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I Was Tongue-Slapped by the Barber too!

  

Providing customer service aside, this barber here is obviously mad with his customer who just can't keep himself conscious and still- so he gives him a smack!

I will share my personal experience with you guys about one barber who I always go to trim my hair every single monthly. This happened 6 years ago. Read on.. don't come to conclusion just yet.. I wasn't smack in my face like that but I do receive a different kind of slapping in the face!

A nice barber, very polite and friendly, on one of my visit to him and while trimming my hair, he suddenly needs to pick-up a phone call and seek my pardon for it as it was urgent he claimed. While he was standing behind, I overheard his conversion with the other party whom I believed to his wife. They were talking about buying soaps and toiletries stuffs, then some health supplements. I thought he needs to run errands for these things later in the day but their conversation when on about delivering of those items. I was thinking, was he doing a second job delivering stuffs after he closed his shop? So, finally he continued attending to me and I felt pity for this man who needs to work day & night to feed his family. Being was such a big mouth, I started talking and asking him about doing online business or work online. I told him that he can monitor and managed his online business right at his own shop by placing a PC and internet connection. I offer to provide my expertise to him for free. He just replied me, "It's alright Sir, I can still manage whatever I am doing right now and I am doing fine." I tried convincing him about the opportunities doing online business but he doesn't seems impressed. It doesn't bother me much, I'm used to rejection anyway - move-on!

As soon as I was done, he started packing up too and looks like he's going to close his shop for that day. Indeed it was so, he told me that the shop owner will comes in the next hour to continue running the shop. I wasn't surprised to hear that but I always thought the shop was his. It was raining heavily when both of us left the shop and I offered to give a ride in my car since earlier he had told he needed to go the city area, I was heading there too anyway. But he declined and smiled at me. Ok then, I made my move leaving him to lock his shop. I hurriedly walked towards my car and drove off. Upon driving off towards the first junction, a black Jaguar XF car tailgated me and then overtook by my left and cuts into my path. My eyes caught an image that was so familiar to me. It was the the Barber! I let it out of my mind but it still rings for answer so I came back to his shop short of a month, as just to cover up my anxiety for wanting to ask him. While being attended by him I asked him the question I wanted to ask all this time. "Was that you driving the brand new Jaguar XF the other day?"

"Yes!", he replied. I continued, " Sorry, but is that yours?"

Again he answered, "Yes!". I was frustrated with his short answers, come on! tell me more because I didn't believed you! - that's what in my mine actually but I shut-up, a few minutes later I began to ask him again.

And I asked, " How much do you pay for your car's monthly mortgage? Is your car came from your business here?"

"Nope!", he answered and he opened up to me finally after realizing I am so puzzled with the fact that he was driving a Jaguar. He continued, "Actually I didn't buy the car, it was given to me fully paid for. Amway paid it for me! I am a Diamond Direct! I don't actually need to work for a living now, but I insists on living to work and I'm doing this barber thing because I love the art of hair cutting & styling. I'm doing this for free too. The owner is one of my friend and my down-line in Amway. He is already a Platinum Direct and he too is earning a residual income. He wanted to close this shop but I suggested that I would run it for him and the a money will be use to help needy families in our community." 

He started asking series of questions next, "So Sir, do your online business provide you with a passive income and residual income that will continue onto your generations to come? Can it gives me discounts on things I purchased, refund me for things that I do not like and pays me commissions and royalties?"

I kept quiet and just listen as he continues. " Amway has been going on for many decades has made many millionaires worldwide. For those who don't make it to the millionaire band, they are living in the lifestyle of a millionaire and treated like a millionaire by Amway whenever we are travelling with them. Amway doesn't know what is 2nd class flying and accommodation! We only know 1st Class! We are the real people who makes money while we are sleeping! I have never regret joining Amway and It's all thanks to my wife who one day came back home with the Amway starter kit. We never looked back and we worked hard for a couple of years until who we are today. My network are from 7 countries! and even I'm speaking to you right now, money is coming in into my bank account! Don't ask me how but that's the truth!

