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Cooperation vs Competition

Jan 15

Posted by Wayne Woodworth in Uncategorized

Do you prefer to cooperate or compete in business? How is it working for you?

I was listening to Bob Proctor’s Six Minutes to Success again and he was talking about cooperation. Cooperation is Napolean Hill’s 11th and final characteristic of great leaders that he writes about in Think and Grow Rich.

In this episode of Six Minutes, Bob Proctor talks about this new economy and how it is based more on cooperation than competition. He says that when people come together in cooperation they create real power, when two minds work cooperatively they automatically create a third mind. Napolean Hill dedicates a whole chapter in Think and Grow Rich to Masterminding, a team of people all cooperating to work toward a common goal. He says that it is the only way to create great power.

Bob Proctor also states that amateurs compete while professionals create and that the most creative are the ones that cooperate the most.

If you would like to create more power in your financial situation in this new economy, I invite you to find out more about working with me. Let’s  cooperate on building success for everyone this year.

Wayne Woodworth
Success and Wellness through Cooperation

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Response to Network Marketing Scams

Jan 11

Posted by Wayne Woodworth in Network Marketing

You’ve seen the business opportunity offers that say “no recruiting necessary” or “we do all the work for you”. Doesn’t that sound like a “too good to be true” kind of deal? It does to me. Any time someone tells me that I can make money without doing anything I start thinking “scam”.

I was thinking about this today and I believe I know what they might be doing, at least some of them. My guess is that they are in an MLM business that has a binary compensation plan. In a binary plan you only have two legs and you get paid based on the weaker of them. If you recruit more than two people then you place them in your downline somewhere under someone else. This discourages people from stacking everyone in one leg and ignoring the other.

What these “no recruiting necessary” businesses probably do is, as they recruit people, they will build a strong leg for you, balancing out both of their legs, so that they get paid. Another problem for you is that these contacts aren’t yours and they have no loyalty to you if something happens with the business down the road. Since you aren’t doing anything to build your weak leg, or a stronger leg, you aren’t likely to make very much money, if any at all. You could start recruiting people and build out your legs, so I don’t think it is a complete scam, but the offer is definitely misleading. The ones who do the work will always be the ones who make the money.

I will make you a similar offer, with a slight difference, if you will take a look at the company I am with. Join my team, tell other people about it, then get them in touch with me. If they join, they go in your team. There are several differences with my offer. First, the company I am with, Nikken, does not have a binary compensation plan. You have a team and you make money based on your performance and theirs. You do the first step in recruiting new people by getting them interested enough to talk to me, so they are your contacts and loyal to you, not me. You also learn how to do the business because you are an active participant, not someone sitting on the sidelines. It’s a bit of on-the-job training so that eventually you won’t have to depend on me as much and can make the same offer yourself to continue building your team.

Here are some links to help you with your due diligence.
The products: http://www.getmywellness.com – see what Nikken sells.
My view of the business: http://www.getwealthyinwellness.com.
Nikken’s view of the business: http://www.getwealthyinwellness.com/opportunity/

Check it out. You can contact me on this site or through any of the links above.

Wayne Woodworth
Ethical Network Marketing Opportunity

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Online Home Based Business – Are You Looking for One?

Jan 8

Posted by Wayne Woodworth in Network Marketing

Are you looking to start an online home based business? These days it is very easy to set up a business online and start making money pretty quickly. An online home based business has many benefits over one that isn’t on the internet. The biggest is that it opens your market way beyond your local community. You can build a national or international business without having to leave your home.  WordPress makes it easy for just about anyone to create websites and the social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter make it easy to get the word out about them.

If you don’t already have a home based business to take online, I recommend that you look at getting started with a network marketing company that is supportive of online marketing. Not all companies are and most of the companies that do support it  are restrictive to some degree, so make sure you know exactly what they allow before you decide which one to go with.

The online home based business gurus all recommend that you focus on building your brand, not your company’s. I agree that you need to build your own brand. Companies come and go, especially if you decide to jump in with some of these new “pre-launch” upstarts. If a company folds then you have your brand intact and you can easily move to another company. Also, people join people, not companies. To build your team online,  people need to learn who you are, develop a trust in you, and then they will decide to join your team.

As important as it is to build your own brand, it is also important that you start generating a retail profit to support yourself right away because building your own brand will take time. Retail profits are a lot easier to generate if the company allows you to market the products online. If you can sell product online you need to be aware of any limits to where your company will ship product. Anyone in the world can find your website but can you sell to anywhere in the world?

Nikken, the company that I chose to work with, supports internet marketing enough for me to sell online. They do have limits but they can all be worked around. For example, I cannot host any pictures  or have any descriptions of the products. The picture restriction actually works to my benefit because I can link to and display their pictures without taking up any of my disk space. Selling without descriptions was a little tricky at first because how do you sell something if you can’t tell them what it is? Well, if you’ve been involved with selling very long you know that benefits are much stronger than a description of the product itself. You can see what I mean at http://www.getmywellness.com/magnets.

I have one other restriction with Nikken – I can only sell in the US and Canada. That isn’t really much of a restriction at all because all of the US and Canada is a lot of people and they mostly speak English (so I don’t have to deal with multiple languages).

Nikken is a well established company, not a recent upstart, so they will be around for a long time. Because of that I can safely build websites with my brand and websites with the Nikken brand at the same time and benefit from both long term.

Wayne Woodworth
Internet Network Marketer
Online Home Based Business Owner

Find out more about working with me.

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Is There a Best Home Based Business?

