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"Take any hundred people at the start of their working careers and follow them for 40 years until they reach retirement age, and here's what you'll find, according to the Social Security Administration: Only 1 will be wealthy; 4 will be financially secure; 5 will continue working, not because they want to but because they have to; 36 will be dead; and 54 will be dead broke - dependent on their meager Social Security checks, relatives, friends, even charity for a minimum standard of living. That's 5% successful, 95% unsuccessful." Learn more about some of the best home based business ideas on my website

Phone Script

Phone Script Initial Call

My first rule is to not use a script at all. I think they make you sound corny canned and un natural. We are real people and we are looking for a real connection. Most people are not going to buy something from a robot they are going to buy from a human beginning that they can connect with. So when I am talking to people I am not afraid to speak from the heart and be my self. I do however always ask a set of qualifying questions to determine if the person I’m talking to is a good fit or not. Here are the questions and “script” that I ask during the first conversation.

Hello Prospect, This is your name getting back to you from your location with the coastal synergy group. You had recently responded to some internet advertising about making money from home is that still the case?

1) How Long have you been looking to work from home?

2) What are you currently doing for a living?

3) How do you like it?

4) How much are you currently making monthly

5) Are you married? If so is your spouse going to be involved in the decision making process?

6) Do you have any kids? How old?

7) WHY are you looking to work from home?

8) What kind of income are you looking to make?

9) Have you ever worked at home before, owned your own business or been in sales?

10) If not are you willing to learn?

11) If you were able to make _______ (use there number this is to paint a picture) a month what would you do differently with your time or money?

Great you sound like exactly the kind of person that im looking to work with. Do you have something to write with? Write down this website. www.yourwebsite.com. That is going to show you exactly how you are going to be able to earn __________ (their Number) and ____________ (their why). After you get through that info write down an question that you have and I know you are going to have some for me and call me back at ____________ (your phone number).

GO WITH THE FLOW. Don’t be a afraid to get off the topic and go where the conversation takes you. Find a common ground so that you can make a connection. Always remember to get back to the questions at some point. Keep all conversations to about 7 mins. We want people to see how easy this really is and if they think they are going to have to spend 20 mins to a hour with everyone forget it. Learn more about some of the best home based business ideas on my website

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Just turn off the TV

A Friend of mine just sent me this article I really liked it thought I should share!

Posted Jul 17th 2007 6:10PM by Kevin Kersten

I just saw a great article on TheStreet.com on the cost of watching TV. It estimates the cost for the average person of watching TV, over 45 years, is $3.7 million dollars. Now that sounds like a lot, but let me expound on how they got there. First take the $100/month cable bills and invest that into a brokerage account. That $1,200 a year compounded at 8% is a cool quarter of a million alone. Then there are TVs, electricity, movie rental and pay-per-view and not to mention junk -- I mean products -- you buy because you saw them on the Home Shopping Network.

One fact cited -- which really surprised me -- was that for each hour per week of TV watched you spend an additional $200 per year on stuff. According to my calculation that is $3.84 an hour of junk per hour bought because I saw it on TV. As I sit here wearing Reebok shoes and sipping my cool, refreshing Mountain Dew, I think that just can't be right. I do not watch HSN or QVC; but something tells me all those billion-dollar companies only buy advertising for one reason ... it works!

So this brings up the $64,000 question. Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? That would require turning off the TV; getting started on those home improvements, getting a part-time job, or starting that home-based business. Time is money and just what is your TV-watching time worth? If you are still watching "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader," you may not be.

It would be terrible if we didn't know what Rosie O'Donnell said about Donald's Trump's hair. Maybe mom was right ....My mind will rot if I watch enough of the idiot-box.

America is the land of Freedom and Liberty and for all the good it may do; I don't think we should outlaw TV's quite yet. If you want to let your mind rot, go right on and do it. But please don't tell the paternalistic mayors of San Francisco or New York who want to protect me from the evils of bottled water or trans-fatty French Fries.

I admit I like my remote control and when it comes to financial bets, I hate to buck the system. If you can't beat them ...join them. So if you have canceled that cable bill and are investing that money how about sticking it in some entertainment companies betting your friends aren't going to have that kind of self discipline. You have the big four networks CBS (NYSE: CBS), NBC is owned by General Electric (NYSE: GE), ABC is owned by Disney (NYSE: DIS) and News Corp (NYSE: NWS) owns Fox. There is Viacom (NYSE: VIA) and the Home Shopping Network owned by IAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ: IACI). If you need more ideas flip on the TV for a moment and some company will announce it's product for you to invest in. Learn more about some of the best home based business ideas on my website

Answering Machine Techniques

Answering Machine Techniques

When I am making live calls I don’t use a script I simply ask questions and go with the flow. I would recommended for everyone else to do that as well. However when leaving voice mails I use the same scripts every time. You defiantly want to make them flow however so it doesn’t sound like you are reading a script. This is my technique for voice mail.

