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Today, I wanted to post an article that is all about some of the GREATEST entrepreneurs who ever lived. Notice their qualities and habits, work ethic and passion.

Just think, if they can overcome all that they had to in their lifetime, what can you overcome?!

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Unless you already know that using online MLM marketing strategies is a must for building your business, don’t even bother to read this article.

Now obviously since you are still reading this, you are serious about using the internet as a large part of building your MLM business.

This is the truth: You MUST use online MLM strategies if your business to be successful. Why is that? Simple! It’s because using the internet will allow you to build relationships with thousands of people from all over the world, all at the same time. And these are people you would never have met otherwise.

Can you see how powerful this is? You can LASER target your marketing strategies to focus on certain groups of people, down to the zip code the reside in!

Honestly, you will laugh at those who are still using only offline tactics to grow their businesses when you see the internet marketing strategies that the top earners use.

I think you get the point. But just to make sure, here are some funny (but very true) comparisons to think about:

1. Wandering around in shopping malls and Wal-marts VS. Hanging out on social media like Facebook and targeting only people who are right for your MLM business.

2. Advertising in the classifieds, having no idea who is seeing it or reading it and whether the ad is even working VS. Advertising online via PPC (Pay-Per-Click) where you can track every last person who sees your ad and whether it worked.

3. Pitching your opportunity and company products and brochures VS. Branding and Positioning yourself with your own Blog.

4. Building a limited sized names list of your friends and family who are not even interested in your business VS. Building a ‘names list’ of UNLIMITED people looking for what you have to offer online with your own autoresponder.

Like I said, I’m sure you get the picture.

This doesn’t mean that I think you should stop building your business offline. But I do think that there is no comparison. If you are not using online methods to build your business you are simply missing out.

What it all comes down to is combining online MLM marketing strategies with offline tactics. This is what the top earners do and what anyone who will be the most successful will be doing from this point on in this industry.

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Pay Attention to this short BUT powerful article my friends,

The lure of marketing you business online lies in the potential to make lots of money from multiple income streams without having to spend more time at the office or working for a boss. It is the stuff of which dreams of financial freedom are made. Many people new to internet marketing find that striking a balance between business and the lifestyle they crave is difficult to achieve. As an internet marketer, you need to practice good time management to get things done.

Review projects often
Start by listing down everything you need to do for each project. Identify which projects work and which do not. Keep the ones that are doing well while discard those that are just a waste of your time and resources. Consider partnering with someone qualified to do a new project that you’ve been considering instead of starting from scratch to save time.

Systemize
Every internet marketer should have a project management system like BasecampHQ which organizes projects, team members, tasks and schedules efficiently. Basecamp is a relatively inexpensive web-based system that can even be accessed via your iPhone, making it easy to stay on top of your projects and team wherever you go. It acts as a virtual office where members of your team can check off to-do lists, write messages or upload files on the system.

Mail filters
A lot of the messages that go into your email in-box may be things that you don’t need to read and which keep you from seeing the ones that require your immediate attention. Identify which emails you can read later (if ever!), like those from Facebook or newsletter subscriptions, and use filter preferences to direct these to individual labels assigned to them. Gmail and Yahoo Mail both have labels and filters under mail options. Another simple way to increase your productivity is by limiting the amount of time you spend on social networking sites, unless you’re conducting a specific marketing campaign around it.

Outsource
You might be spreading yourself too thinly by doing everything yourself. Delegate some of the tasks which you may not be good at like internal accounting and book keeping, content writing and web development. Outsourcing ensures that tasks are done well, minus the headaches of doing them on your own. While I still do my own simple web pages and sales copy, I outsource a great percentage of my articles and website projects to give me time to focus on other matters. I also recommend you outsource your home duties too such as lawn mowing….

Manage this well and profit
Having control over your time may be one of the perks of being an internet marketer but if you’re not careful with how you allocate it, you may be missing out on a lot of opportunities to increase profits and to enjoy life.

