Denise Lee Porter

1. Follow your plan to the best of your ability. Weight loss is like network marketing - being persistent and consistent (aka small actions compounded daily) will get you to your goal a lot faster than sporadic fad dieting.
2. Speaking of sporadic fad dieting,  people who have trouble losing weight are sometimes the same people who cannot finish what they start.  So if you’re going to lose weight, then you have to stop being a quitter.
3. If you cannot exercise  (though honestly, unless you are bedridden, why can’t you move …

In Business Momentum is Everything
The summer business season started well enough, how was I to know that things could slide so far and so fast? All the business development books talk about momentum in your business and how important that can be . In network marketing what’s really crucial is your pipeline, you have to keep filling your pipeline with personal contacts, leads, and highly qualified prospects.Ellie Drake once gave me a great visual of a pipeline as an actual pipe where prospects go in one end and wander around …

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Usually “identity theft” means that someone is using your name, Social Security number, or credit card information without your permission. It could also mean that they are using your driver license or medical records. There was a recent case where a man struggled for 35 years because someone he knew had taken his personal information. This person moved to another city, got a job, got sick and created medical records and doctor bills, and did not bother to pay his taxes – all in this …

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It’s almost official, Summer is over. You can try to hang on to her if you want but it’s not the same with the kids back in school and roads clogged with traffic. So here is my summer roundup, watched a lot of TV, read a couple of books, exercised - sometimes I did it all at the same time just to keep things interesting.  Swam in the pool next door once, got my tan for the summer (only swim once every summer, don’t ask me …

Any network marketer, who is actively building their business, has heard this question. Whether in person, on the phone, or via email the prospect usually asks the question with just a little bit of attitude, as if they’ve caught you taking a stance that you will in now way be able to justify.
You could say something like “well if you were opening a video rental shop you would have to invest in a space, inventory, employees ” blah blah blah. I don’t like that response, the person you …