Focusing on results will do one thing effectively… waste your most valuable resource, your time.

I know that I have spent countless amounts of time looking for results.  I was in the habit of checking my marketing and referrals several times a day.  I was looking for that feeling that we get when someone finally says “yes”!

That feeling will not make my business any more successful, no matter how much I desire it.

In essence, I was dumping the box of Cracker Jacks for the cheap plastic prize instead of just savoring the sweet crunchy goodness.

The only thing that you have complete control over is your efforts.  Spend your time creating and implementing marketing strategies.

If you want to create a big list, then focus your efforts on creating a lot of sources of traffic.

If you want to add one new rep to your business, go out there and show the business to ten people.  Looking for five?  Well then make it a point to show it to 50 people.  Are you thinking now that you could do better?  Great!  Do it.

It does not matter if you are able to recruit five people or twenty people out of every fifty.  All that matters is that you set the goal of the effort and then accomplish that effort.

Focusing on your results rather than your effort will actually eat away at your business.  If your results are not what you want them to be, then constantly thinking about them will diminish your confidence and eventually erode your persistence.

My goal is to Inspire Freedom in everyone that I come in contact with including myself.   If you liked this post, please leave a comment or share it and then come visit with me on Facebook

It's not the company, the people, the product or the pay plan. They all exceed expectations time and time again.

It's not the industry either. No, this is purely about me.

Me, my goals, my vision  and how I can serve the industry at best.

I love network marketing!  This industry has changed my life and continues to provide me with freedom, cash flow, the best business schooling and life skills that anyone can ask for.

It's food for the soul.

So why stop building a business then? Am I giving up?

Most definitely not!

Late last year I started digging really deep within myself, observing what I do best and really trying to get down to the real me and what my real life purpose is all about.

There is a part of me that's always been shutting out the real me, the one that wants to be the creator, provide platforms that serves others and be control from a business stand point.

It's the same things I've been doing as long as I can remember, but I've always listened to that little voice holding me back.

I can remember going through college while studying computer programming and systems analysis, but half way through I realized that I need to be in business and moved into marketing products to the students. Where everyone left to follow there careers in programming, I went with my gut feeling and went into business.

My success was the best accomplishment I ever experienced, but was short lived for 2 years. I hit rock bottom so hard that I never turned on a computer for more than 5 years.

You INC? Nope, it goes beyond that.

For quite sometime now, I have been trying to do this 'juggling act' between running thatMLMbeat and my network marketing business.

I have been successful at keeping the 2 completely separate and pride myself of the authentic culture and safe environment we have created for network marketers at thatMLMbeat, but naturally one started to suffer.

And that was my network marketing business.

Furthermore, taking thatMLMbeat where I want it to be and providing the service for the industry that I would like to is not possible at this point in time while being in a business.

I'm sure this will all start to make more sense in the weeks to come.

But the reality is, my goals are bigger than building a one downline and being bound to one will create problems.

Good decision? Bad decision? Who knows. Nevertheless, it's a decision and one that I've needed to make and one that I must stick by for now. Whether that be temporary or permanent, only time will tell.

To everyone in my team and everyone that been a major influence in my career so far, thank you!

Rather than becoming a stranger, I am now positioned to be a better leader and provide value to the industry in more ways than one.

How to promote Youtube videos

Promoting your Youtube videos on thatMLMbeat just got super easy. Some of our members don't have a MLM blog setup or simply prefer to build there Youtube channels.

If that is you, or if you simply enjoy sharing valuable content such as motivation, MLM training, prosperity, blog tips, SEO strategies or just plain humor, then you will absolutely love this!

On your profile, there is a new link that says 'links':

Once you've clicked on 'links', head over to the far right and click on 'create a links'..

That will take you to a page where you can add Youtube videos or any other video from a video hosting site, photo's, blog posts, resources, entertainment.... you name it!

I got playing with this a little earlier today and have quite a few items on my link wall...

Once they are up, members can give it a thumbs up or a thumbs down... sweet.

What should you do next?

