Small business tax breaks
are one of the hidden secrets most people in network marketing are aware of. It is easy to keep them a hidden secret.
I just found the Standard Federal Tax Reporter is 11 times longer than the Bible. 
The tax code contains over 44,000 pages in 22 volumes.
Did you know the Bible contains approximately 800,000 words?
Because I’m making the move from Employee to Entrepreneur I’ve discovered some small business tax breaks passed by Congress for home-based business owners.
These small business tax breaks where put into place for two specific reasons:
- The stimulate the small business segment of the American economy
- To encourage taxpayers to have a home-based business as a safety net in times of layoffs and economic down times.
Just curious, are you in need of a safety net right now?
I’ve got some goods news and some bad news for you. The good news is you too can take advantage of the small business tax breaks passed by congress. The bad news is there is a catch.
You’ve got to do these three things:
- Have a profit intent
- Work your home-based business on a regular and consistent basis
- Run your home-based business like a business by keeping good records
Now, as you are reading this you are probably thinking “I don’t know how to run a home-based business like a business”.
You might just be right; but you can learn. Because running a home-based business is a learned skills.
I know you can learn. Because, you learned how to ride a bike, you learned to use the internet and you learned the skills to do what you are currently doing to make a living.
So, you can learn the skills to run a home-based business like a business.
Are you ready to take advantage of the small business tax breaks passed by congress?
Eager to hear from you
This recent blog post by Michael Oliver needs to be shared here in its entirety.
Ignorance Can Make You Wealthy!
I was at our local market place savoring a nice apple pie a la mode when I struck a conversation with some people there.
We got around to talking about selling and one of them, I discovered, used to work for the local and very large telephone company.
She told me she became the top sales person in the first month she joined. And then after that her ranking plummeted.
I asked her why that was, and her reply was something that all of us might pay attention to…
She said, “In the first month no one told me I was in the sales department. All they told me during my training was that people would call looking for a phone service and that I was to help them find what they needed and help them buy it.”
“So in the first month you didn’t think of yourself as a sales person?” I asked.
“No, I didn’t! And when I found out I was, by looking at the board where the month’s sales reports is posted, and seeing my name under salespeople, something happened to me… and the number of customers I serviced after that went down.”
“So how did you go about serving your customers in the first month” I probed.
“Well I would ask questions and give them the correct features depending on their requirements.”
“So why did it all change?”
“Because before I never saw myself as a salesperson, and then I saw that I was!”
“And what’s a… ‘salesperson’… in your minds eye?”
“You know, someone who is trying to sell something… trying to persuade them to buy our service… I just couldn’t do that…”
“But you could do what you were doing in the first month – yes?”
“Yes!”
“So let me ask you… what if in reality selling is really what you were doing in your first month… and not what you saw on the board… would that have made a difference?”
“What do you mean?”
“What I mean is… What if the true essence of selling is really what you were doing in the first month… serving and helping people get what they need and giving it to them if you have the right solution… and not all that other stuff you thought it was? Would that have made a difference?”
“Yes. So, you’re saying that’s what selling is really all about?”
“From my perspective, absolutely, yes! It’s also the dictionary’s perspective as well, if you look back a few hundred years for its original definition. The original definition is that selling is to serve, to help and also to exchange… not to manipulate or persuade. So how does that make you feel?”
She laughed and said, “I guess that was what I was doing. Serving.”
“And if you hadn’t read that notice board with the word ‘salespeople’ do you think your time at the phone company would have been more fun and profitable?”
“Absolutely, yes… I’ll bear that in mind for the future.”
This particular story has a number of points that will help you with your Network Marketing business.
Firstly, it illustrates very clearly the power of the first principle of Natural Selling. That is, the purpose of your business is to help other people solve their problems. When the lady I was talking with focused on this, her job was easy, fun, profitable and fulfilling.
However, when she started to focus on her “agenda” as I call it (that is, when she started to think that she had to ‘sell’ her company’s service) things started to go wrong. She didn’t enjoy what she was doing and her results were not as good.
I talk more about this principle, and the other three principles of Natural Selling, in chapter 3 of my book “How To Sell Network Marketing Without Fear, Anxiety Or Losing Your Friends!“
Secondly, it demonstrates what selling is really about and how anyone can do it when they see it as it reallyis, (helping other people to get what they want… and not what they think it is!)
Unfortunately, many people (and Distributor’s) are not exposed to this. As a result have a negative view of selling.
But if you can let them see that selling isn’t what they think it is, then you’ve removed a block that might have prevented them from joining your business. I talk about this more in role plays number one and number five of my audio program “Introducing Your Business And Products“.
So, focus on your purpose and remember what selling is really about. You’ll find that not only will you help other people, but you’ll also get what you want without stress and quicker than you thought possible.
About the Author
Michael Oliver is an internationally recognized trainer, speaker and author and the founder of Natural Selling, the only sales training program designed to really eliminate rejection and objections. Visit his blog and signup free to get blog updates by email, along with the latest news, free advice, additional resources, and a lot more! Go now tohttp://www.michaeloliver.com. While you’re at it, check out http://www.naturalselling.com.
Do you ever feel like you are in a rut? You know the one I mean.
