Let’s put aside our differences and strive to come together!

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The World is changing, physically we are messing things up far too fast, spiritually digging our heals in to our own theory (IE The others view is wrong and only we have the truth) will not cut it anymore. Such attitudes have cased too much pain and suffering, continue to do so and all leads to a path of destruction and oblivion. Contrast such old fashioned ways with the ‘potential’ of our new world and there is some hope in the air. There are signs all over the world that people are speaking out against injustice and stupidity and challenging the old boundaries that are being increasing seen as not acceptable anymore. There is a holding to account, justice and freedom must prevail, however with great responsibility.

Let go of your fears, open up, respect and share with each other more. We need sometimes to lower our guards, challenge our own beliefs, understand others more, with the goal that it is better to work together for a more harmonious world than play our part in its destruction.

I found this great interview and video with Thich Nhat Hanh.

“Although still relatively unknown in the UK, the eighty-six-year-old Vietnamese Buddhist monk, scholar, poet, peace activist and prolific author, is a global spiritual leader, revered throughout the world for his powerful teachings and bestselling writings on the art of ‘mindfulness’. Affectionately known as Thây (pronounced ‘tie’), which is Vietnamese for Teacher, his books, of which there are more than one hundred, have reached a global audience of millions.

On his last visit to the UK in 2010 he was called “The Other Dalai Lama” by The Times, and “The Zen Master That Fills Stadiums” by The Independent. For decades he has been a pioneer of ‘engaged Buddhism’, ambassador of Deep Ecology, and an advocate of non-denominational applied global ethics, committed to peace among religions and interfaith dialogue.

In 2007, Thich Nhat Hanh was invited to address the opening of the Parliament of India, and in 2011 was invited to the United States Congress for a second time to address Congressmen and -women on Capitol Hill. Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh is the spiritual head not only of his lineage within Vietnam, but also of an international “engaged Buddhist” community of over 500 monks and nuns, and tens of thousands of lay practitioners, who apply his teachings on mindfulness, peace-making, community-building and serving society in practice centres all over the world”.
The Happiness Network. 

Beyond environment: falling back in love with Mother Earth (Guardian, 20 Feb 2012).
Thich Nhat Hanh explains why mindfulness and a spiritual revolution rather than economics is needed to protect nature and limit climate change.

Thich Nhat Hanh interview with Jo Confino, executive editor of the Guardian. Check out this Video with Thich Nhat Hanh.

Enjoy the journey.
Bernard Taylor.

Bring more happiness to your world and our world!

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Here is something I am passionate about, I have seen this great movie on happiness a few months back and it’s awesome. We all need more happiness in our lives.

FIND OUT GLOBALLY where you can WATCH this great Movie on February 11, 2012 or HOW you could HOST a showing in your local community?

On World Happy Day – February 11, 2012 – thousands of people will join together in communities across the globe to experience the film HAPPY and begin their journeys toward healthier and happier lives.

Join us for this worldwide event.
HAPPY is the winner of numerous awards and is the latest film from Academy Award® nominated director Roko Belic. http://vimeo.com/33300562

The main website with all the info is here:  http://www.worldhappyday.com/

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum!

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Desmond Tutu wrote “when your dreams turn to dust, vacuum” wow, what a powerful thought? Instead of sitting there in all the mess, it’s time to re-evaluate where you are going; it’s just the universes way of saying it’s time for change not for standing still.

“It’s just the universes way of saying it’s time for change not for standing still”

The good news about getting in a mess is that it shows you have tried, in fact probably everything to get to the point where it all caves in. Well guess what it’s time to vacuum, to dust yourself off, clear the mess so you can think straight, and then in a nice cleaner, fresher environment, re-evaluate, makes some new plans and gently perhaps at first, start moving forward again in new directions.

For me the last 3-4 days have been hell on earth for me as my good old PC has broken down, after 3 visits from my PC tech friend, we still cannot identify the problem, and so I am now on my little netbook. Netbook’s are OK but I cannot do all the great things I can on my PC, so some depression and anxiety set it. Then my friend said “why not go to the PC fair and see what other options are out there?” Good idea, so I will toddle off there today and see what’s new in the world that will allow me to work happily again and perhaps in new directions? I sense it’s time for a change.

