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What is Hypnosis and How Does it Work?

Here is an official definition:

Hypnosis is the induction of a state of consciousness in which a person loses the power of voluntary action and is especially conscious of suggestion or direction.

Going into a bit more detail though, you could say that hypnosis is often over mystified, misunderstood, or simply over complicated. The definition of Hypnosis is used to describe a trance like state.

However, in reality we all go in and out of mild “trances” or hypnosis type states every day; those moments when our minds wander and we fantasize, even when we just shut the planet out and deeply focus on a book we are reading through.

These are all examples of trance like states, and they are all natural and safe. All hypnosis does is put you into one of these mild “trance” states purposefully, and gradually, as you keep getting exposed to the hypnotic suggestions of the hypnotist, your patterns of thinking and self beliefs will start to change.

Far from being asleep or unaware, hypnosis is a wakeful state in which you are both relaxed but have an open mind.

Because of this heightened way of thinking it is possible to use hypnosis to make changes within your mind which would be much harder with conscious coaching alone.

What is possible?

Well, it’s almost a case of what can’t be done, or what can’t hypnosis be used for…

Hypnosis has a history of treating phobias and fears, or at least this is the way it started out. It then started to be used with consistent results for weight reduction and giving up smoking.

Hypnosis is now used for the elimination of almost any adverse belief, it is used to help a wide range of health problems, and has a massive place in helping people to achieve the “success mindset”, to achieve their specific goals in life.

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Your Partner In Network Marketing Success,

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Your Partner In Network Marketing Success,

Internet. Business. Profit. To fully integrate all of these words into a successful merging you will need another word. Traffic. Every article you will find about making your site or company successful would always include the importance of generating traffic.

So, we all know that in the core of it all, traffic is the most essential thing to a successful internet based business company. Aside from ensuring that you have a great product to sell, and you have your company’s internal organization well taken care of, it would be time to get to the nitty gritty of things, generating traffic.

If you already have a site and you think that you’re not getting the traffic that you’re supposed to be getting, then its time to reconsider. If you are contending in this very competitive business, you should always be a step ahead of your competition, increasing your traffic flow should have been done starting yesterday.

Timing is essential, that’s an old adage known to everyone. But with generating traffic, you should always be on your toes and be a day ahead of everyone. Never think of today and tomorrow as a starting point for making your site traffic laden, it should always have been yesterday.

To help you out in generating more traffic for your site, here are seven surefire ways to increase your traffic starting from yesterday.

1) Invest in good advertising with search engines

Google’s Adwords and Yahoo’s Overture provide great advertising schemes that are very truly popular and assures great traffic. Although with this surefire way to increase your traffic would cost some money, while some would shy away from spending money to increase traffic, it is imperative in this case to do so because Adwords and Overture is the top surefire way to increase your traffic.

You can see for yourself the success these search engine advertising methods have reaped rewards for so many companies. Lots of sites feature these advertising systems and many have signed on to reap the benefits. Do not be left behind. Every penny is worth it with using Google and Yahoo’s advertising.

2) Exchange or Trade Links with other sites

With exchanging links with other sites, both of you will benefit from the efforts both of you do to enhance your sites traffic. When one site features another sites link, they could provide one another with the traffic one site generates. The efforts are doubly beneficial because it would seem like both of you are working to generate more traffic. The more links traded with more sites the more traffic could be expected.

3) Use Viral Marketing

Viral marketing allows you to spread the word about your company and product without any costs or if ever low costs only. This is a marketing method that can be quite sneaky; you can attach your company’s name, product or link to a certain media such as a funny video, entertaining game, an interesting article or a gossip or buzz. With this method, people get infected with the creativity and entertainment of the medium that they will pass it on to many people.

4) Search and use proper keywords or keyword phrases for your sites content

Search engines look for certain keywords that they would show in their results page. In doing so, having the right keyword and keyword phrase is a high requirement in ranking in high in search engine results. You could write your own content or you could hire someone to do it for you.

