Free Network Marketing Tips

Are You Determined To Win?

2011-09-26T20:30:00.001-07:00

Determination is important in network marketing in order to be successful. Determination is not just important in network marketing but in all areas of life. Success does not come easily and sometimes have to be achieved when all odds are against us.

I have seen a movie and was amazed at a scene that taught me something important. This movie that gave me a lesson that I will remember is called Coach Carter. Timo Cruz earlier was kicked out of the gym because he did not want to follow the rules that Coach Carter gave. Later Timo decided he wanted to play basketball even if it was to follow the Coaches rules.

Timo asked the Coach what he needed to do to play for the basketball team. The Coach tried to discourage Timo and tried to not tell him what he needed to do. However, Timo was determined to play for the team and kept asking the Coach for the requirements.

Finally the Coach reluctantly gave Timo the requirements. Timo had to give the Coach 1000 suicides and 2500 pushups by a time that was impossible to make. However, Timo didn’t look at those odds and gave up. Instead he was determined and looked at what was to come started his pushups. He worked on completing his goal none stop. Many times the Coach tried to discourage him and told him it was impossible so just give up. Timo let those words go from one ear to the next. He did not listen and kept going.

In the end Timo didn’t meet the requirement and the Coach was going to not let him on the team. However, the rest of the team saw his determination and vowed to complete his requirements for him. In the end his determination gave him victory. His determination impacted others around him and helped him to be successful.

Jared Hathorn
Don't forget to watch the movie and take a free tour at www.winwithjared.com
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Finding a Home

2011-09-17T17:40:00.000-07:00

Many people join network marketing to make money. However, many people choke themselves and not realize it. They look so hard for a get rich quick deal that they end up getting on new deals every week. My leader, Tim Miller, calls them internet junkies and says they will never earn enough income to make a good living.

In order to succeed in network marketing we must learn to find our home company. A company that we will stay focused on. We must love our company so much that we will not go to another deal. This is key in order to be successful in any network marketing business.

If we try to split our time and efforts into more than one deal than we are cutting our success by the percentage that is divided into the amount of deals we are in. Most if not all successful network marketers are successful because they are 100 percent in their company. Their time and efforts are focused at one thing and one goal. We must be all in to succeed in any network marketing business.

Jared Hathorn
Don't forget to watch the movie and take a free tour at www.winwithjared.com
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Learning to Expose

2011-08-02T20:45:00.000-07:00

Many people in network marketing tell us that we need to create relationships with people. They tell us that we must develop a way that people can know, like, and trust us. They tell us this with many words and sometimes with big words that will make people think they are very smart. However, many fail to really explain how this really works.

I want to focus on the part where it says that people can know us. How do we get people to know us so they can also learn to like and trust us? What many don’t tell us is that all they need to do is expose themselves. They need to do so by meeting as many people as they can. We need to get out of our comfort zone and find anyone and everyone that is new. Get them to join our facebook, twitter, and or any other social site. The more people we have in our friends list the better chance we have of success.

Do we expect to become successful if we do our best to look at just five people and pitch them our deal every day? That is not how this business works at all. First of all just pitching our deal to just the five ever day they will eventually stop being our friends. Our business will not grow unless we truly work at it. The more work we put into finding people the better chance we have of our success.

Also we need to learn to help the people we find.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Creating Quality Leads

2011-05-03T08:28:00.000-07:00

Many people try so hard to get people in their business without first learning to create what is called leads. And we must learn to target our leads to those we know who need our help and services. After all if we were a doctor we would have to find people who are sick and not healthy.

Network marketers need to learn who to target and find just like doctors needs to find the sick in order to use their skills. Creating leads is all about learning to sell ourselves and having people attracted to us and our services. Without learning to attract people in following us we will not be able to attract people in buying our services.

So we must learn to provide information of who we are and in return their will be people attracted to us. We must also learn to build relationships with people and find out who they are. Once building a relationship with people we may learn what they need. We may find out that what they need is what we have to give. This is how we become more successful in our business by learning to find people who need our help.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Stop Saying Your Wrong

2011-04-18T05:16:00.000-07:00

Many people have different opinions and as network marketers we will often talk to many people who will tend to give their opinions. Sometimes their opinions are so different than ours that we want to give our opinion stating what we believe that is different.

Arguments are not all that bad but it is the way we conduct our arguments that become bad. Arguments can be a way for us to learn and grow among other people. However, many people often conduct their arguments in a harmful manner. There are many ways we can conduct our arguments in a harmful manner but I want to talk about telling people that they are wrong.

Many people often make the mistake in just telling other people they are wrong. This will give the person the impression that they are being attacked. It will cause them to put a defense around them. We all know that this is what we do not want. Once a defense is set up then it is nearly impossible for the person to pay attention to what we are saying. After all we need people to listen to what we say.

We need to learn to share our opinions with other people in a manner that is respectful. This will help us win friends and hopefully influence others in a positive way.

Jared Hathorn

jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

We Must Believe In Ourselves

2011-04-08T05:23:00.001-07:00

Many people fail in network marketing and wonder why. There are many reasons people fail and I want to focus on one of them. The lack in believing in ourselves is one of the causes people fail. The lack of belief almost paralyzes people to be successful.

I know someone personally who tells me he cannot get a job because he cannot read. He tells me that many people have tried to teach him however they just quit on him. I have watched him and I have seen that somehow even in the lack of reading he gets around the computer ok.

He works on looking up things in youtube that interests him. He finds cheat codes for games he likes playing. So I thought it would be a good idea to find a computer program that teaches reading. I found that program that teaches reading from the very beginning. It starts with sounding out the letters and works on sounding out words for him. The audio files are amazing because it speaks every word it teaches.

I know there are people who we can never teach because they are just not coachable. They in some ways do not wish to become successful because they enjoy playing the victim. However, to make my point let us look at one factor.

I have notice in my time that I am with him that he lacks belief in himself in almost anything he does. This lack of belief is one of the factors that are causing him to not teach himself reading. He would only spend five minutes on the program than just give up. I would hear his voice of frustration during those five minutes. He also voiced his opinion that he just cannot do it.

We must learn to find belief in ourselves if we are to learn to become successful. Again the lack of belief in ourselves will paralyze us from success.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

A Need to Love Others

2011-03-30T03:31:00.001-07:00

We know that building relationships in network marketing is very important. So if since it is important we must spend our time learning the skills needed in knowing how to interact with everyone. After all I cannot stress enough that network marketing is not a sales business but a relationship business.

There are many ways people can describe how to interact with people. We all can break down the laws of attraction based on the statistics given on today’s society. We can study and analyze the behavior of everyone we meet in order to determine what the majority likes or dislikes.

I believe for this article I can explain the way to some up all that is required by one word. This word that will help us all is called love. We must put in our hearts love for everyone we meet every day. Having that love will give us the automatic drive in treating people the way they need to be treated. This will give the best reason people would learn to trust us.

Let us build relationships by loving everyone we meet. We can learn how to get people to trust us.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Failing Even In the Best Company

2011-03-28T23:02:00.000-07:00

Many people talk about how it is important to find the right company for us. I do believe a person should look at the important information before joining a company. However, even after joining the best company we still have to work on ourselves.

Let us look at company A for a minute. This company has the best compensation plan and the best policies and procedures any company can have. A person working in company A however does not run his network marketing business like he should at all.

What he does wrong is he spam’s every single forum and social media he can find. It always says the same thing about joining his company. What he gets is people disliking him. After all he is not giving any thought or value. He is left with little or no success and wonders what is wrong.

Company B is about an average company. It does not have the best compensation plan or policies and procedures. It is not the worst company to join either. The person working for company B has a little more knowledge in how to have the business grow. He knows not to spam the forums or social media but still lacks the techniques needed.

He tries his best with the little knowledge he has to share with anyone he can on the social media. However, he does not put much effort in gaining new knowledge to bring better value. He does gain people to follow him but not as much as he fully desires.

Company C would be almost the worst company anyone would join. I mean everything that is set up would still have people become successful but would not compare to company A or B. The person in company C does his best to learn about attraction marketing. He either gets the information freely from someone or if need invest money in getting the right information.

