Sunday, September 30, 2007

What Have You Done Today?

If what you did yesterday seems big,
you haven't done anything today.

-- Lou Holtz

Mike Stokes
Baton Rouge, LA
Dead Downlines Don't Lie

Saturday, September 29, 2007

Professional Dreamers

Most individuals are professional dreamers
who, in fact, only need the dreaming.

They don’t need the responsibility
or the action required to
materialize their dreams.

The idea of their dream actually
becoming a part of their lives
is often too daunting.

So, many ensure they are never disappointed
by under performing or selecting actions
that ensure their dream remains just that:
only a dream.

Weight Loss For The Mind
By – Stuart Wilde

Mike Stokes
Baton Rouge, LA
The Cash Flow Strategy

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

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Mike Stokes
Baton Rouge, LA

All Things Come...

All things come to those who wait -
provided they hustle while they wait.

Mike Stokes
Baton Rouge, LA
The Cash Flow Strategy

Friday, September 21, 2007

Personal Responsibility

Accepting responsibility is an uncomfortable thing,
for within that idea is the birth of the true individual.
--Stuart Wilde

Mike Stokes
Baton Rouge, LA
The Cash Flow pdf

A New End

'Though you can't go back and
make a brand new start,

You can start from now and
make a brand new end.'

Mike Stokes
Baton Rouge, LA
The Cash Flow pdf

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Even The Bible Says...

It is written in Luke 6:39 -

"Can the blind lead the blind?
Shall they not both fall in the ditch?"


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Baton Rouge, LA
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Friday, September 14, 2007

You Don’t Have To Be a Genius to Make Money

You Don’t Have To Be a Genius to Make Money,
But It Sure Helps to Know One!

or

Maybe I Was “Lucky”

Almost every day someone will tell me that
they want to make $10,000.00 a month,
and even more for goodness sakes...

But they won’t do what it takes
to make $100.00 a month.

They won’t take the action required to cover
their product costs, let alone do what it
takes to cover some marketing expenses.

They want to be a “heavy hitter” marketing guru,
and make the big bucks, yet they don’t want to
INVEST in the education – books, tapes, seminars,
etc – to learn how to do what they want to do...

...to have SUCCESS.

They'd rather watch American Idol on the TV
and learn how to make money by osmosis.

Yet these same people don’t bat an eye at
spending $100,000.00 and 4 years of their
lives to go to college to learn how to be
a $30,000 a year bookkeeper.

They want to quit their jobs and “go full time”,
yet they won’t INVEST one measly hour a day
in their business.

What in the world do they plan to do with
the extra 40 – 50 hours they have on their
hands if they quit their jobs?

They want to be in the marketing business,
but don’t want anyone to know about it.

Some even hide their business
from their spouses.

Good Lord.

If people in the “real” world thought the
way many people in direct sales think,
they’d certainly lose their jobs and
businesses, and maybe even be put in
a mental institution.

Maybe I thought like that before I got
into the direct sales business, because
I certainly lost my home, my business
and everything I owned once.

Maybe I was “lucky”, because I went down
the “stupid” highway before I was exposed
to direct sales.

And maybe I was “lucky”, because it wasn’t
“just a couple of hundred bucks” that I
INVESTED to start my direct sales business,
it was every cent I had and could put my
hands on in the world.

In fact, it was our grocery money.

No kidding.

You ever make spaghetti sauce with
the ketchup packs you saved up from
fast food joints?

We did, more than once too.

Maybe I was “lucky” because I had
to take my new business seriously,
or my family wouldn’t eat.

Maybe you could relate this to putting up
your home, all your savings, all of your
retirement benefits, all of your possessions,
and quitting your job to start a business
of some sort.

Do you think you would take that serious?

As serious as a heart attack, I’d think.

I talk with people every day that
don’t want to sell any products.

I’m not sure that they understand the English language.

What could they possibly think that
“marketing” and “direct sales” involves?

I tell these folks to toss their products
out the back door if they don’t want to
sell anything.

That’ll work.

Sort of like opening a convenience store,
and not wanting to sell the cigarettes and
beer, yet expecting money to materialize
in the cash register.

Seems foolish to me, but whatever rings
their bell, so what the heck.

I don’t understand where they’re coming from.

