For as long as I can remember, I've been a voyeur. I love to watch people go about and interact with one another. I think it's because there is a lot to be learned from the simple act of observation. We learn to mimic, or as some like to say, 'fake it til you make it', right? Is that really how we learn to do things? Or should we learn to do things by having the experience for ourselves?
Until recently, I thought it was better to watch and learn vs. do and learn.
Now, I feel differently. I've found that by watching vs. doing, I've missed out on a lot. By watching vs. doing, I take out a bit of the authenticity of how a situation can really evolve. Especially when it comes to building, fostering and maintaining relationships.
You simply can't watch people interact and learn how to build and maintain a relationship...of ANY kind. Whether it is a friendship, business relationship or love relationship, you simply have to get down in the trenches and experience it. By simply observing, you aren't risking anything and; unless you're willing to risk something, you aren't going to gain anything.
You guys won't believe how I actually learned this lesson. But, I'm going to share it with you because we're all friends here right? No judgments, no ridicule, none of that. Just pure acceptance, living and learning and maybe even improving because of what we share.
Okay, here goes...I learned this from being on Facebook and Twitter. Yep, that's what social media has taught me. Over the last couple of years of building up networks on both sites, I've come to realize that these relationships are 99% observatory because I've not taken that extra step that a lot of people on these networks take. Many of the people on these networks use them as tools to actually meet people in person and foster the relationship they've begun on social media. Some of the people are truly fearless in their pursuit of good relationships. They put themselves out there no matter what because they believe that it's possible to build and foster relationships that will be beneficial to them; whether it is business or personal.
After much observation (yeah, I know, I'm still doing it), I find that I'm in awe of these people. They are fearless, courageous and deserve to have whatever comes from forging ahead to uncover the unknown, all the while having faith in the fact that it can be something precious and worthy of maintaining in the long run. Also, if it doesn't become a lifetime relationship, that's okay too. It has to be okay.
It has to be okay because not every relationship we have is meant to last forever. That reason, season, lifetime 'thingy' that I referred to a couple of months ago is an actual fact, and not just something to wax poetic about...Now, to actually take that step into the unknown. All together now, get ready, get set....Let's go!
What do you think? Do you agree with me? I'd love to hear from you.
Showing posts with label network marketing. Show all posts
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Monday, May 11, 2009
Persian Pomegranate Mango Body Scrub
Can I just say how happy I am that the new body scrub from Soul Purpose has arrived?! The founder, Nadine Thompson, has really put her foot in this one!
Persian Pomegranate Mango body scrub, is formulated with lush, moisturizing oils, shea butter and pure cane sugar. There is an exclusive antioxidant blend used by Soul Purpose that contains, green tea, Oregon grape, red wine and Acai berry.
Now, on to the Mango. Not only do we have the Persian Pomegranate Mango body scrub, we have the Malaysian Mango line expansion. It's available right now! http://tinyurl.com/cbl8u4
Mango is a delicious fruit that tastes wonderful but now, Soul Purpose has taken Mango to a whole other level of good! We already had the Malaysian Mango perfume essence in our Fruits & Passion collection. Because it received such rave reviews and requests for expansion, your wish has been granted! We now have the Malaysian Mango body lotion and shower gel to further ensconce you within the Soul Purpose experience! It is truly divine deliciousness going on here. Nadine Thompson has been in the lab working it out and look what we have to offer you as a result! I can't wait until my Food for the Soul and Senses Celebration! It will be so amazing to have the Persian Pomegranate Mango scrub and Malaysian Mango collection in the house!
I can only imagine the pandemonium that will erupt once we get the candles for these fragrances! I'm going to be placing my order for 10 of my very own!
I hope to see you there so make sure you contact me for further details.
Persian Pomegranate Mango body scrub, is formulated with lush, moisturizing oils, shea butter and pure cane sugar. There is an exclusive antioxidant blend used by Soul Purpose that contains, green tea, Oregon grape, red wine and Acai berry.