After getting all the knowledge needed, he then produces great value to everything he writes. Rather he posts in a blog, forums, or social sites he always finds a way to give great value. He always goes out of his way in building friendships with anyone he meets. He learns and practices the art of gaining friends and influencing people.

Even though he is not in such a great company he finds himself having more success than people described in company A or B. He has so many followers that he has been titled a great leader.

Unless a person gains the skills need in becoming successful in network marketing it does not matter what company we are in. We will not succeed as long as we do not work for it. We must work to become better at attracting others to us. Learn the art of creating relationships with people.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

How A Person Can Lead

2011-03-27T08:18:00.001-07:00

Let us look at two ways to get in a building. The front door is locked and many people try to get in the building through the front door. Now this building is a representation of success. Now everyone has tried the front door at one time. The front door represents all our attempts for success and failed.

The building also is designed that we need as many people as we can to increase our success in this building. The more people we invite and share the more success we have.

Now someone has found a way in through the back door. The back door has easy access to the building because it is unlocked. Now this person has the ability to share this information to everyone he can.

He quickly goes to the front door where everyone is and yells that they are wrong and need to follow him. Now naturally people got offended because they were taught that success is through the front door. They were also offended because someone judged them. It opened what is naturally in people called the defense mechanism.

He sadly went back to the back door and wondered why many did not follow him. Finally he decided to try once more but take a different approach. He quickly started to build relationship with everyone he can that was at the front door. He started to freely give information about the back door without being pushy or judgmental toward the person trying the front door.

His goal was mostly seeking on building relationships with people and giving as much information as possible. Then without begging people to follow him he slowly walked to the back door. Many people saw him because they now knew him. They wondered where he was going and decided to follow him. After all they knew him now and trusted him. Because of the trust they did not feel bad or scared to follow him.

He gained success by building relationships and giving value to people’s lives. It built trust in people and he made himself a leader. People follow leaders so they followed. The process maybe slow in the beginning but in the long run it gave him success.

I hope that my message was clear and that people can understand.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Finding Quality Leads

2011-03-26T22:52:00.000-07:00

It is hard I know to find leads in network marketing. However, it is not so difficult that we all cannot master the art of gaining leads. I have been reading articles and finding videos about gaining leads for free. After all half the battle in our business is finding good quality targeted leads.

The people who are most successful in network marketing seem to give the same advice. We must learn to give our information about being successful in network marketing. This will help brand us in many ways and give the people searching a reason for them to trust us.

Trust is needed because it helps us to gain relationships with people. Many leaders in network marketing advise that people follow people instead of opportunities. We must learn to brand ourselves and give valuable information that people will be able to use. This is how people will learn to follow us instead of just following opportunities.

Our journey in network marketing is an ongoing journey in building relationships with people. Learning how to build relationships and gain friends quickly is how we master our problem in creating leads. If we learn the techniques necessary in building relationships than our friends will soon ask what are we doing to become so successful. Than we have our chance in presenting them our solution in success. Usually our success is done through the network marketing company we are affiliates of.

Hoping everyone’s success in their business

Jared Hathorn

jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Humility in Network Marketing

2011-03-25T20:58:00.001-07:00

Many people have so much pride that they tend to hurt people. They act as if they are better than the people they meet. This interferes with building relationships.

Many of us know how important it is in building relationships with people. Our success in network marketing is measured by how well we can achieve friendship. We need friends that will turn into lifelong partners in our business. After all many people who desire success desire someone who will help them along the way. We know these people as our mentors.

Being a mentor we must learn to lead our friends with humility. We must never criticize our friends when they have lack of knowledge in the business. After all we must remember we also had lack of knowledge in this business. We must remind ourselves how we obtained our knowledge. We might have purchased programs or invested in E-books that helped us. What has helped me was finding someone who can lead me along the way.

The person that is leading me has been patient with me. I see the humility in the person whenever giving advice. Because of this I trust this person even more. We must learn to lead without pride and show humility towards people. It keeps us from giving advice without telling people they are wrong.

Let us learn to be a mentor with a servant’s heart.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Helping Ourselves and Gaining Friends

2011-03-23T20:56:00.000-07:00

I was trying really hard to figure out ways to build relationships with people. In high school I found it extremely hard to gain friends. I did not understand why this was happening. I started thinking that it is the other people’s problem. The people were the reason I was not getting friends.

I bring this up because most of us understand that building relationships is highly important in network marketing. If many people are like me they find it hard to build relationships. However, I have learned that we have the ability to learn how to build relationships.

It was not until collage that I found some help in my weakness in making friends. I first had to get over the obstacle of not enjoying reading. I had stumbled upon a book that many people know about. The book is called How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.

After reading this book I had learned that it was not the problem of the people but the problem was within me. Many times in network marketing we have to discover the problems we have and learn how to solve them. Many people like me have put the problem on others instead of finding solutions on improving themselves.

The main focus I want to give is that we have to learn to allow ourselves to walk the path of always improving ourselves. We need to constantly work on improving our self confidence, faith, determination, and the ability to interact with others.

Now what I had learned is that building relationships requires one to listen to other people. Listening is highly important because we may find what the other person needs. Many people second guess what people need. However, the easiest way to find the needs of others is listening. After listening we can better determine how or if we can help the individual.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

The Right Motive

2010-06-19T07:58:00.000-07:00

So many people get wrapped up in the idea to tell people and show people that they have the better business. They also spend their time telling people they have the better way. While this is a way to run your business it is not the best way or the most effective.

People love to read what is valuable. Valuable is sharing with others our ideas without coming across that we are better. Some people even put others down in a way that seems educational but really we can tell their motive.

It is all about what our motives are. Are we really trying to help others or are we just seeking self gain?

Network marketing truly is a rewarding system in helping others and it will punish us when our motives are not in the right place. Let us share information and share with the love we need for others. In sharing we win no matter what. Even if a person does not join our downline we help them succeed in their business.

It may seem that it is not rewarding but to the professional they know what I am talking about. If I can help others succeed I help network marketing as a whole. Most of the battle is getting people to believe in network marketing. And the more successful people are in network marketing the more people start to believe which opens for us all easier qualified prospects.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Having Confidence in Network Marketing

2010-04-08T08:51:00.000-07:00

Many people lack confidence in running their network marketing business. This is one of the reasons why many people fail in network marketing. Without confidence there is no energy for success.

According to the American Heritage Dictionary confidence means to put trust or faith in a person or thing. Many people will find it easy to trust another person or a thing such as a system. However, what will hinder them the most is not having confidence in themselves.

We must learn to build confidence in ourselves and a way to do that is through a group working toward that goal. We can plug ourselves in a group of people discussing ways to build our confidence. Day after day they will teach each other how to build confidence in themselves.

Sometimes it can be designed in reading a book and discussing the book. The book was written in such a way to help improve ourselves such as building confidence. An example of a great book used would be Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

Let us learn to have confidence in building our business. We must plug ourselves in groups that will help us build our confidence we need. That will help us succeed in our business.

Be a mentor with a servant’s heart.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Competition in Network Marketing?

2009-12-04T08:10:00.000-08:00

Many people compete in network marketing and not realize what they are doing. They want to be the best in the world so they act on it.

In order to compete we would have to keep our best secrets of what we do. After all we don't want anyone being more successful than we are.

A problem with competing in network marketing is that no one can do what we do. We get people to buy our products and get people to join. However, I bet in about a few months the people that joined become just buyers or they leave all together.

We need to be able to duplicate what we do. We need other people doing the same thing we do in order for us to grow. This business is truly a business where we are only good as the people under us. If the people under us are good then we receive a check in the mail.

The best way to duplicate is to sponsor people. We train them to sponsor people as well. We give them our best techniques in getting other people to join. We make sure they train other people the same way. We make sure they become better than we are. This allows us to receive checks each and every month.

Be a mentor with a servant’s heart.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Listen Openly

2009-11-25T09:26:00.000-08:00

Many people try and finish other people’s sentences before the speaker finishes. Some creates a judgment right away before getting all the facts. This is not listening and can lead us into not having success in our business.

Network marketing is building relationships and keeping them. Later those relationships can turn into partnerships. In order to be successful in network marketing we have to become successful in building relationships.

The fastest way to build a relationship is learning to listen. The more we listen the more we create relationships that can lead to partnerships. Listening involves all ears open and our mouth closed.

