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2007-12-23

How Making Money Determines Success or Failure

The Road Less Travelled - or
How Making Money Determines Success or Failure

Go to school, get the best education you can so that you may get a good job, pay your bills, raise your family and be a success. Otherwise you will fail.. The story is old, the methodology worn and the results far from proven exemplary.

The last century raised two generations totally dependent on job security and pensions, neither of which has proven to be the answer to our old age comforts. You spend your life making money. Your success dependent on owning a home, driving a decent car, educating your children, and still having enough to look after the life style you want once you are on your own again. To do otherwise, was considered failure.

Regardless of where you stand in this picture, you are here looking to make more money. In fact, if you are not making money, you either give up or move on to something else that is supposed to make you the income you desire.

What went wrong for you along the way? Most importantly, can it be fixed? Are you really a failure? Is this failure to succeed really your fault, totally?

What went wrong is why you are constantly sucked into business opportunities that just cannot work for you. They all demand you spend money but never teach you how to use money in order to leverage your income into a higher earning bracket - how to make money work for you.

The secret that is no secret? The simple truth is, no one taught you how to use money to make money. You were taught you need money to spend on things. To spend your hard earned money to show the world you were a success by their standards. And if that did not work, Oh well, C'est la vie.

The rich have a different perspective. They do not buy questionable 'assets' like a house and car which do not grow but can devaluate pretty fast. That is how you spend your money. What they do is buy assest that create income from the income they earn. That way the tax man gets the lesser bite.

Their strategy:

Income earned
Invest/buy income producing assets
pay bills.

Our strategy that need to be re-examined:

Income earned
Pay Bills
Buy assets if anything left over to invest.

Can it be fixed? Yes. Will it be easy? Depends on you and your ability to change old habits that lead to failure for ones that give you the security of success and knowing you are choosing the right path - the road less travelled.

Fran Klasinski
Mentoring you with common sense

PS. If you are in my downline then I have a nice page of give-aways just for you. Take a look.
Have a happy and safe holiday. See you in 2008.

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TAGS: far from proven exemplary. | making money | success | failure

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2007-12-13

When Leadership Changes Do You Quit?

When Leadership Changes Do You Quit?

Good leadership fosters change and the acceptance of change. Good leadership seeks to strengthen the bonds of mutual respect amongst membership with the intent to foster the building of common interests that contribute to the betterment of the whole community.

Keeping this concept in mind, leadership transition, that is one leader moving on, makes room for new ideas and change that will better the end results for the membership. That does not mean that everything they have taught you changes

Leadership change is hard when we become good friends with someone who has mentored us through thick and thin, but quitting is a sign of total disrepect for all that Leader has taught.

The choices we make, taken on emotion, do not do ourselves a positive service, nor do they make the decsion of a leader any easier. Their leadership is still there. They have just changed their capacity in respect to positon.

Your business success is built on your leadership capacity to take what they have taught you amd move it onwards and upwards ready to meet new change.

Quitting is a sign of failure on your part. It shows your weakness of character in continuing a working concept Leaders have worked so hard to teach you. Handling Leadership change is a positive sign of your growth.

In the long run, quitting shows a lack of respect for yourself as well as for the leader who tried so hard to leave you with knowledge that could only build your confidence, business and, most importantly, your character.

Something to think about.
as well.
Fran Klasinski
mentoring you with common sense

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2007-12-03

The Role of Leadership In A Changing Society.

The Role of Leadership In A Changing Society.

Did you know there are organizatons founded on the principle of helping leaders deal with change in their organizations? Foundations such as The Society for Leadership of Change (SLC) help business deal with change management.

One would think leadership roles in a changing society were bound in an individualistic way to serve the needs of off line business. Perhaps originally they were. It is an obvious fact that leadership has and will remain an integral part of business and government since time began and people started to gather into communities. Never more so then now how integrity plays a role in on line business success.

Today, the social and moral ethics of leadership come under the gun and close scrutiny often turns the tables once any form of integrity has been crossed. Offline, it is the newspapers and tv news reporters that will eat you alive. On line, it is your competition in fight or flight mode looking for a stronger more secure piece of an ever changing market share.