5) Write Articles that can lead traffic to your site

Submit articles to sites that would contain the same subject that your site deals in. If you sell car parts write press releases and articles about cars and car parts. Attach your sites description and services at the end of the article as well as the link.

6) Join forums and form online communities

Capture a market and show your expertise and credibility. When you found a good foundation for your site, people will trust you and your site and will pass on to many people their trust. Traffic will certainly increase because they know that you can provide what they need.

7) Lastly, Offer newsletters.

If many people know what you are about and your existence is shared with many others, you will find a loyal traffic source that can provide you with more traffic by recommendation. If you arouse the curiosity of your customers they will be pushed to help you with your traffic.

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What is your favorite way to generate traffic? Leave your comment below.

Your Partner In Network Marketing Success,

Is it really possible to improve your money awareness, and also to think yourself rich?

If you are involved in Network Marketing and/or into self-development, you should be familiar with the book, Think and Grow Rich that promises that just by aligning your thoughts it is possible to manifest riches into your reality. Presently there are claims that subliminal messaging might help speed up this money attraction a lot more. We will look at this claim, discuss how it works and debate whether subliminal messaging can really bring money into your life.

How Does Subliminal audio Work?

If you are a newbie with subliminal audio it is actually not at all how it is shown in Hollywood movies.

It works on basic principles of positive affirmations – however instead of stating the positive affirmation yourself it is found on a subliminal recording, and of course the nature of subliminal implies that you won’t audibly hear any words – the positive affirmations are all recorded at a higher frequency, nonetheless they go straight to your subconscious mind where they create changes internally.

So How Can That Help Me Attract Money?

In the past subliminal messaging has been used for things such as improving your ability to learn new things, boosting memory function or even for treating fears and phobias, but times are changing and with the rise in popularity of the law of attraction, subliminal messages are getting used more and more for manifestation.

This progression in money attraction and subliminal messaging originates from SubliminalMP3s.com with their new think and grow rich album. They give a truly simple explanation of how the album works on their website::

• It aims to fire up a burning desire within you will want to make more money, to get rich and attract the income you deserve into your life.
• It will build a core level of self belief and faith in yourself. This will provide you with much stronger levels of drive, dedication and persistence
• It will make you naturally visualize and imagine the money you will make

So something which looks unusual at first is really fairly straight forward – it won’t magically bring money into your life, it simply works to change your opinions concerning money, and helps you to grow a money consciousness – and as soon as this really becomes a part of your identity you will find money coming directly into your life.

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Did you lay in bed this morning unwilling, unable to get up? Did every fiber of your body demand more time in the sack? Was it a struggle to open an eye… and get up?

Sure enough, if today wasn’t like this, some of your many tomorrows will be. You need to be prepared for such inevitabilities… because they can and will occur and can and will sabotage your ability to make money. Here are some suggestions that’ll help you rise and shine… suggestions I use myself when getting up and getting going are most decidedly NOT my first priority!

1) Create a “to do” list before you go to bed.

The key to making tomorrow organized, efficient, and profitable is what  you do today. Make it a rule before you retire for the night to draw up a clear, clean, specific “to do” list. Write it, read it over, put it next to the bed… then turn off the lights.

While you’re sleeping your subconscious mind will be busily at work helping you organize and implement the items on your list. Even when your body is screaming for more sleep and all the creature comforts it can get, the brain — and your crucial “to do” list — will be helping you get up and at ‘em.

2) Take a cold shower.

The British empire, the largest the world has ever known, was practically built on a cascade of frigid water. Its young men, pillars of the imperium, were shipped off to prep schools and immediately subjected to the jarring temperatures which will work for you as well as it worked for them.  Don’t stand there and debate…. turn up the cold tap and plunge! You’re about to be invigorated, rejuvenated,  primed to run your empire.

3) Do some exercise.

Are you huddling in a corner of your kitchen, hands gripping a cup of joe, comfy in your bunny slippers? Whoa! This isn’t helping get your act together. You need some brisk, bracing exercise… the kind guaranteed to send vital oxygen to that all- important brain.

