God, Your Family, and The Tax Man
What about your family, do they want you to start a business and be successful? Just ask them if they'd rather have you be able to pick them up at school and be around for some of their activities or would they rather that you spend all your time either at the office or traveling for some business meeting or what ever your boss tells you to do. At a job you get paid what "they" think you are worth, with your business you get paid what your "really" worth. You want to work hard then you get paid very well. Want to take some time off well you get to decide. With all of the businesses I've been involved with there is also a lot of teamwork and help from those who have already become successful. Now I get the privilege to do that with people who work with me. They get to benefit from all my years of experience and knowledge that I've gained from my mentors. The bottom line is that people who are successful in a home business are also more successful at home with their family. They have stronger relationships with the spouse, their kids and everyone they choose to include in their family of choice.
Also the United States government wants you to succeed in your business. Thats right, the United States government will pay you to start a business that you operate from your home. If you have a job that means you get to keep more of your money instead of giving it away each year to the tax man. You can even get that money this month if you have a W4 on file with your employer. Sound amazing well its 100% true so check with your accountant and they will tell you that is just how our tax laws are written. Uncle Sam loves small business and he's willing to pay you to start one. So even if your home business doesn't make you a big profit you can come out way ahead with all the money you get to keep instead of paying it in taxes. Legal, ethical, and morel way to cut your taxes maybe even in half of what they would have been without a home based business.
How can anyone not have a business after knowing this information? The facts are so overwhelming that all you need to do is talk to any accountant and they will tell you that as long as you have an intent to make a profit you get all sorts of deductions.
Everyone is worried about gas prices well how about getting paid for every mile you drive in pursuit of your business. Just keep track of the miles you drive and the tax man will pay you for every mile you drive in relationship to your business. Don't take my word for it talk to your accountant or get the book listed below to see for yourself.
How about other activities like playing golf, you can deduct that too. Just wrap your fun around business and it's deductible. Talk to your accountant, if they are savy they will know this. If you need to tax code for a reference get the book at www.BigVisionTaxSavings.com This book not only explains how all this works but it list the tax code that goes along with the deduction, now that's being thorough.
So what kind of business is best for you? There are a lot to choose from out there. How about something fun and exciting. Something that will allow you even more tax savings. Do you take vacations? Are you a snow skier or a SCUBA diver, or maybe like to take an Alaskan cruise. If you start a business in the travel industry you can also deduct you vacations as a business expense see www.LifeByDesignGroup.com for more details on starting a business in the Travel industry. The key is to find something that is proven and do your home work before you jump in with both feet. Zig Ziglar wrote a book that gives you a check list on finding a business called "Network Marketing for Dummies". There's also a great video with Dr. Charles King who's a college professor that explains some of the details as well at www.chargingahead.com Check it out, don't take my word for it ask a qualified accountant.
The bottom line is, anyone who makes an income of any kind should have a business of their own that they run from home. The facts are to overwhelming to let this pass you by. Also in these times why would anyone just have one source of income. I personally have five sources of income and adding more as I develop more interest.
For more information on the benefits of having a home based business check out www.BigVisionTaxSavings.com
To learn how to get the tax man to help pay for your vacations and all your traveling fun watch the presentation at www.LifeByDesignGroup.com by clicking on step one to see what you get by being in the travel industry.
Also see www.Gumballpresentation.com to see how travel stacks up to some of the other home business industries.
Have a Big Vision....
Michael Head
Michael@BigVisionGroup.com
214-808-9436
Social Networking has just gone Social Networking 2.0
While I'm sure most people have heard of MySpace or Facebook some of the biggies in social networking they are now in for some major compatition. Social Networking is becoming the way that speakers like Zig Ziglar, Jack Canfield, or even people like Mark Cuban are connecting with the masses.
If you have a business that depends on meeting people (and I know everyone on this list does) then you MUST be plugged into social networking. Go to one or several of these sites and create a profile today and start socializing.
Well back to where social networking is going. Its call Social Networking 2.0 or really social networkings next version or level is Wowzza this is a site for social networking at a professional level. People that are on this site are networkers, not college students, or hopeful actors or artist but people looking to connect with other networkers for business and connections.
Commit to social networking and watch your business grow. Go get started today, you will make new friends and expand your circle of influence big time. Remember Belief, Exposures, Sealing the Deal, Training spells BEST and that's all we need to do each day to become free.
Have a Big Vision...
