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Nicholas founded MLM Absolute in 2008 and have since scale the website to new heights. Being a network marketer for 10 years and an avid internet marketer for 5 years, Nicholas is proficient with all marketing strategies both offline and online. Nicholas overseas the whole management of the whole website.

Healthy and Delicious

MXI Corp. from Reno in Nevada has to do with chocolate. With chocolate that both tastes good and is healthy! Not only is this “both/and” philosophy at the bottom of the success of the American company, which wants to take both the European and the Asian market by storm in the coming months, but also the finest recipes for sophisticated culinary delights.

Already at the beginning of the year the team around Andrew Brooks opened up the British market and since then it has also welcomed Europe into the Xoçai™ Healthy Chocolate Family. And already next month over 500 enthusiastic Xoçai™ friends in Sweden are expected to attend the market opening there. Hong Kong and New Zealand are also getting their warehouses soon and still in 2010 the company will also be offering the healthy food to German and Austrian friends of chocolate.

In addition to pure dark chocolate special ingredients such as among others the powerful açai berry from the Amazon Region of Brazil are the secret behind Xoçai™. The company is is at present active in 12 countries and pas using a binary remuneration plan. The top earner besides the company`s No. 1, Jeremy Reynolds from Utah, is the networker Paula Pritchard, who is well-known in Europe and Asia. During a first tour of the factory OBTAINER Founder and President was able to convince himself of the competence of MXI Corp. Monthly turnover of at present over $6 million is proof of the unambiguous successful trend.

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Nicholas Ho | Oct 18, 2009 | Comments 282

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How to Sell Yourself

Sometimes you not only need to convince your prospect about how good your product is and why they should buy it from you, especially if they can get a similar product elsewhere. You also need to convince them about why they should buy it from you.

Before you get better at persuading others and influencing others,you need to learn how to self motivate and sell yourself.

Here are 10 Tips on how you can sell yourself better.

1. Believe in your Product

You need to first believe in what you are selling before anything else. This means that you must be convinced that the product is good, and you are capable of selling it. This means believing in YOU!

One of the every first few things that people notice about you is about your attitude. Successful people have constructive and optimistic way of looking at themselves and things in the external environment.

Start to believe in yourself and not let uncontrollable events affect your attitude. Do not step into the bad habits of criticising, condemning, and complaining

2. Have Attention Grabbing Packaging

How your product is packaged and presented will influence to buying decision of the prospect.

Everything needs to be packaged well, including yourself. You should dress appropriately for the occasion. The style of clothes you wear, your spectacles, your tie, your shoes, and even the pen you use says something about you.

3. Smile

A nice, pleasant smile will help to give a better impression to your prospect. No need to give a big cheesy grin.

4. Use Names

Remember your prospect’s name and use their name during the presentation. Ask for permission to address them by their first names. Don’t overdo it. Besides remembering their names, you should try to get them to remember your name as well.

5. Body Language

Take note of your prospect’s body language as they tell you how they are thinking and feeling. Look at his eyes, are they looking around the room, or are they looking at what you are presenting, are their arms crossed? How are they sitting?

These are signs that can tell you if the prospect is convinced or not, if they are folding their arms at the end of your presentation, you probably have not convinced and get them to open up to you yet, so you should work on that.

Spend some time engaging them, make some small talk, and also get them to talk about themselves so you will have a better understanding of them

6. Listen

You must listen o what your prospect says and most importantly show them that you are listening. Many male marketers make this mistake, especially when the prospect is a female. They do not show that they are listening. You can show that you are listening by showing some acknowledgement, nod your head and acknowledge by “uh huh”.

7. Be Interested

To be interesting to your prospect, you must first be interested. Most people are concerned about their self image. Therefore you should show that you value them, and you feel that they are important and worth listening to, you will effectively raise their self image. They will love you when you are able to do that.

8. Talk Positively

Craft your sentence to make it sound more positive. Instead of, “It’s such a terrible day don’t you think?” you could say “How wonderful is it stopped raining”. You could also say thing to compliment your prospect such as, “ i have heard a lot of good things about you”. But only say thing is it is true. If not you will risk being seen as insincere and fake.

9. Mirror Your Prospect

You can try to behave more like your prospect by speaking and behave like them. For example, if they talk slowly, you should match his speed when you talk to him.

10. Be Warm and Friendly

Be warm and friendly when you talk to a new prospect, or even your current customers and downline. Avoid being over pushy and aggressive. If you are too aggressive and pushy, your prospect will become more defensive and unwilling to open up to listen to you.

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Nicholas Ho | May 28, 2009 | Comments 44

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5 Tips to Develop a Strong Network

Sharing your passion for your business, helping others build a business for themselves, training and educating and being able to earn a little extra money–these are all reasons why direct sales team building is so important.

