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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

How To Position Your Home Based Franchise For The Three S Epidemic

There is a very powerful shift that is taking place in the direct marketing world. A shift that will have a powerful and profound effect on your home based franchise, but only if you apply it correctly AND only if you actually take the action to apply it. I think that you would agree that whether you are marketing your home based franchise on line or off; your potential customers are carrying with them the “Three S Epidemic.” They are either scared, they are scarred or they are skeptical. Maybe they are all three.

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertMar 18, 20111 topic

Financial Security; The Six Essential Questions You Must Ask

Today I want to talk about that proverbial elephant in the room. You know, the one that everyone knows is there--but no one wants to talk about! (Shhhush…it’s your financial security!) In this case, it's what’s really happening within our economy and our money. In essence, our financial security. No one ever talks about it. Sure, we'll talk about a lot of things--our stomach virus, our fight with our spouse or kids, our exasperation with just about anything or anyone. But w

Primary topic: Investing

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

95% Of People Fail. Join The 5% Club Of Winners In The Home Based Franchise Industry.

It’s disturbing to me and yes sad, the amount of people who fail at their home based franchise. Do I think that people set out each day with the goal of failure on their mind? Quite the opposite. But, in general…most people do not set themselves up with the intent, the strategy and the action plan to succeed. Today, we will take a look at the first of four reasons why people fail not only in their home based franchise, but in almost anything that they do. Will you fall in either one of these categories?

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

Sales and Goal Setting: The Biggest Mind Games In Top Home Based Franchises and How To Overcome Them

Goal setting; sales 101 plain and simple, right? However, it really isn’t that plain and simple is it? Have you set your detailed goals for the day, the week, the month and your year both personally and for the success of your home based franchise? Goal setting is critically important to the success of your home based franchise. Without goals…you do not have an exact plan of where you are going, you do not have an exact plan of how you are going to get there and you will not know when or if you have ever arrived.

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

9 Must Have Solutions to Grow Your Home Based Franchise To The Home Based Franchise Of Your Dreams

Do want to embody the American Dream for your home based franchise? Follow these 9 must have solutions and watch your home based franchise grow into the home based franchise of your dreams. Have a terrific idea. Do a bit of brainstorming. What type of home based franchise would you like? Are you presently in a business that is not producing the results that you are looking for? Take what you like and keep it. Then take what you don’t like and ask yourself… How would I do it better? Then do it, take massive action!

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

How to Protect Your Home Based Franchise Against The Evil Of Energy Vampires.

Having your own home based franchise, you must each day know exactly who your energy vampires are and how to keep them away. We have all heard it before, the Law of Attraction states that we transmit both positive and negative energy and how we manage this energy positively is what really matters. So, who are your energy vampires in your home based franchise? Are they fear, doubt, anger, hopelessness, frustration, depression? The list could go on and on.

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

Sales: The Biggest Mind Game In Top Home Based Franchises; Part Four

You are nature’s greatest miracle!! Think about that statement and realize how true it is. You are completely unique and there is not one other person out there that is like you. Og Mandino’s teaches in the fourth scroll that you are your own unique leader...a leader that people are looking for in their own home based franchise and in today’s age, a leader that people desperately need and want. You have unique qualities and knowledge that no one can teach like you can teach. As soon as you realize your uniqueness and you start to show it and act on it...

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

New York Times Article Confirms It’s A Great Time To Start A Home Based Franchise.

I was reading a very powerful article written in the New York Times (printed on Saturday…March 14th ), and it centered on the benefits of having your own home based franchise; which if you are thinking about starting a home based franchise, should be of great interest to you.

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

The Game of Selling: The Biggest Mind Game In Top Home Based Franchises; Part Three

The game of selling…quite honestly it is the biggest mind game that I know for the success of your top home based franchise. Once you have mastered the game of selling you have mastered your key to success in everything that you do; not just success in your home based franchise. Today’s message is about persistence and how you must persist until you succeed.

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

Catch The Most Irresistible Offer You Will Ever Have For Your Home Based Franchise

Build the most Irresistible offer of all Irresistible offers for your home based franchise. Remember the Ronco Commercials with their But Wait...There’s More slogan? OK… I am dating myself, aren’t I? But guess what; this method of building irresistible offers continues to work and it can for you and your home based franchise as well. You want to offer your prospects and leads more and more until even the most stubborn person can no longer resist. You might be thinking, but Jen, I can’t afford to do that...how will I ever make a profit in my home based franchise?

