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I have had several people ask for my opinion on Pure Leverage.
My question to them is as a business opportunity or as a product?
90% say as a business.
So let me sum up my thoughts in one sentence and then I will expand. As a product, Pure Leverage is the best of it's kind in the market, as a business opportunity there are simply too few potential customers for most people to ever make a significant income.
I have been using GVO for hosting, the company behind Pure Leverage, for nearly ten years. They have always offered the best website hosting options for marketers like myself with multiple websites, Now with the introduction of Pure Leverage they offer the best option for newbie marketers, by allowing them to combine hosting, autoresponders and other essential tools into one low cost package. If you are getting started marketing online, or plan to, Pure Leverage is an option you should look at.
When evaluating any business opportunity, the first question you should ask is, What is the true market potential of the product or service? The most valuable asset any of us have is our time. It takes the same amount of time to promote a product with limited market potential as it does a product or service that appeals to the masses. As I see it, Pure Leverage is the best product of it's kind for those that want to market products online via a website. That is not 97% of the POPULATION!
So yes, I will recommend Pure Leverage to customers that are setting up an online presence, but I will not be running online promotions for Pure Leverage when there are so many other products and service in the market that have much greater mass appeal.
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In this newsletter…
· Quick Message from Dale
· MY SISTERS CALL FROM A RESTAURANT RESTROOM IN LOUISIANA
* Video of the Week Local MLM Leads Training
* Quote of the Week
* Update on Trust
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Quick Message From Dale
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I hope you have had a great week. I apologize to those of you that sent me an emails today asking "Where is the Friday NO FLUFF Newsletter?". I have had an extremely busy week and several go to bed at 4:00 AM nights because I couldn't stop working on a couple of new projects. Needless to say it has been a great week. As my pastor in Kentucky, Gary Brown always said, every day above ground is a good day.
I normally write this newsletter every Friday morning, or do it in advance when I know I am going to be out of town and out of my normal routine, however I had multiple loose ends this morning and then had an appointment to meet with my good friend Ron Henley, this afternoon at Starbucks. If you don't know Ron, you should check him out on Facebook. He is one of the most level headed, real, marketers I know.
Check out his library in the picture, you will understand why we get along so well. Personally I believe that there is no one on the planet who's life has been touched more by Jim Rohn, than yours truly. However Ron is number two and I know he would debate me on that :) . We sat down and before we knew it three hours had past, I can't describe how thought provoking the afternoon was. It helps me to express ideas and concepts with people that I know have a foundation and frame of reference for what I am attempting to communicate. Ron is working on putting together a very unique history of Jim Rohn product that I will be letting you know more about in the future. I left this afternoon with a decision to meet with Ron at least once every 90 days. We both live in the Atlanta area, and there is simply no excuse for not taking the time to make this happen. Do you have a friend you need to have coffee with?
Last Friday Dawn and I went to see the new 42 movie. If you haven't seen it yet, it is definitely worth seeing, it is not a good movie, I would put it in the GREAT category, and Harrison Ford, Yes Raiders of the Lost Ark guy, should win an Oscar for his performance. I enjoy movies that are TRUE STORIES, and especially if they are sports related. So put 42 on your must see list.
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If you enjoy True, Real Life Sports Movies here is my list of favorites!
1) Hoosiers
2) The Rookie
3) The Blind Side
4) Remember the Titans
5) Rudy
One more personal idea I wanted to share with you. This is one of the best ideas, and decisions I have come up with in a long time. As most of you know I have three grown, married daughters. They have all lived out of state, or gone to college out of state, but are all now back home in central Kentucky where I am originally from and our office is still located. When I moved to Atlanta, I had two daughters living in Florida and one in Alabama and I like to think I have done a pretty good job staying in touch with them and what is going on in their life. However they are busy, and I am busy and sometimes too much time past without me talking to them. I am assuming some of you with grown kids, know what I am talking about?
Anyway, here is my brilliant idea, I talked to each of my daughters over the past week and have set a time to call them the same time every week based upon their work schedule. One of my daughters is physical therapist who travels to schools, hospitals, nursing homes, etc every week. She is usually traveling home from a specific location every Tuesday and is on the road at 3:30, so that is when I am calling her every week. Tuesday's at 3:30. Needless to say, as a dad, I am exited and look forward to my weekly phone calls with my daughters. If you have grown children, that may be something you want to consider doing. Our life is as good as we decide to make it be, and nothing is more important than family.
When my daughters were young, I had to learn where ever you are, be there. Most entreprenurs are guily of being with their family and thinking they need to be working on their business. When they are working with their business they think they need to be with their family. So conditioning myself to "where ever you are, BE THERE", made a big difference for me. For those of you that are wondering, Yes, that was advice from a Jim Rohn training.
Have a great week and next week I should be back on my Friday morning schedule.
