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

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

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.

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

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

My wife and I are rapidly approaching a choice point in our lives. Do we go forward with our business and all of the related big plans and dreams, or do we fall back, keep the job, and shrink our life back down to what the job will support?

Going back means staying with the job, taking my daughter out of the new school that she loves, and giving up the vision for time and money freedom because a job can’t support them. The difficulty with doing that is that we already have a taste what life can be like.

Going forward means facing a lot of fear. It requires leaving the presumed security of a job, and all of its associated benefits, to open up time to grow our business. My wife also brought up our parents. What do we tell them, because they definitely won’t support the idea of quitting a good job for something they see as very risky. But their dependence on a job is why they are still working and wondering if they will be able to afford retirement. A job doesn’t guarantee any security anymore, either that you will be able to keep the job, keep benefits, or be able to afford retirement. A job can be risky now.

Going forward is a big change. We are completely responsible for our results. It’s not like being in a job where we can coast along this week knowing that the paycheck will be there no matter what.

There are two ways to respond to the fear. We can let it win and we turn back, or we can use it to drive us forward.

I can tell you what we’re going to do. We’re going for it. It’s more exciting to go forward, and life is supposed to be exciting. We get to look at things differently. When we want something, there are two questions to answer. How do we write this off as a business expense (anyone want to take a trip pre-tax)? What do we have to do to make the money to pay for it. Change “can we afford it” into “how do we afford it”.

What are we doing? We are building network marketing businesses with Nikken, a wellness technology company, and Send Out Cards, an online greeting card company. We also supplement our income through affiliate programs with several of our mentors, such as Loral Langemeier, Bob Proctor, and Bob Doyle. We are also both massage therapists and can fall back on that if we need or want to. I think we are in great shape to succeed.

What about you? Do you have any dreams and desires that can’t be supported by what you are currently doing? Have you ever wondered “what if”? Join us on this exciting journey.

Wayne Woodworth
Entrepreneur

Poor and middle class people are usually in favor of increasing taxes on the wealthy because it suggests that their taxes won’t be increased. It is a given that the Federal government will have to get more revenue from somewhere if they are going to reduce the huge deficit they are creating.

You realize that the deficit isn’t the entire debt, it is just the amount of debt that they are adding this year.

I want to look at this from the point of view of a wealthy business owner, because I intend to be one soon. I think the government’s definition of wealthy is income greater than $200,000 or so. The bottom line is that wealthy people aren’t overly concerned with their taxes increasing. Taxing the wealthy is really just PR to get buy-in from the masses.

If you are a wealthy business owner most of your expenses are covered by your business. Your car and most of it’s expenses are covered by the business. Most of your travel expenses are covered because you find some way to make it business related. If you eat out, you invite a customer or partner and make it a business meeting. The only personal expenses that you should have are your mortgage, groceries, some clothing, and not much more. Businesses pay for expenses before they pay for taxes, so expenses are effectively tax deductible.

Since you have very few personal expenses, there isn’t much use is paying yourself a large income. If your personal taxes go up, you adjust your income so that you can maintain your level of available cash.

The business deals with it’s taxes differently too. Taxes are dealt with like any other expense. They are forecasted. If taxes are going to go up, then the business figures out how to minimize the expense and then make sure that there is enough income to cover it.

That’s a whole lot better than being on a W2, isn’t it? If you have a job and your taxes increase, you can’t easily go make more money to cover it.

How would you like to own a business of your own so that you can take advantage of the tax laws and legally make some of your expenses tax deductible?  You could start a business today in network marketing if you wanted to. Take a look at my website to see some of the benefits of starting a business in network marketing with Nikken. You can go straight to my Nikken site to see the specifics of Nikken and start your business. Also feel free to leave a comment or contact me.

Wayne Woodworth
Soon to be wealthy network marketer

This all makes me so glad that I’m with a time-tested company like Nikken that has been around for 35 years. When I started my business 3 years ago I knew that I was promoting a product with an established track record of helping people get real benefits.

Most of the new business opportunities that I have heard about in the past 6 months or so are selling new nutritional products, and they all say that they are going to revolutionize wellness. The reality is that some of them will stick and others won’t. The biggest challenge that these companies will face is that there are so many other nutrition-based network marketing companies already here, and more entering the game all the time. Nikken has an organic, wholefood-based nutritional line that I think is excellent. I don’t put a lot of effort in marketing it though because the nutrition market is so flooded with other products, and it isn’t what makes Nikken stand out anyway.