Maybe they know something I don’t.

But then, I’m the one getting
checks in the mail every day.

Maybe I was “lucky” that I had to sell
my initial order of products, in order
to pay for my next order.

You see, I “stole” $57.00 out of our
so-called budget to start my new
direct sales and marketing business.

Fifty-seven dollars.

On September 2, 1998.

But, the difference is, I didn’t INVEST
“just $57.00” in my new business,
I invested it ALL.

I had just “moved up” from homeless to
a tiny apartment in what can only be
described as a ghetto neighborhood.

Drunks and bums for neighbors…

The occasional shooting.

Anyway, fast-forward…

Less than 9 months later, on May 31, 1999,
I bought my wife the first new car she
had ever owned in her life.

A brand new, never been driven,
shiny black Toyota Camry.

She was so proud of it.

I was too.

Then, 23 months after opening my $57.00
direct sales and marketing business,
I bought my wife a real home,
in a nice neighborhood.

Still selling the products that I couldn’t
afford to keep 23 months earlier.

I guess I was “lucky.”

Maybe I got all the “breaks.”

Didn’t seem like it at the time.

But, looking back, I think I did get all the “breaks.”

My first “break” came just moments after
I bought in to my marketing business.

My sponsor vanished.

To this day, I have never heard another
word from him, or even about him.

He simply vanished.

Maybe he was abducted, I don’t know.

Maybe I’m a “genius.”

I didn’t even know the phone number
to the company I had just joined.

I had to wait until my first $57.00 order
arrived to find out how to contact the company.

Well, at least I was smart enough to know
that I needed to hook up with someone that
knew what they were doing...

Because I was “blessed” to not know a
thing about this marketing business.

Well, I have to admit that I was
“lucky” about one thing at least.

In the company newsletter that came with
my initial $57.00 order, they listed all
of the big money earners in the company.

They don’t list the people that don’t make any money.

Imagine that...

(I have since come to learn that most companies are like that.)

My “luck” is kicking in now, because if I’m
gonna call anyone for advice, it has to be
one of those big money earners on that list.

I just plain didn’t know how to contact anyone
as dumb and broke as myself, which is who I
certainly would have contacted given the chance.

Well, I’m about to learn my first lesson
in prosperity consciousness.

That lesson is this:

When you need business advice and counseling,
get it from someone who is already where
you want to be.

Not at the barroom or from your
dumb, broke brother-in-law.

Write this down:

If you want to make money,
you’ve got to get close to the money.

If you want to catch the flu,
hang around with people that have the flu.

If you want to make money,
hang around with people
that are making money.

It’s not much more complicated than that.

Oh, and you do need to heed their advice.

And, take action.

So, what’s the “secret” of success?

1. ASSOCIATE with successful people.
2. INVEST in your success education.
3. DO what successful people do.
4. Take ACTION. In other words, do it.

You can’t PLAY business,.

You’re either IN business, or you’re wasting
people’s time and your family’s money.

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Sunday, September 09, 2007

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Saturday, September 08, 2007

Marketing Basics - Simplicity

Let's get back to basics and
simplicity of this business.

Here are the important things:

1. Targeting a group of people with common wants or needs.

2. Finding out what they perceive as valuable.

3. Offering that to them with a sales process that gets them to buy.

Step one is where most people falter traditionally.

But what I've noticed more and more is that step two is a problem.

People sell their product, service or information too cheaply.

Why?

Because they don't know how to create perceived value for
it.

Mike Stokes
Baton Rouge, LA
The Marketing Dashboard

Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Your Words

Let you words determine your circumstances,
not describe them.

Mike Stokes
Baton Rouge, LA

Your Vision

Don't confuse the edge of your rut
with the horizon.


Mike Stokes
Baton Rouge, LA

Tuesday, September 04, 2007

The Difference in People

There is very little difference in people.

But that little difference makes a big difference.

The little difference is attitude.

The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
-- W. Clement Stone

Mike Stokes
Baton Rouge, LA

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Monday, September 03, 2007

Mark Twain Says...

A man who does not read good books
has no advantage over
the man who can't read them.

...Mark Twain

Mike Stokes
Baton Rouge, LA


PS - If you have a network marketing business,
this is a good book...
MLM Today 2008