How do you succeed in network marketing?

You know, one of the things that got me when I first started in network marketing was, "How do I really succeed?" I have ambition, drive, desire, etc. But what are the main ways to succeed in network marketing in today's business world?

Network marketing has changed drastically from it's inception. You remember the days of going door to door promoting your business. With the expansion and popularity of the internet, the old ways of promoting your business have changed. You can find very successful network marketers all over the internet and just about any network marketing company. Along with that, you now have to learn how to promote your business on line! Do you know how to do that? I sure didn't. So what do you do?

You can buy leads from "lead generation" companies until your bank account is broke or until your spirit is broken. Most people don't understand and realize that there are millions of people looking for what you have. So they start to believe that the company that they joined isn't the right one. What happens next is that they give up, stop their activity and eventually fall out. As a leader, you should be getting these people to maintain their enthusiasm and activity. But how when you are struggling with generating leads on the internet yourself? I am telling you right now, and this is from my heart, "Don't give up! There are plenty of ways to market your business and get traffic coming to your website FOR FREE!"

Being successful, and each person has their own definition of success, can be reached by anyone willing to put in some time and effort. Many websites out there imply that visualizing your success doesn't do anything for you, and that is the furthest thing from the truth! I made a decision to learn how to market my business effectively and to build my business. I made a conscious effort every day to visualize and verbalize my dreams and goals. I knew the power of the internet, and I knew the power of my website system so I verbalized that I was going to discover the strategies and I visualized the results I wanted. You want to know what happened? As I was taking steps to learn all this, BOOM, an inspiration would pop into my head! I thought, wow where did that come from? So I followed up with that inspiration and I learned something new that I could apply and MORE IMPORTANTLY, I applied it.

I am telling you that you can learn the strategies and techniques for generating FREE traffic to your website, and you can be successful! Make a decision today. Decide that you are going to be successful, see yourself already there (close your eyes and see yourself, with as much detail as possible, already successful, whatever that may be to you), write it down, draw a picture. Implant it into your mind! The most powerful techniques that I found to work wonders are:

*verbally describing what my objective is, what my goal is, what the success I want is.
*describe it on paper. write a detailed description of your goal, your success.
*drawing a picture of what I see - this is so powerful, because SEEING what you are drawing
impresses it so much onto your subconscienc.
*record your self describing your goal and listen to it while looking at the picture you drew.
*finally do you have a smell that brings back GOOD TIME memories? Use it! Go someplace
quiet, fresh air, slight breeze, nice view and the "success smell".
*NOW PUT THEM ALL TOGETHER. Close your eyes. Listen to your recording, look at your
picture, smell your "success smell" trigger. Listen only to your voice that is gently,
confidently, soothingly describing your goal. Now look at the picture you drew and burn
it into your mind (30 seconds or so), and look out at the view you chose. See yourself
enjoying your goal!

WOW! It gets me going just describing this!

Try this, and have persistence! Tough times will come, people will say no, but keep doing the basics and keep using the success techniques!

Next time, I will discuss some of the strategies I use to generate traffic to my website.

Until next time and Here is to your success,

Timothy N. Vigil
Wellness Experience Coach

What makes someone an Internet Marketing Guru?

