I’ve been away from my blogs for a while. THANK YOU for all of the emails and calls from my blog readers asking if I’m OK!! I’m more than OK - I’m absolutely wonderful.

I turned 42 on May 25. I got the best present ever - my boy (who is in a residential therapeutic facility) got to come home on a day pass. It was great!! He was able to get a pass last weekend and is home now until Sunday.

But…that’s not the reason I’ve been away from my blogs.

As you may know, I’m a life & career coach. Everyone needs a coach - even life and career coaches. I’ve been working with my career coach. My life was too “busy” with a lot going on but not a lot accomplished. I’m good at everything I do and I like everything I do. However, I eventually need to work toward one career. In a few years my Vitamark business will be able to sustain us income wise, however, I need something fulfilling to do in the meantime and beyond. I’ve narrowed it down to Virtual Assistant and Life/Career Coach. I love working with others and when I hear that the people I’m helping are living a better life because of the help I’ve given them, it makes me feel great!!

In honoring my decision to help others, I’ve greatly discounted the cost of my “You Can Redesign Your Life” 3 week course for my blog readers. Here’s what you need to do:

Visit YouCanRedesignYourLife.com to find out about it.

Come back here and click here to pay $49 instead of the regular$169 for the course. (I may take this offer away at any time so grab it now if you want it)

Many of last year’s participants have implemented what they learned and are now living more fulfilled lives than ever before.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life!! What will you do with it?

Almost a year ago I did the very first “You Can Redesign Your Life” teleseminar. I had a small number of attendees in that course. The majority of participants report that they have implemented what they learned in that course and have seen great results from it.

I’ve decided to run the course again. Visit here to check it out. If you or someone you know can benefit from it, please send them here.
Have a wonderful day!!

Roxanne

I’m officially only checking my twitter account once or twice a week.  This has gotten WWWAAAYYYY out of hand.  I’m what we call a blue.  I get distracted easily.   Twitter is distracting.  I thought I would be “cool” and get one of the twitter tools for my desktop so I didn’t have to sit on twitter all day reading what is going on.  OK.  That worked great.  I didn’t have to physically go to twitter.  All of the twits twitterers tweeters I was following came directly to my desktop.  I would get a pop up anytime someone I’m following made a tweet.  WOW - that was a HUGE mistake for my blue personality.  Talk about distracting.

The only way I see twitter working is if someone literally spends hours a day on there.  So I’m tweeting and who is reading it?  Only the people who happen to be online when I tweet (or have a tweet feed tool on their computer) and the people looking for new people to follow.  I asked myself “is the time I spend on twitter worth the benefit I get from it?”  The answer I came up with is a resounding NO.

Now, I’m sure some will disagree with me, but my time is worth more than that.  I’ve neglected my blog to sit on twitter.  I was looking for intelligent conversations I could join in on, but what I saw was not that.  Maybe I was just on at the wrong time of day, but I do NOT have all day to waste sitting on twitter trying to find a good conversation that I can add to.

I was looking to see what the successful people on the internet are doing.  Guess what?  Most of them are NOT TWEETING.  So I asked myself “Do I want to do what successful people do or do what unsuccessful people do?”  The answer was do what successful people do.  The successful people that I’m following do NOT tweet every day.  They tweet occasionally.

So…this is why I am no longer going to be watching twitter for great conversations that I can join in on.  I went out and found a couple of online groups of successful people who are running their own online businesses and making money.  I choose to spend my time with these groups.  I choose to read books and listen to great audios instead of doing the twitter thing.

Do what the successful people do and you, too, will find success.

Roxanne Green

Many of my team members in my MLM organization ask me over and over and over which method they should use to build their business.  My upline and I offer a buffet table of ideas that our team can use to build.  My suggestion to new team members is always “Look through the archived tutorials, read the descriptions and pick one or two things that you think will work best with your personality and listen to those tutorials.  If, after hearing the tutorials, you need me to help you implement what you’ve chosen, I will be happy to do that.”   The only thing that I ask is they pick one and stick with it for at least a month.  Become good at that one thing.  Don’t add in more until you’ve given the first one at least 30 days of consistency.

