The FREE 6 week teleseminar series starts Tuesday, September 7, 2010. Details here.

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Also, while reading all of the wonderful emails, I did not realize how many people love and miss my teleseminars that I’ve done over the years. I feel so blessed.

With that said…

I Am Back!!

I have decided to start doing free teleseminars again to do what I love and teach you guys what I’ve learned. Keep an eye on your email and this blog for announcements of teleseminars to come in the very near future.

Again…thank you all for your help and your kind comments!! I appreciate you!!

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Dinner Table Conversations 8/10/10

Present: Clayton (husband), myself, Kate (daughter) & Anthony (daughter’s boyfriend)

We were talking about actors/actresses and where they got their start. I asked Kate & Anthony if they knew where Adam Sandler made is TV debut. Anthony knew that it was as Theo’s friend on the Cosby Show.

Kate then asked if we knew Robin Williams was on “Happy Days” and my husband exclaimed “Mork”. Then Kate and Anthony looked at me like I was out of my mind when I exclaimed “Mork & Mindy!” Of course I then had to do the “Mork calling Orson…come in Orson” imitation. My husband and I did the na-nu-na-nu handshake and then shouted “shazbot!”

I told them about the cats we had when I was little named Mork & Mindy. I loved that show. It ran from 1978 until 2 days after my 15th birthday in 1982.

For those of you who don’t know about Mork & Mindy, Mork first appeared in Happy Days as Richie’s martian friend. Then Mork & Mindy spun off as a new sitcom. Mork was sent to Earth to study life here and Mindy befriended him, moving him into her attic. At the end of each episode, he would call home to Ork and summon Orson by standing and calling “Mork calling Orson…come in Orson”. Each week Mork would report back to Orson about what he learned. Things like “Earthlings drink liquids with their mouths, not their finger” and “They sit on their butts, not their heads”.

In the fourth and final season, Mork & Mindy got married. Mork gave birth (laid an egg) to an adult baby (played by Johnathan Winters) named Mearth. Mearth was born an adult because Orkans age backward.

The kids laughed and laughed during dinner. At times they thought we were crazy, but for the most part, we all had a blast talking about old TV shows. Make time to sit and talk with your family!!

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IT’S NOT EASY!

Sign up, do nothing and make money is a scam! – EVERY TIME!

With that said, can you really make money working from home? Absolutely! As long as you understand that it’s called WORK from home, not sit on your ass and do nothing from home.

It really upsets me to see people conning others out of their hard earned money and telling them they can do little to nothing and be making enough to quit their job in no time. It rarely ever works that way. I mean…come on…get real people. On the other hand, the scams that tell you that you never have to spend a dime are just that – scams. A home business will cost money to start.

Is working from home easy? Hell no!! Otherwise everyone would be rich and there would be no one to keep the world moving. No secretaries, no janitors, no housekeepers, no maids, no fast food restaurants, no grocery store clerks… You get the picture.

So…bottom line…if you want to work from home, know that it will take WORK, TIME and MONEY. If you are the type of person who can manage their time and make a commitment to doing something long term without seeing immediate, instant results, then you will be fine. If you are the type of person who does not work well on their own and wants to see an instant income, do not get involved in a home based business of any kind.

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I do have to laugh at the whole “direct sales” thing. Direct sales is when you sell your products / services to others and get paid a commission. Any time you have recruiting or sponsoring of others where you get paid on their efforts, you are in multi level marketing. SURPRISE!!! People have been lying about this for years.

Network marketing / MLM is a legitimate way to make money.

With that said, there are some caveats.

1. If an MLM company has no real product or service, it is a pyramid scheme, not a viable MLM opportunity.

2. If the only people purchasing products or services are the reps, it’s not a legal MLM opportunity. The government has stated that sales must occur to people who are not part of the multi level structure. If you have to sign people up as reps so they can buy your products, you are in an illegal MLM opportunity.

3. Would you buy your products or services at full retail if there were no business opportunity involved? This is a standard test that the government does when looking at network marketing opportunities. Ask yourself that. Go look at the retail price (not the rep price) for your products. Would you pay that price for them if there were no business opportunity? Most companies jack up the retail prices to make it easier for reps to talk people into joining to “get the good prices.” Is that your company?

