them to others and of course have a mentor to guide you now and along the way (critical). By the way, your mentor DOES NOT have to be someone earning 100k a month but they must have commitment, business acumen and you must respect this person and feel he/she can help you grow personally and professionally.

We often get caught up in the hype of “I generate 100 leads a day”, “I earn 50 gazillion dollars” or I built a team of 100,000 people in 10 countries in only 1 year”. If that is true, then great for them! However, you simply need to connect with someone you feel that you can partner with and grow. Choose wisely…

I want to challenge you to think about the above mentioned and then “engage” and gain momentum in your business like never before. If you’re new or not having great success; then start right here and now and make some critical decisions and go! If you’re already experiencing success; then I challenge you to “notch it up” and fly even higher. Assess where you are; where you want to be and apply correct actions to get you there.

Don’t get caught up if your Uncle Ralph “gets in” or not; don’t worry that you sponsored this “sharp gal” and now she’s doing zero; you must keep doing it and doing it and doing it!

Your Journey to Greatness is your willingness to keep doing it week in and week out; to constantly grow and yes…you must feel aligned with what you’re doing and don’t kid yourself about that.

Seth Godin wrote a book; The Dip and in short it is about “Strategic Quitting” and you need to know when it is time to re-assess and go another way. If what you’re doing resonates with you and you see a way to keep doing it; then keep doing it. However, if it is time for a change, assess, decide and do it…

Lastly, I don’t care if you do PPC, write articles, do video marketing, email, social media, classifieds, voice broadcasts, cold calling, attraction marketing, online or offline marketing or something else. The key is discipline creates freedom and you need to be consistent and keep going.

Oh, and can anyone do it and be successful? Yes, anyone CAN do it but not everyone WILL do it. Will you?

Much Success,

Coach Al Rod
(Al Rodriguez)
CoachAlRod@gmail.com

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