Dedicated to Your Success,
Dale Calvert
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MY SISTERS CALL FROM A RESTAURANT RESTROOM IN LOUISIANA
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Over the years, many of you have met my little sister Christy, who is four years younger than me. She is married to her college sweetheart, Mark and they live in central Kentucky. Christy was a grade school teacher for several years until my niece Micah was born. Mark started as a bank drive through teller and today is the President of the Bank, which is another story for another time. Anyway, Christy doesn't have an entrepreneurial bone in her body, but she has always been one of my top supporters. She has attended many of the events where I have been speaking over the years, and I have always known that she would be there for me no matter what, as I would be for her. As we have grown older I like to feel we have become closer.
The story I want to share with you happened probably 15 years ago, but I am sharing this to make an important point. She called me on my cell phone, which at that time in our life rarely happened. My initial thought was there is some type of emergency.
She said, Dale guess where I am? I knew she was in Louisiana with my brother in law at some kind of bank training, because I had talked with my Mom earlier in the week. I said, you are in Louisiana? She said yes, and I am in the ladies rest room at a seafood restaurant here and when I walked in the restroom there was a postcard on the vanity with your ugly mug on it. She went on to say, I think one of your downline members must be eating here, but I don't recognize anyone. (Some of you probably remember our postcard campaigns in the mid nineties, Drowning in Cassette Tapes, and the Hole in the Head Card)
She thought it was really cool that she could walk into a restroom hundreds of miles from home and find a postcard with her brothers picture on it. Honestly, at that point it didn't surprise me. You literally could not pull over to a rest area on any internet highway in the United States with out finding a yellow product brochure from one of our team members. This was before internet marketing, and we had over 60,000 downline member and if there is one thing they knew how to do, it was promote and create leads for their business! When I came into a town to do a training, I would always like to go to the laundry mats, Walmart, and other businesses with bulletin boards just to see how many bulletin board flyers were hanging. If I didn't see pole signs, and mini billboards everywhere then the leader in that area and I would have a talk. There was a time, when everywhere you looked, you saw local advertising for various network marketing organizations.
Which brings me to my main point this week ………. ARE YOU NEGLECTING LOCAL LEAD GENERATION?
There was a time, before the Internet, where you saw local mlm lead promotions everywhere. Please don't miss understand what I am saying. I believe in marketing online, and have recently just released my new MLM List Building training. I have always believed that the internet is an addition to the proven lead generation methods of the past, not a replacement for them.
For those of you that have been around awhile, let me ask you a question.
Have you used the Internet as an addition to Local MLM Lead generation methods, or a replacement?
I believe many network marketers have made the mistake of using the Internet as a replacement. I have always believed that if you focus on building a strong, local organization first, your business will move nationwide and even worldwide quickly because your local team members will know an entrepreneur minded person in another state, who will know someone, who will know someone, etc. Focusing on strong local teams first allowed me to develop over a dozen six figure earners in my home state of Kentucky and a nationwide organization from those people.
What I find interesting is entrepreneurs working other business models don't seem to have ever stopped generating leads with proven local lead generation methods that have always worked and always will. As an industry, who convinced us to stop doing that which has always worked? Let me give you a hint … you will find the answer here:
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http://www.7-Lies.com
I was reminded of this yesterday on my drive home after meeting my friend at Starbucks. We both live in the Atlanta area, but it is about a 40 minute drive for me one way. When I was driving home, I got off the exit at I-20 and guess what I saw at the top of the exit ramp? TWO we buy houses signs.
This is a method we have been teaching for over twenty years. The truth is they work today as well as they ever have and hundreds of people that have gone through our 21 Ways to Create Local Leads Course, will attest that when you place these type of signs in strategic locations your phone will ring off the hook! Like every method, you need to understand what you are doing. If you create a sign that generates curiosity, and always use a phone number for people to call, (Never a website) they will generate dozens of calls every week to your Local Lead box.
This is a sign we were using in the Days of VHS
Video Tapes!
On a side note, the question newbies always ask me when I start talking about Local Lead Generation Methods is how many people will join from this or that method? If you are thinking that please follow me closely over the next three or four sentences.
What is the purpose of a Local MLM Lead Generation Method or Online Lead generation method? What is the goal?
THE ANSWER:
"To create a response, a call, to your Local Recorded Message Lead Box or completion of a web form"
That is all you can expect from any lead generation method. To expect anything beyond that is naive. How many people actually join you in your enterprise has nothing to do with how the lead was generated. The number of people who join depend upon several other factors, such as:
1) Your ability to encourge them to see the entire story presented via webinar, DVD, or Live Event
2) The cost of entry
3) The confidence or lack their of , of the person who contacts you
4) Does your opportunity really make sense to the masses or just a small niche?
etc. etc. etc.
Ok let me continue with the story. I got off I-20 and was heading home and within a couple of stop lights I looked up and this is what I saw.
