During that first part you are often tempted to quit. Don’t give in to temptation. Nothing worth having comes easy. In the beginning of building your network marketing business you do a lot of work and get only paid a little. But if you don’t quit if you keep your eye on the price and work hard then eventually you will reach a stage when you work very little in your business and get paid a lot.

Let me share a little story with you that will paint a picture in your mind you can pull up when things get tough, when you get frustrated, when doubt sets in and you are tempted to just “throw the towel.” Trust me, I’ve been there, plenty of times….

Do You Sleep When the Wind Blows?

Years ago a farmer owned land along the Atlantic seacoast. He constantly advertised for hired hands. Most people were reluctant to work on farms along the Atlantic. They dreaded the awful storms that raged across the region, wreaking havoc on the buildings and crops. As the farmer interviewed applicants for the job, he received nothing but refusals. Finally, a short, thin man, well past middle age, approached the farmer.

“Are you a good farm hand?” the farmer asked him. Well, I sleep when the wind blows, answered the little man. Although puzzled by this answer, the farmer, desperate for help, hired him. The little man worked well around the farm, busy from dawn to dusk, and the farmer felt satisfied with the man’s work.

Then one night the wind howled loudly in from offshore. Jumping out of bed, the farmer grabbed a lantern and rushed next door to the hired hand’s sleeping quarters. He shook the little man and yelled, “Get up! A storm is coming! Tie things down before they blow away!” The little man rolled over in bed and said firmly, “No sir. I told you, I sleep when the wind blows.”

Enraged by the old man’s response, the farmer was tempted to fire him on the spot. Instead, he hurried outside to prepare for the storm. To his amazement, he discovered that all of the haystacks had been covered with tarpaulins. The cows were in the barn, the chickens were in the coops, and the doors were barred. The shutters were tightly secured. Everything was tied down. Nothing could blow away. The farmer then understood what his hired hand meant, and he returned to bed to also sleep while the wind blew.

~Author Unknown~

I love inspirational stories like this one and I hope you liked it too. I think of it when I hit a rough spot, when things don’t go the way I would like them to go. It compels me to push right through; it reminds me to not give up. Quitting is not an option, no matter what.  Because for one I don’t like the alternative, and two, I would like to sleep when the wind blows, meaning never have to worry about money ever again….And I’m not there yet.

So, how about you are you willing to do whatever it takes, so one day you don’t have to worry about money ever again? Make some noise in the comment section below. You know I always love your feedback.

To Your Massive Success!

Ilka Flood
The Enlightened Networker

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Are you catering to the needy ?

When I first started out in the network marketing industry that’s exactly what I did. When my sponsor asked me to make a list of a hundred people I made sure I included everyone that I could think of who “needed the money” that a network marketing business can provide.

Boy was that ever the wrong way to go about building my business.

What I didn’t know at the time was that “needy” people don’t have the right attitude. They don’t have an entrepreneurial mindset. They think differently. Believe it or not, some of them are actually happy with what they have and where they are in their life. They are content with putting in their 8 to 10 hours a day at work and then go home and cuddle with a six-pack in front of the TV. That’s why it is so important to qualify your prospects.

Here I thought I was presenting them with a great opportunity to help better themselves and improve their lifestyle and for the life of me I couldn’t figure out why they didn’t bite.

Then “lucky” for me, there were those that went for the carrot I was dangling in front of them and did join my business. But only to sit there and do nothing. Those were the kind of do-it-for-me people.

How frustrating! Have you ever tried to push a wet spaghetti noodle?

No, those aren’t the right people for your network marketing business. You will save yourself a whole lot of frustration and risk of getting burned out if you keep away from people like that.

But how can you tell the difference?

How can you tell who’s right for your
network marketing  business?

If you don’t know the person the best way to find out more about him or her is to ask questions. What do they do? How long have they done it? Have they ever thought about doing anything else? Do they have any networking experience? You get the drift.

You can tell by the answers you get if they are a prospect for you or not. You want to look for people that are self-motivated, hard-working,  people who are able to think out of the box  and are self-starters. People who read instead of watching TV, people who better themselves through personal development. Those are the people who are right for your network marketing business.

“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.”  ―Zig Ziglar

This post was inspired by Oliver Tausend’s Facebook status up date from this morning. Oliver is a very good friend of mine and a fellow network marketer. If you’ve never been to his blog you are missing some incredible content….AskOliverTausend.com. Thanks, Oliver, for the great inspiration!

