Archive for October, 2009

Vemma Training Insights That Will Dramatically Improve Your Growth

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

Vemma Training

There is a fine line in Vemma between too much training and not enough.  I’m going to teach you how to create a loyal, thriving, profitable Vemma business in this article.

One of the worst mistakes you can make if you’re a Vemma marketer is not training your team how they need to be trained to succeed.  A lot of times, you sponsor a Vemma team member, and maybe you just don’t know how to get them started in a way that works because you were never taught yourself.

Another common mistake is that people take too much time training their new team members, and as a result their personal production falters over time. If it is your desire to be successful in the company 10 years from now, you need to balance your front line recruiting with training your team in a way that keeps you focused.

Vemma has a binary compensation plan, which means that you only need two strong teams to make it to the top income levels in the company.  Just because you don’t have to recruit hundreds of people doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t, however.  Most Vemma distributors who reach the top will recruit 100 or more frontline distributors. In this brief article I wanted to give you a few insights that will help you stay on task and produce a dramatically more prosperous business at the same time.

1.  You need to concentrate eighty percent or more of your attention on sponsoring new Vemma reps into your organization.  If you’re focused on anything but recruiting, your team will copy you and stop recruiting themselves.  The first step to training your Vemma team is to set an example by producing enough personally.

2.  Focus 19% of your attention on training your new people to get them up and running.  If you focus too much of your attention on new people, you won’t have time to be productive in your business, but if you don’t put enough energy into them, they’ll never get the details of the business and they’ll quit before they start.  As far as your actual training goes, it should be focused 100% on business building methods that produce new recruits and new customers.

3.  Only focus 1% of your attention on details, and outsource the rest to more capable individuals. This is one of the most important things that leaders do in Vemma, they stay focused on production by allowing details to be handled by the company and the customer support team.  The only way to stay focused on building a business is to outsource the details to others.

If you would pay attention, you would see that I’ve allotted 99% of your business building attention to business building activities.  You need to focus in Network Marketing if you ever intend on creating long term, residual income, and training your Vemma distributors by being productive yourself is no exception to the rule.

For the best Vemma Training Insights, business building tips, and resources that exist on the internet, visit our one stop Online Vemma Training Center developed by our Vemma Coach, David Wood.

How to establish your trade show objectives

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

It’s important to spell out your trade show objectives before entering a trade show.

Here are some possible trade show objectives and although not all of these objectives are applicable at any particular trade show, they are all legitimate goals:

  • To obtain sales
  • To continue contact with existing customers
  • To create an image and make contact with potential customers
  • To introduce a new product or service
  • To demonstrate equipment
  • To offer customers an opportunity to advise you of their technical problems and get solutions.
  • Obtain feedback from booth visitors to identify new applications for an existing or projected product.
  • To build the morale of local sales force and of dealers.
  • To evaluate the competition.
  • To attract and identify new reps, dealers, distributors and/or licensees
  • Counteracting competitor claims
  • Maintaining pressure and market viability

To make sales is, of course, the most common trade show objective. The trade show can play a unique role in leading a prospective buyer from mild interest to the decisive act of placing an order. While making sales and sales contacts is the most common objective of an exhibit, it is certainly not the only one. You can hone your sensitivity to the conditions of the marketplace by participating in a trade show. At a trade show, you can sense the general attitude of people more rapidly than any other way. However, everything starts with your objectives and understanding your objectives will influence all your choices.

Pinpoint your objectives

In order to utilise the special characteristics of the trade show exhibit to their maximum, you must make it an integral part of your marketing program. It’s essential that you define exactly what you want your exhibit to accomplish, and then see that all decisions about design, copy, scheduling, and so on, are based on these decisions.

It all starts with your company’s marketing goals, which are broken down into goals for each division or perhaps for each product or product line.

When you set an objective, be sure it is meaningful and measurable.  Trade show objectives are written statements of measurable goals, prepared before participation in a trade show. Putting these objectives in writing not only helps you, the exhibitor, clarify your planning, but provides specific guidelines for everyone else involved: in design; implementation, participation and evaluation.

