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Saturday, May 16, 2009

TNNW BULLETIN and UPDATES, MAY, 2009, WEEK 3

Major Developments, Forward Motion, Events and Actionable Items: TNNW - We ARE Networking



May 17th, 2009


Bulletin # 16


*PUTTING THE BULL BACK INTO BULLETIN*




*We are a unique organization that offers our Subscribers and Members: 1) fabulous information, insight and intelligence in our Newsletter and through our continuous RSS and Email Feeds, 2) an unparalleled suite of services and products for making you personally and professionally successful, and 3) an actual interpersonal community where Human Beings work together in cooperation and synergy to achieve exponential returns.


When you become a Member of TNNW you haven't merely joined a list, or gotten access to products and services...you've joined a Strategic Alliance. We are an organization dedicated to making our Members successful.



THE NATIONAL NETWORKER is more than talk about networking and media -- we are about connections, team-bulding, personal introductions, constructive interactivity and RELATIONSHIPS.

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1. ALL-NEW BUTTONS AND APPLICATIONS (FULLY-FEATURED AND COLORFUL) FOR YOU TO PLAY WITH: Part Three



If you look at the bottom of any of our articles, you will notice a whole set of new applications to save, bookmark re-publish, broadcast, email, comment about, rate, follow, subscribe to or promote any of our authors, any of their articles, or the whole Newsletter. Look for the buttons and use them. Promote TNNW, our authors, or yourself.



Widget Selection Button: Opens up a gallery of widgets for you to use on your blogs, websites, newsletter and homepages.



Buzzworks Self-Promo: Opens up to our brand new self-promotion buzz page. Click on it, land on the special page, and tell us if you've talked TNNW or its authors or services up (in any medium). We will buzz you back (across a veritable plethora of media) in a giant way. You promote us, we promote you. Networking is a mutual proposition.



Submit Article to Google: Click on this button to submit the url of your favorite articles (as many times as you would like), or of the whole blog or website address to Google. This is very, very helpful SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Google is the most potent and well-regarded engine. They like us already -- help them to fall in love with us, and with each of our authors.



TNNW Member Services: This button opens up to a page which describes and contains links to all of our services for Members.



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2. THREE EXCELLENT NEWSLETTERS WRITTEN BY TNNW AUTHORS


Our Featured Columnist and Bureau Chiefs are superb writers...each from a different industry, and each with his own unique area of expertise. You can preview three of these resource letters, each written by one of our TNNW professionals, and subscribe to any or all of them for free. This may be a limited time offer -- subscribe now before these fellows become mad with power and start charging huge fees for subscriptions!


Yossi Feigenson’s ORB REAL ESTATE PROFESSIONALS Newsletter

First Issue:
http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs024/1102532372824/archive/1102566635914.html

Subscribe Free:
http://visitor.constantcontact.com/manage/optin/ea?v=0011QHrsLot1-f8NHVX5ng00g%3D%3D


Bruce Newman’s THE PRODUCTIVITY INSTITUTE Newsletter

Back Issues:
http://www.prodinst.com/PI_all_newsletters.php

Subscribe Free:
newsletter@prodinst.com (just shoot Bruce an email saying that Douglas Castle sent you -- not only will he subscribe you; he buys me a cup of coffee for every thousand subscribers I refer! His generosity is unsurpassed. In the meantime, I'm becoming more caffeinated than Will Banter of J.D. Gershbein's THE HANDSHAKE CLUB)


Andy Lopata’s CONNECTING IS NOT ENOUGH Newsletter

Back Issues: http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs019/1101533091183/archive/1102423150837.html


Subscribe Free:
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Note: Take advantage of Andy's new double CD offer. Click here.


3. SITES TO SEE AND FAVORITIZE


For a complete sitemap and index of all of our sites, simply click on http://tnnwindex.blogspot.com/, and FAVORITIZE. {yes, yes...the page name sounds like a window cleaner} Keep this handy - when you're on any page, look for the INDEX TO TNNW SITES button to return to the Index at any time.