Sometimes when things go wrong, it’s nothing more than the universe saying, it’s time for a change, it’s time to think outside the box. It can be annoying, it can stretch you, however sometimes learning to beat on a new drum can be extremely rewarding. If you can hear it, the universe always offers a way through.

“learning to beat on a new drum can be extremely rewarding. If you can hear it, the universe always offers a way through”

The problem is waddling around in all the mess we have created for ourselves it’s often hard to see the new path. Instead we keep beating ourselves up jumping up and down in the same old dust!

Have you ever been brave enough to have a good clear out at home? Maybe go through your wardrobe and clear out all those clothes that you no longer wear? Believe you me, when you do it frees up stuck energy.

The Japanese are into such things, with their minimalism, and there is today a whole movement of new age type thinkers dedicated to clearing the clutter.

Indeed I have found to be true that everything around us carries energy, positive and negative. For example let’s say you have a neck tie, or a dress that sits in your wardrobe, you never wear anymore because it reminds you of a difficult time in your life? Well then my question is, why hang on to it, don’t you see even looking at it drags you down, so go through your entire wardrobe and clear out that negative energy, the garments themselves you can give to charity, however for your wellbeing you need to free up that stuck energy, in effect as Desmond would say, don’t be stuck, vacuum!

Then once you accomplish that, see how you feel? I can guarantee that you will start to feel lighter, like a whole load has been lifted of your shoulders, for indeed it has.

Why stop with the closet? Go through your entire house, the garage, the garden shed, the filing cabinet, have a good clear out, get cleaning, painting, and vacuuming! Get better organised and above all create some new space for new thinking and for new things to come in your life.

“Why stop with the closet? Go through your entire house, the garage, the garden shed, the filing cabinet, have a good clear out, get cleaning, painting, and vacuuming! Get better organised and above all create some new space for new thinking and for new things to come in your life”

So if you are thinking today that your dreams have all turned to dust, get the vacuum out and get clearing, and get ready for an exciting, positive and hopeful new beginning?

I promise you, it’s just around the corner.

Be blessed and enjoy the journey!

Author: Bernard Taylor

Facebook etiquette on personal walls.

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Facebook is an extremely popular social media platform, in the 1980’s – 90’s email was the exciting new communications platform, now its social media, and the biggest and most popular beast in this field is facebook.

We (most of us) have become genetically programmed to go on facebook everyday in the same way we used to check email. We still check email however as soon as we see a message on facebook we rush there with an adrenalin rush, once we arrive at facebook heaven, it’s hard to get away. It’s extremely seductive.

“as soon as we see a message on facebook we rush there with an adrenalin rush, once we arrive at facebook heaven, it’s hard to get away. It’s extremely seductive”.

In the old days we would pick up the phone and chat to share what is happening in our lives and find out what was happening in our friends lives, however we are developing ever more sophisticated ways to communicate in written words, images and video where we do not have to physically talk to the other person using the web; amazing when you think about it!

When we sign up for a facebook account in effect facebook gives us our own little slice of cyberspace real estate, our facebook account and particularly our own private facebook wall.

Technically facebook owns this space and in effect rents it to us for FREE on a lifetime basis as long as we obey the facebook community rules.

Facebook monitors the activity of it’s users, and we can also be responsible for our own activity and gently police the activity of other users. Facebook creates an inbuilt reporting system and allows us to unfriend and delete offending material. In effect between facebook’s inbuilt systems and our human intervention the community is managed reasonably well.

All Communities have rules, both written and assumed, or written and unwritten as to the conduct of behaviour of its members. We call these rules etiquette. On Wikipedia; you will find the etiquette of business quoted as follows “The etiquette of business is the set of written and unwritten rules of conduct that make social interactions run more smoothly”.

Could not of said it better myself! In other words it’s to do with behaviour, consideration of others besides yourself, a little old-fashioned word called manners.