Put the steaming liquid down and kick up your heels… or quick-step around your back yard or up and down your street. With every step your brain will exult. The key isn’t coffee… it’s oxygen. Move briskly and infuse it where it must go for maximum good.

4) Give yourself an easy, immediate success.

Don’t feel like doing anything? Then give yourself an easy, immediate success. This should, of course, have been indicated on your “to do” list. Before you go to bed be sure to post on your list an easy thing, a thing that will start today’s sequence of successes. Once begun, as we say in New England, is half done.

What could this “easy” thing be?

It could be calling a long-time customer to get a nice re-order or following up with a new customer to whom you’ve already sent a proposal and quote.

One success engenders another. Even a small success is sufficient. Start successful, remain successful. It all begins when you least feel like it.

5) Put on your head phones and engage with some stirring music.

Still need help getting into gear? Go to the play list on  your computer and choose something rousing. What? You don’t have such a play list? Start it today. I can assure you, you are going to need it. Here are some of my sure-fire upbeat selections, guaranteed to get you going:

Wake up Little Suzie by the Everly Brothers (most appropriate, don’t you think?)

Think by Aretha Franklin.

Natalie Cole’s version of Pink Cadillac, and

J.P. Rameau’s always motivating Tambourins I-II from Dardanus.

Your list may well be different from mine; the important thing is to have a list you can access at once. Turn up the sound… and move your body. Your uplifting selections are moving you towards another successful day.

6) Visualize what you’ll get when you turn this day into a success.

All too often we work without conceptualizing why. We work today because we worked yesterday. This is not nearly good enough.

Remind yourself just why you’re working and what special thing today’s successes will help create.

In my case, for instance, I have a pile of auction catalogs stacked high next to my computer. I motivate myself on days when such motivation is needed by looking at the things I want from auctions coming up quickly. Getting myself focused and together is a precondition for maximum acquisition. Visualize success; then do what’s necessary to achieve it.

7) Still not alert and moving? Then take the day off formally and properly.

Like most people these days, you are working more and longer than either your parents or grand parents. We are the most leisure-challenged generation ever.

The plain fact is, you may be unable to get up and resolutely face the day because you’re just worn out. If so, take the day off… sleep in, sleep properly, sleep, relax and goof off without guilt. You’ll be the better tomorrow if you take what is necessary and do not regard it as an indulgence but physical need.  Enjoy!

Your Partner In Network Marketing Success,

*Original Post written by: Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant, CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., where small and home-based businesses learn how to profit online. Attend Dr. Lant’s live webcast TODAY and receive 50,000 free guaranteed visitors to the website of your choice. Dr. Lant is also the author of 18 best-selling business books. Republished with author’s permission by Jocelyn Jones,  http://OnlineSuccessPartners.com.

Did you know that habits are incredibly powerful tools for personal growth and success?

Think about the habits you have now and how they affect virtually every aspect of your life. Your weight and health are determined by your eating habits. Your relationships with people are determined by your social habits. Your success at work is determined by your work habits. You have sleeping habits that dictate how well you sleep. You have sexual habits. You even have buying habits; just take a look around your house and you will quickly see them. Our character, health and virtually every aspect of our lives are indeed determined by our habits.

If you ask ten people on the street what the word habit means, nine out of ten will tell you that a habit is a negative action that people do over and over again, like smoking, or procrastinating, or eating too much. Bad habits get all the press. Let’s look at the results of just one bad habit: smoking. Every year, over 400,000 people lose their lives to smoking-related illnesses in the United States. Imagine then, the negative power that exists in just that one bad habit. It is staggering.

Now I want you think about an even greater power, a power that can bring you success, health and happiness; a power for positive, permanent, and automatic personal growth: the power of positive habits. Let’s look a little closer at the meaning of the word habit. Random House dictionary defines habit in this way:

Habit: An acquired behavior pattern regularly followed until it has become almost involuntary.