If you are going to be a success in any profession marketing on the internet, you MUST become an expert at one method of traffic generation.  Once you’ve perfected one, you can add another, however, you should not attempt to learn more than one at a time.

One huge mistake that people make is running in too many different directions at the same time.  Focus.  That is how you will be successful in MLM / network marketing or any internet business for that matter.

This works the same with trainers.  If you want to learn from someone, pick ONE person and learn from them.  You can add in another trainer at a later date when you’ve gotten the methods that the first person teaches down.  But, I caution you, don’t follow more than 2 or 3 people’s training at a time - EVER!!  You will get off track.  You will lose focus and your business will suffer.

Focus in ONE direction.

YOU Deserve Success!!

Roxanne

I am an internet marketing coach.  People opt into my list to receive information from me.  I do not EVER pitch these people on my MLM company.  I only pass along great information, training offers and tips to help them build their business.  I have a decent sized list of people who have opted in to receive this information.  Many of them are in different companies than I am.  Some have asked me about my company and ended up joining me in my business.  However, I only discuss my MLM company with those who ask about it.

Occasionally, one of these people that have asked for my help will ignore everything that I’ve shared with them and spam me with their “next greatest deal”.   I am amazed.  I am in the top 10 affiliates in my company at least 2 weeks out of the month.  Last week I was the #3 affiliate worldwide with my company.  This is because I’ve built a group of AWESOME people who I have created great relationships with.  I am not interested in any other MLM company.  When the experts like Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki recommend multiple streams of income, they did NOT mean more than one MLM / network marketing company.

When people pitch me on their “deal” I know that they have not been paying attention to any of the training they signed up for.  Why?  Because they are not ready to hear it.  They are still in denial, still struggling to build a business and still out there wondering why they’ve jumped from company to company and “it” hasn’t happened yet.

I received an email the other day from a gentleman who had requested help from me and never paid attention to any of it.  He is now in another “deal” and wants me to take a look at this next best thing.  I decided I would google this person to see what he’s done in the past.  If you google anyone in MLM who claims to be making a boatload of money and you can’t find them or you find them in multiple companies, they are lying to you!!  Plain and simple.

Bottom line, I found out that he is no longer active in the company that he was with and couldn’t find him anywhere on the internet.  I emailed him back and explained how he opted in to my list because he was not successful and was looking for help.  Now he’s left the company he was with and is jumping on a new thing.  I explained that I do not believe in promoting more than one MLM and I do not believe in jumping from company to company unless there is something wrong with the one you are in.  There’s nothing wrong with my MLM.  They pay great and have great products.  I explained to him that I don’t pitch him on my company and I expect the same consideration in return.

Here is part of his answer to me:

I am sorry to hear that you are closed minded.  I made a mistake.  I thought we were friends in networking.  I didn’t realize you consider me competition to your business.  I email my friends with every thing I find that could have an impact on their lives.

There was more “gunk” in between here but I don’t think my readers want to hear his pitch that he again went into. Then he concluded with:

Now that I know we are not friends, I will never contact you again and I will promptly unsubscribe from your mailing list.

He’s going to unsubscribe ME from a mailing list that I never subscribed to in the first place. LOL. What a joke. I am amazed at the people who do not understand the CAN-SPAM laws. Here is part of my response to him:

If being your friend means agreeing to be pitched by you then have it your way. I have many many friends in other companies who respect my position and respect how I feel. They don’t pitch me on every new scam that comes along. They don’t even mention their businesses to me other than to brainstorm about how we can build our businesses. THAT is networking.

If you are going to be this rude and nasty to anyone who doesn’t jump at your newest “deal” then I expect you to have very few friends by the time you are done. I’m sorry that you feel friendship gives you the right to pitch people. That is not what friendships and relationships are about. It may do you good to actually read my blog and learn a little about relationship marketing. Telling someone who doesn’t choose to be pitched that you are no longer their friend will get you a really bad reputation very quickly.

