An email that shifts your thinking in such a way that you take different actions and make different choices than you ever would have if you’d never received that message, is an email that is not an email.

Emails like that are more of a catalyst. If you trust that the universe indeed sends messages that if heeded will lead you where you are meant to be, then it follows that that message could be arriving in a digital form. Those who have succeeded at the highest levels truly believe that you create your own luck, by stating unequivocally that which you desire and then working steadily towards your goal while keeping your eyes open for the opportunities that land in your path.

Often the difference between success and failure is the ability to see what is presented to you, and to take action when the time is right.

An email is being sent right this very minute, to a select group of people. People who have shown in the past that they are aware  — that they are action takers.

In this email is a link to a story. The story is about a journey.

Read it here —->>>>Entrepreneurial Spiral of Success

This is moment that everything can shift.

This is time when the roads diverge.

Entrepreneurial Spiral of Success

In my world, a full circle has been completed. For the past 4 months I’ve felt a sense of intense relief. I no longer spend hours creating content and social networking in order to develop income. Yet I still use those skills and tools to build the most lucrative business of my career. It’s a very cool circle of development, when explored from a bird’s eye view..

Five years ago I began as a network marketer – Old School.

Three foot rule and all that, and I did fairly well but it was a struggle. In retrospect, my lack of experience and the product category itself contributed to the struggle (but that’s a different story).

The struggle led me online and I dove into the internet, first with Mike Dillard and Magnetic Sponsoring and then into using Better Networker for community and attraction marketing. I moved into Ann Sieg’s writings and expanding my internet marketing skills using blogs and self-created lead capture pages.

I amassed quite a large network of connections, friends and even a mastermind group.

Did I make money?

Not really.

I made some. I covered my costs and brought in a small profit.

I spend 100’s and 100’s of hours creating online content and focusing on self Branding. Deborah Tutnauer, Inc.

At the time the message from Dillard, Sieg and others was to brand oneself without letting people know your primary MLM. In fact, not even letting on initially that there was an MLM lurking in the background. Everyone was coached to become the coach. Look at how Mentoring For Free developed like gang busters during that time. That was the mindset. The plan was that people would be attracted to ME, INC and my value and then want to come work with me after working their way through my funnel of affiliate and self created products. The list would grow generically and a decent number of people would move through the funnel and exit right into my network marketing company.

A whole industry developed during that time, created to teach people how to get a list. Whether it was Magnetic Sponsoring, or MLMSP, or The Renegade Network Marketer, or Klingler’s Renegade University, the philosophy spawned a sub industry who’s goal was to teach people to affiliate market their system in order to develop a list, in order to bring the list ultimately into one’s network marketing company.

In my opinion, it got out of hand. Many (most) who signed up and on made some affiliate income but did not convert most of those people into members of their down line..

In fact, in retrospect I think the value was much more in the communities that developed, than in the actual methods and products. If at the time this was all going on, specific network marketing companies had reasonably priced, excellent quality products and a SYSTEM in place to use the internet in a 21st century manner to market, there would not have been the need… (another story too…)

I loved that period of time in my own professional development, because it was hugely expansive and led to a community of connections that are now priceless. That time period led to this group. It led to knowing Mark Hoverson, Ann Sieg, Eric Walker and others, as friends and colleagues. In that way it totally “worked”.

The price?? An inordinate amount of time with a financial return not commensurate with the time.

The price?? A feeling of stress related to needing to be in front of people online, everyday, or lose traction in the online world.

So back to the circle of entrepreneurial success and life….

I am now making more money, having more fun and feeling more relaxed than I have in my business life in five years. And I’m still online..still making new connections on the internet
But it’s not this stressful feeling of needing to stay in the loop and in front of people all the time.

It is so amazing to me..
Relief is the word that keeps arising in my mind..
So much energy was spent on BRANDING
And I made many connections..but not much money
Now I’m just following the very simple Visalus system..regardless of where I meet the people..online or off..
And it’s just amazing..and simple and I don’t spend hours doing things that don’t yield an income

I have a team that is growing exponentially and duplicating, because the system is so simple. Teaching people the concept of attraction marketing was simple. But for most people, putting in the hours and riding the steep learning curve to truly develop a business with just the attraction marketing concepts, was really difficult. Most could not and did not succeed. Thus team duplication did not occur.

