The Rise And Fall of iLearningGlobal

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iLearningGlobal really hit home for thousands of people. When I joined the MLM industry I joined for the content provided by iLearningGlobal, and nothing more. The value was unbelievable. I was fortunate enough to join shortly after iLearningGlobal launched, so was in for quite some time.

The successes of iLearningGlobal

There were many! Firstly the people who backed iLearningGlobal were of the highest caliber in the world. Literally! With names like Bill Bartmann, Brian Tracy, Mark Victor Hansen and many more, where could you go wrong? Then there was the financial aspect! And it was good! I have a few friends who managed to start earning in the upper end of the 5 digit income in only a few months.

So what went wrong?

I’m currently in the UK and received an email from iLearningGlobal announcing a change of their business model. My first response was that it was probably nothing major but when skimming over the email and seeing them quoting some of the terms and conditions I thought I should start over and read it properly.

This came suddenly and unexpectedly! A good friend of mine, and a top earner in iLearningGlobal had just received a phone call from iLearningGlobal letting him know ‘in advance’ what was happening. He was trying to negotiate a softer approach and a delay to organize some options for his iLearningGlobal team. While he was on the phone the email went out. We all found out at the same time. If any of you out there are bitter towards your leaders, don’t be. There is a really big chance that they found out when you did.

Why the sudden fall?

Rumors are all we have right now. I’ve been fortunate to hear these rumors from people much higher up in the company than me, so I do hold them with value.

The first rumor is that there were only a handful of people actually making exceptionally good money with iLearningGlobal.

The second rumor could probably explain why there was such a sudden end to the MLM model. iLearningGlobal was growing rapidly and people were starting to make money. Unfortunately most people in the company were not watching the signature videos iLearningGlobal provided. Put another way, not enough people in the company were using the product. We all know what a ‘MLM company’ with no product is- a Ponzi scheme. I want to emphasize that iLearningGlobal was DEFINITELY NOT a Ponzi scheme. However, as so many people were not using the product and starting to make money the MLM authorities were starting to look into it. The names backing iLearningGlobal can obviously not be tainted with being involved in a Ponzi Scheme. This would explain the sudden and dramatic end more emphatically.

Unfortunately there are many people hopping on the band wagon here searching for fall out like vultures after a kill. There are some eagles flying in with the vultures, and I want to commit these people. I have seen many articles already where clearly NO research has been done telling us that iLearningGlobal has shut their doors forever. This is not true. The business model has been changed, but the content is still there. I for one will keep my iLearningGlobal membership. For iLearningGlobal marketers the new price will be around $39, for new people who would like to join iLearningGlobal the price will be around $59. This is down from $179! So many of us were willing to pay $179 for this content, so to have it for this new and lower price is unbelievable.

The future of iLearningGlobal is uncertain at the moment. But while the doors are still open I will try and get as much value as I can. No matter what business you are in, whether you are an entrepreneur or have a job, you WILL get value from iLearningGlobal.

On that note, I have absolutely no regrets having worked with iLearningGlobal over the past year. Being business men/women we have some amazing opportunities open to us.

If I am able to find out any more information I will update this article. So check back regularly.

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Position Yourself into Success

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Do you think these great leaders and professionals woke up one day and said, “Today, I’m going to be an expert at xyz”? Life does not work out like this! People do not change their dreams on a day by day basis! We all have dreams, and maybe they change slightly day to day, maybe you get new dreams, but in general they are all on the same wave length.

It takes some serious positioning for those of us with ambitious dreams to reach them. Here’s an example: To be a multi millionaire you could rob a bank, win the lottery, or start the process of positioning yourself. It may sound complicated, but positioning yourself, simply put, means dividing your goals into smaller goals, and then again into smaller goals, and then achieving one goal at a time. If you do this on a daily basis, and you work on achieving each goal, you will position yourself!