“Give the person with a need…a job. Give the person with a desire…an opportunity.” -Tom ‘Big Al’ Schreiter

You know I always love your feedback. So please add your thoughts below in the comment section. Maybe you have some other tips on finding the right people for your network marketing business.

To Your Massive Success!

Ilka Flood
The Enlightened Networker

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You can’t just take the day off just because your biorythm chart says…

“Intellectual: The period of creativity is over. Your brain is in standby mode.”

Stand-by mode???? What in blazes do you mean? My brain can’t be in “stand-by mode.” Today is blog writing day. I NEED my brain!

That’s what I was faced with this morning.

Ha, stand-by mode, I’ll show you. I work right through this flippin’ stand-by mode.

What is a biorhythm anyway?

According to Wikipedia biorhythm is an attempt to predict various aspects of a person’s life through simple mathematical cycles. Most scientists believe that the idea has no more predictive power than raw chance, and consider the concept an example of pseudoscience.

Hmmm, interesting!

But whether it is fact or fiction, have you ever noticed that your mind as well as your body is on some sort of roller coaster? It goes up and down. You have good days and not so good days.  Maybe it has something to do with the moon. Close to full moon you find a lot more loonies out there than usual. They also say that more babies are born during that time.

I don’t know if all this is true, but what I do know is, that on some days I have more energy than others. And on some days I am more creative than others. And other days I’m more emotional.  It’s gotta have to do with something. Might as well blame it on the biorythm.

Does this biorythm thing work?

My husband swears by it. The first time I heard about this was about 30 years ago when I was dating Randy. He used to draw out his biorythm by hand and then plan his activities accordingly. Quite frankly, I thought he was nuts back then. However, I’ve come to realize that his biorythm “theory” worked pretty accurately for him.

When he was studying for his first Master’s degree we lived in Ft. Huachuaca, Arizona.  Right smack in the middle of the desert. Like clockwork it would get dark around 3 o’clock in the afternoon during monsun season and storms would be rolling through. You never knew when the lights would go out. I don’t ever remember that many power outages happening again.

We had just become the parents of a bouncing baby boy and Randy wrote his papers on an electric typewriter. (Remember those?) He almost religiously used to draw out his biorythm to figure out when his intellectual curve was up and then he wrote and studied as much as he could before the lights went out again. Oh yes, we also had a manual typewriter stand by just in case.

Randy is a firm believer that this biorhythm thing works. It’s always been working for him. I have to admit, I still don’t pay that much attention to it, but maybe I should. As I will be digging deeper into building a business with my husband again I can’t afford “off days” and I also need to plan out things better than I previously have. I can no longer afford to leave things to chance.

If this biorhythm thing really works I can schedule important things around peak days and the not so important things to off days.  I’ll be trying this out. What do you think, care to join me?

Here are two sources I found that let you draw out your biorhythm:

http://cycletourist.com/biochart/

http://www.bio-chart.com/

So, do you believe in biorythm? Are you using it to determine your highs and your lows? Please share your thoughts with us in the comments below.

To Your Massive Success!

Ilka Flood
The Enlightened Networker

P.S. How’s THAT for stand-by mode, lol?

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I totally agree that it can become very addicting. Just look at all the gorgeous pictures everyone is pinning there. Most people are visual people and like me respond to brilliant colors or funny and/or cute pictures. So when something gets “addicting” it means you spend a lot of time there. Or should I better say waste a lot of time?

I needed another social network to worry about like I needed a hole in the head. But, since I kept hearing how awesome Pinterest is for marketing I had to check it out. I really love what I see there, but I do not have much time to devote to it. So any tool that comes along to make my life easier and save me time is highly welcomed. Don’t you agree?

Here are some cutting edge Pinterest tools
to help you keep your sanity.

Pinerly

Pinerly ….was the first Pinterest tool I found and I can’t even remember where I heard about it. It is by invitation only and you need to have 5 friends before you receive an invite. Pinerly is a Pinterest friendly dashboard that lets you take control. You can follow people, find great pinners with the same interests and easily spot unfollowers.

