VirginiaReynolds.com

Here is an abridged version of a questionnaire from a tour-taker of my primary business I received recently.



”Personal-Message: Thanks, Virginia Reynolds. I appreciate your dedication. I truly want to be successful at helping others and this seems to be a simple yet very effective way. Do you know about X and Y Corporations? Both are very wonderful opportunities for me to join that help people\’s health and their wealth. The X people are local and the Y people are in …. Since you are effective being an \”ezhelper\” around the world, I would really appreciate your advice. Thank you sincerely,
name of tour-taker.”



Here is my reply with further additions:



Tour-taker name, thank you for your kind words.



Now, I HAVE heard about X over the years and Y rings a bell.
So far as I know both are highly reputable.

I have not had personal experience with them so I really have not earned the right to advise you specifically about them. I do believe that they follow the traditional MLM model.



Now I DO have specific views about traditional MLMs generally and because of these views I do not join them – irrespective of their reputation. These views are set out in entry #12 in my training site. (http://www.ezwealthtraining.com). Essentially you are really relying on people in your down-line to be as dedicated and as effective as you are to so many levels down – sometimes up to 10 levels! (ie 3 get 3 who get 3 who get 3 and so on …) In the real world this just does NOT happen. (I am very realistic as far our primary business is concerned – please read the 1 9 90 Rule in entry # 65 and Chances of Success in entry #41 in my training site.)



Also, you usually have to handle physical product through minimum monthly auto-ship membership requirements. I know that if a physical product does what it says it will do then the WalMarts, chemists, drugstores and natural health product retailers of this world find a way to bring in competing products – in spite of patents, legal protection and so forth.



Also, Wealth Advice is usually governed by each country’s State and Federal corporate and taxation laws so it is hard to find generic specific wealth advice that can be adapted locally – without consulting, and paying fees to, your local CPA, Investment Advisor and Lawyer. Also, practically everything written by motivational writers today is just taken from Dale Carnegie’s 1936 and 1940s classics and even he had the honesty to mention that he borrowed his ideas from religious and cultural icons from earlier centuries. Basically 2 plus 2 equals 4 – irrespective as to whether this appears online in Wiki or in a 19th century school text-book. Similarly, for travel and vacation oriented mlms, travel bookings are usually governed by local state licensing requirements. Air travel IS tightly governed by the Air Travel industry.



So you can see that on principle I am not a fan of ANY traditional MLM at all. In fact I avoid anything which mentions “downlines” and even “matrix” or “cycle” for that matter … 

With the Get Paid Today model like our business – yes, you DO have to gain resellers who upgrade – but you do not need many at all. You do NOT have “downlines”. See the Tour video in your “How It Works” tab in your back-office AND the 2UP Flash movie on the same page, again, to see how the 1up and 2up Get Paid Today compensation model works. This compensation model has been operating in one form or another for centuries. It is basically the same model whereby the master (teacher) gleans a greater share of sales commissions while the apprentice (new recruit) learns the ropes. It’s as simple as that.



Purists will contend that the 1Up and 2Up Get Paid Today business model is multi-level-marketing and they will flaunt so called expert views from legal and regulatory sources saying that this is so.



That’s nonsense of course.



You have one level below you – NO MORE than one level – and we call these resellers.  Therefore there is no “multi-level” involved.  Also, as there is only one level below you there cannot therefore be a “downline”. There is no “line” that goes “down”.  There is one level – period!   Also, the fact that those who gain resellers are called “sponsors” does NOT mean that our business model is mlm.  The word “sponsor” is NOT captive to the mlm business model.  One of the largest training organizations in the world calls its licensees, “sponsors”.  This organization has nothing to do with mlm at all. There are “sponsors” of sporting events. The word “sponsor” is apt as there is an inherent responsibility for the sponsor who recruits a reseller to help that reseller succeed. There is therefore a relationship that is stronger than that which exists between seller and buyer.  The word “sponsor” captures this relationship appropriately.