A great real life example, for many of you reading this post, is on Network Marketing. In reality, this is the best option the average person has to become financially free! In order to be successful in Network marketing you need to focus online, and offline, especially getting started in today’s society. Let’s focus online. You need to establish a web presence, let people know you are someone trustworthy and not someone trying to get a quick buck off them. In order to establish a web presence you need to be all over web 2.0 (all the social networking sites, have a blog, articles etc). It really is overwhelming! That’s why you break it down even further! Let’s go with social networking. The most common sites today is Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, and so many more! But even this is a lot to handle so start with Facebook and maybe Twitter. If you start with one of those two today, and do the simple things daily (and I mean DAILY) then you will position yourself and get going on your journey. Soon Facebook and Twitter will be booming, and then you can focus on your blog, people will research you, so have something available when they Google you! You can get really specific when positioning yourself!

This example is specific to Network Marketing, but it DOES NOT change from industry to industry, if you want to be a doctor, fireman, pilot, whatever- make sure you position yourself!

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What Happened? Success University! Will iLearningGlobal Go The Same Way?

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I am an iLearningGlobal Independent marketer. One of the first things I realized I need to do when joining was look into the history of the personal development industry in MLM. Sure enough the name ‘Success University’ kept popping up, but I could never find any decent information on it! Well, as it turns out, Success University merged with a travel company and considering how different the two are I asked, “How?!” They are not related at all! I then had to try figure out if iLearningGlobal would go the same way.

Why did Success University merge to become part of World Ventures? Well, I can only share part of the bigger picture. In 2008 Namibia declared Success University a pyramid scheme. Namibia reasoned that 88% of the marketers would be making losses. Several newspapers also called Matt Morris’s business a pyramid scheme as they did not employ any professionals and they did not have corporate offices (Wikipedia). Success University had some great names backing them, but is this enough?

Now, will iLearningGlobal go the same way? Well, iLearningGlobal has corporate offices and staff based in Mesa, Arizona. iLearningGlobal is now backed by over 200 industry leaders boasting names like Brian Tracy and Bill Bartmann among many more! These are not people who would stake their reputation on a business destined for failure, or even to be taken over in a merger. The amount of money invested in iLearningGlobal is huge. The signature videos, which are iLearningGlobal’s focus, are worth well over US$3.5 million! A number of bestselling authors and speakers have also put their books and mp3 files up for free.

Something else to note is that Success University started off with a $2 trial. This is great is it gives people the opportunity to have a look at the system before committing. iLearningGlobal does not have this trial feature which is, in turn, a huge benefit! This means you only get serious people building your business and it will therefore have a stronger foundation.

In my opinion, iLearningGlobal will not go the same way. I have banked my time and money on that (literally!) and am rapidly building my own business. I make a habit of reminding people to do your own due diligence! Research both iLearningGlobal reviews and Success University reviews.

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Your New Years Resolutions!

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I’m going to be quite frank and to the point here. I don’t believe in the value of a New Years Resolution. I’m all for people making them, as long as the stick to them, but I’m not big on making them myself. New Years Resolutions are simply goals. Making them once a year is not effective enough. I live my life making ‘New Years Resolutions’ almost daily! I’m constantly setting and adjusting my goals, big or small. It’s amazing how many people I’ve spoken to who have mentioned that in the New Year they will start something new. I think to myself, why not start NOW.

I’m an entrepreneur and love it! In the New Year so many people are going to make the decision to finally start working towards their goals of financial freedom. They are going to be looking for businesses to join and get started. You could very well be one of them. Or you could be set up already and reap the rewards. Now, I don’t care if you join me in my business, or someone else in their business. There are so many fantastic business opportunities out there you are bound to find something you are passionate about! I know I did!! You have now got only a few days to get set up with your home business before the New Years Resolution rush hits. I’d much rather have my business available for people to join in that rush than be part of the rush. So get started!

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Home Businesses- They are not easy

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If you have a home business and are succeeding, FANTASTIC! If you are just getting started or have been at it for a while and are not having much like, you fit in the category of ‘most home business owners’. As you can tell by the name, it’s quite a large group of people.

There are different ways to look at this. Some people want a quick and easy way out, well, good luck with that. If there was a quick and easy way, everyone would be doing it. The problem with building home businesses is that they are incredibly simple once you have a solid strategy, but it takes time and being mentored to develop this strategy. I love to tell my team that if it was easy then everyone would be doing it. The key itself is easy, they application is easy, the commitment, is not easy. It takes consistency with strategies. Making sure that you are working on it several times a week, if not daily. You need to be looking for better ways to do things, developing new strategies and positioning your self as a leader. You may not be a leader today, but that should not get on the way of your goals to become a leader.

