You can listen ONLINE to my recent Focus on the Family broadcast about my latest book, Making Money From Home.   Just click the photo below and it will take you direct to the page o n the Focus website where you can click the “listen online” button.  Isn’t technology amazing?

(Note: bookstore may have older cover.  New edition INCLUDES Growth Guide.)

Congratulations!  But let me ask you an honest question:  How’s it going?  Are you earning as much income as you would like?  Or do you get the feeling you could be making much more—if only you knew how. I know exactly how you feel.  I felt like I was working hard but getting nowhere.  Some months, I actually spent more than I earned on my direct sales business.  I knew there was great income potential. I saw other people achieving their goals.  But I felt stuck.

Sound familiar?

Maybe you have a business you truly enjoy.  Products you believe in.  A company you’re proud to represent.   Yet…you aren’t experiencing as much financial success as you had hoped.  Could it be that, for the exact same amount of time investment, you could be earning far more?  To actually invest less time in your business while earning more income?  Is it possible to work smarter? 

The answer is absolutely YES!

You don’t have to stay stuck. Whether you’re currently earning a few hundred or a few thousand per month.  This powerful 7-part audio series will empower you with the mindset and skillset you need to take your business to the next level of success.  Discover how to work less…and earn more!

In this powerful intensive course on Direct Sales Success, you’ll discover proven techniques that have enabled others to earn six-figure incomes working from home without working around the clock.  By the power of duplication, you can work just four hours a day and enjoy success beyond anything you currently imagine. 

Here’s what you’ll master:

Session 1: How to Sell without Selling: The Power of Your Story

Session 2: Contacting Your List

Session 3: The Power of Scripts and 3-Way Calls

Session 4: Closing Skills

Session 5: Successful Events for Your Home Business

Session 6: Building Your Direct Sales Team

Session 7: How to Work Less and Earn More through The Power of Duplication

Sound familiar?

Maybe you have a business you truly enjoy.  Products you believe in.  A company you’re proud to represent.   Yet…you aren’t experiencing as much financial success as you had hoped.  Could it be that, for the exact same amount of time investment, you could be earning far more?  To actually invest less time in your business while earning more income?  Is it possible to work smarter?  The answer is absolutely YES!

You don’t have to stay stuck. Whether you’re currently earning a few hundred or a few thousand per month.  This powerful 7-part audio series will empower you with the mindset and skillset you need to take your business to the next level of success.  Discover how to work less…and earn more!

In this powerful intensive course on Direct Sales Success, you’ll discover proven techniques that have enabled others to earn six-figure incomes working from home without working around the clock.  By the power of duplication, you can work just four hours a day and enjoy success beyond anything you currently imagine. 

Here’s what you’ll experience:

Session 1: How to Sell without Selling: The Power of Your Story

Session 2: Contacting Your List

Session 3: The Power of Scripts and 3-Way Calls

Session 4: Closing Skills

Session 5: Successful Events for Your Home Business

Session 6: Building Your Direct Sales Team

Session 7: How to Work Less and Earn More through The Power of Duplication

10 Tips

Top 10 Ways to Balance Your Children and Your Business

1. Establish office hours Times you are—and are NOT—working. Have the children make the Mom Working sign and participate in the process of setting your working hours.

2. Work the night shift. When your spouse comes home from work, he or she can take the kids for bike rides, play games, read stories, and give them their nightly bath while you work. (However, make sure you later have Daddy and Mommy time, too!)

3. Understand that their sleep time equals your work time. Many women with small ventures find that simply staying up late or waking up early, plus working during naps, provides enough time for a home business. Remember, you can’t force your children to sleep during nap time, but you can require them to lie quietly on their beds.

4. Get some work-time toys. Purchase special toys or DVDs that can be used only while Mom works.

5. Use DVDs over TV – should never be used as a baby-sitter, but once in a while quality television is okay. Perhaps you can let your youngsters watch public television each morning while you work.

6. Create a chore chart. While you are working to get paid, your children can work for pay.

7. Utilize sibling care. If you have both preschool and school-age children, the older children can entertain the younger ones for a period of time each day.

