Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Create a Vision Board For Your Network Marketing Business

I am a strong supporter of the vision advice. I think what you see and what you believe can become a reality.

A vision board is a collage of photos and images that represent what you want in your life.

Most people use the billboard to create their vision boards. The number of items you want on your board will determine the size of the billboard you need.

One of my favorite vision of advice for those in network marketing is to take the magazine of your business and reduce the pages of these people the company is grateful. Now add your photo to this page.

If your company creates a list of names of performers, add your name to this list. These items must be near your work area. Your vision board should be on the wall behind your work area so that you are constantly reminded of where you want your photo and your name.

Is there a trip you’d like to take? Perhaps you’d like to visit a state or country you’ve never been to before. Get some photos and maps of the area and put them on your vision board. Perhaps you’d like to visit family you’ve not seen for a while. Get photos of them and add those photos to your vision board.

What does your car look like? Is there a different car you’d rather drive? Get a photo of that car on your vision board. Better yet, visit the local dealer and get a photo of you right next to that car. Tell the dealer you are working on a business and you are working toward buying the car and you’d like the photo. Those I know who have done this, have never been turned down for the photo.

What about your home? What would you like to be different? Get photos of what you want on your vision board.

Do you have favorite quotes? I know one girl whose entire vision board is filled with meaningful quotes. Those quotes help her to be the person she wants to be. If you have favorite quotes, type them out, get them in color and attach them to your vision board.

Are there people that you really admire? Get some photos of these people and add them to your vision board.

Vision boards can be very powerful in reminding you daily what is it you want and who it is you want to be.

Audrey Okaneko has been in direct sales since 1983. She can be reached at audreyoka@cox.net or you can Become a Tupperware Consultant

Saturday, October 18, 2008

How to Make Money With Paid Market Survey

When times are bad for people seeking other ways to make money outside their normal jobs and a way to do is paid with market research. You will find that paid survey sites are booming economic bad times and you can save a little time in paid surveys can be a way for you to make some money too.

There are many advertisements to making thousands of dollars per month by taking surveys, but it is misleading. A very few people do that kind of money and they put a lot of hours in building their investigation. That said, there is no reason why you can not make a good income alternative to filling out surveys in your spare time.

Paid market surveys are very popular for other reasons outside the poor economy. Many people dream to get free of their normal 9-5 and paid surveys offer the opportunity to make money on your own terms. They are particularly suitable for students and homemakers and those who can not work full time and still want to make a little money to enjoy some luxuries in their lives. In addition, many of these people May not want or be able to leave their homes to go to a workplace and paid online surveys let them work at home. It's easy to create a part-time salary paid by taking surveys from the comfort of your own home.

Paid online market research are so easy to take. They are simply a series of questions about certain products or the investigation and everything you need to do is answer honestly. Most people have strong opinions on many things and paid surveys allow you to express your opinion while getting paid
for it too. The reason why companies paid survey are willing to pay for your opinion, it is actually useful for companies sponsoring the surveys. They use your opinion to create new products, create advertising and marketing campaigns and improving existing products so they can increase their sales or profitability.

You'll find literally hundreds of paid market survey companies and while many of them are small there are also huge players in this field. Depending on the length of the survey and the subject matter you can get paid anywhere from $1.00 up to $250.00 for a single survey. Of course the majority of surveys are between $1.00 and $10.00, but it's a great feeling when you get chosen for that huge paying survey.

Some paid market survey companies accept people from all over the world, while others may focus on a single country. You can get paid for surveys regardless of your age, occupation or education and some survey sites accept members as young as 13. The survey site will ask you to fill out a profile questionnaire when you join and they use this information to select the right surveys for you, so make sure you complete this step completely and properly.

When you first begin with paid market surveys you might become discouraged as you won't get any high paying surveys. This is because the survey companies use this time to decide how serious you are and how reliable you will be as a survey respondent. Think of it as a probationary period and you'll find that soon you're getting better survey offers. Once you get to this point with the paid survey companies you'll find that paid market surveys are indeed a good way to make some extra cash from home.

By Steven Walters
To learn more about the paid market survey and how you can get paid to fill out surveys please visit the authors website.