1. Watch the video above for further instructions if needed

2. Login and go to your profile or create your profile first

3. Head over to Youtube and start adding your videos!

4. Leave a comment below with a link to your link page so that we can give your content a thumbs up or down.

SIDENOTE: great content is not a video with a pitch of your MLM company, but you already new that!

However, NOTHING makes quite an emotional impact  like an inspiring, true MLM Success story.

Yes, we all enjoy a good (even bad) story which we can relate to. Stories are also the ultimate way to clarify any unanswered questions that anyone might have before joining your business.

What would you rather listen to: an explanation of statistics, product statistics and company history? Or a real MLM success story accomplished by a real person that you and I can relate to?

Enough said!

Well, I want to share with you a story like no other.

Here is one that will not only inspire you, but also eliminate all the excuses that might cross ones mind before taking action. Be sure to pass this one on.

Meet Dave Kotecki

Dave Kotecki runs his network marketing business successfully in an environment that is equal to most peoples worse nightmare.

Yes, a country no other than Afghanistan.

Besides being extremely dangerous and life threatening, Dave also deals with limited internet connectivity, small living quarters and limited time.

Yet, his business is growing rapidly day by day. Instead of using his circumstances as the perfect excuse, Dave rather focuses on doing what he can do when he can do it.

What more can I say other than watch the videos and checkout Dave's Blog and connect with him on thatMLMbeat.

I hope that inspired you!

Do you have one or have someone in your team with an MLM Success story we should know about? Contact us so that we can share it to the Network Marketing world.

Now what was that excuse again?

[SIDENOTE: The coolest, yet strangest thing just happened minutes before completing this post as you will experience shortly]

Do we subconsciously place some sort of authority rank or superior value on the amount Facebook friends or Twitter followers that someone has?

At first we might all unanimously say 'no!', but is that really true?

When you connect with someone on Facebook or find someone on Twitter with a inactive time line, is there a little voice uttering to you that you are speaking to someone with little or no experience in there niche?

Maybe so. Or maybe you are in the same boat and just starting out with Social Media and none of it really matters.

Whether we like it or not, numbers have some sort of status (excuse the pun) attached to it. But as the rest of this story reveals, the numbers myth might just be a lie we all choose to believe.

I got on a Skype call with Malika Duke from http://BusinessSavvyMoms.com for a 'quick' chat to answer a few questions about her profile here on thatMLMbeat.

The intended 2 minute conversation turned into an awesome hour after Malika shared this story of one of her coaching clients.

Her clients concern was that although she had thousands of Twitter followers, she battled to connect with anyone of them or further any conversations.

Does that sound familiar? If so, what's the real point in having all these followers then?

I'm confident that we can all plead guilty for clicking away and excepting friend requests like there's no tomorrow to simply 'get it done' and out of the way.

But how many of those friends did we actually connect with? Just adding a simple welcome note or starting a conversation?

Social media has definitely changed the game of internet and network marketing altogether, but maybe we are still approaching web 2.0 with a web 1.0 mindset?

Let me explain...

Web 1.0 was all about great sales letters, one way conversations and automation. The less interaction you could get away with and automate everything, the better.

So now we play a slightly different game. While all the sales letters and automation still serve our businesses tremendously, it's the connection which takes place before hand that really counts.

Your sales message only has as much value as the relationship you managed to establish before hand.

The old saying of "People only do business with people they know, like and trust" carry more weight in the social hemisphere than ever before.

So before concluding the outcome of Malika's coaching client and without trying to preach to the choir, here are a few solutions we discussed that will really help you connect with your Facebook friends and Twitter followers:

1. Get personal

Do something that is un-automated. Type a personal message in a friend request, write on someones wall (Facebook), compliment on something you found on their social profile or try and establish some form of 'common ground'.

Is there something in particular that this person is involved in that resonates with you? It could be as simple as having kids, coming from the same area or an interest in the same business niche. Use that as the conversation starter show that you are human.

2. End conversations with a question

If you want to build a relationship via direct messages, it's important to keep the conversations going. If you simply answer the message and not proceed with a question, the conversation simply dies.

