Chat is Open Again!

Well, it seems through “non-use” the Chat page wasn’t working. I have it back up and running, and actually plan on using it when I’m at the computer going forward! I have also tied it in to my Martial Arts blog, http://www.ciruclarwindryu.com/blog, so if you are on either page, you can chat with each other.

Hope to chat with you there, if you aren’t on ExposeYourBlog!’s chat page!

SHiFT! – Turn Prospects into Customers – A Book Review

For the past several years I have been on LinkedIn member, building connections and business. In the process, I became connected with Craig Elias, a very successful person that has done outstanding in the sales area. One of my weak areas, but an area I have been deep in as an owner or senior executive of several business.

He recently published a book with Tibor Shanto outlining their well developed sales techniques for all to use:

Over the past several years these two gentlemen have developed a system that seems to me to work well.

The book takes you through the process of evaluating your past successes, and showing you how to fine tune recognizing what works and what hasn’t worked, but the focus is on what works.

They then take you through the process of knowing who and when to make your sells calls, and how to go about it. The detail they give you and the reasoning behind what they tell us is VERY valid and matches what I found upon reviewing my past successes after reading this book.

Throughout the book you are taking to their web sites to get some great paper tools to help you through the process, and for even more great information.

You can also get more information by going to this page where you are able to get on their email list for great info, and get a better preview of the book.

If you are in sales, and in almost any job you are in, you are involved in sales in one form or another, this book is a MUST read book. It is available at Amazon.com in both Kindle format and in hard and soft format.

Gaining financial wealth…

Over the past several years I have had a static page on my business web site (http://www.tdbellenterprises.com) under Individuals that gave advice on how to grow your wealth and make yourself successful. It also directed you to a list of books I highly recommended.

For the past three years, I have been studying and reading many books on life, business and success. Because of that reading and learning, I have updated both pages today and highly recommend you go check them out!

Here they are again:

Growing your individual wealth.
Recommended Reading.

Happy and profitable reading!

Half over…

…and I want to double the time off!

Well, my week off form work is all but half over, and I’m already wishing for more time off.

It has been a busy week of traveling to Ohio for a medical appointment to make sure my bad knee, given to me by the US Army, was still bad, and if to see if I could get a bump up in how bad it was (more money, and it is in pain ALL the time these days, gives out often, and I’m in a brace most of the time now), fixing the code behind ExposeYourBlog! and WORKING on getting Surf&Chat back in place (not quite there yet, but getting closer) in a manner that the system doesn’t bog down like it was. I have also been busy cleaning out my dresser, night stand, car, and closet. My wife wants me to clean up my books too, but there is no place to put them, and I’m not wanting to get rid of them…. I have also added more music to my music selection, equalized all the music in my collection so it all comes out with the same volume when it plays, and updated the autoDJ at Radio ExposeYourBlog! today.

Tribal Blogs and ExposeYourBlog! have joined up in partnership in what I think will be great for the blogging community! I look forward to this relationship growing stronger each day! (And if you don’t use either service for your blogs, you should sign up for both, and actively use them!)

Tomorrow I get to go to the dentist for a cleaning, anyone want to go for me? Please? Pretty please?

Busy times. But I’m having fun, and I’m getting some reading in to boot!!

Happy Days! (Till I go back to work Monday…)

Next Week..

Next week I am on leave from work, and I plan on staying pretty busy working on ExposeYourBlog! so if you have anything you want to see added (or removed) please be sure to comment here or on the forums and I may consider it. I have a couple of surprises I hope to release during the week!

I will also be busy on a couple of other web sites I manage, and hope to keep this blog and my other three blogs current as well.

I plan on working on my “workout schedule” as well. I need to get my fat behind back in shape, like it was 10ish years ago, or as close to it as I can!! I hope to be getting a mountain bike (pedal kind) next week as well, so that may help.

Looking forward to a week of from work that is for sure… Was supposed to go to Florida and get what is left of my stuff out of storage down there, but my Mother-In-Law broke her hip, and while she is now home, we felt it was better to hang here just in case. Good thing too, because the VA decided to make an important exam for me, as I try to up my compensation for my service connected disability, and they made it for the middle of next week!! (Good thing I don’t have to use up sick leave for it!!)

Anyway, if you have anything you want to see changed on ExposeYourBlog! Let me know!

Watkins Products.

I don’t normally post much on this blog about Watkins or it’s products, I do that on “Watkins Ramblings“, but I thought I’d bring the business and products out here as well again. (I’ve done it before, most recently here, but will try not to do it too often… )

Watkins is a 141+ year old company that has great “Green” products for home and personal care, and some of the best spices and flavorings you will ever find. Once you buy any of these products, you will never go back to store bought products!

Now, comes the good part, for a fee of $39.95/year, you can become an Associate and receive a 25% discount on all products you buy for yourself, and you receive at least a 25% commission on any products you sell. You can sell in person, over the Internet, by mail, etc. There is no need to buy products and store them in your already full garage. You take your orders, send the order in and three to seven days later the products are either delivered to you, or if you want, directly to your client/customer.