A website designer offering their services with a magnetic sign on the back of the car. How many network marketing distributors today use their car as a rolling billboard? Why NOT? A few months ago I was doing a webinar for a group of distributors from a specific company and was talking about the concept of turning your automobile into a rolling billboard. I was explaining to them that back in the day I would get to a Super Saturday training event and it looked liked college game day in the hotel parking lot. Our teams cars would have magnetic signs on both doors, a Lose Weight Bumper Sticker, a company logo license plate on the front and a sun shade in the window. Some of you may think I am exaggerating, but some of your know I'm not! On this call I shared about a dozen ways to create local leads, and one of those was Turn Your Car Into a Rolling Billboard!
After the webinar was over I received dozens of emails from people on the call thanking me and letting me know some of the methods they were going to start implementing immediately to create leads for their business. I had one lady that sent me an email and of course as some people choose to do, her entire focus was on what she couldn't do, not what she could! Her comments were something like …. I really take issue with your rolling billboard idea. I did some research and to do everything you told us to do, it would cost me at least $90.00 and I don't have $90.00 to invest, besides I think the entire idea is tacky.
My response to her was the same as if she had been a personal downline member it was, first of all, our company made License plates, magnetic signs, bumper stickers, and sun shades available to our distributors, we bought them in bulk to get them at the best possible rates for everyone. Secondly would you rather have a tacky car, or an empty bank account?
You see, first of all I knew for a fact that unless you are driving a 1973 Pinto, and live in a town with 17 people, a rolling billboard is good for 3-5 sells a month, minimum. Secondly with the weight loss system her company sells I also knew there was a $55 profit per system for each distributor in retail profit which obviously equates to $165.00 – $275.00 in profit. How many of you would invest $90 or less for a guaranteed return of $165.00 – $275.00 each month?
I remember a team member saying once, if you are too cool to turn your car into a rolling billboard, that just means you check is not big enough yet. There is more truth to that statement than most people want to admit. Well at the very least, stick something like this on your windshield while you are in the grocery store!
www.CMGPromotions.com
It is sad to me that some people are determined not to let themselves become successful. The fact is I share at least a half of dozen other methods on the webinar that she could implement for pennies, and a few Funded Proposal ideas that would actually make her a profit for every lead she generated. You have to at least give yourself a chance to succeed.
I have people that contact me every month that want to spend an hour over the phone with me and pay me a $500.00 hourly coaching fee to teach them how to create leads for their business. I never accept these people as clients, my response is always the same. You don't need a coach, you need a course. Then I ask them two questions, what methods have you used in the past to generate local leads? The next question is what methods are you using now?
You would be absolutely shocked how many network marketers have successfully used drop cards, road signs, or whatever method in the past to create leads in their local market and then for whatever reason STOPPED, and are now looking for new ways to create leads. As humans, why are we like this? Why do we ever abandon lead generation methods that have worked for us?
I have always taught that after you properly expose your warm market and get referrals that you need to develop a minimum of 5 ways to create leads in your local market and focus on building a strong local team first. So what 5 methods are you using right now to create leads in your local market? Focus on your local market first then move forward from there. The reason local market is so important is the social aspects of the business and recognition opportunities that are possible.
We would have cookouts in the Summer for our team members, a group of us may go to a Cincinnati Reds baseball game or rent a huge houseboat for the weekend. Every Christmas we did a banquet for our team and gave out special awards for that year.
Build it in your back yard first, don't go across the country until you have gone across the street. Please don't send me emails telling me that I am nuts for telling people they only need 5 lead generation methods to build their network marketing organization! That is not what I am saying. I believe everyone should strive to become a MASTER at lead generation. I also believe that with the network marketing business model it is a progression …….
* Warm Market
* Local Market
* Online & Offline Classifieds
* Funded Proposals
* Online Leads
* After you are full time, buy leads and do voice broadcast
I talk about thin great detail in my free ebook The Six Dimensions of MLM Training which I assume most of you have probably read, and as say that I realize there is a good chance that maybe you haven't. You can download it here if you want Six Dimensions of MLM Training. If it is on your hard drive it is worth finding and reading again!
Free at www.6DMLMTraining.com
I understand that there are a lot of network marketers who have been taught to do it all online. I believe you have to match your prospecting and lead generation methods to your market. I have written about this in the past, but I will make this my final point today.
Over the past few years internet marketing, affiliate marketing, and network marketing opportunities have kind of all been lumped together, but in reality they are 3 separate business models. Network marketing companies have moved away from calling their distributors, distributors, and some even call them affiliates which does nothing but compound the confusion.
Network Marketing is ultimately about developing people. It rises and falls based upon field leadership. It always has and it always will. So ultimately everything you do is about helping people become the best leaders they can become. To do this you must focus on more than developing skill sets and lead generation methods, mindsets are even more important, and like many have neglected local lead generation methods, leadership mindset training is quickly fading away as well.