Sadly though for some, they seem incapable of considering other users and blatantly behave on facebook in ways that are at best annoying to other users and at worst an extremely upsetting form of invasion of privacy.

I love my personal facebook wall; it’s my opportunity to share and post about things I am passionate about and communicate with my friends. I am happy to allow my friends to view, share and comment on my personal wall content because they are my friends.

Inviting a friend to your personal facebook wall is a bit like inviting a friend round for a cup of tea and a chat in your kitchen. Although you might invite a stranger in to your kitchen who later becomes a friend, mostly the cosy sharing you do in your kitchen over a cuppa is intimate and reserved for family and friends.

On facebook there is a process to go through in inviting people to be your friend. Of course on visiting any user’s page you will see there is a button on the top right of that user page where you can invite them to become your friend. Facebook also provide a list on the top right of your personal wall or home page of people you might know or want to connect with whom are connected to other friends of yours.

It’s perfectly reasonable to click on a bunch of these a day, say 20 or more. Facebook does impose a daily limit although I am not sure how many this is.

Once you click on a link, facebook will automatically send a message to the person letting them know that you requested friendship. If they click on the email and accept you are now technically new friends and are allowed to freely communicate with each other.

Once the connection is made some users unfortunately start by going in all guns blazing without contacting you privately first and instead expose themselves and their wares in full view not just of you, but also in view of all your family and other friends who share your cosy intimate space.

They do not seem to consider that the content of their post might not be suitable for you or your audience, they don’t really care, they are on a mission as serial raiders of others private facebook space.

If you think that my description is a little too graphic, I am saying it to be a little provocative on purpose, to make an important point.

Put it another way, It’s a bit like being burgled in the middle of the night, you wake up in the morning and realise someone has been in your home uninvited. How would you feel? That’s what it’s like when you discover someone has posted their blatant home business opportunity advert on your personal wall.

I could be more graphic, one online mentor described it this way recently “It’s a bit like someone pooping in your kitchen” how would you feel about that? Well shocked, offended and you certainly would want that mess cleared away as quick as possible, and to disinfect the space and open all the windows!

Now in the MLM/Business opportunity world, let’s face it, the reason people often post on your wall before getting to know you (poop in your kitchen) is they are excited to see your virgin territory full of juicy new prospects (Your contacts), it’s not just about you, it never is, they deliberately want to connect not just with you but with as many of your contacts as possible too.

They may disguise their post with “Hey __ (your name) ___, so cool to meet you, thanks for requesting friendship …… and then they add … by the way, check out my New XXXXXXX  Business SWEEPING the globe and making many people RICH!”

Dumb idiots! In their desperation, they are behaving very badly, abusing your space, and deliberately blasting you, but in effect circumventing you and going direct to all your contacts with their offer irrespective of how you feel about it?

Not a very smart way to start a new friendship hey? Darn right it’s not, it’s very inconsiderate, shows their lack of respect and that they do not understand about business etiquette on facebook or to put it bluntly are just devoid of manners.

I have to admit, as you can probably tell such behaviour is one of my pet hates, I normally will of course delete such posts as soon as I find them and send a personal message politely in a nice way to start to try to educate them in proper etiquette and give them another chance to be a more considerate friend.

However if they start getting defensive and on too much of an ego trip as one opinionated big shot did with me yesterday, my reply (Although I did not say it quite this way) is so what, you are a big shot (Thanks for letting me know that), even more reason why you should learn to behave more responsibly you dingbat!

So for the benefit of some sanity in this virtual world let me share with some of the unwritten rules of conduct (Etiquette) here on facebook and how you can make some great friendships over time by considering others and doing things in a more respectful way.

1. When someone requests friendship of you, in response if you want to contact them and say hi then send them whatever you want to say in the first instance by PRIVATE message, this at least shows some respect to the other person and is a good way to start building your potential new friendship. This leaves the door open for them to then decide how they respond.

Even sending your pitch this way is okay, although not necessarily ideal, at least you are doing it privately which is better then blasting on their wall.

