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I’m really excited to announce that “Straight Talk for the New Public Speaker 2nd Edition” has been completed and will be published and made available on Amazon.com.

Temecula, CA, – Dale A. Simmons renowned public speaker and author of “Straight Talk for the New Public Speaker just released his new book “Straight Talk for the New Public Speaker 2^nd Edition”. His new book takes a straight line focused approach to becoming a capable public speaker or business communicator and how to successfully market it using several avenues.

“What is meant by Straight Talk? Straight talk is just that, straight talk . No hearts and flowers, straight to the point, no holding hands singing Kumbaya”, stated author Dale A. Simmons.

Straight Talk for the New Public Speaker received face lift from its first edition and is now completed and published via Createspace, Amazon.com and Amazon Kindle and soon to be released in audio book form.

Three new exciting chapters have been added based upon reader comments and surveys with regard to the original “Straight Talk for the New Public Speaker.” As stated in Chapter 5 of the first edition, “a good public speaker must stay current with their material. So, I guess it also should be stated, so should the author”, stated author Dale A. Simmons.

As a result of a survey taken in 2007 which addressed a recurring question, “Why should I buy your book as I don’t want a public speaking career?”; generated the action to address that issue in its own new chapter. “The better your communication skills are the more perceived value you can establish for yourself. Public speaking is not only for the stage but for your everyday life both professionally and socially. All the information in this book can and should be applied to your professional career regardless of the profession”, said author Dale A. Simmons.

The expanded, now Chapter 14 received a complete new section on “perceived value” written to address the “How-To’s” to establish perceived value for the new speaker being the competition is so large. An additional new chapter was added addressing the public speaker and the internet which addresses various ways one can present their presentations via the internet.

The third new chapter addresses a very important part of the public speaking career which is “Aftermarket”. Its main focus is to show how to establish passive income with a speaking career with various media. Previously, this was only touched on a little as part of Chapter 11, Marketing in the original publication. But this part is so important in the establishment of passive income it was embellished upon.

Dale Simmons, public speaker and author, branded as the “WhyMan” is well known for his humor, quick wit and direct approach regardless to the subject. President/CEO, DSE Consulting incorporated and Founder of Team ProVision “Professional Growth, Marketing and Business Success” seminar series.

Dale has 30+ years in the corporate market, of which 25+ in the management field. Designed, developed and implemented countless public speaking seminars covering a wide variety of business processes. His interactive style is totally outside the norm and is well received by audiences everywhere. 

Link to Publication*: https://www.createspace.com/3355881

Contact:
Dale A. Simmons, President/CEO
DSE Consulting Inc.
(888) 515-6143
http://www.teamprovisionfortune.com

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With the advent of the internet, email and auto responders and regrettable exploitation of same has caused people to lose confidence in this media. Their skepticism level is at an all time high. With that in mind, the genuine business owners marketing strategies are being adversely affected.

It’s unfortunate that this outstanding technology along with, how would you say, the less than honorable business practices are allowing people to secrete their identities thus enabling them to deceive unsuspecting people and abscond their monies promising them riches beyond their wildest dreams. Sure you might do a fast hit and run for your so called earnings but what is the damage being caused along the way? Thos who fall into this unscrupulous category really don’t care about you as long as they get theirs. 

Recently as an exhibitor at a business expo in Southern California I had the opportunity to discuss just this issue with many of the attendees. It was determined as a result of this survey that people could no longer trust the internet and these so called business opportunities. Also addressed was the amount of email people received daily and the average was just over 100 which 85% was considered junk or unsolicited communications. In discussions with these people many stated they have on occasion inadvertently deleted email they should not have causing embarrassment, loss of real business and flat out anger. For those who fall into the unscrupulous category again really don’t care.

Another inquiry was made during these discussions with regard to the actions taken and results of same. Many did not know what to do and wanted suggestions. Several have established “Email Trapper” systems that require the user to go into the queue and review each received email to determine if it is a valid email and white list it or black list the sender if it is not valid. This is a productive way to control this type email however it’s not time value added. This spawned the question, “What can we do to control this?”

There are a few options and many were advised to set up a junk email address and use that to do their internet inquiries. When that inquiry is satisfied you can go back to your valid email for your normal business operations as that junk email address you set up will be flooded with auto responders and other unsolicited email. This option was well received and there are many free email hosts out there. Caution must be taken here also some of these email hosts set up a filtering system that will not allow many emails into your account. Also use your junk email address in your Meta tags on your website as there are many programs that can search your site to find an email address and extract it back to the person making the search. This is the process used to establish a huge email list and where a lot of spam is generated.