Sam hears that his neighbor needs a tool to fix his house. Sam is a salesperson that sells saws. Sam takes this opportunity and goes to his neighbor. Once the neighbor opens the door Sam starts telling his neighbor how great the saw is. Sam talks for about 15 minutes not letting his neighbor say a word.

Finally after finishing the presentation he asks his neighbor if he would like to buy the saw. The neighbor finally able to speak says no because he needs a screw driver instead.

If Sam had learned to listen maybe he would not try to sell the saw. Sam could have started by saying "I heard you needed a tool to fix the house. What tool do you need?”

Listening is very important in network marketing. When we learn to listen we then learn what we can or cannot do for a person.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Mentor To Be A Mentor

2009-11-14T07:51:00.001-08:00

Many people know how to get people fast to join their downline and buy their products. They know how to advertise and talk to people. They work so hard to run their business and talk to new people every day. However, the people that joined don't work and end up quitting later. The person still has to work hard to maintain the income he is receiving or he may not be receiving any profit at all.

In most cases the person only worries about getting people to buy products and join their business. They do not focus on their downline on learning the skills needed in order for them to be successful. This leaves the people under him or her helpless. We cannot assume that our downline knows everything we know about network marketing.

We need to become mentors for us to be successful. We not only need to mentor people in how to be successful but mentor other people to mentor. This creates a duplicable system that everyone can be doing today. Teaching other people to mentor keeps us from having to mentor our downlines downline. It helps us not to work so hard and gives us the assurance that our business will grow.

We need to focus on creating a team that will create their own team. We can help them learn how to create their team and soon our business will grow.

Let us learn to mentor others to mentor.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Not Another Rejection

2009-11-10T08:37:00.000-08:00

We just finished talking to a prospect. All we could get out of him or her was a no. We look at our script the company provided for us and begin to wonder. Our upline tells us the better we are and reading our script the less we will get a no.

Scripts can be important in some cases but in most cases they are not useful. Scripts take away our personality and who we are. Sometimes they make us sound like robots or a recorded message. People want to talk to real people. We need to be able to show our personality and not be afraid to be ourselves. We need to learn to speak from our heart because people follow people.

The best way to talk to people is to find out their motive. We must find out what they need in life. Learning what they need will help us determine what we can give to them.. It might help us determine that we do not have what they need. This will save us a lot of time and keep people from running away from us.

Let us say we are in a company that sells health products. We can ask people how their health is and what they feel needs improvement. The person may tell us that they have a hard time controlling their sugar because they are diabetic. They complain about how their medications have side effects that they do not like. They let us know they wish there was something that could help them.

It would be a mistake to try to sell them a product that does not help them with their sugar. They will most likely tell us no. Because many people have different needs we need to help them with what they need. In order to determine if we have what they need we need to ask them questions.

Let’s say we know we have the product that helps. It would be a mistake to jump in and say for a certain amount of money they could buy the product. This will cause them to say no as well. We need to give them information freely about a product that helps with sugar. We should not try to sell them the product but let them know it is out there. We want them to ask us how much the product is and how to get it. By guiding them to ask us questions we know that we have helped them. If they do not ask then we know not to sell to them.

We must learn that people have different motivations and needs. When we realize that and talk to people with that respect than we will get better results.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Am I in The Right Environment?

2009-09-05T13:19:00.000-07:00

Let us think for a minute who our closest friends are.

Who do we hang around the most?

Now let us examine those people and see if they match us in any way. Most of the time we will find that we act just like or similar to the people we hang around the most. The closest people are what shape us who we are today.

Our parents or guardian is usually what started who we are today. As we were growing up they taught us many things. They helped us learn right from wrong and how to walk. They were there when we learned to ride a bike. Most of us gained their actions because we copied them in some way or another.

The people we hang around create an environment. An environment helps determine our success and failures in life. They can help by supporting us or hurt us by destroying us. Most network marketing people call this a mastermind group.

As people who desire success we need to look for mastermind groups that will help support us. We need them to help us think and grow rich. It is best to have a mastermind group that is aiming toward the same goal as we are. These people can be our mentors and help us toward success. It helps if some of the members have been there and done that. These people are usually the leaders and mentors.

What environment are we in?

Are we in an environment that will help us think and grow rich?

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Giving Value is Important

2009-09-04T06:37:00.000-07:00

Many people do their best to write articles and contribute to forums about how to run a business. They write so much information they have gained over time. They do their best to repeat information they have read in books. However, many write about things they do not do themselves.

Many go into forums and advise people to write an article. They give advice that would help others write an article. However, they have never written an article in their life.

It is one thing about having information about something and having true wisdom. Sharing information is one thing but sharing wisdom is more valuable than gold. There is deeper knowledge gained by doing. When we share what we do we share who we are. We share what has made us successful and give truth.

The best way to give value to others is we must learn to share what we do. We need to put our experiences into our writing. This will help others see what we truly are.

We have to realize people follow people and writing only what we do will help people follow us. How can people follow us if we are not moving? We must learn to move in a direction and find success and people will follow us.

I personally write articles because it is most comfortable to me. I will one day learn to step out of my comfort zone and learn how to run my business other ways. Running and growing our business is a process and a process that will give us success in the future.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

No Rocket Scientist

2009-06-06T08:39:00.001-07:00

We do not have to be a rocket scientist to be successful in network marketing. We just need the knowledge and the right tools.

Knowledge is something we have gained over the years of our life. We start by going to school from the time we are born until we finish high school. Sometimes we do not stop there. Many of us decide it was best to go to college or a trade school. From the time we are born until now we have learned how to gain knowledge.

Some knowledge we have gained we needed money. Some is given to us with little or no money at all. Either way we were not able to make any money unless we had the knowledge.

In network marketing we need to understand that it takes time for us to learn the skills we need. Most of us were ok with going to college for at least 4 years before we started making the money in the job we studied for. I am sure we can be patient for the amount of time it takes us to learn the skills we need in network marketing.

Having the right tools is also important in network marketing. For example a car will not start without a key. We also know that without gas in a car it is useless.

Having the right tools requires us to have the right knowledge. Sometimes learning how to write an article is all we need. There are many tools we can use in network marketing that are affective. We must look for them and learn to use them correctly.

My favorite tool is the color system. It is a system that helps us determine people’s personality. Learning people’s personality helps us communicate in their language. Most people say no to what they do not understand.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Take Time to Learn

2009-03-18T08:12:00.001-07:00

I decided to put my son in karate. I was watching how difficult his first lesson was. It was hard for him to perform the right way. The instructor looks at me and my wife and said he is fine. He assured us that he will learn in time.

I then thought of network marketing. Many people get into network marketing expecting to be successful the same day. However, like my son their performance is not so good. It is because like anything we must take our time to learn. Each day that goes by we learn more and become better.

After time goes by one day we will realize that we have come a long way. What used to be extremely hard is not a piece of cake. However, we must be patient and allow ourselves time to learn. So many people in network marketing drop out right before they are about to fly.

We must not give up and allow ourselves to learn. Allow ourselves to become successful. Being successful takes time.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Is Friendship Important?

2009-03-13T09:20:00.000-07:00

Many people try to run their home-based business without building a relationship. People make a mistake by thinking it is a sales business. My friend and mentor Michael Dlouhy says it is a relationship business.

It is best to build a friendship with people. By becoming friends we gain trust with each other. We learn to listen better because our mindset cares for the other person. Most people play a numbers game and then wonder what happened to their down line later. Friends will never leave us. They will always be there when times are rough.

Social sites are a wonderful way of getting to know people. We can add people to our friends list and start to chat. Start with a simple hello because most people fail by promoting their business right away.

I am learning that selling is a mistake most people make. I myself would not want anyone pushing me to buy something. I was at a shoe store the other day and just wanted a pair of shoestrings. The cashier had told me he is selling a pack of socks for five dollars. I quickly told him all I wanted to buy was the shoestrings. The person did not listen to my no but kept trying his best to get me to buy the pack of socks. I was annoyed by this and thought many people might not come back because of this person.

We must learn to create relationships that last. We must learn to create friendships in our network marketing business.

