March 1st, 2010
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Hopefully it goes without saying, autoship is one of the cornerstones of your business. If you aren’t on it, you can’t expect your team members to be on it. If you aren’t on it, you simply won’t be successful in your business. If you can’t embrace autoship, get the hell out of network marketing! Really, you don’t have any chance of being successful. The industry doesn’t need another non-accountable idiot blaming everyone but them self for failure when they aren’t willing to do what it takes to win.
That being said, it’s easy to maintain an autoship. Just use your own products. If you don’t like them enough to use them regularly, you’re with the wrong company. With most companies, a few pills, or drinks, or laundry loads, or meal replacements, or beauty sessions and you’re all set. If you are using your own products it is enhancing your life and you are easily meeting your autoship obligations.
Frankly, you’re only 1000 or so autoships from declaring your independence from the corporate system. It all starts with you. Your infectious enthusiasm for the possibilities that life has in store for you and your team members is all you need to win. Yes there is work involved and being persistent and consistent for 5-10 hours a week, every week is IMPORTANT. On the other hand, TV isn’t going to pay you 10 grand a month, no matter how much you watch.
Embrace the fundamentals, use and promote autoship.
Greg Arnold
Greg-Arnold.com
Tags: autoship, greg-arnold, mlm, network-marketing
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February 28th, 2010
My wife Pattie posted my schedule on Google calendar so my team members could see when I am busy and schedule my time if they want to. By surrendering to this I am finding that most of my time is booked in advance with three-ways and two on ones. This, of course, also makes my time more valuable to both me and my team members.
She also has scheduled all the meetings and functions that I will be at in advance. So every Monday evening is scheduled in advance, also Wednesday evenings, a Sunday conference call that I do with the 14 Diamonds that I have on my team, plus lunch on Thursday and Friday that I have with my two Double Diamonds, the monthly Saturday trainings that we do, Company Convention in April, a team cruise in September, and two quarterly events at home in late July and a holiday party in December.
How do I know who my leaders are? They show up too. Leaders attend the meetings and functions. Leaders are a big part of the team culture. They know how important it is to participate, set the example and promote participation. All of these things keep you in the game and keep your team members in the game. Once you let yourself drift away…you’re toast.
You simply cannot succeed in a big way by being a wondering generality. Commitment is EVERYTHING to your ability to succeed. It keeps you going and it’s how others judge whether they are going to join your business or not. If your sponsoring is down, look in the mirror. You will either see someone who shows up…or not. You will either see someone destined to acquire their dreams…or not.
Leaders show up to succeed….do you?
Best of success,
Greg Arnold
Greg-Arnold.com
Tags: attend meetings and functions, greg-arnold, leaders show up, mlm, network-marketing, success
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February 9th, 2010
Time to move on. High 5 Team….October cruise. Let’s have some fun mixed in with our business.
High 5 Team Cruise
Go get em,
Greg Arnold
Greg-Arnold.com
Tags: cruise, mlm, network-marketing
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February 2nd, 2010
Would it surprise you if I told you that Xelr8 hasn’t refunded convention money yet? Not for hotel funds they collected ($440), not for convention tickets ($150) certainly not for plane tickets ($435). Fortunately, two of those items can be charged back. I guess I’ll give them till Friday. Don’t want to wait too long, after all, I’m already sitting here with $2500 worth of Bazi that they won’t buy back.
Greg Arnold
Tags: Bazi, Convention refund, Xelr8
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January 28th, 2010
Be aware, Xelr8 isn’t refunding money on product returns. I suppose I shouldn’t have expected ethical behavior from a failed company, but somehow I did. For every opportunity they have had to take the high road, they have done just the opposite. What a sad sad group of people they turned out to be.
Greg Arnold
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January 22nd, 2010
I had a short chat with Sandy Greenberg today. He is charming, but clueless. I told him that I felt bad for what he was going through. And I do. Losing your baby after all those years is very tough. But he mentioned we should all appreciate him more. He said he had worked the last four years without pay while he paid Tom Chenault $400,000 last year.
Well Sandy, you were the guy at the top and it’s your job to do what ever it takes to win. If you are wondering why Tom might not be totally thrilled with you it’s probably because of what you are going to pay him in 2010 after he brought you 12,000 distributors. We knew you knew nothing about mlm, but you were supposed to bring in people who did. With the exception of Tim Transtrum, you surrounded yourself with horribly under skilled management.