There are also purists that would contend that the 1Up and 2Up Get Paid Today business model is a form of “network marketing”.  This is also debatable. The “net” in “network” fragments when the required people and sales proceeds are passed up to the sponsor.  The special relationship that had existed between sponsor and reseller no longer exists as both sides have met their requirements. The reseller has passed up the required number of people and sales and the sponsor has helped the reseller achieve this.  The reseller is now independent of the sponsor.  There is no “network”.  Obviously the better sponsors will still include these now independent resellers in their training and updates – and maintain a strong friendly relationship. This is not network marketing though.  This is just maintaining sound relationships. To his great credit my own sponsor in my primary business still includes me with latest updates and resources even though I became independent of him back in February 2009.  I am doing the same with my independent resellers.  This means that anyone coming into our primary business will have comfort that they will NOT be left on their own after they fully qualify.  My sponsor and I together with other top producers call ourselves the #1 elite team and we ensure that everyone is included and updated with new team resources as and when they become available.



The fact that most traditional mlm companies have discarded the 1Up and 2Up  Get Paid Today compensation plan proves the point in a way.  Top performers in traditional mlms rely on their downline network of top producers over time, sometime over years, to produce override commissions for them. By definition, top performing resellers under the 1Up and 2Up model separate from their sponsor once they have passed up their required people. No wonder traditional mlms don’t like this 1Up/2Up model!  What many mlm sponsors sadly discover is that many of their top producers up and leave and take THEIR downlines with them anyway.  Also, many mlm operators change the commission structure – often reducing commissions paid. My own sponsor in my primary business left his previous mlm, taking many in his downline with him, when the mlm company changed its commission structure – for the worse. It is strongly suspected that this particular mlm company has since embarked on a smear campaign in various public forums against my primary business because of this defection.  My sponsor was then, and is now, the top producer of his previous mlm and now, with my primary business. 



With the 1Up/2 Up model commissions usually remain at 100% of sales proceeds.  That means that for a product with a total sales value of $2000, following a 2Up model, the sponsor will receive $6000 from each reseller, consisting of the initial sale to the reseller and the sales to each of the two people passed up. Then the sponsor gains two more resellers each of whom will potentially derive revenue of $6000 plus pass up two resellers and so on, exponentially. These proceeds are received on the spot rather than months later. Also, for some GPTs (including my primary business) the commissions consist of 100% of the sales proceeds paid directly by reseller to sponsor – the company does not touch a cent. It’s equivalent to gaining what the mlm promoters sprout as “fast start bonuses” ALL the time.  With our primary business there are 5 stages leading up to a total sales figure of $1885 at which people are passed up.  This allows resellers to commence at a lower purchase amount and work their way up.



So the best way to succeed with our 1Up/2Up model is to locate “tigers” who are able to recruit and pass up people at all stages. Like Ulysses and the sirens the greatest challenge is NOT to lose focus and be sidetracked by the lure of so-called “spillover”, and “no personal recruiting”  that the promoters of mlms, matrices and cyclers often promise.  When crunch time comes you HAVE to gain your own referrals/customers and make sales through your own efforts – I don’t care WHAT business you are in, online or offline. Some lucky ones instinctively know this as soon as they embark on an online business career.  Unfortunately most people take years, and have to learn this lesson the hard way.  It’s amazing how often this pattern appears in communications I have with friends and connections in business social networks.



I joined my primary business in late January 2009, upgraded to all 5 stages within 4 days, and it took only TWO people to qualify me at stages 3, 4 and 5 by the end of February. I did have to pass up my first stage 1 to my sponsor and two stage 2s as well – and I had another three stage 2s as well before my two stage 5 upgrade qualifiers joined me. I have had stage 5 upgrades since of course – together with many more at stages 1, 2, 3 and 4. I am also benefiting from pass-ups and roll-ups from my resellers – and this will just grow exponentially over time as my top producers grab more tigers by the tail … 

Also, my welcome email template (entry #1 in my training site) has paragraphs about confirming my primary business’s product value – and the fact that the products are digital – and that you pay for them only ONCE.



I hope you have found this informative.  What I have expressed here are my own views, based on my own experiences over the past 9 years I have been in online ventures.  I don’t profess to be an “expert” – and really – nor should anyone else – as the internet keeps evolving and changing.


Virginia Reynolds
Online Business Professional
Primary business: http://www.yestocash.com
Links that support my primary business:

http://www.ezwealthtraining.com

http://www.earnfromtraffic.com


Interview:

http://wayofthewinner.com/bulletin1109a.htm

http://www.trafficsnatch.com
http://www.listvirally.com
http://www.coupdetweet.com
http://twitter.com/ezyhelper

ezyhelper@gmail.com

+61249173418

Stan Stuchinski, of Big Dogs and Way of the Winner (WOW) recently interviewed me and has just published this interview in his WOW Bulletin.