2. When you request friendship of someone else on facebook, and they respond send them a nice personalised reply as soon as you can, again by personal message and do not post directly on their facebook wall.

3. It is recommended in your first few messages you share nice things, or generic tools, services, inspiring quotes, anything other than your business opportunity! This shows you are interested in them as a person, have something to contribute that may help them in their life journey without ramming your business opportunity down their throat.

This is all called relationship building, it shows consideration of the other person and their personal space, it shows that you want to share with them directly and are not circumventing them, allowing them to decide how to respond to your information. It’s called being polite.

Once you start to make new friendships this way you will find people much more responsive to your business opportunity. Besides which, does it really matter if they are interested in your business or not if you make a great new friend?

Friendship is priceless; it’s worth taking the time to build new friendships.

Learn to give of yourself to help others to feel better, be more happy, sure share your money making ideas, but do so gently following correct facebook etiquette and lets all have fun, making friends the right way inviting each other round to our virtual little cyberspace kitchens for a nice cup of tea. How civilised.

“Learn to give of yourself to help others to feel better, be more happy, sure share your money making ideas, but do so gently following correct facebook etiquette and lets all have fun, making friends the right way inviting each other round to our virtual little cyberspace kitchens for a nice cup of tea. How civilised.”

Be blessed and enjoy the journey!

PS: This article is about personal facebook walls, group walls have a different protocol, for which we will cover at another time.

Author: Bernard Taylor

Focus on the Mission, not on the commission.

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Sometimes when you are desperate to make money in MLM you do the wrong things and people get hurt along the journey in your big climb to success. It should not be success at all costs if it mean you are going to use and abuse people along the way, step on your opponents’, damage their reputation to make yourself look good in your desperation to succeed.

Think about it! MLM is a people business, the operative word being PEOPLE, and all people deep down are flowers to be treated with respect (Well not all I hear you cry!), accepted some folks are nasty, egotistical and opinionated and you would not invite them to your barbeque, however deep down I believe all people have some good and deserve to be treated with respect.

Have you ever tried to push a wheelbarrow full of bricks up a steep hill? If you have or if you can visualise it, you will know that it’s not much fun, and at some point you may trip and the dam bricks come crashing over you, do some damage and you end up at the bottom of the hill again!

There has to be an easier way to get to the top, right? Well there is it’s called following the path of least resistance, going with the flow and focusing on your Company mission, not your commission.

There has to be an easier way to get to the top, right? Well there is it’s called following the path of least resistance, going with the flow and focusing on your Company mission, not your commission.

It’s a funny thing, when you focus less on your needs, and more on making a contribution to others and their success, you become more successful yourself, for longer, much more gracefully then if you go at it all with desperation which often would send you in the operate direction to where you want to go.

So the message is, calm down, back off, think a bit more and follow these 3 simple steps to a more fulfilling MLM Career.

Step 1. Find out what your Company Mission is?

All great MLM Companies have a mission, be it to change the health of the World one person at a time, or to help deliver others from poverty to prosperity through sharing your business opportunity and all that that can do to help others and you to achieve a happier and more satisfying life.

Be a bit worried if your Company does not have a mission statement? That means it may have been set up to make a quick buck, fuelled by greed and power alone, bottom line it will not last, and being involved will almost certainly hurt you and others over time, one way or the other.

However the good News is that most decent MLM Companies do have a worthy mission, and mostly those with a solid grab-able mission are the ones that succeed over time.

Step 2. Focus on the Mission.

See yourself as part of the mission; fuse yourself with it, your role from when you get up in the morning until you go to sleep at night is to totally focus on delivering on the Company mission. This means you become a living breathing, sleeping evangelist for your Company. You focus on others, equipping others, helping others to succeed. You share your passion for what your Company is about enthusiastically and genuinely.

This is not a fake thing, it’s very real. You need to believe in your Company mission with a passion. You might even develop your own version of it if that helps you feel better, but one thing is for sure when you focus on the mission and not the commission you are truly going with the flow of universal blessing. All kinds of good things are going to happen to you and others that come in your path.

