Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Where will you be in 2016?

Is there a economic storm looming on the horizon. A few years ago Robert Kiyosaki wrote a book titled “Rich Dad’s Prophecy”, unlike most of Robert’s works, this one was not well received. In the book he put forth the idea that when the majority of the baby boomers hit 70 years old around 2016, they will be forced to start withdrawing all of their invested 401K money, which will cause a major drop in the stock market. All those dollars invested in stock mutual funds will be sold off to fulfill a government mandate.

Mark Yarnell the MLM Guru and author of best selling Your First Year in Network Marketing, is talking about the disappearance of the middle class because of globalization and lack of US competitiveness., in fact he has a recruiting talk called The Beach or the Soup Line.

This all fits into to my belief that if we had another great depression, it would cripple the US for good. Because during the last depression our government was not mortgaged to the hilt and could take on massive debt in the form of work programs and building project to help fuel the recovery.

So why all the doom and gloom? Hopefully to open your eyes and have you start take responsibility for your own financial future. You can not rely on corporations for you’re future anymore. Take your future in your own hands, start a business and work to security that you can control.

Friday, June 8, 2007

Network Marketing versus Affiliate Marketing

I have recently talked to an individual about his business goals. He said he was interested in starting in Affiliate Marketing, then went on to describe the company he joined, and it was actually a Network Marketing company. He was confused, so I sent him Wikopedia definitions on Network and Affiliate to help him with his confusion. I told him to me the basic difference to me is that Affiliate Marketing is a solo internet endeavor, even though your are working with the vendor of the products you market, you are on your to build your site and Adwords campaigns to drive the traffice that will make you the money in this type of business. Now Network Marketing is by it's nature a people centric business. True the Internet and technology may open the door to more prospects, but in the end to be successful in Network Marketing you have to make a person to person connection to the people you sponsor to be successful. So if you want to sit alone in front of your computer and tweek your fifty Google Adwords Ad, stick to Affiliate Marketing, but if you want to work with other people who can help you and lift you up when you are down do Network Marketing.

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Coming Economic Earthquake

Oprah Winfrey has an amazing power to affect our economy, by recommending it, she can put a book on the bestsellers list, and she can alter people’s habits as well. If you can get on her show and talk about you or your product, it’s like having millions and millions of advertising dollars handed to you on a silver platter.

Well last Friday Roger Barnett Chairman and CEO of Shaklee Corporation had that silver platter handed to him, where he was given the opportunity to talk about the impact Shaklee products had on him and his family on the Oprah Winfrey show. Shaklee’s GetClean line of people and earth friendly cleaning products were talked about as well, and were given out to the audience.

Everyone is expecting that the Oprah appearance and the Global introduction of Shaklee, is going to shoot the company from a 500 million to an over a billion dollar company very quickly.

So what does this mean to you, Shaklee is recharged and quickly growing, and you can be a part of it. Now is the best time to become a Shaklee distributor, but not on your own. You can join our Advanced Mentoring Team and use our techniques to make your Shaklee opportunity into an easy to grow business, and you can start sponsoring people and make money in days, not weeks or months.

If you are interested, visit my site and register at

WWW.THISHELPSPEOPLE.COM

I will give you a call and we can talk about how you can start today.
Or if you would like to take a look at the Shaklee products line, please visit my sales site at

WWW.SHAKLEE.NET/PLAPOINTE

I hope to hear from you

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Searching for the Diamond in the Virtual Rough

So all I need to do is find an unbeatable product with a fantastic performance track record, that everyone will want to buy every month and create ton's of positive cash flow, simple task. Do a search on Google for Home Based Business and you get
Results 1 - 10 of about 653,000,000 for home based business.
No sweat I can pour though those web pages in an afternoon, for the rest of my life.

No I needed something that was going to fit my needs and not take me forever to fnd it. I had to refine my search.

Monday, March 19, 2007

Would You Like Fries With That Website?

Would You Like Fries With That Website?
Copyright © Patrick J. LaPointe


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Ever hear this one before; I’m starting a new business. I have this great idea no one has ever thought of. When you talk to the individual a few weeks or months later and ask how’s the business going, 99.9999% of the time they will respond, Oh it didn’t work out, or I ran out of money, or nobody wanted a mink covered pot holders. They will probably have loads of excuses, but 9 times out 10 it comes down to they did not have a repeatable system to run their business.

Look at the most successful business in the world, and you will find they have a system that they use day in and day out to run their business. If a problem arises or things aren’t working as well as expected, they tweak the system to improve it. They don’t start from scratch. Once you have the system in place, then you can train anyone to run the system, and you can grow the business or go off and start another business.
We should all learn a lesson from the fast food chains McDonalds, Burger King, KFC, Taco Bell, they are the ultimate developers of success systems. If you have money and want more of it, go buy a McDonald’s franchise, you are guaranteed success, if you follow their system.

So what does this have to with running a business on the internet? Simple, if you want to succeed, you need a system. If you don’t have system YOU WILL FAIL. There a thousands of successful people using the internet to give themselves financial freedom, the difference between you and them, they have a system.

Ok, so what is a system? A system details step by step on how you run your business every day. It tells you to check daily to see if anyone has signed up for your business, and then tells you what email response you should send to that individual. It tells you how to market your service on the internet. It tells you how much you should spend on advertising and what services to use. A great system has everything defined down to the smallest detail. That way you can make it work and anyone you want to bring into your business can make it work. If you need a PhD to run the system, it’s to complicated. Remember who works at McDonalds, the system has to be simple enough for anyone who is motivated to make a success of it.

So then what should I do, I don’t now how to develop a system? Go track down one of those individuals who has a proven system and join their marketing or sale group, and learn from them and do what they do. Then turn around and train someone else to do it with you. Then you will succeed.


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