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

You Can’t Afford To Use This In Your Home Based Franchise. If You Do You Will Fail…I Guarantee It.

Do you know that the word can’t is the most frequently used word out of an unsuccessful home based franchise entrepreneur’s mouth? I challenge you take a look at this unfortunate word and really think about how many times you might use it in one day. The word can’t is a word that I detest, is the worst of the four letter words and I do not tolerate it’s usage in my house or in my home based franchise. Most people use it far too often, very casually and most importantly...they use it inaccurately. Truly, think about when you use can’t.

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

How To Prosper In Times of Turmoil With Your Home Based Franchise: Four Easy Steps

We are living not in an economic storm…but the Perfect Storm. I realize that there are those of you out there that are shaking their heads at this statement. Because of everything you hear in the media you are afraid to do any expanding in your home based franchise. Because of the global doom and gloom that we hear about on a daily basis we are second guessing every decision and action that we take in our home based franchise.

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

Don’t Be A Home Based Franchise Chicken…Learn How To Properly Sell, Not Close

Sales and Closing...Closing and Sales in home based franchises (or any business or company for that matter) seems to still have a negative undertone. Even though I have been in sales for years, have consistently been in the top 5% of earners, I still hate the word close. I know for me, it goes back to my beginning days of sales. I studied Tom Hopkins and the motto was close and close often. I think the word back then was trial close. Regardless, at least in the companies that I worked with in the 80’s, they wanted me to close often and close hard.

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

Failure Or Feedback? Which Is It For You and Your Home Based Franchise?

You probably hear it all the time: You must be willing to fail in order to win. As you probably suspected, most people are not are not willing to take the failure walk for their home based franchise and that is what stops 97% of entrepreneurs dead in their tracks. The fear of failure has people giving eulogies to their goals, hopes and desires. Recently, I came across some very powerful information that I’d like to share with you this week.

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

Niche Marketing Strategy For Your Home Based Franchise; But To The Affluent?

It seems that everywhere we turn all we hear about is how tough it is to start a home based franchise. I say that the exact opposite is true and quite frankly there couldn’t be a better time to start your own home based franchise. I’m here to remind you that you need to focus on the opportunity rather than challenges that surround having your own home based franchise. If you have not created a niche marketing strategy to the affluent...why the heck not? First of all, I strongly suggest that you go out and buy Dan Kennedy’s No BS to Marketing to the Affluent.

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

Are You A Top Home Business Entrepreneur? Do You Have What It Takes? Learn How In Three Easy Steps

Do you actually believe that you are going to achieve those lofty goals of being a top home business entrepreneur and make big money in your home based franchise for this last part of 2009, looking into 2010? Most people don’t believe. And when I say believe, sure on the surface they might talk the good game, but deep down there is always that question mark, that voice that says, why should this year be any different than last year…especially in this economy? Do you have that same little voice?

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

95 % Of Home Based Franchise Entrepreneurs Need To Get Off Their Butt And Do This One Simple Thing.

Most People Do Not Study. Reason two on why 95% of people fail in their home based franchise and will never become a top producer is because most people do not study. I asked the question in the first article of this series if you were obtaining what was needed for the accomplishment of your goals and dreams. Maybe the more important question is: Are you studying, learning and doing what is necessary to be the master of your craft, be that top producer and to have the best home based franchise possible? Trust me, this is easier said than done.

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

Home Base Franchise Entrepreneurs, I Hold The Secret & I Bet You Can’t Wait To See What It Really Is

What does it take to become a success in the home based franchise industry? What is the secret formula, if there is a secret formula, in the home based franchise...and who actually has it? You may be asking these questions of yourself and of the present company that you are currently aligned with. I actually know the answers to those questions and will share them with you in one minute. But before I do, I have a question to ask of you...What are you trying to accomplish in your home based franchise?

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

What Is The Biggest Mind Game In Top Home Based Franchises; Part One

Sales…quite honestly it is the biggest mind game that I know for the success of your home based franchise. Once you have mastered the art of selling you have mastered your key to success in everything that you do; not just success in your home based franchise. One of the best sources of getting your mind in the game of selling and making your home based franchise a huge success is Og Mandino’s The Greatest Salesman In The World. It’s the story of passing down a chest of scrolls from one great salesperson to another.