Thank you so much for unsubscribing me from a mailing list that I never subscribed to in the beginning. If you ever want to learn how to have people calling you asking to join your business instead of pitching everyone and getting constant rejection, I will be here. Unlike yours, my friendship doesn’t come with strings attached. I am here to help anyone at any time. I don’t pitch people I’m helping and I don’t expect them to pitch me. That’s all.

Roxanne

I am amazed at the things some people will do to try and build their business. They just end up looking desperate and childish. If you’re going to be a professional network marketer, you must concentrate your efforts on ONE company. I’m not saying put all of your eggs in one basket. There are MANY other ways to make money from home that are not MLM or network marketing. That is just one of my income streams. And I don’t ever leave my home for any of them.

If you are going to be working from home, you MUST be able to find targeted people who want what you have WITHOUT spamming and looking desperate.

YOU Deserve Success!!

Roxanne Green

You’ve probably heard or heard of the Bon Jovi song “You Give Love a Bad Name”.  I heard that song this morning and immediately thought of all of the multi level marketing / network marketing people spamming my email inbox and social networking sites on a daily basis.

I don’t care if you’ve got a product that will make me shrink down to a size 0, grow 5 inches taller and make me have the energy of a 5 year old overnight, I’m NOT buying it from a spammer.

You could have a free eBook that will grow legs, walk out of my computer and build my business for me - I’m NOT downloading it from a spammer!!

You give MLM a bad name.  You very well may have the greatest thing since sliced bread.  Most MLM companies have great products.  However, you’re probably wondering why you can’t build your business.  It seems that the harder you try, the worse it is.  You get more and more desperate and it shows.  It’s really not your fault.  Some silly upline probably told you to do it this way.  They probably don’t know any better either and are probably just as “green” as you are.

The emails you send to people who have never requested information from you are spam.   The comments you post with your veiled sales pitch on social networking sites are spam.  The phone calls that your auto dialer makes are spam (well…you know what I mean).

If you pique my curiosity even a little bit  about your product, I will go google it before I will buy it from you.   Maybe it’s just me, but I refuse to reward a spammer with commissions.  That just promotes more spam.

If you’ve got a great product put up a blog where you can talk about it.  Then work on getting targeted traffic to come to you.  You don’t need to chase people down and beat them over the head to buy your products or download your free ebook.  I have great products and a free ebook, however, the only ones that buy my products are people who are searching for a solution to a problem and find my other blog.   The only ones who download my free ebook are those who are searching for a better way to build their business or searching for a way to make money from home.  These people find my blogs and get my products or free ebook or blogging course.  I don’t EVER spam out emails to people begging them to join my business.  I don’t EVER jump on new people coming into myspace or facebook with “HEY - I’ve got a great free ebook - get it here”.

YUK.  PUKE.  EEEWWW.

Stop acting like a carnival barker “STEP RIGHT UP…COME ON IN…”  No wonder you send people running.  When you hear a carnival barker on the megaphone you know it’s going to cost you money and you’ll probably lose in the long run, but the games are fun.  When people associate spammers with carnival barkers, they run the other way because they are thinking that the stakes are much higher and the games probably aren’t going to be fun.

STOP the madness.  YOU - spammers of the world - give MLM a bad name. There are MUCH better ways to go about building your business.

YOU Deserve Success!!

Roxanne

In light of recent events, I am reminded of an old story I heard a long time ago.

A man is sitting on his porch during a flood as the waters begin to rise. A woman floats by in a boat, asking if the man needs help. “No, thank you,” says the man, “God will save me.” The waters rise higher, sending the man upstairs. A raft with a few people on it floats by his second story window. “Get in,” they say, “there’s plenty of room.” “No thanks,” says the man, “God will save me.” The flood waters keep rising, pushing the man up to the roof. A helicopter swoops in, lowering its ladder for the man. “Climb up and we’ll save you” they yell. “Thanks anyway,” shouts the man, “God will save me.” Finally, the man is swept away in the torrent and drowns. At the gates of Heaven, the man asks God, “Why didn’t you save me?” “What do you mean?” replies God, “I sent two boats and a helicopter.”