The reason I don't want to tell you this is because I done up with new sponsoring for Amway. I'll help others do it and I don't add it into my dowline list. There's come to a point where its pointless to even speak the word 'Amway' to people whose mind are preset that Amway is 'bull-of-shit'!, Sorry for my words but that is what's going on out there but we who are in the Amway business, are serious determined business owners who are seriously wanting to help and change people lifes! I'm sure if I told you about Amway without you knowing that I'm driving a Jaguar, you would definitely not listen! Right? Well I guess you had your own way of creating wealth and I had mine. It's just that I don't need to continue to be exist and alive to get my money, unlike you who still needs to check your PC all the time. I already living a legacy of wealth, inheritance for my children and my children children's future  and only Amway can do that! Who else? Alright Sir, you are done (my hair-cut)."

I paid him for his service, smiled and walked out without saying a word. That was the hardest slapping to my face through out my adult life and his palms didn't even touch my cheek! I kept thinking about what he says for days and I came back to him pleading that he took me under his wings in Amway.  Don't ask me where in the ranks of Amway we are right now but I am glad to say I am earning a unsubstantial amount every month for myself.

For those of you who has already know what is Amway and had been a distributor of Amway but somehow died off doing the stuff. I really need you guys to re-think and RE-THINK! It's never about Amway marketing plans fault that you didn't make it, and never about Amway products too because they are the Best! Maybe it was you or your team leadership that can't make you progress and expand. My Team, we work by the guidelines and we are flexible too, yet unselfish! Being 'Unselfish' is an important trademark of an upline leader in MLM. 

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Passive Income = Residual + Leverage Income

Passive Income = Residual + Leverage Income

Do you want to continue working 50, 70, 100 hours a week the rest of your life?

Good! Neither do I.

Do you want to be able to take time off whenever you want to, without worrying about what’s going to happen to your business?

So do I!

Then you would really consider about having a Passive Income seriously.

There’s a saying in the corporate world:

“Don’t make yourself irreplaceable. If you can’t be replaced, you can’t be promoted.”

As an entrepreneur, this is still true in its own way. Let’s think of “being promoted” as earning more and working less. You can raise your prices, but until you can remove yourself from being directly involved in doing the work that generates the income, there’s always going to be a limit to how much you can earn, and it can only increase very slowly.

Passive Income

Passive income, on the other hand, is income that does not require your direct involvement. Some kinds of passive income you may be familiar with include owning rental property, royalties on an invention or creative work, and network marketing. If you want to earn more, work less, and have a decent retirement, you’re going to have to start creating income streams that do not require your direct involvement. Whether you’re just starting your business, or you’ve been running it a while, the sooner you start thinking about how you are going to shift your business model to create more passive income, the sooner you can achieve personal and financial freedom.

Let’s look at two basic types of passive income, and a third type of income that, while technically not passive, is a key strategy for earning more and working less.

Residual Income

Residual income is revenue that occurs over time from work done one time. Some examples include:

• An insurance agent who gets commission every year when a customer renews his policy
• A network marketing or direct sales rep’s income from her direct customers when they reorder product every month.
• An aerobics instructor who produces a video and sells it at the gyms where she teaches
• A marketing consultant who creates a workbook and sells it in e-book format on the Internet
• A photographer who makes his photos available through a stock photography clearinghouse and gets paid a royalty whenever someone buys one of his images
• A restaurant or retail owner who has grown to the point of hiring a trustworthy manager

As you can see, there are many different ways to generate residual income across a wide variety of businesses. It may be recurring income from the same customers, or the sales of a product to new customers. It may require no personal involvement whatsoever, such as an e-book sold on a web site, or it may require some personal interaction, such as the insurance agent calling the customer to remind them about their renewal and ask them if they want to change any of their coverage. Often, it’s something that you can delegate to an assistant.

Note that this is different from merely recurring income. Recurring income may still require your involvement to earn the income, e.g., a coach or consultant on a monthly retainer, or a caterer who delivers lunch every Monday to the local school board. While this “active recurring income” offers welcome stability, it also tends to tie you down, and you still have limits on your earning capacity based on your own personal production capacity.

Leveraged Income

Leveraged income leverages the work of other people to create income for you. Some examples of leveraged income include:

• An e-book author selling her e-book through affiliates who promote the product
• A network marketer who builds a downline and receives commissions on the sales made by people in his downline
• A general contractor who makes a profit margin on the work done by sub-contractors
• Franchising your business model to other entrepreneurs (the ultimate leveraged income)

Again, there are many different models in many different businesses. The key is that you are making money off of other people’s labor, rather than primarily your own. Note that leveraged income may or may not also be residual income. When you combine them, that’s even better.