Housewarming Gifts from Realtors: How to Gain Referrals for Many Years

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

Sick of paying for leads that lead to no sales or spending numerous hours prospecting through cold leads? Would some free warm leads help your business?

If you’ve been in the real estate business for at least a few years or have a decent-sized clientele list, then I would postpone your cold-call prospecting. It’s time to take advantage of your most valuable prospecting resource: your clients. New homebuyers allow for a great excuse to maintain contact with them. You can inquire about their satisfaction of their new home immediately after they move in as well as many anniversary dates into the future: 1st six months, 1st year, 2nd year and beyond. And provided your clients are satisfied with your level of service, they should know plenty of people that fit the ideal new-home-prospect mold. The credibility and familiarity of your clients is powerful and will help open the door to their contacts.

How can this lead to obtaining referrals?

You will start with a post-sale survey and a “Congratulations Gift”. All clients respect business professionals that are not afraid to hear good honest feedback and fix problems, and they certainly love gifts. You must choose a gift that you can obtain or make in bulk, so you don’t have to keep shopping for the item over-and-over, and is easy to deliver. That’s why I suggest desserts or candy gifts. Who doesn’t like sweets? Almost every one does. You just need to choose items that are of high quality and preferably are packaged in an attractive way.  

You can either choose to make homemade gifts or order them online. If you make homemade gifts than you should already be at least pretty good in the kitchen, have at least most of the supplies and ingredients and then find some attractive tins or boxes in which to ship them. Yes, it will take more work to make the gifts yourself, but your clients will love you for it. Think about it. How many realtors go out of their way to send gifts, let alone make them themselves? Not too many, right?

So what are some desserts that are easy to make, package and deliver?

Many desserts and candy gifts are easy to make. You can choose from many different candy and dessert recipes. Some inexpensive and less time consuming ideas for sending to several clients e same time are cookies gifts, chocolate covered rice crispy treats and cupcakes gifts. You can customize any of these by shaping and/or decorating them into shapes and designs related to the home, such as cut-out sugar cookies shaped like sofas, refrigerators or anything pertaining to homes. You can create rice crispy treats shaped like houses or cupcakes with designs for different rooms of the house. If you have some extra time then consider creating something personal to your clients, such as cookies shaped like their favorite sports team’s logo, shapes related to their hobbies such as musical instruments, boats, computers and so on. You could use the same idea for cupcakes and rice crispy treats. You will have to order cookie cutters or the proper pans in order to shape your gifts and perhaps learn some basic cupcake decorating techniques. Finally, you need to package them and either deliver them yourself or send them. Check with your local courier for some advice.

There are many advantages to ordering the desserts or candy gifts online, though. The gifts are delivered for you in beautiful packages.  You could also send several to many different clients at the same time all with just a few clicks with your mouse. Not to mention the website provides you with a “gift headquarters” since it keeps track of your orders and addresses so you could send future gifts. Cookies again make great gifts that can also be packaged into gift baskets with other treats. Some unique housewarming sweets gift ideas are cookie cakes. You can have messages placed on top such as “Welcome home John and Lisa” or “Enjoy your new home”.  A “Dessert/Cookies of the Month Club” is a tremendous idea too for your best clients who have the most potential for future business transactions or referrals. Every month of the year or every 3 months you could have a different dessert or batch of cookies sent to them which will remind them you exist throughout the year. This will allow you to call them for a long time.

But how do you ask for referrals?

Gauge your level of service by creating an easy-to-fill out survey along with a blank list to fill out with referrals names. You must define your ideal client for them with a list of desired qualities or they will have no clue whose name to give you. Just asking who might want to buy or sell their home is not productive enough. If you’re the selling agent, you want prospects that are either ready to buy a home or likely to be ready soon. People needing more living space, wishing to upgrade into nicer houses or people tired of renting make ideal prospects.  If you’re the listing agent, then you’re looking for people in distress looking to get rid of their house ASAP.  And whether you are the listing or selling agent, you will need patience since most people don’t do business with complete strangers until getting comfortable with them. That is exactly why it’s better to meet prospects well before they buy or sell a home.

