Every so often, while talking to people who have expressed an interest in working from home, I hear a response like this...
"I'd really like to join your business, I'd give anything to be able to afford to get us out of this dumpy apartment and in a nice home of our own. But I have a 1 year old daughter, so I just don't have the time to build a business." SERIOUSLY? Are you seriously using your child as an excuse for not giving that child a nice, clean, safe home to live in? Your child should be your motivation, your inspiration, not your excuse! Because essentially, to me, what you're saying when you use your child as an excuse not to build your own business and secure their financial future is that your child isn't WORTH IT. My child isn't worth me giving up my favorite tv shows, losing an hour or 2 of sleep per night, getting my nose out of facebook a little, giving up girls/guys night, putting down that video game controller or trashy novel, to build a secure financial future for him/her. My child isn't worth that sacrafice, even though I know this opportunity could truly change our lives. Is that really how you feel? Don't you know that your child is WORTH IT?!? Does your child nap? Play independently? Go to school or daycare? Do you have a trusted person who can care for your child for a couple hours per day, while you work your business? Can your child not sit next to you in their own little "home office space" at the kitchen table, "working" right along side you for 20 minutes here and there? You don't have to spend 8-10 hours/day working your business. Build it part time. It may take a little longer to reach your income goals, but it will most definitely be totally WORTH IT when you DO! If you truly want to change your life, you'll make the sacrafice. It's all about priorities. So please don't use your children as an excuse. Use them as an inspiration! Do it for them, no matter the cost. They ARE worthy. To Your Success, Missy VanMeter www.facebook.com/groups/TinyHomeBigLife www.facebook.com/mdvanmeter
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Branding yourself is very important in Network Marketing. Unfortunately, many sponsors do not teach their down-lines the importance of it, if they mention it at all. It isn't that they do not want you to succeed, but they may not know the importance of it themselves. So today I'd like to briefly explain 5 reasons why you should brand yourself instead of your company....
I hope you found this information useful and that you will put some serious thought into beginning to brand YOU, INC instead of focusing solely on your Network Marketing company. I promise, you will not regret it! Please feel free to share this post with your team or anyone else you feel could benefit from it. To Your Success, Missy VanMeter www.facebook.com/mdvanmeter If you are marketing your business on facebook (and you very well should be, considering it's the most popular social networking site!) you are bound to have tons of leads that you do not have an email address for. Am I right? You know, the prospects who request info from you but haven't "had time" to go check out your website yet (where you SHOULD have a capture page- a way to collect their email addresses- before they can even access your website!) The one and only way you have to contact those leads is through facebook. And that can get VERY time consuming, once you have hundreds or even thousands of leads to follow up with.
If your goal is to work smarter, not harder, and automate as much of your business as possible (which again, it very well should be!) then I have an AWESOME tip for you today! It's a way to collect the email addresses of those prospects without having to ask for it. Would that help you out, at all? Of course it would!!! So let's get started, shall we?!? Step 1- Go to www.yahoo.com and create a new FREE yahoo email account. Step 2- Once you are logged in to your new account- Click the little avatar/person icon on the top left corner of the screen. Step 3- Click "Facebook" on the left. Step 4- Click "Import." Step 5- Click "Continue as YOUR NAME." Step 6- Once the import is complete, the email address of everyone on your facebook friends list who shares their email address- will now be stored in your "Contacts" in your new yahoo mail account. Now you will simply go through the list and grab the email address of those you need it for, and add them to your auto-responder. If you have a leads list (and again, you SHOULD! lol) you can simply go through your leads list and type in (or copy/paste) their names, one by one, into the search box in your yahoo contacts. *Remember that you are ONLY grabbing email addresses for those who have asked you for information! Adding random facebook friends to your auto-responder will be considered SPAMMING. You ONLY add those who have requested information from you about your business and have not yet given you a yes or no answer. Some of those people may no longer be interested and if that is the case, they can simply click the "unsubscribe" button when they receive an email from your auto-responder. *In order for this technique to work, your prospects will need to be on your friends list, on facebook. That is one of the many reasons why it's so important to always ask them to send you a friend request when they request information from you. If they do not send you one, you can send them one. Some people may not accept it, and that's fine. You can then ask for their email address, instead. If they are not on your friends list nor do you have their email address, make a note to follow up with them via facebook message periodically. I hope this tip has been helpful for you! Now go get it done! =) To Your Success, Missy VanMeter www.facebook.com/mdvanmeter www.facebook.com/groups/tinyhomebiglife Automation is the key to making money while you sleep. It will enable you to recruit and/or sell whether you are sitting at your computer/phone/tablet, lying on the beach, taking a nap, having a fun day out with your family, in bed with the flu, at the hospital with a loved one, driving cross country, or anything else that you may choose to do with your time. If it is not a major goal of yours, it certainly SHOULD be!
