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Posted by Linda Locke on September 06, 2005 at 22:51:15:
1. Sell yourself first . . . on your company, your products, and your dreams.
2. Make your total business commitment for at least two years.
3. Use all your company's products regularly.
4. Spend 90% of your business time with your distributors, customers and prospects.
5. Present your products and business personally to at least one new person a day.
6. Advertise. Let everyone know what business you are in.
7. Duplicate yourself by teaching your distributors how to become increasingly independent.
8. Motivate your organization monthly by offering recognition, travel and rewards for specific achievements.
9. Praise your distributor's accomplishments every time.
10. Be persistent. Understand that only one out of every 10 people you approach will become serious about your business or be interested in your products.
11. Lead by example. Always be sponsoring, teaching and retailing your products.
12. Keep it simple . . . do things anyone can easily copy.
13. Keep in your touch. Communicate by newsletter, meetings, weekly calls, postcards, e-mail or voice mail - always pass on pertinent information immediately.
14. Remember to listen 80% of the time and talk only 20% of the time.
15. Satisfy any complaints immediately.
16. Concentrate on what you can do for your distributors and customers - not on yourself.
17. Ask for five new referrals from your best customers.
18. Tell your customers and your distributors how much you appreciate their business.
19. Build your contact list daily while building your reputation as a leader.
20. Use an answering machine or service and return all your calls within 24 hours.
21. Set daily, weekly, monthly and yearly goals and do whatever is necessary to achieve them.
22. Subscribe to MLM training publications and read all the books you can.
23. Turn your "driving time" into "learning time"by listening to audio cassette tapes in your car.
24. Think BIG. As soon as you can, expand your business world-wide.
25. Invest your resources in the things that will provide you with the highest return -- namely, your mind.
26. Read biographies of successful people and become inspired by their lives.
27. Plow your profits back in building your business.
28. Challenge yourself. Believe that if others can do this business, so can you.
29. Have so much fun in your business that others want to join you, and
30. Remember, it's always too soon to quit!