Michael Jay Head
214-808-9436
Michael@BigVisionGroup.com
B.E.S.T. - Just Do It Everyday To Build Your Network Marketing Business.
We all want to do our best. We've heard "Put Your Best Foot Forward" "Give It Your Best" "The Best is Yet to Come" "I'm Doing My Best" and so on. But really what is your best? Do we always give our best? According to the dictionary Best means: of the highest quality, excellence, or standing, most advantageous, suitable, or desirable. You get the point, its means doing all we can as great as possible. So here's the question, I know your expecting it. Honestly, truthfully, Are You Doing Your BEST to Build Your Network Marketing Business? The question you may be asking yourself is how do I know if I'm doing my best? What does it look like in my daily activity to be doing my best? Most of us played some sort of sport growing up. I know in high school you must have played basketball, baseball, football, ok enough with the ball's, how about running or jumping in track class? What was the indicator that told us we were doing our best? It was the score right? If you ran fast you won, if you played your best in basketball you helped your team score points.
So let's keep score. Our mission ,if you choose to accept it,is to get 100 points a day by simply doing our B.E.S.T. The way we get our 100 points a day by getting 25 points for each of the parts of B.E.S.T. The B equals BELIEVING, the E equals EXPOSING, the S equals SEALING THE DEAL, and the T equals TRAINING. By doing something in each of these areas everyday you earn 100 points. And I believe that you will be what I call a 100% club builder. By giving your business 100% effort the rewards will be amazing.
Believing – you believed when you got involved. Believe the best is yet to come. What do you believe the business will do for you? With belief you build your list, because you believe the products and/or business will help others. With belief you see a vision of a future without limits. With belief you will build a strong contact bank from people you know and people you meet. A person with belief says “I’ll contact the sharpest people I know to tell about the business and I’ll tell the rest about the great products.”
Belief building is done by reading books, listening to a audio books or Cd's, watching educational DVD's, or attending workshops or seminars on a topics that elevate your thinking. Another way to build belief is to work with a mentor and learn from their experiences. Some of my favorite topics are (Leadership , Biblical Leadership, Higher Thinking , Law of Attraction). Some of my favorite speakers are Keith Craft, Brian Tracy, John Maxwell, Jack Canfield, Paul Zane Pilzer. Google any of these speakers and attend one of their workshops, read their books, or listen or watch their audio recordings. Build your belief today and get 25 points.
Exposing – The products and business to others. Using parties, DVD’s, 1 on 1 presentations allow you to step out and expose people to the business. Find fun ways to expose. You can even expose through online presentations and grow your business in other areas. Private receptions or parties are fun due to the intimate setting. Find a fun setting to do a reception or party like by the pool, on a boat, at a fun restaurant, in a beautiful home, in a media room or movie theater. Bringing your own fun to any environment will make exposing something you look forward to doing. Expose your business today and get 25 points.
Sealing the Deal – Also know as “Getting the Check”. Whether it’s a new customer or a new distributor the business doesn't grow until we say "So let's get started". Here’s where we get them to move forward. Utilize your upline with 3-way follow-up calls. The fortune is in the follow-up and being bold enough to ask them to move forward. Follow-up today to seal the deal and get 25 points. You get the points just for following-up. We can not predict what they will do but we can do our part and ask.
Training – Show others how to build their contact bank, how to expose the business, how to do 3-way calls, how to do the presentation, how to share the stories of the business. Training is duplication. The number one way to train someone is to show them while building the business. It's so powerful when we lead by example. You learn more and they learn more because they see it working. Training is better outside the classroom in the real world. Train today and get 25 points.
At the end of the day you'll have 100 points simply by doing your B.E.S.T.
Become a member of the 100% club today by emailing me below to say "I'm doing 100%" in your subject line.
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So how's that work'n for you?
An insightful question to ask yourself when your going down a path is "So how's that work'n for you?" It's also a good question to ask someone you see beating their head against a wall. Just don't ask your spouse this question, you might not like the answer or the response. Some questions you just shouldn't ask around the house.
But be honest, have you gotten yourself in a situation where things aren't going the way you thought they should?