If someone were to ask you if you were a “guru”, what would you say? Guru? Who me? “ I don’t think so”, right? Most people, the mass of people, shy away from such a title. A title that implies an expert or utmost authority figure often scares people, and they don’t associate that label with themselves. A guru, by basic definition, is a teacher or someone who imparts initiation.
So, who can be called a Guru? Anyone. Anyone whose drive is to learn more. A guru is nothing more than someone who has a library of knowledge in a particular area or is an influential teacher. Do you consider a guru to be an expert? An expert, by definition, is someone who has comprehensive authoritative knowledge. Do you see the difference? A guru has an understanding knowledge, and an expert has a comprehensive and authoritative knowledge. What area in your life do you have an understanding knowledge? In other words, what area in your life are you comfortable enough to share, impart to others, or to “teach” to others? Everyone has that type of knowledge in some area of their life, but most people don’t even realize this. Maybe you have a hobby that you absolutely love to do. You have spent countless hours, days, months or even years doing this hobby and learning how to do it better. You have more knowledge in this area than most people could imagine. I would bet that if you got into a discussion with someone, or a group of people about your hobby, that you would be able to “teach” them things that they didn’t know about it. You would be considered a guru when it came to this hobby, right? Of course. So you see, you have an understanding knowledge of lots of things, things that other people might not know. So the term “guru”, is really an over hyped term when it comes to internet marketing. You are, whether you really believe it or not, a guru in something, maybe you just haven’t discovered what it is. So don’t shy away from the title.
Okay, let’s move on. The title of this article is, “What makes someone an internet marketing guru?” We have the basic definition down, so let’s explore the answer to this title.
Have you ever wondered how there can be SO many so-called internet marketing gurus? How did they all become gurus and where did they come from? Where did they get their information. How often have you gotten an e-mail or gone to a website where the person is labeled as a network marketing guru, or an internet marketing guru or some type of guru? It is a label that people use effectively to sell an e-book, or a system, or a c.d., or a technique they call a “secret”. Are they dishonest? Absolutely not. The know that they possess a certain type of “understanding knowledge” that they have learned, applied, and have been successful with. They are offering to “share”, “impart that knowledge”, or to “teach” you that particular technique. In the process, they are going to make money from it. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that either. That is the beauty of free enterprise. I don’t believe that they are trying to deceive anyone either, because I believe that their technique works, so why not make some income from it? Now, here is the real question, “Is the information you pay for worth paying for?” Well, if it is something that you don’t know, but you apply it and it works, absolutely! I guarantee you this though, if you wanted to learn more techniques or strategies on how to successfully market your business or product on the internet, and not pay for it, you could. There are countless resources on the internet today to provide you with ALL the knowledge, techniques and strategies you need. The issue that you would face would be that of time. I won’t lie to you. Learning enough of the techniques and strategies to properly, effectively and successfully market does require a substantial time investment. You can facilitate your learning by purchasing “tips”, “techniques”, “strategies” and “secrets” from those who have gone before you. But, understand this, part of their strategy is to give you a few helpful tips and to entice you to buy a supplemental “report” or e-book that they have created, re-created or are using. Resist this temptation, because the truth is, the initial reports, free or inexpensive, that they give you is enough to get the ball rolling. It gives you some basic, fundamental knowledge to start marketing your business or product. You can get another report or e-book from someone else with different techniques to supplement the ones you already received.
Now, once you have learned a few strategies and techniques to start marketing, get busy and start applying them. This is where many people fail. The BIGGEST SECRET to successfully marketing on the internet is what 95% of marketers don’t know. (I am going to reveal this “secret” to you at the end of this article).
So, What does it take to be considered an internet marketing guru? The answer is simple, knowing a handful of strategies or techniques that you are willing to share. What? That’s it? Wasn’t a guru supposed to know “secret strategies” or stuff nobody else knows? No. Remember, 95% of people don’t know the first step to take to market on the internet. So if you know a handful, then that is more than the general public. Therefore, you can be considered a network marketing guru. Now, you must have applied the strategies and have had a level of success, otherwise you become a scam. You must have applied the strategies and show that this can be learned, used and get results.
I personally decided to learn as much as I could, and apply everything that I learned, to see what actually works. I started this endeavor about 8 months ago. When I started, I thought that by just having my website out there that I would start getting traffic to it. Since then, I have learned numerous strategies, have applied them and have seen very, very good results. I would say that 90% of what I learned was from those who have gone before me. Would I consider myself a guru? I would say that if you asked me if I could teach you how to effectively generate traffic to your website, I would say without a doubt, ABSOLUTELY. So what makes someone an internet marketing guru? It is just knowing strategies or techniques on traffic generation, that can get results. Knowing how to get your website more visible. You can be as much of a guru as you want. As much as you want to learn and teach. So learn, apply and teach, and find your place as a guru.
So the last thing to talk about………………..”The BIGGEST SECRET to successfully marketing online, to getting traffic to your site”…………..is using 10 - 15 strategies at all times. Trust me, there is no single “magic” technique or strategy. It is a combination of many strategies working together. The more strategies that you put into place, the greater results and success you will have. You have to understand that you need to put in a lot of time into it up front, but the back end results are fantastic! Work on getting quick traffic early to keep you going, but the real gold mine is getting the long term, targeted traffic. That is truly where your business will flourish.
If you have a webpage that can qualify your prospects before they go to website, and a lead generator built into it, imagine what your business would do with long term targeted traffic. I personally endorse one just like this. It is the Synergy Success System. I have learned and used numerous strategies to drive traffic to my website, and as a result, I have gotten highly targeted leads.
Thank you for reading my article and feel free to leave a comment or contact me.