Active Leveraged Income

This is a term I use to describe income that requires your direct participation, but that you can make more money by having more people involved. This generally involves a one-time event, such as:

• A seminar or class
• A conference or convention
• Concerts and dance recitals
• Raves and other parties

Although these require your direct participation, your earning potential is much higher than if someone were just paying you a direct hourly rate. Fill a room with 1,000 people paying $50 each and you can cover your facility cost, promotional cost, and staffing fees and still have a nice chunk of change left over.
Applying It

Now is the time to think about how to apply this in your business. Can you create a product that people will buy over and over again? Can you engage others to sell your product? How could you make money off the work of others?

The sooner you answer these questions, the sooner you’ll have financial and personal freedom. If you are still looking for it, Empower Network is the way that provide both Passive and Leverage Income. If you still not part of us, I couldn’t understand more as why you have the interest to read this blog this far. Join me and you will see!

Five Social Networking Sites Of The Wealthy

Five Social Networking Sites Of The Wealthy

In the real world, the average Joe watches the Red Sox-Yankees game from the bleachers while the affluent mingle in the corporate boxes. Everyday Eddie deals with parking and public restrooms during his day at the beach, yet the mega-rich drop their keys with the valet and settle into a reserved lounge chair at a private club.

Online, the waters are parting too.

Though it once seemed that the Web was the last place where status didn't matter, the elite are now looking for a comfortable place to mingle with like-minded people. They're leaving Facebook and LinkedIn to the riffraff.

In Depth: Social Networking Sites for High Society

"It's taken a while for wealthy consumers to start using networking sites, mostly due to privacy issues and concerns," says Milton Pedraza, CEO of the Luxury Institute, a New York-based research company that focuses on high-net-worth individuals.

"But now they want to leverage all those social-networking advantages. Before, they had the opportunity to network at annual international meetings, but now they can connect to like-minded people in Dubai or anywhere in the world in an instant."

According to a January survey by the Luxury Institute, wealthy-consumer participation in online social networks is on the rise. Of the 805 people surveyed (each with a minimum gross annual income of $150,000) in 2008, 60% of respondents said they participate in a social network, up from 27% in 2007.

Participation levels for the wealthy in leading social networks were 16% for MySpace, 13% for LinkedIn and 11% for Facebook. On average, a wealthy person has membership in 2.8 social networks with an average of 110 connections. Unfortunately, according to Pedraza, too many invites, "pokes" and unrequited connections, coupled with the leaks in privacy, make exclusive sites more alluring.

A new breed of social site 

The wealthy are instead heading to a new crop of ultra-exclusive social networks that have blossomed over the past few years, such asaSmallWorld, which launched in 2004. This year also saw the launch ofDiamond Lounge and Squa.re.

Some networks come with strict invite-only policies and a rigorous application process based on education, job title, connections and lots of virtual velvet rope. Others, such as Squa.re and Quintessentially, are more lenient, requiring simply an invite from any existing member.

ASmallWorld, by far the most well-known and well-attended site for digital A-listers, was launched in March 2004 by former Lehman Brothers banker Erik Wachtmeister. Born into a diplomat family (his father was the Swedish ambassador to the U.S.), Wachtmeister started networking at an early age.

"I realized there was an existing community of people who are connected by three degrees of separation: They stay at the same resorts when they travel, frequent the same restaurants and have similar lifestyles. They needed a platform to share and receive information--it was a huge untapped opportunity," Wachtmeister says.

ASmallWorld has grown to include 320,000 members globally (Facebook boasts 40 million, by contrast) with 65% of the members in the U.K., Italy, Germany and France and 20% in the U.S. The rest are sprinkled throughout the Middle East and Asia. Wachtmeister's site has been even called "MySpace for millionaires" by the Wall Street Journal. But Wachtmeister maintains that aSmallWorld is a niche community that doesn't allow self-promotion or aggressive networking.

Once invited to join the network (only selected members with a sturdy Rolodex are given invite powers), a member can browse the market guide (a high-end Craigslist where there are currently 500 member-listed yachts for sale), surf the luxury-travel guide and global-event guide, or participate in forum discussions--one of the site's most active and popular functions.

"Anyone with good lawyers in Phuket, Thailand?" a member recently asked on aSmallWorld's forum. He continues: "I'm building a sustainable-apartment development and need some U.K.-Thai contracts written up for an investor."