If you are looking to start a new business, you will have more success with a company with something unique, something that stands out from the crowd. Don’t get me wrong, I like nutritional supplements and I think they are absolutely critical, especially with all of the noise going on about the various flu strains running about. No matter what they say about it being new and revolutionary, a new nutritional drink is still a nutritional drink.

If you want a business that has withstood the test of time and does stand out from the crowd, take a look at Nikken. There isn’t another company like them.

Wayne Woodworth

Personally, I think the internet is a much better way to reach a much wider audience, but in-person meetings still have their place and there is a better way to do them. Your upline will probably hate the idea, and that’s probably a good thing.

Instead of the usual, boring opportunity meeting, what if you invited people to a game night? People like to play games and don’t usually make the time in their everyday life, so it is already an appealing offer. They are fun, people get to socialize, laugh, and release stress. Inviting people to your game night is a whole lot easier because you don’t get as much rejection. The focus of your event has changed to something that your prospects are interested in and your opportunity takes a secondary focus. When people have fun and get actively engaged in an activity they are more open to what you offer afterwards.

If you have read some of my other posts then you probably know that I am a big fan of Loral Langemeier. You should be too. The game that I recommend for your game nights is Loral’s Millionaire Maker Game. The easiest way to describe it is as Monopoly on steroids. It is both fun and educational.  I recommend it as a replacement for your opportunity meetings because the entire point of the game is to build what Loral calls a Cash Machine. For the entire hour of game play your prospects are learning that building a Cash Machine is the best, fastest way for them to make money.

After the game is over, everyone is actually looking forward to hearing about your opportunity. They understand the value of having a Cash Machine, so now you can offer them one in the form of your business opportunity. It’s a beautiful thing.

There is an additional benefit to hosting a Millionaire Maker Game night as well. Have you heard of monetization, or a funded proposal? They mean that you make money while prospecting, paying for your marketing as you do it. Become an affiliate with Loral Langemeier and  you can sell her books,  CD programs, and the game itself at your game night. This gives your prospects something to take home and further get involved in the idea of building wealth, and makes you some money on the front-end to cover your costs. Now all you have to do is follow up with them.

Wayne Woodworth
A fan of the Millionaire Maker

PS. If you are interested in becoming an affiliate for Loral Langemeier, let me know in a comment and I will get you in touch with the right people.

I have made it very clear to my friends and family that I will quit my full-time corporate job at the end of October to go full-time with my network marketing business with Nikken. It turns out that they didn’t believe me and now that it gets closer they are starting to question me on it.

My father attacked my plans pretty aggressively calling network marketing a pyramid. I was surprised by this coming from him since I have been talking about my plans for a few months already. So, I had to answer the pyramid question again. First of all, Nikken doesn’t qualify legally as a pyramid because I don’t make a penny to recruit people. I only make money when product is sold. As far as the actual structure is concerned, a corporation like he works for and I currently work for is more of a pyramid than network marketing.  In the corporate world I cannot advance up the ladder unless there is an opening available.  In network marketing my rank advances solely on my efforts and doesn’t depend on openings above me. In another perspective, I am a business owner and therefore already at the very top of my company and Nikken is just my supplier.

A friend also called my plans into question. Again, I have been talking about this for a few months and for some reason he responded like this was brand new news. This friend started talking about the security of having a job and having good benefits.  As everyone knows, a job no longer equals security. Companies have been cutting benefits regularly over the past few years to deal with rising health care costs and recently cutting people to deal with the economy. This has been a boon for network marketing recruiters because some of these people who have lost their job are now joining network marketing companies in the hopes of never having to go through unemployment again. There is much more security in having your own business and taking control of your own financial future. He did get one thing right though. A job is very low risk and with low risk you can expect low returns.

I have learned that if you have plans to outgrow your current position then you either need to keep them to yourself or only share them with people who you know will support and encourage you. Another good idea is to increase the amount of time you spend with people who are already where you want to go. With that in mind, I bought plane tickets and made hotel reservations to spend another three days with Loral Langemeier and her team in Chicago for the next Cash Machine Workshop. If you have aspirations to take control of your own future then I would love to see you there. I will be one of the guys wearing a black “staff” shirt. I paid for the first Cash Machine Workshop I went to and it was worth every penny.

Wayne Woodworth
Don’t let other people’s expectations for you hold you back.