A "Total Wellness Experience" awaits you

What are the essentials of feeling healthy? Not only feeling healthy, but actually knowing that you are healthier? Is there such a thing? In today's society, we seem to miss the boat when it comes to proper nutrition, and because we do we miss out on healthy living.

American lifestyles are one of wanting everything fast, and results with little or no effort. Especially when it comes to the food we eat. Think about it. How many times do you eat out in a week? Of those, how many times was it fast food? What about microwavable or TV dinners? Our bodies collect build up in our colon just like a car with old oil. In order for any nutritional value to be absorbed, there are two key factors to consider:

1. Nutritional intake is more efficiently absorbed in liquid form or in
encapsulated form.

2. The colon is where critical nutrients are absorbed, so a clean colon will
increase the absorption rate of any and all nutritional intake.

So what does this mean to you? Well, do any of the following apply to you? :

- low energy levels
- poor sleep
- weight issues
- high cholesterol
- diabetic

If any of these apply to you, which ones? Can any of these be improved? Our body was created to be healthy and to be able to repair itself. All the proper nutrition for our bodies, to maintain itself ideally, were put on this planet. Unfortunately, we tend to take the easy and fast way to supply our body with food. Proper nutrition has been lost in our fast way of living. We eat on the run, we eat the quick and easy thing to prepare. The good news is, there are lots of great nutritional supplements on the market to help offset this. Complete nutrition, not just a single pill or drink, is what is going to accomplish this.

So how is this achieved? As a Wellness Experience Facilitator, I help show people how to Build, Boost, and Circulate. BUILD, BOOST, CIRCULATE? What does that mean? Well, I am talking about a whole body approach to optimal health, not a miracle diet or magical pill, but a daily protocol of whole body nutrition. So again, how is this achieved?

First, we need to BUILD. Build our immune system, by balancing our PH levels. Most people in our society don't even know what this is and don't even track it. Proper PH balance is essential for achieving and maintaining optimal health and fighting disease. To remain viable, the body must stay in a slightly alkaline state. The bad news is that with our diets these days contributes to mostly acidic tissues and fluids in the body. Research shows that a chronic acidic state in the body is a potential contributor to various diseases, including osteoporosis. Bone minerals function as a reservoir in the body to buffer and control the pH of blood and tissues. If the body is constantly in an acidic state, then bone minerals will eventually be depleted, leading to osteoporosis. Most people in our society are highly acidic (below 6.5 ph level). Acidity is caused by many factors in our world, but the biggest culprit is the type of food we take in versus the type of food that we need to take in. Our bodies require 7 - 9 servings of fruits and vegetables on a daily basis. Do you take in 7 - 9 servings daily? How about 5? Three? It is a challenge these days to do that on a consistent basis. What's the good news? A greens product that contains young cereal grasses with various nutrients, including minerals, vitamins, amino acids, fiber, protein and enzymes. Especially one that has a good resource of chlorophyll, which protects and builds healthy cells, including blood cells. Chlorophyll also supports immune function and is a detoxifying agent. Studies show that a pH level of 7.5 or higher doesn't allow diseases an environment to live in.

"The acid or alkaline pH of our bodies is one of the most important concepts of the health versus illness picture. Our bodies would like us to maintain them in an alkaline pH which is an inhospitable environment for illness...each person has the opportunity to reverse the illness process and to maintain excellent health. The body has been endowed with the ability to clean and repair itself if we just give it the opportunity." Dr. Adam Yaffa, M.D.