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Eric Henderson

Greetings My Friends,

I just had to post this today! So DAMN Inspiring!!!

Start living with a ‘NO EXCUSES MENTALITY’ From Now On. What do you think this woman could accomplish in our modern world today? It makes me feel like I have not accomplished a thing after reading her story…

I hope this inspires you to go out there and kick some butt and take some names my fellow Entrepreneur friend!

To striving just as Madam C.J. Walker did many years ago,

Be Awesome!
-Eric

-Oh, by the way, wait til you read about the 2 ‘Magic Powers’ that we all possess below…

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Occasionally, the unthinkable occurs.

I run out of the trash-fiction that I like to read – and as a last resort, I pick up “emergency reading material” like Oprah Magazine. (My wife gets it. Not me! I swear! I only read manly stuff like “Liquor Soaked Brawler’s Digest”.)

And usually, like I do with all magazines, I just like to read the ads.

I was about 78 pages into it when, for some reason, I started reading an actual article about successful women.

And that’s when an amazing lady jumped out of the page at me.

Her name is Madam C.J. Walker and here she is:

And let me tell you, this lady could have …

Kicked All Of Our Asses …Combined!

Here’s why:

First, the article in Oprah didn’t say much about her except that she became extremely successful selling hair products door-to-door.

All I can really remember is it had her picture and then it mentioned her success.

Now, being a former door-to-door man myself, I decided to check her out.

Here’s what I found:

First, she was born in Louisiana.

On a farm.

In 1865.

Not really an ideal time and place to be born if you’re:

1. A woman.
2. African American.

But she had plenty of additional challenges to face.

She was an orphan at age seven.

At age 14, she got married …reportedly to escape the abuse that she was suffering at the hands of her brother-in-law.

She became a mother at age 17, and a widow at age 20.

She supported herself and her daughter by picking cotton on a farm, by being a laundress, and by working in a barber shop. From what I can tell, the most she ever made during that time was $1.50 a day.

But It Got Worse

At around 25 years old, she began to develop a a condition that caused her to start balding.

Can you imagine? As if she didn’t have enough to deal with …now the poor lady’s hair is falling out.

(And we whine when our cell phone drops a call every now and then… kind of embarrassing.)

Anyway …

Here’s Where It Gets Good

It shouldn’t surprise you that she quickly became a student of “how to fix this damned balding problem”.

In fact, she researched all kinds of treatments, and eventually discovered that sulfur could abolish the scalp disease that was causing people to lose their hair.

(Apparently, people lost their hair a lot back then because they didn’t bathe as much. They would get some nasty scalp infection and their hair would fall out. But if you treated the problem with sulfur, you could knock it out.)

So she did the only logical thing to do, which was to start her own business …selling a product called “Madam Walker’s Wonderful Hair Grower”.

Keep in mind, she was just starting out and didn’t have a big budget (probably NO budget at all) so she had no choice but to …

Go Out, Grab The World By The Balls, And Bend It To Her Will!

And the first thing she did was to go door to door, selling her product.

Listen – nobody really embraces a door to door sales person with open arms these days, you know?

But imagine what it must have been like for Madam Walker in the racist and male dominated environment she was working in back then.

…That took some cojones.

How many times do you think she was rejected?

How many doors do you think were slammed in her face?

How many insults did she hear?

I’m willing to bet she even was threatened …regularly.

But did that stop her?

Hell No!

Not only did she survive …she thrived.

Mrs Walker hung in there and sold more products, developed new ones, and finally opened up a factory in Indianapolis.

By 1913, she was traveling around the world training other women to sell her products.

…And by the time she died in 1919 at age 51, she had become

The World’s First Female Self-Made Millionare!

Against incredible odds, wouldn’t you say?

Man – what a story.

Did I mention that her parents were former slaves? I don’t think I did.

So her story is amazing, and I think her success is largely due to one critical characteristic:

The Amazing Ability To Get Off Of One’s Ass And Get To WORK.