A) Firstly your self-worth will go through the roof; you will feel good about helping others, and they will feel good about you helping them.

B) You will wake up every day with passion and a purpose; as a result you will feel stronger and more optimistic about life, and your life choice in being involved at this time in your opportunity.

C) You will be making a healthy contribution to the success of your Company, when the history books are written about the great success that was/is your Company, how about having a page dedicated to you? That’s right! How you came along, you saw what was, you liked what you saw, you decided to go to work focusing on your company mission, not on the commission, and the rest is as they say History and you proudly played your part and were richly rewarded.

It’s all part of the Company success story, however it’s also your personal story, and that’s what people want to hear, your story, however humble. It’s all part of the magic, the inspiration that can create an army of folks on an incredible mission that changes lives.

And when folks are on an incredible mission that changes lives you had better watch out.

So don’t be left on the platform when the train leaves the station, jump on that awesome mission train, find the best seat on the train and enjoy the ride. Savor every moment enthusiastically and play your part with might, strength, conviction and all the passion you can muster. This is the way to real success.

D) You will develop your own good reputation and following. Others will believe in you, look up to you, share about you with passion, imitate you, and become loyal too you and that relationship is priceless.

Although life has taken me on a journey through several different MLM Companies over the years, I am still friends several decades later with some of the first people I followed and looked up to with respect in the Industry. Such relationships are rewarding, priceless and a gift from the Universe.

So take the time to genuinely appreciate others, and love and support each other with passion.

E)  The paradox is as a result of all this focusing on helping others succeed is your business will grow strongly, powerfully and fast and so will your commission checks! Ultimately along with all the intangible rewards you will be greatly financially rewarded for you passion.

Step 3. Teach these steps to others!

MLM is a duplication machine; your role is to duplicate all this good energy, focus and powerful information to others and to teach and help them do the same with others. It’s all part of the mission to duplicate over and over. Imagine how powerful your business you would have if over time you had ten people as passionate and as committed as you in your team?

In fact image if over time you had 10 people MORE passionate then you in your team? Wow wouldn’t that be something? Your passion will always be rewarded.

I have been blessed on more than one occasion by being joined on an MLM mission by folks more powerful and capable then me. Just because they respected my passion, and when that happens, watch out commission checks!

Life is strange sometimes, the more you push for something the further away it can go, but the minute you change from what’s in it for me, to how can I help others, at that vey minute you life will take on a powerful new meaning and richness.

All from focusing on the mission, not on the commission!

Try it; let me know how you get on?

Be blessed and enjoy the journey!

Author: Bernard Taylor

How to hug your MLM Company?

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Have you ever been in a tense human relationship where the other party (Or you) turned round and embraced in a warm hug and suddenly all the tension was released and a new level of acceptance and bonding was achieved between you?

Be honest it’s nice to get a hug from someone you love; it’s even nicer to get on from a complete stranger. It reminds me about a video I saw recently on YouTube of a guy offering free hugs.

Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4

Think of the passion and emotion when two people hug? The acceptance, the melting away of issues that may have kept you apart before, now think of your MLM business, is there love and acceptance between you and your Company, be honest now?

Now observe the successful distributors in your Company? Does it seem like they are in love with their opportunity? Well, yes the answer is YES!

You see folks there are no perfect MLM Companies (There are some better than others, will cover that issue at a later point) just as there are no perfect distributors. People running MLM Companies are human, and leaders in the field are humans too. Let’s face it none of us are perfect; we all have our human weaknesses.

We get involved in an opportunity with rose coloured spectacles, we buy into the dream with euphoria and mass excitement, it’s like a new relationship, when you first meet someone, then later after you get to know the other party more the gloss has been wiped off you find that it’s not so perfect a situation as you had thought.

We then start to pick, and find all the bad points. We want to believe but then we have a brush up with so and so at the Company or we don’t like the change in the compensation plan, the colour of the website, the fact the principles are not wearing ties or are in the photos on the website, we don’t like the way certain things are presented, and over time our little issues like a grain of sand left in a shoe eventually cause much pain, to the Company? No probably not, but to us, yes for sure.