Get up in the morning, go to work in rush hour traffic, check the clock all day at work, sit in rush hour traffic all the way home, eat dinner, watch TV, go to bed, get up in the morning, got to work, sit in rush hour traffic all the way, oh it’s Friday…get pizza, watch TV, go to bed……
My work as a flight attendant is not the same as the 9-5 get up in the morning, sit in rush hour traffic, work all day, sit in trafic, eat dinner, go to bed, get up in the morning to do it all again kina of rut; however a rut I am in.
While listening the book The Magic of Thinking Big with TheHubby tonight I discovered my answer. A story in the book helped me to realize the best way to get out of my rut is to take action.
You know when you are learning something new, especially in business, you think “I just need to hear this one more time, get it just perfect in my mind before I take action”?
Guilty……
Thanks to “The Magic of Thinking Big” I’m done listening. It’s now time to take action at get some real word practice.
Till next time…..
Let me know here in the comment section what action you take this week. Come back and share what happen.
Today, while reading Chapter 6 – Imagination, The Workshop of the Mind, in the book Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, I was brought back to my late twenties. It was mid to late 1984 and I had just discovered the song by Queen – I want to break free. This song became my saving grace. My life was not so easy during those days. I had a 4 year old son and had an infant daughter. I was married to and living with a man that put me down in some way every single day.
Whenever I was at a breaking point and felt like I could not go on with life, I would find a way to blast this song. For the four minutes that it played, there was something in me the broke free. I would scream the words out loud and dance to the beat if I was alone. I imagined a life free of the critics in my life (Mom & Husband), free of put downs, free of hating me.
Hill states that the Synthetic Imagination merely works with the material of experience, education and observation with which it is fed. For me back then, like verse one of the song….
I want to break free
I want to break free
I want to break free from your lies
You’re so self-satisfied I don’t need you
I got to to break free
God knows, God knows I want to break free
For those 4 moments of the song I knew what I wanted; however my experiences, education and observation to that point in life was not going to get me what I wanted. My desire was abstract and of no value because I was simply not capable of transforming it into a physical counterpart.
My imagination had become extremely weak through inaction. Fortunately it did not totally die. The song kept my desire alive to break free. Eventually verse two became a part of my life -
I’ve fallen in love
I’ve fallen in love for the first time
And this time I know it’s for real
I’ve fallen in love, yeah
God knows, God knows I’ve fallen in love
I had begun to fall in love with me. As I feel in love with me my desire to break free grew stronger. Even though I was gradually falling in love with me, by this point my husband had me convinced that if I left him, he would take my children and I would never ever see them again. You see the words had turned physical and I believed him. Verse three became a part of my life -
It’s strange but it’s true (hey yea)
I can’t get over the way you love me like you do
But I have to be sure
When I walk out that door
Oh how I want to be free, baby
Oh how I want to be free
Oh how I want to break free
With this verse I was able to revive my imagination and wake it up thru use. I would see myself some how some way walking out that door. My creative imagination started sending me hunches and ideas of how to break free. I personally was never able to physically do the walking out the door; however I now understand that it was my creative imagination that gave me the ideas and hunches to do the things that caused this man to find another woman and set me free.
It has been 18 years now that I have been free from that relationship. Just one year longer than the time I was involved with this man. Just like the interlude of the song -
But life still goes on
I can’t get used to living without, living without, living without you
by my side
I don’t want to live alone, hey
God knows got to make it on my own
So baby can’t you see
I’ve got to break free
Over time my experiences, education and observations changed. I found a man that helped me continue on my path of loving me, a man that treats me like a queen.
I have discovered my deep burning desire to teach people how to live prosperous lives easily and effortlessly. Do you ever find yourself thinking………….
I’ve got to break free
I want to break free, yeah
“Interestingly, Koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about nine inches long. In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.” — Vince Poscente 
This was the Quote of the Week in The Schtick by Dave over at Yeah Dave dot com.
Your power lies in taking action. I encourage you to take one thing you read here today and take action.
I believe in you – Debi Talbert
Blogging for Beginners Made Easy
Have people recommend you add blogging to your on line marketing?
Do you like the idea; however you really don’t know where to begin or you don’t feel you are a writer?
Well, I just found out about a really easy blogging for beginners tip. This is an easy cool way to get ideas to write about. The blogging for beginners idea came from Ty Tribble. This tip is one of those simple and easy to follow ideas I wish I’d thought about when I began blogging.
Six Blogging for Beginners Tips
Just follow these tips six blogging tips for beginners for engaging your Community:
- Go to http://alltop.com or http://popurls.com
- Take a look at the top blogs in your niche, follow those people on twitter and follow their followers. Just do this for 10 minutes max. You can follow several people in just 10 minutes. (If you don’t know how, leave a comment here and let me know)
- Go back to the articles and read a couple of them. Of the ones you like. Pick a few to create your own blog post form.
- Keep the title the same because the article or blog post being on these 2 site above means it’s already socially acceptable.
- Paragraph 1 of your blog post should go something like this: I just found this really cool, great, interesting, (complimenting words) article/blog post on (subject) by (blog author). Here is what I really like about this blog post(describe your thoughts and opinion on the subject). Make sure you like to the post somewhere in your first paragraph. Paragraph 2 should Compliment the writer and encourage people to check out the persons blog.
- Once you have published your blog, tweet about the article with a link to your blog post.
REMEMBER: you are following their followers, so make sure you @(original blog creators Twitter name) in the tweet so those who are following the original author will clink on your link.
What you have done here is created already socially acceptable content onto you blog site, complimented the original author, encouraged others to read their stuff and driven traffic to your blog.
Till next time….
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