PinReach

Pinreach …is a Pinterest tool for those of us who love analytics. It lets you find out how your boards are doing as far as followers, pins, likes, comments, etc. It also shows you which your most popular pins are and how many repins they have. And it also gives you an overall score. The higher your score the better of course. Kind of like in good ol’ Facebook fashion, Pinterest too is driven by engagement so repins carry more weight than pinning something new. However when others repin your stuff it carries much more relevance to your social influence than when you do it yourself. So the bottom line here is… pin awesome stuff that compels others to repin it!!

PinReach will show you how many pins a particular board has, how many followers,
how many people liked it and how many comments.

PinReach also shows you how many repins your favorite pins have.
And a whole lot more…

Pinstamatic

Another awesome Pinterest tool I came across is Pinstamatic. It lets you create sticky notes or quotes you can pin on your boards. It also lets you add locations, music, calendar dates, twitter profiles and more. It’s really easy to do and it took me less than five minutes to figure it out.

Cendrine Marrouat wrote a cool blog post loaded with more fantastic Pinterest tools and Google add-ons for Pinterest.  “10 tools to use Pinterest like a pro.” My favorite mentioned there is Pinvolve which I immediately installed on my Facebook Fan Pages. You can see it in action here and here.

So go visit Cendrine’s post and here is another one I would like to mention. This one is by my good friend Stacy Claflin ….”Pin Your Posts Automatically.”

This should keep you busy for a while. If you know of more terrific Pinterest tools it would be great if you could share them with us in the comments below. Thanks!

Don’t forget to “Follow Me on Pinterest”  ….and Happy Pinning!

Ilka Flood
The Enlightened Networker

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If you missed it, here is part one of “Powerful Reasons Why You Should Use Pinterest for Marketing.”

Success on Pinterest is about Strategy

So strategize! Strategize! Strategize! Just like Facebook with its EdgeRank it’s all about interaction on Pinterest as well.

Strategize and plan out your boards. Cute and funny always trumps. Infographics are eye-catching. (I love infographics.) Always think, what audiences do I want to reach and …how is this going to be viral so people want to share it? Use hashtags #.

Also, do a lot of looking around and checking out what other people are doing. Watch and learn and see what’s working. (I find myself doing that a lot.) You can learn quite a bit by following other people in your target niche, check out their strategies and then implementing them.)

Use different pin boards for different audiences.  One really cool thing about Pinterest is that you can have multiple pin boards. So if you have different audiences or target markets you can set up pin boards for each one. Pinterest users have the option of following individual boards or following a member as a whole. So if they don’t want to follow all of your boards they can just pick out the ones that are of interest to them. I think that’s a very cool feature, don’t you?

What to name your pin board? Now I admit I hadn’t given much thought to this in the past. Obviously you should pick a name that gets people’s attention, but at the same time you should keep keywords in mind as well.

Engaging on Pinterest. Engage with people by re-pinning their content, liking it or commenting on it. When you re-pin somebody’s content you are automatically following him or her. That’s kinda neat, don’t you think?

By the way, you can use hashtags (#) in the description of your images. They are also allowed in the comments. So you can use them just like you would use your keywords for search engine optimization.

Also, when you follow somebody they will receive an email letting them know and more often than not they will follow you back. That’s how you grow on Pinterest, by interacting with other people.

Linking your images. You probably already know this, but you can link your images back to your blog, website or sales funnel. (Believe it or not, I didn’t realize this and did it the hard way. There are always two ways of doing things…the hard way and the smart way.) While this is a very strategic way to get more targeted traffic, it can also be used to spam the boards. My advise….DON’T! You don’t want to mess up a good thing, so use self-promotion sparingly. There’s nothing wrong however with linking back to your valuable content on your blog.

So here is how you link your pin…..

Click the “Edit” button on your pin and then add the link to your website or blog. Don’t forget to save your changes.

Let’s recap right quick…Why should you use Pinterest for your marketing?….

• 80% of Pinterest users have it connected to Facebook. (You can also connect it to your Twitter account.)
• The average Pinterest user spends 89 minutes per month on the site, compared to 21 minutes for the average Twitter user.
• Pinterest can help you increase traffic back to your website, improve your social growth, increase sales as well as help with your search engine ranking.
• It’s visual and highly viral.

Be aware that Pinterest is in the beginning stages. It’s still the Wild Wild West out there and things will be constantly changing. But it is so much fun to be at the start of something BIG.

Oh, and since Pinterest is still in Beta you will have to request an invite to join the fun. You can ask your friends on Facebook who have a Pinterest account to send you an invitation. (If we are friends then let me know you would like an invite.)