Only request names and phone numbers, and be sure to ease their concerns over how you will use their friends and family’s information. Explain that you cannot promise to help them until you know their situation, wants and needs. You just wish to introduce yourself and ask permission to maintain contact with them until they are ready to buy or sell a home. Bring up the survey and referral request before the closing of the house to eliminate surprises. There’s nothing frightening about that, right? Inform them how the process helps you improve service and stay in business. Describe it as a favor they can help you with. Who doesn’t want to do a favor to help someone out? Within a week of delivering your housewarming gift send out the survey/referral list. Let them know you will get back in touch shortly. Then make the calls.

Keep in touch with your clients by sending dessert gifts and cards on all anniversary dates. If you can’t afford ordered gifts all the time, then mix in homemade ones. Don’t overlook the fact that your clients’ situations and moods change with time. They will remember different people each time you call and meet new friends along the way. Their friends’ situations will change; they may have babies, be promoted at work, get divorced or be forced to leave the state and sell their homes.

Housewarming gifts are powerful and so are the referrals that your clients can provide you. Don’t miss out! Access the power of your current client list today!

 

 

 

Internet Marketing: The Central Component

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

When you hear the term “internet marketing“, what do you think of?

For many, that term conjures thoughts of websites or spamming or search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. For others, it’s all about graphical design, writing fancy code or even affiliate programs. All of those answers correct, but the essence of internet marketing is much simpler.

At its core, internet marketing is about these things:

* Understanding the target market to which the product/service/cause you’re marketing will appeal
* Determining exactly how your target market interacts with the internet
* Positioning your content on the internet to attract the attention of your target market
* Collecting information about your target market (also known as “leads”) for follow-up and conversion into sales
* Design of offers or incentives to induce the desired actions from your leads

Since there is insufficient space in this article to give all of these topics adequate attention, let’s focus on just one specific topic with the realm of internet marketing: Email Marketing.

My best payoff has always come by focusing on permission-based email marketing. Permission-based email marketing refers to the practice of collecting information (including email addresses) from website visitors and communicating with them via e-mail with their direct consent. The “permission” aspect of permission-based email marketing is what separates legitimate email marketers from the spammers that everyone despises.

My love of email marketing is strong for one reason: It works very well. Email marketing has been much like a never-ending goldmine: It enables us to produce income on demand simply by sending a good offer to our list. When you have thousands of loyal subscribers - as we do - and you put a strong and compatible offer in front of them, income becomes nearly automatic.

However, the key to successful email marketing is the development of a legitimate trust relationship with your subscribers. If you opt to send your subscribers a request for purchases every single day, they will likely tire of your badgering and cease reading your emails altogether.

Alternatively, if you take the time to provide good content to your readers on a regular and frequent basis, you’ll discover that your readers take all of your emails far more seriously, and as a result your emails will be opened, read and acted upon with greater frequency. Essentially, email marketing is really an exercise in trust.

While there are many more aspects to internet marketing than just permission-based email marketing, email has definitely been the cornerstone on which our business is built.

How To Stop Foreclosure - 3 Legitimate Solutions

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

A great resource: http://realestate.bryanellis.com/1565/stop-foreclosure-in-houston-3-legitimate-solutions/

To Stop Foreclosure in nearly any city in the United States of America, there are basically only a few legitimate options. Some of these you’ll know, and some will be brand new to you.