The important words in this definition are acquired and almost involuntary. Let me ask you a question. When is the last time you sat down and said to yourself, “Today I am going to add a new habit to my life?” I would venture to guess that you have probably never said those words. As you read this article, you will see how easy it is to add positive habits to your life and the great power they have to change it. Think about the words almost involuntary. This means the habit is so powerful in your mind that it is almost unstoppable! With respect to bad habits like smoking, procrastination, and overeating, this is very bad. But with positive habits, this is very, very good.

What is a positive habit? A positive habit is simply a habit that produces positive benefits, actions and attitudes you want to acquire and make a part of your life. Why is there such great power in positive habits to effect change? Because habits, by their very nature, are automatic. After a period of time they can become permanent.

So how do we go about adding new positive habits to our life? It’s really quite easy. You simply begin repeating an action, attitude or thought process every day for at least 21 days. Research has shown that an action that is repeated for a minimum of 21 days is likely to become a permanent habit. Remember that positive habits have positive benefits and you will reap those benefits for as long as you maintain that habit. So now that we know what positive habits are, and how to acquire them, let’s look at some simple positive habits from the book that will help you reach your goals and have a healthier body.

Positive Habit #53 – Make it a habit to set goals

Since we are talking about goals, what better habit could you have then the habit of setting goals? Did you know that the most successful people all share the common positive habit of goal setting? A study was done to determine the importance of goal setting. College students who had gone on to achieve great success in business were asked to list their habits. The students who had made a habit of setting goals were in the top 3% of earnings in the population! It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of goal-setting as a positive habit. Goal setting is simple, yet 97% of the population never do it. By making goal setting a positive habit, you can start placing yourself in the top 3% of the population of successful people.

Here are some simple steps to help you start making goal setting a positive habit:

Step 1 – Define your goals, write them down, and be very specific; capture your goals on paper. It is amazing how many people never take the time to write down exactly what it is they want in life. Remember, you can’t hit a target if you don’t have one.

Step 2 – Determine what the time line is for reaching your goals; set specific deadlines for each goal.

Step 3 – Identify any obstacles that may stand in your way, list them, and state how you plan to overcome them.

Step 4 – Make a list of the people and/or organizations who will help you reach your goals.

Positive Habit #3 – Take Flax Every Day for a Healthy, Trim Body and Lower Cholesterol!

What is flax?

Flax is a blue-flowering plant known for its oil-rich seed. People have been eating flaxseed since ancient times, it has a pleasant, nutty flavor. The health benefits of flaxseed and flaxseed oil are significant and for that reason this habit is recommended as a primary habit for health and a trim and fit body. Here are some of the benefits of flaxseed and flaxseed oil:

Flaxseed contains both soluble and insoluble fiber. Several studies have shown that flaxseed can help to lower cholesterol in the same way that other soluble fiber foods like oat bran and fruit pectin do. A study at the University of Toronto showed that total cholesterol levels dropped 9% and LDL (the “bad” cholesterol) decreased 18% among a group of women who ate milled flaxseed cooked into bread every day for a period of 4 weeks.

Flaxseed is one of the richest sources of lignans and alpha-linolenic acid. Studies suggest that lignans may help to prevent certain cancers. Flaxseed is one of the few plants in the plant kingdom that provide a high ratio of alpha-linolenic acid (an omega-3 fatty acid) to linoleic (omega-6 fatty acids), it is an excellent source of healthy polyunsaturated fat.

A new study has confirmed that the positive habit of taking flax seed daily can help you get a trim and fit body. In an interview with Dr. Sam Bhathena, a researcher at the Phytonutrients Laboratory of the US department of Agriculture, he said, “we have observed that flax seed meal is much more effective in lowering cholesterol then soy. Several other studies have shown that in general, omega-3 fatty acids, lower lipid deposition, and help in reducing body weight.”

