To Mona Vie or not to Mona Vie....that is the question!

My hairstylist is a Mona Vie distributor, she is new enough that she really does not know too much about it but she does like to drink it.

I have been a big healthy chocolate advocate in the paste but have never tried Mona Vie...ok that actually is not true, I did try it about 3 yrs ago and have to say I HATED it! YUK!  So I have not been in any kind of a big hurry to try it again. I stopped eating my chocolate just because it was too expensive to continue ( $139.00 per month).

Anyway, so my hairstylist, Lacy, is a new distributor and gets me a bottle of the Active as well as a energy drink. I have tried both and have to say I LOVE IT. WOW what a difference 3 yrs makes! I really do like it very much. So much so that I have signed myself and my daughter up to be distributors!

The difference between  Xocia and Mona Vie when you sign up is that when I signed up for Xocia I had to buy 2 cases as it was explained to me and pay a enrollment fee of $39.00 with Mona Vie no enrollment fee and only 1 case. The cost per case is about the same for both products.

I do not know what kind of a market we really have here in Indiana for this BUT what I do know is that the market for this is not saturated here in the midwest AND I do know that people are really starting to look at antioxidents here. Being from California I am a little ahead of others out here. LOL I always say Indiana is about 10 ys behind the West Coast. hahaha  but hey...I am a HOOSIER now too!

I will let you kno who wthis goes. If you have any info to share about Mona Vie OR you would like some info please leave a comment or use my contact form on the website.
Peace!
Christine

Have you jumped on the Twitter bandwagon yet? Have you been swayed by all of the hoopla about marketing and twitter?
I do not know about you but I have been using Twitter now for about 8 months and I find it to be a very interesting venue for marketing. I am not sure that it really drives as much traffic as you may think it would to your website BUT you certainly cannot deny the amount of attention you can get from the Twitterverse!

It is pretty simple really, just go to their website www.twitter.com and get yourself a account. It is free. Then start looking for friends that you may know that have an account. Once you find some add them by "following" them and the idea is that they will in turn " follow" you.
Once you do this you can grow your "followers" by doing a few things on a daily or at least weekly basis. Of course....you could be one of THOSE people who use some sort of a auto follower adder to their account. For the record...I loath THOSE people. LOL Come on, if you cannot get people to follow you without a tacky auto adder then forget about it! 
Okay, so what are these few things you can do to grow your "follower" list? Well, first and foremost be REAL...ummm let me repeat...be REAL. Just be yourself, it is that easy. Well, at least one of the things you can do is that easy. Nobody likes becoming your friend to find out that all you care about is selling them something. So, when someone follows you DO NOT just send them a notice or tweet about what it is that YOU sell. Maybe you can ask about them...see what it is that they do, see what it is that they are into to. That is a good start.
Second, maybe try to post once or twice a day something about yourself...your interests or what is happening in your life today. Try and be witty or wise..thoughtful...any of these things are good.

Then there is #Follow Friday. What is #Follow Friday? It is a little thing that happens every Friday in the Twitterverse. You acknowledge your followers as the great people that they hopefully are by @ reply them and before hitting send you add #FollowFriday. They in turn will send your name out to their list and all of their followers and so on and so on......by doing this each and every Friday you will gain many,many new followers each week. This #FF I a powerful twitter tool!!!

Now that you are armed with some Twitter info go out and multiply your "followers" in the Twitterverse!

Have a great day!

try this...just one of a few tools that I really like.

I said I would be back that night to post a blog but guess what? My dog passed away and it has been kinda hectic around here. As a matter of fact this just reminded me that I need to do a search for a headstone for my dogs grave. That tells you how close we all were to him and how much he will be missed. He was 17 years old! AND he was a Chihuahua...they usually do not live that long!

Anyway, I am here now and want to talk to you about Attraction Marketing, ever hear of it? Have you heard of The Law Of Attraction? Sure you have, most everyone has by now. Well, Attraction Marketing is based upon the principles of The Law of Attraction. Just by saying those words you probably start to get an idea of what Attraction Marketing is all about, right?

Let's start with the traditional method of marketing or getting leads and what you did with them in the past. Traditionally you would get your leads from cold calling, buying leads, harassing your friends and family, your sphere of influence...sound familiar? Sadly there are still uplines out there telling their teams to do this. As a result there are alot of people, you may be one of them, out there that feel like Network Marketing is a terrible business that does not work. They think they are the problem or  that nobody can make it in Network Marketing and that their upline was probably not being honest about the success they knew was being had by others in this business.

This approach does not work anymore. People are not having it. People, including you I bet, are tired of being SOLD to. They want to be left alone with their choices and be able to make a decision based on what they want not what you shove at them and tell them that they need.

How about this- how about you start thinking of the prospect instead of yourself? What if you look at your target market as someone that you can HELP rather than someone you can SELL TO? 

Attraction Marketing is about having something that people are attracted to. If you stop thinking about the money and start thinking about the person you may be surprised at the change in the way people look at you and your product.

There is alot more to attraction marketing than this but the crux of the matter is that we need to be nicer, we need to be more considerate and helpful to others. We need to stop wondering what it is that they can do for US and wonder what it is that we can do for THEM.
Try it...see what happens.

I have been exploring this for awhile on my blog at www.lostartofcustomerservice.com  if you like you can wander on over there and read more about this as well as other subjects.

Thanks for reading.

So- WHO can you treat better today? Is there someone who can benefit from you product? NOT Is there someone that you can sign up and make money off of..... is there someone who you can help? And IF you cannot think of anyone that can truly benefit from your product then maybe you do not have the right product??  You need to be passionate about your product whatever it is. And you need to trust that it is to only a good product but it can help others! that is the KEY to your success! Help others..be kind to others....
Look back at this blog, I talk about that alot too.

