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March 30, 2005

Just Finished The Razor's Edge


I just finished the April version of The Razor's Edge. I was surprised to realize that BigMoneyFreeTime is going to be 1 year old next month!

If you haven't read my newsletters or listened to my monthly audio rant, check it out at

Big Money Free Time

Let me know your thoughts!

David

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March 24, 2005

Clues About MLM Success Are Well Hidden In Plain Sight

Clues About MLM Success Are Well Hidden In Plain Sight

by David Ledoux


Hungry?

Come on in. My wife is making homemade chili. Have a bowl and a crusty roll and enjoy. Let's talk a bit about how the really, really big dogs built their massive fortunes in MLM.

I was lucky enough to have a late night coffee with a former Crown Ambassador in Amway about 10 years ago. He was the #9 earner in the entire company a long time ago. It was a facinating exchange. I'd ask a question, and he'd talk. I'd sip coffee and burn the concepts into my brain. For nearly 3 hours. Until 2 in the morning.

I got a gold nugget from him that changed my entire paradigm of the industry in 1994. Until 2002. Then I forgot it. Then I remembered it again just the other day. So I remembered it for 8 years and forgot it for 3.

What was the secret?

The 20th person.

Huh?

You enjoying the chili? Good. Let me explain.

The true magic of MLM appears when a leg duplicates down 20 generations. Note those aren't stacked generations or caused by spillover. It is when a guy sponsors a gal who sponsors a guy who sponsors a couple etc. etc 20 times. Something magical occurs.

I quickly discovered that if I was constantly working with the deepest point of a line, everyone between me and the deepest point would get excited. I would scan my printout weekly, and phone the newest, deepest person. I'd visit with them and try to determine if they were ambitious. I'd then focus a few hours a week on helping them do presentations, 2on1's, 3 way calls, etc. depending on where they lived.

This created more depth and more excitement. And more volume. And bigger bonus checks.

I did this for about 3 years really, really well. The 3 legs I build from 1994 to 1997 still are growing today. Then I kind of forgot, sponsored without driving depth, and the 5 legs I built from 1998 to 2000 are kind of spindly and sick. And then from 2000 to 2004 the 250 legs I built are scrawny except for 1 that I went deep in.

In 10 years I got it right 4 times in total. I can introduce you to the 20th person in those lines and they are all healthy and growing. The lines where I sponsored, but never worked down to the 20th are all struggling or dead entirely.

Clear as mud?

I find it easier to draw out on a big poster board in the office. Use a pencil and track a line as it grows. Your job is to always be looking to build a relationship with the deepest point each week. Help them get one level deeper. And let everyone in between know so they get excited.

It sounds so simple. Maybe that's why it's a secret. The best secrets always hide in plain sight.

I see you're done your chili. Drop by anytime. Next week is homemade pizza!

I appreciate you.

David Ledoux


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March 16, 2005

Who Else Wants Wallet-Stretching Bonus Checks From Their MLM Business?

NEW MLM BOOK LAUNCH!

Who Else Wants Wallet-Stretching Bonus Checks From Their MLM Business While You Sit On A Beach With Sand In Your Toes and A Coconut Drink In Your Hand?


Dear Intrepid Adventurer,

Stop right now and pat yourself on the back. Do it! If you don't cheer for you, no one else will. I salute your bravery to participate in an industry that has driven great men and women to the brink of insanity!

Network Marketing has humbled bank presidents, politicians, and rich fat cats with gigantic resumes. I have seen Harvard-educated MBA's reduced to tears because they just couldn't build a downline. And yet simple housewives,students, blue collar laborers and beertruck drivers have build vast fortunes for their families and their closest friends thanks to the financial rocketship called multi-level.

It has been illegal to hit your downline since the mid-fifties, if not earlier. Not that every single leader wanted to at one point or other in their careers. Nope, you can't do it my friend. You are a leader of a volunteer army.

How challenging is it? It has been described many ways over the years. Like trying to move water up a glass mountains with a broom. Like trying to push a rope. Like trying to put Preparation H back in the tube.

If you feel down, I want you to come back to this book. Search its pages for inspiration. Uncover that one hidden gold nugget that has eluded you. Have a good cry from time to time. But don't you quit.

The number one income earner in your company hasn't even heard about MLM yet. Someone is going to sponsor him or her. Why not you?

I appreciate you. Keep leading wisely!

David Ledoux
Author: You Can't Hit Your Downline!


p.s. Don't expect it to be easy. No one is going to hand you a bonus check every week just for your good looks. You are a GENERAL. Go raise an army, teach it to fight for freedom and turn it loose on the world. Vast riches will be drawn to you like a magnet when you inculcate your true purpose!

