Wow! Natasha and I are very honored to have been named Spotlight Members in the Pro Elite community for the month of November. Here’s a link to the post on the Pro Elite site.

A few weeks ago Natasha and I hosted a local marketing workshop with Ann Sieg in Salt Lake City, UT. We had a great time at the event and the masterminding afterwards. We were also able to connect with our friend Jim Harris who lives in the Salt Lake area. Jim is the host of the Teach Jim Show on Blog Talk Radio, and he asked me to come on his show which will air this afternoon at 4:30 PM MT. Hope you can join us!

Here’s the link to tune in:
Click here to listen to the Teach Jim Show.

Rich

I really don’t watch much much TV, but there is a
show that Natasha and I like to watch sometimes
called America’s Got Talent.

If you haven’t seen it, it’s basically a huge talent show,
and I guess the reason I like it is because there are
usually some pretty wild acts on there. And a lot of them
are really talented.

The other night was no exception…when a 36-year old car washer
from West Virginia came rolling on to the stage with dreadlocks
in his hair and to the surprise of everyone watching completely
slayed a Frank Sinatra song (ie. killed it with an incredible
performance.)

A couple of weeks ago after the first audition of any kind in
his life, AGT judge Howie Mandel told Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr.
that his life would never be the same after that audition.

Imagine that.

A 36-year old car washer who had never auditioned in entire life
was so good that a judge in the show told him his life would
never be the same.

Think about that for a second…

What if he had been too scared to go on that show?

What if he had listened to his negative friends or co-workers
telling him he couldn’t do it?

What if he listened to his own doubts and fears?

Thankfully, for all of us he threw all of his doubts and fears to the
side and took action to make his dream a reality.

So, here’s my question for you.

Are you holding back in your business?

How many lives could you be impacting in a positive way if
you threw away all of your excuses and decided today that
from now on you were going to make your dreams a reality?

Never underestimate the impact your success could have on
the lives of other people who are looking for someone to show
them the way to get more out of their lives.

If you’re ready to take your business to the next level, but you
aren’t quite sure how to get there, go here now and watch
this presentation:

Click here to watch the presentation.

To your success,

Rich Hazlett

P.S. You can check out Landau’s incredible audition here:
Click here

Here’s a simple but powerful tip for your business.

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Natasha and I had a great time at Mike Klingler’s Marketing Funnel Mastery event at The Venetian in Las Vegas March 11th-13th. It was great to see all of our MFM friends that we’ve met at the previous events, and we made some great new connections as well.

If you get a chance to attend the next live event, I highly recommend it. In the mean time, you may want to check out class one of MFM course available here.

I’ve included some photos from the event below:

Have you ever had the hot water run out when you were in the middle of taking a shower and been shocked by the cold water hitting you? Have you ever taken a cold shower on purpose?

A planned ice cold shower. That’s how my day started.

Actually, before I took my cold shower, I heard a series of screams coming from our bedroom as I started to prepare breakfast. Normally, I would have laughed at my wife’s loud reaction to the frigid water in the shower, but I knew it was my turn next.

Seems like a perfectly logical way to start a cold snowy day, right?

Well, I wouldn’t say it’s exactly what I have in mind when it comes to enjoying life, but one of my new year’s resolutions is to lose weight, so I’m following the plan for rapid weight loss detailed by Timothy Ferriss in his new book, The 4-Hour Body. I have to admit once I got out I felt pretty refreshed and definitely awake.

If you aren’t familiar with Tim and The 4-Hour Body as well as his previous bestselling book, The 4-Hour Work Week, you might want to check out his blogs at FourHourWorkWeek.com and FourHourBody.com.

According to the plan he lays out in the book, you can expect to lose 20 pounds in your first month without exercise. I plan to exercise throughout the next month, so it will be interesting to see what kind of results I get.

If you’ve been thinking about getting back in shape, you might want to check his book and make sure you leave me a comment below.

With the unemployment rates still remaining at high levels over the past year, a lot of people have been searching on the Internet for legit home based jobs and real business opportunities. Finding a legitimate way to earn money from home can be tricky because there are some questionable marketers peddling various schemes promising quick and easy riches. If you see someone promoting something that they are claiming is really easy and sure to make you rich overnight, my advice would be to RUN away from that site as fast as possible.

My wife and I decided to move across the country to live in the incredible foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Idaho at the end of 2009, so once we got moved out here I decided not to go back to the corporate world. I left behind a high-paying job in Memphis and decided that I wanted to have my own business, so I could be in control of my own schedule and cash flow. Things were going well for me in my career but I knew I wanted to take my life to a whole new level and that being an entrepreneur was the only way that I would be able to achieve my dreams.

While I was working in the corporate world, I had already begun to find ways to earn extra money by searching for opportunities that made sense and offered intriguing income potential. In my research of online opportunities, I found some exciting affiliate marketing and network marketing opportunities and started woking hard in my spare time to try to create a second income which may be a good alternative for someone looking for legit home based jobs.

Legit Home Based Jobs Or Business Opportunities?

One thing I noticed in my search was that a lot of the “work from home” advertisements touting legit home based jobs are not really advertising jobs, but rather various businesses that required some sort of start-up expense. This fact can be a little bit frustrating for people who are truly searching for a job that pays a salary or hourly rate based on the amount of time they work.

I’m the kind of person who prefers to have my own business, so I was happy to find opportunities rather than a traditional job, but if you are someone who would really prefer to just get a job, you should make sure that you do thorough research on any ad you see for a job that is offering a position for you to work from home. There are a few of around, but it seems like the majority of these ad are not really legit home based jobs, so you can save yourself a lot of wasted time if you do your homework before you set up an “interview” with someone from these ads.

