Being a mother of a 5 year old little girl who thinks shes 15   I am forced to watch alot of Disney Channel. And Hannah Montana is definitely a household name. All I hear about is how she can’t wait to see Hannah Montana’s new movie due to come out pretty soon.

Well, now I am anticipating seeing the movie as well because I now see some great principles and qualities being taught to young people. This new song she has called “The Climb” is a fantastic example of what a Internet Marketer should model.

She sings “There’s always gonna be another mountain…you’re gonna wanna always make it through, its not about whats on the other side…its the climb.”

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 Hi Guys!!

Yup, thats me…big cheesey grin and all

Welcome to my site. Boy has it been a journey getting going to market online. Send me an email (jasmin@jasminanderson.com) and I will be happy to share with you my struggles and why I say that.

I am 27 years of age to date, and my life is not my own. I live for my 5 year old daughter, and for whatever my Heavenly Father has for me to do to glority His name.

I’m not religious, but I am very spiritual.

My background is in science (BS:Physics), but I quickly learned after working in a JOB for a few years that business was where I needed to be. So I received my MBA, with a concentration in Finance and soon thereafter found Network Marketing and have since lived the freedom lifestyle that MLM allows one to be able to do.

I am in Network Marketing, and very proud of it. (You should be too!!) I love to help people and show them how to recession proof their income while building wealth for their childrens children.

I am very approachable, please do not hesitate to contact me, or even call me (678.701.3451) with any question, comment or concern. I am located in the Atlanta, GA area and would happily meet with those in the area as well for one on one help.

Hey guys,

Listen to the advice I give in this video…

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There is a book called “The Ultimate Guide to Network Marketing: 37 Top Network Marketing Income-Earners Share Their Most Preciously-Guarded Secrets to Building Extreme Wealth” and Chapter 3 has Jim Rohn discussing “Nine Things More Important than Capital for Achieving Network Marketing Success. There are many other great chapters in this book, but I personally love this chapter the best.

The nine things discussed are, Time, Desperation, Determination, Courage, Ambition, Faith, Ingenuity, Heart and Soul, and lastly Personality. I wonder why Jim decided to name 9 things instead of ten, but we will go with what we got.

Lets first discuss Time. Time can be spent in three different ways. You can spend it, waste it, or invest it. Jim says time is more valuable than capital. The time you set aside should not to be wasted, nor given away. How valuable is time? Time wasted can be devastation, but time properly invested is worth a fortune and can perform miracles, so you invest your time.

Desperation. Some might say being desperate is not good. I tend to disagree. Sometimes we get put into situations to test us, and to humble us. But if you stay in that desperate state that’s where the problem can lie. I can recall a time back in college when I desperately needed to pay my rent, and I didn’t have the money. I tried friends and family and no one was able to help me, so I got a job selling Kirby Vacuum cleaners door to door. I absolutely hated that job, but I was desperate. I did what I had to do at the time, instead of sitting on my b.u.t.t. feeling sorry for myself. Now I have ensured that my child will never have to sell anything door to door when she gets to college. Desperation has power and can motivate even the laziest persons of them all.

Determination. There is a fine line between determination and desperation. The difference is seen when I knew I needed a job in college to pay my rent, my attitude was I must find a job, but the determination part was when I would keep looking and applying for jobs until I found one. Never stopping, never ceasing, having a strong will to accomplish your goal.

Courage. Jim says “Courage…in spite of, not because of, but in spite of…” When I was working that job knowing full good and well that I could do better, hearing folks laugh at me, putting up with a lot of bull. Courage, do do what you have to do and not hold your head in shame about it.

Ambition. “Wow! If I can sell 3, I can sell 33. If I can sell 33, I can sell 103.” Jim describes. Now one can see their dreams of the future.

Faith is very important. How can you convince or share a product or service with anyone if you personally do not have faith in, or believe in it? You can’t. You can say all the right things, but the law of energy will show up, and people will feel that negative energy inside you and will run. What if you had a million dollars and no faith? You’d be poor. You wouldn’t be rich.

Ingenuity. Jim describes: “Putting your brains to work. Probably up until now, you’ve put about 1/10 of your brainpower to work. What if you employed the other 9/10? You can’t believe what can happen. Humans can come up with the most intriguing things to do. Ingenuity. What’s ingenuity worth? A fortune. It is more valuable than money. All you need is a $1 and plenty of ingenuity. Figuring out a way to make it work, make it work, make it work.”

Heart and Soul. I’m sure we have all heard before that people do not join businesses. When you are out recruiting, you are not recruiting people per say to join your business. No, people join YOU! People join people, not business. And if your heart and soul is not right, people are not going to trust you, and ultimately not want to join your business. Jim says “What is a substitute for heart and soul? It’s not money. Money can’t buy heart and soul. Heart and soul is more valuable than a million dollars. A million dollars without heart and soul, you have no life. You are ineffective. But, heart and soul is like the unseen magic that moves people, moves people to buy, moves people to make decisions, moves people to act, moves people to respond.”