Another writes that she's "looking for recommendations for the U.K.'s and/or Europe's top cosmetic doctors to perform liposuction or the fat-dissolving laser treatment."

Participating in the forums and access to the site is free, supported by advertisers such as Cartier, Moet & Chandon and Patek Philippe--all lured on board by the guarantee of targeting a luxury-obsessed audience.

Striking a balance 

Others are jumping on the bandwagon too, but finding the balance between staying exclusive and making a profit is a big challenge.

Case in point: The newly launched DiamondLounge.com. Significantly smaller, with only 150 members, the company has flip-flopped between fee-based and free, and has shifted its focus from business networking and social site to dating and fun, "like an online club," says owner Arya Marafie. He says a slow and controlled growth in these early days is critical to the site's long-term success.

"We spent a tremendous amount of time making sure that we selected the right club members, because these are the people who will invite the next group," says Marafie, adding that most of those hand-selected people are CEOs, lawyers, directors or doctors. But Marafie admits that this mix will most likely change as the site switches to a party-like environment.

"Being wealthy won't automatically get you in the door," says Marafie, "You have to be interesting and bring something to the table." He says the average age of his members is 35 to 40, significantly older than the MySpace or Facebook demographic. However, according to a study by comScore Media Metrix, 68% of the 55 million MySpace users and 50% of Facebook's 15 million users are now 25 and older.

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Next month, the Luxury Institute is also launching a network catering to the affluent. For an annual fee of $250, LuxuryRatings.com will offer access to member ratings of several different types of service providers, from wealth advisers to art dealers to yacht brokers. The fee eliminates the need for online advertising, which, Pedraza says, would be a conflict of interest.

Will it work? 

"People are unhappy with the free-for-all at LinkedIn and Facebook and MySpace. They are looking for a specialized group to mingle with, and paying a fee weeds out the ones who don't belong," says Chris Curtis, director of Web Business Ownership LLC, a Delaware-based Internet consulting company.

"Exclusive sites are becoming more prevalent because not everyone is willing to network with people they don't know," she adds. "It provides a more formal type of introduction within a closed circle. [The networks] have staying power, but only if they listen to the needs of the society that they are creating."

But do the rich and successful have time to be searching the Web and schmoozing? "If it's worth their time, yes," says Pedraza. "I know people who are building a yacht, and peer-to-peer insight about where to go and who to work with is the sweet spot."

Getting to that spot, however, is the challenge. If you want to be inside these clubs, aim for one of the more lenient ones that require an easy-to-find invite where all members have invite powers. Choose carefully, though, because just like in high school, once everyone can join the cool club, it's no longer cool. The alternative is to pay the yearly $250 dues to join a site such as LuxuryRatings.com.

But if you're looking for an invite from the more exclusive groups, you simply have to know someone who matters.

"If you don't know anyone in the group, maybe it's not quite right for you," says Wachtmeister.

by Nicola Ruiz, Forbes.com

Time Management Is Important When Working for Extra Income At Home

Time Management Is Important When Working for Extra Income At Home

The only disadvantages of working arise when one was really over doing it to the extreme. Having your own space and time had made an impression to you that you are at home but actually you are just virtually exists at home, physically. The truth is, when you are working in front of your PC most of the time, your focus and concentration neglects others and what’s happening around the house. Often, going to fetch a cup of coffee seems a distracting activity that could disrupt your attention from your work.

Why do people ending up over-working while doing their job at home is because they do not have a specific time that they must leave their office like others do. At the home, they are already home so the factors of wanting to go home and beat the rush hour is nil. At their home, no security guards will chase them out because it’s time to lock the premises. And due to the convenience of space and time, sometime a a simple 1 hour tasks could take up 3 times the duration for completion. I believed many would have their favorite music tracks on together with their online-chats, facebook and youtube at one go. The funny part is, they called it busy and needs to focus! for every time you tried to get them off their seat.

Depending on the nature of work from home that they are carrying out, some are called as the ‘teleworks’, while some are on their own home business or some freelance projects like data entry stuffs. Whatever their work maybe, big established companies are saying that working at home kills the innovation and creativity they need to keep in leading the market and therefore, they are turning away of that concept. For one, it saves on desks and some of the costs of running an extra squares of the office. Besides that, everything else are pointing negative. So, don’t try to convince your boss to let you work from home.