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March 13, 2005

Strong Copywriting Create Hypnotic Effects







This is a PRIVATE message.


I like to collect really strong examples of copywriting.

Here is an example from an author of powerful self-improvment books and courses. Note the unique layout....it's a key ingredient to its near-hynotic power. A great example to study!

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Achiever,

If you strive setting NEW goals,
if... you constantly excavate
inside your own mind to extract
powerful characteristics...
if ever you wished someone,
sometime, showed you
how to *unlock* the
hidden cells inside
your subconscious
almighty
world...


"Then Be Prepared for the
ULTIMATE MIND-CONTROL
CHALLENGE."

Just last year, a friend
...a close friend referred
to me a "Magical Methodology"...
that deploys the power of the
UNIVERSE, to turn almost any
WISH into REALITY.

As unrealistic it may sound,
you might possess secretive powers...
that once you exploit them,
every goal you SET shall be
MATERIALIZED.

What propels my motivation
to sharing this coveted
methodology with you,
distant friend, is
that...

I must return the favor,
in terms of RECIPROCITY,
for the paramount KISMET
that recently surmounts
my own LIFE. All thanks
to this UNIVERSAL SYSTEM,
I have transformed my own
self, to a POWERFUL ENTITY.

I have gained virtues,
which I never experienced,
before in my entire life.

Now I transformed my two
greatest WISHES into
ACTUALITY.

At this point, the sanction
is already put into ACTION.

I unconditionally returned the favor to a
GURU, who showed me the
paths of:
"Eventual Renaissance".

Out of sheer willingness
to GRATIFY the UNIVERSAL
powers, I pass this
insidious information
to *you*.

Should you be concerned,
about what humans never
taught you, about your
entity, search for the
Pandora's Keys inside your depthless
subconscious world!

Psycho Affirmations

George Papazoglou is the Author behind Psycho Affirmations

and Creator of the Psycho Affirmations System.

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March 11, 2005

Blasting My Quads

One of the few downsides of being an internet marketer is prolonged sitting at one's desk. It creates extreme atrophy in the hamstrings and a shorting of the calf muscles.

To break up the winter blahs, and to get my body in shape, I joined a health club. I train 3-4 days a week with my buddy Dave Pynn.

Yesterday was "Leg Day". We did 4 sets of leg extensions on this cool Cybex machine. Each leg is independent, so you're doing leg extensions two at time, but each leg is working on its own. Killer...you get to see which is your strong leg and weak leg. I think we worked up to 100 lbs for about 12 reps.

Then over to the Smith Machine for some dreaded squats. The Pynnster is new to these, so I took it easy on him. 4 sets, with 2 work sets. One was a single plate to failure, one was 185 lbs to failure. He looked a little pale at the end. Heh, heh!

7 sets is not a lot by the magazine standards, but without being on the "juice" and working to failure, its enough, more than enough!

I am walking a little woozy today...but its great to get out from in front of the computer and toss a little iron around the gym. With summer just 90 days a way, now is the time!

Here is the routine I am planning to follow to get in tiptop shape:
Bodybuilding Resources

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The Craziest Opportunity Meeting I Ever Did In MLM

The Craziest Opportunity Meeting I Ever Did In MLM by David Ledoux

Hey, how are you? Pull up a chair by the fireplace and stay a while. Let me make you a sandwich. Do you like roast beef? Here's something to munch on. Let me tell you a story.

I've been in the MLM game since 1988. That's a long time and I've seen some wild, wild stuff.

I've seen a fight break out at an opportunity meeting. I've had a lady die at an opportunity meeting. I've had drunk hecklers. I've had the host call me an asshole during my introduction to show the plan. I've had a young couple making out at the back. I've had the presenter get stage fright and leave the meeting!

I've had product displays come crashing down. Overhead projector bulbs burn out. Product testimonials go on for 15 minutes, unable to get the microphone back. I've had a guy scream, "It's a pyramid scam!" during a business testimonial. Fire alarms. Dog shows. An auction next door. I remember when the presenter fainted as I was about to take the whiteboard.

Yup, I've seen some crazy meetings.

And yet we just kept rolling. Month after month. Year after year. Building leaders in depth.

But one meeting in particular stands out. It was at my house.

We had just come back from the annual company convention. It was so exciting! They launched a new skin care product and we brought back as many samples as we could carry.