Here are a few directions you can take:

  • Sell your house prior to the foreclosure auction. The value of this idea will vary heavily depending on the nature and quality of your local real estate market. If you’re in a market that still has very slow resale rates, selling your home could be a challenge. Ask a local real estate agent to determine the average number of days on the market for properties in your area.
  • Initiate a loan modification. A loan modification is a process through which your lender changes the payment terms of your loan to more closely match your ability to pay. While this is not a guarantee, loan modifications have become more popular in the last 12 months.
  • Refinance the property. If you are not yet fully into the foreclosure process but have reason to expect you will fall behind on your payments, it may be wise to try to refinance your mortgage to a lower rate. If your property is worth less than the balance of the mortgage, you’ll want to inquire regarding a “short refinance”, which is when a lender forgives a portion of the debt against you in order for you to refinance your property and pay off the remainder of the debt you owe.

When you’re trying to stop a foreclosure, the key is fast action.

Warning: Be very wary of people who aggressively attempt to purchase your home for investment purposes. While there are many legitimate real estate investors, there has been a significant amount of fraud with “Stop Foreclosure” scams, and it is wise to be very, very careful.

Please remember: The crisis you now face will soon be over. As a foreclosure survivor myself, I’d like to encourage you to remain hopeful, and to understand that your future does not equal your past!

Thanks for reading this information about how to stop foreclosure. I hope you’ve found value here.

How To Stop Foreclosure - 3 Legitimate Solutions

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

A superb resource: Stop Foreclosure Houston

To Stop Foreclosure in nearly any city in the United States of America, there are basically only a few legitimate options. Some of these you’ll know, and some will be brand new to you.

Here are a few directions you can take:

  • Sell your house prior to the foreclosure auction. The value of this idea will vary heavily depending on the nature and quality of your local real estate market. If you’re in a market that still has very slow resale rates, selling your home could be a challenge. Ask a local real estate agent to determine the average number of days on the market for properties in your area.
  • Initiate a loan modification. A loan modification is a process through which your lender changes the payment terms of your loan to more closely match your ability to pay. While this is not a guarantee, loan modifications have become more popular in the last 12 months.
  • Refinance the property. If you are not yet fully into the foreclosure process but have reason to expect you will fall behind on your payments, it may be wise to try to refinance your mortgage to a lower rate. If your property is worth less than the balance of the mortgage, you’ll want to inquire regarding a “short refinance”, which is when a lender forgives a portion of the debt against you in order for you to refinance your property and pay off the remainder of the debt you owe.

When you’re trying to stop a foreclosure, the key is fast action.

Warning: Be very wary of people who aggressively attempt to purchase your home for investment purposes. While there are many legitimate real estate investors, there has been a significant amount of fraud with “Stop Foreclosure” scams, and it is wise to be very, very careful.

Please remember: The crisis you now face will soon be over. As a foreclosure survivor myself, I’d like to encourage you to remain hopeful, and to understand that your future does not equal your past!

Thanks for reading this information about how to stop foreclosure. I hope you’ve found value here.

How To Stop Foreclosure - 3 Legitimate Solutions

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

A superb resource: Stop Foreclosure In Houston

To Stop Foreclosure in nearly any city in the United States of America, there are basically only a few legitimate options. Some of these you’ll know, and some will be brand new to you.

Here are a few directions you can take:

  • Sell your house prior to the foreclosure auction. The value of this idea will vary heavily depending on the nature and quality of your local real estate market. If you’re in a market that still has very slow resale rates, selling your home could be a challenge. Ask a local real estate agent to determine the average number of days on the market for properties in your area.
  • Initiate a loan modification. A loan modification is a process through which your lender changes the payment terms of your loan to more closely match your ability to pay. While this is not a guarantee, loan modifications have become more popular in the last 12 months.
  • Refinance the property. If you are not yet fully into the foreclosure process but have reason to expect you will fall behind on your payments, it may be wise to try to refinance your mortgage to a lower rate. If your property is worth less than the balance of the mortgage, you’ll want to inquire regarding a “short refinance”, which is when a lender forgives a portion of the debt against you in order for you to refinance your property and pay off the remainder of the debt you owe.

When you’re trying to stop a foreclosure, the key is fast action.

Warning: Be very wary of people who aggressively attempt to purchase your home for investment purposes. While there are many legitimate real estate investors, there has been a significant amount of fraud with “Stop Foreclosure” scams, and it is wise to be very, very careful.