They all want YOU! YOU are the prize in these integrity wars.

This is not a moral treatise nor is it a place to drop names for the sake of credibility. What I hope it to be is a way to put together a lot of floating pieces on how personal and moral ethics affect us in the market place, How the role of leadership becomes embroiled in a mix of challenge and attack when it should be challenge and growth for all.

When you deal with what comes in your mail box, when you surf the net and investigate the full blown promises of instant wealth without having to lift a finger, it becomes apparent entrepreneurs are walking into a crisis of confidence in the executive leadership of Internet corporate business.

In far too many cases, the moral integrity of business owners is sadly lacking or is swept to the background, overshadowed by confusing needs of the membership who are expecting to follow in good grace.

When I first came on line, I struggled with what a marketing strategy was. I asked questions and got a lecture on making my own business plans and a lot of talk and gibberish about mission statements but no one could explain to me what a marketing strategy was.

What this mystery did show me was it was all of these things aforementioned with a bit of polishing. What it also showed me was that leadership in so-called coaching and mentorship was lacking in the people I chose at that time to follow.

Let's be fair here. A leader is not born knowing what to do or how to lead you unerringly in to any business direction. It is as much a journey of discovery for them as it is for you.

Add this knowledge into the mix of how fast the Internet is growing, how fast change comes about in dramatic fashion, how technology becomes an intregal factor in business success and you are bound to become easily confused and overwhelmed. The time for checking the ethical background of your leader is not something that comes first, though it should be.

If either of you don't have integrity, if either of you don't practice integrity in all you do, if you do not believe in its power to help you do the right thing and follow those that do live with integrity, then you lose big time.

Irregardless of naysayers who claim integrity stunts your growth, I for one would prefer to go around physically short in stature yet able to stand tall and proud in my business dealings with my business associates.

When you think of the role of strategic leadership in our changing society on line, then due diligence begins to take on a new and more defining meaning.

Fran Klasinski
Mentoring you Through Common Sense.

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2007-12-01

The Price of FREE is Changing

The Price of Free Is Changing

The net is still full of FREE offers and gigantic give-aways of ebooks, digital products, sofware that is supposed to make your work so much easier, and jv offers fit to make you salIvate.

The one price for adding these 'marvels of creativity' to your HD is to give up your precious name and e-mail address.

You are the one who has to decide if their free offers are worth the bother. In some cases, they are not. In others, there is a gem of a find that will help you move ahead faster.

Where the normal action is to build a contact list of new people to promote to, and where many marketers have worn this concept out, there is a changing idea moving among those who recognize your need to collect anything for FREE.

The Price of FREE is Changing Models

The attitude has been that FREE tends to bring in the tire kickers. People who collect but have little or no intention of ever taking the desired action of the promoter.

Advertising can be costly for the serious marketer wanting to reach the best of their target market. So the field becomes highly competitive at best.

What was needed was a way to attract the kind of clientele that would recognize a great offer and not turn their nose up because it had FREE attached to the label.

If we, as marketers, are to change the minds of our leads and make them hungry for what we have to offer, then the way we approach them in our advertising has to be centered on their needs.

The conundrum of change comes when we realize most people buy on emotion and justify their actions later. Keeping this profile in mind, the changing marketing model is now suggesting we give away our very best products.

For the majority of marketers who do have their own product to give away in this manner, it will probably be a nice marketing course or perhaps some time-saving software or ebook.

Considering the facts that testing the markets for the sale of these products is not changing the bank balance by very much, then the concept of giving away your product becomes a healthier notion.

Why settle for a very low income level per month of advertising space when that very same product might just bring you in a fast growing contact list?

But hey is that not going right back to give something free away to capture the name and email address of a prospect? And won't that same so-called notion of giving away your product bring in those same tire kickers?

Sure it will, but along with them will come real prospects who not only recognize a great deal when they see one, they will actually use it and respond to you with possible testimonials for such a great offer.

With a little imagination, you might just create a way to cut back on the freebie seeking tire kickers and allow for your real target market to not only get your product but do something in return in order to get it for free?

Something to think on.

Fran Klasinski
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