As you get clients that like to buy a lot of products each month, you talk to them about becoming an Associate themselves, giving them a 25% discount on the products from what they were paying you for them, and they begin saving. At the same time, you receive from 1% to 15% commission on their use and sales of product, provided you are still using or selling the products yourself. (There is no commission just for having a person sign up. Both you and the new Associate need to buy or sell product to earn a commission!)

You can also go straight to a person and share the business concept with that person and have them start out as an Associate. The same principles work here.

Now, the secret, and it’s not a secret, but that is what draws people in right?, is to USE THE PRODUCTS yourself. One, the products are great. The food products taste good, and are of the highest quality and of the best production. The household products are made to Green standards, are all natural and will not cause health issues to the users, or kill pets, etc. The personal care products are great as well. (I know, I may be prejudice, as I’m a Watkins Associate, but it was the products that sold me on it, and caused me to join over 8 years ago.)

Now, I know I’m going to get the nay sayers who are going to say that this business is nothing but a Pyramid Scheme. First off, all business are pyramids in pay structure for the most part. The person at the top makes more money than the person directly below them, and they make more money than the person directly below them, all the way down to the bottom person in the company. In Watkins, you can be “under” someone and make more money than them, by building your client base and selling more product and/or by building your “sales/use” team bigger than that person above you, making you more money than they make. And you don’t make money on the person joining. ONLY when they buy (or sell) product is there any upward commission.

This is not a get rich quick scheme either. It will take you from three to ten years to make a strong business of it, based on a 5 to 20 hour work week. Meaning, you work the business for 5 to 20 hours a week talking to people, and sharing the products. It can be done quicker if you work more. (But in today’s world, who can always put more time in a “side job”?) The first key to this business is to use the products yourself. If you do this, first you get great products that do a great job, and you get your volume in. (If you use the supplements, house cleaning products, and/or personal care products on a daily/monthly basis, you will reach your needed volume without any sales, to earn commission on those you bring into the business. Sales brings you added volume and revenue, so never overlook a sales opportunity!)

Like any business, this business requires money. But not alot. You can start out by buying products you normally buy from the local store from yourself. You can advertise for free through blogs, free websites (and, if you join under me, you are giving, at no cost to you, access to some great marketing tools such as this which help you get leads), letters and emails to associates, etc. You can always purchase leads through various sources, and your best avenue is just sharing the products with others, or products made from Watkins products.

This business is fun, you get a great support team through me, and my up line, which includes access to a great training system (again for free) with tons of tools and information about building your business.

For the past 8 years, my focus on this business has been to use the products I like in my daily and monthly life and acquire new associates who are wanting to do the same, and make money while they are at it. Before becoming a Friar, I had over 300 people in my team, and because I quit being an active user of the products, allowed about 280 of them to go to another team. Twenty some stayed with me, and I’m now growing that team up again.

Here is how I do it. I am on a round of sponsoring 10 people that I will keep directly under me. The next 10 people I sponsor go one each under those 10, and then the next 10 go under them again in a round robin system. Those that follow the system of at least using the product, I continue to place people under as I sponsor more people., putting the next 10 under me, following the above pattern for those 10, then I will start placing the rest under those 20, or at least the ones that are active.

Are you ready to be one of the first 10 in this next round of growth for my business? If so, drop me a line here, and I will help you get started. If you would like to research the business on your own, before talking to me, go here.

I look forward to working with you in building your second income, which may become your main income should you wish to make it so!

I don’t get it???

Ok, as I hope ALL of you know, especially if you have a blog, I own and run a Traffic Exchange for Blogs. In the process of checking out the various scripts out there to manage and run an exchange program, I have visited many sites to see how they set up their software, and to get a feel for each of them from the user side. After a week or so, I set on one, and purchased it and now we have ExposeYourBlog!. It’s up and running and it is niche based, meaning it is only for surfing blogs. It is there to help blog writers to get others to read their blogs, and surprisingly most of the bloggers read the blogs, comment on them, and are enjoying seeing the other blogs.

What I don’t get is the majority of the exchanges I’ve been on, especially the ones you can “earn money” on, are exchanges of exchanges. Meaning, every site in rotation on one exchange is another exchange site with other exchange sites on it. It is almost like they are making money off of one and giving it to another to make money off it to give it to another to make money of it. I just don’t get it!?

Find a niche category of websites, and I don’t mean other exchanges, which granted is a niche, and target that niche and go from there.. WILD!

Wow, what a two weeks…

This past two weeks has been pretty busy for me. And, while a lot of that busy has been on line, I really haven’t been able to surf much on ExposeYourBlog!, post here, post on Watkins Ramblings, or Daily Readings. I’ve been busy working on the back end of ExposeYourBlog! (some surprises coming in the near future there!), and on the Council web page for the Knights of Columbus that I belong to.

Add on to that all the work at work, restarting and re-building my Watkins business, working on Circular Wind Ryu building it up, and then last weekend and this weekend going to Knights of Columbus related events (last weekend doing service work at a Missionary Church, and this weekend going to Knights of Columbus training). Busy times.

Monday of next week, I will get to (I wish I could say back to, but I just haven’t been doing it!) doing daily postings on both Watkins Ramblings and Daily Readings. With Daily Readings I plan on going back in and filling in the missing days, all the way back to the first day I started it. (That will take some time though… )

See you all Monday!! Be safe and have fun, and if you have a blog, be sure to come to ExposeYourBlog!