Please remember: The crisis you now face will soon be over. As a foreclosure survivor myself, I’d like to encourage you to remain hopeful, and to understand that your future does not equal your past!

Thanks for reading this information about how to stop foreclosure. I hope you’ve found value here.

Beginner’s Guide To Bulk REO Investing

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

With more foreclosures now than ever before, America’s weak real estate market seems to set new dismal records each month. However, opportunistic real estate investment professionals are turning the recession into great profits with a bit of creativity.

The new opportunity is known as ‘Bulk REO Investing’ or ‘REO Package Investing’ and it’s a huge opportunity.

Take a just a minute to consider the basics of this highly profitable business.

Understanding the notion of Bulk REO’s requires understanding of the foreclosure process.

As a home owner misses a payment or two, the lender sends the predictable barage of threatening letters and warnings. Following a period of time determined by the lender, formal foreclosure proceedings begin. The ‘pre-foreclosure’ time starts with filing of foreclosure paperwork and concludes at public auction.

The defaulted property is ultimately auctioned, thus completing the foreclosure process. If there are no buyers for the property at auction, the property is returned to the lender. The designation of ‘REO’ (Real Estate Owned) is then attached to the foreclosed property.

Lenders usually try to unload their REO properties at close to retail price by listing their REO’s with a real estate broker. However, REO properties are now frequently sold for far less than their ‘book value’. However, the purchase of a ‘package’ (or group) or REO properties is the trade-off for receiving such great prices.

There is huge profit potential in these REO packages for qualified real estate investors. REO packages are easiest to buy and sell with a well regarded source of financing in place. Some sources of funding for these transactions are: personal funds, hard money lenders, commercial lenders and non-conventional sources such as private investors and hedge funds. Additionally, one man is becoming very well known in the field of bulk REO investing, and his name is Sal Buscemi of Dandrew Capital Partners, a hedge fund in New York.

 

Real Estate Investing Strategy Guide

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

The term real estate investing likely brings a number of things to mind. You might immediately leap to real estate investing being real estate portfolios and real estate retirement plans or you may think instead of short sales, bulk reo investing and virtual real estate investing. You may also consider what roles these things play in your life as a real estate investor in different economies.

There is a lot to learn about real estate investing. The best way to optimize your real estate investing education is to know the basics ahead of time. Whether you are interested in short sales, bulk reo sales, virtual real estate or just improving your abilities as a real estate investor, you need to know some real estate investing basics in order to succeed. Here are three real estate investing basics that even some experts do not really know:

1. You will always get a positive yield with real estate investing education. In any real estate deal, there will be thousands of dollars in potential wealth. Understanding how to get that wealth will be the key to your success. When you know about real estate your odds of success increase with each real estate deal. Implementation of your small educational investments yields big results.

2. Real estate investing success is possible in any economy. Many people think that you can only succeed in real estate when the economy is booming. In fact a bad economy is not a bad economy for real estate investors. You can often buy properties at deep discounts. In addition, you can find deals that simply would not exist in a booming economy. Poor economies can turn based on active real estate investing. When an economy is less than thriving, short sales, bulk reo sales and virtual real estate can prosper. You can save yourself from financial difficulty along with others by knowing how to do these deals.

3. You will not need lots of money to be a successful real estate investor. You can make real estate investing a success regardless of how much money you have. There are lots of types of deals that you can perform with the money of other people. If you look like a good investment a private lender may let you use their money. The best way to look like a solid investment is to have an in-depth knowledge of real estate investing. This will help you show people that you are a good investment if they have the money to help you with real estate investing but they do not know how to use it.

You can generate lots of wealth by real estate investing. You will be able to create an income no matter what the economy. By using a base of knowledge of real estate investing, short sales, bulk reo sales and virtual real estate you can create success for yourself. You will be helped to succeed as a real estate investor by knowing real estate investing basics.