Internet Marketing and Affiliate marketing has always primarily been about list building and lead generation. Unfortunately that somehow distorted into teaching people to call themselves home business consultants and start teaching people how to do something you have never personally done as we talk about in detail in The 7 Lies of Attraction Marketing.
You are starting to see a trend toward what I call "All Inclusive Marketing Systems" Some of these programs combine the best of Internet Marketing & Network Marketing and combine them together. The challenge with these type of systems is finding products and services that offer real value to the end user. However ALL INCLUSIVE MARKETING SYSTEMS is something I am sure we will be talking more about in the near future.
So the first question you need to ask yourself is what is the business model I am working, and don't confuse or lump the three. The second question is what skill sets and mindsets do I need to maximize my production. If you are involved in network marketing, don't neglect local lead generation, and I guess that is the main point of this article.
Don't neglect local lead generation, you owe it to your team to show them how to build locally. We need to teach network marketers how to MARKET online, offline, and locally with the ultimate goal becoming a lead generation expert. If you do this one then I am sure someone hundreds of miles from your home town will call you, and say something like XYZ company isn't that who you work with?
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"Assumed, but NOT TRUE!"
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I think this quote originally came from "Mark Twaine" like all Wisdom of the Ages, the foundation is actually from the Bible, Luke 4 -14. I have heard many network marketing trainers reference this over the years and I think it was Amway leader Doug Weed that actually wrote a book on this and talks about edification.
I wanted to share this week, because if you are fortunate enough to have a strong local upline leader, don't take them for granted, and let them know you appreciate them this week! A simple Thank You for your support, will go along way and may give your local leader the boost they need!
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Business Video of the Week.
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Update on Trust
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Every week it seems one of our readers asked me about my grandson Trust. Many of you were reading this newsletter remember when he was born and had him and my oldest daughter Brittanie in your prayers at the time. Since his birth I have tried to give you updates from time to time. As many of you know, there was a good chance he was never going to make it into this world. For those of you that have not heard the story and would like to know what I am talking about, you can hear my son-in-law share the story here:
Today in Kentucky they celebrated his 4th Birthday Party! The doctors still say he will never be able to see or walk, but our family is still believing for a miracle. Regardless he can hear, laugh and he is a happy child. He has touched many people's lives, and the support and inspiration my daughter and son-in-law have been to others goes beyond words.
You have heard me say many times, "If money can fix it it is not a problem". If you ding up your car, or have to spend several hundred dollars on a root canel, that is just part of life. Your teeth and your car can be fixed. There are some things in life that all the money in the world cannot change.
Many times in life we go through things, and all we can ask is WHY?. After 52 years on this earth, this would be my answer, and it may be different 10 years from now and I hope it is, I am all for gaining more insight, understanding, and perspective.
#1 I can tell you for sure, that over the years I have been confronted with many personal and business challenges, false accusations and destructive ego's. Many times during the midst of those challenges all I could ask is Why? I have always had comfort in knowing "This too shall pass" and I can tell you when you get down the road a few years and look back, you normally understand clearly W H Y.
Yes there are a few challenges that I still don't understand and maybe I never will, but I can take great comfort in a quote a recently read. The author said, God has given us a mind with the ability to ask the questions, but not necessarily understand the answers.
Please keep Trust and his parents in your thoughts and prayers, our family appreciates it more than you know.
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Friday March 29nd, 2013
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In this newsletter…
· Quick Message from Dale
* Our Readers Write
* Quote of the Week
· MLM EGO:
Is it stopping you from the break through?
· Video of the Week: MLM Mastermind Event
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Quick Message from Dale
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I hope you have had a wonderful week. Dawn and I spent last weekend in Dallas where I spoke at the Skinny Body Care National Conference. I was great to be around such a fired up group of people many whose life has been totally transformed by the product. We were shocked at the number of 50+ pounds lost weight loss stories we heard. The number one reason I like doing events like this for various companies and organizations is the people that attend events are serious and hungry to learn. The feedback we have received from people who attended the event and watched on the live stream has been wonderful. I enjoy sharing information that I KNOW when implemented can make an immediate positive impact.
March madness continues, and I started pulling for Indiana a little too late. At the beginning of the tournament I said I was just waiting for Tennessee to get beat in the NIT and Indiana and Louisville to get knocked out ot the NCAA. However I start pulling for Indiana this week when my oldest daughter whom many of you have met (Brittanie) let me know that if Indiana made it to the Final Four which is here in Atlanta, they were going to come and stay with us. They being my daughter, grandchildren and her husband who is a really good man but his #1 flaw is he is a huge Indiana fan. There is not much that can get a Kentucky basketball fan to root for Indiana except the chance to spend time with his daughter and grandchildren. Oh well, Indiana got beat last night by Syracuse, so I guess they won't be coming to Atlanta to visit us while attending the Final Four.