Personality. Jim said it best when he said “You’ve just got to spruce up and sharpen up your own personality. You’ve got plenty of personality. Just get it developed to where it is effective every day, and effective no matter who you talk to – whether it is a child or whether it is a business person. A unique personality that is at home anywhere. Move with ease whether it is with the rich or whether it is with the poor. And it makes no difference to you who is rich or who is poor. A chance to have a unique relationship with whomever. The kind of personality that’s comfortable. The kind of personality that’s not bent out of shape.

I love to read, and I love to write as well. I would also like to share my two cents on a book that I am presently reading. I would like to share with you my feelings if you will this week as I explore the book “Your First Year in Network Marketing” by Mark Yarnell and his wife Rene Yarnell.

Now I just started to read this book, but from the start of it, this book is right on time and I would recommend EVERY network marketer go out and check this book out and suggest the same for your downline. The book gives tons of situations and examples that will give a new network marketer insight on how to handle situations. They even have a summary at the close of each chapter just to let the reader know what you should have learned, and if you didn’t, read this and learn it.

Chapter One is titled: Ignoring the Rejection Rocket. Oh I can not tell you how many more people I would have in my team, or still have on my team if rejection was not such a big, big deal. People generally wear their heart on their sleeves. Its not a bad thing actually but it does set one up who is in network marketing to get their feelings hurt. And they shouldn’t really, but its something that has to be taught. When a new network marketer goes through the motions of approaching a friend, or even a stranger and get shut down it can do damage to their soul and self esteem. This chapter talks about how rejection is your ally, not your adversary, and if your prospect was approached properly they will only reject your offer if the timing is not right, in which case you try them back in 6months time. The chapter goes into discussing that the people are not rejecting you, they are rejecting the offer. People take someone saying “No!” personally and its really not about them at all.

Me, I’d rather a person tell me “No!” straight out and upfront without me having to give a whole bunch of information that will lead up to a no. When I hear No, I rejoice, because I know that that No, is leading up the a Yes! People in network marketing need to realize that its a numbers game. My mentor told me once that as you grow as a marketer, your Average of Numbers will increase. So, say your first time going out in the field if you will with network marketing, you may talk to ten people today and no one be interested. A little discouraging, but if you increase your numbers, you can see how you can improve. If the next day you speak and talk with 20 people, and you get one person interested, now you have something to work with. You are now batting with 5%. So even if you are not motivated do more, you at least know that if you speak with 20 people, you will get one. That’s valuable information, and better than speaking with 10 and get none. So the following day you may decide to try and improve your percentage and speak to 20people, and get 2. Then you’ll be at 10%. But its all a numbers game. The more people you speak with, the more sales or folks you will likely have to join your business. So, what I do is rejoice when I got that No! cuz I knew for instance that that was just one of the other 19 who’d be disinterested, but I know a Yes! is right around the corner. And I press on, with a positive attitude and not let that No break my spirit because you will carry that with you onto the next person you meet and it may impact that next person and their answer.

The chapter also goes into how imprortant it is that when you are new into network marketing to not try and be an expert on the business and half share what you think you know to your wife, friends and family. No matter how much you know, its always going to sound better from another person’s mouth, so its important NOT to share what you think you know, but to get your sponsor on the phone or better yet get your family, friends to a meeting and let them see the business in the same fashion it was explained and shown to you. If you mess that up, it can wreak havoc in your home, or put a strain in your personal life with friends and family.

All in all, the book speaks the truth, and this Chapter hits a home run.

This is the title to Chapter 2 in “Your First Year in Network Marketing.” This chapter is powerful. This whole book is powerful, but I particularly enjoyed this chapter because it really hit home.

Mark Yarnell talks about how we are so passionate and have such an amazing drive for our products and services that we just want to help out our loved ones. Our parents, sisters, brothers, close friends, just people in our lives that “knew us when” and see us now, doing well, and you want the same for our loved ones. So, naturally you share your expertise and go all out of your way to help your loved one build a business, but what Mark describes in this chapter is how you can’t build it for them. No matter how much you want to see them do well, and think that if you gave your efforts things will take off for them as they did for you, you will be sorry and cause more harm than good.

For one, if you build a downline for your loved one, you will be the leader for that downline, and not your loved one. You are but one person and you can not be a strong leader for your own personal team, and your loved ones team. For two, network marketing is about team, and everyone coming together doing their part, pitching in if you will, not everyone looking to one individual to do it for them.

Yarnell describes some pretty good examples of how things can go very wrong if you were to try to take on this task, and build a downline, a business if you will, for someone else. I know you want to help, but there’s a fine line between helping and enabling. You know when you cross it, you can feel it, but you ignore it and when you do, things can and will take a turn for the worse.

Words of advice, just DON’T do it!!

My mentor shared with me one day about a concept called T.A.P. I personally had never heard of it, and maybe someone out there has heard of it, maybe even use it, but I want to share what T.A.P is and how you can use it in the online world (internet).