There is another option for which I have incorporated into Team ProVision which is bearing fruit and I would like my readers to put on there “think outside the box” hat. Email and auto responders have become so impersonal, as mentioned in other writings, you can place a specific code in the body of your writing and it will automatically place the recipients name in the document. Now this process works great where you are using this form of media to manage a group of clients with a broadcast message or general correspondence that you want all your clients to receive but for a follow-up process this is a bad practice. I recently came across a follow-up process that is time value added, cost effective and puts the personal touch into your professional relationship building process. This process allows you to create tangible postcards, bi-folds and tri-folds to be sent to your prospects, current clients and previous clients. These are high quality cards customizable to your specific business and also allow you to control the whole process via the internet. There are also some 20,000 premade cards you have access to. The company takes care of the printing addressing and mailing of your cards. Turn around time is fast. What is so great about this process it is something your clients receive in their mailbox that is personalized to them and only addresses them. It’s tangible and allows you to hone in on your target market.

So lets recap, as you are well aware, email and the internet marketing has a 2% return rate and from that, a 2% sales rate. Email and auto responders have become impersonal and the savvy person and business person is well aware of abuse of this process.  Advertising and marketing is the highest recurring cost in your business and unfortunately the personal touch between the business person and client is almost non existent. A national study has shown that 68% of business loss is due to little or no follow-up. This process takes today’s technology and brings back the personal touch in business.

For details on this process go to http://www.socreview.com/teamprovision or contact me directly.

Contact:
Dale A. Simmons, President/CEO
DSE Consulting Inc.
(888) 515-6143
http://www.teamprovisionfortune.com 

Los Angeles, CA — Millions of dollars of business is lost each day due to lack of follow up.  A staggering 68% of all business lost in America is lost due to apathy and lack of follow-up.

In a recent interview with Dale Simmons, Founder of Team ProVision™ we asked him what Team ProVision™ does to curb this staggering statistic. “First, let me explain that everyone is busy and most internet, direct marketers, Network Marketers and MLM owners are even busier, burning the candle at both ends. It’s very easy to see how good prospects fall through the cracks. You contact the prospect…You get them more information, including product samples and support materials…You call them back 2 days later, but get a no answer or voice-mail.  Then you go on to the next prospect, forgetting about the last one, mentally writing them off as a “no”. This happens a lot and is a big mistake in ones business” he said.

“Understand in the internet, direct marketing and MLM world  many of these people are inexperienced in business and lack the formal business training, the actual How-To’s to bolster their respective business. Please don’t miss understand, what they lack in business experience they make up with heart, excitement and drive.”

“So we touted our clients on their procedures and found a common thread. But unfortunately it was not paying off for many.”

“We found that many rely on using email and auto responders as their primary follow-up tool and steer away from personal client relationship building.” 

“This impersonal process is costing them business and I must admit I was getting caught up in the same thing.”

“Understand email and auto responders are impersonal. Forget the (FIRST_NAME) coding process your prospects see right through it. And the email game is a total waste. I ask you, how many emails do you get a day, of course they are personalized “Right?” 

“Auto responders and emails have their place in your business but more as a training vehicle or information broadcast for your existing clients.”

“So we decided to take on this issue and do an in-depth study of the all powerful “Follow-up”. 

“Here are the results of our findings. Now I know statistics are boring but how else can one track trends, sales, failures etc? So here we go. 48% of business people never follow up with a prospect, and 20% make a second contact and stop. So let’s look at this. That means some 68% of business people either don’t follow-up or just make a second contact and take no further action. That means they are potentially loosing 68% of sales to someone else. This study had a lot more data, but for this interview I will stop here, as these results are staggering.”

“So now to answer your question, I had an opportunity to partner up with a phenomenal public speaker and business woman named Rhonda Sher. She presented a concept that has been around for a while and at first I did not see this remarkable unique follow-up process that I think has a huge target market both professionally and personally. I did a brainstorm with this program, pros, cons, ease of use and an impact study and found this simple, time value added and cost effective program would enable me to follow-up with, establish and reestablish personal and professional relationships with that personal touch. As I said earlier, emails and auto responders have become abused and are impersonal.”