The bulletin url is:

http://wayofthewinner.com/bulletin1109a.htm

Here is the text of this interview and it summarizes my views on what it takes to succeed online.
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“Yes, Santa Claus, There IS A Virginia!”

Spotlight on the 
”Wonder from Down Under” 
Virginia Reynolds

During her first full month as a Winner, this stunning young lady from Sydney, Australia, managed to sell 18 Way of the Winner ebooks.

But that’s just icing on the cupcake, isn’t it?  The real money – the big bucks – start to roll in when ebook purchasers upgrade and join the CHIP programs.  And this is where Ms Reynolds again demonstrated her mettle, with a more-than-acceptable TWELVE PERCENT upgrade ratio!

(I can’t wait to see how she does when she gets a little experience!  It’s almost scary to think about!)

How did she do it?

Well, let’s hear the story in Virginia’s own words.  And pay attention!  She
has some genuine pearls of wisdom to offer that are GUARANTEED to to help you in your OWN Internet marketing career!…

Stan:  “First of all, Virginia, congratulations on what can only be described as a stellar opening act.  After only thirty days in the business, you have proven to be as aggressive and tenacious as those fabled funnel web spiders from your home town!”

Virginia:  “(chuckle)  Well. thanks, Stan.  I like to think that I have a deep understanding of what it means to show commitment, not to give up and not to give excuses.  I know what it means to be pushed outside the comfort zone.”

Stan:  “Let’s begin our interview with the basics;  tell us a little about your self…”

Virginia:  “Well, Stan, my age has to be guessed at.  (LOL)  I always say that I was born in 1900 when those pesky year of birth boxes show up.  I am happily married and between my husband and I we have 5 adult children – some with kids of their own.  We have both ‘retired’ though now I am busier with my internet business than I was in my offline career.  My husband and I owned our own business conducting a personal development/management training license, very successfully, in a hard-bitten steel and coal city in Australia for 20 years. (The 1980s and 90s – remember those times? … high interest rates, Seinfeld and mainly pre-internet …).  The training originated from the USA and this was a further barrier to penetrating this hard cynical market. We HAD to produce results, with an ‘invisible’ product for both our individual and corporate clients – and we did.  Gaining trust and maintaining enduring relationships were essential to our success. This background has prepared me well in mentoring people in my online business.”

Stan:  “That’s a very key point of a successful business philosophy, isn’t
it:  ‘Gaining trust and maintaining enduring relationships’  In other words, what you are saying is that you have to sell yourself first, and THEN sell your product.”

“It’s obvious that this isn’t your first rodeo, Virginia.  Just how long have you been marketing on the Internet, and what had been your experience previous to joining W.O.W?”
 


Virginia:  “I have been marketing on the net now for close on eleven years – and I find that the more I know – the more I have yet to know.  My profile at my twitter account (ezyhelper) summarizes my approach very succinctly.  I have followed every trend that emerged in internet marketing over these years and have now focused on a successful 1up/2up business – very successfully I might add – since January this year. My twitter profile contains links to this business and my blog:  virginiareynolds.com gives my views on the most common types of internet businesses.  You and I know that the net is forever changing and evolving – but the one constant that does NOT change is that to succeed on the net you have to have the same mindset necessary to succeed in any offline business.
That mindset is one of being a business owner rather than employee, and be prepared to do what it takes to succeed, ethically.  That means that to make money you have to spend some, even before making a profit,  - and not assume that the internet, in itself, is some magic wand for success – it isn’t.”

Stan:  “I was extremely impressed with your blog, Virginia.  It’s professionally done and offers tons of pertinent marketing advice.  So just what are your general thoughts about the Way of the Winner ebook itself, and the W.O.W! program in general?”

Virginia:  “Stan, I have followed you since 2001 with the Big Dogs program.  What attracted me to W.O.W! was your own credibility in the first instance and the excellent revelations about attracting targeted traffic for any online business contained in the W.O.W! eBook and system. Since signing up for all CHIPs of W.O.W! a month ago I have been very pleased with the results so far. Your ‘back’ has matched your ‘front’ to say the least!”

Stan:  “In addition to promoting through the CHIP programs, what other types of advertising and promotion have you found to be effective?”