This is Easter Weekend, and I hope you will be able to spend it with those you love and care about. Dawn and I will be spending it with her parents and 5 sisters and their families. I look forward to it, and every time I mention anything in this newsletter that is regarding politics or religion people unsubscribe and tell me how a business newsletter should not mention such things, but here it goes …….
If that offends you, then you should unsubscribe, but I still hope you and yours will be blessed this weekend and throughout 2013.
I appreciate your support.
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Dedicated to Your Success,
Dale
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Our Readers Write
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I appreciate those of you that take the time to email me and contact
our office. I received this email this week from David Downer from
England who was watching the live stream from the event in Dallas.
Hi Dale,
Tuned into the live feed of the Dallas event from here on the south coast of England. I love your training and have signed up for your MLM Training Club. I was in Amway 30 years ago, so I know the "power" of what you teach. Everyone in SBC needs to plug into your program (that's a no brainer). I'm looking forward to adding your CD's to my "Mobile University"
"Let the Dogs Bark, the Caravan's Movin' On!" 
David.
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
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“If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.” –C.S. Lewis
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Featured Article
MLM EGO: Is it stopping you from the break through?
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I want you to think about this question for a few seconds, because it will give you a real insight into yourself that you may not really understand. Are you ready for the question?
When was the last time you invested in a seminar, training program, book, or marketing course? Before you get negative or defensive, understand, I did not say when was the last time you invested in a training program, book or marketing course from DALE CALVERT or CALVERT MARKETING GROUP!
For all I care you could have purchased it from Zolvee in Zimbabwe. My question simply is when is the last time you invested in a seminar, training program, book, or marketing course?
After 30 years in the network marketing industry what I am going to try to communicate is clearer to me than it has ever been. Most network marketers with "Leadership Titles" are NOT people who invest in themselves and their own personal education.
Yes, you read that correctly. Many network marketing leaders, built it on their own drive, determination, personality and work ethic as I talked about 15 years ago in the Masses book.
Many built it 15 – 20 years ago, and quite frankly if they had to start over today, they wouldn't have a clue where to start. I realize that when I make statements like this a large portion of our readers get offended.
STOP
Are you offended by that statement?
WHY?
As they say, if the shoe fits ………… wear it. Listen, I am not trying to offend you, I am trying to help you, but if you continue to do what you have always done, the way you have always done it, your downline and income will continue to diminish!
Sorry, that was my attempt to provide some comic relief for the tension that I KNOW I have created with some of you.
The truth is in today's marketing environment, you must expand your knowledge base if you are going to compete. The only way you can do that is to find people that have already done what you are trying to do and invest in seminars, coaching, training programs, etc.
Network marketers have a different kind of ego, that I don't quite understand. Most network marketers feel that if they pay for coaching, a seminar, CD, DVD or bring in an outside speaker, like me to help them grow their organization; that is a sign of weakness, after all they are a Triple Jedi Ambassador Diamond or whatever title the company has given them.
I recently had a conversation with another industry trainer and consultant about this, because we are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Most newbies are not willing to invest in educational materials to help them build their business correctly and leaders who can afford the material think they don't need it.
In about 5 minutes we named 100 people that we both knew that were one time earning over $100,000 a year in the industry who today are no longer involved in network marketing. WHY, because their ego prevented them from taking their business to the next level.
I have heard it said, knowledge happens AFTER you already know it all. At some point the majority of network marketers with leadership titles realize "I am not duplicatable". At that point they have a decision to make. They can continue to go around the country and tell their story and play Elvis, which is what most do, or they can decide to do whatever they have to do to have a break through and take their business to a new level.
I have watched the scenario play out over and over the past 30 years. 95% of the coaching clients and organizations I work with have a leader that came to the "I am not duplicatable" cross road and made the decision to put their ego aside and implement systems and programs to help their organizations duplicate and move forward.
I remember few years ago when we had the great Bob Crisp speak at one of our events. He said:
"Ten thousand dollar a month earners are a dime a dozen in this industry, if you aren't earning six figures a month, you can't even get in the room with the people I hang out with" Somehow that mentality needs to be restored in our industry. I cannot stress how important it is for take your $10,000 to $30,000, $50,000 or more ASAP before it starts going backwards. As I talk about in the free book Pinnacle MLM Leadership the goal is really not to get your personal income to $10,000 a month it is about how many people on your team get to that level.
When I look back over my career in this industry I was fortunate, because nothing came easy for me and I had none of the skills sets and mindset it takes to develop a network marketing organization. I was a twenty year old kid who had to learn it all from the ground up, and the only thing I had going for me was an extra dose of determination.