“So here is the “Missing Link” to your business and it is simply a business called SendOutCards. This automated, high end quality product and process will manage your follow-up process in your business and also take care of your personal relationships at the same time. Think about this, this is a tangible product your prospect receives in their mail box customized to your business and personalized to your prospect, client, past client, friend, family member the list goes on. This time value added and cost effective process has in fact improved my response rate some 70%. So I will ask you, when was the last time you sent a thank you card or post card to a prospective client just for having the meeting with you? Or to one of your clients receiving a congratulatory card for achieving one of their business goals?

If you can think outside the box you will see the potential for this business to be huge like I did.”

“Here’s the bottom line. You can easily differentiate yourself from your competition by making the effort to follow-up with your prospects and customers with the personal touch. Don’t take it for granted that they will call you. Build that business/personal relationship it’s that important. Want info go to http://www.socreview.com/teamprovision and find out for yourself.”

Best regards

Dale Simmons
Founder
Team ProVision
 

I went to another ”Training Meeting”this past weekend as I was curious to see if any changes were made to the format. I was surprised to see some real training topic flyers posted on the wall as you entered the meeting hall like how to close, prospecting etc. Wow, I thought there finally going to teach business issues other than the normal roo-rah.

Now, understand I did not go right at the start of the program as they always do a formal business presentation for the first hour or so and finish that first segment with rah rah sis boom bah stuff, as had happened. Now granted I know many people require that kind of stuff to keep them on point. But I can’t do that.

So, I get there about an hour or so into the beginning and see they are on the rah, rah stuff. Okay, I can deal with that for a few minutes. So I do a little networking and observations of the audience. They bring up some heavy hitters to tell their story and announce to all the typical saying “If I can do it, anybody can”. Have you heard that before? Generally just pump up the audience. Now don’t get me wrong I feel that these successful people have a value at these type venues. You know the believability factor. But still, as always they don’t really share with the audience how they accomplished this massive growth. They don’t give away those trade secrets. Have you ever asked yourself why? Basically they say “stay focused and stay plugged into the system”.

I had only been in there a few minutes and wanted to yell out “hey enough with the BS help these people with the mechanics of how to build their respective businesses” This is what the word “TRAINING” means?. . . .I think. . .maybe I’m wrong.  Then the announcement “lunch break”. Be back quarter past one. So I depart still wondering, what the heck I am going to get out of this thing. I run some errands thinking about the first two hours I wasted and the thought of not returning crossed my mind. But I remembered the posted flyers on the entrance way so decided to return and see how they trained for business 101 type stuff.

As I returned to the venue there were several people who came up and introduce them selves.  I get the normal questions like how long have you been involved, stuff like that. Now you might ask yourself why these people were coming up to me to introduce themselves? I can answer that easily, as I was wearing a suit and making a general professional and successful appearance. You know, this business casual thing is totally out of control. It frustrates me when I see someone in cargo shorts and a t-shirt representing a multi-million dollar business and asking if I would be interested to listen to there respective business plan. First their approach was wrong as they are making the same mistake many make as they are selling their business instead of marketing their concept. Plus their appearance does not exude a million dollar business person. Then they wonder why their business is not growing. Anyway, I advise them that I’m a public speaker and professional growth counselor. There thoughts immediately went to “are you speaking today?” I told them no I was here to observe. This comment caught many off guard and inquired exactly what I did.  My response was simple and direct, “I’m a Professional Growth, Marketing Strategies and Business Success Specialist.” “I teach the actual How-To’s , the mechanics of how to build these businesses.”  After this was stated, a gaggle formed all asking for cards, brochures and alike. I was amazed that so many people made inquiries at a venue that is supposed to be doing just that.

I had the opportunity to meet a lady that was scheduled to speak on prospecting at this venue, but she told me she was removed from the program at the last minute. That confused me as this is what this “Training Meeting” was all about. . . .I thought. She was apparently bumped by a famous skin care business owner. Now granted that opportunity does not happen often so one should cease the opportunity. This person talked quite a long time on the respective product line and generated several interactions from the audience. But that is only one product line from many offered by this company and was basically gender specific. Personally I felt there would have been more productive to have the lady I met make her presentation on her assigned training topic. Modify the program to also allow the VIP to also discuss what was discussed. They could have dropped one of the roo-rah speakers and replace it with substance.