I really believe that if you gave a blind hog 24 million dollars, it probably could have built a successful MLM company. Sandy, I wish you the best as a person, but your company deserves to dry up and blow away.
Greg Arnold
GregArnold.com
Tags: mlm failure, Sandy Greenberg
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January 21st, 2010
So some of you may have heard that my previous MLM company, Xelr8, decided to shove me and 12,000 other loyal distributors off a cliff by terminating our pay plan. There is a silver lining, they offered to pay us 20% on our personal customers if we remain on autoship. Gee, how sweet of them. My advice is to return all your left over product and drop your autoship like a hot potato. These guys are villains in the worst way. I can’t tell you how many times I heard Sandy Greenberg say how committed he was to network marketing and how he would never start selling direct. I have it on more than one video. We ought to start a class action lawsuit. Not a bad idea. As long as they thought enough of us to put us out of business, we should return the favor.
What a crock. In the end, the corporate suits aren’t MLM people. They don’t believe in it, they aren’t committed to it and they will come back to bite you on the butt. So I created an infomercial. It’s generic. As late as last Friday, Dan Rumsey, the CEO, was giving me a ration of crap about getting him the scripts and such. These guys didn’t have a clue about how to run an MLM, they are headed down the toilet, and they want to lord their power over a distributor one last time.
Well fortunately, we built the infomercial totally generically. Interestingly enough I just told Rumsey in the email I wrote back to him that it was so generic I could take it to any company with a liquid nutritional product. Little did I know, I’d be exercising that option just four days later. I discussed more than once with Tom Chenault that these guys weren’t making good decisions. When I originally took the infomercial idea to them, they told me they couldn’t risk having their name on it because they would lose their athlete endorsers.
A month later they drove off their product guy who took his athlete endorsers with him. I simply cannot believe all the completely dumb decisions they made leading up to trashing us as distributors and essentially flushing a 24 million dollar investment down the drain.
Oh well, we have the infomercial. We’ll still bring on 50,000 new distributors this year, they just won’t be selling Bazi.
I have to say it though, those rat bastards…
Greg Arnold
Greg-Arnold.com
Tags: Bazi, Dan Rumsey, Sandy Greenberg, Xelr8
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November 25th, 2009
I saw this on Facebook posted by Christina Thompson. I liked it and wanted to take the opportunity to pass it on here:
When doing your Christmas cards take one and send it to this address: A Recovering American Soldier c/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 6900 Georgia Ave NW, Washington,D.C. 20307. If we pass this on, think how many cards these wonderful, special people would get. PASS THIS ON TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS.
Just copy and paste to your blog or FB wall if you agree (and enjoy your freedom.)
Greg Arnold
http://www.greg-arnold.com
Tags: Christmas cards, wounded warriors
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October 27th, 2009
You’ve been involved in your network marketing business for a couple months. You’ve been to an opportunity meeting and now you’re at home watching NCIS. “I don’t have anyone going to the meeting, why should I go?” Well, its the culture stupid!
I know, you’re smarter than everyone else. You’ve got no one coming so it’s a waste of time for you to be there. Besides, NCIS is far more important to your future. Well my friend, you don’t know it yet, but you’re already toast. You’re gone, kaput, road kill. And it’s your own darn fault!
In an alternate universe, the one where you’re successful…you’d be attending all the meetings and functions. In that universe you know how critical it is to immerse yourself in the culture. There, you’ll know that no one has ever had a life changing epiphany while watching prime time TV. You’ll know the importance of being involved. You’ll know it’s good to be around excited, happy people who are all moving toward a common goal. In that universe you are a strong team player and you’re supporting others with your presence. In that universe, you aren’t selfish!
In order to get what you want out of the business, you have to give something in to it. You have to participate. You can’t do it by yourself, we all need to be a part of the culture to succeed in it. If you could do it by yourself, you would have already done it. When you’re ready to win, to really win, you’ll get committed to the process. Part of that process is showing up.
Immerse yourself in your team’s culture, it’s part of your road to success.
Greg Arnold
http://www.greg-arnold.com
Tags: greg-arnold, mlm, network-marketing, team culture
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October 23rd, 2009
A blog I ran across that I liked and thought I would share it with you here:
MLM Video Marketing Secrets Exposed.
Tags: video marketing
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