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Profile of Success: The Salesman of the Century

You’ve seen him on TV, in his red or green apron, in infomercials and on home shopping TV, showing you just how easy it is to make your own pasta or stock up on healthy snacks with his food dehydrator. His name is Ron Popeil, and he’s put that food dehydrator in over two million homes!

Maybe most famous for his Veg-O-Matic, made fun of on Saturday Night Live and Johnny Carson, or the Pocket Fisherman, Ron has invented, brought to market and sold well over a Billion Dollars of his products.

You can read his rags-to-riches life story and get his business tips in his book modestly titled The Salesman of the Century.

Ron started selling slicers ‘n dicers from a tabletop on Maxwell Street, a tourist area in Chicago in the 50’s, and at age 16 was making as much as $500.00 a day! (A small fortune decades ago.)

And he was hooked.

“I realized I didn’t have to be poor the rest of my life,” Ron wrote. “Through sales I could escape poverty….I had found a form of human connection…I felt like I could sell anything.”

Success in your network marketing business – like almost any endeavor – involves finding out what you can do, and expanding your confidence from there.

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Profile of Success: Blue Mountain Arts

In the late 1960’s, two idealistic college grads with zero business experience started a business printing and selling silkscreened posters, featuring her art and his poetry.

With no money, backing or resources, they began as their own traveling salesforce, living out of a yellow pick-up truck and camper, personally convincing stores to carry their products, one by one.

By the early 1980’s, they turned their humble start into Blue Mountain Arts, publisher of the #1 bestselling line of greeting cards in America. Susan Polis Schultz, one of the co-founders says “We stumbled and bumbled, but we learned something everytime we took a step forwards or backwards.” They even survived a dangerous and difficult legal battle with Hallmark.

Today, it’s almost impossible to walk into a greeting card or gift shop and not find racks of the beautifully illustrated Blue Mountain Arts greeting cards and books. (I even saw them at my local CAR WASH of all places.)

Nearly 2-Billion of their greeting cards have been sold! You can read their story in Susan’s book Blue Mountain: Turning Dreams Into Reality. Their story is one of entrepreneurial vision, commitment, persistence, creative problem-solving and responding effectively to adversity, and accomplishment.

Here are a few of Susan’s thoughts from the book:

“If you believe in something, you must stand by your belief despite people who try to discourage you. Not everyone will like everything you do. Don’t let negative comments deter you from reaching your goal.”

“When a problem occurs, don’t try to distance yourself from it or assume it will just go away. You must face it head on and solve it.”

“It is essential to identify the most important and critical aspects of a business, and then focus on perfecting them.” (A great quote for MLM isn’t it?)

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Three Secrets to Mega-Success (Part 3) and More!

Dear Friend,

Welcome to my new “Instant MLM Profit Secrets” BLOG!

I’ve got an exciting edition for you to help kick off this new format! I know you and your team are really going to dig my new site MLMblog.com, especially the “commenting” feature!

In fact, keep reading…and you’ll see the special VIDEO tour I put together. It’ll take you step-by-step through the blog and how to use it. If you’re new to “blogs”, you’ll dig it!

Because this way of publishing online is “the future”, look forward to more regular posts and tidbits for you each month.

And phew…I’m glad to finally have launched this! I don’t know about you, but my life has been a whirlwind the last few weeks…I just got back from helping at Yanik Silver’s amazing “Underground” online marketing seminar (kudos for an excellent event, Yanik!). After watching several of his speakers, I became even more acutely aware that there are millions of ways for people to make money. Opportunity (and cash) is around every corner it seems! The rest of 2005 promises to be e-x-c-i-t-i-n-g!

That’s why I’ve dedicated this issue to ways you can more effortlessly attract YOUR share of the pie and leverage your efforts. Be sure to read each section! (Especially the “Free Mini-Site Secrets Audio” section later a little further down – it’s a very special free gift for you.)

Onward and upward…

Let’s get moving with your inaugural blog edition of “Instant MLM Profit Secrets”…

What’s Instant MLM Profit Secrets, you might ask?

Good question…

You see, I spend tons of money buying new information
(over $30,000.00 in the past 12 months alone), checking out new products,
attending seminars, reviewing material people send,
reading a bunch of books and newsletters, etc.

So
to keep up with the trends in network marketing and home business, I’ve decided to share with you what’s new, what’s hot and
what’s going on inside “Instant MLM Profit Secrets” newsletter. You’ll find this filled with resources, tips, and stuff I
recommend. Just about every month, I’ll let you know about the cool stuff I’ve come across and want to share (unless you’re nuts and unsubscribe from my list…gasp!). 🙂

Let’s get started…

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In Your May 2005 Issue…

— VIDEO: How to Use This Blog

— My Final “Secret” to Mega-Success

— *SIZZLING HOT* Get Your Free Mini-Site Secrets Audio!

— Books and Resources You Should Check Out

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VIDEO: How to Use This Blog

If you’re new to the world of blogs or just want to discover some of the cool features of this blog, then I’ve made a special online streaming video especially for you. It’ll show you exactly how to comment, “subscribe” to my RSS feeds, how to link to specific articles and more!

Click here for the VIDEO Tour! (opens new window)

Note: All FLASH Video requires the FREE flash player available by Clicking Here.

If the video is “jerky” (usually on slower dial-up connections) then click the stop button at the bottom left on each video and let it load for a while before you let it play. This option only takes a few minutes and it’ll definitely improve the performance on slower connections.

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“Three Secrets to Mega-Success” (Part 3 of 3)

by Chris Zavadowski

Recently, I was asked to speak for a group of hand-picked entrepreneurs in a special apprenticeship program (some of them paying up to $7,000.00 to be part of the year-long home business program).

And in preparing for that talk, I was forced to look at my daily success activities that allow me to play games, travel and keep the alarm clock turned off.

Now, fortunately for you – you don’t have to pay $7,000.00 to hear what I came up with. You’re going to get my top 3 “secrets” for FREE right here in “Instant MLM Profit Secrets”!

(Remember: I sure as heck didn’t invent any of these secrets, but instead picked them up from MY mentors over the years. Just because they may seem simple, don’t make the fatal mistake of discounting their power. Use them and profit from them.)

In the first issue, I wrote about doing one pro-active thing a day to improve yourself and your business. Not only did I talk about it, but I gave you a 30-day action plan that you can easily implement in your business life to see great results.

In the second installment, I revealed the power of mentors and gave a few actionable steps to help you find (and benefit from) important mentors in your life.

(If you missed Secret #1 or #2 I’ve posted the past issues on this blog for you)

So let’s get on to my third success secret…

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