Movies 84042

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

Look below if you came to see motion picture reviews. You can get to a good film download site through the search engines. To get some good sites try to search phrases like “Download Internet Movies”, “Download Videos”, or “Online DVD”.

Sensations of 1945: Fame hungry Powell shows a press representative O’Keefe how to entice focus in this campy musical. One marvelous number has her tap dancing inside mammoth pinball game. Cast includes Eleanor Powell, Dennis O’Keefe, C. Aubrey Smith, Eugene Pallette, W. C. Territories, Cab Calloway, and Sophie Tucker. (86 minutes, 1945)

Airmail: Daring tale of pioneer airmail guides supercharged by fine aerial scenes and excellent cast. A first rate film. Cast includes Pat O’Brien, Ralph Bellamy, Russell Hopton, Thin Summerville, Frank Albertson, and Gloria Stuart. (83 minutes, 1932)

Belle of the 90’s: Mae struts, harmonizes ?My Old Flame,” and heats up a gallery of admirers in entertaining illustration of Western humor. Cast includes Mae West, Roger Pryor, Johnny Mack Brown, Warren Hymer, and Duke Ellington Orchestra. (73 minutes, 1934)

Playing God: This film is a preposterous tale of drug addicted ex-surgeon Duchovny employed by gangster Hutton to be the personal crisis medical expert for his shot-up and sliced cronies. The improvised medical therapy is so entirely comical that it upstages the ridiculousness of the tale line. Why this film was ever made is genuinely a case for The X Files. Cast includes David Duchovny, Timothy Hutton, Angelina Jolie, Michael Massee, Peter Stormare, Gary Dourdan, John Hawkes, and Andrew Tieman. (93 minutes, 1997)

Deep Red: There’s style to burn in pointless terror thriller with Hemmings on the trail of a sadistic psycho murderer. Showy, weird scenes set to beating rock soundtrack. Cast includes David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia, Macha Meril, and Glauco Mauri. (98 minutes, 1975)

The Great New Wonderful: Striking drama, set one year after 9-11, concentrates on a variety of New Yorkers who either are battling to handle their emotions in regards to that atrocious night or in reference to their lives as if nothing had occurred. They contain a couple with a dysfunctional child, an older lady snared in a miserable matrimony, a set of security guards, and an outwardly affable accountant who worked at the World Trade Center, and survived. Discreet, incisive research of suppressed anger uses humor and observation to dramatize the irnportance of living a life that has meaning. Cast includes Olympia Dukakis, Jim Gaffigan, Judy Greer, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Tom McCarthy, Sharat Saxena, Naseeruddin Shah, Tony Shalhoub, Stephen Colbert, Dick Latessa, Can Amett, Anita Gillette, and Edie Falco. (87 minutes, 2006)

Dillinger and Capone: In 1940, discharged from prison, Al Capone (Abraham) holds the family of John Dillinger (Sheen) for ransom. Al desires the bank robber to recoup 150,000 dollars of Capone’s monies from a hotel in Chicago. The clever plot is increased by smooth acting jobs, although it eventually skids into a basic heist thriller. Cast includes Martin Sheen, F. Murray Abraham, Stephen Davies, Catherine Hicks, Don Stroud, Sasha Jenson, Michael Oliver, Jeffrey Combs, Michael C. Gwynne, Anthony Crivello, Bert Remsen, and Clint Howard. (94 minutes, 1995)

Kind Hearts and Coronets: Peerless black comedy of castoff member of titled family setting out to remove them all. Guinness plays all 8 sufferers! Hamer and John Dighton ada

Solarbabies: Futuristic adolescent rubbish has Gertz and a bunch of her friends are trapped by a Nazi-like group inside a fortress. The group plans to get out with the help of “Bohdi”, an old mystical force. Cast includes Richard Jordan, Jami Gertz, Jason Patric, Lukas Haas, Charles Durning, Peter DeLuise, Adrian Pasdar, Sarah Douglas, Frank Talk, Terrence Mann, and Kelly Bishop. (194 minutes, 1986)

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