Has your business grown the way you wanted it to grow? Are you the leader you wanted to be? So many times we see other people succeeding and assume they "got lucky" when in truth they've been growing. They've been asking the right questions, reading the right books and hanging out with the right people. They've learned how to get and apply real "L.U.C.K." Labor Under Correct Knowledge. They've been associating with people who are like who they want to be and reading books by people who've already done what they want to do. After all we are the result of the books that we read and the people we choose to associate with. So what books are YOU reading? Who are YOU associating with? If your not reading the right books or hanging around the right people "How's that work'n for YOU?" We all need to ask ourselves this question on a regular basis it's kind of like the voice from a cars navagation system saying turn around you've missed your exit. Take a U-turn, your going the wrong direction. We all need a personal navagation system and this question is the best I've seen for getting on track, "How's That Work'n For You?"
I took a picture of some of a few books I've been reading over the past year. I must admit they've changed my life forever. I think differently than I did before reading these books. I see people and situations differently than I did before.
The world is full of great ideas from great minds and you can have them for the price of a dinner. I like the hard back books and most of the books in this picture are under $20.00 for the hard back edition.
It's been proven that all great Leaders are Readers.
Invest in the area that has the highest return for your dollar, invest in "YOU". Read like your life depended on it cause it very likely does depend upon us developing ourselves and taking our skills to the next level. As one of my mentors says "As You Elevate Your Thinking You Elevate Your Life."
Another great way to attain the knowledge and mentoring is to listen to audio books. I have some favorite online sites that allow me to download the audio book directly into my computer or my iPod so I can listen to my audio book anytime or anywhere. I can be riding my bike or taking a walk or piddling around in the yard while I'm learning and growing. Now I usually get the physical book as well since I like to highlight areas and transcribe the book into a journal so I have my thought and "take-aways" in one easy to read place. Some of my best books are journals that started off with blank pages and now are full of many books on a given topic.
Have a Big Vision -
Michael Jay Head
Michael@BigVisionGroup.com
Building your Internet / Network Marketing business on a budget.
To build a business whether it's a retail store, network marketing business or a affiliate site on the internet, we all need people to know who we are and what our business is all about. We've all seen advertisements in the newspaper and in magazines. Before the internet that's how it was done and still is to some degree. You place an advertisement in the publication and "hope" that someone reads it and calls your phone number with interest or at least questions. Classified advertisement in the newspaper was how people sold their stuff way before E-bay or craigslist came along and made things easier ( well for some folks ).
With the internet we can mirror the process of placing advertisements by using online advertisements or Pay-per-click systems like Google Adwords, Yahoo search marketing, or Microsoft Adcenter. With these systems you can drop some serious coin if they are not done with care. My advice is if you are going to get into the Google Adwords pool, take some swimming lessons from the pros. www.BigVisionAdwords.com can help.
The good news is, there are many ways to advertise online without breaking your penny jar or cashing in your comic book collection. The internet is full of sites looking for good quality content to keep people coming and seeing the latest goodies. Why even www.Youtube.com is based on videos that people will go to see so Youtube can make money from the traffic. Ezines are the same way, they want good content to attract people so they can leverage the traffic. A ezine is just an electronic magazine, get it "e" for electronic and "zine" for magazine, cool huh? When you read these ezine's you will see advertisements all around them with hopes that you'll see something that's interesting in the ads and click on them. This is one of the ways the ezine makes money, from your interesting content. See what I mean at one of my ezine links http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Michael_Jay_Head . Now this is a sweet deal for them as well as you. So I'm sure you can see why you want to write some interesting articles and start submitting them today. Pick a topic your passionate about, it could be about your product or a lesson you've learned recently about how to grow your business. As long as it's helpful to people they will keep coming back to see what you have to say. This can be the beginning of a beautiful relationship and establish you as someone worth getting to know on a more personal level.
Another good way to get some advertising on the cheap is to write a press release about your company or product. You can get some great tips on writing press releases at http://www.24-7PressRelease.com . If you follow the guidelines of how to write a good press release you'll get a lot of exposure with search engines and that means people will find your information about your business.
You can also search for "free directories" or "free classifieds" to place advertisements about your products to drive traffic to your product site. This will help your get customers who may also become distributors in your network marketing business.
There are many great ways to attract people to you without spending a fortune. Give your knowledge away and people will want to come and stay. That's a little saying that means. If your not afraid to give some of your insights away for free people will want to stay around to know more about what else your doing. People don't care what you know until they know you care.
A couple of other sites with some free videos and information about building your business on a budget are http://www.BigVisionMagneticSponsoring.com and a new site that has some great free information about this topic is http://www.BigVisionOnABudget.com
Another of my favorites is www.BigVisionMarketingTips.com - The secrets in this program are what I used to become the top retailer with a product driven company. This program rocks.
http://www.marketingtips.com/reality-101/t/1084688 - This link has Free Videos for the Marketing Tips.