8. Enlist friends and relatives. Summer is a great time for kids to spend with grandma, trusted aunts, cousins, etc.

9. Form playgroups or organize a baby-sitting co-op This can be formal or informal. One other mom…or 30 moms. Check out my ebook, Thriving—Not Just Surviving—As a Stay at Home Mom for lots more ideas.

10. Hire a mother’s helper. Pre-adolescent girls are often better than teens.

These tips are adapted from my book, Making Money From Home.  Order your copy today.

How to Create a Blog

Instructions on creating a simple WordPress blog

Now that you have a page, you need to attract followers or fans.  This video shows you how:

If you want to create wealth, it is imperative that you believe that you are at the steering wheel of your life. You create every moment in your life, especially your financial life. If you don’t believe this, then you must believe you have little or no control over your life and that financial success has nothing to do with you. That is not a very rich attitude.

Instead of taking responsibility for what’s going on in their lives, poor people choose to play the role of victim. Of course, any “victim’s” predominant thought process is “poor me.” And presto, through the law of intention that’s literally what they get: “poor,” as in money, me. Having said that, how can you tell if someone is playing the victim?

They leave three obvious clues.

Clue #1: Blame

They blame the economy, they blame their type of business, they blame the government, they blame the stock market, they blame their employer, they blame their employees, or they blame their up-line or their down-line. It’s always something else or someone else. The problem is always anything or anyone else, but them.

Clue #2: Justify

Or they justify their situation by saying something like, “Money’s not really important.” Let me ask you this question. If you said your husband or your wife or your boyfriend or girlfriend or your partner or any friend whatsoever, wasn’t all that important, would they be around for very long? Doubtful!

People come up to me all the time and say, “You know, money’s not really that important.” I look them squarely in the eyes and say, “You’re broke! Right?” After a few stutters they usually blurt out something like, “Well, right now I’m having a few financial challenges but…” and I retort, “No, not right now, always, you’ve always been broke or close to it, yes or no?” At this point they usually nod their heads in agreement.

Clue #3: Complaining

Complaining is the absolute worst possible thing you could do for your health or your wealth. Why?

Because there is a universal law that says, “what you focus on expands.” When you are complaining what are you focusing on? What’s right with your life or what’s wrong with it? You are obviously focusing on what’s wrong with it and since what you focus on
expands, you’ll keep getting more of what’s wrong.

Through the law of attraction, whereby “like attracts like,” you are actually attracting “crap” into your life. You are like a “crap magnet.” Have you ever noticed that people who complain a lot seem to have crappy lives? It’s like everything bad keeps happening to them. They say, “Of course, I complain, look how crappy my life is.” Now you can
finally explain, “No, it’s BECAUSE you complain that you have a crappy life.”

Now, I’m going to share a secret with you…

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A RICH VICTIM!

Yet being a victim definitely has its rewards. What do people get out of being a victim?… Attention. Is attention important? Absolutely, for many people it’s what they live for.

But, as we said, there is no such thing as a rich victim; so in order to stay a victim these attention seekers make darn sure they never get rich.

It’s time to decide. You can be a victim OR you can be rich, but you can’t be both. It’s time to take back your power and acknowledge the fact that you create every moment of your life. That you create everything that is in your life and everything that is not in it. That you create your wealth and you create your non-wealth and everything in between.

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Since 2003, Tamera along with her previous business partner Michelle, have purchased over 10 million dollars in real estate in just the last few years and currently hold properties all over the U.S. The current focus is on the booming (or busting we should say), foreclosure market- also focusing on REOs. (buying real estate taken back by the bank)

Getting into real estate investing and knowing how much there is to learn is the reason Tamera was encouraged to create over 14 websites and several products to support fellow investors, (such as yourself).She is one of the few trainers and coaches who is really “doing it” successfully in today’s market.

Coaching U2 Profits – Your Way is allowing me to meet my personal goal to encourage and inspire others to be all they can be. ..in this case, focusing on the real estate investing tools and training to fit today’s market and accommodating the needs of her students. She enjoys coaching others to profits – their way.