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Every time I stopped, I yelled “Just let go and fly, little buddy” but he didn’t. I guess bugs don’t understand English.

All he had to do was let go. Just fly away and he would be free. Did he do it? No. When I stopped in the driveway, he slowly crawled toward the front of the hood and hid under the bug deflector. A few hours later, I took my daughter to a job interview and there he was, STILL hiding behind the bug deflector. He rode all the way to her job interview and back home with us. Some time later that day he took off.

He wasted almost an entire day getting a better grip on the hood of the truck so he didn’t get blown off during the next trip. I believe this bug is a cicada. Cicadas live only a few years as a flying insect. The majority of their life is spent burrowed in the ground. So…he wasted a good portion of his short life hunkered down getting a better grip for the next “storm” in his life.

Are you simply continuing to reposition yourself for a better grip on the windy, chaos filled life you have now? All you have to do is let go and fly. Don’t be like this insect. What can you do today to spread your wings and fly and make a better life for yourself?

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Anyway…yesterday I got up and did my hair and was going to make a video. I haven’t done that in a long time. I was in the bathroom doing my hair and (if I do say so myself) it looked GREAT!! I come out to my office and turn on the webcam. No matter what I did, I looked like I was BALD on one side of my head. BALD!! I ran back into the bathroom and my hair looked great. What in the world?

So I yell to my daughter – “Kate – come out here!!” She comes running out and I say “I’m bald!!”

“You’re not bald, Mom”
“YES I AM – Look!!” as I’m pointing to the computer screen.

Katie assures me that I’m not bald and it’s just the settings on the webcam. So she messes with the settings for a bit to no avail. I’m still half bald in front on the webcam. She says “I’ll prove it to you, Mom. You’re not bald.” She goes and gets her camera. She takes a few pictures and lo & behold, my hair is bright red and I’M BALD on one side!!!” She insists that it’s just the camera.

Yup. The camera adds 100 pounds and makes me bald on one side of my head!!! Needless to say, I won’t be in front of the camera anytime soon.

What horrible things does the camera do to you?

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You know…the one that some days you just go out of your way to avoid because you’ve got things to do and this person would just get in the way and distract you? Kind of like Steve Urkel.

My dog is that kid!!!

Don’t get me wrong – I love my Brutus. He’s an 11 year old 135 lb. black lab. But…he’s NEEDY. When my daughter is here, he acts just like her little brother and follows her everywhere. When she’s gone, big sister duties fall to me. He wants to be stuck under my desk breathing his hot dog breath on my leg. Or licking my hand or shin trying to get my attention. He’ll scoot closer and closer until I stop what I’m doing and just pay attention to him. If I go outside, he wants to go outside. If I’m in the bedroom, he wants to be in the bedroom. Close the door before he gets there and he lets out a HUGE sigh and sinks down to the floor while pushing his body at the closed door. You can’t not know he’s there.

This morning I woke up and actually snuck out of my bedroom. The door to the back deck goes out from my bedroom. My husband had put Brutus outside and I just wanted to get up and have a relaxing cup of coffee…ALONE. So I snuck out of my bedroom and quietly slinked into the kitchen to get my coffee. Sometimes I swear the dog’s hearing is going and other times (like this morning) I swear he has bionic hearing. Just like Jaime Sommers in the Bionic Woman.

Brutus NEVER barks. Only if he’s chasing another animal out of his area or he wants to come in. Even then, half the time he just watches an animal go through his area and doesn’t even bother to get up.

So…what do I hear as I’m tiptoeing away from the coffee pot with my cup of coffee in hand like a thief in the night?

WUFF Just like Steve Urkel showing up at the most inopportune moment. And there’s no way to ignore him. He wouldn’t have barked if he thought I was still sleeping. So I set my coffee down knowing if I don’t go get him, he’s going to bark again, this time louder. Just like Urkel knocking on the door. You can’t hide.

So…I let him in and he sits at my feet breathing his hot doggy breath on me while I sip my coffee. He’s content as can be now…

Thankfully my daughter will be home tomorrow.

Did I mention I love working from home?

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A while back I downloaded a free ebook online. The author was giving away the ebook and accepting donations for charity. Now, many people use an ebook as a lead capture. There’s nothing wrong with that. This particular ebook, however, was endorsed by people like Jack Canfield, Joel Comm, Marcia Wieder, Alex Mandossian, Byron Katie, Mike Dooley and a few others. I figured he was a reputable person.