Virginia:  “The CHIP’s are obviously my advertising ‘bedrock,’ Stan, but I also concentrate my efforts on selected Business Social Networks and Twitter.  I seek connections and friends and then communicate with them the right way.  My blog has posts on how I approach Business Social Networks. I feel very comfortable offering WOW on these networks as everybody needs extra traffic to their primary business.  In offering WOW I am still communicating to them in terms of their primary interests, not mine. One method I find particularly useful in Social Networks is to mask my hoplink for the WOW eBook with my own URL (earnfromtraffic.com). People on Social Networks seem to respond better to straight, ‘catchy’, URL’s, rather than obvious affiliate ones.”

Stan:  “Well, Virginia, I think we’ve taken up enough of your time, and it’s obvious you are one very busy young lady!  Thank you for your incisive and instructive commentary!”
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I hope you have found this interview useful.

Virginia Reynolds
Online Business Professional
Primary business: http://www.yestocash.com
Links that support my primary business:
http://www.ezwealthtraining.com
http://www.earnfromtraffic.com
http://www.trafficsnatch.com
http://www.listvirally.com
http://www.coupdetweet.com
http://twitter.com/ezyhelper
ezyhelper@gmail.com
+61249173418

Here is an excellent article on using Twitter effectively.  I have added annotations in brackets preceded with “Virginia:” with further ideas as to how to adapt these methods to your primary business, under the paragraph concerned.
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Top Ten Ways to Use Twitter for Marketing
By Jason OConnor (c) 2009 The Net Gazette
(http://www.TheNetGazette.net)
 
Twitter is a micro-blogging site that asks you a basic question,
“What are you doing?” It allows anyone with an account to write
up to 140 characters in a text field as a means to update,
comment, promote or communicate to others who are “following”
you. When people follow you, they see what you’ve recently
contributed when they login. They see your “tweets”, which are
the messages you leave.
 
And of course you can follow others who tweet about the things
that interest you. As an Internet marketer you may want to follow other Internet marketers, for example.
 
(Virginia: In using the Search function you can look up all posts that contain the name, or variants of the name of your primary business and then follow other key promoters.)
 
Like anything, and this is especially true of working with social media, the more you give, the more you get. In other words, the more often you tweet the more activity you’ll generate. Some suggest that you tweet a few times a day, every day. Not every tweet needs to be profound. But they should all be useful.
 
(Virginia: You can use http://www.google.com/alerts and http://twitterfeed.com and select a keyword that will draw interesting feeds. For example I use “internet marketing” (title only) for my http://twitter.com/ezyhelper twitter account, and I use “network marketing” for my giniareynolds twitter account.  How to set this up is contained in Harris Felman’s http://www.coupdetweet.com – or you can figure it out just by following each site’s instructions.)
 
It’s important that you don’t abuse Twitter for marketing and
promoting your products, services or affiliate links. Most of
your tweets ought to be about offering your followers useful and
valuable information. Only once in a while should you try to use
Twitter to promote something. Otherwise you’ll be perceived as a
spammer, and no one wants that tag.
 
(Virginia: A useful site that will tell you if you are a spammer or not is http://www.twitchuck.com  – the main message is: DON’T SPAM!)
 
Imagine if you had a large number of people following your
tweets? Some people have tens of thousands following them. If you had something to promote and you had a large following, you could quickly and efficiently alert a lot of people of your promotion.
It acts sort of like an opt-in mass emailing blast to your house
email list, but it’s a heck of a lot easier and faster. This is
the power of Twitter.
 
One thing that I’ve noticed with Twitter is that it can seem
overwhelming at times. The sheer information on Twitter, the
‘how-to’s’, tutorials and all the other ubiquitous advice on
how to use and take advantage of it can seem hard to understand
and implement. So here’s an easy-to-understand list of the top
ten ways in which you can use Twitter to market yourself, your
business and your website.
 
The Top 10 Ways To Use Twitter for Marketing:
 
1. Use it to promote new pieces of content you or your company
create to drive traffic to your site. From online articles to
blog posts or from videos to webinars, each time you add
something to the Web that is of value, tweet about it and include a link. (Most people on Twitter use www.TinyURL.com to take a long URL and make it short.)
 
(Virginia: I make use of “tags” in my generic blog here at http://www.virginiareynolds.com and the feeds mentioned above pick up my new posts automtically. Again, I obtained this blog with choice of template and a year’s free hosting through http://www.coupdetweet.com. You can still tweet about your new posts as well.
I use a far better url shortening service: http://bit.ly/  as this will give the number of hits to your site.)
 