Add me as a friend and send me a personal message. I will be glad to answer as soon as I can.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Stop Blaming Others

2009-03-12T08:04:00.000-07:00

Many people go through life blaming people for their problems. Their boss is too hard and don’t give them enough pay. The government takes too much money for taxes. How can we as people live in a world when everyone is out to get us? This is the thinking most people have.

Blaming others makes others a problem. We learn that problems are there to be fixed. In order to fix the problem we need to fix people. However, there is a problem because people cannot be controlled. People do not change because we make them change.

We cannot find a solution to a problem when we make others our problem. We must understand that we are only responsible for ourselves. We can only change who we are and what we do. We must learn to stop blaming others for our problems and learn to find solutions away from fixing other people.

Owning our life is very important. In order to own our lives we must take responsibility for ourselves. We must learn to not let others control our thoughts.

Success is for everyone as long as they don’t blame others.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Never Say Never

2009-03-06T08:15:00.001-08:00

Many people love to use the word never. I have seen many people tell me they could never do something. I believe that they are right. Whatever we put in our hearts that is what will happen.

“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he..”

Our minds have the power to make us what we desire. Our thoughts control our way of life. Our attitude towards life drives us. Many people who are successful tell us the story how they had the desire and thought to become who they are from childhood.

Want to be a doctor then we will be a doctor.

Want to be a lawyer then we will be a lawyer.

When we start believing and thinking we are nobody then we will be nobody.

We control our thoughts and desires and therefore we control who we are. We must learn to allow positive thoughts and desires in our minds. We must learn to love ourselves and in return we create success.

Be a mentor with a servant’s heart.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Getting People to Follow

2009-03-02T07:13:00.000-08:00

There are two ways I can think of that will get people to follow us. We can be rich and famous like a movie, music, or sports star. Then no matter what we do we have people following us. However, most of us will never get that far because not everyone can be a star in that way.

However, everyone can get people to follow them by meeting new people and gaining trust.

Trust does not come right away. Trust is gained over time. We must build relationships by getting to know people. Over time people will get to know us and learn to trust us.

The fastest way to gain trust is to give people information that will help them. People trust people when they know that people care enough to help. This type of help must come freely. If help comes with a price people don’t trust us. They will feel that we only care about the money and not the people.

In network marketing we must give information that will help people. Let us all face that network marketing is a tough business to be in. It is tougher for those just starting. The drop out rate is very high. So many people seek help that when help is found the people will be dedicated to the person that helped them. They are dedicated because they have trust with that person.

Be a mentor with a servant’s heart.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Women Are Better Network Marketers and Men Can Learn

2009-02-27T06:01:00.001-08:00

Men and women are built differently. They are different physically and mentally. While men do not desire to ask for directions women will ask. Men love power machines, trucks and fast cars, and tools. Women love flowers, make up, and doing their nails.

Women tend to enjoy a trip more than men. For example when women walk from their car to a building they look at the flowers and make sure they are not walked on. They subconsciously care and love the beautiful scenery. Men will just walk through the grass and step on the flowers because they desire the quickest way to go from point A to point B.

Now this does not apply to everyone but statistically this is a small difference the way we think.

Are women better network marketers?

Women statistically are better network marketers. However, men have the ability to learn. Women care more about relationships and they listen.

Creating relationships is very important in order to be successful in network marketing. People need to know us so they can determine if they trust us. When people trust us they tend to listen more. Creating relationships will increase our network. More people will increase the chance for people to follow us. How can people follow us if they do not know us?

Men do not care so much about relationships. They want the quickest way to get a sale or get people on their down line. Men can learn by getting out of their comfort zone and start creating relationships. When they start the best tool in creating relationships is learning to listen.

Women have the art of listening. Most people desire someone that will listen to them. Think about it for a minute. I myself desire someone to listen to me. When I have someone listen to me I feel like I am on top of the world. Men love to be on the top so much they don’t want to listen. They desire people to listen to them. Men do have the ability to listen. Listening will help us determine what people need. We may have the ability to help them. People trust better when we help them.

Be a mentor with a servant’s heart.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

A Burning Desire for Success

2009-02-21T06:29:00.000-08:00

Many people have the power to succeed and do not realize it. The people that were successful knew what power it took to be successful. True success starts with our minds. It starts with a thought and a desire.
What is this thought and desire?

Edwin C Barnes had a thought and desire to work with Thomas A. Edison. Most people think we need money in order to make money. People also believe we need education in order to get the best jobs. Barnes had no money nor did he have any education. All he had was the thought and desire that burned so greatly it became his fuel. His desire was to become an associate with Edison.

Barnes did everything he could to reach Edison. He stood in front of Edison has a poor man without anything. He asked Edison for an opportunity. Edison saw this fire and desire in his eyes and gave him the opportunity. Barnes looked for every opportunity to achieve his goal.

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill says that sometimes opportunity can come in the form of defeat. Edison invented a machine that none of his sales people thought would sell. Barnes saw this not as a defeat but an opportunity to show Edison he was worthy to became an associate. Barnes took a challenge to sell for Edison and in doing so became successful in reaching his goal.

In summary of thought and desire are goals. Goals will cause us to continue working on until the end of our days. Most people are happy as long as they have a goal to work on. What happens to people when they have no more goals?

People who desired to become a doctor went through school. Their desire brought them happiness. They finished school and now they are doctors. Yet something about them changes. They are satisfied with life. The state of being satisfied people loses a sense of purpose. We as humans need a purpose in life. In order to have a purpose we need to have goals. We need to renew our goals every time we achieve our goals. This will cause us to continue to grow.

Being a mentor with a servant’s heart causes us to continue to have goals. It continues to give us purpose in life. The purpose is to help people who are in need. There is an infinite number of people who need help.

Be a mentor with a servant’s heart.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

How Hard Is It?

2009-02-18T09:31:00.001-08:00

Home based businesses can be very hard. We make phone calls and advertise our company and all we get is people rejecting us. Home based business is not a common job.

The time we spent growing up we went to school. Our parents and school teachers encourage us to finish school. They let us know that we must go to collage in order to make a living in life. This is what we are programmed to think. This is the common way of life.

The people who are successful in life did what others have not done. They decided they were not going to be common and reached beyond what people have dreamed of. Their dream was bigger than any dream anyone accomplished.

The problems we face in network marketing are time, money, and support.

Time is constantly against people in home based businesses. Home based businesses are not like regular jobs were we get paid by the hour. The money does not start coming as soon as we start. However, with time and persistence we will find ourselves financially free. Network marketing rewards us in the future and continues to reward us.

Because the money does not come right away we face the problem of not having money. The worst part is we keep seeing programs and how to e-books that cost so much money. People who start a home based business do not want to see or hear having to fork up more money. They need the information to be successful freely. They do not want to see programs such as buying leads. Buying leads cost too much and is a scam.

Because network marketing is such an uncommon job our friends and family put us down. Sometimes people join a business and their up line does not want to help them. Yes, we join network marketing to eventually be on our own. However, even the greatest guru's have mentors. Behind every great guru is a great mentor.

Let us learn to be mentors and help others. Let us give positive words that will defeat that battle in people’s minds.

We shall know the truth and the truth shall set us free.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

The Power of Words

2009-02-17T09:22:00.000-08:00

"Death and life are in the power of the tongue...."

Many people fail to realize how powerful our words are. They do not realize that even the smallest negative thoughts or words affect us. They go to our subconscious mind and program us.

Words from people affect us even if we admit it or not. We all have heard of the lie that sticks and stones may break my bones but words may never hurt me. If these words are true then why do most of us get hurt when a family member or loved one talks bad to us?

We must learn to use this knowledge to help us. We must learn to always think positive about ourselves. When we do so we build up our self esteem. We learn to own our lives.

Great leaders learn to give positive words to others. They constantly believe in there followers and let there followers know they believe in them. This creates a positive energy that gives people power to own their lives. This is were mentors come in. Mentors help people by feeding them positive thoughts and giving them the tools necessary for them to become leaders.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

What I Feared

2009-02-17T08:56:00.000-08:00

I started realizing my weaknesses. I wanted for so long to deny the fact that I am yellow because I wanted to be something else. Yet as I search ways to be a better networker and plugging more into the mentoring for free system I have realized I am definitely a yellow.