I told the leader of one of my legs who lived 25 minutes away from me that I was going to "show the plan" to a prospect at my house next Tuesday, and my wife was going to do a skin care demonstration to a neighbor. It was just casually mentioned over coffee. No big deal.

Next Tuesday rolled around. Nearly 70 people showed up to my house! They brought guests. They brought friends and relatives. Holy Cow! I was shocked. No one told me. They just went into major event promotion mode.

My leader had put the word out in a big way. People drove 2 or 3 hours to show up. It was bedlam!

I stuck my leader in the basement with about 25 people sitting on the floor around the Tv and VCR. He put on the company video and did his best to explain the opportunity.

I jammed as many women around the dining room table with my poor wife and they had a skin care party. Every sample was gobbled up, rubbed on, tested and they were so loud! Party was the right word!

And I took as many as I could into the living room with my whiteboard. Every square inch of floorspace was taken up. There were people in the hallway, craning their necks to catch a peek. The excitement in the air was palatable!

And finally, just for fun I put on my speakerphone, and dialed into my conference call line. I emailed a few of my long distance group to listen in and catch the fever. The one thing I forgot was to video tape it. Man, that tape would have lit some fires!

We ran out of coffee, making pot after pot. We did paperwork with the new signups until nearly midnight. It really got that line energized and rolling. Here it is nearly 6 years later, and we still earn a residual income from work we did that night.

Question. Would you like to work one evening and make money from that evening for the rest of your life?

Well?

MLM is a simple business. Pull out your daytimer. Book an event. Then promote the heck out of it!

I appreciate you.

David Ledoux
Author - The Ultimate MLM Blueprint


p.s. Did you know that there is over 17 different ways to plan, promote and produce spectacular events in the Blueprint? If you can't afford $100 to grow your business, it may be a symptom of a bigger psychological condition. A mentor of mine once told me, "Cheap people never do well in MLM." I guess he was referring to the fear of investing in personal growth.

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March 04, 2005

Are We There Yet?

When I was a kid, my father decided to take me, mom, and my two brothers on a road trip to see the country. This involved getting up early each day, sitting in a hot car for 14 -16 hours as we "made good time" and tons of fights with my brothers as we drove from Winnipeg to Vancouver.

He mastered drving the car with his knee, reaching into the back seat to break up the fights and constantly threatening to "pull over and turn this car around" which is exactly what we wanted in the first place!

The problem? Lack of stimulation. Boredom. How many times can you play "I spy With My Little Eye?".

Today, kids got it so easy. Vidya games. Cell phones. DVD Players. Ipods. Have you ever tried listening to Willie Nelson for 12 hours at a stretch! AAAAAHHHHHH!

And the technology just keeps getting better. Yahoo just launched a mobile phone video game studio. Soon you and I can play chess or cards against each other, in the card or across the planet in real time on our cell phones!

Cool Stuff

I predict peace in the back seat for millions of families this summer...

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March 02, 2005

Robin Black Rocks

Many, many years ago I managed a rock band in Winnipeg. I say 'managed' simply because I had a big cargo van. I was roadie, manager, beer guy, you name it.

The lead singer from The Ballroom Zombies has a new band, and he's on the verge of making it big. Robin Black


Robin Black Bio On Much Music


Nice to see a hardworking guy breaking through. Do me a favor...order his new CD and let's help him get a gold record.

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Adding Video and Audio - My 1st Podcast

I'm teaching myself how to add audio and video to a blog. So far, it's not working so hot. There seems to be a limit on size. I guess I have to compress the audio files.

Here is a short audio file that I created for my ILOVEMLM affiliates. It was originally 1.3 meg, and I compressed it as small as it would go down to 400K. I sound a "little" funny though....

Download audiofile

I'm not sure how the heck I can compress video files small enough to work...but anyhow, if you have an Ipod you can listen to my very first "podcast". It will play on your computer as well as any MP3 device.

With email spam filters being so brutual recently, I am thinking that newsletters will work best if served off a blog....testing, testing, testing, right?

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March 01, 2005

Will Spring Ever Come?


March 1st.... a blinding blizzard hits Toronto....again.

I can't go workout because the roads are insane, and frankly, my driveway is too....

I'd include a photo but all you would see is a sheet of white.

A great day to stay in, drink hot coffee, and build websites. I have to rebalance the bandwidth allotments on all my sites...some sites had a crazy February and ate up tons of bandwidth.

Hey, did you know it's St. David's Day today? The Welsh have a lot of great holidays. It's my Name Day today.... let's go fight some snakes.

Please, if anyone can hear me....send spring to us... I am fed up of winter!

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