2. Use it for learning new marketing ideas, strategies and
techniques. If you follow the right people, and you have to be
picky about who you follow, you’ll get pointed to a good amount
of useful tutorials, videos, e-zines and other things that teach
you about marketing.
 
(Virginia: Also, if you use feeds with useful generic keywords in the titles then read your OWN posts – you will gain an enormous number of ideas and see what’s trending in the internet marketing world.)
 
3. Use it to get new customers. Use Twitter’s search to find
people who may be interested in your product or service. There
are many ingenious ways to search for people on Twitter. For
example, if you sell red widgets you could go to
http://search.twitter.com and find people who have tweeted
specifically looking for red widgets. To do this, type the
following into the search box: red widgets?
 * You’ll notice a lot of the results will be of others selling
red widgets. These ones will all obviously have links in them to
direct people to the site they’re selling red widgets on. To
weed these people/tweets out, use the negative sign like this:
-http red widgets?
 * Since every link has ‘http’ in it, using the negative sign
in front of it will cause your search results to not include any
tweets with links in them.
 
(Virginia: I use this feature to find out about what is trending in the Get Paid Today, the 1up/2up, top tier areas and competing businesses to my primary business located at: http://www.yestocash.com.)
 
4. Use it to build your email list. Use Twitter’s search to find
people who may be interested in the monthly newsletter you send
out to your opt-in house email list. Invite these people to join.
 
(Virginia: I use this to attract people to my 7 day internet training bootcamp at http://www.trafficsnatch.com).
 
5. Utilize Twitter plugins or add-ons such as TweetMyBlog or The
Twitter Updater, which both automatically make tweets of every
new blog post you publish. Also check out TwitThis. When visitors to your website click on the TwitThis button or link, it takes the URL of the Web page and creates a shorter URL using TinyURL.
Then visitors can send this shortened URL and a description of
the web page to all of their followers on Twitter. Finally, look
at TweetLater, a service that allows you to write lots of tweets
at once and then schedule them to go out over time.
 
(Virginia: I use tweetlater – now renamed SocialOomph (http://www.socialoomph.benefyts.com) – to send an inspirational quote from each of my 5 twitter accounts at 9am USA ET – again these quotes – hundreds of them – are supplied at http://www.coupdetweet.com.)
 
6. Use it to build buzz about an upcoming product or website
launch.
 
(Virginia: Tweet your primary business new press releases and product/system updates.)
 
7. Use it to better brand yourself or your business. Remember,
when someone wants to learn more about you or your company, they
are increasingly using sites like Twitter for research. You could easily use Twitter to establish yourself as an authority in your field.
 
(Virginia: With approaching 60,000 followers (ezyhelper) I am ranked highly in the home business/network marketing/internet marketing/mlm and similar categories in wefollow.com and twellow.com – this is FREE exposure. My tightly focused twitter profile then brands me. You can do the same. I started getting serious with Twitter only last May.  However, be careful not to be overly aggressive in seeking followers – see my previous email/post on this. Here is a very useful site for growing your twitter: http://www.buzzom.com)
 
8. Use it to update followers on breaking news regarding your
company. If your company is mentioned in a new article, tweet
about it and include a link to the article. Or if you’re at a
conference or trade show, you could tweet what you’re doing and
invite people to visit you in person.
 
9. Use it for business networking, master-mind groups (see
Napoleon Hill), and getting yourself seen by high-profile people
in your industry.
 
10. Use it as an instant messaging system to keep you and your
team on the same page during projects. This is especially useful
for those who work with teams spread out in different cities or
countries.
 
You should note that this top 10 list is not in order of
importance or in any particular order. I suggest that you give
Twitter a try if you haven’t already. See if you can apply a few
of these techniques and tactics to help you take advantage of
Twitter as a marketing tool.
 
And one more important thing to remember is that there is no
silver bullet in marketing. You should always be trying and
implementing numerous tactics when marketing your business.
Don’t only rely on Twitter or any other one thing. Instead, use
Twitter (or any other Web 2.0 site) as simply one more tool in
your entire social media and marketing toolbox.
 
