MOVING ON

If you've been engaged in any form of network marketing these days, you'll be helped a lot by reading this book by Mark Yarnell and Rene Reid Yarnell: Your First Year In Network Marketing . I've been doing and working on my franchise business with Market America / shop.com for nearly a year then when I got the chance to hear about this book from one of the leading partners who came to town in Flushing, Queens to share his experience. And so I was prevailed to order my copy and begun reading it as soon as my second hand copy arrived. It's an easy read but I didn't finish reading it right away because I got myself caught up in activities I've been doing for my online businesses as I continue doing my part-time jobs mainly for cash flow reasons, in addition to a long list of books I've been reading as well because I'm a writer and a bookseller.  As expected, the book didn't really cover much about Market America and its difficult-to-copy compensatio...

Last night's mobile home business presentation (m-hbp) at my place in Stapleton, Staten Island, NYC brought forth a host of critical lessons I have to continue improve on so I'll go very far in accomplishing my goals in my franchise business with Market America / shop.com with the help of my teammates. My senior partner Eugene asked me about my style in closing in confirmations from those I've invited to my events. Apparently, I've been lacking in doing more powerful follow ups. I said, my style depends on the person I'm talking with. Now I am seeing that I have to learn more about disqualifying people who show up in my network so I'd save my precious time as well as their own. I'd be very forthright with my intentions, especially when I have to invite them to take a look into this business opportunity with Market America / shop.com . I'd have to learn to ask for their commitment in attending and showing up in my events, such that I don't really...

Banned TED Talk: Nick Hanauer "Rich people don't create jobs" - YouTube : Gratefully, I am inspired by what I heard from this guy. Yes, what he's been expounding on is truthful and factual. However, those statements are very political as well, and so I can understand why this talk has been banned (if it's true that it was indeed banned). But no matter what your political leanings are and your attitude toward his ideas, they are not really relevant here. Just consider more seriously that he's actually talking from experience. As an entrepreneur myself (I have online businesses--- my online bookstore , my eBay.com store , my writings works , my shop.com business with Market America , among other online storefronts that I grow and maintain), I can only rightfully claim that I'm mostly a capitalist myself, i.e. I make use of the small amounts of money I make from my part-time jobs to finance and grow my businesses. To-date, I've not gone out of my way t...

Very impressed with this OUTSTANDING seller--& I buy more than 100 used books online each year. I honestly couldn't be happier with this purchase--the quality of the book, price, & super fast shipping. I can confidently state that this is one of the best sellers I've had the pleasure of doing business with on Amazon. Highly recommended, & I will DEFINITELY buy more books from them in the future! (from a customer in Denver, Colorado, and who bought the book "A Dictionary of Modern English Language" from my storefront on Amazon.com) I'm very grateful for customers who would find time to praise and give feedback for their buying experience from one of the online storefronts I grow and maintain. I have several online storefronts where I market and sell a variety of products for over 2 years now. In addition to mostly positive feedback I receive, I get terrible feedback as well. Once in a while I get very difficult-to-please customers who are so petty and...

I've been a small scale entrepreneur since at least 15 years ago. Or I should say, I had learned to take the first few critical steps in becoming an entrepreneur as a child when I followed a good friend's suggestion that we earn money by acting as guides and guards for people who would park their cars while hearing the Sunday mass in a nearby church. Boy, we did earn some good money that time, which we would continue to do for the next few weekends. I would eventually study in the school that's affiliated with the church in high school, which experience gave me more valuable lessons in many areas in life that I make good use of up to now. In my career as an entrepreneur, I've been a hog raiser, a beauty salon owner, a retailer of a variety of services and products, a freelance writer and author, a pawnshop owners, a masseur who chooses his clients if they're fun to be with, a lender, an equity investor, a keen saver of pennies that earn compound interest, a busine...

Diversity will always be an asset to any organization, as long as it's recognized as such. If you're a businessperson willing to take risks, one area where you can focus your efforts on is to hire from a diverse pool of people, as long as you personally like them. It's always a smart move to recruit people who are different from you, and who will complement your own strengths and weaknesses - you simply can't do everything. Of course, this is difficult to do, as your ego will always distract you from what the real and critical issues are when you do recruitment. And it's more of a big challenge is you're a control freak. click on the title for more...