Why Do So Many Network Marketers Fail?
Skeptics like to point out that most Network Marketing businesses fail. The simple fact is that 90% of all small businesses fail in the first 2 years. This includes Network Marketing businesses that are set up by entrepreneurs like you and I. In addition 90 % of the businesses that make it through the first 2 years close within a decade. These stats refer to regular, traditional small business as well as network marketing businesses. This means that 99% of all businesses don’t make it to the 10 year mark!The next time some skeptic tells you that 99% of network marketing businesses fail then you can simply let them know that ALL businesses have that same statistic.The list below shows some of the reasons that are commonly attributed to why people believe their busi

Top 5 Communication Tips for Couples
1. If you want to be a better communicator, be a better listener. This means listening without reaction and without judgment. When your partner shares, you are observing your partner’s innermost feelings and emotions. These feelings are neither good nor bad. This is just how your partner feels. You don’t have to agree.But, the first step in effective communications is to listen and understand that your partner feels that way. Communication in a good relationship isn’t just two people talking to each other. It is also two people listening.2. When your partner is sharing a belief, an opinion, or a feeling, it is his feeling. He is entitled to it; it's his. Telling him he's wrong never works and makes people defend their positions. Do you remember your reaction last

9 Tips for Getting the Most From Your Conference Investment
Tips for Getting the Most From Your Conference Investment All professionals attend conferences, seminars, and trade shows each year.  Through my observation and person experience here are my top tips for maximizing your time and monetary investment in these events. 1. Set goals for the event.  Think about what you hope to gain from your attendance.  Be specific and write them down!  Consider your goals for specific content areas, specific questions you hope to have answered, number and kinds of people you want to meet and/or amount of new business you hope to gain.  Goal setting here is like in anything else.  Be specific, write them down and then focus on achieving them. 2. Invest some time in planning.very big, booking rooms by the thousands, often in their own company-owned hotels. The buses are usually very good; a luxurious new or fairly new 49 seater, with a high quiet ride, comfortable seats, air conditioning and a toilet on board. Go with the flow on one of these big economical tours and you'll see a lot of Europe, but you won't experience much of Europe.

The hotels will fit American and Canadian standards. This means large, not too personal and offering comfort, good plumbing and double rooms. Be sure to check the brochures carefully for this phrase: "we'll overnight near Rome". Near might mean halfway to Naples in the middle of nowhere. If most meals are included on one of these tours, don't expect gourmet meals. The tour companies drive the prices down to the point where the hotels and restaurants can barely break even and most of the meals will be buffet style with little evidence of local cuisine.

Europe will be spoon-fed to you by your guide on these big company tours. The sights you see will be those chosen for their convenience to the tour company, not for their cultural or historical significance. This is getting to be more common all the time, because with the burgeoning populations and increasing tourism, the museums and historically significant sights are resorting to reservations, which put a crimp into the bus tour schedules. The "historically significant" site the bus will take you to will often be the one with easy parking and in a town or city where there is a company owned hotel.

Stop and think, you cannot take 49 people into a "cozy" pub and be cozy. A good stop for a guide is a place with easy access to and from the freeway, easy bus parking and where the guides and drivers are supplied with free coffee, sandwiches and cakes. The staff should speak sufficient English and accept bank cards and above all, 49 people can all go to the bathroom at one and the same time!

Being a tour guide is not the fun job it might seem at first glance. There's lots of responsibility, paperwork and miserable hours; a good guide is the first up in the morning and the last to bed at night. Most guides - if they can - will keep their distance from their group socially, this is a job to them, not a seven, fourteen, or twenty-one day party on wheels. Each tourist has his or her own problems and personal demands and a group of 49 can often become an amalgamated pain in the butt to the guide.

Ever wonder how they get paid? They usually make a daily salary between 50 and 100 dollars, a percentage of the optional excursions, kickbacks from the museums, attractions, etc. that the guide brings their tour to and finally the end-of-the-trip tips. Some professional guides with a lot of experience on a particular tour, will pay the tour company a flat fee for the privilege of guiding the tour and keep all the money from the excursions, kickbacks and tips. A top notch professional guide can make 500+ a day on a good tour.

Here's some final tips for you to employ to help ensure a good trip.

First and above all else, stay on the good side of your guide. Wait for a quiet moment to ask for advice instead of insisting on individual attention. If the bus is making a quick pit stop and there's a coffee kiosk close, ask if you can bring back coffees for the driver and guide. Go along with the small things, without letting him/her take advantage of you.

Be wary of the sightseeing options and especially the "night activities" or "local color" options. A couple hundred Aussies, Kiwis, Japanese, Koreans, Americans and Crazy Canucks drinking sangria and whirling their noisemakers is not local color! Instead visit a local caf? or bar of some kind and strike up a conversation with the locals. You'll have a good time and probably feel better the next morning, especially if you take it easy with the local firewater. Some of it is very strange and very powerful.

Decide before you leave home whether you're going on a tour to see and experience Europe, or to shop. If it's to shop, the guide will be happy to steer you to all their "best buys". Rolexes are pushed in Switzerland, leather goods in Florence and glass objets d'art in Venice. And that "professor" or "scholar" that meets your cruise ship, or at the hotel first thing in the morning on a free day? He is actually a carpet salesman who will take you t

heir cultural or historical significance. This is getting to be more common all the time, because with the burgeoning populations and increasing tourism, the museums and historically significant sights are resorting to reservations, which put a crimp into the bus tour schedules. The "historically significant" site the bus will take you to will often be the one with easy parking and in a town or city where there is a company owned hotel.