Now, on to the Mango. Not only do we have the Persian Pomegranate Mango body scrub, we have the Malaysian Mango line expansion. It's available right now! http://tinyurl.com/cbl8u4
Mango is a delicious fruit that tastes wonderful but now, Soul Purpose has taken Mango to a whole other level of good! We already had the Malaysian Mango perfume essence in our Fruits & Passion collection. Because it received such rave reviews and requests for expansion, your wish has been granted! We now have the Malaysian Mango body lotion and shower gel to further ensconce you within the Soul Purpose experience! It is truly divine deliciousness going on here. Nadine Thompson has been in the lab working it out and look what we have to offer you as a result! I can't wait until my Food for the Soul and Senses Celebration! It will be so amazing to have the Persian Pomegranate Mango scrub and Malaysian Mango collection in the house!
I can only imagine the pandemonium that will erupt once we get the candles for these fragrances! I'm going to be placing my order for 10 of my very own!
I hope to see you there so make sure you contact me for further details.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
MLM at its' best!
Multilevel marketing doesn't get much, if any respect in the world of business. I'm not quite sure why. It's totally legitimate as long as there is an exchange of product and/or services. Sure, there have been some bad apples who sully the profession but, what profession exists that has never had people in that profession perform in such a way as to put a blight on the whole profession. Even when that happens, the profession continues and respect is doled out based on what most of those within that profession do. Not Multilevel marketing though.
Both Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki are huge supporters of multi-level marketing, but they choose to call it Network Marketing. As far as they are concerned, network marketing is the only way to truly create an empire. Anyone who has intentions on becoming a multimillionaire must engage in network marketing. Such as it is, the definition of network marketing is to share an opportunity with another (or more accurately, many others) and receive compensation for introducing someone to this opportunity that they decide to take advantage of and leverage for their success.
It seems as though we prefer traditional methods of being paid for a hard days work, punching a clock and not messing with that whole traditional idea. It seems as though it is inconceivable to share an opportunity with someone else, whether it is the opportunity to start your own business, the opportunity to avail oneself of life changing products such as vitamins, herbal remedies, makeup, spa products, etc, and be compensated for helping someone improve their life. When mentioning the opportunity to start your own business and change your life, fire your boss, set your hours as you see fit, work as hard as you want (or not), I'm often met with frowns and suspicion as to "what my real motives are" as though I'm not above board and totally legitimate in my quest to build my own business by helping you improve your life, whether it is by starting your own business or purchasing one of my products.
It may be difficult but follow me here. Isn't this exactly what Obama just did with his brilliant multichannel media campaign? The only difference is, he wasn't offering us (his supporters) the opportunity to start our own business. He offered us-through his brilliant use of the internet and mobile texting-the opportunity to help him financially in order for us to have the opportunity to have him as our next President of the United States of America. Brilliant! So many of us bought into the idea of helping this person we felt was worthy of this help that he was able to raise $659 million dollars ($150 million in one month alone) that would enable him to get the word out to enough voters so as to bring about change of historical proportions. This, my friends, is network marketing at it's finest hour. I wonder if it can ever be done with this degree of success again. He didn't let up! The campaign was like a machine. From personal experience, once you gave to the campaign, they kept urging you to give again and again, even providing incentive (the rally tickets, improving the state of America, change, etc) to compel us (me) to keep digging in my pockets even when I knew I couldn't afford to because he compelled us (me and many like me) to believe in his mission.
I'm sure I've gone on far too long about this subject but my point is that there is more than one way to 'skin a cat' if you will. The traditional and current multichannel marketing methods seem to still be encased in one little area when there is so much more to be had.
We had a speaker a couple of weeks ago telling his story about the agony that most CMOs and Heads of Marketing go through when trying to determine who will get credit for a sale when there are various channels that the customer may have used before making the final purchase as well as the possibility of returns.
In Network Marketing, that is not an issue. Regardless of where the customer purchases or possibly returns the merchandise, the credit goes to the person with whom that customer began their relationship pertaining to the product. How? Simple. When the relationship is initiated with a consultant, that consultant has an ID number. If the customer makes a purchase, more than likely they will want to purchase from the person they initiated with (at least 90% of the time) due to comfort levels and most especially when a large purchase is involved. Upon purchase, credit is given to the ID number which belongs to a consultant who is usually on a team that leads to a director or head of marketing. The consultant gets credit for making the sale due to the ID and credit is also doled out to that consultant's 'upline' which could be a director, team leader, executive, etc. The same is true for a return. That credit would be taken away from the ID and upline. I'm not sure why this isn't the norm in traditional marketing but...doesn't it make sense?