T.A.P. is of course an acronym, it stands for Things, Accomplishments, and Personal. I’m not a very outgoing person. I wouldn’t consider myself shy either, however if we were at a party and I really wanted to talk to someone there, more than likely I’d just pass on the opportunity. But if that same person at the party approached me to talk, I could handle myself.

In network marketing, mostly like everyone else, I started out “offline” doing the things my mentors have done and tell me will work. And they did, but it took longer. I would pass out fliers in the mall, knock on folks doors try and convince them I wasn’t soliciting, lol, I would sit in Starbucks and chat it up with folks about my business, doing lots of things out of my character in order to succeed. Saying all of that to say this, I was out one day with my mentor, and he shared with me what someone shared with him one day called the T.A.P theory. He told me that for one you need to be a very observant person and to always have a friendly look about yourself when dealing with the public. That may sound obvious for you all, but for me it was very difficult. He continued to tell me that when he first started out, he mastered the T.A.P principle and it helped him to communicate with people and helped to generate the level of comfortablity and trust and ultimately make the sale.

When you first meet a person, you want to compliment them on something, ergo the T.A.P theory. Compliment them either on a Thing you saw associated with them, an Accomplishment, or something Personal that you may have saw associated with them. So maybe you are knocking on doors, and you notice a very well kept front yard landscaping. When the person comes to the door, compliment them on that landscaping. Maybe you meet a person for the first time in their office, and you see a picture of a beautiful babygirl, say “What a beautiful babygirl…” Or maybe in that same office, you see a trophy of some sort. You can compliment them on that. It is a great conversation starter, and it eases the transition from them thinking you are some pushy salesperson. My mentor always says “People don’t care how much you know, ’til they know how much you care.” And that’s real, just a slight notice of something that hits home with a person, shows that you noticed, and implies that you care.

Now I know you are probably thinking, “But Jasmin, we work online, how can we apply this T.A.P. Theory?” Well I’m glad you asked me, wink, wink, the same principle still applies, just in a different form. So, maybe you are conversing through email and you notice in their signature there is a website, go to the website, and email them back asking questions or complimenting them on the website. That shows that you were interested in them enough to check it out. Maybe you find a prospect/future business associates profile on a social networking site, complement them on their pictures or read their blogs, and let them know that you saw it. Or, maybe this person contacts you directly via telephone, ask them some questions about themselves, instead of diving right into your business opportunity. Lets them bring it out of you, it just proves that you are far more interested in building a relationship with them, more so than the sale.

All this builds relationships, whether you do it online or off, the T.A.P. Theory is a great key or principle to keep in mind.

There are four different colors that one can classify people in. They are red, blue, yellow and green. I would hope that no one person is all of one color, but if you can master this concept, idea if you will, you will be able to communicate better with people, and also how to attract the right “color” into your business opportunity.

The person who is classified as red is usually pretty busy. Just a on the go type of person. They are sometimes money motivated, driven, determined people. If you catch a red person out and about and you have been trying to hook up with them, you might want to discuss whatever it is you wanted to discuss right then and there with them. Cuz they are busy, don’t think or tell them “Oh, I’m a just give you a call…” You may not be able to reach that person for a long while, because the red person lives in the now!

The blue person, just loves to have fun, and socialize. If you were to meet a blue person you haven’t seen in awhile, they would be a good person to invite to one of your weekly meetings for your business. They like to get out and meet and greet folks. They can be serious as well, but they love to know the fun side of the business. Nothing wrong with that, but its good to know who you are talking to.

The yellow person is into the cause. They like world issues, and how they are contributing to society. Do not approach a yellow person about the money you can make in your business, without expressing the bigger issue, or cause involved. You will lose their attention because its not primarily about the money, its how they can help. If you saw this person out in the street, you’d want to invite them on a world-wide conference call, so they can hear all the wonderful things people in your business have done and get a bigger picture of the cause.

Finally you have the green person, which I think I am primarily. The green person is very technical. They are very analytical, and like to know the numbers and kind of shy away from being too social. If you met a green person out and about, you would be better off inviting them to view your website and email you with questions or comments. Trying to get them out to a meeting may have you turning blue in the face.

So its important to know who you are talking to so you can adjust your plan of action according to what color the person you are speaking with is.

Hi guys,

My apologies, the server with my prior hosting company had some issues and my entire blog get kicked off and I was down for about 32hours. I missed you guys so much. I am in the process of trying to retrieve all of my data from the hosting company I was using before, but in the meantime I have switched to a new host. Please forgive me, I have switched to a more reliable hosting company and I am crossing every “t” and dotting every “i” to ensure that we won’t have to go through this again.

In the midst of all of this mayheim, it brings me to a very important topic that I know we all can relate to, and its cheap or unreliable hosting companies. Please check out this video on what Lisa has to say, and avoid going through what I just went through.

See you at the top!!