3. Do something different

Sometimes you get a direct message that has the feeling of being transcribed or rehearsed. People want to get to know the real you. The easiest way to be different and make an impression is just to be yourself. We are all different and unique human beings, let that resonate through the world of social media.

4. Go live!

Yes, connect! If no one has magically scrolled over to your network marketing opportunity link and joined your business yet, then go live!

If you have the opportunity to pick up the phone, get on a Skype call, have a video chat, then do it! There is nothing better than speaking to anyone face to face and with modern technology no one has an excuse not to. The quickest route to building your MLM business is by having a live conversation.

To conclude our story...

With the guidance of Malika, her coaching client based in Australia got back to her with major excitement for making her first personal connection. They got on Skype, found common ground and have partnered in business.

[Extended] Now here is the strange part...

I have never officially spoken to Malika until our Skype conversation a few days ago. We have only spoken on Twitter and Facebook, but we spoke naturally for an hour like we have known each other for many years.

By the way we connected through the power of social media, we already had common ground before we had a live conversation.

Now I live in Perth, Australia and Malika is based in Keller, Texas.

When I reread this post, I couldn't help noticing that it seemed incomplete without mentioning who Malika's coaching client was.

I got back on Skype to ask Malika who the Mystery lady was.

Malika replied saying:

[10:33:49 AM] Malika Duke: I hear you are talking to my friend and client CaptainLiz!

Say what?

Liz Hindley a.k.a. Captain Liz was living in Perth about 6 months ago when I met her through a business associate. She has now moved over east, but we managed to re connect about a month ago through social media.

So here I am, talking to Malika for the first time in the United States, several thousand miles away, discussing a topic related to one of her coaching clients Liz who we both know but unknowingly.

Wow, what a strange MLM / Social Media world we live in?

Liz is a pilot so when your business reaches the heights you are after, you now have a pilot connection to take you anywhere!

Be sure to checkout her MLM blog for some awesome authentic tips and great video footage pilot style!

[Disclaimer: The amount of Twitter followers and Facebook friends mentioned in the title is not in reference to anyone in this post! ]

Whether you use thatMLMbeat to simply syndicate your existing MLM Blog or if your primary blog is hosted here with us, either scenario is a representation of YOU and your personal brand.

Are your first impressions impressive or do they scare your potential business partners away?

Most importantly, is there something for your blog visitors to do once they have read your post or seen your video? Can they connect with you on Twitter or opt in to your mailing list?

Adding your blog to thatMLMbeat is a great easy way to build links, get more traffic and expand your readership to your personal blog, but what happens if they never get there?

If you post an article in a article directory, you have a resource box. If you create a Squidoo lens or a Hubpage, you might do the same or make sure that you have a link back to your Network Marketing blog or sales page.

We need to make sure that you do the same here on 'the beat'.

So to help you along, I've put together a short case study of a few great member blogs who have added some really cool customization features which are really easy to do.

Remember, you only have to do it once.

There are more than 80 Free themes and a further 10 or 20 Premium themes with our PRO Membership.

Too many to choose from?

Sue Waters was kind enough to break them down into a easy to understand format to make it easy to choose which one will work best for you.

Go here to checkout the 100 blog themes review.

These should give you a few great ideas and inspiration.

Here are the featured member blogs:

John Counsel ==> http://johncounsel.thatmlmbeat.com

Melanie Milletics ==> http://melaniemilletics.thatmlmbeat.com/

Cassie Strom ==> http://cassiestrom.thatmlmbeat.com

Marc Menninger ==> http://healthnetworkmarketing.thatmlmbeat.com/

Dave Kotecki ==> http://davekotecki.thatmlmbeat.com

Emma Tiebens ==> http://therelationalmarketer.thatmlmbeat.com/

Then, as referred to as extreme in the video, is the Tribe Mastermind Formula blog.

The Tribe Mastermind Formula blog is a custom group blog for Kary Rogney, Eric Goldstein, Mike Feil and team members. The group / tribe blog allows multiple MLM Business partners or team members to contribute to one blog, share stories, host events for training and mastermind.

