Are you SYU2?

"Optimism is essential."

Jeff Bezos (1964 - )
CEO and cofounder of Amazon.com


~ from justsell.com

If you want to create income from home, you could play right into the hands of people who will take advantage of you. Many people want to work from home so they can make their own hours, but they still think like an employee instead of an entrepreneur or business owner. If you will think in terms of building relationships, you will build income if you are continuing to learn. Continuous learning is a must and just like anything else, you must be working smart in your learning and not simply working hard.

While it is technically true that you can work when you want in your own business, you do have to satisfy clients enough to keep them around as well as business partners and potential business partners in order to keep your venture moving forward. You may need to have a conversation over the phone while both of you are in front of your computer so that you can show someone how to register or just where to go to get information.

Because so many people get tired of working for someone else and think they're going to do their business exactly the way they want to, there are people and businesses out there who are ready to help you buy into that illusion and they are more than happy to sell you their products, services and "opportunities". They will have websites that tell you that you can make automatic money or lead you to believe that all you need to do is sign up.

One thing to keep in mind is that what you actually have to do is provide value in return for value. I have been coaching a woman I know on how to use LinkedIn and other websites more effectively to network and increase her income. She paid me money because I am teaching her skills that will make her money. She gave me value for the value I have provided in return. I've been connected to LinkedIn.com for over a year, so I know a lot of ins and outs that beginners to that system would have to learn by trial and error. I had to find times to connect with her that worked for both of us.

When your choice is to be available to a business partner or not have that business partner [or client], most people are going to want to compromise and "meet" with that person over the phone. It may not always be the most convenient time for you. In a way, you are competing with other people who will make themselves available to develop a relationship with a business partner [or client]. One woman on my business team talks with me on the phone every Wednesday night. Some people get concerned about how much time this might take, but keep in mind that I am building a business relationship with her [and sometimes you will become friends in the process as I am with her] and that as her knowledge grows she will need to contact me less frequently or for shorter periods of time when she does.

If you want to build a business and don't build the relationships, you will find that a lot of your team or your clients will sooner or later drop away. I can teach you how to build relationships and build your income IF you are truly willing to take the time to learn and grow. You can visit my survey and fill it out by clicking on the title of today's post.

If you're not ready, I highly recommend reading two books:

Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson

Making Work Work by Scott Hunter

Are you serious about creating income AND would you like to do business with someone you can trust to be both honest AND competent?

Let me know - fill out the survey!

Have a great day! Really!

Leftcoastman


now on Yahoo messenger - relationshipworksmentor


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Hello "listener"!

If you're really building relationships, you're not simply having people go to previews on the web and then trainings on the web. Don't get me wrong - those tools have their place. I've been chatting on Yahoo messenger recently and have found some interesting stuff. There are people who are out there simply trying to get you to come to one of their trainings or their previews of their business. Many [though not all] don't realize that they're not treating you like a person. They've been trained in a system [not NECESSARILY a bad thing] that keeps pushing people through the system and because they're so focused on getting people to meetings and trainings and presentations online or on the phone, they don't have time to really treat you like a person and develop true relationship.

More in a bit...

In order to create relationship, you can't hide behind your computer. I talk to people on the phone after they have filled out a survey. People on my team can use my YouStepUp.com survey site to help find people who are actually interested in taking action. Here's my survey site:

YouStepUp.com

Have a great day! Really!

Leftcoastman

now on Yahoo messenger - relationshipworksmentor

Hello "listener"!

You should see more frequent posts on this blog in the near future.

I'm addressing you as "listener" because I believe people miss how important listening is. You want to know that someone is listening to you and if you're going to find the right people, you've got to listen to them. Really listen.

I remember about a decade ago before I was connected to the internet, I got involved with an opportunity where the guy told me that people are either going to get it or they're not. While there is a grain of truth in there, he was using this same phrase in contacting hundreds of people every week. Some of us were going to fall for this moderately high pressure tactic.

I hadn't yet learned the power of creating relationships in business with people who treat you like, well, people. If you really listen to not just what someone is saying to you, but how they are saying it, you can get a pretty good idea whether this person values building a relationship and treating people like people.

Does building a relationship take longer? Yes. Does it lead to more people actually STAYING in business with you? YES! I have known people who were real "recruiting machines" in network marketing who have horrible attrition rates. Some don't care because their programs pay enough money when someone makes an initial purchase that they just keep recruiting new people to replace the ones that drop out. Have you ever run across someone who brings 50 or 100 people onto their team in one month and within three months 90% of them are gone or they are technically signed up but not doing anything? And three months after that, another 8 or 9% are gone leaving them with one or two people!

That's not the kind of business I want to build. I want people who value building relationships and staying power into their business. If you start out with these ideas in mind, you can avoid the trap of gathering people into your business who waste your time by expecting you to do all the work. And, you're much less likely to find yourself on the team of someone who justs puts people through the "grinder" to see who's left after a few months.

So, in order to create relationship, you can't hide behind your computer. I talk to people on the phone after they have filled out a survey. People on my team can use my YouStepUp.com survey site to help find people who are actually interested in taking action. Here's my survey site:

YouStepUp.com

Have a great day! Really!

Leftcoastman

Hello "listener"!

I believe that one reason some people are taken advantage of is that they are dealing with another person who really believes the information they're sharing and that information was given to them by someone else.

So, if you're person A, then person B is telling you how great Company ZZZ is because person C told them. That's ok if Company ZZZ really is that great. But, if the company has problems and person C is not being honest with person B, then person B can be telling person A lots of wonderful stuff that they really believe is true about Company ZZZ and they don't realize that it's not true. If person A trusts the genuine enthusiasm and sincerity of person B and person B has been misled, they can find that they join a company or opportunity that's not all it's cracked up to be.

I believe relationship can be a big help in building your business, career, opportunity, reaching your goals and dreams, etc...

If you have a relationships with people you can trust to be both honest and competent, you can create an incredibly positive and powerful, enjoyable life.

More relationships like that are what I highly recommend.

You are welcome to fill out my survey by clicking on the title of each post which will link to YouStepUp.com

Have a great day! Really!

Leftcoastman

"Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great."


Mark Twain (American humorist, writer and lecturer. 1835-1910)


~ from ThinkExist.com


Remember, you can always fill out the survey at YouStepUp.com by clicking on the title of the post.

Hello reader!

I sincerely desire to help you avoid wasting time, money, and emotions on stuff that doesn't work, people who are propagating false information unknowingly, and those who are knowingly taking advantage of others. I will focus on the behaviors that can put you in a "bad position" rather than on victim stories or attacks on companies or people. You can check out websites like WorldWideScam.com where I have found helpful information in the past.

I hope that by creating this blog I can reach some of the people who are setting themselves up to be taken advantage of BEFORE IT HAPPENS. You could say that I want to do some good by "preventing some bad."

If you are in a cynical mood, one of the challenges that you might face in reading any of my blogs is that I am sincere. I have noticed that people in a cynical frame of mind can really misunderstand me. If you will take me at face value, knowing that I am imperfect, I could be of great help to you. I know someone who calls that "beginner's mind". If you'll have beginner's mind with me, you may find the information I share with you to be very valuable in saving you time, money and wasted emotions, etc...

You are welcome to fill out my survey by clicking on the title of each post which will link to YouStepUp.com

Have a great day! Really!

Leftcoastman