It took me 5 long years to replace my full time income and my 9th year I finally got to $92,00 but my 10th year I made $252,00 and my 11th year was my first 1 Million dollar year and my 13th year my income jumped to over 3 million and I had over 100 six figure earners on my team. How did this happen?
Because early in my career I realized I didn't know anything. I took Jim Rohn's advice and invested 10% of my income back into my personal education every month and I have never stopped. When Dawn and I got married 3 years ago I told her I only spend money on two things …. memories and personal education.
So again I ask you, when was the last time you invested in personal coaching, a seminar, or DVD or CD training program?
That answer will tell you where you are. If you are new in the industry and starting out the best advice I can give you is invest 10% of your income back into your own personal development. I would be cheating you if I didn't tell you THE MLM TRAINING CLUB is the perfect place to start. If you have a leadership title in your company, you are really who this article was written for and honestly the article you just read has very little to do with the article I had planned on writing, but I just went with it. I hope that means some of you really needed to hear it.
I am sure some of you think it was some kind of pitch to get you to invest in the MLM Training Club. Listen guys, I have multiple business interest with automated income coming in from different sources, March has been one of the best month's in Calvert Marketing history. Those of you that know me, know that I live by the fact that your income is in direct proportion to the value you give the market that you serve. I wrote this article to share with you something nobody talks about but is a real roadblock for good people in this industry. As far as the MLM Training Program, it is an 18 month program that I believe so strongly in I offer a DOUBLE YOUR MONEY BACK guarantee, how many marketers offer that?
As for adding more coaching clients, it is the most profitable, but least favorite thing I do in my business. I charge $500 an hour, I only conduct these calls one day a week, and I have a waiting list, the last thing I want to do is add more coaching clients.
Now I am feeling guilty, because I am sure there are some leaders that can totally relate with this article and are ready to have a break through and take their business to a new level. So here is what I am going to do, and 2 minutes ago I had absolutely no plans on doing this !!!
I have cleared my calendar for Wednesday April 3rd and I will spend the day doing 30 minute coaching calls. This is not for newbies, it is for established leaders that need insight and ideas and to have breakthrough to take their business to a new level. I know I can help you. So on April 3rd, I will conduct (8) 30 minute sessions for the first 8 people that call our office and schedule them.
502-868-6199.
I will do them at the reduced fee of $100 for 30 minutes, but I am only going to schedule eight of these.
If this is right for you, you know it, if it is not just ignore this. I know these 8 slots will fill quickly. I understand some of you are reading this after business hours and our staff will be gone, you can reserve your spot, and place your order here: http://www.1shoppingcart.com/SecureCart/SecureCart.aspx?mid=76FB3919-E30D-4EB8-9501-8077CF3DE313&pid=ee5eb563bdac446ba2da24ff1cb0d0a6
and a stafff member will call you prior to April 3rd to schedule your time. Believe me I had no intentions of making this offer or even writing this article, but based on my conversations with thousands of leaders over the years, I hope this speaks to the right people.
I have heard it said "Ego is a disease that makes everyone sick except the person with the disease" and I agree with that, but that was not what this article is about! MLM Ego is different. The truth is if you have achieved a leadership rank in any MLM company you are not normal. You have some people skills, communication ability and work ethic that most don't have. I appreciate you because you are the one's that have taken the industry to this point in history. I just want to encourage you to understand there are really good people on your team, that must have duplicatable systems in place to achieve their dream. What you needed and what they need is DIFFERENT!
Systems are duplicatalbe, personality is not. With the right systems and programs in place you can explode your income and your business, without them your growth is dependent upon how many natural leaders you can find. Let's face it, those people are hard to find unless they are in between projects, because they are already building their dream. 27% of your team can build huge organizations and six figure incomes with the right systems, but only 3% will do it on their own. We all know 70% of the population will die with their music still in them, regardless.
You can avoid this reality, or embrace it, and build an empire. If nothing else MLM Leaders, take some time and read this booklet. MLM Masses.
Respectfully,
Dale Calvert
PS If you want schedule a 30 minute coaching session call our office now at 502-868-6199
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Friday March 22nd, 2013
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In this newsletter…
· Quick Message from Dale
* Our Readers Write
* Quote of the Week
· Featured Article plus Free Gift
How to Change Your Life if You Want To.
· Video of the Week: Joel Osteen
Program Your Brain
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Quick Message from Dale
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I will be doing a key note training primarily on creating leads for your business and look forward to seeing some old friends and making new ones.
My March Madness is officially over. I will continue to watch some of the games, but this has been a very humbling year to be a University of Kentucky fan. At this point my only hope is Louisville or Indiana doesn't win and that Tennessee gets knocked out of the NIT as soon as possible. The good news is with the addition of the #1 Power forward in the country Julius Randle (from Plano, TX) announcing he is coming to Kentucky next year, we have the number one recruiting class on their way and will probably be pre-season rated number one next year.