Seems we have a lack of that ability these days.

Think about it.

The real secret to success is to get out there and work like hell.

And when we think about Madam C.J. Walker, it’s painfully obvious that …

We Have Absolutely NO Excuse For Failure

Actually – let me rephrase that.

In the beginning, failure is pretty much inevitable.

A first-time home run is about as rare as an honest politician.

Hell, I’ve been at this game for about 4,000 consecutive days. All day, every day – and almost everything I start takes a few tweaks before it works.

And some projects don’t work at all.  Such is life.

So yeah, failure is OK.

But here’s the thing,

You Have To Get Up, Brush Yourself Off, And Get Back In The Game

That is the magic power of the successful entrepreneur.

Actually, there are really only two magic powers that I’ve seen – and these are present in every successful person I’ve met, worked with/for, or studied.

Here they are:

Magic Power #1: The ability to get started.

Holy crap, this is a big one.

I just got back from two straight weekends of speaking and the biggest thing I saw plaguing the people who were struggling was the inability to get started. This really interested me so I tried to discover the hold ups.

People were stuck on trying to figure out what web host to use, what microphone to use, what email provider, and so forth.

And look – I’ve been there, and I was broke when I was there – so I can relate.

But here’s the deal.

Most of the time all the research, the preparation, the making sure everything is “perfect” …most of the time that’s secret code for

“I’m Scared!”

Scared it’s not gonna work.

Scared you’re gonna look stupid.

Scared you might lose some money.

Scared you’ll be judged…

So let me help you out here and tell you right up front that …

All That Bad Stuff Is Almost GUARANTEED To Happen!

Your very first site is probably gonna look kinda terrible. (Mine still have that “made in 1998″ look).

Your first sales letter is probably gonna need tweaking.

Google will probably “slap” your first ad campaign. And if they don’t, you’ll probably spend and “lose” a few bucks getting enough traffic to test your offer before you start making sales and profits.

Your square friends will almost certainly judge you and talk behind your back about what a fool you are for trying to make money on the Internet. At least one of them will believe you’ve fallen for a get-rich-quick scheme.

And since you’ll be putting yourself out there in the interwebz for the whole world to see …you’re probably going to look stupid to someone. (And if you don’t, you’re doing it wrong.)

So …that’s the way it is.

And since you know it’s all definitely going to happen (barring some miracle), you can finally stop worrying about it and just get it all out of the way!

Better to go on ahead and power through it, you know? Hurry up so you can get to the good stuff. Like cramming down the vegetables when you were a kid so you could finally get dessert. (I still do this).

And once you do …you can practice

Magic Power #2: The Ability To Step Back Into The Ring

Business is like boxing in the sense that you will, without question, get knocked around a little.

Know what I mean?

And do you think there’s ever a conversation where a dude wants to become a boxer and this happens?

Dude: “Coach? Can I talk to you a minute?”

Coach: “Sure, son. What’s on your mind.”

Dude: “Well, I think I want to be a boxer.”

Coach: “That’s great. We can start training on Monday.”

Dude: “OK. But …Coach?”

Coach: “Yeah?”

Dude: “Do you think I’ll ever get …you know …hit? Like, do you think anyone is gonna …you know, punch me?”

Coach: “GET THE HELL OUT OF MY GYM!”

I know, I know …never happens. In BOXING.

But it damn sure happens in business.

People get started (which is a huge feat in and of itself) and then just get floored by the first setback.

It takes them by complete surprise and it makes them want to quit.

I suppose it’s natural.

But what’s not natural …and what really breeds success …is that ability to brush yourself off and start over.

Just like the champion boxer, you gotta get up and step back into the ring. If you do that enough times, you’ll be tough as a pit bull and you’ll start winning.

And it doesn’t take too many wins before it all starts to add up.

But man, if you don’t get back in there and take another shot …you’ll never win.