Day 1 – Call Leave message if no answer

Hey ____ This is Ryan getting back to you from Baltimore with the coastal synergy group. You had recently responded to some internet advertising about making money from the comfort of you home the purpose of my call was to determine if you may qualify to join out team with coastal and begin earning 1,000 and 3,200 profit sales each and every week from the comfort of your home. The first step in the pre qualification process is for you to reach me direct on my toll free number at 1-888-898-3055. Talk to you then take care.

Day 2 Call don’t leave message if there is no answer

Day 3 Call Leave message if no answer

Hello ______ This is Ryan again getting back to you from Baltimore with the coastal synergy group and you had just recently responded to some internet advertising about making money from home. I wanted to find out if that was still the case and were serious and not just curious about generating a 5 figure monthly income from the comfort of you home. If that is the case you may very well qualify to join our team with coastal and I would love to chat with you. You can reach me direct at 1-888-898-3055.

Day 4 Call don’t leave message if there is no answer

Day 5 Call leave message if no answer

Hey ________ this is Ryan Getting back to you from Baltimore with the coastal synergy group and really _________ I wanted to find out if you were still in fact serious about generating a income from the comfort of you home get back to me as soon as possible at 1-888-898-3055

Day 6 call Don’t leave message if no answer

Day 7 Call if no answer leave scratch message (if they don’t get back to you by this point its time to give up on them they are probably not serious, you have done your part in trying to get back to them like they requested the ball is now in their court)

Hey _______ This is Ryan from Baltimore again I wanted to let you know that this will be the last time that I call. I do apologize I’m just overwhelmed with responses to our add and I’m just to busy to keep leaving messages. If you want to learn to learn how we earn 1,000 and 3,200 profit sales each and every month or even each and every week depending on how much time you devote to your business than you going to have to call me. You can reach me at 1-888-898-3055. If I don’t hear back from you in lets say 3 days im going to go ahead and scratch you of my list and I wish you the best of luck in what ever it is you are looking for. Take care.

YTB International Ranked among top in travel.

Found this in Todd Falcones Blog thought it was interesting.

"I just read the following news about YTB. It’s great to see a Network Marketing travel company ranked with Expedia, Travelocity and Orbitz."

PR:

YTB International, Inc. , a provider of Internet-based travel booking services for travel agencies and home-based independent representatives in the United States, today announced that the Company has been named as one of the country’s leading travel agencies in Travel Weekly’s 2007 Power List. As part of the Power List, YTB was ranked 35th among all travel agencies and included in the top 11 leisure travel agencies.

The Power List is primarily determined by gross sales volume, as well as several other factors including travel-related subsidiaries, percentage of sales from business and corporate structure. Other leading leisure travel agencies named in this year’s Power List are Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz and AAA.

“We are honored to be included in Travel Weekly’s annual list of leading travel agencies. This recognition further validates the progress we have made over the last year as we continue to build YTB into a leading travel company,” commented J. Kim Sorensen, President and CEO of YTB Travel Network. “We are committed to the leisure market and have been growing our business at a phenomenal rate. As we look towards the future, we will continue to enhance the services and capabilities offered to our expanding network of RTAs and customers.”

Job Positions

ABC corp. seeking people to work long hours, be away from there family’s and get largely under paid what they are worth.

Job Description: We are currently in need of people seeking security. We will guarantee what you will make as long as we don’t lay you off which we probably will at some point to cut back our costs. We will give you great benefits however. We are looking to pay you just enough so that you wont quit in exchange for you to do just enough work so we don’t fire you.

Requirements: When you do in fact sign in with us, we will expect you to wake up everyday at 6am, drive a hour to get here, hire a baby sitter to raise your kid. When you want to take a vacation you will have to ask us first as long as we are paying you. If you want to go to the bath room at anytime during your shift you must ask your shift supervisor. If you want to anything you must ask your supervisor. Learn more about some of the best home based business ideas on my website

Benefits of working for us include:

· Excellent Experience for Resume

· Comprehensive Interviewer Retention Program

· Recognition for team/individual performance & length of service

· Team Centered Environment

· Flexible Scheduling

· Career Advancement Opportunities

Position Ranges from 30k to 40k a year depending on skill level.

Please give send us you resume as soon as possible as positions are filling up quickly with this VERY generous offer or call me immediately at 888-898-3055 to set up a interview.