(Virginia: Hallelujah! and Amen to that! Jason O’Connor, the author, has hit the nail on the head – there is NO silver bullet – ALWAYS seek new ways to market your primary business – it’s NOT hard work when you immerse yourself into MAKING IT HAPPEN.  It becomes enjoyable, it increases your self-confidence when results come through – and it becomes fun.  This applies to ANY worthwhile business, online or offline for that matter.)
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 I do hope that you have found this information, and my accompanying annotations, useful.
 
 
Virginia Reynolds
Online Business Professional
http://www.yestocash.com (primary business)
These links support my primary business:
http://www.ezwealthtraining.com
http://www.trafficsnatch.com
http://www.earnfromtraffic.com
http://www.listvirally.com
http://www.coupdetweet.com
http://twitter.com/ezyhelper
Skype: ezyhelper
Ph: +61249173418

The other night Twitter decided to suspend my account, ezyhelper.
 
The next evening they lifted this suspension and my account was re-instated.
 
They have not given me a reason for either action.
 
At the time I did lodge a request for the suspension to be lifted and in so doing came across a very useful Twitter page that is essential reading for all of us who use Twitter.
 
Here is the link.
 
http://twitter.zendesk.com/forums/26257/entries/15790
 
Click on the links within this page (particularly the Twitter Rules link) and you will learn very quickly what NOT to do when using Twitter.
 
I must have broken a rule and not known that I had done so – hence Twitter’s slap on the wrist.  On reflection I think I know what I did wrong.  I became too aggressive in following more people, straight after removing some 5,300 non-followers that had accumulated in my Twitter account over some weeks. Twitter calls this churning – and it is an easy trap to fall into.  What I should have done was to wait a day or so before following others – and then NOT follow the maximum of 1000 a day immediately – but build this up over time. Also, choose a number of different leader accounts within a broader market niche to follow the followers of, don’t just focus on one leader account in one specific niche.
 
An alternative site that can be used to grow your following, reciprocate those who follow you and yes, even to flush out the deadwood, is located at http://www.buzzom.com – (but BE CAREFUL here- do NOT flush then immediately grow your following as Twitter may regard this as churning).
 
So I am letting you know of my learning experience so that you don’t fall into the same trap.  I can assure you that it is not a nice feeling to see that your Twitter account has been suspended.  I was very relieved to see it back again.
 
The fact that I never spam, and never spam my primary business, http://www.yestocash.com, may have worked in my favor.  You will notice that my Twitter profile is very specific as to what my primary business is and I know that this, rather than my tweets, have encouraged visitors to my business.  People will eventually wander over and look at your profile if they find your tweets of value and of interest to them. (This principle applies to Social Networking generally.)
 
Virginia Reynolds
Online Business Professional
http://www.yestocash.com (primary business)
These links support my primary business:
http://www.ezwealthtraining.com
http://www.trafficsnatch.com
http://www.earnfromtraffic.com
http://www.listvirally.com
http://www.coupdetweet.com
http://twitter.com/ezyhelper

Please, right now, go to Kenneth Yu’s candid blog post on what it takes to succeed online, or offline, for that matter.

Here is the link:

http://bit.ly/4oJtj9

and here is my comment (the fifth comment) I have just posted there.

Virginia Reynolds 10.15.09 at 4:15 am
Kenneth, I like the way that you RELATE to us. You show great humility in sharing your trials with us. Your paragraph on character really struck a chord – you tell it like it is – and you’re so right. Another aspect of character that seems to be missing with a lot of internet success aspirants is perseverance. When they come across obstacles they stay in their comfort zone by jumping to another so-called internet business. They give up and succumb to the glitter of the next best thing. They have yet to realize that the internet itself makes no real difference on the path to business success. A business-owner’s attitude, rather than one based on false hope, usually associated with expecting to win a lottery, is the hardest thing for a lot of people to accept.

Thank you for such a refreshingly candid post.

Virginia

I hope Kenneth’s blog post and ALL comments strike a chord with you too.

Virginia Reynolds
Online Business Professional
http://www.yestocash.com (primary business)
http://www.ezwealthtraining.com
http://www.trafficsnatch.com
http://www.earnfromtraffic.com
http://www.listvirally.com
http://www.coupdetweet.com

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Virginia Reynolds
Online Business Professional
ezyhelper@gmail.com
Skype: ezyhelper
Phone: +61249173418
http://twitter.com/ezyhelper
Viral-List Member #3752
 
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One successful Get Paid Today business, that can serve as your primary business, with commissions approaching $1.1 million paid directly between member to member, in just 21 months, is located here:


http://www.yestocash.com

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Here’s a sneak peek at just some of the things you’ll discover….

