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Carol, your accountant, has a habit of running late with everything she does, including my bookkeeping with all my making money ideas ready to go down the drain.

You are in danger of getting fines from the Internal Revenue Service as your annual income tax return is due in just one week.

Should you:

1. Go in to Carol’s office and demand that if she causes you to pay penalty and interest to the government, with the money coming out of your financial retirement planning account, you will fire her.
2. Bribe her with lots of coffee, sweet treats and a bouquet of roses, checking on her every fifteen minutes for the rest of the week.
3. Ask her what you can do to help her keep on track.

We’ll get back to your problem in just a moment.

When you are looking at the best home businesses for your own business look at going in with a large company and just doing online sales only.

Find your company on the internet, and look for a well seasoned company at least four or five years in existence.

Next, make sure they use direct sales marketing with a dual compensation plan, and…very important, that they offer training.

Training, not just a lot of product literature, to read, although of course, you need to know the product in order to sell it.

Training options for the best business opportunities should include, on and off line (internet) training, workbooks, real time online and telephone conferencing, and video training.

Now, back to your problem with Carol.

The last answer is the correct one. Do like Dale Carnegie suggests.

“No One Likes To Take Orders—Ask Questions Instead of Giving Direct Orders”, says Dale Carnegie in his book “How to Win Friends and Influence People”.
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The company sales plan with products that I sell is best described as a high-paying, two-tier sales program, but our products are sold via the internet.

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“No One Likes To Take Orders—Ask Questions Instead of Giving Direct Orders”, says Dale Carnegie in his book “How to Win Friends and Influence People”.

The company sales plan with products that I sell is best described as a high-paying, two-tier sales program, but our products are sold via the internet.

There are two more articles you should read for small business ideas for your own business. The article, P.S. # 24, and also, “Tip of the Iceberg Hides Dual Compensation Plan” are on my website, http://DianeNeillJensen.com

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This series of articles should give you making money ideas
on how you can deal with people in the best home businesses
so you can start dealing with your financial retirement planning

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After a conference with associates, I am having a one on one conversation with Suzette.

“You know, back in the day, I used to wear my most comfortable old blue jeans with a nice tank top and my newest hoodie to these things.

Once, one of my friends at home asked me in shock if that’s what I wear to all these conferences.

She thought I’d do better if I wore a pair of regular slacks and a blouse.

Reluctant to hurt her feelings, I said I’d try it next time.

To my amazement, people treated me differently. They were always nice before, but after upping my wardrobe a bit, they asked me advice and talked to me more.

I was so amazed that such a little change would have people see me as more approachable and knowledgeable.”

We’ll get back to this in just a moment.

What do you think direct sales marketing is?

1. high-paying, two-tier sales programs
2. “party plan” sales marketing and selling products,
3. direct to consumers away from a fixed retail location

But first, let’s find out what that conversation between Suzette and Diane was all about.

“So, Suzette, I notice you are wearing nice jeans and a sweater, a bit better than I wore way back, but maybe upping your wardrobe ante might work for you like it did for me.”

When you’re faced with having to criticize an associate, rely on this expert advice to not cause resentment while effectively dealing with that situation.

“Talk About Your Own Mistakes Before Criticizing The Other Person”, says Dale Carnegie in his book “How to Win Friends and Influence People”.

Remember that multiple choice question earlier?

What did you choose?

You are correct.

They are all correct.

There are many ways that people have used to describe direct sales marketing.

Direct sales marketing is used to describe high-paying, two-tier sales programs like your real estate agent.

Direct sales marketing is used to describe “party plan” sales in companies like Mary Kay and Tupperware, and of course, Avon.

Direct sales marketing, or just direct sales, is the method of marketing and selling products, direct to consumers away from a fixed retail location, and according to the Direct Selling Association (DSA),

“Products are sold primarily through in-home product demonstrations, parties, and one-on-one selling…”

The company sales plan with products that I sell is best described as a high-paying, two-tier sales program, but our products are sold via the internet.

 There are two more articles you should lool at for the best home businesses for your own business, and include facts about the dual compensation plan also.

The next article, P.S. # 25, and also, “Tip of the Iceberg Hides Dual Compensation Plan” also on my website, http://DianeNeillJensen.com

To learn more about our products and plan, and let Diane show you the way to your ideal lifestyle, just enter your email address below.

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Someone walks into your office with way too much perfume or cologne.

What do you do?

1. Plug your nose and walk as far away from the person as you can get?
2. Say, wow, I smelled your perfume/cologne five minutes before you got here?
3. In an unobtrusive way, either open the windows or spray a little Febreze around the room?

Life is all about choices.

When choosing which will work best in your best home businesses which would you do?

1. Open a storefront business, deal with inventory and employees every day?
2. Work at home in a service business and work by the hour?
3. Work at home but online with no inventory, no employees, and opt for a parent company that has lots of making money ideas , uses direct sales marketing and has a dual compensation plan for your work at home, and trains you with something besides their product literature?