If you are a team leader, you’ll find that you must build firm alliances with team members. Not doing so would only rish losing them all together. You need to build up a solid relationship that will benefit you both.

But you may be wondering how to insure that team members feel included while still maintaining some type of balance with the rest of your life. Here are 5 easy tips for maintaining a great relationship with your team downline members:

1. Start Off Strong

When a new recruit first signs up, it’s vitally important that you communicate often with her. One helpful ideas is to develop a series of emails to send to new member that talks them through those first confusing, scary, exciting days.

Don’t wait to communicate once she gets her kit. Start the training and mentoring the minute she signs up. You can do this easily via email or texting. Don’t make it a monumental task; just be sure to touch base frequently.

2. Give 15

Set aside fifteen minutes of each workday for team phone calls. Use those minutes to call one to five members of your group for a quick “just checking in” call. Leave a message if you get voicemail. The idea is to let them know that you’re thinking of them and giving them a chance to hear your voice. This is a great time to ask how they’re doing with their life as well and get beyond your company to show you care about them. They don’t want to get the feeling you only care because you are making money off of them.

3. Do it as a Team

Even if you have a personal website for your business, make a team website. It is great for communication. You can post new members, meeting dates and updates, etc. Your team can check it at their convenience and it keeps everyone connected.

4. Hold meetings

This is another great way to foster unity and strong relationships within your group. If you have downline members that are out your area, have a quarterly conference call with everyone just to touch base. There are many free teleconference services via the internet that make it very easy to do. And if you can, have a face-to-face meeting once in a while as well. Some group leaders have meetings monthly or quarterly. Others do a once a year get together with everyone.

5. Ecards

They are FREE (great!), but also convenient and fun. Use an Internet calendar function to keep track of birthdays. Once a month go through the upcoming month and set up the ecard deliveries for the birthdays, anniversary dates for the next month or more. You can set these up to deliver up to a year in advance! Everyone likes to get an ecard!

The bottom line to getting a strong downline team is to communicate in every way that you can. You will find that your direct sales team members will stay with your company much longer when you’ve fostered a strong relationship by keeping in touch! Much success!

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Nicholas Ho | May 22, 2009 | Comments 62

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Oprah Under Fire For Acai Endorsement

Oprah has been a leading voice in the exponential growth in sales of acai (pronounced ah-sigh-ee) products — a fruit found in the Brazilian jungles heralded for its antioxidant powers. But now she’s under attack for her endorsement from humanitarian types, who say the exploitation of the acai is leaving jungle dwellers starved for one of their favored sources of nutrients.

Image from StreetKnowledge

Soaring yuppie demand for the fruit — sales doubled to $104 million in 2008 — has driven prices out of reach for low-income indigenous people.

It seems like much ado about nothing: If acai is being made unaffordable by $104 million in US-driven sales, then it should be easy enough to funnel a chunk of that money back into the communities to raise the standard of living: The emergence of a valuable cash crop should help the people, not hurt them.

The fact is that that rarely happens, but perhaps Oprah can use her platform to make sure that the benefits of Acai’s popularity accrues at least partly to the poor locals.But long-term, it’s probably not going to be a major driver of anything. Its explosive sales growth aside, acai has all the hallmarks of a fad food: Its sales growth is being driven by multi-level marketing hype machines like MonaVie and unrealistic claims and promises have abounded.

And what about the antioxidant power? Gourmet reported that “an experiment last year at UCLA revealed that the berry is actually lower in antioxidant potency than many other sources, including red wine and pomegranate, grape, and blueberry juices.”

Acai products — especially the ones sold through multi-level marketing — are outrageously expensive and don’t appear to be spectacular enough to justify the cost. I predict that acai flames out before it has any long-term impact on the Brazilian economy.

via WalletPop

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Nicholas Ho | May 15, 2009 | Comments 98

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Neways Helps Raise Funds For Polio Vaccinations

Neways Logo

As a socially conscious company that is always on the lookout for ways to help others, Neways Japan has recently been involved with a large-scale plastic-cap-recycling project to raise funds for polio vaccinations.

To date, more than 3.5 million beverage caps collected by Neways have been recycled, and the proceeds have purchased polio vaccinations for more than 4,000 people. The effort is known as the Eco Cap Project. Working together with a volunteer organization called Group MATE, Neways Japan staff members and independent distributors have been collecting and sorting the caps at several Neways showrooms.

The plastic caps are then sold for recycling to Tokyo Mokkosho, and the resulting funds are donated to the Japan committee of a nonprofit organization called Vaccines for the World`s Children. Out of 1,930 participating organizations, Neways Japan has collected the second-highest number of caps.In addition to providing vaccinations to needy children, the Eco Cap Project is also providing environmental benefits.