Access the Real Estate Investor’s Virtual Office mentioned in the interview.  You can also get your own instant Real Estate website and begin generating affiliate income right away!  Tamera’s Online Property Investment Calculator is just one of the powerful tools she has created to empower YOU to begin Making Money From Home in real estate.  If you are serious about “considering a field and buying it,” I highly recommend Tamera’s DVD series and/or Coaching Program.  She even has a telecourse specifically about investing in Foreclosure properties, because where some see only bad news (and it is tragic that people are losing their homes), others see an opportunity – both to make additional income and help that person facing foreclosure.

Here’s the original radio program featuring Tamera.  Tamera Part 1   Tamera and I recently chatted about her latest “doings”:

Tamera Part 2

Here’s an excellent article from Tamera’s blog.  It really challenged me! 

One of the concepts that I learned at the East Coast Investor Summit… is this: I’ve came to the realization that it’s not possible to maintain close relationships with everyone you meet. There simply isn’t enough time in the day.

I recently discovered some success concepts that a guy by the name of Dave Stech shared that I would like to share with you.

About Dave Stech: Dave held executive positions for 2 well-known Fortune 50 companies for over 20 years, has early-retired twice, is an active real estate investor (e.g. one of his team’s strengths is research & due diligence), and places taking care of his family at the top of his list of priorities.

I recently read an article written by Stewart Hsu where 3 of Dave’s insightful and inspiring ideas were shared.  These have already made a huge impact on my life since I began applying them. These are more than just words of wisdom; if you read with your heart, I think you’ll notice there’s some other “positive energy” or “spiritual rightness” to them — that applies not only to business, but to life.

Dave Stech Success Concept #1: Give First

If you have ever been to a networking event, 90% of the people typically go with the wrong idea in mind. They walk in asking themselves, “who can I meet that can help me?” Not that this is necessarily bad, but that there is a better way. Have you ever known someone that was a “taker”? Where they’re always trying to get something from you, whether it’s your ideas, money, or time? It can be draining, right? Don’t you prefer to hang out with “givers”, i.e. people who contribute ideas, energy and time? People who help you move towards your goals? Be like the kind of person you would prefer spending your time with.

John F Kennedy said it well, when he prompted the American public to “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.” The same idea applies on the smaller, more immediate scale for each one of us, i.e. with those we interact with on a daily basis. This applies to whether it’s a family member, a business partner, or someone you’re meeting for the first time at a networking event.

Offer and take steps to add value first. Call it good manners, good karma, or “paying it forward” – whatever the label, it’s like magic, and better yet, it works.

Perhaps more importantly, it’s simply a better way to be. You’ll feel better for helping others. You’ll feel more positive, and with that positive feeling you’ll accomplish more. A potential indirect benefit I should mention is that someone might feel like they now “owe you a favor”. Though I caution you not to give only because you expect to receive from that person later on. This might seem a bit self-contradicting, but the more genuine and selfless your intention when you give, the more unexpected goodness, from unexpected sources, will come back to you.

Dave Stech Success Concept #2: The 3-Filter Rule

The second key concept for business success, is a common sense approach on how to choose your business associates. Once you read them, it may seem obvious, but the key is to be aware of them and apply these filters as appropriate. Dave’s 3-filter rule helps you filter out or exclude certain types of people with whom you should or should not be building relationships. Here are the questions to ask of the individual in question:

Filter 1: Does the person have an uncontrolled ego?
Filter 2: Does the person have uncontrolled greed?
Filter 3: Is the person trustworthy?

To expand a bit on each of these, the first question is a check on a person’s ability to see and admit their own flaws and limitations. If they believe they are always right and/or are overconfident to the point where they can’t or won’t learn from a given situation — sooner or later this ultimately catches up with them, and can negatively impact you if you’ve partnered with them.

Regarding uncontrolled greed, those who “make it” in business do so because they act ethically and because they strive to create win-win situations. Successful business people seek to add value to all parties involved in a transaction. If you’ve got someone who’s only and always thinking about themselves and/or is not willing to think and give something for the other side, then chances are they are short-sighted and will not be in business for the long term.