Since most network marketing companies did not give people the right tools either, the result was mass frustration.

I love that I don’t have to see people succumb to that anymore.

I have come full circle, as I said in the beginning of this post. I am back to including my company as part of my brand. There is no reason to hide that I’m a promoter of the Body By Vi Challenge. Not only is Visalus the fastest growing company in the industry right now (678% in 2010), but we have created a SYSTEM that is customer focused, designed for today’s economy and simple for anyone to plug into and make money.

A curious observation to share: I have three solid legs in my network marketing business. Two are much more solid than the third. Here is my crazy observation., take if for what it’s worth and comment with your thoughts. My least solid leg is comprised of people who are focusing their energies 95% on branding themselves online and leading into their Body By Vi business through the back door. My most successful legs are filled with people who are not wavering at all from the system that Visalus teaches. Even though that system includes online marketing and Facebook in particular, it is not teaching to develop a brand first before building a business and making money. The order is different and in my opinion now that I’ve come full circle, the order that they teach is much more effective and efficient and replicatable by anyone!

The sticky learning curve of pure online attraction marketing is what I now see is holding people back..
Those who are taking action in Vi are making money. Those who keep thinking about how to..are not.. especially when it comes to just relying on the internet..unless it’s peoplel who are skilled enough to be generating a lot of leads..like Melanie Milletics… and even she has stepped back from branding her ME, Inc, and is now incorporating her role as a promoter of the Challenge, into all that she does. Melanie has been my mentor and is now my upline and partner. She is by far the best female internet/network marketer that I know. Even she is following and teaching the Vi system and getting better results than when she did it the other way. She too, has come full circle!

The circle of Entrepreneurial Success..from beginning to middle to end..which is right back and the beginning with many more tools and skills. If you are still not seeing serious money from all that you have done, learned and accomplished over the last few years , feel free to contact me and we’ll talk. The lightbulb went on for me about four months ago.

How does this translate to your blog, the center piece of your online marketing efforts?

When you develop relationships with people offline, you do so with a give and take sharing of information. The connection builds through the sharing of value, ideas, experiences. Your blog allows you do the same thing online. Relationships are developed with your readers and if you offer them delightful tidbits that feed their needs and their soul, they will come back again and again to hear what you have to say.

Learning how to be a good blogger is crucial to a successful online presence. You can be excellent at PPC (pay per click) and other forms of advertising, but you lack an online home if you don’t have a blog. People want to know about you. They want to feel good about the person they are doing business with.

Often I’ve clicked on a PPC ad, and landed on someone’s opt-in page. What do I do then? I search around to try and find out who owns and page. I google them and see who they are and what is the essence of their message. If I like what I see, I go back to the initial landing page and opt-in. If I don’t find a blog where I can get a feel for the person, chances are I won’t opt-in to their list.

You may have heard me talk about my friend Ann Sieg. Of all the strong leaders in the online network marketing world, Ann stands out for many reasons. She is a mature woman who has raised her children with many of the same values that I bring to my family. She is sincere and steadfast in her convictions. And she is an intelligent and powerful business woman. I always enjoy our conversations, whether in person or on the phone.

I like this video that Ann just sent me about the power of blogging. I think you’ll like it too.

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It’s a good and necessary question for any serious marketer to be asking. Each time we are confronted with the “next best thing” in terms of a program; a launch; a course; a training, etc…it has the potential to distract us from the laser focus that is needed for true income and success. On the other hand, the very best trainings and courses also have the potential to skyrocket our efforts through advanced ideas, techniques and information. One has to be discerning, and yet the very best marketers make it hard to turn away.

What’s been happening in the industry is that many more people are beginning to realize that you need to eventually marketing your own product and to do so through some type of “launch”, in order to make it into the big leagues. Even if you are content to keep things to on a smaller level, creating your own information and training products allows you much greater leverage of your time and energy as well as a better branding platform all around. This is not new advice. Ann Sieg spoke about this exact thing back in 2007 when The Renegade Network Marketer was first published.