You may think that you do not need to be a leader in order to succeed in home business, if that is the case you could not be further from the truth. Home businesses are all about selling, small products, big products, services, whatever it is. In order to sell this you need to develop some form of trust, you need the buyer to listen to you. You need to be confident. All these together are the simplest form of leadership.

If you want to learn more on leadership then please read my posts on leadership. I will say this now, leadership is a character trait that CAN be developed by making active decisions in your day to day life.

If you are looking to start your home business and people tell you it is easy and you do not need to do anything, you are looking into the options and listening to the wrong people.

Although it is tough to get a home business going, it is one of the most rewarding experiences! When you do succeed, when you don’t need to work, when you control your own business, you will feel over the moon!! Although it is hard work it is important to enjoy your home business. When ever I speak to my team I ask them how it is going and are they having fun. It does not have to be a burden. It is a life changing opportunity that is definitely worth the time and effort!

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Don’t Get Stressed

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It is easy to get stressed with the overwhelming amount of information at your fingertips when starting your business. But getting stressed will do you no good at all. There are several methods you could use to reduce the stress when you have the pounding headache and nothing seems to be moving anywhere.

The first one I would highly recommend is to go and take either an hour, or thirty minutes if you are short of time and re-evaluate your goals. Write everything down that you think you have to do and then weed out the items that will not have an immediate impact on your goals. Alternatively, if you can’t weed anything out, then create a daily plan allotting a certain amount of time to certain tasks. Use the days of the week effectively. For example:
Twitter is one of the most effective tools with immediate impact: Perform daily.
Articles have a great long term impact: Perform Monday & Wednesday.
Video marketing has great impact: Perform Tuesday & Thursday.

Break your list further and further down till you have a great schedule planned out. Setting daily goals like this will incredibly increase your productivity too.
Allow time slots for certain tasks. For example- check Twitter from 7-8am, and then write your article from 8-9am. During 8-9am DO NOT go back to Twitter, although it is incredibly tempting to constantly refresh your screen to see how many new followers you have.

Learn how to control your task list rather than letting it control you!

A home business is about becoming your own boss and having an enormous amount of fun while you do it. Surround yourself by others doing the same thing. If you don’t know anyone go ahead and add me on Facebook and send me an email and we can chat (link on the right hand side of this window).

We all get stressed when building a business. We all get stress in life. But focus on why you are doing what you are doing. What is your reason?

Keep your priorities right.

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SEO for Dummies

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First of all, what is SEO? SEO stands for search engine optimization. Everytime you go into Google or Yahoo, or whatever search engine you use a list of possible related website come up. If you go into google and type in the word ‘puppy’ and search, and you get a list of car websites, you are not going to use Google again. Google searches the websites for related material and tries to give the most appropriate results.

If you own a website, you ideally want your page up at the type when people search for ‘puppy’ or whatever it is your page will be a result of. In order to get your page to the top, you need to optimize your page for Google, the search engine. Hence the name search engine optimization.

It is not just websites that need to worry about SEO. If you write a blog, or have articles or sales pages using above average SEO techniques will mean that you ultimately get more traffic. You do need to have good content too, but thats a bit to obvious to give emphasis to.

Some pointers to get good SEO rankings:

  • Make sure your domain name is registered for more than 1 year
  • Use meta tags, if you are not sure what they are, research them
  • Stick to specific criteria. If your going to write about pets, don’t suddenly switch to science fiction
  • Establish yourself as an expert. This will drive more traffic to your website too
  • Be consistent, especially with your blog
  • If you have Wordpress, do not have your blog on the ‘home page’, put it on the second page
  • Make sure your page title contains your keywords

There are many more areas you can focus on. But if you are just getting started off, try focus on these. If you need more help, feel free to drop me an email.

Remember to sign up for my free training on establishing a web presence. The first part covers setting up a blog through Wordpress, then later moves onto Twitter, Facebook, SEO, article marketing and much more! Look at the form on the right hand side of the page.