What once seemed like the best decision you had ever made in joining is starting to become for you a bit of a nightmare. It can be very subtle or more pronounced, however the net effect over time is mistrust builds up, faith in each other diminishes, although the Company may be too busy getting on with their business to worry too much about all the tension going on it your personal head space.

All this causes your performance to drop significantly and from that point you are doomed unless you change your thinking.

MLM is a business that is NOT perfect; however it is the average persons best chance of achieving success in a relatively short time. This being the case you ask why it is so many fail.

Well, in simple terms because they do not hug their MLM Company!

Look, assuming your company has reasonable products that you like, a reasonable compensation plan that you can deal with, a reasonable vision for the future and you can reasonably see yourself being involved, then the only thing standing between you and big success is acceptance and acknowledgement.

Here are my top 5 tips for SUCCESS once you have chosen your MLM Company.

1. Become noticed through performance, not by letting your ego lead.

When you first join your MLM be humble, talk softer,  listen more then you speak, think in terms of making a contribution, not in terms of announcing you are a big shot and that they should listen to you or else!

I know that’s hard with us networkers’ as we often are very much ego led. (Come on let’s get truth out in the open!). We want to be noticed, we want the big guys at the top to know who we are and what we can do. It’s often however when we push too hard in trying to get accepted and appreciated that the other side cannot handle it and often the drawbridge goes up and we end up being branded as a trouble maker.

Believe you me it’s happened to me a few times, and who lost, the Company or me? You guessed it me. So the lesson is, build the business first so you earn the right to be heard, believe you me as you build you will get noticed in a positive way.

2. Let go of expecting everything to be perfect, we are not, the Company is not, and life is not.

The more you accept these facts, the happier you will be. By all means if you have the opportunity to do so over time, make constructive criticisms as to the things you are not happy with in your Company, but do not go in all guns blazing until you have build a good relationship and earned the right to be heard, and even then share with love.

3. Deal with old personal relationship issues and move on.

Forgive old transgressions. Maybe there are relationship blocks between you and some of the leaders in your Company, in corporate or your upline, or sideline? If you can deal with it directly and sensitively do so, for the common good, however if not, then mentally forgive yourself, forgive the other person and move on. It may take time for the physical side to catch up with your desire for healing, however learning to forgive and let go (daily) is a big secret to success and living a happier life in general.

4. Get married to your Company mission ~ Make a commitment.

Really, no living in separation, get committed to each other, until one is committed their is hesitancy, holding back. The secret is that once you make a solid commitment, it will change how you feel about your business, how you operate and how your Company will respond to you. Believe you me they will overtime see the difference in you and that will open doors to your success. An old MLM friend Sylvia W, once said to me “Bernard, focus on the mission not on the commission”. She was so right and a glowing example of how to succeed in any MLM Company.

It takes time to build success, so don’t give up too easily, stick with it even when the going gets tough. If you look around the Industry, its often not the most talented who are the winners, its those who have stuck with their business through thick and thin. Its that kind of commitment and only that kind that produces success, so get committed if you also want to succeed?

5. Bottom-line ~ Love your business and HUG Your Company!

It’s true, you have to accept the imperfection of it all, focus on all the good things about your business, meditate on what you like, share the good and the positive with others. Let go and love, be passionate about loving your business and all the people involved. I am not saying it will not be challenging at times, however by practicing acceptance and letting go of your issues, you will free yourself to perform better, you will free the other party to be nicer to you, you will most importantly free up lots of otherwise stuck energy, and it’s that EXTRA ENERGY that you need to propel you to success.

When you let go, love and hug, you are opening up a pool of positive energy that will change you and how you see things. The more you walk in such ways the greater and more interesting your life will become.

“When you let go, love and hug, you are opening up a pool of positive energy that will change you and how you see things. The more you walk in such ways the greater and more interesting your life will become”.

So get out there and HUG your MLM Company, warts and all, accept them, love them, forgive them, help them and in doing so help yourself to a rewarding and successful career.