So have fun on Pinterest and make sure you follow me!

To Your Massive Success!

Ilka Flood
The Enlightened Networker

P.S. All the credit goes to maximizesocialmedia.com for putting on an incredible webinar. I only shared what I learned.

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So, pull up a chair, get comfy, get your favorite beverage and read what I’m about to share with you….

I assume you have heard by now that Facebook bought Instagram last week. I guess the reason behind it is because they saw it as kind of a threat in light of Pinterest’s recent growth.

When you think about it, the web is going more and more to VISUAL and although Pinterest is still dwarfed by Facebook, with its record-breaking growth to 10 million there is no telling where it will go. So yeah, I could see where Facebook would feel threatened.

Right now, at the time I am writing this, Pinterest is at a virtual tie for second place with Twitter where website referral traffic is concerned.

Here are some stats you may find very interesting…

- 80% of Pinterest users have it connected to Facebook.

- The average Pinterest user spends 89 minutes per month on the site, compared to 21 minutes for the average Twitter user.

Pinterest can definitely help you increase traffic back to your website, improve your social growth, increase sales as well as help with your search engine ranking.

The Psychology of Pinterest

You might think…I can share my images on Facebook why do I need Pinterest?

That’s very true! But both these social networks are very different. On Facebook it is more about who you are, who you know and where you are. Whereas on Pinterest it is more about, who you want to be, who you want to know and where you want to be.  Kind of like a Vision Board. It’s more about “dreaming” than about “reality.”

Right now Pinterest is dominated by women which is not surprising. Women are decision-makers and influencers. They know what their family’s needs are. Just go to any woman’s pin board and you’ll find pins on clothes, furniture, gardening stuff, recipes, toys for the kids, you name it. But the gents are catching on to the power of Pinterest.

Pinterest is less about creating your own stuff and more about sharing and that’s the reason that 80% or more of the pins are re-pinned. (Re-pinning is really what drives the action on Pinterest.) Compare that to only 5% of tweets being re-tweeted and you can clearly see the power of Pinterest. It’s really VIRAL!

Respecting People’s Intellectual Rights and Protecting Your Own

To stay engaged you’ve got to do a lot of re-pinning, but please respect people’s intellectual rights and give proper credit. At the same token, when you share your own images make sure you add a watermark or other identification to let people know this is YOUR image and you’re not giving up your intellectual rights.

I hadn’t even thought of doing this in the past, but then I got smart.  (It takes some people a little longer.) For one I thought, if I spend time creating my own images of course I wouldn’t like for someone to come along and claim them as their own. The other reason I started to put a watermark or URL on my images is to lead people back to my website. I also just created a new Fan Page just for inspirational quotes. So come by and “Like” it and feel free to comment and share the images.

How Can I Use Pinterest for Marketing?

I wrote a blog post on this subject already so please go to “How Pinterest Can Help You Get More Blog Traffic.”

Use striking images on your site or blog. If you are not using images on your blog yet I would highly recommend you start now, so people can pin them. Use images that make an impact or statement, are colorful and eye-catching. People only have a split second to catch your image as they are scrolling down viewing other people’s pins.

Use a PinIt button. Use a PinIt button in your browser to easily pin images to your boards. Also make sure you prominently display a PinIt button on your blog or site so people can pin your content. (You can get both the PinIt bookmarklet and the PinIt button for your blog or site right there at Pinterest.com)

Now if you don’t want to share your images at all, you can get a code from the Pinterest website to put on your site or blog that prohibits people to pin your images. Especially if you are a content creator you want to protect yourself.

Since this post is getting quite long already I will cut it into two parts. So stay tuned for Part Two in which I will share….How to Strategize Pinterest for Maximum Success! (Look for it on Friday.)

ATTENTION: Pinterest is still in Beta so you will have to request an invite to join the fun. You can ask your friends on Facebook who have a Pinterest account to send you an invitation. (If we’re friends then let me know.)

You know how much I love your feedback so please make some noise in the comments below. Thanks!

To Your Maximum Success!

Ilka Flood
The Enlightened Networker

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I know people always make fun of his accent, because after all these years that he has been living in the United States it is still very strong. But behind that heavy Austrian accent is a very smart man, and a very successful man.  Not only in the world of sports or Hollywood but also in business and politics.

