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The Top 100 MLM Resources

Today we kick off a new feature called Top 100 MLM Resources. Over the course of the next month or so we'll be featuring what we consider to be the Top 100 MLM Resources. And we need your help!

Let us know what you think is a Top 100 MLM Resource. It could be a book, a tape, an autoresponder system or a member of your upline.

Some of the categories we'll be looking at are online tools, offline tools, key leaders in the industry, lead companies, training companies, books, social marketing sites, recruiting tools, etc.

So speak up... and let us know if we miss anything.

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Is A New MLM Your Soul Purpose?

According to the advertising the next billion dollar company has launched. It's name: Soul Purpose.

Founded by Nadine Thompson, her commitment is to build a socially-responsible and sustainable direct selling company with a mission of creating empowering business opportunities for all people.
 

During this phase of Soul Purpose Lifestyle Company, we are pleased to accept those who embrace and wish to share the message of the Soul Purpose vision into our Visionary Circle.

vi•sion•ar•y [vizh-uh-ner-ee] n. a person of unusually keen foresight

The community will consist of entrepreneurs seeking a unique business opportunity through which they can build a lifestyle consistent with their dreams. This is a limited time opportunity for select individuals who:

• embrace the vision and mission of Soul Purpose
• will be ambassadors of laying the very foundation of this exciting new enterprise
• will have a personal commitment, determination, and passion for building a Soul Purpose business

As a socially-responsible direct selling company, Soul Purpose will redefine empowerment in support of fulfilling individual purpose and vision through the marketing of exquisite, quality products illuminating body, beauty, style and spirit...one person at a time.

Soul Purpose offers high quality, nature-based treatments for everyday bath and beauty care, aromatherapy preparations, home accents and motivational products.  The Soul Purpose Lifestyle collection is the collaboration of an international network of product developers, perfumers, herbalists, musicians, graphic designers and writers. There will also be a collaboration with women’s cooperatives in Northern Ghana to provide wild crafted shea butter and honey for use in the new product line as well cooperatives in India and Vietnam.

Make no mistake about it, Soul Purpose is for YOU!

Are You Newly Self-Employed?

Here's an interesting article about mistakes people make when they become self-employed. It's called Ten Stupid Mistakes Made by the Newly Self-Employed written by Steve Pavlina.

While it's not specifically related to Network Marketers and Network Marketing there's still some points that make sense for MLMers.

For instance, number two on the list makes sense if you're considering a Network Marketing career....

2.  Spending too much money.

Until you have a steady cashflow coming in, don’t spend your precious start-up cash unless it’s absolutely necessary. Read more...

He ends the article with this sage advice:

It takes significant effort to build a successful business, but it’s also a tremendous growth experience.  I know many people who have quit their jobs to run their own businesses.  Many of them didn’t do as well as they’d hoped, but I don’t know any that regretted taking the plunge.  There’s simply no substitute for holding the reins of your own destiny.  Read more...

Most people regret NOT taking the plunge...

Influential Marketing Blog

Rohit Bhargava has a great blog called Influential Marketing Blog. It focuses on Rohit's reflections on creating compelling marketing, advertising & PR strategy. Rohit recently published a free ebook called "The Personality Project: Women of Personality. Rohit's goal was to get visionary women across many industries to talk about why personality matters. The ebook features 20 business women including CEOs, best selling authors, popular bloggers and online personalities.

There are some inspiring stories and lessons for everyone in this ebook. Read it. Rohit also wrote a book called Personality Not Included. I highly recommend this book as well. As he states "Personality Not Included is a new marketing book for entrepreneurs, marketers and all businesses about the importance of personality and a guide on how to use it"

The Personality Project: Women of Personality

Steve Jobs On Focus

This is a great quote from Steve Jobs on focus.  Learning to focus while so much information noise goes on around us will put you on your way to making 2009 your best year ever:

People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.

Ty Tribble's 5 Ways To Make 2009 Your Best Year Ever

I just put out my 5 Ways To Make 2009 Your Best Your Ever via a short press release, check it out here:

Ty Tribble Press

5 Great Ways To Make 2009 Your Best Year Ever

I wrote a short article about kicking off the New Year on the right foot over at my newly designed Work At Home Dad Blog.