And listen: EVERYBODY I know who’s achieved lasting success has, often on more than one occasion, gotten the shit kicked out of them in business. Many have lost everything before they finally “made it”.

Damn sure happened to me, I can tell you that.

Here are some of the businesses I’ve effortlessly run straight into the ground (it’s a talent.):

1. Used Car Lot (the prestige!)

2. Underground Dog Fencing (don’t ask)

3. Roofing Contractor and Commercial Repair (even more prestige!)

4. Merchant Bank Card Processing (failed attempt at “legitimate” business)

…And of course, this is before I got online.

Once I got online, I was able to have my most spectacular failure to date …the dreaded Instant Internet Empires, which got the attention of the FTC and ultimately earned me a nice lawsuit which cost me everything I had.

Literally. Everything.

And you know what? All those failures SUCKED. They were embarrassing. And sometimes scary.

…Getting back up and stepping into the ring again was hard.

But worth it.

And if an orphaned daughter of former slaves can work her way up through the racist hardship of the economically depressed deep south …and become the world’s first self-made female millionaire …then what possible excuse do WE have?

Do you think it was easy for this lady to just walk outside and start going door to door? Hell no!

Do you think it was easy for her to keep going after hearing insults and rejections every day? Of course not.

But she did it anyway. Because that’s what it takes sometimes.

Now get out there and take what’s yours.

- Frank
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Note: Special thanks to C.J. Walker’s great granddaughter, A’Lelia Bundles, for sharing her writings with the world at www.madamcjwalker.com. …And for giving bloggers permission to reference her work. A’Lelia has written a book about Madam Walker’s life and you can get it here.

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Unless you have been living under a rock the last few years, I am assuming you have heard of a gentleman named Frank Kern. If you have not, then you need to look him up and start learning from him as soon as possible. He is regarded as the best internet marketer on the planet and is certainly the highest paid.

I happen to know Franks work very well since I have been marketing online for over 10 years now. And in my humble opinion, he is the best. Now, why is Frank Kern so important to your internet network marketing success?

The answer is that as we speak, the internet network marketing/MLM industry is under going the same changes, shifts, and growth that internet marketing went through about ten years ago.

So, this means that the opportunity to create wealth for yourself is so vast. I predict that what internet marketing did for small and medium sized businesses – giving them a presence online and allowing them to make a lot of money – this is the same opportunity you have as a network marketer utilizing the internet to build your business.

Now, I want to share the deceptively simple secrets with you that have allowed rank Kern to build a multi-million dollar business and will allow you to do the same thing with your network marketing business.

1. Build a List 2. Build a relationship with that list 3. Monetize that list

In step one, build a list. You need to simply start building a list of subscribers to an email list that are targeted to your niche of network marketing, MLM, home business seekers and owners, entrepreneurs, etc. This is your new names list! Much better than your friends and family ha?!

With step 2, you are now going to start building a good relationship with your names list. How do you do that? Simple really. Just bring them value and be ultra cool to them. That is it. Help them with advice, great content, resources, training, affiliate products, your own products, etc.

And finally with step 3, this is where you are going to start to make money with your list. You can sell them resources and products you recommend that can help them. Offer them affiliate products, your own products and services. Most importantly, now that you have their trust and a relationship with them, you can offer your primary opportunity to them (whatever network marketing company you are with) in the hopes that they will partner with you. This is where your list ‘becomes profitable’ as Frank Kern would say.

Seeing the huge picture here now? Because of the internet, you are now able to build relationships with hundreds and even thousands of people all at the same time. This is amazing because you even have automated follow up tools that do it with you on auto-pilot. Now, what can happen is that a prospect may not partner with you right away, but as you build more and more relationships and trust, they may partner with you later on down the road.

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Hi there my Entrepreneur friend,

I want to help a lot of people get very clear today on something very important. In fact, I’d like to reprogram this entire industries expectations so we completely separate the ‘opportunity seekers’ from the REAL *Entrepreneurs*.Because it’s that ‘opportunity seeker’ mindset that has so many people failing miserably, and not doing what they REALLY need to be doing if they want to create success.So let me tell it to ya like I see it, okay?

