Think Global - Work Local...

Here's a good thing to keep in mind when marketing your business and using leads. It's from Big Al's newsletter...

Think global - work local.

Barb Pitcock told me her strategy for people who work leads. She advises distributors to get leads that are local. Many lead companies and providers of Internet leads can sort their leads by area.

If the leads are local, it is easier to telephone them and build a relationship. Why try to fly 1,000 miles to meet good leads when you can meet them locally over a cup of coffee?

And speaking of Internet leads, I once heard an Internet guru say that the first thing you should do with an Internet lead is to get them off the Internet. Contact them by telephone or mail to distinguish yourself from all the e-mails they get daily."

And take if from me, this works! MLM IS a relationship business, no two ways about it. And the best way to start actually building your business relationships is to actually begin talking with your leads.

This immediately does two things:

1. It sets you apart from the one million other marketers who are constantly sending them emails about their own home businesses.

And,

2. It gives you a chance to show your prospects that you truly want to help them improve their financial lives, which allows you to begin forming that "relationship" that can lead to a new and excited prospect for you!

Basically, this all gives your prospect the chance to get to know you better and to learn that he or she can trust you to help them earn money from home.

So while you can certainly build a very successful home business with leads that are from all over the world, local leads certainly have some perks to them! So just remember, "Think global - work local!"

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What's On the Minds of Consumers for 2006?

In case you want to know a little about what's on the minds of consumers for 2006 (as any marketer should), here are the results of a worldwide poll taken by AOL.

I find these results to be very useful as they can definitely help you figure out where to focus more of your marketing efforts this year - which could definitely make you more money.

Poll Question:

What is your New Year's resolution for 2006?

• Get in shape
• Quit smoking
• Find a new job
• Save money
• None of the above

Poll Results:

• Get in shape - 44%
• None of the above - 27%
• Save money - 14%
• Find a new job - 8%
• Quit smoking - 7%

The vast majority of people (nearly half) obviously want to get in better shape than they're in now. So if you market and sell anything dealing with health, wellness, nutrition, exercise, etc., you have a rather large market of people wanting improve their lives and health.

So what do you do?

Get out there and show people what you have to offer! Make contacts, find prospects, show people how you can help them. With a market like this there's no reason you can't make 2006 your most successful year ever. So get crackin'!

And A Happy New Year to YOU!!!

I want to wish you and your loved ones a very happy,

safe, enriching and prosperous New Year!

Get ready for 2006...the best

is yet to come!!! :)

In celebration of the times, here are two Irish blessings for you. May they help you start the year off right!

May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night, and the
road downhill all the way to your door.

May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light. May good luck pursue you each
morning and night.

And here are two Irish toasts for your New Year as well!

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship and
never in want.

May you have the hindsight to know where you've been, the foresight to know
where you're going and the insight to know when you're going too far.

Shine on,

Aaron