Remember the saying weather it's on the slopes, in the gym, or in your business. Go BIG or Go Home.
Have a Big Vision -
Michael Jay Head
Michael@BigVisionGroup.com
Open For Business
Many of us have run businesses out of a physical address. To run these types of businesses we usually set standard hours of operation. These are the hours of the day that we are open to the public to do business. Go to any shopping center and you’ll see posted on the door the hours of operation, typically from 10:00am – 9:00pm for example in a retail environment.
My insight today is “What hours are you Open for Business?” Since we don’t have a physical front door to our business that we can either post the hours of operation or flip the OPEN and CLOSED sign to indicate that we are ready to do business. What are the Sign’s of our business that indicated weather we are OPEN or CLOSED?
In Network Marketing people usually only know if we are open for business if we share with them our products or our business system. We actually get to mentally flip our sign from CLOSED to OPEN at anytime during the day. Some of us even walk around with our sign in the OPEN position most of the time and I believe you should. Think of people you know who have a professional business like a lawyer, doctor, chiropractor, carpenter, or sales professional. Do you know what they do for a living and do they mention their services if the occasion arises? Sure they do and we don’t think twice about it when they do share some insight or information about how they can help someone with their services. Our business is a profession so we should talk about our business in a professional way like a doctor would talk about their business. When a doctor sees someone they know who needs their treatment they don’t tell them to strip down on the spot and let them examine them, I hope they don’t anyway. What they do is they schedule them for an appointment to come into their office for a complete examination so they can make a “professional” assessment of what can be done to improve their condition.
So for us to follow the “professional” model like the doctor all we are required to do is ASSESS the situation and get the persons contact information to schedule and appointment so we can ADDRESS where our products or business system can be of benefit by getting to know their pain and building a relationship. Then PROGRESS with the recommendation with a complete presentation of our services. After all at the end of our time with a doctor what usually happens? We get a presentation of how a treatment, prescription, or therapy will be helpful in the improvement of the condition. In our case we are doctors of circumstances we help people improve their circumstances by improving their lives.
Have a Big Vision -
Michael Jay Head
Michael@BigVisionGroup.com
Google Adwords a loaded gun, be careful you could get hurt.
Google has a powerful system that makes it possible, for the first time in the history of the world, to deposit five bucks, write a couple of ads, and instantly get access to over 100 million people - in less than 10 minutes. In fact it may be the first and best thing to do to get traffic to your site.
Using Google Adwords can help you expose your business to millions of prospects, but the skill is knowing who your prospects are and using Google Adwords to attract them. Since your paying for people to click on your Adword then why pay for people to click that aren't good prospects. You shouldn't have too and thats the skill to develop to have a successful Google Adwords campaign.
Another skill to develop is to pay the least possible to get the desired results. Sure you can go in with that attitude of paying a premium for your clicks but in the end you'll pay out way more than you receive. Last time I checked (and I do often) I want my income to exceed my expenses.
I've taken over a year to develop these skills and I'd recommend you take some time to develop them as well. One of my techniques is to pick my keywords using a keyword tool (usually built-in the system like Yahoo, Google, MSN, etc) and bid really low like .10 cents a click to see how many impressions I'm getting and what my placement is, from there I decide if I'm going to raise my bid price to get better placement based on my determination of who's clicking on that keyword (by the way a keyword phrase is better than just one word). I'll also go to the Google site and search on my keyword phrases to see what's showing up and determine if I want to be included in the results.
But it's not always as easy as I just made it sound - AdWords has some nuances, and most people have a rough time at first.
Well my colleague Perry Marshall has written a very helpful e-course called "5 days to success with Google
AdWords" and there's no charge for it. You can find out about it here:
www.BigVisionAdwords.comIf your marketing your business online at some point you'll look into using a pay per click system like Google Adwords. Yahoo has one, so does MSN, and don't even ask about Ask.com, yep they have one too. The reality is they work like magic, but if you don't take your time to put your dots in the right place you'll drop a lot of cash-ola.
Take your time and learn from the best on this one. Get your "5 day to success with Google Adwords" from Perry Marshall at no charge. Then you'll know how to move forward with you Pay-Per-Click advertising.