Now understand these types of meetings are great for my specific business as I always generate leads and students for my program. But it just frustrates when I see a scheduled “Training Meeting” used for everything other than its title and many attendees walk out with the same question they walked in with and that’s, “OKAY, HOW DO I DO THIS?”

http://www.teamprovisionfortune.com

Best regards

Dale Simmons
Founder
Team ProVision

This article due to it’s length will be done in two parts. So if everyone is ready; is Internet Marketing coming to its demise? That’s a heck of a question and for too many there is a lot of truth to it. People are a funny breed. First if there is a way to make a fast buck without doing anything they are all over it. The internet started out to be a great vehicle for many things to include a way to set up viable businesses and help others. As for most good things some are there to figure out a way to trick, con and steal people’s money thus destroying the credibility of the vehicle being used.  So is the case with internet marketing.

Have you seen anything things like this; Get Happy With money *Make $18,000 in One Day? * Who wants to be a millionaire? * NEW-Turn $25 into $75000-NO MONTHLY FEES! unstoppable! *  HIGHEST Rated 6-Figure CASH Generating SYSTEM-Get RICH TODAY *  ARE YOU STILL STRUGGLING TO MAKE MONEY ONLINE..? ?>> FREE EBOOK>> *  What If I Could Show YOU How To Make An Extra $4000 Per Week From Home!!   I could go on and on but I think you get my meaning . . . right?

Recently, I conducted a study just for the so called internet marketing area. So I set up an email account for what I call a junk suppository, yes I said suppository not depository. Its purpose was to collect various internet marketing offers. I ran this test for 7 days and I received 15,768 emails. First I was blown away just on the quantity alone. My next step was to take a sampling to try and determine a pattern which was not hard to find. Next I decided to get involved with a few of these so called money making offers and follow their instruction to the letter (if there were any) to see if my “$18,000 in one day” would come to be true.  So let us look at a typical case. First the claim “ Make $20,000 in one month!” Heard that one before? So let’s take a look at this miraculous feat. Okay, I know that sounds sarcastic but . . .well you’ll see.

So how to make $20,000 in one month. First create an e-book “Unknown secrets of making money on the internet.” (Understand I just made that up) Now understand there is a lot of information on what works out there and what does not. So simply, you gather information you “Found on the Internet!” cut and paste it into your text editor do some rewording and intentional typos, make a fancy cover and there you go (there are a lot of free eBook cover generator software programs out there).

Now you price this thing ridiculously low, let’s say $2.00 and don’t forget to make a statement like, “This book should be sold for $47.00 but for the next 48 hours (std JavaScript for a countdown) I will be offering this fantastic money generator information to all my friends, clients and future clients for this ridiculously low price of $2.00. . . .Yes you heard me right! “Sound familiar?”

Now what you do is create a lead page (sales page, splash page) and offer some free bonus eBook which you got free with rights to entice your potential client with. So now you have a “Not Only” statement. That is a statement that generally states “Not only do you get the “Unknown secrets of making money on the internet” but we will give you (you fill in the blank) all this for only $2.00!”  As far as you sales page you add some bogus testimonials of how great your book is and how much they made by implementing your program, a few pop-up hype ads and a PayPal button and there you go.

Next in this process is to launch this page. There are many ways to accomplish this task, but before you launch make sure you placed strategic keywords in the lead page meta tags and launch to search engines.

A savvy internet marketer has a huge list from previous campaigns and will launch this new campaign through mass email programs. It’s not unusual for the accomplished marketer to have a list of 50,000 or more. This email would say something like this, first the title, “Learn the Secrets to amassing wealth no one will tell you”. Then in the body “Primary Launch to my loyal clients and potential clients tired of not making a dime on the internet. I will share with you how I amassed $20,000 a month. Limited number available and for 48 hours only. Get it now before the price goes up.” This would be the type of email verbiage used with the URL link to the newly created “Lead Page”.  Upload this email into the mass email program and launch it. This will be running in the background while preparing the launch for the other avenues. Do same with a creative email to every safelist, ad blasters, FAA’s and traffic exchanges you are a member of. Making sure you place a unique tracking ad id with every different launch.