One of the things people suggest is to write a bio about ourselves in social sites such as myspace. I am finding it difficult to know what to write. I started wondering why I had such a difficulty. I believe I am realizing that it is a fear I have. The fear I have is fear of myself.

For the longest I have been driven by what people think of me. I have let what people think or my view of what people think program me. I decided to change who I was and in return I started to lose who I was.

For the longest I have posed a question of what is wrong with me. I am discovering with the help of mentoring for free and most importantly with the help of my wife that I am perfect just the way I am. Mostly as my wife gives me more love I automatically give myself love and my behavior changes on its own. It changes to who I am and in return I am gaining people who are interested in me.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Don't Let Fear Take You

2009-02-13T09:26:00.000-08:00

Poverty is a physical state that no one desires to be in. Many people fear to be in poverty. I myself experienced what most people fear. I have had times of no money and no job. In that period of time I have learned many things.

More fear is created in the mind as we are in poverty. Questions that drive our fear come without hesitation.

How do I come up with enough to get food?

How do I find a job were employment rate is low?

Is there something wrong with me?

I have learned that these questions destroy us and give more fuel to fear. When fear takes us it paralyzes us. Fear clouds our minds to make sound judgment. We tend to focus too much on the problem and very little on the solution.

We must learn to give ourselves hope. We must learn to think positive in any situation we are in. We must learn to make statement that takes away fear.

I don't have a job however, I will get one soon enough.

I don't have food at the table but there will be a way to feed my children.

There is nothing wrong with me because I am perfect just the way I am.

When we learn to turn our situation in to a positive thought we become less fearful and we can make sound judgment. He learns to love himself.

"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear."

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Do You Have Faith?

2009-02-09T08:21:00.001-08:00

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."

According to the second definition of faith in the American Heritage Dictionary, faith is belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence.

Faith is what drives every person. It has no room for negative thoughts. It gives us purpose in life. Without purpose we are useless.

Many of us have heard that we need to believe in a higher power. I believe this to be true. It is our fuel for faith.

For some the higher power is our inner self. For others it is in a god they believe in. I for one believe in Jesus Christ as my higher power.

Without faith we tend to think negatively. By thinking negatively we become anxious and our mind is clouded. It becomes difficult to use sound judgment. We tend to make excuses to not do the things needed.

Having faith allows us to open our minds to positive thinking.

"Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy--meditate on these things."

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

What's Your Excuse

2009-02-07T06:22:00.000-08:00

Many people make excuses for not doing what they should. They let their minds run on negative thoughts.

I can't do this.

I will always get people that tell me no.

I do not have enough money to continue marketing.

I do not have a phone or computer.

Many people love to use the word can't. However, what most of us mean are we will not.

We also give ourselves self fulfilled prophesies. I believe the power comes within our mind. Whatever we think of that is what we will be.

Yes at times circumstance and life gives us stumbling blocks. Most people use that to make excuses in their lives. However, the ones that look at the problem and say they can defeat it win. The ones that take their time figuring out solutions instead of making excuses rise to the top.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Follower and Leader

2008-12-20T07:23:00.000-08:00

According to the American Heritage dictionary a follower is

One who subscribes to the teachings or methods of another; an adherent: a follower of Gandhi.
A servant; a subordinate.
A fan; an enthusiast.
One that imitates or copies another: A successful marketing campaign will have many followers.

A leader is one who leads or guides.

Many people do there best to lead others without first being followers. It is the reason why people fall and become unsuccessful. To become great leaders we must first learn to become great followers.

Think about it for a minute. Everything we know is because someone taught us. We had to learn to follow the persons teaching in order to get the information we have.

Network marketing is no different than the other things we have learned. We need someone to follow and someone who can guide us. We all need a mentor in our lives.

We must find a mentor and learn all we can from them. In return we should become mentors ourselves.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Give Up? Never!!!

2008-12-19T06:29:00.000-08:00

So many of us who are new find ourselves at a fork in the road. We either keep going or hope the road takes us somewhere or we give up.

We tend to think because we can't see what is ahead of us it is best to give up. The road to giving up is so much clearer and easier to take. However, what will happen when we give up and we see the others who pushed through?

We will see others getting what they always wanted. We will see them in control of their lives. Yet we who gave up will be in bondage to going to work everyday to just barely make ends meet.

Don't give up because in the end it will all be worth it. We will control our lives and have freedom we have never seen. Giving up takes away hope that gives purpose to all men and women.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Be A Professional Pointer

2008-11-21T06:45:00.000-08:00

A man was asked a question. The man didn't know the answer. To not appear dumb he made up an answer.

Another man was asked the same question. This man didn't know the answer as well. He explained to the person that he did not know the answer and pushed the man away.

A third man was asked the same question. This man also didn't know the answer. However, wanting to help the man he quickly searched the answer on the internet. The man was able to answer the question with truth.

Who has more intelligence?

Henry Ford didn't finish school so he was faced with a group of people trying to prove that he has no intelligence. After so many questions he answers that he may not know answers to certain questions however, he has the ability to call on his advisors to get the answer he needs.

We do not have to know everything in network marketing. The most intelligent people are the ones who know were to look for the answer. They become professional pointers.

Don’t worry about knowing everything. Just learn to be a professional pointer.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Success is Not Money

2008-11-20T07:14:00.000-08:00

As I was reading chapter 2, in Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill, I could not help but disagree with something. He was telling us that if we have a burning desire for money we will achieve it. While money is great to have in life it is not a measure of success.

The burning desire to have money has caused people to do bad things. I have seen first hand the burning desire to have money caused someone to rob. Their desire was so great for money they took a gun and used it to achieve their purpose.

Many people in our business ask us what we make. It is amazing to me to see many people mistake success with money. Many famous people were asked what they desired. They desired fame, fortune, and happiness. After they achieved fame and fortune they are honest and tell us they are not happy. Money can not buy happiness nor can it buy success.

What is success?

To me success is determined by how much we give everyday. Success is having the ability to give instead of receive. Many people who give freely without a second thought find true success and happiness. Giving something comes from the heart and we are all made to give our heart.

Network marketing does not have room to desire money. When a person desires money they forget about their downline and forget about what truly makes them successful. Success in network marketing is never determined by how much money we make.

Providing a helping hand and information that will help others is what gives us success. When we learn to take the time and train others freely on how to be successful than we ourselves will feel successful. We will find that the feeling of success will come not because of money but because of how we have helped people.

Be a mentor with a servant’s heart and help others.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Tree On The Road

2008-11-20T06:48:00.000-08:00

People see the positive or they see the negative.

What's the difference?

A man slams on his brakes to avoid hitting a tree that has fallen into the road, blocking his path. This man is angry and sees nothing but negative results.

The woman in her kitchen washing her dishes looks outside her window and notices the tree is missing. It used to block her view and now she clearly sees everything. All that is in her mind now is how wonderful the view is now. The tree that fell is the same tree that blocks the man.

Do we see positive or negative?

Network marketing is a difficult road to walk on but it is rewarding. At times it is easy for us to think like the man whose path was blocked. However, we can learn to look at things the way the woman did.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

I am young. So what?!

2008-11-18T06:51:00.000-08:00

Wisdom to me has no age. I have seen old people with no wisdom at all. I have also seen young people with more wisdom than any of us can imagine.

Many people have looked down on me because they believe I don't know much. However, I am not going to let that stop me from sharing my wisdom to others.

"Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young...” (1 Timothy 4:12)

Does this give me right to attack people who look down on me?

That is not what this is saying to anyone. I believe that words have power if we let them. We can take what people say to us and let it hurt us or we can ignore them and keep doing what we must do.

"You’re too young to have any wisdom. Don't waste your time in sharing."

How many times have we heard words like these? We can listen and not share a thing because we start believing it or we share anyway.

I believe we should share anyway because what if our wisdom can help someone. Are we going to stop helping others because we are so young? Are we going to continue to live the life we live because others direct our lives?

We need to learn to think for ourselves and learn to take control of our own lives. Getting out of our comfort zone is what will cause us to find true success.

Be a mentor with a servant’s heart and share words of wisdom to the world.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

What Works For Me

2008-11-17T08:57:00.001-08:00

Many people lack knowledge and the ability to generate leads. Social sites have been the best for me so far. I can post articles or blogs that people would read.

