Latest Blog Post Makes It 100

…97…98…99…100! Here I Am 100 Blog Posts Later

I can’t believe I am writing my 100th blog post today. I started this blog back on 30 May 2009, right when I was going through one of the “down phases” of the network marketing roller coaster. (Yep, if you have been in the industry long enough you know there are ups and downs. However, the downs make the ups so much sweeter.)

By writing inspirational and motivating posts I was hoping that I could find my way up again, and maybe help inspire someone else to stay the course as well …if by chance they found my blog in the sea of millions of blogs out there, haha.

My very first blog post was “Marketing Out-Side-of-the-Box”

For the next six months nothing much really happened. I was lost out there in cyber space and nobody seemed to know that my blog even existed. My visitor count was so low that I could count the people who found my blog on one hand.

Refer Business to Competition

Reading that headline you might think, “Gosh, has she gone nuts? Why would I want to refer business to my competition? Why would I deliberately want to lose a sale?”

But, I’m telling you, referring business to your companies competition, might actually be a good thing.  And like any “act of giving” it might come back to you manifold.

In my nutritional business I sometimes ran into customers who had an issue with the price of the flagship product of our company. They thought it was too high and told me that they could get the “same” thing for half the price at COSCO.

Instant Gratification or Lifelong Customer?

Instant gratification or delayed gratification?

Would you like one marshmallow or two?

Marshmallow? Okay, now you may think I have completely lost it. But please stay with me for a moment and I will explain where I am going with this.

A study was done on a group of four year old children. They were taken one at a time into a room with a two-way mirror and given a marshmallow. They were then told they could eat the marshmallow right away, (instant gratification), but if they didn’t and instead waited until the person who gave it to them returned from an errand they could have two marshmallows. (Delayed gratification).

Developing an Attitude of Gratitude!

Hmm, I wonder.

I’ve been reading quite a bit about “developing an attitude of gratitude” lately.

Taking things for granted is never a good thing.

Have you ever noticed that when you loose something you suddenly (and sometimes painfully) notice its value to you?

I try hard not to take anything for granted, but this morning when I sat down on my computer I noticed that I had taken for granted the very things that are KEY to my business success.

Here are just a few things I had totally taken for granted …

Because there has never been a better time to get involved in a home business.

Throughout history you will find that the foundations for creating wealth have often occurred during very bad economies. One of the main pieces of the equation in creating wealth is growth. Growth is what creates wealth. When you have and industry or a company within an industry that is growing during a bad economy, those people who got positioned and build their foundation with that company saw their growth magnified and multiplied by the growth of the economy when it picked up again.

Right now we are in the worst economy globally ever. There’s never been a time where people suffered more financially, when there were more foreclosures, more businesses closing down, more layoffs, etc., than right now. If you take a look back at times when the economy didn’t do so well you will find that during those times the network marketing industry started to grow more rapidly.

History is a great predictor of the future.

With the economy where it is right now there are a lot of people out there who not only want to make some extra money they absolutely need a way to make money.

Introducing: The best kept secret in the network marketing, home based business industry.

When you take a look at all the home based business opportunities out there that exist, between nutritional, skin care, waterfilter, juices and energy drinks, candle or insurance companies, everything that’s out there for the most part are items that cost a fair amount of money. And for the most part are items that are not necessities.

Remember, we were talking about getting involved with a company that is growing inside a growing industry. This company is 5 years old.

2004 -$200,000 in sales
2005 – 2.4 million in sales
2006 – 10 million in sales
2007 – 24 million in sales
2008 – 41 million in sales
2009 projected – 90 million in sales

_ The first network marketing company in their niche

_ Saves people money

_ Saves people time

_ Multiple industries combined,

_ No single mlm competitor

_ No serious competitors outside that are non-mlm companies

_ Cornered the market in the multi-level industry

The company is called Send Out Cards. The first network marketing company in their niche, greeting cards.

When times get tough people will drop their juice autoship or buy less expensives vitamins or skin care. They may even drop their insurance and for sure don’t buy anything they don’t absolutely need. But, unless they have absolutely zero money, when a birthday comes around or a holiday and even if they can’t buy a gift, they will still send a card to their grandkids, nieces, nephews or spouses. And if they could send a card for 62 cents instead of $3.50 they would be delighted. Who doesn’t like to save money.

Send Out Cards is exhibiting great growth in a down economy and when the economy comes out of it’s down cycle it will experience great momentum. Where will you be?

Check us out and send a FREE card!

Enjoy!