Julius Randle
March has been a great month for Calvert Marketing Group, we really appreciate your support of our various business projects & training programs. There is more opportunity right now than at any time in history. There is an old saying:
"When the Student is Ready, the Teacher will Arrive".
That has certainly been true in my life. The key in today's marketing world is to develop a student mentality if you don't have it. I think over the years most successful network marketers where able to accomplish success with their natural talents, work ethic, personality, and leadership skills. Not just network marketers but many sales or leadership professions as I talk about in WHY THE MASSES OF NETWORK MARKETERS ARE FRUSTRATTED, CONFUSED AND DON'T HAVE A CLUE WHAT THEY ARE DOING.
The days of throwing enough mud on the wall and see what sticks have been slowing diminishing for several years. Today, to maximize your potential it requires personal education more than at any time in history. The good news is we all have the ability to learn new methods and systems. As you master systems and methods, continue to learn and add new systems all the time. "When your green you grow when you ripe you rot"
Have a great week!
Dedicated to Your Success!
Dale
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Our Readers Write
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I appreciate those of you that take the time to email me and contact
our office. I received this email this week from Eugene and it
was a reminder of why I do what I do.
Dear Mr. Calvert,
I have been following your teachings on Network Marketing since the 90's and I have always found your knowledge to be on point. Although we have never personally met or spoken for that matter I consider you one of my mentors. You are one of the greats in this industry and I am grateful that you continue to share your insight and knowledge. Many of us have lost sight as to what this industry is really about, "the development of people" if you build people, people will build the business. It's funny you mention the greats of the industry like Mr. Jim Rohn and Zig Zigler. They inspired us to want to do better and be better and you're offering the same encouragement to those of us who will listen.
Keep up the great work. I for one appreciate the wealth of knowledge you share. Those who speak the truth are never welcomed by those who promote lies.
Sincerely,
Eugene Bly
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
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This quote changed my life and will be the subject of this weeks featured article. I am so thankful that I was 20 years old when I heard it, I took it to heart and have never doubted
"You are where you are in your life because of what
has gone into your mind, the only way to change
where you are is to change what goes into your mind"
— Zig Ziglar
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Featured Article
How to Change Your Life, If You Need To
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I am not going to repeat the whole story, because most of the people who read my Friday "No Fluff Marketing" newsletter have also seen the vdieo of my story.
I was twenty years old, and working at IBM in Lexington Kentucky. I was required to spend a week in the basement in what they called "The Employee Awareness Class". The morning was the worst 4 hours of my life. It was spent with the instructor telling the history of IBM and basically why we should be so thankful to be working for such a great company. Understand I was twenty years old and what I call psychologically unemployable. Every Sunday night I got sick to my stomach thinking about Monday morning.
Anyway after our lunch break the instructor pulled out a boom box and a set of six cassettes and told us we were going to listen to one of these tapes every day for the next 5 days. He pushed play and I heard it …..
"You are where you are in your life because of what has gone into your mind, the only way to change where you are is to change what goes into your mind"
I cannot put into words how this statement hit me emotionally. If was life changing and the start of a journey that I couldn't even have imagined at that time in my life. That was the start of my personal development journey and ultimately lead to me listening to motivational and personal development cassettes for 8 – 10 hours every day for over three years. I know that if I had not heard those words and taken them to heart that I wouldn't have the opportunity to be writing this article some 30+ years later.
I would have never been able to quit my job, travel the world, drive what I want to drive, make millions of dollars in a year and meet so many great people throughout my life.
It has definitely not all been a bed of roses since that day. Like most entrepreneurs I have had a lot of ups and downs over the past 30 years in every aspect of my life. However I have never forgotten that ultimately what I consciously allow in my mind, ultimately determines the path.
I have heard it said, "We are all self-made, but only the successful admit that". The truth is that at some point most of the population starts blaming their family, the government, their boss, the economy, etc for where they are in life. THAT IS THE BIGGEST LIE PEOPLE TELL THEMSELVES! I have done my best over the years to look myself in the mirror and take responsibility.
Like everyone, it is easy to blame down turns on other things that are OUTSIDE OF OUR CONTROL. Unfortunately many people get in the habit of developing the attitude "If first I don't succeed, fix the blame quick". That mentality will never create success! People who develop this type of mindset ultimately end up in a mode where they fall victim to every money making program in the market. They develop what is commonly called the "Shiny Object Syndrome" and spend years trying to find a product, company, software, or weird business model or investment to make them successful instead of the person staring them back in the mirror!
You make yourself successful, nothing else. The next shiny object is never going to make you successful, only your skill sets and mindsets which ultimately create your habits.
The most discouraging part of what I do is to work and communicate with people who don't understand this universal truth. We are where we are, because of what we have gone into our mind. They want to blame everything and everybody for where they are in their life . They fell into the blame other mentality and have never been able to break out of it and take responsibility. They feel that sooner or later they are going to find the shiny object or opportunity that will magically start sending them $10,000 checks every month. Yes, I am exaggerating, but sadly, not too much.