Better yet, you can attach your own public or private group and forum and import multiple tweets and RSS feeds to the blog for content syndication.

This is a custom feature that you will see a lot more of on thatMLMBeat in the next coming months.

If you would like to know more information about getting something similar setup for your team or business partners then get in touch with me.

Lastly, if you are in need of a great blog header for your personal or thatMLMbeat blog, order one from Attila. He will design it for free and you will only need to pay once or if you decide to keep it.

I have not met anyone to date that hasn't been blown away by his attention grabbing graphics.

Questions are most welcome as always in the comment section. Cheers!

Here we go 2010! This new decade has presented itself with some electrifying, wealth creating energy. Can you feel it too?

In the spirit of starting the new year with a bang, I wanted to share a few exciting developments on thatMLMbeat that can benefit you and your business in a major way.

2009 was great for testing, tweaking and finding out how we can push this amazing technology to the maximum to help you make a difference with your network marketing business.

Now it's time to go full steam ahead!

The most important topics covered in this video are:

Global site feed and subscription for ALL blogs on thatMLMbeat

We are 98% complete with our global site feed and email subscription for the entire site! That means that you can have ALL blog posts delivered via RSS or your inbox condensed into one email per day.

Be the first to share industry news and start a Twitter buzz by sharing industry related content. Plus, this will be great exposure for you and your MLM blog.

Affiliate system that works with ANY blog, post or profile on thatMLMbeat.com

Our affiliate technology tracks any activity on the entire site of thatMLMbeat. That means you can attach your affiliate string to your blog posts, anyone else's blog post, your profile, your friends profile or any other part of thatMLMbeat.com

The compounding affect of doing this has huge potential, but always remember to add a call to action if you are not sending people to the main site!

Click here now to become an affiliate.

Invite your email contacts and social friends with your affiliate code embedded into your invitation

After many hours of annoyingly bugging various programmers in various forums, we've managed to create a viral friend inviting system that hides your affiliate code within your invitation.

Make sure that you are logged in and that your affiliate system is active. Then head over and invite your friends. Go ahead, I double dare ya!

Why you should decorate your home away from home (thatMLMbeat blog)

With the global site subscription and  Twitter campaigns to name a few, your thatMLMbeat blog will be getting more and more traffic, provided that your content is good of course (and I personally think all members in this community provide excellent value!)

Like you would spend time on a Squidoo lens, a Hub on Hubpage or an Article for EzineArticles, you would want your thatMLMbeat blog to be presentable. Why not add your optin code to generate leads, change the theme, upload your own header or even use your own domain name?

How to remove ads from blogs

To cover our server costs and exciting developments, ads will be placed on all blogs from 18 January 2010. As a PRO member you can remove ads from up to 20 different blogs. Follow the links at the top of the page from your back office to upgrade your account to PRO.

Any feedback on any of the features or anything that you feel can be improved? Please express your thoughts below.

And once again, have a rocking 2010!

To all my friends, readers, members, visitors, associates, business partners and anyone that has connected with me or added value in my life...

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Seasons Greetings to everyone!

I hope that you enjoy the time with the important people close to you in your life and appreciate being in the moment of giving and being grateful.

Personally I also find this as a great time to reflect and clean out any mess, physical or emotional, in my life that doesn't contribute to my purpose in life.

I hope that you make the time to do the same or anything else that prepares you for your best year ever in 2010.

Enjoy the video! Please leave a comment and share your Christmas thoughts and thankfulness!

Setting up and managing blogs can be quite frustrating at times.

I am personally guilty of spending way too much time on technicalities of plugins, themes, layout and widgets that don't contribute to marketing, which should be any top internet and network marketing professionals primary focus.

Furthermore, I've seen it happen time again how it brings an entire MLM Team to standstill. They get stuck into figuring out how to blog and social media technicalities instead of getting content up, taking action and building relationships with new prospects.