Let’s look at the numbers on this. Standard return is 2%. So he launched to his list 50,000 for his list, est. 25,000 for safelists, ad blasters 500,000, FAA’s 3,000,000 and finally traffic exchanges 50,000. Were not even going to count the search engine hits. 3,625,000 @ 2% = 72,500 @ $2.00= $145,000 over a conservative six month period the cash flow would be $24,166.00 per month. But wait I said this was to run for only 48 hours right? Yes I did and that is what will be done. The first run is for 48 hours but you now make a modification to you lead page to state “Due to immense popularity of this product we have extended this offer another 48 hours.” Here how it breaks down; you first make the initial offer run it for the 48 hours, wait 24 hours reset the countdown clock in your code and just place it back out there. Every 48 hours you go in and reset the java script to restart the 48 hour countdown. You place ad tracker campaigns, as mentioned before for the various launches you made and determine where you are getting the most action. You keep doing this as you track your sales. A bar chart is great for this as you can visually see the peaks and valleys’ of your sales and where the biggest volume is. You will eventually see a down turn in sales and that tells your initial run is done.

I really want you to pay attention to this next step because this is where you the consumer get taken for the proverbial ride. First, I must recap what we have done. We created an eBook that is on a subject based on successful capital generation using the internet market. We priced it so low it really is not a gamble for the consumer. We injected into the internet market through multiple venues. We setup a 48 hour clock to create a sense of urgency, but ran the sale for six months. We tracked the sales, made a significant amount of money, created a larger customer list, charted sales and trends and finally the burnout of the project. Also you have documented proof of your sales that you can use for the next phase. Now here is the crazy thing. What I basically stated here in this article is what the intent of the content of the eBook you paid $2.00 for. This is not secret it is common place.

Get ready for part 2 of this article. See ya then.

http://www.teamprovisionfortune.com

Best regards

Dale Simmons
Founder
Team ProVision

In today’s market, especially the Direct Marketing and MLM business you will run into the title of this article more often than not. I’m going to provide you with some stories and insights on this very subject and if you are one of these people, maybe a way out.

Let’s start at the beginning. The beginning believe it or not, is at birth. That box will start building itself there and will gain structure as conditioning and habits start to form. The basics are simple; you’re hungry, you cry and someone appears and feeds you. You have discomfort you try the same tactic, “cool that works”.  You make a mess, same thing. Totally cool, all I have to do is this cry thing and I get what I want. Let’s try something new. . .how about waking up really early, do the same thing. . . .”hey that works too.” “Life is good.”

But then all of a sudden something happens. I don’t know if the newness of this new baby thing has run its course or what, but what I was doing before isn’t working. I’ll try some new stuff. . . These someone’s are making me do things I don’t want to. I cry and it doesn’t work anymore, in fact they have added some minor pain to my choices.  Okay, if I do these new things they want, “all is good in the hood”. 

This continues through your adolescent years as you learn what is acceptable and not acceptable. You try pushing the envelope with different things and sometimes it works and others not. The box has developed its basic foundation. You basically understand how to keep things comfortable for you.

Those someone’s are normally your parents and in most cases only want the best for you. They want you to go to school for 12.5 years. Then go to college from 4 to 8 more years. Now select your career(s) and work for an average of 40 more years. Get married and start this cycle all over again. By this time your box is fully developed. Then you will retire and live on 60% of the income you could not live on at 100%.

During all this time you tried many different things and if they fit into your box all was good. Sometimes there was a requirement to adjust that box somewhat, but not much normally because you would not have it. You did not want that pain you experienced back in your youth and that thought has always stayed in your adult mind.

So what is this “Damn Box” anyway? It is commonly known as “Your Comfort Zone”.  This box will hinder you from taking any risks in life. It will stop you from trying new bold things. It will hold you back from being “Wealthy!” Look, as I have stated in previous articles”95% of the population is competing for 5% of the wealth. Where as 5% of the population controls 95% of the wealth.” And being you are in your box changing your position in the wealth game is something you don’t wish to do. But wait, you really want to become wealthy so you stand in that line for a lottery ticket or go to the casino for that one lucky pull. I just don’t get it.

Case in point; a prospective client was looking at one of the fine income producing endorsed businesses offered by Team ProVision. This particular business was in the Health and Wellness industry which is poised to become a trillion dollar industry. This client was really excited to get started when he asked the one big question; how much time must I devote to this business to become successful? Understand I have had this question more than once so the answer was is instinctual. “What do you want to accomplish in your business?” I asked. His response was something like “I want to retire in 5 years.”  I responded with what it would take to attain that goal and asked for his “Why Statement.” “My what” he replied.  “Your Why Statement” I replied. What’s that? Simply your why statement is the reason why you want to change what you are currently doing. It must be bigger, must have more power and drive than anything for you to get out of your current comfort zone. Without it you will not succeed! You will start out okay but will soon fall back into your box. He then stated that he needed to ask his wife. Well, I knew what that meant when I hear the either husband or wife thing. But the bottom line is that the commitment was too big and the “Why Statement” too small for him to get out of his box.