Where have you been? Well, you may ask that question and it would be well founded but it is going to take me a few days to get it all together. An answer that is!

I want to apologize to anyone that had been following my fledgling site! Back in June I had a family emergency that pretty much took me out of circulation for the summer and fall.

I missed so much! All is well now and I am back and ready to go! I am going to take a few days to fill you all in on what has been happening with me. Even though I was really out of commission I still had some time to grow and learn and I want to share some of that with you.

 

The road to success is always under construction!!! I have hit some potholes, barriers and other obstacles, but I keep pushing forward. One thing I will impart to you very quickly and I am sure that most of you are already aware......

PASSION is the KEY to your and MY success!

 

Seriously, if you do not have passion you will not be going anywhere. You need to have a solid purpose and you need to have passion for what it is that you are doing. And here is a hint for you- IF YOU LOVE OTHERS AND WANT TO HELP YOU WILL BE A SUCCESS!  Period!

 

I will be back shortly!

See you soon.

Christine

WOW~ Great title, huh? I am sure alot of people came here hoping that I hold some great secret on how to become a MILLIONAIRE! Yeah, right. I wish it were that easy. But, it is not and if you think that there is a quick way to become a Millionaire, a way to do it without some hard work, then not only are you dreaming, but you are in the wrong place!!   There is no quick way to become a millionaire except to win it or inherit it! PERIOD! So, assuming that you have neither won it nor inherited it and are not in line to do either anytime soon,  let us continue.............

I have been searching for a way to make a fortune online for many years, it can happen, I just have not had it happen to me yet. I know it can happen, I have talked to people that it has or is happening to right now! 

Okay, so when finding your product, your "thing" that is going to make you your fortune, you need a "niche" and you need passion. You also need elbow grease. You need staying power.  There is alot that you actually need in order to be successful in your new business but this is a ongoing Blog so I will just keep plugging away week after week figuring it all out and hoping that you join me along the way.

CIAO~

I  have spent alot of time looking into different home based business ideas. Before the Internet and after. Now adays I am looking for something that I can do online, period. With gas prices the way they are I am not in any hurry to start a business that I will have to drive to. Heck, I quit, or at least scaled back BIG TIME, my real estate business.  No, online is the way for me to go. I am pretty sure many of you reading this agree, the economy makes staying at home a  very attractive alternative to working outside of the home,if we can.

So, I spend alot of time searching out online opportunities. Believe me, I have heard of many of them and I know that there are still plenty more that I have never heard of. Truth is, I don't want to! With all of my experience in searching for the right opportunity, I have learned a few things that I would like to share with you here.

I have learned that, marketing to your target group ( NICHE) is the key. It is the key to everything. I have no experience with marketing, none.  But I have learned that marketing and marketing correctly is the only way you are going to get yourself out there. I think that some people believe that if you build a beautiful website it is only a matter of time before "they" come! "they" will come and buy your things because it is a beautiful website with many, many beautiful things. Uh, No! Not true. If you think just because you spend a small fortune building a beautiful, nice, user friendly website with a shopping cart that is easy to navigate, masses of consumers, with$$  are going to flock to your site...dream on!  Sorry!  There is a bit more to do then build a website. I have actually had people show me their website and ask why do I think it is not getting any traffic....when I say to them that they have no META tags at all on their site, that the site is not optimized, they have no clue what I am talking about. They might say..."what is a META tag"? Okay, I am not a very techie kinda girl..at all! But, I do know that your site has to be optimized and to do that you need Meta Tags AND the tags need to be relevant to the content of your site! I know that much!

Now, I am not the type of person that likes to sit and read some BIG ol book to figure out how to build and market a website, so I will not tell you that in order to get a site ranked in the search engines that you have to read all there is to read, BUT I will tell you that education is the key to your success! You need to know SOME of it! The basics...there are sites that I have been spending time at like http://www.magneticsponsoring.com/my-profile/indychristine.html  and http://www.directmatches.com/indychristine these are networking sites. They are filled with TONS of FREE information to help you with your business. I love them and you can follow the links to check them out. There are some other great resources which I have found and you can find their links on my site at http://www.networkmarketpro.net/resources.html .  

Remember, you do not need to read  ALL of the books on SEO or marketing your website but you BETTER read some of them! Education is the key to YOUR success. Believe it!

Okay Networkers, I have another project that I am working on. Well, actually it is not a new project it is THE project that my efforts have lead me to.
This website is all about following me on my journey into network marketing or online businesses.
I have been doing alot of research to figure out how to be successful on the net. I have taken the resources that I have compiled and put them onto this website for your benefit. Why should both of us have to do the research? Okay, anyway, I found a very useful business resource, I found it online and it is amazing! It helped me to break through my "mental block" that has been plaguing me for months as to what I will do on the net for a business. Without going into too much of it here let me just say that within the first few pages of this manual I knew what it was that I was going to do AND it has been there my whole entire adult life!
At the bottom of this Blog is the ad for the company that I found. Check them out. I am telling you, it made a huge difference once I read it. You can also go to my new website www.lostartofcustomerservice.net to see what is happening with me now that this manual has unlocked my creative juices and got them flowing!

I have never had such a experience as I have with this. One day I am struggling, doing research and not getting anywhere, but learning alot about what not to do, and then I stumble onto this site. Derek Gehl is a genius and Corey Rudl...well, if you have not heard of him do a search and read about him. If this doesn't get your curiosity up then nothing will. Take a look at the link below and see if you agree with me.

Feedback is always welcome!

Wishing US continued success!
Christine

As promised-

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