Katie Freiling recently had a phenomenal launch with her Unified Tribe, Community With Purpose. She has become a rising star not only because of the UT, but because of the true value she provides to the entire industry through this Collaboration and Syndication platform. Katie recently wrote a wonderful post about how and why to create a rocking launch scenerio for anything you want to bring to the market place.

The very best course I’ve ever taken in this industry,
was the Leadership Branding Course by Mark Hoverson. There was so much meat in this 7 week series that I’ve needed to go back and review every class just to get more clarity on my pages and pages of notes. So now, when Mark speaks I tend to listen a little more closely than I do with many others. MLM Launch Formula is a joint venture between Mark and Jonathan Budd. Now to clue you in a bit to the inner soap opera of the internet network marketing industry, Jonathan is the man who coached Katie Freiling to her great launch success. How many other women do you know who’ve made $50K in 24 hours at 27 years old? I’ve also heard the Katie and Jonathan are an “item”, but that’s another story…..

Many launches fall into my inbox. MLM Launch Formula is one that I’m actually looking at closely. When the doors open on June 7th, chances are high that I’ll be in the purchase line early. Will you?

In this episode of ITS ALL SUCCESS TV! we explore different tools that allow you a better opportunity to connect with your audience. Using video conferencing and recorded videos highly improves the ability to build relationships with your customers, prospects, clients and colleagues. Tools like Camtasia and ooVoo allow you to connect in ways not available previously, thus increasing your effective as a marketer and your ability achieve and productive and lasting connections with others.
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Keywords are the things that people search for when they are looking for a particular type of information. That’s the simple part. The harder part is that simple keywords have an incredible amount of competition. Large companies and powerful bloggers with huge followings have grabbed onto most of the more simple keywords and the little guy or gal does not stand a chance in that competition. But do not despair. There is hope.

Start with a list of words and phrases that most accurately describes what your content is about. Play around with different versions of the same idea, for instance: work at home moms, moms working at home, how moms work at home, be a work at home, how to be a work at home mom, etc…. I like to go ahead and “google’ the different variations just to see what my competition looks like. I also pull up the pages that come up in the top five or six slots and take a good look at the other keywords that they have chosen. You do this by clicking on “view” above your browser bar and scrolling down to “page source”. I add these words to my list if they make sense.

Now the real fun begins. Start with Googles free keyword tool (www.googlekeywordtool.com). Then start putting the words and phrases from your list into the search box and see what other words Google offers. If you check in at www.google.com/sktool you will also be about to see how many searches each word gets per month and how big the competition. What you are now doing is called keywork research and it is the basis for any good search engine optimized campaign.

In addition to Google, there are other free keyword search tools and many that you pay for. Wordtracker has a free version, but you may quickly get frustrated unless you upgrade. Because keyword research is a combination of art and science, and because it takes time..a lot of time..many skimp over this most important step.

If that’s you, you may be struggling to have your blog posts or websites actually “found” in a search, and thus you are not benefiting form the traffic that you could be getting. I found a secret weapon for my most important projects that I use only selectively. There is a phenomenal service available from the guys over at Social Media Science that will do very in depth keyword research for you, including domain name suggestions and an analysis of your competition. Because of the cost involve, I save this for very special and specifit projects. But by using the service occasionally, I have also be able to learn from them and use their results and a guideline for the projects I research on my own.

Make friends with keywords and you will find all you marketing efforts will pay off much more easily. Increase your understanding of short tailed and long tailed keywords to expand your options and your reach. Some my best SEO results have come from using long-tailed keywords, which are a bit harder to research but also have much less competition. Good luck and don’t hesitate to contact with questions.

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We had all met the previous evening and had experienced a wonderful day of speakers and business information. So dinner became a more casual event, trading personal stories and family adventures. It turns out that Ann Sieg and I have similar values when it comes to raising children and their education. It was wonderful for me to meet her and connect up close with another powerful, intelligent woman who had created her success based upon her world view and value system.

Meeting Ann Sieg was a delight. I have no doubt that future interactions with her will yield benefits for both of us. Thank you Ann for all that you added to the Renegade Professional Live Event with your stories and your wisdom.

(For those who do not know, Ann Sieg is the acclaimed author of The Renegade Network Marketer, 7 Great Lies of Network Marketing and The Attraction Marketers Manifesto

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