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

Resistance: Struggle, Conflict: How To Let Go Of What’s Holding You Back In Your Home Base Franchise

Resistance: Confrontation, fight, battle, struggle, conflict. Resistance is known to be one of the biggest obstacles that hold people back from succeeding whether it is succeeding in your home base franchise or personally. Tell me, have you risen to the level of success in your best home base business that you aspire to be? If not, what is the resistance that is holding you back? Are you a writer who doesn’t put pen to paper? Are you an aspiring Internet Marketer that never does any type of marketing? Do you buy an expensive home study course, but never finish it?

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

You Can Easily Jumpstart Your Home Based Franchise Today by Doing This One Thing Properly.

If you’re just joining us in this series of articles I have been talking about recession buster strategies for your business. Guess what; it’s true that you and your home based franchise can thrive in today’s market place, you just have to focus on the incredible opportunities that are right in front of you instead of letting the Constant Negative News (CNN) get to you. So tell me, have you and your team in your home based franchise considered targeting, marketing and selling to people who do naturally well in recessions?

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

Sales: The Biggest Mind Game In Top Home Based Franchises. Part Nine: Take Action

Take Action…Let’s face it...your dreams are worth nothing, your plans for your home based franchise will never come to light and all of your goals will be impossible to make unless you take the action necessary to make them all come true. It continues to blow my mind that people come to me with big plans, huge goals, and lofty dreams for their home based franchise; all of them attainable, yet little to no action is taken. So many of us want the lifestyle of the wealthy, yet do not take the action that is necessary to have that lifestyle.

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

When Deep Trouble Sets In Your Home Based Franchise; Learn What The Top Producers Do

Ask for help. Asking for help is the lesson, habit, message to be learned from Og Mandino’s last scroll in his book The Greatest Salesman In The World. We all possess a natural instinct to ask for help. When we are deep trouble, we ask for help. When we know we have done something terribly wrong we ask for forgiveness. The lesson to be learned here and the habit to be formed is that we need to ask for help in the proper way. I want you to think about this for a minute. Isn’t it natural for us to ask for money, things and the success in our home based franchise?

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

Your Home Based Franchise Is Like A Rubber band…You Need To Stretch To Expand.

I was recently at a conference and one of the speakers was talking about the uncomfortable feeling of developing and growing our home based franchise and ourselves to becoming a top producer is kind of like a rubber band. This association resonated deeply with me since I used this exact example on a daily basis when I was in medical sales. In fact, I carried the BJ’s sized bag of rubber bands around with me on sales calls to illustrate my point. The rubber band concept goes like this. Sit back and visualize having a rubber band and you are stretching it and stretching it.

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

It’s Easy To Jumpstart Your Home Based Franchise. Create A Twist To Fill A New or Different Void.

The media drone is all around us; the economy stinks, it’s tough to make a buck...blah, blah, blah. I’m here to remind you that you must focus on opportunities rather than challenges in your home based franchise. You probably know most of what I am going to share with you, but maybe, for whatever reason, you are not using these ideas or just not emphasizing them in the marketing platform of your home based franchise. Open up your mind, start to think outside of the traditional marketing box and get to work!!

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

The Biggest Mind Game In Top Home Based Franchises; Part Two

Sales…quite honestly it is the biggest mind game that I know for the success of your home based franchise. Once you have mastered the art of selling you have mastered your key to success in everything that you do; not just success in your top home based franchise. The lesson for each of us in Scroll 2 is that we need to start each day with love in our hearts. Mandino states that love is the greatest secret of all success albeit personal or professional. Now, you might be saying to yourself..oh I don’t hate anyone…And Mandino isn’t saying that at all.

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

Do You Really Have What it Takes To Become a Success In Your Home Based Franchise…In Anything?

Success…what does it really mean for you personally and for your home based franchise? When I ask the question to prospects and leads, most times they are not able to tell me what their success would look like. If you don’t even know what success looks like for you and for your home business franchise how will you ever be able to take the actions necessary to actually become a success? So, before we move on; the very first thing you need to do is to get absolutely clear about what you want to achieve in your life.

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

Shift Happens in your home based franchise, in becoming a top producer, in life…Now what??

I am here to tell you that shift happens to all of us. It happens in our home based franchise, it happens when as we become a top sales producer, it happens in life and it all depends on how you handle that shift. I was recently reintroduced to this phrase and for me; it couldn’t ring truer to my ears. Lately it seems as if I have been given a lot of shift. Friends who have be diagnosed with cancer, other friends getting divorces, yet other friends who are now taking their turn in the downsizing of corporate America.

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

Home Based Franchise Ideas...For A Buck?