Visit http://tnnw10.blogspot.com/, and FAVORITIZE. We have UPDATED our listing of advertisers, affiliates and services. There are some deep promotional discounts and other advantages exclusively for TNNW subscribers. Look for ChapterTracker, Andy Lopata's 2 CD set, and, of course for Douglas Castle's exciting, self-serving and extremely bothersome new ad for THE CASTLE CONSULTANCY. If you are curious as to what Douglas does (outside of TNNW) -- He works very closely with young, growing enterprises on strategic planning and development. He is relentless, determined and demanding; on the bright side, he has good table manners. Visit DOUGLAS CASTLE PUSHES PEOPLE TOO HARD, for more details.


Also -- FAVORITIZE this one: http://TNNWservices.blogspot.com . See why it pays to become a full-fledged Member.



4. FACT: HOW YOU DEAL WITH FEAR WILL MAKE YOU EITHER A LOSER OR A WINNER - Christine West's Critically-Acclaimed Webinar Series.


The primary motivating force in most people's lives is FEAR. People respond more readily to fear than to opportunity. Fear holds us back, inhibits us, makes us indecisive, attracts negative energies (misery loves company), and keeps us from reaching our potential, both personally and in business.


Question: Are you going to saddle up and ride the shark... or be eaten by it?


Question: Are you going to surf on the tidal wave or be crushed by the tsunami?


Question: Can you think of any more ridiculous metaphors than these?


TNNW Featured Columnist, noted consultant and speaker Christine West is hosting a fabulous five-part webinar series called How To Master The Fear In Challenging Economic Times. The series begins in July -- it was originally scheduled to begin on June 9, but we thought that if deferred it, your anxiety level would be increased.


Registration materials will be sent out during the next several days -- you will need to register early. How you deal with fear can transform every aspect of your life.


Whether or not you are aware of it, fear has kept you from achieving many of your goals...it has kept you from maximizing your life's potential and realizing the voctory and success that you deserve. Christine will teach you how to 1) identify those times when you may be making a dangerous fear-based decision; 2) set the fear aside and proceed confidently; and 3) how to see the fear in others and to change the way in which you communicate in order to gain their confidence.


To hear a sample voice clip of Christine West, simply click on: http://www.thebusinessmd.net/downloads/TheBusinessMD-Interview-Business-Corner-09.mp3.



5. REMINDER: DAILY EMAIL AND RSS FEEDS



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It's really quite simple. If you actually do it, you'll find out that this is indeed true. By the way, the email feed, which contains all of the content of the RSS Feed as well, is the more popular of the two by a significant margin. I personally prefer the Daily Email Feed. Plus, I can forward copies of articles which I like to my colleagues.


6. TWITTER US! BUZZ TNNW UP.



You are cordially invited to follow TNNW (and we will follow you back) on Twitter at http://twitter.com/TNNW_BUZZWORKS. Also, remember to take a look at the TNNW BUZZWORKS page (http://tnnwbuzzworks.blogspot.com/) . If you talk us up, we'll give you and your organization more cross-media exposure and SEO exposure than all of your best friends combined. If you would like to follow Castle on Twitter, go to http://twitter.com/douglascastle ...I'll even follow you, too.

Enjoy the articles, and enjoy all of our TNNW sites. We have so much to offer each other. Let's put it to work for everyone's benefit.




Yours,



Adam J. Kovitz and Douglas Castle



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Friday, May 15, 2009

NETWORK MARKETING SECRETS: The Irony of Commitment

Network Marketing Secrets with Candy Webb


I wish I could take credit for this quote; I can’t, it’s attributable to Anne Morris, well known essayist of New York City, but it gets at the essence of success in my industry (probably in any industry):


“The irony of commitment is that it's deeply liberating - in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic , from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life.”