Jan 7

Posted by Wayne Woodworth in Network Marketing

Is there such a thing as a best home based business? Of course not! There probably is a best home based business for you though, and it isn’t necessarily the same one as for me or the next person. If the best company for me is also the best one for you, it will probably be for a different reason.

So how to do you figure out the best home based business for you?

Start with your passions. What do you enjoy? If you enjoy sending cards then a card company may be better for you than a wellness company. If you like collecting coins and gold, there are gold coin companies. If you have a passion for wellness, there are more network marketing wellness companies than you could possibly imagine: nutrition supplements, energy drinks, food products, energy-based products. So, decide what your passions are and do a search for companies in that market.

Once you have a list of companies, you need to look at other criteria to narrow your choices. One thing I’ve noticed lately is that there are a lot of brand new companies, so one way to weed out the ones that aren’t right is to decide if you can handle the risks of a brand new company or if you prefer the relative security of an established one. For me, I went with a company that has been around for 35 years.

An obvious thing to look at is the compensation plan. Is it set up in a way that you can make money. If you are going to be slower in building a team then you want a company that will let you make money from retail profits. When looking at selling product, do you have to focus on selling autoship programs or can you make one-time sales to customers. If you know that you can quickly build a team then you might look for a compensation plan that rewards that. Another aspect of the compensation plan is how often you get paid. Some are monthly, weekly, or even daily for different activities. The company I chose pays monthly and offers good retail profits for one-time sales. Great for someone who builds a team slowly.

What kind of support are you going to get either from your upline or from the company? The high ranking people in some companies have nothing to do with new people where other companies they offer any help you need.  If you are someone who would like the support of an upline then make sure that you will have that available when you join. The team that I am with in my company offers all of the support and training that a person could want.

A little about what makes Nikken the best home based business for me.

I am a massage therapist and wellness is a passion of mine, so I chose to go with a wellness company. As I said earlier, there are a lot of wellness companies out there, but most of them seem to focus on one area, like supplements, energy drinks, or whatever. I wanted something with a more general approach to wellness so that I can have a wider customer pool. While the company I chose, Nikken, does offer nutritional supplements, supplements aren’t the only product or even the primary product. Nikken offers products that help with sleep, nutrition, air and water filtration, and offer aid to help relaxation and relieve discomfort. There’s something there for everyone.

As I already said, Nikken has been around a long time. They are celebrating 35 years in 2010 and celebrated 20 years in the US last year. They are very well established with no debt and plenty of operating capital. In other words, a very healthy company.

The compensation plan offers an excellent retail profit as well as additional commission based on rank. You increase in rank at first by selling product then later by bringing more people onto your team. This lets you make money and increase in rank immediately while slowly building your team, which makes this a great option for someone new to network marketing. Nikken pays out every month on the 15th.

Finally, what kind of support does Nikken offer? A lot actually. They have a personal growth seminar and a business training seminar that everyone is required to attend before they reach Silver, so it isn’t an immediate requirement. They also offer monthly corporate calls, quarterly events, and an annual convention to keep everyone up to date with what is going on. The team that I am on goes all the way up to 2 of the highest paid consultants in Nikken and I have had the opportunity to meet them and had an hour of one-on-one time with one of them (not bad considering that we live in opposite corners of the country). My local Royal Diamond has weekly meetings at their home open to anyone, in their downline or not. It is a very open culture.

Feel free to check out Nikken, ask me questions, and join my team if this looks like the best home based business for you.

Wayne Woodworth
Network Marketing by Passion

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Why Are Some MLM Companies Better than Others?

Nov 14

Posted by Wayne Woodworth in Network Marketing

There are tons of new network marketing, or MLM, companies popping up all the time. There are so many new pre-launch opportunities that you can’t possibly keep up with them all. In a few years though, a lot of them will have closed down. It’s just a simple fact that most new businesses fail within the first 5 years or so. Only a few manage to stand up to the test of time and prosper. Why?

For some, the company will just nail the product. It will be the right thing and the timing will be perfect for it. Other companies will have a strong management team that does things right to keep the company going long enough for it to get properly established. The compensation plan will also be important. The people who join a company as distributors have to know that they are taken care of.

I’m with Nikken, a wellness research company originally from Japan that has been in business for more than 30 years. I recently had the opportunity to talk to one of the top earners with Nikken, Reid Nelson. He shared some interesting things about Nikken and the MLM industry in general. For most companies there is a lot of turn-over. People will be with one company for a few years then jump to the next big opportunity then the next. At Nikken people generally stay. Better than 80% of the people who have reached leadership levels in Nikken stay with the company. Reid Nelson has been with Nikken for 19 years. More locally, I’m only 2 steps down from people who have been with Nikken for more than 15 years. Nikken has only been in the United States for 20 years, so they must be doing something right for people to stay this long.

One of the reasons for Nikken’s success that Reid Nelson shared with me was that they attract people who genuinely want to help other people. It isn’t just about chasing the dollars for us. The products, especially the magnetic products, help people live better lives.

Another reason is that it is possible to make a lot of money and save a lot of money with Nikken. If you show commitment to building a Nikken business they will help you cover your two biggest expenses as well as pay you what you earn. Once you reach the Gold rank Nikken will pay for a car (you own the car and they send you a check toward your car payment, so you don’t lose it if you decide to leave. It’s your car). At Platinum, Nikken will begin sending you a check toward your house payment.

Finally, Nikken listens to the distributors. I often hear my upline talk about improvements that they were able to have a hand in because the company listens. You don’t often get that with a lot of companies.

So, if you are tired of jumping from one company to another and are ready to find a place to call home, ask me about Nikken.

Wayne Woodworth
Nikken Wellness Consultant

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