All throughout the ebook, the author said extra bonus material is available at his membership site and linked to it. He even included an appendix where he listed all of the bonus material that was supposedly available in his members area. He even acted as if he was doing the reader a favor by including a “code” to enter to get a one month free trial of the members area. I don’t know about you, but I’ve joined many member areas where I got a free or $1 trial and found the material useful and continued on at $27, $97, even $147 per month. If the content is good and added to on a monthly basis, the membership is worth it. Anyone who wants to be successful in life knows that it’s very important to be learning on a consistent basis.

When I signed up for the members area, NONE of the bonus material referenced in the book was there. When I asked about it, as did many others in the member area, I got the brush off from the author. At one point he told me that the material in the bonus area is “better than the original bonuses”. I left the member area letting the author know that I was disappointed that he not only made false promises in his book, but on his sales page as well (the sales page listed the same material that the appendix in the book listed).

Yesterday, almost a full month after I voice my concerns, I received the following email:

The comments in italics were added by me. The remainder of the comments in parentheses are the author’s comments.

Hi Roxanne,

I saw your comment from ages ago regarding the other materials, and wanted to get back to you.

We’ve added the Faculty Hour now so you can call in once a week and ask any question on any topic of (author’s assistant name here).

And we are (finally!) launching a higher level of (member area) which will have the remaining resources (spread over three months though, so people don’t just join for a day then download and leave – it’s tricky with membership sites).

Curious – what’s your business/site? What are you up to?

(Author name)

I sat there for a minute after reading with my mouth hanging open in disbelief. Here is part of my response to him:

It’s an interesting comment you make about not making material promised in your book available right away because you think people will download it and leave. You are coming from a scarcity mindset. That surprises me based on what you’ve done by giving away your book. If you are always concerned about people ripping you off, that is what will happen. I heard of another trainer with a members area who allowed nothing downloadable in his members area for fear that a group of people would get together, pool their money and have one person join, download the material and pass it around. That trainer is long gone now. When you come from a lack mindset, you will continue to attract lack. Sure, you may have success for a time, but it will not last. I feel very sorry for you. Maybe you should consult with the people who endorsed your book and discuss this with them. I can’t imagine Joel Comm, Marcia Wieder, Alex Mandossian, Byron Katie, Mike Dooley or any of the people who gave you an endorsement agreeing with your philosophy.

Will there always be people who join, get the free stuff and leave? Absolutely. However, if you make the ongoing content good enough, they will stay even though they got the “good stuff” up front. I continue my membership with a few different sites because they provide great ongoing content. Most of them gave me a free trial and made a ton of great content available during that free trial. Those of us who are true entrepreneurs understand the importance of ongoing learning. That is who you want to attract.

I also suggested that if the author feels the material available now is better, he could provide the bonuses he promised in the book and then, in the next month step people up to a new level where the “better material” is available – incentive for them to hang around for at least a month, right?

So…what are your thoughts on this author’s lack mentality? Agree? Disagree? All comments are welcome!

**UPDATE** – I’ve received about 20 emails on this topic. Please comment here on the blog so we can all mastermind together if you have an opinion on this. Thanks!!**

Make it a great day!!

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I’ve been doing these things for years for free. No more.

I am, however, feeling great about life in general this morning and I want to extend a special offer to everyone here.

I would like to offer everyone who reads my blog – this week only – HALF OFF my quote fee. Generally I do a free 15 minute consultation and charge $50 to work up a quote. The $50 is non refundable, however, it does get deducted from whatever services you purchase.

For the week of July 12 to 18, anyone who reads my blog can head on over to YourInternetMarketingConsultant.com and fill out the form on the right to request a free 15 minute consultation. You will get instructions on how to schedule a consultation with me after you confirm your interest. Schedule your free consultation and get a quote for HALF OFF. $25 instead of $50.

If you retain my services within 5 days of the quote date, you will receive an additional 10% off the price!!!

My good mood is your good fortune!!! If you’ve been wanting to build a website, blog or social spaces profile or wanting to learn how to use blogs & social spaces, now is the time!!

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