Has anyone sent boats and a helicopter for you lately and you sent them away? Know how to recognize a helping hand and “don’t look a gift horse in the mouth”.

YOU Deserve Success!!

Roxanne

I have no idea how much money I’ve wasted over the last 10 years buying leads. What’s worse is that I went from lead company to lead company trying to find the best leads. UM…yeah…the best leads would be ones that actually requested information. What a joke. I was so sick and tired of rejection I was beginning to reject myself. I’d get “fresh” leads and call them only to get “STOP CALLING ME!!! You’re the 5th person today that’s called” or “I don’t know how you got my name but you better make these phone calls stop!” or well…you get the picture. I’m sure you’ve heard those and a lot more if you’ve ever bought leads.

OH - did I forget to mention the “telephone verified” ones that were supposedly called just before they were sent to me? Yeah - OK. I call them right away and they tell me no one called to verify anything and they were just trying to get a free toaster.

The only ones making any money with this was the lead companies. And the best part is that we keep trying. Those of us who are legitimately out there trying to make this MLM thing work keep buying leads. Boy are we gluttons for punishment or what?!

I stopped buying leads three years ago. This week I was number one in volume in my company. Well…I’m down to number 3 now, but I was at number one. Even number three isn’t easy. That’s because I built my entire team on relationships. I found a way to create relationships with people through blogging. The last 8 or so people who have joined my business have been blog readers. THEY CALLED ME!!! No more cold calling for me. I love getting the call that says “Hi Roxanne. I decided to call you after reading your blog for a while. I feel like I know you and I want to be in your group”. WOW - I’m still amazed every time that happens. But it does. It continues to happen.

I’ve made some mistakes over the past 3 years. I haven’t always done things right. But…I’ve learned from my mistakes and you can too. Take just some of the money you are wasting on leads and invest it in my Blog Your Way To Profits home study course. I will teach you how to build a targeted list of people who want to buy your products and/or join you in business. I will teach you how to find a product (for FREE) if you don’t already have one. In this blog class you will learn step by step how to set up and structure your blog to have people calling you just like they call me.

Take a look. See what’s involved. You’ll be glad you did.

YOU Deserve Success!!

Roxanne

The members area for my Blogging Home Study Course went live today. There is a lot of great content there already and more will be added on a regular basis.

If you want to sign up for the course, visit BlogYourWayToProfits.com

YOU Deserve Success!!

Roxanne

In order for your visitor to read what you write, your blog must be visually appealing. I don’t mean make it “pretty”. I mean let the reader read what you’ve written. I’ve been using entrecard lately and looking at a lot of blogs. About half of them I don’t even bother to read. They are clearly only there to spam ads.

When you have a blog, you should be writing for a reason. Your blog should be focused on letting the reader get to know you and what you do. If you have ads across the top and ads on both sides, forget it. I’m not reading.

I’m not saying ads are bad. I have ads to things in my sidebar. However, when you come to my blog you can read my content. The thing that will keep your visitors coming back is your posts. If your visitors can not find your posts or your blog is so “busy” that they can’t actually read your posts they will leave.

Everyone who reads English reads from left to right. If you have ads on the left, the purpose of your blog is obviously to sell people and not to create relationships and let people get to know you. Put the ads and extra stuff on the right and your main content on the left. That way, if your reader likes what you are saying, they will look around and see the rest.

Get rid of the clutter. If your blog is so cluttered that your reader can’t read your posts, your blog is not visually appealing to them.

YOU Deserve Success!!

Roxanne Green

PS - If you like these tips, visit http://BlogYourWayToProfits.com and get my Blogging Home Study Course. It launches today!!