There are tons and tons of automated systems out there that you can purchase, and if you have the funds for it- good for you! But for those of you who cannot afford a system like that, today I'd like to share how you can quickly and easily create your own automated system for your home business- for less than $5! Yes, FIVE buckaroos! Essentially what you will be doing is creating a capture page that is connected to an autoresponder. You will be sending all of your prospects to that capture page, so they will not be able to view your website until they have submitted their name and email address (this ensures that you see every single person who views your website, so no one falls through the cracks). Once they submit that info on the capture page, they are taken to your website. They get all of the information they need on your website. If they do not make a decision on the spot, your autoresponder stays in touch with them so they do not forget about you/your business/product/service/opportunity. If you have never used an automated system, this may sound a bit confusing. I promise you, it's actually very simple if you just follow the steps below. So let's get started, shall we? Step 1- Grab the url for your website. This may be a website provided by the company (typically called your referral link) or one that you made yourself. Wherever it is that you send your potential customers/recruits. Be sure that whatever this website is- whether it is company provided or made by you- that it includes enough information about your product, service, or opportunity for people to be able to make an informed decision about it. Copy that link and paste it somewhere easily accessible. Step 2- Choose and purchase your own domain name HERE. Depending on what you choose and what promotions are going on at the time, you can usually get a domain name here for .99 cents for your first year. After the first year, you will typically pay about $15 bucks per year. And by then you will certainly be making money with your business, so that $15 bucks per year will be nothing to you. Make a note of your log in information, do not lose it! Step 3- Get a FREE 30 day trial of this awesome autoresponder HERE. Make a note of your log in information, do not lose it! After your 30 day free trial, you will only pay $19 per month for this. If you are not yet making money with your business (if you commit to your success in business, however, you WILL be making money by then!) and/or are unable to afford the $19/month payment, simply cancel your membership before your 30 day free trial ends. (Note: You may also choose to become an affiliate for this company HERE. For everyone who you refer, you will earn $5 when they pay their monthly bill. Refer just 3 people and yours is paid for by those commissions!) Step 4- Create a FREE website HERE. Make a note of your log in information, do not lose it! You do not need to do ANYTHING to this website yet- just create it with a subdomain including something similiar to the domain name you purchased in step 2. For example- If my domain name is www.TinyHomeBigLife.com my free website subdomain can be http://TinyHomeBigLife.Weebly.com Copy and paste this new subdomain into a file, somewhere safe. This website is only going to have ONE page, which will be your capture page- you will be setting that up here shortly. Step 5- Log in to your autoresponder account HERE. Create a "list" for your business prospects to subscribe to. Step 6- Once logged in, submit the contact form HERE asking them to remove the double opt-in feature on your list. Be sure to include your login name (NOT password!) and the email address on the account, to ensure they are able to locate your account. Step 7- Inside of your autoresponder account, create a "Sign Up Form" for your prospects to use in order to subscribe to your list. To view an example, feel free to check mine out HERE. Once you have created the sign up form, copy the html for it. Step 8- Log in HERE and paste the html that you just copied in step 7, into your new blank website page. Again, you may see mine HERE as an example. Step 9- Log in to your domain name account HERE. Go to "Manage Domain" and set it up to "Redirect" to "Target" - paste your weebly subdomain there in the target box. Be sure to save your changes! It can take up to 24 hours for your domain name to begin redirecting to your free weebly subdomain, however, in my personal experience it's never taken more than 20 minutes. Keep checking to see when it has began redirecting, as you will not want to give anyone the link until that happens. Step 10- Create some simple autoresponder emails that you would like your new autoresponder to send out to your prospects once they have joined your list. You can schedule when you would like them all to go out. For example- Set it up to send the first email as soon as they subscribe, send another email 2 days later, send the next email 1 week later, send another email 1 month later, etc. You do not need to sit down and create 6 months worth of autoresponder emails TODAY, but you will need to create a few- depending on how often you would like them to be sent out. Then be sure to add new ones in as often as you can, so you will always be ahead of schedule. Step 11- Once you see that your new domain name is properly redirecting to the weebly page/capture page that you have created- start sending ALL of your prospects to that new domain name instead of sending them straight to your website for information. CONGRATULATIONS! You now have a system in place that will gather your prospects email addresses, send them to your website, and stay in touch with them so you do not have to spend your time following up with every single person individually all the time. Now you can spend that extra time on more important tasks! =) *If you'd like to take your automation a step further: SOCIAL MEDIA SCHEDULING SYSTEM- This is another MUST HAVE for automating your business! I use it and LOVE it! Get a 37 day FREE trial by using my referral link here: https://www.cinchshare.com/?a=qxg3n and entering promotion code: CSFree when you sign up! It's only $10/month after your free trial and it's TOTALLY worth it!!! To Your Success, Missy VanMeter www.facebook.com/mdvanmeter www.facebook.com/groups/tinyhomebiglife |
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Hi, I'm Missy! I am a 29 year old work-at-home homeschooling Mommy, Wife, Animal-lover, homesteader, & Christian Ministry student. Categories
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