So I think you would agree with me when I say, when Arnold Schwarzenegger shares his secrets to success he speaks with authority.

While scouring YouTube for inspirational and motivational videos the other day I came across Arnold’s “Six Secrets to Success Speech.” In it he shares 6 rules that when followed will lead to success.  They are very simple, to the point, and I’m sure you’ve heard them before.

Without further ado here they are…

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Six Secrets to Success

1. Trust Yourself!

2. Break Some Rules!

3. Don’t Be Afraid to Fail!

4. Don’t Listen to Naysayers!

5. Work Your Butt Off!

6. Give Something Back!

I encourage you to watch this short 4 minute video and listen to what Arnold has to say in detail about each and every one of these secrets to success.

Was I correct in assuming that you have heard all this before?

Well, all this wisdom that was just shared with you doesn’t do you any good if you don’t act on it. One of my favorite quotes about taking action is this one by Mark Twain….

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things
that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.”

You only have ONE life to live. So listen to the little voice inside of you and trust your gut. If you want something go after it.

As Arnold says…”None of these rules work unless you do.” Take his six secrets to success to heart, work your butt off and you surely will see results.

To Your Massive Success!

Ilka Flood
The Enlightened Networker

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To answer that question first of course you will have to pinpoint exactly what you are afraid of.

In network marketing that could be a variety of things. For example: fear of rejection; fear of talking to strangers; fear of picking up that 500 pound phone and present your opportunity to somebody you don’t know, or worse somebody you do know well.

To tell you the truth, making cold calls has always been my weak spot. I don’t like it and I haven’t done it in years. Personally, I don’t think it’s a very effective way to be prospecting because even if you are a master at it, the people you bring on to your team most likely are not.

But even if you market your network marketing business online in social networks such as Facebook, or LinkedIn, eventually you will have to take the conversation offline and that means you will have to pick up that phone to follow up with people.

So how do you overcome that fear
and pick up that phone?

There’s really no other way around than to just do it. So get over it, pick up that phone, start dialing, take a deep breath, and start talking.

When you hang up, after the conversation, you will feel….”Oh, that wasn’t so bad. Actually, that was pretty fun.”

Little girl overcomes fear of first ski jump.

I came across this incredible video of this little 4th grader’s first ski jump. She is standing up on that ramp looking down at people way below her that seem like tiny little ants. Through positive self-talk she’s trying to overcome her fear.

She’s absolutely TERRIFIED! You can hear it in her breathing and you certainly can hear the trembling in her voice as she assures herself that she can do it.

And then suddenly she’s off. At first you can still hear that fear but half-way through the run, fear gives way to the excitement of the moment…and then jubilation sets in as she completes the run.

You’ve got to watch this!…

This is one brave little girl!!

I don’t know if I could have been as brave as her at 9 years old. Most likely not. I probably would have messed my bridges up on that ramp.

The reason I shared this is because this little girl gave a great example of how to overcome your fear.

Through positive self-talk, re-assuring yourself that you will be alright and that you CAN do it…and then just doing it.

No matter what our fears are, oftentimes they are all in our head. They are holding us back from what we could become. I don’t know about you but I don’t want to look back on my life someday and think, what if?

One thing’s for sure, I’ll be thinking about this brave little girl a lot. She’ll be my poster girl for overcoming my fears in the future.

To Your Massive Success!

Ilka Flood
The Enlightened Networker

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Why is it that people who belong to a great MLM team do so much better than those who don’t?

Let’s face it, humans are social animals. We like to belong to something, be it a club, a tribe a community, family, team, whatever. We just do better. Yes we even thrive, when we are in a group together with other like-minded people.

“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.
The ability to direct individual accomplishments
toward organizational objectives.
It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”

So, what is a (MLM) team?

A “MLM team” or any team for that matter, consists of a group of individuals with different strengths and weaknesses, working together to achieve a common goal.

I went over some of this already in an early blog post…“Why Is Teamwork Important for Your Network Marketing Success?”

So, even when we build our own home business, we don’t want to do it alone. We want to do it together with others who encourage, inspire and motivate us.

Of course the precursor to finding a great MLM Team is to join up with the right company first.

A company that resonates with you, whose products you love and which are unique, sizzle and are consumable.  A company with a compensation plan that is fair, easy to explain, and allows the average person to make money.

Once you have decided on the company that is right for you it’s time to find the right MLM team.