Omega-3 fatty acids — More than half the fat contained in flaxseed is omega-3 fatty acid type, an essential fatty acid. There have been numerous studies reporting the health benefits of consuming omega-3 fats. Recent studies suggest that omega-3 fatty acids which are abundant in flax seed can help protect you from coronary artery disease, stroke, high blood pressure, autoimmune and inflammatory disorders. Studies on the effects of flax seed on breast cancer are now under way. Omega-3s can also help boost your metabolism, helping your body to burn calories faster.

Flax is available as raw seed, ground seed and also as an oil which is made by cold pressing flax seeds. You can purchase raw flax seed, ground flax seed and flax seed oil at most health food stores. The easiest way to incorporate flax seed into your diet is to buy ground flax seed meal and add it to your food.

· Substitute for cooking oil or shortening in baked goods.
· Add ground flax seed to pancakes, waffles and cereals.
· Put ground flax seed on salads.

Here is a great recipe for a super health shake. Make a protein shake with 8 ounces of your favorite juice such as apple or orange, add 2 tablespoons of flax seed oil, 2 tablespoons of soy powder, 1 tablespoon of lecithin, fresh fruit such as bananas, papayas or blueberries. Blend with a hand blender or an electric blender. This power shake will provide you with the health benefits of soy; omega-3’s, fiber, antioxidants, and enzymes from the fruit, and the fat loss benefits of lecithin.

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You hear it all the time, “The Money is in the list”.  “In order to be successful in Internet Marketing, you have to build a list. “  Blah blah blah. First of all, the money is NOT in the list, but in the relationship you build with your list.   Here are Seven Simple, yet powerful tips to building a profitable list.

1. Be Honest:  If You are going to do a review of a product or a service, be honest about it. Do not make it out to be better than it is just to make a quick buck.

2. Don’t Sell Junk: Do not try to sell a product just because it can make you money. If the product is low quality and doesn’t produce the results it claims, do not promote it.  If you haven’t tried and reviewed it yourself, you shouldn’t be recommending it.

3. Use Multi-Media:  I’m sure you’ve heard the term, “Different Strokes for Different Folks. Some prefer audio, others prefer text, and still others like video.  By providing the different options, this will enable to make the crowd happy and allow you to build a responsive list because you are catering to their diverse learning styles.

4. Give Your Subscribers What They Want: I’ve mentioned in a previous post, “Give em the Pickle”.  Provide good customer service and give them what they want.  You can also sprinkle in different bits of info of what they need as well.

5. Don’t Treat Your Subscribers Like an ATM: If you appear as if you are desperate for money, or worse yet, just in it for the money and that you don’t really care for your subscribers, they will sense that and respond negatively.  Instead, focus on your subscriber’s needs and offer them solutions.  In doing so, will build trust and make them more willing to want to do business with you.

6. Don’t take Unsubscribes Personally: This is self-explanatory. People will unsubcribe. Not everyone is going to be interested in what you have to offer.  Do not take it to heart and dwell on it.  This can actually be a good thing. People will “weed” themselves out leaving you with a more responsive list for you to focus on.

7. Encourage people to confirm their subscription: If you are using the double opt in option with your autoresponder, Your follow-up/confirmation email should give them a reminder of the benefit they are going to get and what they are going to receive for opting in.

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What is one of your most favorite list building tips?  Leave a comment below.

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How many times have you heard the statistics that 97% of people fail while only 3%
of people actually succeed and earn a living in this industry? I’m pretty sure that
you’ve heard this over and over again, but you still may wonder how to position
yourself as part of the 3%.

When you take inventory of those that are successful, and tend to have a presence
online, and give you the impression that they are “everywhere”, you will notice a
few common denominators that may reveal how to become apart of the 3%.
I’ll share them with you today so you can begin to alter what you do and how you do
it, and eliminate your chances of being in the failing 97%!

1. They are Consistent in their marketing efforts.
One of the most important aspects of Marketing period, is being consistent.
It’s very hard to get people to take you seriously when they can’t predict
when you’ll show you or not.

Just like a child that expects a parent to be there to pick them up every day
after school, so to does your audience expect you to be there daily with the
information and pick up me up content and resources that keep them coming
back for more.