Really.

Number one costs a whole lot of money to really do it right. Go talk to your banker and be prepared to do a whole lot of paperwork. Be in debt for at least ten years. Unless you are a marketing genius, and you just might be, no offense intended.

Number two, you might as well go back to work for someone else.

Number three is better, but be sure to look for a company that utilizes those sales and compensation plans and the training mentioned. And look for notarized affidavits from the winners. And be prepared to be able to work in your pj’s, reclined back in your favorite easy chair.

Really. You don’t think I’m sitting at a desk all day, do you? And, sitting here in my recliner, I’m also following some making money ideas and doing some financial retirement planning.

Going it alone out there in your own business without guidance or a working knowledge of and a college degree in marketing is a tough way to go, not good as far as small business ideas go.

Plus, a dual compensation plan gives your own business a faster start at earning income. The residual income takes the earn by the hour thing out of the picture.

About that perfume/cologne thing–Choices in how we deal with people are also crucial in life.

When you’re faced with having to criticize an associate, rely on this expert advice to not cause resentment while effectively dealing with that situation.

“Call Attention To Peoples Mistakes Indirectly”, says Dale Carnegie in his book “How to Win Friends and Influence People”.

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Emergency Medical Technicians in their beginning training learn to use what’s called a backboard. The backboard is a piece of equipment that a patient is placed on and strapped in.

The backboard’s purpose is to keep the patient’s spine stable, steady, for transport to a medical facility.

What’s tricky about learning to use this vital piece of equipment, is that even though it’s fairly straightforward to get the patient onto the board and seems easy enough to get the straps down, if the straps are not tight enough, the patient can sustain further injury during the ride in the ambulance, helicopter, boat or airplane.

In the Nenana Volunteer Fire Department, notice the word “volunteer”. There is only one paid employee in the department.

It is vital to the service to the community that volunteers are encouraged to get training and respond when the 911 emergency calls come in.

Even though the training is in exchange for volunteer service, it is vital that the volunteers are willing to respond. Criticism in the wrong tone can cause severe consequences in availability of manpower.

While learning to use a backboard, volunteers are always praised for their learning how to lift and lower their patient into the backboard. They are also praised for learning how to use all the fasteners.

When, in the training session, the volunteers are loading the patient on the backboard into the vehicle, there is always a point when the backboard is not perfectly level.

In fact, getting this patient and the large board into a vehicle usually involves tipping a patient either sideways or tilted forward or backward by as much as 45 degrees.

Inevitably, this patient slips visibly to one side or another of the backboard.

That’s when the volunteers realize, and learn by demonstration, that they need to fasten those straps very tight.

The instructor does not need to utter a word of criticism.

If You Must Find Fault This is the Way to Begin – Begin with praise and honest appreciation is what Dale Carnegie says in his book “How to Win Friends and Influence People”.

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This little story has ideas for the best home businesses in dealing with people you come across in your own business.

The making money ideas here are that if you can motivate your associates, they will in turn, work hard for you and make you money.

“Throw down a challenge,” is what Dale Carnegie says to do when nothing else works.

Photo above shows momentos that Nenana Volunteer Gene Jensen brought home after the exhausting work of helping Nenana host the Number One Checkpoint for the 2003 Iditarod race.

Mr. Carnegie was referring to people who can’t get other people to do what they want. He says that people are motivated by work if it is exciting and interesting, more than by money.

Although the 2003 Iditarod situation is a bit of a spin-off on his reference to people who can’t get other people to work, the race that year definitely demonstrates that people are motivated to work hard if the work is exciting and interesting, and not just for the money.

While a non-profit, non-profits are still businesses, and this one has employees and a boss in addition to contractors and sponsors, and many, many volunteers.

The Iditarod Trail is the route that dog teams in the early 1900’s ran life-saving serum to an Epidemic in Nome. This epic journey is what inspired the start of what has become Alaska’s most popular dog race.

While the Anchorage based business was reluctant to admit that they would have to move the race route, others were jumping at the bit to host the race.

Residents of the village of Nenana, the site of the inspiration for the race, being the historical site of where the Iditarod Trail starts, wanted to host the start of the race, but just north of Nenana is the city of Fairbanks.

When Iditarod began looking at a possible Fairbanks restart, they weren’t sure what kind of response they might get, said Stan Hooley, as quoted by Mark Evans in his online article “2003 Iditarod Begins in Fairbanks”.

Stan Hooley was the executive director of the Iditarod Trail Committee in 2003.

Fairbanks Mayor Steve Thompson told them that Fairbanks would make all the resources available to them, the article states.

When all was said and done, both Fairbanks, Nenana, and several other villages along the trail went above and beyond to welcome and help in any way they could to make sure that the 2003 race was a huge success.

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