In my eyes this is no different from the same add that every responds to when they get a job. Don’t get me wrong I’m glad that there are people that are willing to do this so I have someone to serve me when I am out. If you want to stop being a slave to your job and you haven’t took that leap yet I would love to show you how to generate a income from your home.

Story about the journey.

Murphy’s committee (my version)

When you start this game you make a decision weather you like it or not. You decide to leave the pasture with the cows and go to the other side which is paradise. To get there however you have to cross the desert. This is a process some people would rather stay in the pasture with the cows because crossing the desert is too far its too hard. Other people realize that this is there calling there is not other option. They can not hold and enjoy a conversation with the cows its all to negative and boring. Which one are you? When you decided to enter this industry of direct sales and network marketing you steep into the desert but you are not out yet you are going to encounter what seems like great success in the desert and great obstacles but these obstacles are what qualify us to get to the paradise on the other side. Let talk about were we started before we decided to go on this journey to paradise. The cow pasture. What is a cow pasture like? Cows just grassing on grass every so often they look at the other cows. How is your grass over there? MOOOO its ok how is yours? MOOOOO its ok. THIS IS BORING FOR US. We want to talk about our goals and our dreams, We want to achieve something. We don’t want to talk about how horrible everything is. Drifting through life with no direction just grassing on grass. So we look at that desert. Yes its going to be HOT. Yes it might be far. Yes its going to be hard. But we decide to steep in knowing that’s it not going to be easy. Most of you have made that decision to steep in congralations but its not that easy you are going to encounter something’s along the way. What separates those that make it through from those that don’t is they realize this and they don’t turn back no matter what obstacle presents it self. They know what’s going to happen and they are ready to battle it before it even starts. That is my goal I want to let you know what you are going to encounter in the dessert before it happens so that you are ready for it. Once you put that foot into the desert you have made it a lot further than most but its not over. So what is going to have to happen before we make it to the other side to paradise? Well eventually our water is going to run out. We are going to start to get thirsty we might even start to get delirious and look over and see our friends and family on the edge saying MOOOO telling us just turn back you are never going to make it through the desert. “why don’t you just come back to the pasture were you know you are safe and secure.” “The desert is a scam its one of those pyramid things. Normal people never make it through the desert” It must just be the heat though they would never really want that for us knowing what we are going to have when we reach paradise. So it must just be the heat playing tricks on us. So we keeping going through the desert. As we continue on our journey we start to get tired but we keep on trucking all the sudden we are stuck sinking. ITS QUICK SAND. There is going to be quick sand along our journey there is no doubt about that. There are things that will try to pull us down. The more we fight it the faster we will fail. Learn to let go and go with the obstacles that present them self and slowly bring your self back to the surface and keep on moving forward. Next we see water we must be there this is the month that we make it so we run, finally we are there. YAY I cant believe we made it but time keeps going and we keep running and it disappears. It was only a mirage we are not there yet. Feeling discouraged we start to seconded guess or self’s thinking maybe none of this is real maybe paradise is just a marriage. It would be so much easier to just turn back and go back to the pasture. BUT NO we remember why we started this journey through the desert so we didn’t have to wake up to the alarm clock any more, so we could be our own boss, to get away from the negativity to be free and never have to worry about money again. We remember that we have seen others make it to paradise it must be real so we keep walking through the desert. Our water runs out, we are hot tired but full of energy we know that walking trough this desert is the right thing to do so we walk proud. All of the sudden we see palm trees and water flowing is this paradise or another mirage? We start running again finally all of our hopes and dreams have paid off we knew we could do it we are here we make it to the palm trees and its real. We set up camp and drink the water and we are living good for awhile. Not a care in the world. We knew we could do it. All of the sudden we wake up one morning and the water is gone and the trees are dieing. It was only a oasis just a temporary success We are just not there yet. Maybe we adjusted our way of living to that of they way of life in the oasis and lost everything that we built in the oasis. . Feeling discouraged we call one our friends. Not one of the cows back in the pasture because we know that they will just tell us how much better things are in the pasture and after seeing the oasis we know that there is a better way. We call one of our friends in paradise and we they pick up we start crying and telling them about our devastation. They just laugh. “Man this is serious I lost everything I built in that oasis none of it was permanent if this is what paradise is like I want nothing to do with it why are you laughing?” “ I’m laughing because we have all been through but it means that you are getting close. Every desert has a oasis and if you had not made it to that oasis you might have died out there in the desert . You might have starved to death. The oasis was a sign that you are on the right path is was a taste to keep you going of what the good life will be like. Keep pushing through the desert you are almost there.” So we pick up our stuff and we keep walking through the desert running into some pastures along with way with cows mooing and grassing and trying to get us to stay in the pasture with them. We have come so far we keep walking. Things start to slowly get easier we can see paradise in the horizon. Our bodies and mind have become conditioned to life in the desert. Walking across the sand become easier, We no longer feel hungry. We are confidant nothing will stop us. We walk faster bringing those along the way that want to come leaving those behind that don’t. We walk now with a team stronger than us and we walk through the desert together. We only walk with those who we know are going to make this journey and we don’t invite those that are going to hold us back for we are too close to have anything stop us. All of the sudden our eyes close and we fall to the ground. When we open them we are in the back of a limousine there is a man driving us. We look over at the other cars and can see peoples lips mouthing “lucky”. The car pulls up to big gates and we realize that we made it this is our house. We are in paradise. We let go of the outcome so much and were so confidant that we would be here we didn’t even realize we were already here. Our driver pulls up to the circle in front of our mansion we get out and look. Its huge. We have one of those circle drives ways and a large 10 car garage to hold all of our fancy cars. Mercedes, Lamborghini, Ferrari a hummer. We even have a helipad on the roof for our personal helicopter. We walk in and steep on our beautiful black marble floors and look at the huge window in front of us with a outstanding view of the ocean. Our cook is preparing a exquisite meal for us to enjoy. The phone rings and the butler answers it and brings it over. You answer its one of your friends. He says man I wish I would have. And you say I’m glad I did. To think if you had not gone through that desert you would still be in the pasture with the cows. Learn more about some of the best home based business ideas on my website