What Is Public Domain Data,

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How To Select The Best And Most Profitable Type Of Information For Your Site…



The Three Most Common Mistakes You Can Make And How To Avoid Them…



How A Single Website Can Be Used To Make Money In Many Ways To Create Multiple Streams Of Income…



Discover The Key Ingredients To An Easy-To-Use Website That Will Keep Your Visitors Coming Back Again And Again…

How To Make Money From Traffic

What is Monetization
Keyword Research
Google Adsense Revealed
More Contextual Adverts
Inline Contextual Adverts
A New Contextual Ad Service
CPA Revealed
Massive CPA Network Revealed
A High Paying CPA Network Revealed
A Popular CPA Network Demonstrated
More On CPA Networks
Even More CPA Networks Revealed
Monetizing Social Networks
Earning Offline

Article Marketing Made Easy

Videos on:

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What tools you need to get started with Article Marketing

How to rewrite PLR (private label rights) articles

Finding Profitable Affiliate Programs to promote

Creating a Resource Box

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Virginia Reynolds
Online Business Professional
ezyhelper@gmail.com
Skype: ezyhelper
Phone: +61249173418
http://twitter.com/ezyhelper

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One successful Get Paid Today business, that can serve as your primary business, with commissions approaching $1.1 million paid directly between member to member, in just 21 months, is located here:

http://www.yestocash.com

If you join me in this business as a reseller you can help YOUR future resellers gain traffic by combining http://www.earnfromtraffic.com with pageswirl. The possibilities are endless … See my training site for more ideas at: http://www.ezwealthtraining.com
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This link is not a referral link of any kind.

I am sharing this with you now so that you can join me in eagerly awaiting further free videos that I believe will provide further, more contemporary ways, to promote your primary business.

So this is a work in progress – I will be learning and implementing this blueprint as and when I receive further details in my inbox. I recommend that you also subscribe to receive their future video releases. You can do this from within this link.

So at the moment I am no further advanced than you in implementing this blueprint.

As you know I am a great believer in using social networks effectively – I believe that when used properly these networks can provide a never-ending supply of leads for our business.

This will solve those perceived (though not necessarily real) problems that many of you have shared with me – namely not having enough leads, not having your own website, and not having your own list.

Please contact me should you have any questions at all.

Standing by

Virginia Reynolds
Online Business Professional
ezyhelper@gmail.com
Skype: ezyhelper
Phone: +61249173418
http://twitter.com/ezyhelper
 
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One successful Get Paid Today business, that can serve as your primary business, with commissions approaching $1.1 million paid directly between member to member, in just 21 months, is located here:


http://www.yestocash.com
 

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Virginia Reynolds
Online Business Professional
ezyhelper@gmail.com
http://www.virginiareynolds.com
Skype: ezyhelper
Phone: +61249173418
http://twitter.com/ezyhelper
 
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One successful Get Paid Today business that is now approaching
$1.1 million in commissions, paid directly between member to member,
in just 21 months, is located here:



http://www.yestocash.com
 
If you join me in this business as a reseller you can help YOUR future
resellers gain traffic by combining http://www.earnfromtraffic.com with
http://pageswirl.com/?aff=ezyhelper.  The possibilities are endless …
See my training site for more ideas at:  http://www.ezwealthtraining.com
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This has been adapted from a question posed to me by one of my better team-members:



Question:



The 1up and 2up Get Paid Today business model is not a repeat business in that usually the product is sold only once to each purchaser.  I keep thinking that we’re going to run out of people then the cash flow will stop.  What are your thoughts on that? 



My Response:



Your concern is understandable.



You have to think in a different paradigm here.  With traditional mlm there are repeat product sales to the same person – at least in theory – until they give up and leave – realizing that they can’t recruit and that their garages are filling up with fruit juice- or exercise nutritional gel, or weight-loss biltong or even washing powder. Of course this traditional mlm model espouses that enough sales will be made to retail customers who have no interest in embarking on the money-making side of things. 

This, of course, is hypocritical nonsense. If you shop for your washing powder or even sox at your local mlm supplier instead of going to your local Wal-Mart do you really believe that you will escape solicitations, repeated solicitations, to “join the business”?   Hardly!  That is why these products do not get sold – not because of the products themselves but because the purchasers are sick and tired of being approached to join the mlm associated with them.