Posting articles and blogs helps in two things.

First it helps us create credibility. We post something that helps others then they will look at us as someone credible.

After gaining our credibility the readers then would trust our information. They will trust our recommendation and most likely come to us for help.

The social site I use that is best for me is betternetworker.com.

Try it, you might like it.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Leave Me Alone!!!

2008-11-17T07:42:00.000-08:00

We make a call to a prospect and look at the script given to us.

"Hi this is Jared....."

The prospect stops us dead in our tracks and tells us to never call again with a tone that can scare anyone. So we think positive and try another number.

"Hi this is Jared, is Amanda there?"

A person on the other line says in a tone that can scare anyone, "What do you want with Amanda?"

"She was online researching ways to make money...."

"No that can't be right because Amanda is only 10."

Now we are doing everything we can to get ourselves out of a pit. Our hearts are pounding harder than ever and we have a reason. After all a protective parent can do almost anything at this point to protect his or her child.

After we get ourselves out of the hole we wonder what’s going wrong. The first person on my list never gave me a chance. And many before just flat out told me leave them alone. The last call we made the girl is 10.

Most likely we are using a system that we pay to get leads in our back office. Paying for the leads is not reliable and can cause many problems. Most of the time we call the prospects and they don't even know how we got their number.

We need to learn to generate our own leads from our own effort. We need a system that when we call they know at least why we got there number. The system needs to be set up where they want us to call them.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

If I Weren't Afraid I Would....

2008-11-15T07:07:00.000-08:00

Being afraid is a common emotion we all have. It keeps us from doing the things that are necessary in our everyday life. I am afraid of dogs so every time I get near a dog I freeze in fear. My mind stops and I close my eyes hoping nothing happens to me. All that goes through my mind is how I can get away from the dog.

In network marketing there are many reasons to have fear. Fear of rejection is the most common. We as humans want to be accepted in everything we do.

What I have learned is to put love in our hearts. Love casts out all fear in our hearts. When we learn to love we will do what is necessary even in the face of fear. We will learn to find the courage that we need.

Think of a loved one for a minute. Most of us, if not all, will gladly get in front of a bullet to save their life. The love in our hearts keeps us from fearing.

I know that later in my life I will be asked to speak in front of a large group of people. Even though I am used to playing my violin in a large group of people I need to conquer that fear.

Fear is something we will never get rid of because once we defeat one fear another comes up. We just need to learn how to conquer the fear that comes in our lives each day.

Some people have fear in network marketing because they do not have the knowledge to be successful in one. All they need is someone to teach them what to do. They need a mentor in their life.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Are You Wearing The Ring?

2008-11-08T07:21:00.000-08:00

I want to write about my favorite book called Lord of the Rings by J. R. Tolkien. The book is all about one ring. This ring has the power to rule over all the other rings. This ring represents what all men want and desire. However, this ring also represents evil.

The book shows us that many men desired it for power, greed, and wealth. Once a person gains possession of the ring the ring takes over and destroys the man. The person no longer is kind nor is he fully human. He turns into someone that most people would run away from. We see this as the book mentions Gollum.

Gollum was a hobbit named Smeagol. When Smeagol gained possession of the ring he started to live in a dark cave. Smeagol changed his name to Gollum and started calling the ring his precious. The ring gave him long life and also changed his look that no one desired to look at.

A hobbit named Frodo Baggins was to take the ring to destroy it. At the end of the book he was successful and destroyed the ring. However, the journey to destroy the ring was not an easy task.

In network marketing we have things that come in our lives that we can call the ring. Sometimes desire of power, greed, and wealth keeps us from being successful. True success comes when we get rid of the desires that are negative and selfish in nature.

Frodo had people helping him especially his best friend Sam Gamgee. Frodo would not have made it without the support he received. The ring was so powerful that Frodo could not have finished the journey alone.

The same thing is with network marketing. We need people who will help us because the journey can be hard. We need mentors who will guide us and help us along the way. In return to the help we ourselves receive we need to help others. Helping others defeat their rings will also help us defeat ours.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Get Off The Train Tracks

2008-11-07T08:37:00.000-08:00

We see people standing in the middle of the railroad tracks. We notice as far as the eye can see a train coming. Well, I say we have work to do and let’s tell them they are in danger.

We start telling them that a train is coming and they need to get off the tracks. However, it seems that most people just don't understand or want to hear us. We wonder what is wrong with us.

I am learning that it is not what we say but how we say it that is most important. Most of the time we try to use the same words on everyone. We wonder later why we are not getting anywhere. Changing the way we say things will change the results we are given.

Different people understand the same thing differently. Just because one person understands one way we say things does not mean everyone will understand. People understand differently because they have different personalities. We must first identify there personality type and then speak there language.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

La Bamba

2008-11-07T06:57:00.000-08:00

I was watching a movie with my wife. We decided to watch the movie called La Bamba. It is a true story about a rock star named Ritchie Valens. Most people know Ritchie Valens by his song Donna.

The movie starts his life were he was living at Pacoima, California. He and his family were working at plantations to do their best to make ends meet. At the time the family was very poor.

One day a man named Bob Keane, the owner of Del-Fi Records, heard Ritchie and decided to record Ritchie. This big break allowed Ritchie to take his family out of the plantation and give his family a house.

Ritchie found success because he found a way to rise above adversity. He found success because he did what he loved and for love.

Ritchie loved to play music and write music. He took that love and used it for his success. When we find what we love and use what we love we will find true success.

Ritchie also did it for love. Bob Keane in the movie wanted Ritchie to record without his band. Ritchie refused because he wanted his old band with him. However, Bob tried to manipulate Ritchie in doing it only for himself and for his music. Ritchie did record without his band but he recorded for his family. He also took his love and wrote the song Donna.

When we in network marketing find the love we need then we will do what is necessary to be successful. We will love our family and take that love and work that extra hour we need.

The movie ends sadly because Ritchie dies in a plane crash. Yet his lesson in success will live on. We to can create success in our own lives that will last beyond our years. Let us learn to have and show love.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Are You Worthless?

2008-11-06T06:31:00.000-08:00

Feeling worthless causes people to be unsuccessful. As bad as it is many people feel worthless. The battle starts with the mind and where we need to learn to fight it.

The way we feel, think, and act is because what we have learned through our guardian. From the time we are born we have learned from their actions and words they give us. Even if most our lives we have not like their actions it still affected us.

Most people have their father and mother as guardians in their life and some are adopted in some way. Sometimes being adopted causes the feeling of worthlessness. They think that because their real father and mother didn't want them they are worthless.

Sometimes words people tell us cause us to feel worthless. I have seen and heard many times of people telling other people they are worthless. Some people take those words to heart and allow themselves to believe it. We must learn to reject the negative words people say to us.

No matter what has happened to us even being abused mentally, physically and sexually we have to understand that we are not worthless. When we learn to rise above adversity and learn to look at ourselves as a person of worth then we will find success.

The best way to change the way we feel and think is to realize that we are programmed from the time we are born. When we realize this then we can take control and give ourselves the right attitudes. We can then learn to program our minds for success.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Direct Selling Vs Ads

2008-11-05T06:39:00.000-08:00

We all have seen many ways to make money. Some ways are putting ads on our website and hope people would click on them. Others are buttons asking people to join a social site or download an instant messenger. As many people click on these buttons or ads is how we will receive income.

These systems are a way to make money and sometimes work. However, I see a really big problem in these systems. How are we promised residual income every month? The only promise to this is if people click on them.

There is a limit to all this because not everyone will come back and click on the same thing. If they downloaded an instant messenger for our commission we will not get another commission from that person ever again.

Direct selling is the best way to go and most people know network marketing as just that. Let’s look at selling health products for example.

We are selling vitamins that will help people in there health. A person will try the product and most likely will love the product. The person who loves the product will mostly buy the product and maybe more each month. Now we have a guaranteed residual income because we can rest on people buying every month.

Systems that uses ads or buttons or a way of getting people in our get paid social site are limited. They are limited to how many people will join each month. However, direct selling has not limit to the income because the same people can buy each month.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Momentum is Necessary

2008-10-29T06:42:00.001-07:00

Momentum is necessary for results and success. Network marketing needs momentum. When we create something that causes results even when we leave what we create, then we know we have created momentum.