Second, we need to BOOST. Boost our antioxidant levels to reduce free radical damage to our cells. Oxidative stress, the damage caused by free radicals, is recognized as a key contributor to aging and many degenerative diseases such as cardiovascular disease and dementia. And the threat of free radicals continues to grow every day. A drink that is high in antioxidants is key. One of the best sources, that has the highest concentration of antioxidants measured in a single item, is the Acai berry. A drink containing Acai mixed with green tea, lycium, and pomegranate is an ideal supplement for boosting your antioxidant levels.

"Whether it's heart disease, Alzheimer's, cancer, arthritis--all of these are associated with free radical damage...stress reduction helps reduce free radicals, but the BEST that we can find is actually the antioxidants found in good foods like the Acai and its relatives." Dr. C. Norman Shealy, M.D.

Third, we need to CIRCULATE. We need to be able to circulate the healthy blood we get from the other two supplements. Pharmaceutical grade L-arginine is an essential amino acid with potential health enhancing benefits. L-arginine plays a role in numerous physiological processes in the body. It supports the cardiovascular system by helping blood vessels relax, contributes to proper immune function, is involved in the release of human growth hormones (HGH), and improves insulin sensitivity. The PRIMARY benefits of L-arginine center on the heart and vascular system. L-arginine is converted to nitric oxide (NO), which helps blood vessels to dilate and become more elastic. This reduces stress on the heart, improves circulation and improves blood pressure. There are seven critical reasons to drink L-arginine:

• 1. it is 1000 times more powerful than any naturally occurring antioxidant in the body.
• 2. it offers broad ranging cardiovascular support.
• 3. it boosts human growth hormone (HGH) production, which has anti-aging properties.
• 4. it supports healthy immune function.
• 5. it can enhance sexual health.
• 6. it can improve symptoms related to diabetes.
• 7. it increases the beneficial activity of nitric oxide (NO) in the body.

"As a physician who's practiced medicine for over 35 years, I've seen patients and dealt with heart disease almost every day of my adult life. Having had an active lifestyle, and no signs or symptoms of heart trouble, nothing could have prepared me to learn that I had extreme hardening of the arteries aka: arteriosclerosis. I was one of the lucky ones: I survived my situation, and have since make lifestyle changes. I started taking L-arginine; I wouldn't be without it. I believe in L-arginine, and I hope that you and your loved ones will benefit from L-arginine as well." Dr. Joe Prendergast, M.D.

So there you have it. Build, Boost, and Circulate. This will give you a "Wellness Experience" that will rival your youth. Three VITAL products to use, in order to achieve and maintain optimal health. You can find these products in many nutritional stores or simply click here.

For further Wellness Experience facilitating, on how to fully optimize the absorption of the supplements by a detox protocol, feel free to either e-mail me at TimVigil@FollowMeToFortune.com or post a comment on my blog.

As always, Thank You for reading my blog, and I hope that you will revisit at my next posting.
Here is to your health and your success.

Tim Vigil

Google the listed Dr's to find out about their studies.

Daily affirmations for your personal growth

"What a life I have! It is so ___________________", now you fill in the blank.

How do you view your life right now? Are where you thought that you would be? Are you where you want to be?
Life is funny. When we were children, our lives and thoughts were filled with the dreams and desires that nobody could take away from us! True or false?
You know, as I was growing up, I had this crazy idea of being an astronaut or being a world renouned runner and even being this great leader that helped millions of people. So did I end up doing any of them?
Well I pursued a couple because one of them was pounded right out of me....to be an astronaut. Why? What happened?