Objections!

Dealing with Objections.

The best way to handle questions and objections is to answer them with questions. You see people hate to be sold or tried to be convinced. The best way to persuade them is to let them persuade them self’s. For example I use a objection that I get all the time and I’m sure that you do as well. THE KEY IS TO LISTEN AND LET THE PROSPECT talk them self’s out of the objection.

“Well this sounds great but I don’t have the money to get started.”

I understand completely where you are coming from if I was in your position I would say the same thing. How does that make you feel to be in that situation?

“not good at all!”

When you responded to the add what exactly were you looking for?

“A way that I could make a lot of money in a short period of time and stay at home with my kids and work my own schedule”

If I told you that I could provide you that all that for 60 bucks or free would you believe me?

“no”

Are you willing to do what it takes to find away to be able to stay home with your kids and work the hours that you want?

“Yes”

So what is your plan for getting started with coastal?

You see In that example I never once tried to convince them that coastal was for them I let them talk there way through it by guiding them with questions. That’s what we are guides. Remember listen listen listen if you listen they will talk. Let them sell them selfs on coastal. That how you win in this biz. That what the smart people do.

Lets try one more.

“HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO GET STARTED WITH THE COMPANY BECAUSE EVERY TIME ONE YOU PEOPLE CALL ME THERE IS ALWAYS A COST?”

Why are you looking to work from home?

“To be free, make a lot of money and spend time with my kids”

How much is it worth to you to be able to do that?

“Well a lot but I just don’t have any money”

Well I hear ya and I was in that position my self so I know how that feels and its not good. Let me ask you are you going to keep stating that problem the rest of your life or are you willing to take a hard look at all the details of something that could provide a solution to that problem in a very quick period of time?

At this point if they say no you move on because these people are never going to change what we need to do is find the ones who are willing to do what it takes to change there current situation. Einstein’s definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Lets not spend to much of our time with insane people. Bottom line answering questions with questions. LET THE PROSPECT DO 90% of the talking always let them do our job for us it is by far the most effective way of handing a sale.

You don’t necessarily have to memorized things to say from a script for to handle objections. I think it is far more effective to speak from your heart. Don’t over complicated the issue this is simple this should be common sense if you let it be.Learn more about some of the best home based business ideas on my website

Get a real job!

Recently received a email from some one so saw something online talking about what I did for a living (I removed the curse words and put bleeps in there place), it is as follows

To whom it may concern

Whoever the BLEEP you are. Have you ever considered working for a living. I'm a union bridge-building carpenter working in the Chicagoland area. I make more money than anyone I know and I do it all myself without any scam. So take your scam, shove it up your BLEEP, let it fester for a while and if the rest of the world is lucky you will get colon cancer and die. BLEEP you, you lazy sack of BLEEP.