In order to sell people on your services or products, you must prove to them
that you are someone that they can rely on and can trust.
Major marketer have this skill down packed. You can probably assume that
they have a calendar for their business, with a list of daily and weekly
activities that they partake in to keep their marketing efforts alive.

If you want to begin performing like the 3%’ers, then you’ll want to begin
establishing a calendar of activities that you’ll commit to, and be sure to put
them in place!

2. They understand and know their audience, whom they’re marketing to
and what they want.
A disturbing known fact about the 97%’ers is that they have no clue who
they’re actually marketing to. They may take time to write articles, shoot
videos and write blog posts, but 9.9 times out of 10, if you were to ask them
who their target market is, they’ll probably decline to answer the question
because they simply don’t know!

Knowing your audience, knowing what their challenges are and how to
address them is critical if you truly plan on succeeding.
It makes your writing efforts so much easier and allows you to immediately
connect your offer with the needs your market has.

Before doing more marketing, take into consideration the following
questions:

Who is my target market?

What are they struggling with?

What is it that they want?

How can I give it to them?

3. They have a diverse marketing portfolio.
Using only one method to market your business is like posting an ad in a
newspaper, doing nothing else, and sitting back for months on end hoping
that your phone will ring.
You must get out there and begin using diverse marketing methods for your
business, incorporating things like Article Marketing, Video Marketing,
Writing Squidoo Lenses, Hubpages, Forum Marketing and of course Social
Media Marketing.
I will say that you don’t want to probably do them all, but pick 2-3 to start
out, while creating a consistent plan of action on how you’ll implement them
weekly, then begin adding one more as you’ve mastered the others, to gain
additional exposure from a new audience!

4. They outsource and delegate!
Outsourcing and delegating is soooo important to your business that I can’t
emphasis it enough. With so much to maintain in the Internet Marketing
world, one can grow weary and get burned out pretty quickly if they don’t get
help with those areas that are extremely time consuming and often very
challenging.

The 3%’ers have mastered the art of handing things over to people who are
more skilled and trained than they are. The key is in discovering what it is
that you do best, and what makes you money and focus solely on those things
while handing over the rest.

Outsourcing can be fairly inexpensive, sometimes even averaging around $2
per hour (depending on expertise and location of your contractor). Either
way, it’s more affordable than most people realize and should be factored
into your monthly expenses as a “necessary expense”.

To start out delegating the more important tasks that you may fear letting go,
you can start using Private Label Rights Writers who will create your content
for you while you have the freedom to put your name on it and take the
credit.
For the Internet Marketing & Network Marketing industry, a great place to
start is with the www.MLMPLRStore.com, where
they provide articles, blog posts, auto-responder messages amongst so many
other content marketing tools, to help make your life easier while providing
high quality content.
The prices are inexpensive to start out with, you have no obligation and it’s a
great way to begin to free up your time to focus on more critical areas that
really need your attention.
As you can see, becoming apart of the 3%’ers isn’t that far out of reach. It just
takes you making a few small changes and tweaks to what you’ve been doing,
and you’ll discover that you’re well on your way to dominating your niche,
succeeding in your efforts while finally making a decent income doing it.

Your Partner In Network Marketing Success,

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It’s sad, but it’s going to happen to you today: a prospect is going to say no to your offer. That, however, is NOT important. What is, is knowing what to do when it happens. That’s what separates the men from the boys; the business people who will profit from those who won’t!

1) Prepare for the decline

People who succeed in business do not expect every single prospect to purchase what they’re selling immediately, effortlessly.  No way!

Instead, they anticipate that while some will buy, many will not. Their job is to anticipate those declines and to prepare in advance what to do when they get them.

2) Write down every potential objection you will hear. Then answer them.

The worst possible way to handle an objection is spontaneously, on the fly. To render the best reply, you must consider the best reply, crafting, improving it as you go.