Check it out here:

5 Keys To Making 2009 Your Best Year Ever

- Ty Tribble

Guest Blogger: Tamal Anwar on Developing Leadership Skills

This article is a guest post by Tamal Anwar who is a networker and a motivator from The blog about success.

Being a leader is what many people want, no matter you are in business or in any sector  with a team, you want to be the leader. Being a leader is not a big deal but dealing with your duties and your team mates is the toughest part of leadership. In MLM, you are the leader of your team but sometimes we have a hard time to spend being the leader. There are many skills which you can develop to become the perfect leader. Being a leader is very much hard task because you have to manage people from different ages and from different places with separate mentality. if you want to become a great leader in MLM, adopting these skills will help you achieve your goals,

1. Never behave bad with your team mates: Please never ever behave bad or roughly with your fellow team mates/ distributors. Because your distributors are not your employees. They have the same status what you have. People doesn't follows the leader if they don't like him or his attitude. It is not worthy for you if your distributors doesn't follows you no matter how much you earn from your business. If your distributors quit this business, they will have not much to loss. So they are not bound to this business this is why they have no such reasons to follow you if they don't like you. If you want to grow your business
then you shouldn't behave bad with them because it will effect on your own business.

2. Learn from your nearest upline: Your nearest upline, may be the person who enrolled you in this business, will support you the most. If you went to your more superior upline leader, he may not put much focus on you. I know many Diamond leaders and they will talk with my new distributors if I request, but that counseling would not be very much worthy for a new distributor. If you went straight to your upline leader without going to your nearest upline, the chances are that you will not get the better support. Your nearest upline will always there for you and who knows, he might have the answer you are looking for.

3. Help your cross line: Cross line/ help line are the people who are in this business but not in your team. You will not get any direct benefits if you help them but it is required if you want to be a leader. Help them with the things you can. Talk with them and help their distributors to learn the business and may be they will return the favor too. Let others from other teams know you. One of the goals of MLM is to make you popular among people. Talk with them and help them. Build a nice relationship and they will talk about you too and they will sure help your team mates which will support your business.

4. Build leadership: Don't just be a leader, make new leaders from your team. Let others build their own team and leaders. Duplicate the leadership to spread your business. Be patient because the result will take some time to come. MLM is a team work and a single person can't do 100% work. If we work together, 100 people can do at least 1% of work. Do you want yourself to do the business forever? Off course not, thats why you need more leaders to support your business. Learn from your distributors and how they work. Help them to learn more and be their leader, not their boss.

I know you can do it, you have too. Because we all love success.

Go Buy The Go-Giver

I have read roughly a book a week for the last twelve months and I can tell you without question the book that made the most impact on my life is "The Go-Giver".

Bob Burg, co-author along with John David Mann is part of my It's Called Success program and is one of the most respected people around the Network Marketing industry.

Check out what others are saying:

Trust is established when you act in the best interests of others. This terrific book wonderfully illuminates this and many other principles of contribution, abundance, service and success. In a style both engaging and insightful, The Go-Giver delivers a very powerful message.

— Stephen M. R. Covey, author of The Speed of Trust

The Go-Giver does everything I would wish a good book to do. The story captured me from the very beginning to the very end. The lessons touched home again and again. Read it to the very end.

— Michael E. Gerber, author of The E-Myth

Get the book here, with a bunch of bonus material including a leadership video of my partner, Bo Short: www.thegogiver.com/amazon

Orrin Woodward's TEAM Analysis II

In my last post, I talked about how Orrin Woodward's TEAM would might see great success in a Network Marketing Binary Compensation plan.

However, I should also point out that the TEAM concept (again slightly modified) would work well (perhaps better in the long run) with a Unilevel compensation plan as long as there are some additional depth bonuses. (Univera has this type of plan.)

The Unilevel plan is considered (by many) to be the most fair plan for the average person.

In the case of Univera's compensation, the added depth bonuses (called generational bonus) allows an associate to be paid (2 to 14%) as far down as six diamond level organizations in depth.

Imagine someone from the TEAM who used to spend $300/month to make 100PV, now spending $125/month to make 100PV, with every person (on their team) netting out a larger check bonus check. That is the potential of a new plan for the TEAM.