Interesting. I keep receiving parcels from top attraction marketers around the world…

This time round, I received a book and a postcard from top attraction marketer in Australia, Steve Anderson.

It’s a book titled “The Slight Edge” by Jeff Olson. I have just finished reading Ann Sieg’s Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto, and now I have a new book to read from Steve Anderson. Hmm, something to keep my mind busy the next time I’m on a long flight to China

Thanks Steve, really appreciate the book!

I received a package in my mailbox couple of days ago from US. I found a familiar name on the package - Ann Sieg.

I opened up the package and found a hardcopy of Ann Sieg’s latest book “The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto”. Apparently, she sent a hardcopy of her new book as a gift to the top 83 Renegade affiliates in the world and I am really pleasantly surprised to be in that list

There’s also a contest going on, and the top prize is a Mercedes C300! But this contest is only open to US and Canada residents. Shucks, but then again, I’m already driving this car

Opening up the new book “The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto”, I found Ann Sieg’s personal autograph.

It says “Willy, Thanks for all you do! Ann Sieg”

“Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto” is a 65-page book, choked full of information about why attraction marketing is the way of the future and how you can become an attraction marketer easily. I raced through the entire book in one sitting and I want to tell you that Ann Sieg really over delivers!

I’m not gonna spoil your reading pleasure by telling you what’s inside. But I gonna tell you this great news… You can get your own copy of Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto FREE on 2nd Mar 2009. Yes, you heard me right, you are gonna get this fantastic manual on attraction marketing FREE.

You will just need to register using the link below and you’ll be able to get your copy on 2nd Mar FREE. This is a no-brainer, just go there now 

Click on this link:- http://willylim.marketersmanifesto.com

I have just finished the 1st Net Profit Marketing Application Workshop.

It was an intensive 3-day Social Media Marketing training with 21 participants from Singapore and Malaysia. The participants came from a wide range of backgrounds, including professionals from the finance industry, training and coaching industry, direct marketers and business consultants. KC See, one of the top consultants in Malaysia, covered the area of Marketing Physics and Marketing Mathematics, while I covered the area of Social Media Marketing.

It was a non-stop training marathon and I had to speak continuously for 23 hours to cover the critical aspects of content creation and syndication in social media. The participants had a great time discovering the immense power of social media marketing applied to small businesses.

Willy Lim,what is the shortest way to financial freedom?

- Lucia Sarah, UK

Got this question in my mailbox.

Hi Sarah,

Thank you for your email.
I hope you are learning something from my email course

I’m glad that you asked about the SHORTEST way to financial freedom, rather than the FASTEST way to financial freedom. Because financial freedom is not about Get Rich Quick. It requires dedication, effort and determination.

The shortest way to financial freedom? Hmm.
I took 5 years to become financially free, and I did it via Network Marketing.
While I’m not sure if that is the shortest ( or even considered “short) way, I can tell you the journey was definitely worth.

The key to shortening your path to freedom is find a good mentor. Better still, find a great team to mastermind with. Having someone whose been there, done that,  and is willing to show you the way, greatly shortens the process.

That being said, you play a huge part in how long it takes to get there too. Given that your income is usually the average of your 5 best friends’, choose wisely who your friends are. You can choose your friends, and hence you can determine your income.

Committed to Your Freedom,

Willy Lim

It is really interesting to note that Chinese spend 44% of their leisure time online!
With a still hugely untapped online marketing marketing, China has huge potential in the next 5 years.

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Repost from BBC.

UK housewives rule in online time

A survey of more than 27,000 web users in 16 countries has shown that the Chinese spend the largest fraction of their leisure time online.

However, UK housewives spend even more than China’s average - 47%.

Germans are the most likely to meet someone in real life that they first met online; more than three quarters have done so.

The study also found that the UK is the least trusting of information in its newspapers among the 16 countries.

The study was conducted by global market information group TNS, which asked 27,522 people aged between 18 and 55 to answer questions about their web use and compared respondents’ faith in traditional versus online media. The average respondent in China spends 44% of their leisure time online, nearly three times the amount of the average Danish respondent. On average across all countries, under-25s spend 36% of their leisure time online; in China, under-25s claim they spend 50%. In the UK, a breakdown by occupation shows striking differences in the responses; students spend 39%, more than the unemployed (32%) but still far less than housewives. Face time And as for online socialising? On average across all countries, respondents had 17 online friends. However, when asked the question “Have you ever arranged to meet in person people who you’ve met through the internet?”, Germans came out on top with a whopping 76% saying yes. The Chinese were at the bottom of the 16-strong list, at 40% - still a reasonable fraction reporting they had crossed from online life into real life.

“What comes out in this survey is that we are actively engaging with people online, but we haven’t lost the knack for conventional social contact,” said Arno Hummerston, managing director of TNS.

“At the same time, online acquaintances are now perceived by most of us as real acquaintances.”

The average across all countries was 60% having met online friends face-to-face; the UK was just below that figure at 58%.

A further part of the study comparing online and traditional media and information sources showed national differences.

In the UK, online news sites are second only to friends as the primary source of trusted information; two fifths said they considered online news a “highly trusted” medium.