Look at a helicopter for example. The blades on a helicopter have to create a momentum of spinning the blades to make the helicopter fly. When the blades are spinning faster than our eyes can follow it is impossible to stop the blades suddenly. Because of the momentum the helicopter is in the air and we would call that being successful.

Think about how much energy and force a train has to work to get moving. However, when the train finally reaches its top speed it created a momentum that makes it nearly impossible to stop. We all know that a train cannot stop as fast as a car can. It is because of the momentum it created.

We need to find ways to create momentum in network marketing. Most successful people are successful because they have created something that cannot be stopped. They created things that even when they are gone people will still follow them.

Creating momentum requires the right system. A helicopter or a train could not create the momentum without the engine. We cannot put the train engine in a helicopter and expect it to work or we cannot put the helicopter engine in a train and expect it to work. We need to find the right system for what we do in network marketing.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Wait For It

2008-10-22T11:13:00.000-07:00

Many of us have a hard time waiting for things.

When we want something we want it as soon as we desire it. Most of the time when we want something and not patient for it we leave it and forget it. We miss out on the blessing that we would have had if we just learned to wait. Network marketing exactly like that. We need to learn to wait instead of quitting to early.

What if we feel it is not worth the wait?

Would we feel the wait is not worth it if we are to wait 9 months for a baby? Certainly not because have a baby is the most wonderful thing we can have. However, we need to wait because having a baby takes 9 months.

How do I know I will not waste my time waiting?

There are many scams out there so we do need to know what we are getting ourselves into.

We need guides and mentors who are successful who will help us. We need the people who have looked at the ups and downs and know what to look for in network marketing.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Out of the Bird Cage

2008-10-20T08:11:00.000-07:00

Many people I have seen are in what I call bird cages. They are trapped in their situations that will not let them be successful. They look through the bars and see all the free people out there that own their lives. They don't have happiness they thought they would get. They thought network marketing was to get them free.

We have seen in history time and time again people who were trapped. People who were in there own bird cages. We have seen how they have defeated the odds against them. So we wonder how we defeat our odds. What do they have that we may not have?

We do have what they have and we are able to defeat the odds against us. All we need to do is stop looking and focusing on the bars in front of us. If we look around we may find that the cage is open. Sometimes we get so focused on our problem we don't see the solution to the problem. The whole time the solution is to fly out the door because the door is open.

Stop focusing on the problem and start looking for solutions. If we are looking for solutions to every problem and fixing the problem with the solution, we will start to own our lives. Looking for solutions to problems will than label us as leaders.

People follow leaders and that is what we need in network marketing. We need people who will follow us because that will give us our downline we need. To become a leader we must learn to become a servant by helping others. We must learn to become problem solvers and help people to become problem solvers too. So let us stop focusing on the problem and start focusing on a solution.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

I Can't Do This!

2008-10-15T07:34:00.000-07:00

Henry Ford was faced with many times of failure. Many of his advisers told him that his dream couldn't be done. He told his workers that it could be done and told them to keep working on it. Henry Ford did not allow the thought of "I can't do this." He always said he could and his persistence paid off. Henry Ford revolutionized the way cars are built today.

Benjamin Franklin probably failed many times. He had a thought and a dream. When people thought lightning was a form of God's punishment, Benjamin Franklin knew that it was a form of electricity. Because of the attitude of "I can", Benjamin Franklin discovered how to harness electricity and invented the lightning rod.

Thomas Edison is the inventor of the light bulb and motion picture. He failed many times to get this idea and dream to be reality. He didn't allow the thought of "I can't" to enter his brain. Despite everything against him, he persisted and became the greatest inventor of all time. He revolutionized the way we live.

When we are faced with the thought of "I can't", then we are right. However, when we learn to keep having the thought of "I can", then we find the ability to keep pushing. We find the way to do the impossible and make our dreams come true.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Leaders Vs. Distributors?

2008-10-14T08:03:00.000-07:00

Okay, we get some people to join us in our company. We spend time and time again training them. Sometimes we feel tired because we had a long day training people. We receive calls over and over from our downline asking us so many questions. We start to think that this was to be a stress free job and we were to have as much time as we desire. Yet we are spending so much time talking to and training people who should be doing things on their own by now.

So what is the problem we are facing?

My friend and mentor Tom 'Big Al' Schreiter would tell us that we are training distributors. Training just distributors will waste our time and we will not get that freedom we hoped for. We need to look for leaders in our downline. It is like many other businesses out there. People hire managers because they can't do all the work by themselves. They hire managers so that they can have more freedom.

If we spend our energy looking for leaders and training the leaders, then our business will be more successful. We could then take more vacations because the leaders in our downline can take care of it. We don't have to worry that our business will fall because we have our business in good hands with the leaders we trained. Network Marketing is about everyone working together and the best way is to work with leaders instead of distributors.

So how do we find leaders?

Tom 'Big Al' Schreiter tells us to give a test. Give a distributor a free E-book to read or why not jump ahead and give a prospect a free E-book to read? Think about it for a minute. If we get a call from a person we gave the E-book to wanting to discuss the book, then we have a leader.

What if we give the E-book and we set a date to call them? When the time comes we call and ask if they have read the E-book. If they are giving every excuse in the book for why they could not read it, then we have a distributor or a prospect not ready.

Let us learn to look for leaders in our downline and look for leaders before we put them in our downline. We must learn to target our prospects and target qualified prospects.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Policies and Procedures?

2008-10-10T08:12:00.000-07:00

Many people do not know what policies and procedures are. They join a company someone showed them and never give it a thought to read their policies and procedures. They do not realize the risk they are taking by not reading them.

Most companies make it difficult to find their policies and procedures. Some companies make their policies and procedures so long that people feel they don't have time to read them. The companies hope that they will stop at page 6 and forget about the rest.

In most cases companies make it difficult because they do not want anyone knowing everything. Some companies would make a 64 page policy and procedure and on the page that most people will not look at would have that the company has the right to terminate a distributor for any reason they desire. Wait!! I thought that a home based business is supposed to be there for life? Well, they say that, but then they put in their policies and procedures that they can terminate a person.

I learned that a 6 page policy and procedure is enough for any company. At most I learned that 12 pages is good enough. Any more than 12 pages should be a red flag. After all a person should have the time to read all the policies and procedures.

In order to find a company that will not terminate a person, it is important to read the policies and procedures before anyone joins. A person not reading the policies and procedures may join the company and find themselves terminated for reasons that may be not fair.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Helping Others?

2008-10-09T07:33:00.000-07:00

How do we really get successful in network marketing? Most people have a mentality of only helping themselves. They don't want to be bothered by anyone with questions and they sure don't want to give advice to people. They think if they can keep the information on how they got successful a secret they will always be on top. They may be successful for a season but sooner or later find themselves back where they started.

We have to remember that network marketing is about having people in a team. As long as people are in the downline then that is how people become successful. We have to remember that when we lose the people in our downline then we lose the income that comes with it. So it is safe to say that networkers are only as good as the people under them.

What must we do then to make the people successful under us? Because in order to be successful, we need to have successful people under us. The answer is very simple and yet hard to do. It is simple because all we have to do is help people by giving them everything we know on how to be successful. Why is this hard? Let's face it. We have the tendency to be selfish and we tend to make excuses on why to be that way. Again, try to remember that as long as people under us are successful, then we are successful.

However, it is also important to help those not even in our company. What? That does not make sense because if they are successful it will not matter because they are not in my downline or not in my company. Well, I believe that helping even those not in our company will help us too. Think about it for a minute. There are tons of people who do not believe in home based businesses. They don't see the success that home based businesses give people. So if we help to show that and prove that there is success, it will help us when we talk to people. Instead of getting answers like "I don't believe that will work", they may answer "Hey, I have seen how these type of businesses make people successful." Who knows, they may even mention the name of a person we have helped who is not in our company. But because this person saw the success in that person, the person will more likely say yes.

So it is important to help others and help others freely even if the're not in our company.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

What Color Am I?

2008-10-08T11:25:00.000-07:00

People have different personalities. We all have different ways to do things and understand things. We also need to learn to communicate in a way that will help people understand. We need to learn to speak people’s language. I am not talking about speaking French if you only speak English. I am talking about using the language we all grow up knowing. However, there are many ways to communicate the same thing to people.

