Earn Extra Income With Strong Relationships
December 20, 2010 by admin
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With a background in traditional business I tend to lean on any of the similariies found in conventional business.
One of those similarities is building networks or relationships.
I find that people who join a network marketing company are so eager to jump off the fence and begin earning income that they tend to find building a solid business a difficult thing to do.
And why is that so!
Here is an interesting case study that might help you if you have a home based business and find it hard to earn income.
Let me share this with you…
Recently I visited a business lady in Manila, Philippines, who has now become a close friend of mine. In the office of Mrs Tundag business, in Pasig last week I learn’t a few lessons in relationship building.
Sophia Tundag from Queen-S International Trading Company is a highly respected business lady in the iron and steel circles. In fact she is the only lady who sits in on the panel of that board in Manila.
And why do men who are 20 years her senior respect her.
Let me tell you a short story which may highlight how she gains respect.
Mrs Tundag had lost a contract from a large iron and steel scrap metal firm in Baltimore, USA. In spite of losing the contract which happened due to business conflict, she still managed to maintain a friendly relationalship with the firm’s managers.
In December 2010, the firm sent one of their managers to Manila to source out an agent to represent them in the Philippine region.
The uS Embassy had narrowed down 2 potential business firms to be interviewed for the agent’s position later that week.
Due to open communication between the two parties, Sophia and the US manager met as the manager dealing with teh case still enjoyed a good friendship with Sophia inspite of not being business partners.
The US company had actually 10 years ago helped to put the Philippine company run by Sophia on the trading map. This was something that Sophia was deeply indebted for and wanted to pay back the favour one day. She felt that the timing was right to give back now.
She volenteered to take this US manager around Manila to show him the steel business so that when he met up with potential agents he would be better informed.
She knew that she was given him valued information even though he was instructed by his firm not to give her any business. She was doing it for one reason: Giving back!
She certainly has a Plentiful Mindset!
After two days of intensive driving around the busy streets of Manila, She said good bye to the US manager from the steel company. It was a long tiring two days and she was giving away her time for nothing.
Sophia sat back in her chair that evening and and looked at me and said..”Claude I felt really happy to have done that. I just wanted to repay that favour”.
I smiled and said to Mrs Tundag that I have grown to admire her for her integrity and generosity.
I then asked her.. “so what happened to the selection of the agents for the steel company”. Did she know who had won the contract and who was going to be competing with her in the business now”.
Sophia informed me that when the manager saw the level of respect she had from the business community in the Philippines, he with drew his other nominations the day before his Embassy meeting, and made his company bosses to nominate Queen-S Trading as their business partner in the region.
What a Win-Win moment for both sides.
A Claude moment…
Whenever you do business, take it a upon yourself to build relationships first before you go after business.
The person whom you are building the friendship with will look pass you and see the integrity you have and will learn to trust you in the near future.
I hope you can use this little story to build you a good home based business in your own company.
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How To Select A Home Based Business, Tips on Chosing the right MLM company
December 8, 2010 by admin
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Today I shall walk you through one of the various stages of entering a Home base business.
The very first step is doing your due diligence as a prospect for a new company.
Want advice on what is a good company to join right now, then enter your name in the box to the right!
So what do you have to look for in a direct selling business model?
The very first step is that you need to look broadly at the industries offering opportunities either locally in your country or as a global business setup.
Here are some key points to keep in mind when looking at industries.
Firstly look to see if the industry is booming. Is there long term growth in the industry and what are the factors fueling the growth. One such industry right now in 2010 is the “Wellness Industry” which is being powered by the aging baby boomers.
If you want to know more about this industry take a look at the video in the left hand column by Paul Zane Pilzer. It maybe advisable to buy one or all his books on the topic.
We shall cover the other points in the near future.
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Work at home opportunity in the Philippines earn extra income!
November 26, 2010 by admin
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Don’t Let Me Down Said My Gym Instructor The Other Day!
I am writing this short story about what happened to me not long ago and hope it will inspire you to take action in what evver you are doing right now.
If you want a mentor to help you with your own home based business whether it be in the Philippines, Malaysia, Australia or the US, do ask me. Click here!
How often our performances go unnoticed.
Now there is a moral behind this story here so do keep reading as it might be helpful….
Last week I had an unpleasant surprise when my former gym instructor told me that he could no longer train me as he was being transfer. I had gotten used to Jay who was easy going, which I later realised was not in my interest at all.
I was being thrown out of my comfort zone…
So I was asigned to a guy I felt scared off called Mark. Now Mark had nothing going for him that said he was “bad”. Except he was Mr. Muscles and I was always in awe of him. I somehow felt that he would be hard to train under.
To my surprise I was asked to take Mark as my new trainer. Though being a bit put off as I was scared as now I really had to work out or else Mark would get upset.
Surpisingly after the first work out with Mark last week, I remembered texting him to say how much I really enjoyed the training session. For the first time in 16 weeks I felt I was being pushed beyond myself and was getting value for my money.
Someone was actually taken an interest in my health.
Now the next few session went on just like the first day with Mark ( good and motivating) until yesterday when Mark said he wanted to take my weight and check to see how I had faired since July this year under Jay. He wanted to set new goals and had to see how I had faired in teh last 4 months.
He was really surprised that though I had gained some strengthen in core areas of my body, I had actually not lost any weight and was over weight for my height and age.
He then went on to set some targets so that I could lose approximately 2 pounds every week until I came down to 165 pounds. Currently I am 182 or 85.5 KGS.