The UK was markedly less trusting of print media, with only 23% counting newspapers as highly trusted - roughly the same fraction who considered the Wikipedia site as highly trusted. At the top were Finnish respondents, who were some three times more likely - 69% - to describe their newspapers as such.

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http://www.businesspundit.com/the-50-best-business-blogs-of-2008/

Delivering Net Profits to Your Business,
Willy Lim
Small Business Marketing Expert
InterNETwork Marketing Expert

I got this question in my mailbox today.

When you are building your downline, and you want people to replicate your success, you can’t just give them a replicated website. I understand that. So what do you actually train the downline to do? Do you say “Build a profitable high traffic website like mine with some unique idea.”

That would scare away most people. How do you make a very large downline successful?

Thanks for any reply! - Richad, from United States

Thank your for your question, Richad.

There are 3 parts in building ANY business:-

1) People
2) Systems
3) The Business

In my many years in direct-selling, I realised that people are not duplicatable. Everyone is a UNIQUE individual.

Only systems are duplicatable. And technologies are part of those duplicatable systems.

Therefore, you shouldn’t allow people to run the business directly. Rather, you should let people run systems, and systems run the business. And that’s why you should focus on building duplicatable systems, rather than attempting to duplicate people.

Hence, I teach my downlines to BE themselves, to POSITION themselves uniquely and to learn how to USE these systems (and technology) to attract prospects to themselves.

Let me use the analogy of learning to drive a car.

To get to the destination (the business), we (the people) can walk or drive a car (the system).
Obviously, we would get there faster if we learn how to drive the car (learn how to use the system).
While everyone’s driving habits (everyone is unique) may be different, the car (system) has standard interfaces such as a steering wheel, an accelerator and brakes.
Once everyone learn how to drive a car using these standard interfaces, everyone gets to the destination faster.

So, while it would take time to teach everyone how to use as system such as the InterNETwork Marketing system to attract prospects , it really pays off in the long run.

Remember, build duplicatable systems. Then let people run your systems and let your systems run yout business. Never let people run your business directly.

Click below to find out more about duplicating a huge downline organisation:-

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Delivering Net Profits to Your Business,
Willy Lim
Small Business Marketing Expert
InterNETwork Marketing Expert
Making InterNET Work for Marketing in Asia

I just had dinner at a very interesting kungfu theme restaurant in Xiamen, China.

The name of the restaurant is 风波庄（Feng1 Bo1 Zhuang1）, loosely translated to be “Trouble Mansion”.

The words on two sides of the entrance is a very typical line from Kungfu movies.

“人在江湖 身不由己”, meaning “Being in the Martial Art World, there are a lot of things that are beyond one’s control.”

The words on the walls are equally interesting.

“有人就有江湖，有江湖就有风波庄。”, meaning “where there are people, there will be martial art world. And where there is martial art world, there will be Trouble Mansion.”

Hmm, I wonder if there will be trouble at dinner tonight

I was ushered to sit at the “掌门人”(Clan Master)  seat of “龙门镖局” (The “Long Men Armoured Escort”). From my table I can see the different clans at other tables, such as “古墓派”、“峨嵋派”、“嵩山派”(the “Ancient Grave clan”, “E Mei Clan” and “Song Moutain Clan”)

The poem on the wall is pretty violent for a restaurant.

“人在江湖飘，哪有不使刀，江湖起风波，见面就拔刀，一刀砍死你，两刀砍死你，三刀砍死你。。。”

“Wandering in the martial art world, surely you will use the sword. And when there is trouble, you draw your sword upon encounter. One slash to kill you, Two slashes to kill you, Three slashes to kill you…”

Food is good with interesting names. I had a white cabbage stirred fried and placed in a pot above a candle and that’s called “圣火令” (the Holy Fire command). And yes, tissues are called “无字天书” (Heavenly Scrolls without Words)

Of course, the martial art world wouldn’t be complete without heroes and heroines, drinking out of bowls.

This is a news report from the malaysian newspaper Star. Even Malaysian minister is encouraging retrenched people to go into direct-selling. It’s no wonder the direct-selling industry always boom during recession times

Delivering Net Profits to Your Business,
Willy Lim
Small Business Marketing Expert
InterNETwork Marketing Expert

Monday December 15, 2008

Go into direct-selling, Murugiah urges jobless

SUBANG JAYA: Those who are retrenched should look for alternative sources of income.

Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Senator T. Murugiah said that the alternative options included multi-level marketing products.

He said it was during an economic slowdown that people should try their hands on new ventures to survive.

“People do not see it but it is a profession where the longer it is, the more you will earn,” he said after launching K-Link, a multi-level marketing company recognition award at Sunway Pyramid Convention Centre yesterday.

He was asked to comment on news reports that from January until now, about 28,000 have lost jobs, with an average of 2,000 to 3,000 workers laid off a month.

Some businesses are reported to have cancelled contracts and reduced demand, while factories and employers are cutting down on expenditure. He said he had received a call that 3,000 people have lost their jobs in a factory in Ipoh yesterday.

“With a small capital, those who lost their jobs could start a business in direct-selling,” he said.