Building a Network Marketing Business With Children

I'm thrilled to share an interview with my Daughter, Lexi Ulmer, 25, and a millennial entrepreneur after growing up in a Network Marketing and no traditional employment family.

We talk about Balance, Mommy Guilt and her perspective on growing up in a non traditional career home. 

What's It Like Growing Up in a Network Marketing Home

Listen in if you're struggling as a mom or a dad or someone raising a family and struggling with the balance and blending and the Mom guilt and everything that goes into building a business.

I'm here to assure you that you can build a successful Network Marketing business and a successful family.

You may often ask "Should I be spending time with my family? My business? Feeling out of Balance? 

You're going to feel out of balance, regardless of what you are doing  so you might as well push forward.  Do the best that you can and create a life and a...

Creating Social Media Content Does Not Need to Be Hard

Has this ever happened to you? You stare at your screen and keyboard for an hour, spinning your wheels, trying to figure out what to write on your social media.

You keep hearing - add value…. what the heck is value, anyway?

Today's Monday Motivation Minute:

You think, write, edit, delete, and repeat the process.

You know it’s gotta be done, writing content for social media. but what? What that doesn’t just fill dead space and get nothing back

It seems so overwhelming and time consuming.

Content calendars; prompts - none of that is working and it looks like everyone else’s stuff.

Boring and generic.

Copy and pasting from other company leaders feels awkward, because it doesn’t sound like you, and you feel like a fake.

Writing good content is about selling you…your story…and your value. Not your products or...

Don't Underestimate Your 5 Year Success Potential

We tend to Overestimate what we can accomplish in 1 year, and WAY underestimate what we will accomplish in 5 years. I believe this is why there is such a high failure rate in Network Marketing.

We don’t get our goals, we get our habits. This has been proven time and time again. Ask anybody who’s ever “made it“ and they’ll tell you that it basically comes down to good habits.

Not always being the best, not always being the smartest, but truly engaging in good habits and actions day in and day out, whether we feel like it or not.

We tend to Overestimate what we can accomplish in 1 year, and WAY underestimate what we will accomplish in 5 years. I believe this is why there is such a high failure rate in Network Marketing.

We launch our business, or think about it, anyway, and we have high hopes and dreams.

We are going to do this…

and this….

and...

Hustle and Hard work, or Ease, Flow, Effortless and Elegant.

Today's Monday Motivation Minute:

Which would you prefer to have in your business, or rather which one sounds more fun…like something you would commit to and stick to:

Hustle and Hard work, or Ease,,,,flow….effortless and elegant.

Hustle and hard work are typically how we feel when we are doing something out of synch with our natural rhythm.

Easily, elegantly, and effortlessly, in the flow of life and calm sounds a lot better.

And, as someone who has worked my business from both angles, I can tell you that the latter is much more fun, lucrative and enticing to others.

Hustle and hard work lead to burn out.

Network Marketing is a volunteer business, and no one wants to volunteer for hard.

When you don’t wake up each day with a clear, understandable plan of what you need to do to move your business forward, that leaves most with...

Sharing Network Marketing With the Skeptics

Welcome to Part 2 of my Interview with Janine Finney, author of "The Flip Flop CEO!

Quote "The person you are talking to has been watching you;  seeing the way you do business. They're evaluating, asking 'do I want to do that. Could I see myself doing that.'  These are my peers and they want a real business."

Many excited new Network Marketing business owners approach people wrong, and don't create the type of interest and education needed.

Listen in as we share tools and resources for professionals.

Transcript:

The Flip Flop CEOs  Yes, I appreciate that. I love that you're i i love that because I think we as a profession need to become more professional and we need to really um

The Flip Flop CEOs  speak differently and approach this differently and show up differently. And I, but I really do think that, personally, I believe that

The Flip Flop CEOs...

Network Marketing Social Selling Skills for Success

Here are the skills you must master -

Get clear on what you sell, who you sell to, and how to sell to them. Online, these means developing good “success language” that speaks directly to their challenge; and your solution.

Today's Monday Motivation Minute:

 The Social Selling Skills You Must Master

Know how to ask, answer and deliver on their questions and concerns before they even ask.

Know when to take it off the public venue and offline. Don’t try to let a social conversation close your deal.

Be real, be engaged, be interested. Be conversational and don’t “move in for the kill.”

Never share a link without permission. We have a tendency to want to just “spray and pray,” plastering our link everywhere we can, hoping to catch someone and “rope them in.”

The problem is, you are modeling for them what you will...

How to Explain Network Marketing to Skeptics

Have you ever wondered how to explain network marketing to someone with a closed mind? Or, how to approach someone you view as already super successful, who might have an interest, but you are unsure, and don’t want to feel silly or stupid when you open the conversation?

Or, perhaps you are struggling with your own MLM blueprint and belief in the profession?

Listen in as I am joined by a former Corporate America executive, six figure earner who was very unhappy in her corporate life, even though everything looked polished and buttoned up on the outside. Yet, she was a complete MLM skeptic.

What opened her mind; how did she hit the top rank in her company in 1 year; and how might this knowledge help you do the same?

Transcript:

Jackie Ulmer: So Janine, welcome. I am so thrilled to have you here and super excited about the conversation. We're going to have

The Flip Flop CEOs:...

Locating Quality Prospects for Your Network Marketing Business

How do I find people for my Network Marketing business? How do I share what I am doing in a way that feels authentic and not "salesy?"

These are two questions I had myself; and now have answered for decades!

Today's Monday Motivation Minute:

My short answer - you don't find them; you let them find YOU.

And, here is how!

In 1999, after attending an internet seminar, I saw some genuine potential in using online methods as a tool to "reverse roles" and allow those people who were interested in a home business to find me, and let me know they wanted to know more.

So, I decided to give this “Internet thingie” a go, and build a web presence, and ultimately a business online.

Lots of people lined up to tell me I was crazy; I wouldn’t be successful; it couldn’t be done. I calmly put my blinders and ear muffs on and got busy proving them wrong.

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Join Jackie Ulmer on Insight Timer

Life really is a journey, isn’t it?

And, the fun and the fear of it is figuring ourselves out along the way.

125 days ago, I discovered the App - Insight Timer

Have you heard of it?

Do you use it?

They title themselves - #1 app for sleep, anxiety and stress.

They are SO much more than that, though.

Insight Timer has guided meditations; live yoga classes; Affirmations and talks, music and more designed to be a boost to your thoughts, feelings and actions.

And, if you know me, you know I am ALL ABOUT:

Thoughts, Feelings and Actions

The first two, thoughts and feelings, drive ALL of human behavior - Actions.

A few weeks ago, while playing around on the Insight Timer App, I found a link to apply to become a “teacher” or a guide on the platform.

This REALLY intrigued me.

It intrigued me because as much as I LOVE coaching on...

For Network Marketing and Coaches

We tend to think of dating as what we do for a romantic partner. But, what if we shifted how we think of our prospects and becoming attractive to those in and around our business?

Let's talk about first date magic for network marketers; are you dating your prospects. So when we think of dating.

Courting.

Becoming attractive.

Getting noticed.

Mr Google says:

You are actively getting out there and meeting people and spending time with them. “Dating someone” means you're seeing somebody specific, with purpose and on a regular basis. ... You're spending time with a person (or persons) in hopes of finding a committed relationship.

Think about this with regard to the relationships you build in your business.

Clients.

Customers

Team Partners.

Ambassadors for you.

Most people flounder and fail in their attempt to...