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MLM Get Rich Quick Schemes

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So many people think that MLM opportunities are get rich quick schemes. If you are looking to get into a MLM opportunity to get rich quick you may be heading in the wrong direction. What you could do is buy a hundred lottery tickets and pray that one of them gets lucky. You will have just as much luck with both.

If MLM opportunities were get rich quick schemes wouldn’t more people be doing them? And wouldn’t more people be incredibly rich? Granted MLM opportunities could help you get rich quicker, but they are definitely not get rich quick schemes.

Now, you may argue that lots of people have made lots of money in very short periods of time. Mike Dillard and Norbert Orlewicz are good examples. These two guys are classic examples of people who became wealthy in a seemingly short space of time. Have you listened to their full stories though? They have both been in the industry for over 15 combined years and have discovered all the ways for how not to do marketing. The incredible wealth they have generated is not only from MLM sales, but also from developing products (resources to help others succeed). These resources came from turning their years of failure into success, so definitely not overnight millionaires.

If you really want to get rich as quick as possible in MLM, you need to work hard at working smart, and remain consistent. Make sure you are working towards your goals on a daily basis.
Now I will focus more on the ‘schemes’ part of this article. First and foremost, as a general rule of thumb: if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. There are so many people who claim that you can get rich overnight on auto pilot with no work involved. There are opportunities that do work on auto pilot, but it definitely takes work to get set up and establish yourself as an expert. This takes time too, and time will give you more credibility.

Be careful not to jump from opportunity to opportunity! The common statistic is that 95% of people will not be interested in your primary opportunity, so it makes sense to have fall backs. Learn how to make money from those 95% who are not interested in your product. You can do this by helping them out in other areas. Some examples could be helping them out with an auto responder or directing them where to get their domain name, Mike Dillard gets into this in a lot more detail in his training material. The rule of thumb would be to have one main product with several smaller products in your corner as available resources to help with your main product (preferable) or any other product they may be interested in (the other 95%). You can also learn more about some of these products from MyHomeBusinessGuide.com (link below). If you are not making money it is not necessarily the fault of the product. Take time to go and improve your skills.

In summary, if something seems too good to be true, it probably is. Don’t be shy to put a lot of work into your business because at the end of the day, there is no such thing as an MLM get rich quick scheme, it takes hard smart work and consistency.

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Pyramid Schemes

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Pyramid schemes seem to be the bane of multi level marketing (MLM). There is a terrible misconception about MLM that everyone who is not within the MLM circle refers to these opportunities as ‘pyramid schemes’. There were companies that used them; however the true root of the meaning is now lost in translation and every MLM opportunity tends to be incorrectly labeled by those looking in.

The definition of a pyramid scheme (according to Wikipedia) is: a non-sustainable business model that involves the exchange of money primarily for enrolling other people into the scheme, often without any product or service being delivered.

The summary in reference to MLM is: one person recruits five people, and they each recruit five people, and they each recruit five people. The end result on paper looks like a pyramid with the person on top earning the most money. However, picture this: A big corporation has the CEO, under him are eight senior vice presidents. Under each of them are six vice presidents. Now keep going and going until you reach the thousands of worker bees. If you picture this on paper, it looks like a pyramid too, of course, with the person on top earning the most money.

For some reason MLM has been incorrectly labeled as a ‘pyramid scheme’. All the skeptics refer to any home business model based on a commission as a pyramid scheme. It seems to revolve around the shape on paper and not around the true meaning. If this is to be the case, then every healthy corporation is a ‘pyramid scheme’. Now, we know this is clearly not the case.

If you are looking to get involved in MLM then do not look at it from the aspect of getting involved in a pyramid scheme. More and more people are looking to start their own business at home. If you are at all worried about the legitimacy of the opportunity then go do your research. The internet is a fantastic and extensive tool at your disposal. At the end of the day the only real way for the average person to make big money is to own your own business. There are tons of fantastic companies offering MLM opportunities and one of them is bound to suit you.

If you are in MLM, or getting started in MLM then try your best to educate people. Do not refer to your opportunity as a pyramid scheme. Try get rid of the phrase as you are not doing yourself or anyone else any favors.

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