Now imagine your duplication if everyone in your MLM team is spending time on the how to's instead of getting into action? That can be as productive as driving with you hand break on!

Be sure to read this post by Diane Hochman for a clear reality check.

That brings us to the first of many classic benefits our PRO Membership offers with our Blog And User Creator tool.

Let's cover 2 scenarios:

Scenario 1 - MLM Team Blogs

You have 5, 10, 20, even a 100 or more team members that need to start writing articles, doing video blogging and developing content. Instead of spending endless hours getting your team setup with their personal blogs, why not create dozens of blog within seconds and take your team straight into action?

They can still use their own domain name for personal branding and customize their MLM blog with their own blog header. Not much different to owning your own personal blog.

If they need a blog header, our graphics designer will design one for free and you only have to pay if you like it and want to keep it.

Scenario 2 - Keyword and Niche Domination

Using web 2.0 properties for link building and piggy backing off their domain strength is a crucial step in offsite SEO.

{If you are not familiar with the term Offsite SEO, it mainly refers to building backlinks from other valuable and related web sites. Onsite SEO is the optimization that you do on your blog or website.}

The perfect way to increase your ranking in the search engines is to setup remote blogs, a.k.a. satellite sites, on web 2.0 sites like Squidoo, Xanga, hosted Wordpress and of course thatMLMbeat!

You then link back with anchor text, like I'm about to do in the next sentence, to the actual post that you want to rank for.

You can read more about this strategy in Front Page On Google In Less Than 18 Hours.

How would you do this on thatMLMbeat?

Well, setup a few remote blogs for keyword targeting and add various 400 - 600 word articles on them!

There is no limit to the amount of blogs you can create, but please use this tool responsibly.

We do not allow cybersquatting (registering domain names for the purpose of holding keywords and not adding any content to the actual blog) and spam MLM blogs get deleted.

No MLM Company names are allowed either.

Other than that... Go Wild!!!

The possibilities of this tool are endless.

If you find any a different use for this tool that you would like to share, please do so in the comments below.

Happy multiple blogging!

Using your own domain name on your social network profiles and various web 2.0 properties are more important than one might think.

Let's take the most recent 'Youtube Slap' for an example, how many internet and network marketing professionals lost all their content and friends instantly when Youtube decided to terminate their accounts?

Losing all your content is painstaking enough, but what about all the links that you placed all over the web pointing to that profile? Where does all that traffic go? Definitely not coming back your way!

Now unless your intention was to spam (we normally spot those accounts before or by their first blog post anyway), we are not planning on banning any accounts or terminating any MLM Blogs.

Point still remains, you need to control your own domain names as far as humanly possible to avoid being at the mercy of any social site or to redirect your traffic to different sites when need be.

This is why you will see many marketers promote their Facebook and Twitter profiles with subdomains or their own domain names such as MyNameOnTwitter.com or MyNameOnFacebook.com.

That way if any of the social sites give you the red flag, you can simply direct the traffic back to a new social site of your choice.

That's all good for social profiles, but what about satellite sites? (a.k.a remote blogs on web 2.0 properties)

This is where thatMLMbeat PRO Members take advantage of our domain mapping feature.

If you are blogging on thatMLMbeat and you would like to use your own domain name like yourname.com instead of yourname.thatmlmbeat.com, then this video is for you.

When you use your own domain name, your blog on thatMLMbeat acts as a complete personal blog, but you still benefit from your blog posts being fed to the front page... nice!

In a hurry? Do this:

1. Log in to your thatMLMbeat backoffice

2. Scroll down to the  Tools Menu and click on Domain Mapping (if this is not visible, you will need to upgrade to PRO)

3. Add your domain name

4. Go to where you purchased the domain or your domain host and add a DNS "A" record pointing at the IP address of this server (IP Address provided in the backoffice. Doesn't make sense? Watch the video!)

5. Email me your domain name so that I can 'park' it on our server.

Although we park it on our server, your domain is still YOUR domain name. If you decide to use it for something else later, just contact us and we will 'unpark' it for you.

If you have any questions or get stuck, please ask in the comments section below.