Stop and think, you cannot take 49 people into a "cozy" pub and be cozy. A good stop for a guide is a place with easy access to and from the freeway, easy bus parking and where the guides and drivers are supplied with free coffee, sandwiches and cakes. The staff should speak sufficient English and accept bank cards and above all, 49 people can all go to the bathroom at one and the same time!

Being a tour guide is not the fun job it might seem at first glance. There's lots of responsibility, paperwork and miserable hours; a good guide is the first up in the morning and the last to bed at night. Most guides - if they can - will keep their distance from their group socially, this is a job to them, not a seven, fourteen, or twenty-one day party on wheels. Each tourist has his or her own problems and personal demands and a group of 49 can often become an amalgamated pain in the butt to the guide.

Ever wonder how they get paid? They usually make a daily salary between 50 and 100 dollars, a percentage of the optional excursions, kickbacks from the museums, attractions, etc. that the guide brings their tour to and finally the end-of-the-trip tips. Some professional guides with a lot of experience on a particular tour, will pay the tour company a flat fee for the privilege of guiding the tour and keep all the money from the excursions, kickbacks and tips. A top notch professional guide can make 500+ a day on a good tour.

Here's some final tips for you to employ to help ensure a good trip.

First and above all else, stay on the good side of your guide. Wait for a quiet moment to ask for advice instead of insisting on individual attention. If the bus is making a quick pit stop and there's a coffee kiosk close, ask if you can bring back coffees for the driver and guide. Go along with the small things, without letting him/her take advantage of you.

Be wary of the sightseeing options and especially the "night activities" or "local color" options. A couple hundred Aussies, Kiwis, Japanese, Koreans, Americans and Crazy Canucks drinking sangria and whirling their noisemakers is not local color! Instead visit a local caf? or bar of some kind and strike up a conversation with the locals. You'll have a good time and probably feel better the next morning, especially if you take it easy with the local firewater. Some of it is very strange and very powerful.

Decide before you leave home whether you're going on a tour to see and experience Europe, or to shop. If it's to shop, the guide will be happy to steer you to all their "best buys". Rolexes are pushed in Switzerland, leather goods in Florence and glass objets d'art in Venice. And that "professor" or "scholar" that meets your cruise ship, or at the hotel first thing in the morning on a free day? He is actually a carpet salesman who will take you t

e from their group socially, this is a job to them, not a seven, fourteen, or twenty-one day party on wheels. Each tourist has his or her own problems and personal demands and a group of 49 can often become an amalgamated pain in the butt to the guide.

Ever wonder how they get paid? They usually make a daily salary between 50 and 100 dollars, a percentage of the optional excursions, kickbacks from the museums, attractions, etc. that the guide brings their tour to and finally the end-of-the-trip tips. Some professional guides with a lot of experience on a particular tour, will pay the tour company a flat fee for the privilege of guiding the tour and keep all the money from the excursions, kickbacks and tips. A top notch professional guide can make 500+ a day on a good tour.

Here's some final tips for you to employ to help ensure a good trip.

First and above all else, stay on the good side of your guide. Wait for a quiet moment to ask for advice instead of insisting on individual attention. If the bus is making a quick pit stop and there's a coffee kiosk close, ask if you can bring back coffees for the driver and guide. Go along with the small things, without letting him/her take advantage of you.

Be wary of the sightseeing options and especially the "night activities" or "local color" options. A couple hundred Aussies, Kiwis, Japanese, Koreans, Americans and Crazy Canucks drinking sangria and whirling their noisemakers is not local color! Instead visit a local caf? or bar of some kind and strike up a conversation with the locals. You'll have a good time and probably feel better the next morning, especially if you take it easy with the local firewater. Some of it is very strange and very powerful.

Decide before you leave home whether you're going on a tour to see and experience Europe, or to shop. If it's to shop, the guide will be happy to steer you to all their "best buys". Rolexes are pushed in Switzerland, leather goods in Florence and glass objets d'art in Venice. And that "professor" or "scholar" that meets your cruise ship, or at the hotel first thing in the morning on a free day? He is actually a carpet salesman who will take you t

u can bring back coffees for the driver and guide. Go along with the small things, without letting him/her take advantage of you.

Be wary of the sightseeing options and especially the "night activities" or "local color" options. A couple hundred Aussies, Kiwis, Japanese, Koreans, Americans and Crazy Canucks drinking sangria and whirling their noisemakers is not local color! Instead visit a local caf? or bar of some kind and strike up a conversation with the locals. You'll have a good time and probably feel better the next morning, especially if you take it easy with the local firewater. Some of it is very strange and very powerful.

Decide before you leave home whether you're going on a tour to see and experience Europe, or to shop. If it's to shop, the guide will be happy to steer you to all their "best buys". Rolexes are pushed in Switzerland, leather goods in Florence and glass objets d'art in Venice. And that "professor" or "scholar" that meets your cruise ship, or at the hotel first thing in the morning on a free day? He is actually a carpet salesman who will take you to the obligatory ancient site, then take you to his carpet store and then take you to the cleaners if you fall for his line. Any time a guide, storekeeper or salesperson tells you that it's a special price for the tour, but you must buy now, run -don't walk- to the nearest exit. You can probably get it for half the price down the street, but only if you can break away for the tour group and a sharp guide will make that almost impossible.

Always be on the lookout for opportunities to talk to the local population. This is easier if you came not to shop but to learn and experience. Most people are very proud of their city, canton, or country and love to tell you about it. So lean back, have another sip of wine, listen and enjoy! Happy touring!