The Quick One, Two Punch

You're familiar with Boxing right?

If you are, then you know how the quick one, two punch can wear their opponent down. For those of you who don't, it's basically a punch from the left, then the right.

Now, let's think of your competition in your market as the quick one, two punch. They are slowly wearing you down, eating away at your self-confidence on whether or not your business can hold up to theirs.

Before we get into the goodies, I will make something very clear and important. Competition is good!

Without competition, you have no business market. Just imagine you have the first product called Kiddiemagoos (not a real name BTW) that has recently hit the market. Kiddiemagoos is a device that helps babies learn how to walk. Sounds like an interesting product for parents? Well, here's the bad news, since you are the only person out there that has made this product, it's hard for you to get your product off the ground. People just aren't believing in your product. No matter how much marketing and selling you do, it goes no where.

Now imagine... that Kiddiemagoos is a well known product, but other products go by another name. What do you think your results will be? How about, much better!!! Because you have competition they are helping you build the recognition of your product. Now, all you need to do is show why your product is so much better than your competition.

If you had to choose either of the options above, brand new product that no one ever heard of or a product that stand's out above your competion, what would it be?

I hope you said the later.

Now that we've set the ground on that, let's dive a little deeper in how you can avoid the quick one, two punch. Well, it all comes down to what we had already touch a little bit on, Standing out above your competition. Basically, why your product should be picked over the competition.

The last thing us business owners want to do is give up. That shows we are not determined leaders who are interest in their team in succeeding.

Standing out above your competition can be service, which by the way is something extremely important and which I follow, or the benefits of your product.

Whatever it is for you, you must ensure than you do not give in to the quick one, two punch of your competition. If you want to avoid the quick one, two punch, then you got to be quick-witted, creative, and up for a challenge. Because as a business owner, you're going to need it in order to succeed.

Be sure you're the one who's giving the quick one, two punch, by showing what you have is better, rather than the one receiving it.

Never give up!

Your thoughts

What are some ways you have developed for avoiding your competition from wearing you down? Please feel free to share some of the techniques you incorporate into your business by replying to this blog post.

Dedicated to your Success,

Jerome Ratliff
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Feel the Need for Speed

With troubling times come great opportunities.

Unfortunately, most fail to see this because they are inundated with of all the negative press coverage.

It's a shame people have to be subjected to that negative news. They need news that is uplifting and inspiring them to make a difference. I just know if they knew what we know, they would do the same thing we are doing, growing our home business.

And, luckily for us network marketers we know that we need to take control of our lives and our businesses.

Us leaders do that everyday by working on expanding our business by:

• Recruiting and training new distributors

• Enrolling new customers

• And, increasing our value

It's time you feel the need for speed and kick your MLM business into over gear. Stop kicking tires and making excuses like, "Oh, I'll do it tomorrow" or "I just don't feel like it today."

Forget that nonsense! If you feel like that on a constant basis, do yourself a favor and get out of this industry right away and return to Corporate America.

But if you want to make a change, it's time to reach out and make a difference. With so many people being affected by the bad times of the economy, it's NOW a perfect time to reach out to those who are looking for a new vehicle to accumulate wealth.

Why NOW? Because if you don't work on getting these people into your business making you and them money, that's one more day of suffering these people have to go through.

Have you thought that you might be that special someone? But, you will never know for sure unless YOU Take Action.

Start by increasing your value and learning about being a leader.

If you want to become magnetic, because that's what leaders are. It's absolutely, most importantly crucial you Feel the Need for Speed by working on building your MLM empire right NOW!

Until next time!

Dedicated to your success,

Jerome Ratliff
Visit JeromeRatliff.com to learn about the fantastic journey he's embarked through his business ventures.

Lead and Succeed Like a CEO

Wouldn't you like to know what it would take to become a leader in your business?

Well, I recently posted an eZine article about being a leader called "Are you the Leader of the Pack" http://ezinearticles.com/?id=1670569 In this article I talk about some of the key characteristics it takes to be a leader.

And, one of the most important traits described in this article is to instill leader characteristics into your team members. This gives those serious team members the opportunity to rise above and be the CEO of their business.

Have you heard of "lead and succeed"? Well, did you know that successful CEOs of their business became that way because they pulled their leaders up? They didn't run their entire business by themselves. No, they knew by leveraging other resources that would grow their business.

Did you know that's one of the biggest secrets of millionaires? They have been doing this for over 100 years. The power of leverage will take your business to the highest levels you can ever imagine.

I was recently reading an article from Tim Sales and after reading through it, I was amazed by his command of leadership. And, this was just reading the article. Could you imagine hearing him at work with his team? Wow! I would love to be a fly on the wall when he's training his team.

You see the point I'm making here is to reach true levels of success in your home business, you must be a leader who creates leaders.

When you lead and succeed like a CEO of your business, you are putting out there characteristics people would only dream of having. Therefore, making you magnetic.

Do yourself a favor, rise above and rise your team leaders above.

Dedicated to your success,

Jerome Ratliff

Visit JeromeRatliff.com to learn about the fantastic journey he's embarked through his business ventures.