I found this article referring to Obama and how his marketing campaign influenced the election. Check it out. http://www.google.com/bookmarks/url?url=http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/quelch/2008/11/how_better_marketing_elected_b.html&ei=pSEUSY6qK5qWMsL2oDA&sig2=642USb_VrVC-pFFMT5Te3g&ct=b
Both Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki are huge supporters of multi-level marketing, but they choose to call it Network Marketing. As far as they are concerned, network marketing is the only way to truly create an empire. Anyone who has intentions on becoming a multimillionaire must engage in network marketing. Such as it is, the definition of network marketing is to share an opportunity with another (or more accurately, many others) and receive compensation for introducing someone to this opportunity that they decide to take advantage of and leverage for their success.
It seems as though we prefer traditional methods of being paid for a hard days work, punching a clock and not messing with that whole traditional idea. It seems as though it is inconceivable to share an opportunity with someone else, whether it is the opportunity to start your own business, the opportunity to avail oneself of life changing products such as vitamins, herbal remedies, makeup, spa products, etc, and be compensated for helping someone improve their life. When mentioning the opportunity to start your own business and change your life, fire your boss, set your hours as you see fit, work as hard as you want (or not), I'm often met with frowns and suspicion as to "what my real motives are" as though I'm not above board and totally legitimate in my quest to build my own business by helping you improve your life, whether it is by starting your own business or purchasing one of my products.
It may be difficult but follow me here. Isn't this exactly what Obama just did with his brilliant multichannel media campaign? The only difference is, he wasn't offering us (his supporters) the opportunity to start our own business. He offered us-through his brilliant use of the internet and mobile texting-the opportunity to help him financially in order for us to have the opportunity to have him as our next President of the United States of America. Brilliant! So many of us bought into the idea of helping this person we felt was worthy of this help that he was able to raise $659 million dollars ($150 million in one month alone) that would enable him to get the word out to enough voters so as to bring about change of historical proportions. This, my friends, is network marketing at it's finest hour. I wonder if it can ever be done with this degree of success again. He didn't let up! The campaign was like a machine. From personal experience, once you gave to the campaign, they kept urging you to give again and again, even providing incentive (the rally tickets, improving the state of America, change, etc) to compel us (me) to keep digging in my pockets even when I knew I couldn't afford to because he compelled us (me and many like me) to believe in his mission.
I'm sure I've gone on far too long about this subject but my point is that there is more than one way to 'skin a cat' if you will. The traditional and current multichannel marketing methods seem to still be encased in one little area when there is so much more to be had.
We had a speaker a couple of weeks ago telling his story about the agony that most CMOs and Heads of Marketing go through when trying to determine who will get credit for a sale when there are various channels that the customer may have used before making the final purchase as well as the possibility of returns.
In Network Marketing, that is not an issue. Regardless of where the customer purchases or possibly returns the merchandise, the credit goes to the person with whom that customer began their relationship pertaining to the product. How? Simple. When the relationship is initiated with a consultant, that consultant has an ID number. If the customer makes a purchase, more than likely they will want to purchase from the person they initiated with (at least 90% of the time) due to comfort levels and most especially when a large purchase is involved. Upon purchase, credit is given to the ID number which belongs to a consultant who is usually on a team that leads to a director or head of marketing. The consultant gets credit for making the sale due to the ID and credit is also doled out to that consultant's 'upline' which could be a director, team leader, executive, etc. The same is true for a return. That credit would be taken away from the ID and upline. I'm not sure why this isn't the norm in traditional marketing but...doesn't it make sense?
I found this article referring to Obama and how his marketing campaign influenced the election. Check it out. http://www.google.com/bookmarks/url?url=http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/quelch/2008/11/how_better_marketing_elected_b.html&ei=pSEUSY6qK5qWMsL2oDA&sig2=642USb_VrVC-pFFMT5Te3g&ct=b
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