Face it: some people are going to decline your offer. You should be prepared to respond immediately when it happens. This means brainstorming all possible objections… and coming up with the best, most telling responses. Your use of these responses must be swift and sure. There’s no time for improvisation when your sale hangs in the balance!

3) Ask customers why they’ve declined your offer.

Successful business people, people who get rich from business, are never daunted by hearing “No!” from a customer.  They see this response, however adamant,  as nothing but a milestone on the way to making that sale.

Successful marketers know that any “no” means “tell me more”, not “go away, get lost.”

4) Ask why

The first step upon hearing the customer decline your offer… is to ask why.

Treat “why” as an essential tool in making the sale. The minute your prospect starts telling you why… you are on your way to a certain sale because the very act of answering this question means the prospect is willing to work with  you to reverse the very answer they’ve just given you! Thus asking “why” is essential to getting to yes.

5) Listen carefully

While your customer is explaining why she declined your offer, LISTEN. The natural tendency is to barge ahead, overwhelming the customer. This is a mistake. Instead, ask the customer why she declined; then give her the time and courtesy to listen to her response without any interruption whatsoever.

6) Make sure the customer understands your original offer.

By asking the customer why she has declined  your offer, you may discover that she doesn’t really understand what you are offering. If she doesn’t, present the offer again, making sure the customer understands absolutely everything you are offering and its substantial value and utility.

7) When  your initial offer is not enough

If you have presented your offer clearly… if you feel the customer understands it but is still not willing to bite, it’s time to IMPROVE YOUR OFFER!

Now hear this: before you ask a single customer for a sale, you must brainstorm every single thing you can offer prospects to induce them to buy.

You must NEVER try to improvise an offer when you are speaking to a customer. Instead, you should have at your finger tips the extra goodies you can offer a customer, goodies that will make the sale without breaking the bank!

“Ms. Prospect, I see you want to get our widget… and I want you to have it. I’m going to improve my original offer to make sure you get it! Let me show you what you can get if you purchase today!”

When money — or lack thereof –is the problem

Be prepared to hear from customers over and over again that money is the problem. This may or may not be true. Your job is to be prepared either way.

Ask your customers if they would purchase your product if they had the money. If they say yes, then your job becomes improving the offer until the customer understands it would be foolish not to buy. Improving the offer may well induce the customer to ‘fess up and buy… or risk losing the terrific offer you have made. Improve the offer and in a minute or two people who have just told you they’re broke will magically “find” the funds. With improved offers, this happens time after time!

Note: make it clear to your prospect exactly what this improved offer contains. Also, be sure the customer understands that this is a limited-time offer and that it cannot and will not be repeated. Make sure the customers understands; this is essential in ensuring acceptance of this offer!

9) When lack of money really is the problem

Of course, some people — particularly in our difficult economic days — really are broke. They need a different approach. For this situation, too, you should have planned in advance. Can you offer

* improved payment terms * readily available credit resources (like those at www.paypal.com) * details on how to secure a pre-paid credit card, etc.

In short are you ready to be helpful when your interested, but cash challenged, customer is ready to act? That’s mandatory… if you want this sale!

Turning a no into a yes is what determines your business success!

Let me be blunt: you cannot achieve maximum business success and the profits that go with it unless and until  you can turn no into yes. Therefore, mastering the steps in this article is essential to your maximum well being.

Thus, start today. Never let a prospect go until you have exhausted every approach to securing his business. Treat this as a great game, a game constantly testing your skills and ingenuity; one with the greatest possible benefits to both your customer and yourself. For you, hearing the word no only focuses and concentrates your efforts. After all, YOU are prepared for this moment. You know what to do and when to it. You are more determined to make this sale than the prospect is to decline it.  As a result, this is not just a sale you will wish for; it is a sale you will get!

Your Partner In Network Marketing Success,

*Original post written by: Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant, CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., where small and home-based businesses learn how to profit online. Dr. Lant is the author of 18 best-selling business books as well as being a consultant and recognized expert in the field of marketing and sales. Republished with author’s permission by Jocelyn Jones http://OnlineSuccessPartners.com.

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