Footnote: If the relationship is so damaged that you just cannot change the situation by staying, then in such circumstances you may have to move on to something new. That’s okay too, just use the secrets I have shared with you here in your next venture.

Be blessed and enjoy the journey!

Author: Bernard Taylor

7 steps for mlm’ers to get set-up online fast?

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Life I am sure you will agree is a journey, and the journey does not ever end, even when you snuff it some say we pass on to another World? Who knows, one thing is for sure in an ever evolving World we have to adjust to change. The same goes in the World of MLM.

I am old school when it comes to MLM, well at least I used to be, however I have made it my business (And continue to make it my business) to adapt and try to keep up to date so that I do not become irrelevant or confined as a relic of history.

May I also be so bold as to encourage you to do the same? MLM is a powerful marketing model, however have you noticed that it seems too be the younger new MLM’ers that are succeeding more these days and running off with all the prizes, and many old school marketers are being left well and truly far behind. The main reason for this is the old guard are to scared to change and adapt to the modern world, but folks the old ways ALONE just don’t shake it anymore! If you want success today you have got to get well and truly with the program. Don’t worry if you feel it’s all a bit daunting, as I and many others are here to help you on the journey.

I remember my friend and success mentor Jim Rohn saying “For things to change, you have to change, for things to get better, you have to get better” Old saying though it is, it’s as true today as it’s ever been.

The Internet is a reality; if you want to do business in today’s modern World you had better join in and participate in the fun.

The good news is it’s never too late to start, and here are some of the steps to get you rolling on the journey:-

1. Set up a Facebook Account.

It always surprises me how many people ignore this platform just because they feel uncomfortable with the idea or think operating a Facebook account is too difficult? Its not difficult and I include a great Video here to guide you in setting up your Facebook account: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4yu1XJQP50

As you progress you will come to find that Facebook is the preferred method for modern MLM Marketers to connect and communicate. So if you are doing MLM you cannot afford NOT to be on Facebook. Start your learning curve today and get your account set up right now: http://www.facebook.com/index.php

I will over time introducing additional training on using and controlling Facebook.

2. Set up a LinkedIn Account.

LinkedIn is another powerful social Media platform. Again you can set up a professional about you and your business profile AND you will find that again many MLM folks use this platform for making connections. There are also loads of MLM related groups you can join and participate in through LinkedIn.

Here is a great getting started Video:  http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-set-up-a-profile-on-linkedin.html (Ignore the opening advert which lasts about a minute).

3. Set up your own Personal Hosting Account & Domain/s.

Now this is a step that many do not do because they think it is too difficult, when in fact it is quite easy AND a totally necessary step in personal branding for the web. We will talk more on this subject later, however in a nutshell you need to sell yourself to others before you sell your opportunity. To do this well you need your own domain on which you profile you and what you are about. You want people to like you, warm to you and review you BEFORE they make physical contact and certainly before they JOIN any of your opportunities!

There are lot’s of places you can get hosting out there, however I would say stay away from the ‘GoDaddy’ kind of sites as they suck you into paying for things you don’t want or need and can be frustrating to use. I have used a great offshore hosting Company for years. They are cheap however very professional and provide excellent customer service. The package I would recommend would be a shared hosting account. This will give you options for 5-10 domains the yearly cost of this account is less than many of the more popular accounts will charge you for hosting 1 domain!

A. Low Cost Hosting ~ Go here: LINK

B. Setting up your own domain.

Normally I cheat a little on this. I will use services like Go-Daddy to check if a particular domain is available? But then I will register the domain directly with my hosting Company. It’s much better to register your domains at the same place as your hosting account. It’s quicker for one and avoids messy domain transfer set ups or additional fees. Again either use just your name like yourname.com or if it’s to promote your mlm then how about yournamemlm.com? I have done just that with my BernardTaylorMLM.Com

Having your own domain is a must if you want to succeed in MLM. The purpose of your first domain is to profile you, what you are about and to allow you to create your own blog so that you can start to offer value to your punters and folks can get to know you and everything about you and what you have to offer them.