Listen up! I have got the bargain of a lifetime.. I am a top sales and marketing consultant and I will give to you the best home based franchise idea for a buck…that’s right…for one dollar. You can do absolutely anything that you want to with that idea, and I will have no rights to that idea after I give it to you. You might be thinking..WoW..What an opportunity! A home based franchise idea by a top sales and marketing consultant for one dollar..what a deal..where do I buy? On the serious side….the stumbling block to this incredible offer is that an idea just that..

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

The Best Get Rich Quick Opportunity Yet! Get Details Here!

Lottery sales are going through the roof. This statement should be of no surprise, right? The economy is at all time record lows, we have the highest rate of unemployment ever recorded, we have over spent for so long that we don’t know how to live within what our means really should be. Sure, a get rich quick opportunity doesn’t sound like such a bad idea, does it? So, you might be turning to the Internet where the promises of get rich quick opportunities within home based franchises appear at every click of the mouse.

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

Is Sabotage Creeping Into Your Home Based Business Franchise? Learn The Secret Now.

Did you know that the original act of sabotage is thought to have occurred not long after the introduction of machinery when someone slipped a workman's wooden shoe, called a sabot, into a loom in order to stop production? How does sabotage enter in to your best home based franchise business? How does sabotage enter into you taking the action that is required in becoming a top sales producer in your company? The actual definition of sabotage is to halt all production.

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

Eight Home Base Franchise Secrets to Steal

“What’s the secret?”...”What do you do in your marketing that makes your home base franchise so successful?”... “Tell me your inside scoop to your home based business franchise success”…”Give me exactly what you do every day”… The questions are never ending when seeking the winning lottery ticket of being a successful home base franchise entrepreneur. While I am going to give you eight “secrets” to the best home base business success; the bottom line is that there is no secret and your success depends on YOU.

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

Learn How Easy It Is To Be Great At Your Home Based Franchise Right From The Beginning.

Every great home based franchise starts at the beginning. Every great entrepreneur was once a beginner. Every top sales person was once a beginner. Every great athlete was once a beginner. I think that you get the point…everyone starts at the beginning on their journey to their Greatness. There is this book: “Every Great Chess Player Was Once A Beginner.” The title says it all and although it is obvious that everyone starts someplace, it’s hard to imagine Ryan Howard starting in Little League, or John Elway in Pee Wee football.

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

Warning to all home based franchises: Following The Followers Is Death To Your Success

It’s amazing what people do studies on, but I found his study to be quite interesting whether it be for the benefit of your home based franchise, if you are searching on how to become a top producer in sales, or whether you are searching for a different path for your life. Hopefully you will as well. There was French entomologist who once led a group of processionary caterpillars onto a rim of a large flowerpot.

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

Don’t Make Another Decision About Your Home Based Franchise Until You’ve Answered These 4 Questions.

Still can't make a decision in your home based franchise, even after everything you have seen and read? I can understand that and in fact, indecision is one of the biggest reasons of failure. I recently wrote an article for JBS Communications...the newsletter I publish every other week and it talks about the 4 questions that I personally ask myself when making any major decision. I thought I would pass it along right now...to help you in your decision making process for any major decision that you face. The term “decision” is thrown around a lot.

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

Sales and The Art of Procrastination: The Biggest Mind Game In Top Home Based Franchises; Part Five

How many of us procrastinate? How many of us don’t fill our day with the actions and activity that is needed to ensure that success in our home based franchise will come our way each day? On a more personal note, how many of us don’t take the time to even say I love you to those that we truly do love and care about? What Og Mandino’s important message is teaching is that you must live today for today. Forget about yesterday...what is done is done.

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

The Top Three Mistakes Made By Home Based Franchise Marketers

Whether you are a newbie or have had a home based franchise for years. Whether you are direct marketing or marketing in Corporate America, it’s these three mistakes that cost people their top producer status and big income in their home based franchise time and time again. I have been in sales and in marketing for over 15 years and was a sales trainer for a good portion of those years, and here is what I saw: 1. Most people underestimate the number of people that they need to talk to on a daily basis.

Primary topic: Sales Training

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By Jennifer GilbertRecently published1 topic

What is Your On-Line Social Marketing Currency?

In today’s economy I think that it is fair to ask about your currency and how it is holding up. If you take a look at currency just as your normal, everyday quarters, dimes and nickels, you might be thinking to yourself that it isn’t holding so well, and you would be right. But I am not talking about the Webster’s dictionary version of currency.

Primary topic: Sales Training

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