Now 98% most of the emails I get are extremely encouraging talking about how I have motivated people to move to a higher level in there life but for some reason every now and then I get a email like this one. Now I could get discouraged and think wow this guy is right why don’t I work for a living? Or I can use this as encouragement. Guess what I chose to do? We all have choice’s in life we can let other people keep us down or we can try to understand what they are really trying to say. I heard a cool analogy the other day that I think applies to this. If you put a crab in a bucket you have to put a lid on it or the crab will get out but if you put another cran in the bucket you can take the lid off because the other crabs will keep pulling each other down. That’s why they say stop being crabby hahaha. I chose to let this man lift me up not let him pull me down. I could of wrote him a nasty letter back and that was my first reaction about how what I was doing was right and telling him how rude he was. Instead I chose to take a deep breath and try to see things from his point of view. I ended up writing a thank you note for him taking the time to let me know how he felt about me. Lets examine this a little closer. This man is a very hard worker and through his social conditioning feels that the only way to make money is through sweet. His parents and role model’s in life were probably manual labor’s and so that’s all he knew. He was never thought that working smart is a much better way of working rather than hard. When he saw that I was making the kind of money that I make (Which is probably more the he makes) working from my computer and never breaking a sweet. It made him angry. He was probably thinking because of he didn’t know any better. If someone can make more than me and not work as hard as I do they must be doing something dishonest and illegal. No one ever told him that 76% of millionaires are Investors and business owners and none of them doing any manual labor. I often have people tell me to get a “real job”. That makes me chuckle lets take a look at a couple definitions of a “real job”. One example is waking up every morning when someone else tells you to at the same time drive to a building. You spent your priceless time sitting in that building for 8 hours everyday building someone else’s dream. After that the clock hits 5pm so you pick up your stuff and head home you do that everyday Monday though Friday. (for some Saturday and Sunday as well.) To find out that at the end of the month your silent partner who didn’t put anytime in named uncle same takes 50% of your pay check. You do that for 40 years (if you your lucky you don’t get let go do to down sizing or outsourcing) At the end you have 40 bucks in your back account and a crappie pension coming in every month that you only get half of because your ex wife decided that your relationship “wasn’t working anymore”! SOUND CRAZY? It does to me. That is the number way people in America live there life’s. They tell be to go get a real job? What about that plan sounds appealing you would have to be a pretty convincing sales person to sell me on that plan but years of social conditioning and the need to feel secure is what drives people to think that, that is the best way to live there life’s. At the end they have just drifted though and have accomplished nothing. The funny thing is they weren’t even really that secure even though lay off are decreasing they are still happening at a extremely high numbers. “Initial filings for state unemployment insurance aid for the week ended March 31, increased to a seasonally adjusted 321,000 from an upwardly revised 310,000 the prior week,” (cnn news april 5^th 2007). Don’t think that’s the plan for me how about you? Well Ryan I can a agree that having a job doesn’t sound like a great idea but you should start a real business like opening a retail store. Sounds a litte better right? Well I would a agree that it is but still wouldn’t make any sense all things considered. If I were to open a retail store I see two options reinventing the wheel and coming up with a whole new Idea and plan. Problem with that is I have no education on starting my own business and because of that the odds are not in my favor. 90% of new business fail in there first 5 years. I think that is because of lack of education. My other option is buying a franchise. One the low end I would probably pay at least $100,000 and according to statistics I would take me about 5 years to see a profit. I don’t have the savings available to be able the wait that long with that kind of a investment do you? Ok so lets say that I did. I would have to then go buy or rent a building. I would have to pay for insurance, electricity, employee’s, a lawyer, inventory, a decorator, advertising to get people in the door and that’s not event guaranteed. I could spend 2,000 dollars and since I don’t know anything about marketing not even have one person walk in the door. So then I could hire a advertising firm and hope that they knew what they were doing. I’m sure there is more things that I cant think of right now as far as cost’s but you get the picture. On top of all those expenses I would have to do a ton of paper work and drive to my work all the time and make sure things were running smoothly. None of that is that horrible but I have found a better way. Imagine having a store where you only paid for the advertising for each individual that walked into the store and said that they wanted to know more about the product. Imagine that you could chose how many people walked into your store everyday. Isn’t that every brick and motor business owners wet dream? Well its real and its called coastal been around for 12 years now and 100% legal. So call me lazy, crazy or insane but I have found a proven system that has a total of on the max 11,000 dollar investment and people can get in for 1,000. I have no employees my over head is about 150 bucks a month for a couple websites and I spend maybe 700 bucks a month on advertising and can generate over a 100,000 a year with ease working about 40 hours a week. You can work this business from your house (no rent) and make more money than probably any of the people I talked about above. So you tell me who is the crazy one me or the people with the “real jobs”? I think ill stick with what I have thanks for letting me know what you think about me though!!!

Written by Ryan Dunn Learn more about some of the best home based business ideas on my website