Setting New Goals!
With just concentrating on losing 2 pounds a week he said we could tackle the big steps ahead and get to our goal of around 75Kgs.
He then talked about diet and what should I eat. I was told not to eat too much rice, avoid fatty foods and fast foods, no cappchinos or ice teas, nor beer which is my weakness in Manila.
Do you know how I felt listening to him. Him telling me to give up all teh goodies I loved from sweets to beer.
Thats ruled out all the fun things I was doing before, during and after work. He sensed that and then surprised me when he hit me in the guts with quite a cool request whcih set me straight then and there. It goes as:
“Claude, do you know that if you fail in becoming fit, it woudl reflect on me as your
trainer. Are you aware I am prepared to give you 100% of my time and energy and expertise to help you succeed in attaining your goal of getting fit.”
I said I was… to which he then said
 ” can you keep your end of the deal and I will keep mine so we can get you to your goal. Remember you will be letting me down if you don’t reach your goal as my career depends on your performance here at Fitness First.”
Guess what!
He did not have to say much more. I was and am still committed to staying on track as he had my future in mind with those words.
I thank Mark for his kindness yesterday.
I am commited to staying fit for myself and will not let him down as he is now my buddy rather than my gym instructor.
Now there is a reason why I thought I should share this with you today.
Why am I sharing this….
I am in a MLM company and quite often my team members feel they are being pushed by
me so that I could get a bigger income.
The fact is true I do, but its much deeper than that.
Obviously if they do well I will but what if I am putting in 100% in helping them earn an income, and they don’t realise that.
Do they realise that just like Mark I have a profile that protrays who I am as a leader. Their success is my success too.
What if they don’t keep their part of the business deal and build they business how else will they earn money, and if they don’t earn money it does refect on my mentorship.
I started to ask my distributors now are they prepared to give me their level best considering the fact that they are building this in their part time.
I do understand that, but are they willing to give 100% just like me in those part time hours they have commited to their home based business.
If the answer is “yes” then I am also willing to help them 100% just like my trainer in my gym does to me.
Its a Win-Win for both of us then if we have a common interest and that is to promote the products of our company.
By following Mark’s example I have now started to help my new team members as well as the old ones to work with me to attain their dreams, keeping their maintainance every month upto date, learning from other team members as well as from the corporate on business matters.
I hope this little story can help people who are struggling in their home based businesses.
Please be free to leave a comment if you want that may help us all.
God Bless
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How to apprectiate your home based business, Work from home
November 20, 2010 by admin
Filed under Network Marketng
How Good Is Your Company?
Case Study-1:
In today world we are faced with trying times, but inspite of this there are huge opportunities abounding.
PS: If you find my story below interesting how about we connect either through Facebook or get my eNewsletter so I can mentor you. I run a global home based business and look for people from time to time to mentor.Â
Now for the rest of the story….
People all around talk about hardships and trials that come their way daily. They most often complain about their employers and always want more from their employment rather than say let’s give more to our company and keep our company afloat in difficult financial times.Â
How about we learn to give before we demand!Â
I was impressed with a story that my brother-in-law a few months ago narrated. He mentioned something over dinner to a bunch of us guys one night in Brisbane on one of my trips back home this year from Manila in the Philippines. He is a very generous, gracious and unassuming guy and we all love him for his gentle nature. He is over 6 feet tall and is a gentle giant.
 Now Frank ( I am sure he won’t mind me mentioning his name here) belongs to a huge mining company in Queensland, Australia and was speaking of special bonuses the mine has for its employees. One such bonus for existing employees at that time was to reward an existing employee if they were to recommend a future employee to the mining company.
 What a way to attract staff to a company. Word of mouth advertising is the best recomendation for any company. We all do networking of sorts everyday and this moning company was using existing staff to market their company through word of mouth marketing, Networking!
 The bonus was good, around $2000 if I remember right which is probably the wage of the new employee for a week. In other words its a close Matching Bonus to what an employee would get for a week.
 How good was that!
 Imagine getting a one OFF “Matching Bonus” for every employee you brought into the mining company. That would pay for any existing bills or even a good holiday if you knew of an electrician the mine needed.
 You could set up your own little recruiting agency on the side just to supply workers to the mine, LOL!
 Better still what if you came across a deal or a permanent promotion from your company that rewarded you to recommend your company to others. What if this company gave you a BONUS every time the future employee earned and better still what if you got it for 26 weeks of the life of that new employee in your company.
 Would that be exciting!
And here is another more exciting thing. If your company could give you a 100% Match of the future employee’s earnings would you get even more excited.
 I would!
 So why do companies do this?
 Global companies want to attract the best people into the work force whether it be miners or sales people. Quite often and most often these people are hidden away from the public eye and maybe be known to someone in the existing company.
 It’s far cheaper for the company to pay an existing staff member to find a trusted hard working worker than to find an ad with a marketing agency to do the recruiting.
 Now the new employee has friends in the company who will train and support him. This is priceless to the employer as the best training is from trained staff. It does not cost more for the company in way of training and the training is the best. there is a vested interest for a trained staff to mentor the new comer.
 That’s why they reward you. For all your hard efforts in helping the employer to grow and increase business.
 Now there are many home based business offers in Australia, US, Canada, Malaysia, Singapore and Philippines that come close to what I mentioned above but you need to look for them.
 If you want more information on what I have been talking about and want an opportunity to earn some exciting bonuses then please do drop me a line through this webpage.
 I am sure I can steer you in the right direction with Home based busines ideas.
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