4. Setting up your Personal BLOG.

See above 3 “Set up your own Personal Hosting Account & Domain/s” to organize your hosting and domain registration. Now in TODAY’S World, you do not need to have clumsy separate blogs, (Such services are OK, however they are early 2000′s marketing style) you can have a BLOG on your own website ‘relativity’ easily. Right now today for FREE and it certainly is perceived to be more professional and once you get used to it can be a real joy to own and operate your blog on your own smart domain..

How? By using WORDPRESS. All you do, once your hosting and domain is live on the server, is download the FREE WordPress package.

Go here: http://wordpress.org/news/2011/12/sonny/

Once downloaded you unzip the file to a file you create on your desktop and then upload the unzipped content to your hosting account in your new domain file. To do this you will need to have an FTP account. This is what you use to upload files to your server from your computer. Here is a good FTP Software you can download and use, with prices starting (One of cost) at $24.99: http://www.globalscape.com/products/ftp_clients.aspx

There is a bit of a learning curve in connecting up all the dots technically, but with a bit of patience and a heap of desire it can be done and your website/blog can be up and running in a day once you have your domain and hosting live. This is how long it took me to set my site up. It took me a lot longer procrastinating over the idea of doing it in the first place and staying in the dark ages!

If you need help with this whole set up process, I probably can help you if you ask nicely?

5. Set up a Skype Account.

Make sure you have a SKYPE account, because once you are communicating online, remember MLM is still a people business and you will want to get communicating by text first and then maybe VOICE & VIDEO chat.

Skype is the best platform to do this: http://www.skype.com/intl/en-gb/home

You need ALL these basic tools in place so that when you start your promotion of your opportunity, services or products you come across as professional and up to date, or smart marketers will be reluctant to work with you.

6. Develop and link in your back-end.

Now again, remember the modern marketer will introduce themselves FIRST and build a relationship before they ever promote their opportunity, services or products. It’s a real turnoff when done the other way. So take the time to set yourself up professionally as in steps 1-5 above (The front-end). Start to develop your following and great relationships and then through that you can add in your opportunity, services or products, or others services and products that you are an affiliate for (The back-end). Once you have established a relationship it is an open door to share your opportunity, services or products. People who already know you and preferably trust you will be more open to do business with you. So through your own and other Industry related forums you can promote your ‘links’ to the opportunities, products or services you want to share with your contacts.

7. Go loopy with your marketing!

Once you are set up as above you are ready to go out there make loads of connections, use your new social media platforms to make great connections, post interesting articles on forums, and post regularly on your own blog site to kept up to date. Give lots of FREE content mixed in with some pay for content. The FREE content will show you are genuinely interested to help, and through that starting point your contacts will be open to pay for things because they trust your judgement. The more you get out there and share and communicate from your great sharp well put together online profile you will gain a bigger following, a reputation (Hopefully a good one) and become known as a powerful; authority and great source for valuable information.

There is no shorter cut to success marketing MLM Online then as above.

This is an exciting journey, take your time or take time out to set yourself up properly as mentioned here. I will in future posts be sharing more great information to help you navigate into doing business as an EFFECTIVE MLM distributor in today’s exciting marketplace.

Be blessed and enjoy the journey!

Author: Bernard Taylor

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Hi folks, well it’s a great day, in the evolution of the planet I have managed to install myself a new WordPress operating system on my domain. I am loving it!

DOWNLOAD HERE for FREE: http://wordpress.org/news/2011/12/sonny/

Obviously a work in progress, and if you need help in the installation department then be sure to ask me?

I hope you enjoy browsing my blog/site. Feel free to comment, share feedback or contact me privately when appropriate. The only thing I would ask is you do not post ‘MLM or Affiliate Opportunities of any kind before getting clearance from me.

As the site and readership grows I want to make sure that all receive the best content, and if you want to sell to my audience, its only polite that you run your offer past me privately first, as I would do with you.

So let’s enjoy this MLM/Internet journey, learn, have fun and be blessed together as we go forward in 2012 and beyond!