With the 1up and 2up Get Paid Today business model your “repeat” business are more and more people purchasing products that are usually non-physical e.g., Wealth Creation/Management/Real Estate/Tax advice conferences/seminars and downloadable softwares/e-books/how-to videos.



Apart from motivation seminars these products are usually consumed once by each purchaser and so the “repeat” aspect kicks in when others buy the same service/product.



For some reason, the self-appointed guardians of what constitutes a valid business model online will contend that the traditional mlm model is kosher and the 1up/2up model is doubtful.  Their main reasoning is that there are a limited number of people who will take up a 1up/2up business and that therefore the ones who get in early will gain at the expense of those who come in last.



This argument is nonsense of course.



In theory, in a geometric progression inherent in the 1up/2up model where two will get two and each of these will get two and so on, we will soon run out of people.   

The real world does not work like this.  



Please see two entries in my training site http://www.ezwealthtraining.com entries # 65 and 41.  Essentially what we are saying here is that people give up and leave well before saturation can take hold.



As in any business, online or offline, people come and go.   People succeed, but more people don’t make the grade.  That’s life.



In the 1up/2up business model, the fact that people give up works in our favor.  USE the fact that only a small number make the grade.  (Only a small percentage make the grade in ANY business, online or offline.)



Provided the products provide value-propositions to those who need/want them then the 1up/2up Get Paid Today business model will ALWAYS have prospects – they will never run out.  (It is beyond the scope of this post to explain what a “value-proposition” implies – so take this term at its face-value at this stage.)



Even Amway still persists in some form or other and it was started out of a garage just after WW2.  People come and go.  Do you think that it survives because of the quality of its washing powder?  Hardly, it survives because there are always new people taking on the mlm aspect – replacing those who give-up, retire, die PLUS those who enter the network marketing business world for the first time (or second or third time).



The home business/online home business arena is growing exponentially in this post Enron, post Crash world.



The school of thought that there are a finite number of prospects for a 1up/2up Get Paid Today business just does not apply.  

More and more people are becoming prospects – more than can be handled – as they come onto the net or as they flounce from one bizop to the next – looking for the magic bullet – which does not exist.



Perseverance and hard effective work are the magic bullets here – and not many really appreciate this – then when they mature and realize this then they become real prospects for the 1up/2up business model.  

That is why you see my “tell it like it is” themes throughout my training site. Only 10% really listen – the remaining 90% will eventually learn these truths the hard way – then they are true prospects – if they have not already given up.



Let’s take another analogy. You may say that a million dollar coal handling truck has a limited market – not so, they are always finding more coal deposits – so there will always be a market for these machines. The nay-sayers will say that the climate change debate, and the fact that as the Earth is finite and that coal itself is non-renewable then the coal-mining industry – and hence the associated heavy machinery market – will cease.  That is nonsense of course. Using the same spurious arguments, they may also contend that oil producers will cease to exist – again, nonsense.  



With the 1up and 2up Get Paid Today business there will always be greater growth in the market than the capacity to fill it. 
There is always an expanding market.



The secret in succeeding in a 1up and 2up Get Paid Today business is to keep seeking the RIGHT prospect – people who really understand and accept all this. These people are the ones who have product belief and hence will persevere when the doubters give up. There is a never-ending supply of these people – you will NEVER run out  – its just a matter of finding then attracting them.



You will always therefore have repeat business with the 1up/2up Get Paid Today business model.



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One successful 1up/2up business that has now exceeded $1 million in commissions, paid directly between member to member, in just over 20 months, is located here:
 

http://traxad.com/r/ezy_trafficplanaweber



If you have read this far, and can relate to what is being said, then I KNOW that you have the right qualities to succeed in this business.





Virginia Reynolds

Online Business Professional

ezyhelper@gmail.com


http://twitter.com/ezyhelper


Skype: ezyhelper

Phone: +61249173418
 


Here is my training site for this business. Feel free to explore:

http://www.ezwealthtraining.com


For building your list, complete the getting started 
process by logging into:


http://www.theTRAFFICplan.com/members

(If you haven’t already done so, become a free member here:
 http://www.trafficsnatch.com


And,
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http://www.coupdetweet.com

(This resource includes 12 month’s free hosting and pre-loaded templates. My site: virginiareynolds.com, and its template, was provided by this package. Set-up was push-button easy and all browser-based.)