Top Ten MLM Apps in App Store

Well this is fun.  For iPhone app lovers, the “mlm” category is growing.  Here are the top ten apps in the MLM category (go to iTunes app [...]
Posted in Apps | 5 Comments

Would You Make This Promise?

The new FTC regs (USA) prohibit this: Lulu stands on stage and says to the audience (of prospects), “I made $10,000 last month with this business!” Even if [...]
Posted in Sweet Close | 12 Comments

Um…”We make money talking to people”

That’s another popular mantra among MLMers. It it true? My friend Archie (now a top banana) calls 60 people per day to offer the business opportunity. (Yes, he [...]
Posted in Half Truths | 18 Comments

True or False? “Successful people do what failures won’t”

“Successful people do what failures won’t.” I’ve heard this countless times, haven’t you?  From Tony Robbins to the upline trying to motivate you to approach more people.  [...]
Posted in Half Truths | 10 Comments

How do they know you’re not a flake?

Marketing your business or product on the Internet? Here’s to you from Seth Godin today… Before your link gets clicked or your proposal gets read, a busy person [...]
Posted in Present Secrets | 4 Comments

Lazy Lulu?

Overheard two UC Berkeley students (in their 20s) having this heated debate last night… Guy: I think they’re just lazy! Gal: No! They can do it.  They just [...]
Posted in Half Truths | 9 Comments

Answers Before You Buy?

Some people who check out iPads here get pretty excited to have one of their own. Here’s something cool Apple does on their sales page, that gives [...]
Posted in Present Secrets | 12 Comments

“It’s not why customers buy our products.”

Tidbit from Steve Jobs and Walt Mossberg chatting last year… Walt Mossberg of the Wall St. Journal, “You (Apple) surpassed Microsoft in market valuation this week.” (Apple is now worth [...]
Posted in 100 Customers, Present Secrets | 6 Comments

“Know When To Quit”

What do we do when we need extra inspiration when the world seems to be telling us to give up? From Fast Company (Ladies, the language is [...]
Posted in General, Know Thyself | 1 Comment

How to recruit a great team member

In this business, we look to build teams – teams of people who will 1) recruit others and 2) use and market the product or program. Most people [...]
Posted in Reinvent Recruiting | 9 Comments

So You Want To Promise Results?

Readers here know that  for years, my mantra has been, No Promises, No problems. Two simple reasons: You do not know the future. Making promises about product or income [...]
Posted in Present Secrets | 2 Comments

Lulu: This Is My Dilemma…

Just in: “When I start worrying about the profitability of my business, I feel I am no longer true to myself, because I no longer follow my heart. “I have [...]
Posted in Know Thyself | 14 Comments

How Apple Recruits Store Team Members

Apple refers to their store employees at team members. Here’s what you’d have to do to get that job working on the floor of an Apple store (straight salary, no [...]
Posted in Reinvent Recruiting | 10 Comments

The Ugly Truth

A great PS from Frank Kern today. Frank’s the Internet Guru who’s made millions in the last few years marketing “how to make giant income” programs, both online and [...]
Posted in Reinvent Recruiting | 6 Comments

“We don’t talk solutions.”

“I’m not worried about the country’s long-term future,” Mr. Jobs told Mr. Obama, according to one observer. “This country is insanely great. What I’m worried about is that we don’t [...]
Posted in General, Reinvent Recruiting | 7 Comments