Have a Big Vision -
Michael Jay Head
Michael@BigVisionGroup.com
Being un-comfortable now to be MORE comfortable later.
We hear a lot about getting out of your comfort zone in reference to being successful in network marketing, but what does that really mean.
What is your comfort zone?
When you come home from a long day at work to relax, kick back, and watch a little tellie (TV), that's comfortable right? Just taking time to unwind from a day out make'n a living. So lets look down the road a bit, lets have a Big Vision of our future staying comfortable. While your being comfortable today your life will continue along the same path until in about 5 to 10 years you will be getting very un-comfortable with your income and the ability to enjoy your life. You are enjoying your comfort today but paying the price of not having a MORE comfortable future. With exercise the saying is "No Pain No Gain" with life it works the same way. To learn how to do your current career did you have to endure a little pain? To pass those college classes did you go through a little pain. Lessons in life are taught to us by nature. A child is born into this world with both the mother and the child going through some dis-comfort. Look at your business as a new creation a "new way of life" being born. My mother endured about 9-months of dis-comfort before I was born. How much dis-comfort are you willing to endure to give birth to a new way of life.
Sure it'll be a little un-comfortable for a while, learning new skills and stretching yourself to grow more as a leader, internet marketer, inviter, presenter, trainer and a communicator. Let's have that Big Vision and look down the road to see how being un-comfortable will work for you. Now you've got an income that has passed up the income from your job you've got more time to do the things you love with the people you love. Tell me honestly will that be MORE comfortable than how things are today? What comforts are you willing to give up today to have a life of greater comfort tomorrow. Are you willing to learn how to build your business in the physical world and on the internet? Are you willing to build new relationship with new people? I know that most people who want to learn how to do business on the internet won't take the time to develop the necessary skills. I know that most people won't take the time to become a master inviter. Many won't take the time to learn how to be a great leader. But some of you will, some of you have a desire to take control of your future. For those of you that take the time to be un-comfortable for a time the journey will be worth it even if it's in how much you grow as a person.
Have a Big Vision -
Michael Jay Head
Michael@BigVisionGroup.com
Is your computer three feet away from you?
In Network Marketing there's a system called the three foot rule. What this means is that anyone who you get within three feet of you you talk to about your business. More about how to talk to them later but the point is you talk to them about your business. Well isn't your computer less than three feet away? Sure it is and with your computer you have access to millions of people sitting at their computers. Question is: How do I talk to the people? Do I send them an email, chat with them, or what. Well let's look at how it works in the physical world. First you will notice them and engage them in a conversation then you want to get their contact information so you can contact them again. So let break this down. What do you notice about them that makes you want to get their contact information. They're a sharp dresser, they drive a nice car, they look successful? Yes all these things are what we look for in someone to talk to when we are out in the physical world. Next we want to engage them in a conversation to get to know them a little and get their contact information.
Let's look at how this is done on the internet. First we need to be able to notice someone that has the potential of being someone we want to get to know and get their contact information. How do you know if someone is a sharp dresser on the internet, well you don't. How about drives a nice car, again tough one to verify on the internet. How about successful, again hard to tell. So what we need is some kind of qualifier. We need a way to find a person we would like to talk to about our business. There are many ways to kick this off and one of my favorite is to use a simple ad placed in any of the online ad systems ( ezines, press releases, blogs, forums). Google Adwords, MSN, Yahoo, or Ask can give you a place to put a simple ad. When you place the ad you need to have a place for them to go in order to capture their information so you can contact them again. Now you can contact them to build a relationship that will continue on and on. Isn't that what Network Marketing is all about, Building Relationships that Build a Partner that Builds a future for both of you?
Have a Big Vision -
Michael Jay Head
Michael@BigVisionGroup.com
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Are you REALLY on the Internet?
To build your business on the internet, what you really need is the ability to collect visitors information when they visit your site. How do you collect the visitors information? The term being used out there in cyber space is a capture page. A capture page also called a land page is a place on the internet where people land after being direct by you. This is typically done by having them click on a link you've created in a email signature, or an advertisement you can place in any number of places on the internet. You could also write an article or ezine to direct them to your capture page. Once on your landing page, they must be interested in your message and compelled to leave their contact information. Usually that ONLY happens if you are rewarding them for leaving their information (kind of like the "Register for a Free Vacation" offers at trade shows)
. Have a Big Vision -
Michael Jay Head
Michael@BigVisionGroup.com
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