Here is another story I use at my seminars. An elderly woman was really excited about another endorsed business offered by Team ProVision. She became involved and attended the typical specific business training for that business. Later at one of my business seminars she asked me a question I get a lot. Privately she asked in almost a whisper “Dale, I don’t have any friends, how can I build my business?” There are several things I could have advised her at that moment with regards to marketing her business vs. selling the opportunity. I could have gone into several areas of the Team ProVision Professional Growth, Marketing Strategies and Business Success seminar series, but I didn’t as I know this person very well. What I did do was asked her to go off on her own and think about the question she asked me and come back in a few minutes and provide me with her results. A few minutes later comes back with this big smile on her face and stated “I belong to this woman’s club. If I set it up would you present the business plan to them?” I agreed and stated for her to set it up and let’s see how my schedule fits. I advised her about her success depends on her getting outside the box (comfort zone). Then I placed my hands on her shoulder and in a whisper I said, “See you do know and have friends you just need get out of you own way and your successes will soar.”

You know, if people would just realize they can achieve anything, anything at all if they would get out of that “Damn Box”. Or as I say basically “get out of your own way”.

http://www.teamprovisionfortune.com

Best regards

Dale Simmons
Founder
Team ProVision

You always hear of online and direct marketing businesses that took off and several people were making a lot of money. First thing that comes to my mind is “YEAH RIGHT!” So you didn’t get involved. Sound familiar?

Business is all about timing!

If you are like me, you probably said to yourself if I had only got in sooner. Am I right?

Are there such things as “GET RICH QUICK BUSINESS?” Yes, there are flash in the pans of course, but where are they today? Those type businesses are few and far between. If you did not get involved when the timing was right or if you didn’t possess the business skills required and it didn’t happen for you.

To have a viable, successful and profitable business you need a solid foundation! You must have a marketable product that is a NEED product first and a WANT product second. And of course the all important “longevity!” Don’t forget sweat equity!

Critical to your success is business knowledge; you know the tools to be successful. . . . The “How-To’s” In my travels I talk with people and find that many have the desire and the excitement but lack the tools. I briefly inquire about their marketing plan, presentation skills, goals and objectives, time management, follow-up process and closing skills and in general I get that deer in the headlights look. I get this reaction more often than not. Let’s take a look at a general scenario. You are asked to attend a business opportunity meeting by a friend or family member. Begrudgingly you go. But hear a great business opportunity. Your excitement level is high and you see visions of wealth and freedom. Your presenter states “We will help you!” You decide to get involved right there at the meeting. ”Folks this happens a lot!” You were promised that your sponsor or upline would help you get your business off the ground.

The next day you call your upline and request their assistance as promised. Their response was “Your training is contained on the web site” or come to a meeting, where they don’t train but they present the business to potential clients that you may have brought. Or you’re told to gather as many people as you know and bring them to the next meeting. This is a great way to communicate your business, but how do you present the opportunity to people to get them to that meeting? How is this accomplished, that’s your question right? How do I get started? Has this happened to you?

Your sponsor or upline assumed you have solid business principles, marketing, prospecting, follow-up and closing and communication skills already. Or they just don’t care and just wanted to add another person to their line, or notch in their gun.

Your excitement will soon fade, your believability gone, so you drop out disillusioned and with a bad taste in your mouth. The bad thing about this is that you will probably no longer have an open mind about another opportunity offered to you. Thus you could be passing up the one opportunity that could in fact get you financially free. Totally change your quality of life.

So this bad practice by others has in fact stolen your dreams. But in reality you let your dreams become stolen. You let the actions of someone else influence your position in life. You have settled for your current situation knowing good well that is where you will probably stay.

So where am I going with this?

For your success in anything, business or otherwise YOU must be in control. You must have the tools and knowledge of building a successful business to apply and share this knowledge with your organization. You know the old saying, “I’d rather have 1% of a 100 people’s effort than 100% of my own. A business colleague of mine years ago told me; “If you want to play with the Big Dogs, you have to get off the Porch!”

So here’s your opportunity to finally establish yourself into a viable long term business of your choosing. Learn the skills required to build a successful business. Apply these learned skills and become a leader in your chosen business. Establish the elusive residual income base with the all important longevity.