Her phrase…”that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation”…is perhaps the emotional answer to breaking through the intellectual barrier that keeps so many from actually succeeding. We don’t always think it is “cool” when someone is passionately, excruciatingly involved in any endeavor…it is frequently more comfortable to stand back, to take that “rational hesitation” and thereby, quite frequently, to miss the boat. I have found that most people are so risk adverse that they will literally stay in jobs where they are underutilized, under appreciated and underpaid forever, instead of stepping out and up and going for their dreams. They will practice that rational hesitation until there is no opportunity left. These are the folks that spend a lot of time in later years talking about “what might have been”. This does not mean, of course, that all caution should be thrown to the wind in making decisions that affect career, wealth, and family good. It simply means that we must guard against letting due diligence extend into analysis paralysis. How do you avoid that? When do you have enough of the right answers to make a “Yes” decision?


The best way to answer that is to develop a decision process that considers the TOP FIVE CRITERIA that need to be answered to determine whether or not you are making a good decision. Then, go about getting those answers from more than one source of qualified experts. Then, weigh those answers, compare them for like responses, divergent opinions, and finally – make you own decision.


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If you are talking about a decision regarding Network Marketing (and, of course, I’m always talking about Network Marketing!), and how to get the right answers, let’s first talk about finding the qualified sources. Be wary, these experts will definitely be trying to convert you as a believer in their particular company, but if you are capable in your questioning, you can get the overall answers you need. Always in picking your experts, you are looking for over ten years of successful experience in the industry. These are some criteria you can use for judging their expertise. Is this what they do full time? The only reason anyone is not full time in our industry is that they simply have not made enough money to go full time. You’ll probably want to give me some objections to that statement, but believe me, after twenty years in the industry, I know this is one of the sure ways to separate the ones who have arrived from those still on the journey. How many people are in their organization after two years? If they are a top producer that number will be around 8,000 to 10,000. It’s a sure thing; if less, well then they’re probably not making the grade of a “top leader”. Sales volume in their organization is another indicator because sales volume indicates profit. Look for sales volume (if you can get a straight story) of over $300,000 monthly. Other indicators – Is there a company print out of earners, or does the company have a Millionaire’s Club that this person is a member of.


Once you know you are talking to someone who is qualified to give you answers, then you need to know what are the right questions to ask? Stability of the company and company growth are big indicators. Have they been around AT LEAST two to three years and during that time has the company reached at least 40 to 50 million in volume? These are good indicators for a company that will last, that won’t fold underneath you. Other, more subjective factors like product(s), ownership are important. ALWAYS get the owner’s name and do your own simple Google search for background information and past successes/failures/bankruptcies, etc. Don’t be fooled by thinking that the past will not repeat itself. It is simply amazing how many bad actors in the industry repeat their mistakes time and time again, trying to resurrect themselves in company after company. Check the internet watchdog sites like, my favorite, http://www.mlmwatchdog.com edited by industry expert, Rod Cook. This is always a good place to review what’s really going on with companies, old and new. So, let’s review the FICE CRITERIA that need to be satisfied:

1) Stability – Longevity is important – Don’t be fooled thinking new is better; new has just not been proven yet.

2) Growth – Be leery of “slow growth” companies, regardless of what new product is now coming on line that the hype says will spur growth – Slow growth companies normally stay that way.

3) Ownership – Do your due diligence here thoroughly; past indiscretions seem to repeat!

4) Sponsorship – Join only if your immediate coach/sponsor/trainer is a bonafide leader, top level distributor, full time at the endeavor, recognized as a leader, member of the Millionaires Club, someone at the top of their game. Don’t join the blind leading the blind parade as most people do; you can’t be expected to be successful if you don’t have the right counseling.

5) Compensation Plan – Hard to compare company to company. It normally takes an expert who has been around the industry for a long time to be able to review a plan, see it’s weaknesses and strengths and do this well. One indicator (if you can get an accurate answer) is the percent paid out in commissions. The average in the industry is 34 cents out of every dollar made is paid out to distributor commissions. But, many companies pay less (if this is the average) and a few pay very well – up to 50 cents back to commissions. That is the company you want to choose!