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”
Warren Buffet

The third point, trustworthiness, falls into the “yeah that’s obvious” category, but make sure you check and watch for it. It’s impossible to ask someone every possible situational question and how they would respond, so at the end of the day — this point of trustworthiness is key. You want to know when the tough decision comes up, that the person will simply “do the right thing.” That’s it. It all boils down to that.

Now, I recognize these 3 filters presents some challenges of practical application. You might ask, how do I determine if they have a huge uncontrolled ego, or are exceedingly greedy, or simply trustworthy?

Here are a few ideas that can help:

a) Spend some time getting to know the person. Listen to their stories and ask lots of questions. Find out when they had difficult choices to make, what did they decide and why?

b) Find out who they spend their time with. Who a person chooses to spend their time with reflects a great deal about them.

c) Ask for referrals. If people are as good as they say they are, and they’ve been in the business for some time, they should have no problem, providing credible references. Be sure you are serious about pursuing a longer term relationship with them and not wasting their time.

Perhaps I may be a bit naive, but I prefer to expect the best in people, until they prove themselves otherwise. At the same time, the investor/analytical part of me, is always cautious and questioning. I aim to be honest with myself in assessing the people I decide to partner with and/or promote.

Of these 3 filters, Dave says:
“If you see 1 of these qualities you should walk away.
If you see 2 you should run away.
If you see 3, shame on you, for not running at 2!”

A fourth criteria, would be to spend time working only with those whose company you enjoy. Life’s about adding value AND having fun. Joy is supposed to be part of the process.

Dave Stech Success Concept #3: The Power of 6

The third key concept for business success, is something he calls “The Power of 6.” This goes back to the 1st paragraph in this article, where many of us may have 20, 200, or 2000 contacts, but practically we can only have “close” business relationship with a select few. (We’ll exclude family relationships in this, as those should always be a priority for you.)

This last concept hit home for me, as I was attending all these clubs, classes and seminars, getting contacts, making phone calls, and sending e-mails. The race I was quickly losing to, was one against time.

The concept, the solution, is this:

Find, build and maintain 6 relationships with people who are at or above your level of competency, in the same or complementary field as you.

Wouldn’t it be great, when you’re asking for help to send an e-mail to just 6 people, and know they will do everything in their power to give you the best possible advice? Or to make a phone call and know they will pick up or that you will be at the top of their list to call back? You don’t have to be best friends with everyone, just a select few. You’ll find that when you apply this concept you will have more time AND will be able to achieve more.

Are you starting to see the efficiency and the power in this?

Now, here’s where it gets interesting. If you share this concept of “Power of 6” with your 6 people, and they do the same with theirs, you essentially have 36 people in your network. And if one of my 6 gives me a referral to one of theirs, I don’t have to re-establish and re-build that relationship because I’ve also already shared with them the 3-filter rule, and since I trust my 6, I trust their 6 by association.

If we go one additional level, and say those 36 people, have their 6, you now have 216 high quality people in your network, and with that many people, you should be able to solve any problem you run across and achieve whatever it is that you aim to accomplish.

1) Make it a conscious decision to help at least one person each day. It can be a small or large thing, but hold yourself to it. You’ll feel better for it, and in return, you’ll see more results.

2) Apply the 3-filter rule to your existing business associates. If you’re in doubt, ask some more questions to try and get to a point where your gut tells you “yup, this person’s trustworthy”, otherwise move-on. Sometimes one of the best decisions you can make is to *not* spend time with someone that may be questionable.

3) List your ideal “Power of 6″ people and start taking steps to cultivate those relationships. If you don’t personally yet know 6 people whom you’d want on your team, describe their ideal characteristics & experiences, and then start asking around. Seek them out. Trust me, they’re out there; it’s up to you to find them. Once you have a solid team around you, you’ll be making large strides towards your goals.

These 3 success concepts have made a profound impact on me and my results. I know they will have the same impact on you and your endeavors once you begin to apply them.