One of the most important skills for you if you are building a network marketing home business is the ability to tell stories. Stories will help you in all areas of your business. If you tell effective stories about your experience in your company you will attract more people to enroll. If you tell effective stories about your products, you will have more customers who will be more loyal. If you tell effective stories about how you build your business you will have better duplication. If you tell good motivational and inspirational stories you will be a better motivator. So become a great story teller.

Here is an article from Tony Clark that might be useful to you:

http://successfromthenest.com

Have a great day!

Danny

In some home businesses, people are told to “fake it to you make it”, or to live as if they are already successful. This can have a very negative effect, and has been a major reason for giving network marketing businesses a bad name. It is important that we teach people to be wise in how they spend their money, to not spend what they don’t have, and to not spend like they are successful when they still have a ways to go.

While not directly related to network marketing or MLM, this article gives a clear example of how people can get into a lot of trouble by spending money they don’t have.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/housing/2007-08-13-briny-breezes_N.htm

Danny

Hi everyone,

I came across this sight today, and I’m planning on digging deeper over the next while, but I wanted to let you know about it. It’s called the Personal MBA, or PMBA. It is basically an online reading list along with an accompanying message forum. It looks like a great place to learn more, read great books, and discuss them with others.

Business Week wrote an article about it, and you can read that HERE.

You can also go directly to the site and read more about it HERE. The site is free although they do offer coaching and consulting for a fee.

Danny

I was exploring blogs today and I came across a wonderful post about creating a balance between your home business and your family. This is one of the greatest challenges for people who work from home. Too often you can neglect your work and spend all of your time with your family, or you can neglect your family and spend all of your time doing your work. Neither option is ideal. Further your family needs to know when you can be interrupted and when you can’t.

Here is the link for the full article: http://successfromthenest.com/content/balancing-work-and-family-as-a-home-based-entrepreneur/#comment-12929

Danny

One great way to build your network marketing business is to get referrals. There are many sources of referrals, including your own customers, and prospects who turn you down. It is also valuable to develop a network of business owners in your area. As you get to know business owners (a local accountant, gym owner, painter etc..) you develop a group who can truly share prospects together. The more you refer people to their business, the more they will refer people to you.

Here is a great post from Duct Tape Marketing about the value of the network.

Danny

Hi everyone,

Darla and I returned last night from our 6 weeks in China. We were leading a great group of students as they taught English as a second language to students in China. It was a great time.

Here are four sets of photos. I hope you enjoy them:

Beijing

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=41674&l=98e6e&id=826085649

Changbai Mountain

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=41679&l=2548d&id=826085649

3 Borders

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=41682&l=49de7&id=826085649

In and around Yanji

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=41686&l=d6fbb&id=826085649

Danny