So, ask the right questions of the right people and then make a commitment to GO FOR IT and don’t look back. Commitment is indeed “freeing” and once you have done your due diligence you can feel comfortable and assured in your choice. Don’t second guess yourself, don’t hear naysayers. Make sure that you are listening only to people who have “been there and done that”. I am constantly amazed at the number of people who will listen to their brother-in-law Fred who never made a decision to get off the couch except to get another beer, but yet, is a fount of all knowledge. Opinions are cheap. Everyone has one, but the only opinions that should influence your thinking are those opinions that come from experienced, successful players – those with the inside track. Happy Decision Making!


Your Network Marketing Coach,

Candy Webb

916 408-3637

Member, XanGo Millionaire’s Club


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Sunday, May 10, 2009

BEING THERE WHEN IT COUNTS: How Open Are You to Receiving?

Being There When It Counts with Rick Itzkowich

I met a contractor during one Chamber of Commerce mixer. He shared with me how business was slow for him and that he had been forced to lay off most of his staff. I asked him how he was staying in touch with past customers and prospects and he said that he wasn't. His reason was that he couldn't do that AND generate new business.

I find it fascinating that people fail to see the existing opportunities for additional business within their existing databases. They are all too busy chasing after NEW business while totally forgetting about their "old" business.

I suggested he start using the QuoteActions email marketing system since it takes minutes to set up and is fully automated once it gets going. He was a little reluctant at first but finally agreed to give it a try.

He called me a week later and said, "Rick, you won't believe what happened! Yesterday, I got a call from a prospect I had met over three years ago. He had just received my invitation to receive QuoteActions and was thrilled. He had been thinking about me because he wanted to get started on a remodel project but he had lost my card and didn't know how to reach me. I just returned from meeting with him and got a $50,000 job!"

Opportunities are all over the place for us. However unless we are open and prepared to receive them, we will miss them.

Here's this month's QuoteAction:

"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties." WWI soldier - Reginald B. Mansell

Your action for this month is to take one of your challenges and turn it into an opportunity.


Click *here* to find out more about QuoteActions and some of the other innovative products and services offered by THE NATIONAL NETWORKER.

Rick Itzkowich

As the creator of the QuoteActions, a unique relationship building system, Rick Itzkowich finds his articles, podcasts and blog messages regarding keeping your brand "top of mind" in high demand. His latest eBook, Social Networking for Business Profits, uses cost-effective follow up strategies. Rick is also the Co-founder and Vice President of Productive Learning & Leisure, a personal development training company for corporations and individuals. Rick can be reached at rick@productivelearning.com.
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THE TNNW BULLETIN, MAY, 2009, WEEK 2

Major Developments, Forward Motion, Events and Actionable Items: TNNW - We ARE Networking

May 10th, 2009
Bulletin # 15
PUTTING THE BULLET BACK INTO BULLETIN


*We are a unique organization that offers our Subscribers and Members: 1) fabulous information, insight and intelligence in our Newsletter and through our continuous RSS and Email Feeds, 2) an unparalleled suite of services and products for making you personally and professionally successful, and 3) an actual interpersonal community where Human Beings work together in cooperation and synergy to achieve exponential returns.



THE NATIONAL NETWORKER is more than talk about networking and media -- we are about connections, team-bulding, personal introductions, constructive interactivity and RELATIONSHIPS.
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1. ALL-NEW BUTTONS AND APPLICATIONS (FULLY-FEATURED AND COLORFUL) FOR YOU TO PLAY WITH: Part Deux

If you look at the bottom of any of our articles, you will notice a whole set of new applications to save, bookmark re-publish, broadcast, email, comment about, rate, follow, subscribe to or promote any of our authors, any of their articles, or the whole Newsletter. Look for the buttons and use them. Promote TNNW, our authors, or yourself.

Widget Selection Button: Opens up a gallery of widgets for you to use on your blogs, websites, newsletter and homepages.