Not all bad was portrayed towards the idea of working at home, a study had shown that people who was let to work at home are more productive and efficient than those in the office  performing the same task. However, time factor was not taken into account on this study. The study reveals that the completed task was more accurate and satisfactory. The same person who worked at the office and completed his assignments and then to do the same or similar assignments back at home produced a much better results when from the later. Of course, the boss do know how many hours do you take to complete the given task while you are in the office, but if you are at home, the boss didn’t know that you took almost the whole night to finish the assignment and you do it while catching your favorite night shows and running errands in the house.

The conclusion is, be very cautious about time management if you are to work at home. Most people are not over-worked or over-tasked; they simply over spend their time for doing their work. For those who are earning their own income from home, they likely to be always in front of the PC looking for stuffs to tweaks their websites or blogs, finding resources, marketing and checking of emails every 5 mins until somebody in the house call them off from what they are doing. These activities are really not necessary although it is important to manage your website and campaigns but put a timetable and discipline yourself on your hours in front of the PC so that you can  spent more quality time with your family. Working at home after all, is about being closer to your loves one, but it’s not supposed to be this way.

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The world-wide-web gives opportunity to people a various channels of earning some money online or even of becoming a full-time home business owner to make serious amount of money, creating wealth. The advantages of working at home or having your extra-income niches coming from the comfortable and convenient place like your own living room or bedroom are incomparable to none. Besides, you don’t need to travel to work, get dressed to work or even getting caught in traffic jams. There are also no boundaries of hours per day or in a week that you must work.

You are your own Boss! You are tol give your own appraisal and you will reward yourself for your performance, is that right? infact the truth is, you never even need to.. You just get the cheque and that is all that matters. I couldn’t imagine anyone would impose penalty on himself for being late to start his PC every day when he IS his own boss. And that’s one aspect of fun if you are able to have your own online business.

Sometimes, people goes into home-based-jobs or business is because they can’t commit to the specific working hours or  doing task that are required by their employer. The next common reason apart from money is freedom. Freedom in doing this online business includes financial freedom, time freedom, and freedom to do anything. There are people who could not enjoy all that and some even are unable to put their kids to day-care, or pay the bills or have food ready on the table. My good advice to them is, look no further than your personal computer. There are hundreds of work-from-home opportunities available more than ever before!

To start off with the process, you need to have a personal computer and an internet connection. Generally, work from home opportunities are not only found online, but are done online too.

Initially, earning from home meant the idea of working as a sales rep, and this is a notion which has thankfully changed to make way for the rewarding of talent in the online jobs. Yes, your talent can now be profitable. If you have a knack for knitting or sewing, you can make clothes, runners and quilts and market these products online.

With a website of your own, you can sell your merchandise and create a stream of income at home. This is exactly what happens with any type of talent or craftsmanship out of which you are looking forward to make money online.

An auction website helps you and your talent to get noticed, and this translates into getting good returns on your efforts and investments. Moreover, you will have a large base of customers as you can market your products not just in the country itself, but all over the world. With the original documents of the customer mailed, the job is done.

You may need to get into contact with a customer and the contracting company with internet messaging or email. Your talents might lie in sales, advertising, and writing, website designing or creating homemade products, whatever your niche, you are sure to come across an online moneymaking opportunity.

While ads for work from home options may be available almost everywhere now, make sure you do online research. The Internet is the easiest platform to locate the jobs with the search engines turning up the best and most relevant results. However, you should be cautious regarding the results as there are scam sites too.

One of the scams against which you should guard is the website which seems to have credibility but fails on ther expects like exposures to the net community worldwide. Established and proven make money programs would have a majority positive search engine results to their name. There will always be competitors trying to splash ink into the milk other but you be the judge for this because at the end of the day, it is your money that will be buying their systems.  If your research display positive popularity, pages of links and reviews, loads of videos in youtube and people commenting it, the system looks relatively make sense and your in capacity of doing it, the start-up price is within your means, them I say you just go ahead with it. Look out for recommendation from other who had tried and also search for people who are in it if you can, afterall, to be convince is in the power of believing. You need to see it to believe.

On closing note, I would like to find out more about the Empower Networks yourself. You are free to do your research elsewhere. Eventually if you are convincing that this is a real make money online sytem, come back to my site and I welcome you as a member of the Millionaire Networks | Empower Network.

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