You know as well as I do that when you are young, you are the most impressionable point in your life. It really doesn't take much for someone to start saying negative things to you before it sets into your subconscience as what it considers fact. Well, I had plenty of people tell me that I was too short, not smart enough, not this or that. It works especially quickly when you hear it from an adult, whether it be a teacher, coach, parent or any other authority figure.
I was pretty lucky in having some older siblings that encouraged me with other areas of my life. I didn't become a world renouned runner, but I gave it a good shot. Could I have been more successful? Had I known and understood the technique that I am going to share with you now, I believe that I would have had much more success. Now don't get me wrong, I don't live in the past, but the things that I have learned haved helped improve my life tremendously and have helped me to make an impact in the lives of others. I have always heard about the saying, "You become what you believe". Ok, but HOW do you learn to believe what YOU really want to believe?
There have been times in my past where I wished that I could do this or that, but at the time, that is ALL it was a wish! How do you turn that wish into something much more powerful that will drive you to succeeding?

What I am going to share with you can absolutely change your life for the better, IF you are willing to stick with it DAILY! It won't sound like a hard thing to do, but it does take work. Trust me, there were days when I was rushed, tired, sick, frustrated or whatever that made me not want to stick with it. And you WILL have those types of days, but you MUST be persistent and do this every day. If you do this twice a day, it becomes easier and more natural much quicker. Likewise, three times a day will propel you to believing that much faster. Like I said, it will sound simple, and you may think, "I have heard this plenty of times and it just doesn't work!". Friend, I am here to tell you that it DOES work. It did for me, and it will for you.

So, why would I share this with you so freely when I don't even know you? Let's face it, this is public for the whole world to see, critique, agree, disagree, etc. That's ok, because it is not about just me, it is about HELPING others in their own personal lives. Helping people get out of the same old rut, helping people break the chains of mental bondage that has been past down from generation to generation. If I can help one person out of one million, that's ok, because I helped someone.
Ok, enough of the soap box stuff. Let's get started.

What can you do to help you become more successful, happier and start on the road of creating the life that you really want? What I am going to share with you is one of the basic things for you to put into practice, for now. There are many more techniques that I will share with you in later blogs, but for now let's start with just one.

The first and by far THE MOST IMPORTANT technique that you must do daily:

Get in the habit of VERBALLY giving thanks for the things that you do have.

"What? That's it? How is this going to help me? How can this possibly make a difference?", you may ask. Stay with me. Remember your dreams as a kid? What was it you REALLY wanted to do? Do you remember? Did you do it? If you didn't, why not? For most of us, it wasn't any physical issue or mental issue (even if it was, there are lots of people worse off who have accomplished great things). Somewhere along the line, someone who was important to you told you, in one way or another that you couldn't do it, or to just give up because you weren't meant to do that. So many times, not even realizing what they are doing to us, people we love and people who love us can destroy our dreams with non-supportive, non-encouraging words. We don't even realize what it is doing to us, and our mind starts to listen and repeat it without us even knowing it, until our subconscience accepts it as fact. Over time, we start to think about why we can't do this or that rather than why we can. We start to verbalize all the negative things in our lives, how we got there, all the bad choices, all the bad circumstances, EVERY bad thing that has happened to us. We VERBALIZE it every day to everyone we know! We don't even realize that we are doing it anymore, it is just natural to "complain" about stuff, rather than look at what we do have, and VERBALLY recognize them! Am I right? Ask yourself, honestly, how often do you verbally complain and how often are you verbally thankful? It is easy to get caught up in society today, wanting everything for nothing, wanting things for free or little effort, and to just go with the flow and join in on a complaining forum!! Friend, take a look at the things that you do have, no matter how little, but you do have things to be thankful for.
Here is a challenge for you: make a list of 10 things that you have in your life that you are thankful for. Every day, at least once a day, verbally acknowledge thanks for those things. Now I say verbally, not in the quietness of your head (that will become a natural part of it) but from your mouth, let the words come out..."I am so thankful for_________". I promise you, the more you do this, the more persistent you are with this on a daily basis, the more things that you will see that you have to be thankful for.