Want Legit Home Based Jobs Or Would You Like To Be Your Own Boss?

If you are the kind of person who actually like the idea of being your boss and having the ability to control your own schedule, then you may like the opportunity that affiliate marketing and network marketing offer. These are two of the main vehicles that I have chosen to promote over the last year, in addition to personal coaching and the promotion of our own training products.

Affiliate marketing is way that a person can earn a commission for the sale of a product that they promote. You may have seen a popular affiliate program such as books and other products from Amazon.com being promoted on people’s websites. If someone includes a link to an Amazon product in a blog post and a visitor decides to make a purchase through that link, then the site owner will earn a percentage of the sale as a commission.

The great thing about a lot of affiliate programs is that you become an affiliate for free. There are others with more expensive products that actually require you to purchase a product before you can become an affiliate. One site that offers a lot of different products that are available for affiliates to promote is www.clickbank.com. Once you sign up for a free account, you will have access to a huge list of products to promote.

Better Than Legit Home Based Jobs?

The thing that makes network marketing even more appealing to me than affiliate marketing is the fact that it offers the opportunity to benefit from leverage. With network marketing, I have the opportunity to leverage my time through the efforts of the people who help me build my sales organization.

Once I have a network of like-minded entrepreneurs on my team who are building their teams, I have the opportunity to benefit from their efforts regardless of how much of my personal time I am spending on the business. However, with affiliate marketing, I only have the capability of earning money from the work that I do, much like any other regular legit home based jobs you might find on the Internet.

To your success,

Rich Hazlett

If you have any questions or comments, please leave a comment below.

Want to work with me? Click here.

Need help getting started marketing online? E-mail me at richhazlett at gmail.com.

Trevo, LLC, a new health and wellness network marketing company based in Oklahoma recently opened their doors for business. According to their website at www.trevocorporate.com, the founders have more than 16 years of experience as network marketing company owners.

According to the company website, the Trévo™ product appears to contain 174 nutraceutical ingredients from around the world that are utilized by the body at a much higher rate than a typical pill would offer with much lower absorption rates.

New network marketing companies often face a lot of challenges soon after they open, and the majority of them do not stay open for five years. One important thing to look for in a new company is an experienced management team with a proven track record of success. It appears that the Trevo business owners have a strong track record in business, based on the information provided on the company website.

A lot of companies fail to offer effective marketing tools and education that will enable their reps to be able to succeed in today’s market. I was impressed to see that the company offers a lead capture page website system for their reps to use to build their business. Being able to drive traffic to a marketing website where you can capture a prospects contact information for future follow-up is very important if you want to maximize your marketing efforts.

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Being able to capture a prospects information when they visit your site is important, however many new network marketing reps struggle to ever get anybody to visit their websites.

My free 7-day video series is great way to get the training you need to help ensure that you can attract prospects to your business without having to chase your uninterested family members and friends. For immediate access to my Attraction Marketing Crash Course, go here.

Momentum River MLM is a new company that appears to have an official launch date of January 15, 2011. According to the update I saw saw through Google alerts, the company currently has a small number of Founders positions available.

Each year there are many new network marketing companies that are launched, usually with a great deal of hype. Unfortunately, the majority of these new companies fail in the early stages of their growth.

It is important to do some research on the management team of a new company that you are considering joining during a pre-launch phase. A management team with a proven track record of success in network marketing can certainly help a new company have a much better chance of achieving success. Because new network marketing companies are more likely to fail than they are to succeed, researching the management team could save you a lot of wasted time and money.

Time will tell if the Momentum River MLM launch will be successful.

If you decide that you do want to join this or any other network marketing company, make sure that you get the important marketing training you need to help ensure your success by watching this free presentation.

Check out this video about a quick way to back up your blog.

To get the training you need to build a successful network marketing business in today’s marketplace, go here now for free access to my Attraction Marketing Manual.

This video shows how to set up a pop-over form using the templates available on Aweber.

Hope this helps you. Leave your comments or questions below.

To your success,

Rich Hazlett

I was at home this weekend working on the final touches to my upcoming product launch when my doorbell rang. It was a little annoying because I was right in the middle of something, but I hopped up and went to the door. When I opened it I looked down and saw a little boy, who was probably about 6 or 7 years old, looking up at me.

As he held up two worn out looking plastic bags filled with rocks, he asked me if I would like to buy one of his rocks. Then he made me an irresistible offer…I could buy one for either $.25 or $1. Well, despite the fact that I was not in the market for a rock as well as the fact that the “product” in this case was not even particularly special, my wife scrounged up some change and we told him to pick out one he thought was worth $.75.

Now I realize some of you diehard networkers would have tried to recruit this young entrepreneur into your business but we just happily took our new rock and got back to work. After he left we couldn’t help but wonder how long it will take him to become a millionaire…

When I thought about why I was happy I had purchased something that I wasn’t in the market to buy, wasn’t even that great and was presented to me while I was busy doing something and didn’t want to be interrupted, it made me think about one of the key concepts that I have learned over the past couple of years in network marketing.

It’s really not about your product or business opportunity, or their incredible features and benefits…sure, it helps if they are at least reasonably good. But really, in order to even get to the market these days that is pretty much a given.

People ultimately buy from you or join your opportunity because of the personal relationship you have established with them, the connection you have made with them or the desire they have to do business with you for whatever reason (I bought a rock I didn’t want or need because I wanted to help out an ambitious young entrepreneur).

Sid Kemp has an interesting philosophy for how to start off your day, “set yourself on fire everyday”. Okay, not literally…read about it over at www.entrepreneur.com.

This video is a quick tutorial that shows how to create a sub-domain on goddady.com and why this action will save you time if you are promoting affiliate products to an e-mail list.

This video is awesome!