By recycling the caps instead of incinerating them, air pollution has been reduced by nearly 30,000 kilograms of carbon dioxide to date. In addition, the collection bins in Neways showrooms are made of Eco Ply, which contains recycled material from caps that have been gathered.

“We greatly appreciate all the Neways distributors and staff for your generous help in collecting and sorting the caps,” said a representative of the Eco Cap Project.

“We are very pleased that our Japan partners have taken the initiative to get involved with such a worthwhile project,” said Neways CEO Eric Larsen. “It`s inspiring to see Neways employees and distributors combining their volunteer efforts. I would like to see more of this kind of activity around the world, both within Neways and wherever people are blessed with the prosperity to help those who are less fortunate.”

About Neways, known as the Safety-Conscious Company, Neways is dedicated to helping families transform their homes into Healthy Homes.

With dozens of safe, effective nutritional and personal care products that are free of questionable ingredients, the company has strived since 1992 to make the world a healthier place, one home at a time.In addition to providing exclusive products, Neways enhances people`s lives with a home-based business opportunity.

About half a million active Neways distributors share the products in 29 countries, with nearly half of the company`s annual revenues paid back to distributors as commissions.

via Obtainer

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Nicholas Ho | May 15, 2009 | Comments 31

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Avon Launching First-Ever Informercial

The cosmetics firm Avon will come calling on TV, recruiting sales representatives with its first-ever infomercial debuting this weekend. After its initial appearance on Oxygen on Saturday morning, the half-hour commercial for troubled Avon Products Inc. will be shown repeatedly on Oxygen, Lifetime and USA. Deborah Norville and financial guru Suze Orman are featured, but the infomercial is dominated by testimonials from women who sell Avon`s products. The company wants to increase its base of 500,000 sales representatives in the United States.

“We saw it as an opportunity because of the times we`re in,” said Geralyn Brieg, President of Avon North America.

Avon announced a restructuring with a freeze on salaries and hiring two months ago. The company sells more than three-quarters of its cosmetics overseas, where sales have been hurt by a stronger dollar. The project is also an example of the growing acceptance of infomercials, once an advertising form reserved for cheesy products. “We really wanted to explore how to do it in a quality way,” Brieg said, “and I think the image of infomercials as being something of a hard sell is really outdated.”

Brieg said the company was motivated to do something more on television after an appearance by its president on ABC`s “Good Morning America” last November.

The TV appearance alone caused a large jump in the number of people calling to inquire about selling Avon products, she said. She would not pinpoint a target on how many new sales representatives Avon hopes to gain with the infomercial.

“Recruiting is 50 percent of what we focus on at Avon,” she said. “It`s the moral equivalent for a retailer of having more stores open.”

via Obtainer

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Nicholas Ho | May 15, 2009 | Comments 76

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Agel Records 36 Percent Growth Despite Recession

Founded in 2005, Agel launched its gel packed supplements concurrently in 12 different countries via direct selling avenues. Throughout the last 4 years, the company has continued to grow and expand into 36 nations.

Agel Records 36 Percent Growth Despite Recession

And in 2009, despite the economic downturn and credit crunch, the Utah-based company sees its record growth.

From February to March this year, Agel saw an increased of its sales and leadership by a whopping 36% with its most significant increase in the Southeast Asia (SEA) market, and saw approximately 900 rank advancement with more establishment of top leaders in SEA alone.

What did Agel CEO said?

“Agel’s global success and growth has been the direct result of four major factors,” said Founder and CEO Glen Jensen.

“First, we have obtained the world’s best supplements and combined them into effective combinations for specific needs. Second, we utilize suspension gel technology for efficient delivery throughout the body. Third, we realize and utilize innovation and technology with no geographical borders as the economic engines that drive worldwide success freely across the globe. And, fourth we enjoy associations with Agel leaders and an efficient sales team throughout the world that independently market and distribute Agel products to people in their spheres of influence. We are looking forward to ongoing global advancement.”

With more news on network marketing companies seeing good growth in the last quarter, we are also in line with the fact that there have been an increased in the number of people turning to network marketing in times of the recession.

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Nicholas Ho | May 12, 2009 | Comments 134

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Banks Turn To Network Marketing

Large U.S. banks are turning to Internet social network Web sites to get the word out on a variety of marketing messages, bank officials said.

“Social media is a whole new world,” said Pamela Blasé, a spokeswoman for Kansas City’s UMB Financial. “You cannot afford to not be a part of it,” she said.

Banks, such as Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C), American Express and Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE:WFC), have placed messages on Web sites such as Facebook and Myspace, USA Today reported Tuesday.

Other banks have turned to the popular YouTube Web site for broadcasting information on features and services.

“There’s a lot of worry out there,” said Ed Terpening, vice president of social media at Wells Fargo. “That means that we have to stay close to our customers.”

The networking sites provide a “pure, instant” media for banks, Discover’s director of e-commerce Steve Furman said.