Ok, now remember that I told you that you WILL have days where everything seems to be going wrong, PLEASE remember that these are the most critical days to do this, as a matter of fact you should do this more than once this day!! On a day like that, the last thing before you go to bed, turn off the television, turn off the radio, turn off the lights and just relax in darkness, eyes closed. Think of your list and let it run through your head several times, and then verbally give thanks 2, 3 ,4 even 5 times. These thankful thoughts and feelings will be the last things being sent to your subconscience before falling asleep, and from there your subconscience takes over. Soon, more good things will start coming into your life, giving you more things to be thankful for. Just remember, that it is always darkest before the dawn. STICK with it, change your perspective and your life!
Start this today and keep doing it, because it will change your life for the good! Remember VERBALIZE IT TO INTERNALIZE IT!!

Please feel free to leave a comment.
Until next time.
Your friend,
Tim Vigil

Unleashing the Entrepreneur in you means finding the right business for you.

You are an entrepreneur at heart. You know it, you can feel it, you can sense it. You can feel your heart about ready to pound out of your chest when you think about all the things that you KNOW you can be doing, IF you had control of your time and had the finances. Your friends and family see it in you also. You believe that you were destined for something bigger, something better, something that would allow you to leave a LEGACY of your life behind.....long after you are gone!! You know that it is your time.
"Tim", you say, "you are right! I know that I am destined for something greater, but how do I find the right opportunity?" That is a good question. You really do have to find the opportunity or the business that is right for you. There are literally thousands, even hundreds of thousands of thousands of work from home or home based businesses available to you. But how do you know which one is right for you?
Here are 3 questions that you need to ask yourself:
1. As you are building your business, HOW CAN YOU HELP OTHERS?
"What? Help others? I thought that I was in business for my benefit?", you may say. And yes, you are. But remember what Zig Ziglar says: "Help enough people get what they want and you WILL get what you want!" Now, for some people, getting what they want may be to lose some weight, some may want better health, and some may want wealth. What ever it is that they want, have the attitude of helping them get what they want. And this opportunity has to in some way give you the chance to help them do just that!
2. Very key item here! "Is this product or service that you will be providing be something that YOU can believe in?" Now this is EXTREMELY important because if you don't believe in the product/service that you will be providing, believe me when I tell you, your potential customer or prospect will be able to sense it!! There are too many people to count who have tried to sell or represent something that they didn't believe in, and eventually failed or gave up, quit, or blamed the product/service or the company or the support team. Truthfully, most likely the product/service was quality, but it wasn't right for them and they NEVER believed in it and people they talked to could tell.
Finally, and the thing that is most important to look for in a business opportunity is.....CAN YOU TEACH OTHER PEOPLE HOW TO DO THIS?
Think about this: A store owner can't be at his/her store every day all day (well he/she could, but would not have a life to live), so he/she needs to train someone to be able to run the store while he/she is gone. A smart business owner will "leverage" his/her time by hiring people to do the majority of the work so that he/she can focus on ways to build his/her business. Therefore, the person he/she puts in charge must be able to teach others to do specific jobs also so that the store runs efficiently and productively. So your opportunity choice has to have a system that you can use, and one that you can teach to others easily (helping others) to be able to do the same thing, causing you to be successful. When you can use a PLUG AND PLAY system to help you recruit, sign-up people, and train, then MOST of the hard work is done!! Then all you have to do is to teach others how to PLUG AND PLAY. In NO WAY am I saying that no effort is needed to be successful because EVERY beginning takes effort to build a foundation and get things rolling. BUT, can you imagine the POTENTIAL of a system like that, once you have taught others how to apply it and they have taught their others to apply it? The longer you work that system, and the more people you teach (and help them teach others) how to use the same system, IT WILL BECOME self perpetuating! Imagine the growth of your business in 6 months, 12 months, 18 months!! It will grow exponentially, and it will be 100% automated!
So there you have it:
1. How can you help others?
2. Is the product/service something that you can believe in?
3. Can you teach others to do the same thing?
There are many fantastic companies and opportunities with teachable systems out there, so find the one that is right for you.
I hope this article was useful in helping you decide, FIRST, if you are ready to unleash the entrepreneur in you. SECOND, to help you know what to look for in an opportunity. Thank you for reading my article.
If you would like to learn about the system that I use, visit my website at: http://www.followmetofortune.com/
Tim
Please feel free to contact me or leave a comment! Here is to your SUCCESS!