Buzzworks Self-Promo: Opens up to our brand new self-promotion buzz page. Click on it, land on the special page, and tell us if you've talked TNNW or its authors or services up (in any medium). We will buzz you back (across a veritable plethora of media) in a giant way. You promote us, we promote you. Networking is a mutual proposition.

Submit Article to Google: Click on this button to submit the url of your favorite articles (as many times as you would like), or of the whole blog or website address to Google. This is very, very helpful SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Google is the most potent and well-regarded engine. They like us already -- help them to fall in love with us, and with each of our authors.

TNNW Member Services: This button opens up to a page which describes and contains links to all of our services for Members.

Re-Tweet This Article (not shown): You can automatically re-tweet the entire content of any article by merely pressing this button. This greatly helps cultivate the buzz and branding for your favorite authors. Let's help them get word out to the broadest and biggest possible market. This gadget does it all for you with one click.

WIDGET SELECTION
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2. JASON JACOBSOHN: Networking Insight Newsletter

We all send a special thanks out to Jason Jacobsohn, the producer of the Networking Insight Blog and Newsletter (http://www.networkinginsight.com/), both of which are excellent networking intelligence and strategy sources. You might want to visit Jason's site and subscribe. He's a gifted writer offering excellent insights.

In addition, he is co-producing and promoting an E-Factor event, scheduled for June 4th, which you should learn more about. More Information/RSVP: http://www.efactor.com/p/events/id=81.

As always, Jason...we thank you for our mutually-supportive relationship.



3. SITES TO SEE -- NOW: Part Deux

There are several super sites (in the vast web of THE NATIONAL NETWORKER) which you should definitely look at and favoritize. We'll admit...we are still under construction, and are making constant improvements to the navigation "friendliness" of all of our sites -- and yes, we have a truckload of them -- more than 22 of 'em and growing. The trick is going to be centralizing the navigation right on the website. This should be in place very soon -- we are internally beta testing right now. We're just like Microsoft, except we do our beta-testing prior to releasing our product to the public.

For a complete sitemap and index of all of our sites, simply click on http://tnnwindex.blogspot.com/, and FAVORITIZE. {yes, yes...it sounds like a window cleaner} Keep this handy - when you're on any page, look for the INDEX TO TNNW SITES button to return to the Index at any time.

Visit http://tnnw10.blogspot.com/, and FAVORITIZE. We have UPDATED our listing of advertisers, affiliates and services. There are some deep promotional discounts and other advantages exclusively for TNNW subscribers. Look for ChapterTracker, Andy Lopata's 2 CD set, and, of course for Douglas Castle's exciting new ad for THE CASTLE CONSULTANCY. If you are curious as to what I do -- I work very closely with young, growing enterprises on strategic planning and development. I am relentless, determined and demanding; on the bright side, I have good table manners. Visit DOUGLAS CASTLE PUSHES PEOPLE TOO HARD, for more details.



4. FACT: HOW YOU DEAL WITH FEAR WILL MAKE YOU EITHER A LOSER OR A WINNER

The primary motivating force in most people's lives is FEAR. People respond more to fear than to opportunity. Fear holds us back, inhibits us, makes us indecisive, attracts negative energies (misery loves company), and keeps us from reaching our potential, both personally and in business.

Question: Are you going to saddle up and ride the shark... or be eaten by it?

TNNW Featured Columnist, noted consultant and speaker Christine West is hosting a fabulous five-part webinar series called How To Master The Fear In Challenging Economic Times. The series begins on June 9th. Registration materials will be sent out during the next several days -- you will need to register early. How you deal with fear can transform every aspect of your life.

To hear a sample voice clip of Christine West, simply click on: http://www.thebusinessmd.net/downloads/TheBusinessMD-Interview-Business-Corner-09.mp3.