A couple of years ago I was sitting in a seminar that I paid $5,000 to attend. There was about 50 people in attendance and we were learning a business model that has nothing to do with network marketing. The room was full of people that really believed that within 30 days after attending that event they wuld be earning $10,000 a month with a business model they had zero experience with.
Now, I don't know what the sales letter promised, and know the company teaching the class there is no telling what they promised. However, I was there because I knew the guy had done what he was teaching … period. I was not there because I liked the guy, trusted the guy, or believed his seminar promotional material. I was there simply because I knew he had done what he was teaching. I also understand, that I had very little experience with that particular business model and it would take awhile to implement it and profit from it. Realistic expectations is essential no matter what business model you are trying to learn. In our 18 Months to MLM Mastery program, I understand that most people think that is too long, and as one marketer told me, Dale your title hurts sells. I understand all of that, but the bottom line is that is the truth. Anyone who tells you you can master the network marekting business model in under 18 months, probably has never mastered it themselves.
There is more opportunity in the market place than at any time before. However that means nothing to people that are PROGRAMMED to live financially mediocre lives. All of us, must act in accordance to our programs and the only way to change your life is to change what goes into your mind!
I know, in your heart and mind, you know this is true. It is the wisdom of the ages, and truth is truth. The real question is what should you do right now if you are ready to change your life? There is not a person reading this that doesn't at least have a friend, business associate, or downline team member that needs to read this article, I hope you will share it with them.
If you are personally on the right path, this article has only confirmed the truth you have already accepted. With that said, here are 3 resources I recommend.
#1 My book "Change Your Financial Mindset and Create Wealth" I have this book on free promotion for the next 3 days for those of you that actually take the time every week to read this newsletter. You can download it FREE on Amazon this Friday, Saturday and Sunday by clicking here.
Yes this is a Amazon Kindle book, but you don't have to have a kindle to download it. You can download a FREE Kindle reader here, which allow you to read Kindle books on your PC.
#2 Get your hands on the set of tapes I originally heard sitting in the basement at IBM over 30 years ago. See You at the Top. by Zig Ziglar.
#3 Add my Programming Your Mind For Success training program to your library, but more important follow the 15 minute a day system to change your life. Over the years I have done, hundreds of hours of audio and video trainings, there is no question this program has helped more people than any I have done.
Become a student of personal growth and development and expect good things to happen for you. Note, I didn't say hope, I said expect, think about the difference in those two words.
Get in the habit of monitoring your self-talk and what you allow in your mind. It is never to late to change your life.
I recently had the TV on ESPN and the media was talking to the great Michigan Basketball coach Tom Izzo. He was talking about how he has spent his life trying to learn from successful leaders & coaches of the past. He made the statement.
Tom Izzo
" One thing I have learned over my life is all successful self-made people all follow the same path. It doesn't matter if you are a coach or involved in business, the path is the same. Successful people learn from other people they strive to learn and take action to become better and failures don't. "
Truth is Truth. If you continue to do what you have always done, the way you have always done it, you will continue to get what you have always gotten. To change your life, you can start today, by consciously controlling what you allow in your mind.
I understand that people don't like to hear this. They want to be told that this shiny object makes lazy, stupid people, rich and it is somebody else’s fault that they are where they are. A lot of shady marketers understand this and quite frankly exploit people who are not willing to take responsibility.
If I am hitting a nerve … GOOD! The question is what are you going to do about it?
If you are broke, find the booklet called "The 7 Day Mental Diet" you can probably find it on Amazon for less than $5.00 … START THERE! Just start! If you need to change your life, to day is the day! Success starts for many with radical change and a DECISION!
Expect to Be Blessed!
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Programming Your Brain
Joel Osteen
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Note from Dale
Some of the links in my email and newsletters to you MAY be affiliate links but be confident that I only endorse what I fully stand behind. I accept no advertising in this newsletter.
Dale’s Top Website Include
www.DaleCalvert.com
A Directory of his websites
www.MLMTrainingClub.cm
For those that are ready to
Master Network Marketing
www.LocalMLMLeads.com
Top Lead Generation Course
www.6DMLMTraining.com
Free MLM Lead Generation PDF
www.CMGPromotions.com
Home of the original 100 Bill Dropcard
"The 1 Prospecting Tool Every
Network Marketers Should be Using"
I appreciate your support
Dedicated to Your Success!
Dale Calvert
PS I am not a prospect for any MLM Opportunity! I already got the T-Shirt! Like you, my time is the most valuable asset I have and I simply have too many business interest.
However we do work with leaders to conduct special webinars and Super Saturday
Trainings for their team and Key Notes at corporate conventions.
Call our office for more details: 502-868-6199
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