Do you want a work from home

Business Opportunity and Franchise
and earn extra monthly income part time?

Tips for success when starting your home business

All network marketing opportunities share these steps in common

1. BE A PRODUCT OF THE PRODUCTS:

It is essential when you start your own home business that you use and be seen to use the products.
If they are not good enough for you why should anyone else buy them? It is not just using the
products that matters but developing a passion and enthusiasm for them. Once you have got this
enthusiasm it is easy for it to be communicated in the way you talk about them to potential
customers and distributors.
It will be a massive boost to your business development and without it failure is close to hand.
This can be the difference between two equally hard working, equally smart people when it
comes to success.

2. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF COMPANY TRAINING:

All network marketing organisations arrange meetings and other training events. These may be
conference calls or recorded messages which have be laid on for the development of your business;
take advantage of them.
You need to become an expert in your field and just as with every other endeavour you need
to learn as much as possible as fast as possible. If you have something informative to say about
your business and an effective way of communicating it people will listen. If you are not informed
and have not learned how to communicate it your chance of success falls dramatically.

Meetings are essential. Attendance not only provides you with training but you will also be
surrounded by positive people who are all trying to achieve in exactly the same business as
yourselves. You will leave the meeting with renewed enthusiasm, confidence and belief all
which combine to build a successful business.
Some people attend one or two meetings and then wonder why things don't work out for them.
The successful people always attend and success leaves clues.

Home working can be lonley so attending the meetings is a great way to build friendships as well
as learn about the business. Keep attending. Those who stop attending tend to just fade away.

3. ORGANISE YOUR HOME OFFICE:

If you are to work from home you need a dedicated space that you can use as your office.
This could be a converted bedroom or dining room or even space in your bedroom.
You want to have an area that you can be apart from the family so that when you are trying
to work you do not get distracted by television and other family activities. This is important
as much of the activity in network marketing occurs in the evening when customers and
distributors alike have returned home after their day job.

Take some time to get a decent chair (this is not a luxury) and desk space with your PC,
printer and internet connection conveniently placed. You need adequate filing and storage
and a quiet place from where you can make telephone calls etc. If you use web cams make
sure the space behind you is neutral and tidy.

With regard to the telephone please make sure that you answer it rather than a small child.
It may be cute for grandparents to hear their grandchildren answer the phone but it does
not convey a good impression to potential customers or distributors.
You may be working alone but you are the front line of the company you work for so you
want to convey a professional image at all times. Whenever possible answer the telephone
in person rather than leave it to an answering machine. Network marketing is about person
to person contact so keep it personal.

4. BUSINESS ATTITUDE:

You have started a home business so adopt a business attitude. Just because you are at
home does not mean that you do not have just as much commitment to your job as an
employee. Start work at the same time every morning and don't just take the morning off.
Your the boss but expect of yourself what you would expect of someone you hired.
You need to decide how much time you can spend on your home business and then put
it in a diary with the specific hours you plan to spend. This time is than sacrosanct (red time).
If a neighbour asks you to help mend the fence that was damaged in a storm say no!
Help them outside of red time. They would not expect you to come home from an office to
help and they need to understand your office just happens to be in your home.
If you do not respect your business nobody else will. It is not a hobby.

5. GOALS AND TARGET SETTING:

All successful businesses run with goals and targets. These are typically called budgets
and the sales force have clear targets to meet in order for the company to achieve it's goals.
You are no different. When you started your business you did it for a reason. In 99% of
cases your goal was to earn some more money. Just because you work from home with
your own business does not make you immune to good business practice.

Why are targets important? A dream is something that happens at some time in the future.
Turn your dreams into goals!
The difference is that a goal is quantified (how much money you want) and by when.
Both quantity and time need to be clearly defined.

Once these have been defined you can then work out how much activity you need to do
to achieve these goals.
This activity can then be expressed in terms of weekly and monthly activity so that you
know how much you need to do in the time you have available.
When you come to review your results against these targets you are now in a postion to
take corrective action if you have missed your targets. It is this corrective action that makes
people with goals and targets more successful than those without. People dislike having
targets in case they miss them but without them how will you know if you are on course
to achieve your goals and, therefore, dreams? Also, these are your targets so only you know
if you have missed them and you are not going to fire yourself are you! The corrective
action would either be to do more or to do things differently until you start to hit your targets.
The only other alternative is to reduce your goals and therefore your dreams.

Don't take the easy way out and tell yourself that you don't need targets and goals. That is
just an excuse to allow you to underperform and risk failure. They are your dreams so
don't steal them from yourself.

6. DAILY METHOD OF OPERATION (DMO):

You have now got your office sorted out, have clear goals and targets and enthusiasm for the
products and some knowledge of your business so it is time to get to work!
The best piece of advice I can give you on this is to use a diary with a page per day. It does
not matter if you use a hard copy or an electronic diary, whichever works best for you but have
a clear idea of what you will be doing at any given time during the week.

I suggest you start the week putting red time into your diary. Red time is sacrosanct but is not
just your business activity but other things that have to get done at
specific times. Doctors appointments, getting the car serviced, shopping, domestic chores,
exercise and the school run are all things that have to get done so plan for them. When working
from home it is very easy for each activity to take that little bit longer and if you are not
disciplined with your time you will find you run out of it!

Once you have planned your week, each evening you should plan the next day in detail so that
if Mary asks you to help fix the fence you can tell her when you are available. Discipline with
your time will enable you to acieve a lot in the time you do have.
This is a characteristic of successful people so copy them.

7. ATTITUDE:

Attitude determines everything. If you have a positive attitude towards everything you do you
will be successful. It is never easy to feel positive all the time so take steps to help you along the
path. Surround yourself with positive people (company meetings are a good place to find those)
and avoid the negative people. They will steal your dreams and bring you down.

Use of language. When asked "How are you" don't say "not bad" but "I feel great" or something
positive like that. "Not bad" is two negative words which when put together are supposed to
mean "good" or "ok". If today someone responds to your question with "I feel really fantastic"
it draws you towards them. You become atractive so they want to speak with you.

This must be a good way to start talking to potential customers or distributors.

We all have friends who when asked always list at great length their latest catalogue of woes
and we can't wait to either put the phone down or get away. Be the opposite. Attract people
towards you by your positive attitude, use of language and enthusiasm.

"The only difference between hard work and an adventure is attitude" Allison Crisp

8. ORGANISE YOUR BOOKKEEPING:

This does not have to be complicated. Keep two shoe boxes; one for all your receipts and one
for all your expenses. In addition open a separate bank account just for your home business.
If you give a local accountant the two shoe boxes and the bank statements etc they will be able
to prepare you accounts for you once a year so that you can take advantage of the tax benefits
rather than have problems from the tax man. This will not cost a great deal of money but unless
you know what you are doing it is important to get some advice.

9. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT:

Whatever your background and whatever your experience you will be amazed how you will
change as a person as your career develops. When speaking with successful Network Marketers
it is always noticeable how similar they are in terms of being positive, always having time for new
people and wanting to share their experience with them. They may not have started this way but
they have evolved into the people they are. Why not accelerate you development by reading some
personal development books or listening to recordings. They are both inspirational and will assist
in you developing the characteristics of success.

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