5. REMINDER

You're missing out. To get the full benefit of THE NATIONAL NETWORKER and all that we have to offer, you MUST subscribe to either the RSS FEED or the EMAIL feed. Please do it now in order to keep your free subscription! Click on:

DAILY RSS FEED
or on
DAILY EMAIL FEED

It's really quite simple. If you actually do it, you'll find out that this is indeed true. By the way, the email feed, which contains all of the content of the RSS Feed as well, is the more popular of the two by a significant margin.



6. AN OBSERVATION

* NETWORKING IS A TOOL TO CREATE RELATIONSHIPS, AND NOT AN END IN ITSELF. BUSINESS HAPPENS BECAUSE OF RELATIONSHIPS. BOTTOM LINE...IT ALWAYS COMES DOWN TO THE PERSONAL INTERACTION BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE.



7. TWITTER US!

You are cordially invited to follow TNNW (and we will follow you back) on Twitter at http://twitter.com/TNNW_BUZZWORKS .


Enjoy the articles, and enjoy all of our TNNW sites. We have so much to offer each other. Let's put it to work for everyone's benefit.

Yours,

Adam J. Kovitz and Douglas Castle

THE NATIONAL NETWORKER (TNNW):
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THE BOOM IN BOOMER NETWORKING: Life is Complicated

The Boom in Boomer Networking with Elaine Ingis


Life is complicated – WOW, what an understatement. Trying to find your way out of one complication usually leads you into another, at least that’s been my “M.O.”. But, undaunted, I keep trudging along. Subconsciously I must be a believer in the philosophy that it is always “harder to hit a moving target.” I keep moving.


I believe that everything I do I do well – some are just “weller” than others. On a “well” day I reach my goal 1-2-3. On a less “well” day it may take me 15-16-17, etc. The important thing is that I always manage to get to where I need to be. Although it’s been argued that I am a bit of a Pollyanna, I never thought I was anything but brilliant in my tenacity and drive.


W R O N G.


I took pride in figuring out everything on my own. Learning from my mistakes, many repeated under a different guise. My energy was high, my attitude was positive, my creativity was always questioning – I Was Exhausted! Why did I need to go it alone when I could have learned from others' experiences, tapped into others' resources, get input from others who may have been there, and had truly done that?


– Why didn’t I streamline and accelerate the process by simply networking, and leveraging the experience and knowledge of other human beings.


As you may know, I am the Founder of SrMeetUp! (our website address is http://www.SrMeetUp.com), an interactive social and business community for Baby Boomers Sixty Years Plus. I’ve had a commitment and passion toward this amazing populace long before it became obvious, that we, the Woodstock Generation, needed to re-direct and reunite – to come home – to be heard. New and improved! … yada, yada is great -- but there is nothing like the bonding of similar life experiences to build a neighborhood of recognizable icons and memories. I’ve come to realize that I didn’t have to reinvent the wheel to build a new vehicle (perhaps I should sell my formula to Chrysler and GM). I simply had to network.




I still have loads of energy, still a glass half full kinda gal, never at a loss for questions, but I have accomplished so much more by simply tapping into information and experiences from my new colleagues and, hopefully, new friends.


So, friends, I need a favor. Still getting my site up and running – should be launched by July - and would love your opinions and comments on what we’ve accomplished and perhaps where you’d like to see us go. Visit us at http://SrMeetUp.blogspot.com/ those of you who are certifiably Boomers or younger (we all have Boomers in our lives), and tell us what would you truly like to see. Your input is precious. Whether it is about design, concepts, features or anything else, we’d like to know about it. I am sure, in the future, that I will be able to reciprocate either through my website or as a network buddy – as a matter of fact, I look forward to that.



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The Emergence of The Relationship Economy
The Emergence of the Relationship Economy features TNNWC Founder, Adam J. Kovitz as a contributing author and contains some of his early work on The Laws of Relationship Capital. The book is available in hardcopy and e-book formats. With a forward written by Doc Searls (of Cluetrain Manifesto fame), it is considered a "must read" for anyone responsible for the strategic direction of their business. If you would like to purchase your own copy, please click the image above.

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