This industry is down right competitive. You have TENS OF MILLIONS of people competing for the same 150,000 new people who start a home business every week.You have the vast majority of people running around acting like business owners yet applying ZERO real business principles to anything they are doing.

Seriously…what the heck business do you know makes a list of their friends and family and actually thinks that’s how they are going to build a 6 figure annual income? Not too many right…And we’re not done yet folks…You have the vast majority of people being taught ‘DINOSAUR’ network marketing tactics that haven’t changed in 50 years!!

Is it just me…or has the world changed very much in the past50 years? What was that thing called again…technology…or something like that?And the Ironic part is…it’s NO ONE ELSE’S responsibility for your success other then your own!

It’s no one Else’s responsibility to teach you how to be a real entrepreneur. It’s no one Else’s responsibility to teach you how to market. It’s no one Else’s responsibility to create in you the desire to GROW.The drive for ALL OF THAT has GOT to come from within you…or you’re walking on thin ice my friends.Other people CAN absolutely help you, teach you, and further your growth…but they can’t instill in you the NECESSARY drive you need to make USE of all that knowledge.

Your success absolutely has to come from the fire you have inside that *can not* be extinguished by ANYTHING.And here’s the truth…

Starting YOUR OWN BUSINESS is not like getting a job. Business IS competitive. Business *TAKES SKILLS*.It takes 10x MORE then working for someone else EVER WILL.It will demand from your spirit a relentless persistence.It will demand from your intelligence a relentless APPLICATION. It will demand from your emotions PATIENCE and GROWTH. And it will certainly demand your time, energy, and effort if you want to see a shred of success to manifest in your life.

A ‘business opportunity seeker’ gets involved with a business and HOPES they will be successful. They fantasize about what it would be like to have all this money.They spend more time in fantasy land then in actual reality learning how others who MAKE TONS OF MONEY actually do it.And guess what…anyone who is making tons of money in this industry right now IS NOT sitting around ‘hoping’ or ‘fantasizing’ about what their future might be like.

Enter the real *ENTREPRENEUR*.

The entrepreneur is sitting around MARKETING his business.Learning new skills. Developing new talents. Increasing his value. Studying under successful people. Practicing, persisting, GROWING…all the time.The real entrepreneur looks at a challenge and says, “Ok, no problem, I just need to figure out a way around it.”The real entrepreneur sees his competition and says, “That’s all they got? Please…I’m going to eat them alive.”The real entrepreneur SEEKS the real information they need to move them closer to their goals…and they stop at NOTHING to get there.NO EVENT can deter them. NO FAILURE can extinguish their fire. No negative person can possibly persuade them any differently of their ‘SHEER POWER’ to create the reality they want for themselves.The real entrepreneur is a juggernaut that can not be stopped.

So I ask you…which one are you? And more importantly…which one do you WANT to be?

The same road to success is in front of every single one of us.

The same knowledge I’ve used to create the  income I make in under 12 months on the Internet is AVAILABLE to YOU.

Your success will be a result of how EARNEST you are about growing a real business. It will be the result of how much energy you put into LEARNING and DEVELOPING new skills, talents, and abilities that will make you money.Your success will be the result of how dedicated you are to ‘GROWTH’ in all areas of your life. Business and personal.

So the choice is yours my friend. But after today there is no more disillusionment about who is successful and who isn’t when it comes to owning your own business.The real entrepreneur mines the gold out from the ground the business opportunity seeker is standing on.So get out of our way or grab a shovel…

The funny thing is…there’s a heck of a lot of gold to go around…and most people don’t have a clue how to use a shovel!Hopefully you took this message to heart today, and are ready to make your choice once and for all…Opportunity seeker? or…Entrepreneur?It’s on you…

Yours In Knowledge,

Eric Henderson

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