Don’t allow your DREAMS get Stolen Again!

http://www.teamprovisionfortune.com

Best regards

Dale Simmons
Founder
Team ProVision

Retreating to your vehicle, head lowered your thoughts recall that you had set a time to meet. You shrug your shoulders and depart noting that those same people on the corner with radios are talking with someone. Bloodied and beaten you retreat to the comfort and sanctuary of your own home. These words flow from your mouth, “This Thing Does Not Work!” Then you join the ranks of attrition. Why. . . .Why. . . .Why. . . . You saw the guy on stage, at the “Opportunity” meeting who has been involved in this business for less than a year making mega bucks shouting “you can do it too!” What’s missing from that Message? Simply. . . .  HOW? This is what you hear. . . “Get with your family and friends and invite them to an opportunity meeting and we’ll do it for you!”

I have to be honest this approach does work to some extent and many have been very successful. Let’s take a quick look at this. First, you are invited to an “opportunity” meeting. They explain the business plan and tell you they will help you get started with your new business. You sign-up ($200 -$500) and get immediately on their specific product or service. Now they tell you to share this exact process with your family and friends, a warm list business, right? (Remember the beginning of this story. I think they have some kind of radar or early warning system!) How am I doing folks?

Again I must be honest, this does work for awhile and you will have successes.  You started out great, then little or nothing. You wonder, “What the heck happened?/” Basically, you have hit the “Sophomore Slump”. “The fear that your initial success was a fluke and cannot easily be repeated, leading to trying too hard and second-guessing your actions.” You start stating things like, “my people are not doing anything!” First, they are not your people, they are your clients! You stop going to the “opportunity” meetings because you do not have any new potential clients with you. You are told that you should come anyway. For the first few I agree as you can learn the business plan for yourself. These “opportunity” meetings normally happen once a week. So I have a few questions for you:

1. Why are you waiting 7 days to get your clients in front of the business presenter?
2. Why have you not learned the presentation, short and long version yourself?
3. Why are you not presenting the business plan yourself?
4. Why are depending some else to build your business for you?
5. Why are you waiting for “your people” to get going?
6. How are you marketing your business? Are you selling it or marketing it?
7. What are your marketing strategies for your business?
8. What is your personal “Why” statement?
9. Are your established Goals and Objectives written and time lined or do you even have any?
10. What are your short, mid and long range goals for your business?
11. What is your impact going to be in the market of your business?
12. How well do you manage your time?
13. What are your prospecting strategies?
14. How do you handle objections
15. What are your follow-up techniques?
16. How do I know when and how to close?

HOW DO I GET STARTED?

HOW DO I APPROACH PEOPLE?

HOW DO I PRESENT MY BUSINESS?

HOW DO I ADVERTISE MY BUSINESS?

HOW DO I PROSPECT?

HOW DO I KNOW HOW AND WHEN TO CLOSE?

               HOW?. .HOW?. .HOW?

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Best regards

Dale Simmons
Founder
Team ProVision

There are many reasons businesses fail such as lack of direction, impatience, greed, taking action without thinking it through first, poor cost/poor product, insufficient working capital, bad or nonexistent budgeting, inadequate financial records, loss of momentum, failure to anticipate market trends, lack of managerial ability or experience, indecisiveness, bad human relations and diffusion of effort to mention a few. But, you there was a but coming right? But until you have a strong a “Why Statement” you are spinning your wheels to be successful in the entrepreneurial arena.

On average every one is conditioned from birth to go to school, get good grades, graduate from high school, go to college, get a degree, get a job, work for 40 years, and retire on 60% of the wages you couldn’t live on when you were making 100% of your salary. Now here is the kicker; life expectancy upon retirement, depending on the industry, is on average 10 years. Now that’s something to get excited about! There is a trend afoot that is showing that the average age of retirement is going up drastically. You may ask yourself why? Simply, the state of the economy is a mess. Social Security is broke and there is a general fear that the retirement promised through the Social Security Administration will not be there when you plan to retire. Company retirement plans are being reduced or eliminated and in many cases the funds are just not there. This does not paint a rosy picture for the future of the working class.