There are four types of personalities that I like to cover. We have yellow, blue, green, and red. Each personality color has to be talked to differently in order to get them to understand the business we are trying to provide for others. If a doctor decides to talk to us using the biggest scientific words he learned in his 8 years in college, we would most likely not understand him. He would have to explain and talk in a language we understand. The same principle applies in network marketing.

The yellow personality covers about 35% of the population. I myself am a yellow and I like being a yellow. They love to help people more than they help themselves. A yellow is a person who is open and indirect. If we ask them how many kids they have they will not just tell us they have 3 kids. They will most likely tell us a story of each kid about who they are and what they do. These people will give us more information than we asked for. However, their indirect personality will not say a word or speak unless we ask. These people love to follow rules.

The blue personality covers about 15% of the population. These people are open and direct. Their open personality will have them talking in no time. Yet we do not have to wait to ask them anything because they are also direct. They will start talking even if we do not ask them to. Their motto in life is fun, fun, and more fun. We mostly find these people in sales jobs. They love to talk to anyone with joy in their faces and upbeat tone of voice.

The green personality covers about 35% of the population. These people are self contained and indirect. Greens want all the facts figures and numbers that not many people want to know. They want more information than most people can give. They do not want 100% of the information they want 200% of the information. Even after they get all the info they will say "thank you now I will go analyze the information you gave me." These people will take the longest to decide. However, once they decide they will never turn from their decision. That is good because if they decide to join our downline than we have them for life.

The reds cover about 15% of the population. They, I believe, are the easiest to spot. They are direct and yet self contained. They are the bosses, managers, or leaders. They love to tell people what to do, when to do it, and how to do it. They will do their best to control the conversation. They also have a big ego as they will talk about how successful they are and why they are successful.

I gave just a brief info on the color personalities. Understanding the personalities will help us talk to these people. We can't talk to everyone the same way because each person is different. Each person understands different ways.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Defense Mechanism?

2008-10-03T09:02:00.000-07:00

Most people have a defense mechanism. The problem with a lot of sales people today is they try so hard to sell. Most people do not like to be sold. When people feel like they are being sold, they shut down and tell us NO!.

Think about it for a minute. How many people we know of like salesmen? I do not know anyone who likes salesmen. So the trick to network marketing is not selling. So how do we get people to buy our products and join our downline?

I watched the animated movie Robots with my 5-year-old son. One of the phrases in that movie is "You see a need you fill a need." So one way is to find people's needs and fill them.

People will listen for advice about handling their 5 year old son who is out of control because that is what they have been searching for. People who hate their bosses will listen when telling them how to fire their boss. People who don’t have time for their family and are depressed because their job takes them away will listen when telling them that they can spend more time with their families.

In order to know the needs of people we must learn to listen and build relationships. Also we must learn the 4 basic personalities people have.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

What is Against Us?

2008-09-26T07:43:00.000-07:00

How do we really succeed in our home based business? We have so much against us when we start. However, the things against us we can fix and defeat if we know how. The things against us are time, money, and the wrong compensation plan.

Every home based business owner has time against them. Anyone who will tell people that they can make money right away is not telling the truth. Most likely some people, like the person that signed me up from my former company, are only trying to get people signed up. They fail to tell people that it would take time to build a foundation before receiving income. I joined a home based business that failed to tell me this. I hit a brick wall. Although it takes time to build the foundation, it will result in freedom. Freedom from always having to work hourly just to receive money. Freedom so we can go to as many vacations as we want. We are free to have as many sick days as we want. After taking that time we become financially free. However, most people drop their business right before that foundation is built. If they only had worked one more week.

Another thing against us is money. I have seen many companies, even my former company, ask us to give them so much money. Part of the money they ask us to give is for a leads program. They ask us to spend hundreds of dollars to run a business when we can run a business with little or no cost. We must not give in to the lie that nothing is free. There are free things in this world that are worth more than money can buy.

The last thing against us is the wrong compensation plan. The company that would not help me and would not even work had a poor compensation plan. I looked at the compensation plan very carefully and realized I needed about 6600 people in my downline in order to make a 10,000 dollar a month residual income. I thought that was ok because I didn't know better. But when I looked at other companies, I realized that it was a poor compensation plan. So we must look at our compensation plans and hopefully before we join.

So time, money, and a wrong compensation plan is against us. We can defeat them if we know how.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

A Servant in Network Marketing?

2008-09-05T07:15:00.000-07:00

Many people in Network Marketing do not know how to run their business. They seem to do their best to recruit as many people as they can and they do recruit a lot. There is nothing wrong with getting people in your downline. After all it is important to your business because that is how we make money.

However, do we have training for our down line? Do we give them the support they need in their business? Most of the time people just sign you up and leave you hanging. We need servants in Network Marketing who will help us 24/7. It maybe sad to hear or finally realize that your up line may not be helping you.

There are servants in Network Marketing who will dedicate their time to help you for free. What? Yes I said for free. Why spend money on training books, audios, and videos when you can have all the info for free.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Do You Have the Right Tools?

2008-09-04T07:55:00.000-07:00

I have been learning, since I have been in network marketing, that it is important to use the right tools and the right company to be successful. It is important because some companies do not offer any training at all. They have their prospects join their company yet they do not tell them how to be successful. Some companies succeed when you don't because their system is designed for the person to fail. When the person keeps failing and spending more money to succeed, the only one succeeding is the company itself.

In my first company, I realized quickly why I was not being successful. They asked me to buy leads and now I know that is a scam. They told me that their leads generation program was the right tool I needed. However, after many calls to people not even knowing why I was calling them, I realized that something was not right. I realized later that it was not my fault. I realized that there are companies out there that do not want me to be successful. I realized also that there are very few companies that will help me.

I learned later that I did not have to spend a dime to get leads or prospects. I learned also how to choose a company that wants to help their distributors. Learning the right tools and learning how to pick a company is available to all.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Relationship is Important

2008-06-25T10:41:00.000-07:00

Most home based businesses I have seen are all about recruiting and never really talking to the people being recruited. They make their phone calls and they get a person in their down line and think that is it. Then they wonder later why the person they recruited does not stay with them!

Think about a best friend for a minute. They will never leave and when a person moves, their best friend moves with them. Best friends are always there no matter how hard it is.

So how do best friends come into our lives?

Well, we talk to them everyday to build the relationship. Eventually after talking to that person we usually open up more and more. Soon after a time the person turns into a best friend. That person will never leave and will more likely try to follow what we are doing.

When we in our home based business find ways to have relationships with as many people we can, those people will stick with us in the business. And if our business goes down due to the company going down, our friends will follow us wherever we go. They not only become our friends but our support group. Having a support group is an important thing if we are to be successful.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com

Fear

2008-06-09T20:20:00.000-07:00

Fear - an emotion that paralyzes a person.

Fear will keep anyone from doing things
that may be important.

Today I was getting off the train and saw a man
trying his best to get his daughter to jump towards
the platform. The man thought her daughter could
jump the small gap between the train and the platform.
I saw and noticed that the girl could do it. However,
fear took over and she stopped and I knew by her
action if her dad did not pick her up, that she was not
going to move. Fear paralyzed her so she could not
do what was needed.

In life we could have so many blessings and so much
success but we come across things that give us fear.
Maybe it is the fear of not having success, or maybe
the fear of calling people. Having fear is normal and
yes, giving in to that fear is normal as well.
However, it is those who learn to conquer fear and do
what is needed that have more success than others.
An example I love to give is in the Indiana Jones The
Last Crusade movie.

Indiana Jones needed to cross the space. However,
what he saw was no way to cross and a bottomless pit.
The book was telling him that he could cross but his
eyes was telling him no. Yet when he decided to
believe and face the fear he was able to learn that
there was a bridge.

Which brings me to another point. If we just learn to
believe in ourselves and believe in the things we need
to believe in, than we can face the fears.

Also, for the logical people, just seeing something does
not mean we will get the right answers. Because just like
Indiana Jones a person's sight can deceive us.

Sometimes we have to just learn to believe.

Jared Hathorn
jaredhathorn@yahoo.com