Qualities to look for in order to Find the
MLM Team of Your Dreams

• Who is the team leader? Does he or she exibit leadership qualities and is he or she the right kind of mentor for you, the one you feel can lead you to success? Don’t look for goo-roos they are often full of fluff. (I’m being kind here.) A true leader doesn’t lead by words but by action.
• Is the team using a duplicable system and do you feel comfortable using it?It sometimes happens, that the team leader will dictate exactly how you will have to market your business in order to remain part of the team. If you break out of the mold and try something creative of your own, you’re toast.Trust me, this is NOT the kind of MLM team you want to be on. (Also read: “It’s Our Way or the Highway | Are You Experiencing Upline Horror?”)You want to find a team where you get GUIDANCE on what to do and how to do it, but you still have the freedom to be creative and try some of your own marketing strategies. This is especially important because one day, you are going to be the leader your team will look up to and they want to keep their freedom to try some of their own techniques as well.
• Is there enthusiasm within the team? I don’t mean ra-ra-shish-ka-bob, rather genuine excitement and a positive attitude. Excitement is contagious; you want to catch that virus because the people you will be talking to about your business, your potential team mates, will sense that and who wouldn’t want to be part of a team of excited and fun people?
• How about the over-all team atmosphere? Are team members getting along or is there cliquing going on? Are team members supporting each other? Is there a sense of sharing ideas, strategies, experiences a sense of genuinely helping each other?
• What about team training? Are there exclusive team calls, webinars, product training, prospecting training, personal development training and/or help on how to use company or third party tools? What about help with 3-ways calls? All this is very, very important. The more you can learn from and with your team members the better. We are all motivated, (I hope at least) but learning together in a healthy team environment is so much more fun than learning alone.

Is it really possible to find a MLM Team like that?

Absolutely! I know it is. If you can find all these qualities on one single team, then my friend you’ve hit the jackpot like Randy and I have.  But even if you only find 4 of the 5 consider yourself very lucky.

Yes, there are teams out there just like that, encouraging, nurturing, lifting each other up, celebrating each others little and big successes and genuinely caring about every single person on the team. You don’t have to be the “Lone Ranger,” you  just have to do your homework.

I sincerely hope that you will find the MLM Team of your dreams, one that will help guide and support you and lead you to the lifestyle you desire and so truly deserve.

To Your Massive Success!

Ilka Flood
The Enlightened Networker

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You know you are being Googled by people, right? For example: Potential employers may Google you before deciding to hire you. Or if you are already employed your employer may Google you to find out more about you to decide if you are the right person for that promotion you have been hoping for. Your customers may Google you. Or if you are a network marketer prospects may Google you to see if you are the right sponsor for them.

The bottom line is you ARE being Googled period.

Now of course you would want for people to find the best, most positive and relevant Google search results about YOU and not something negative or irrelevant or maybe even being mistaken for a drug dealer.

Introducing:  BrandYourself

“Like it or not, you’re being Googled by employers, prospective clients and even dates. BrandYourself  is the only solution that makes it easy to control what they find.” -Fox News

So what exactly is BrandYourself?

BrandYourself, developed by founder and CEO Patrick Ambron, is the first DIY platform that makes it really easy for you to take control of your own Google search results. This amazing tool helps you fill your first page of Google with positive and relevant results about YOU. You are in charge what shows up when someone searches for you.

How does BrandYourself work?

1) You can submit any links you want to show up at the top of Google search results. This could be your blog, website, Facebook Page, LinkedIn or Twitter profile. Anything that says something positive about you and gives people more insight in who you are.

2) Then you use BrandYourself’s simple tools to boost your positive links to the top.

3) Get alerted whenever something important happens to your results. For example, if there is a sharp drop or a significant rise. These alerts help you take the appropriate action right away.

4) Build a high-ranking BrandYourself profile for extra control. Since BrandYourself profiles are automatically optimized to show up high in Google…80% show up on the first page within 2 weeks.

Watch this Fox News Live interview with
BrandYOurself CEO Patrick Ambron

This is very cool, don’t you think?

You know first impressions are critical to your success. You want people to see you as the professional that you really are. And you also want people to find the right, up-to-date and relevant information about you in their Google search results so they can make an informed decision.

Hey, it’s a FREE product so go check out BrandYourself and make sure you come back and share your results.

To Your Massive Success!

Ilka Flood
The Enlightened Networker

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