The Web sites also give customers a chance to speak their minds.

“Stop making your living off my late fees!” wrote Jesse Hattabaugh of San Francisco in recent post. “You fine me more than you loan me!” Hattabaugh wrote.

via Post Chronicle

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Nicholas Ho | May 12, 2009 | Comments 12

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30 Link Building Tips to Improve Your SEO

This is a guest post by Brent Sweet, owner of One-Way-Links-Now.com. He can show you how to build thousands of backlinks and improve your search rankings.

Search Engine Optimization

Successful websites have plenty of links to them, but those links don’t just magically appear. If you want to be successful with your web site in the search engines, you’ll need to focus on one way link building, something that can skyrocket your position in the search results if done correctly and naturally.

Directories

1. Submit your site to directories and if you have a blog on your site, submit that to blog directories.

2. Write informative articles with killer bios (including your link) and submit to article directories.

3. Submit press releases to PR directories for immediate links, as well as back links when news sites pick the release up.

4. Look for local and niche specific directories and submit your site to them.

Website Content

5. Offer a solution to a problem. People will link to you in droves.

6. Make a “Top 10″ list of resources for your niche, these always gain a lot of back links.

7. Set up a contest where people have to bookmark or blog about the contest in order to enter.

8. Write a 6 part email course and give it away so people will tell their friends.

9. Give away a free eBook or product and let people know about it so they can link to you.

10. Compile a list of top gurus in your niche. Chances are they’ll link back to you when they realize you’re talking about them.

Blogging

11. If you don’t have a blog, set one up, host it on your site and post to it regularly.

12. Join group writing projects where many people will link to everyone who participated in the project.

13. Write a comprehensive post about one of the more popular blogs.

14. Join a blog carnival.

Content Sites

15. Set up pages on content sites like Squidoo and Hub pages, linking back to your site as a reference.

16. Be the first to start a page for your keyword on a content site and you’ll get a lot more traffic and links.

17. Set up a blog on a site like Blogger which is quickly indexed by Google. Link back to your site every two or three blog posts.

18. Put photos up on sites like Flickr and link to your website in the description.

19. Upload useful videos to video sharing sites and include your URL in the description box.

20. Create a favorite products list on Amazon and link to your site.

Networking

21. Join social networks like StumbleUpon and Digg and make plenty of friends. Bookmark and vote for their sites and they will do the same for you, increasing the chances of having someone link to your site.

22. Offer to write a guest post on a prominent blog in your niche. Link to your own site in the post.

23. Create a great sig line in forums, with your link, and make plenty of useful comments.

24. Comment on blog posts and link to your site.

25. Answer relevant questions on Yahoo Answers. If you’re chosen as the Best Answer, you can leave your link in the resource area.

26. Twitter URLs and ask for re-tweets.

27. Use your URL in your profile on social media sites.

Techniques

28. Use your keywords in your anchor text.

29. Don’t forget to use deep links, don’t just link to your main page.

30. Set up an affiliate program which will help boost visibility and therefore increase links.

You can use as many or as few of these one way link building tips to help boost your SEO. Chances are, you’ll come up with a few more methods of your own, too.

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Nicholas Ho | Apr 29, 2009 | Comments 313

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What is Twitter

This is a guest post by my friend, Kenneth Olenderson. Kenneth believes that Twitter is the next big thing after MySpace but what is twitter?

Twitter has grown to be one of the most popular sites in the world. Twitter grows every day and every night. Bloggers love twitter because it allows them to interact with several people at once. Twitter is a web site that is considered like a micro blog.

Twitter was originally designed for interacting with family and friends but it later grew to a micro-blogging network that allowed you to promote websites and several other products. Twitter quickly became a new trend and people were hooked. Twitter today is known throughout the world and it continues to grow every day.

When Twitter began to grow in 2006, people where a little skeptical on only blogging 140 characters. As twitter went on people began to get comfortable and before the years end, Twitter was the new trend.

As twitter became popular people took advantage of the opportunity and started to use it as a means of promoting products and different types of shows. Politicians started to use twitter as a publicity tool and actors did as well. As twitter grew, more and more people signed up.

To start your own twitter page you can go to the web site and click sign up. Information that is required from you is your name and email address. You will also have to create a password that you can remember. Optional information like your cell phone is your choice to put in.

After your information is put in you may proceed to follow anyone you would like whether it be someone you know or someone you dont know. Your inbox on your email will receive any messages, or as twitter will call them tweets and your cell phone will also receive a txt if anyone tweets you.

As soon as you get followers you will want to update or tweet as much as possible but tweet only on interesting topics or people may see you as annoying and they may even unfollow you. Also people will grow suspicious if you have a thousand followers and only one updated because they may think that you are out to spam or even scam people.

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Nicholas Ho | Apr 29, 2009 | Comments 50

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