Here is the problem; people trade hours for dollars all the time. In fact 95% of the population is competing for 5% of the wealth. Whereas 5% of the population controls 95% of the wealth. There is only one way you can personally place yourself into the 5%. You MUST be a business owner! But there is another problem, statistics show 90% of all businesses fail. Now there is a sobering statement. So most, i.e.95%, won’t even try or give it a go for a few of months and quit and return to trading hours for dollars. There are a lot of reasons why businesses fail but the main reason is that you don’t have a strong enough “Why Statement”.

Your “Why Statement” is the most critical part of any business start-up and its longevity. Your reason or WHY must be so strong nothing, I mean nothing can stand in your way to success. You must get way outside your comfort zone. It must be your main focus! If you don’t have a strong enough “Why Statement” you will fail. You will fall back into your world of complacency, your comfort zone and your trading hours for dollars. Simply, “if you don’t have a strong enough Why Statement you will keep doing what you’re doing and get what you got!”

As stated at many of my seminars, “A strong Why Statement is the vehicle that will help you get the heck out of your own way!”

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Best regards

Dale Simmons
Founder
Team ProVision

As many of you may be aware when some individuals who get involved in an MLM, Network Marketing or Direct marketing business their focus is on themselves. The danger there is that they are out to build numbers and get your money in hand. When that happens that person or persons who got you involved are gone not to be heard from again. Your excitement is genuine but soon fades as you really did not receive adequate training, support and strategies to build your business or they told you to read the training on the specific web site. Basically you are on your own!

This is very unfortunate for you and any future viable businesses that may come along that you could very well prosper from. You have a nasty taste in your mouth, right? Hey I don’t blame you. As a result, you are no longer receptive to any of these type businesses, PERIOD! Here is the danger in that statement, you could very well pass up that one opportunity that would have fulfilled you needs, wants and desires, which would have changed your quality of life for you and your family. The one that would have in fact made you financially free.

I hear statements like “It’s a Pyramid” or these things don’t work, it’s a scam, or on the polite side we hear, I’m too busy, I work to many hours to take on additional stuff.” Wait a minute, what was that last statement? Hello! All that this is telling me is that said person is either complacent in their life or so locked up in their comfort zone they are afraid to get out side of it. Basically, you are in your own way! That is the only thing keeping you from reaching your financial goals, filling those needs, wants and desires! If you get out of your own way you will succeed without question! I As a “Straight Talk” public speaker, I know this is harsh, some might call it tough love, but I call it straight talk! I’m not going to waste your time and mine by holding your hand and sing “Kumbaya”. My specialty is Professional Growth which works well with some of my Personal Growth friends like Harv Elker of the Millionaire Mind and Manny Goldman Personal Growth Coach. These phenomenal people focus on personal growth whereas I focus on Professional Growth, a great mix. I heard a great quote the other day; “It is never too late to become what you might have been.”

Everyone is brought up to go to school, then college and finally work for someone for forty years, retire on 60% of their income for which they could not live on at 100%. Your life expectancy after retirement is 6 to 10 years. Isn’t that a rosy picture?

I guess I just don’t get it! I talk with thousands of people who want to be in control of their lives, but can’t or won’t take the action to start the process. I impress upon them that 95% of the population competes for 5% of the wealth and 95% of the wealth is controlled by 5% of the population. To become part of that 5% you MUST own your own business PERIOD! One of the best ways today to stop trading hours for dollars and leverage your time and money is to open your own home based business. It’s cost effective and if applied properly can get you to that 5% faster than pretty much anything else out there!

But here is a problem I run into all the time. I talk with people a lot and provide them with viable and profitable business opportunities and offer the professional tools to help them become successful. But for some reason inside their head they don’t treat these businesses as a real business. You’re looking at billion dollar corporations and the new business owner treats it as some kind of little business or a hobby. Many now multi-millionaires have made their fortunes through these type businesses. I have been racking my brain to try understand why many people who start their new business fall out after 3 to 4 months.

One of the things that I like to teach all Team ProVision members is, as an upline, sponsor or coach you are extremely important to anyone within your organization especially at the beginning. As you know we are all bombarded daily by business offers, so-called get rich quick schemes, all kinds of things on the Internet. Unfortunately, many of these people really don’t have your best interests or success in mind. They basically only have their own agenda in mind. And again, unfortunately they just don’t get it! If you’re downline is successful, then so are you! Have you heard this statement, “throw mud against the wall and see what sticks”?. This is not what Team ProVision is all about. We are here to assist you in any way possible to assure your success!

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Best regards

Dale Simmons
Founder
Team ProVision