Renegade Professional :: Ann Sieg and Mike Klingler 

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   Ann,

   I would love to win this contest and am sure that I could learn a lot from you and Mike. How long can I work on my answer before I submit my entry? When are you going to choose?

   Jim

   Comment by Jim — March 23, 2009 @ 1:28 am

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   The biggest hurdle I have is that I have NO support from my upline as they do not believe that I can build a skin care business on line and the “old proven methods are the only way.” I live in a rural area in Norhtern Alberta. Not exactly a large population base. I know I can do this. I have been searching for your methods for months. I just didn’t know where to start Now I have a twitter account, a face book account, I built my first lens on Skin care facts and didn’t pitch just gave knowledge,right after Mikes training,I got my name out a ladies group just with help full skin care tips. I am currently building a site with SBI to help people with questions and knowledge on skin care. I want to build a team with my business before I can say I’m a on line MLM guru. I want to do it .. to prove it can work. Currently I have 4 consultants in my downline. I want to make 15 K a month.I need to help 10 new business builders build their businesses to get there. I want to help others in Australia and the UK. I have seen how my company has changed the lives of others and I want to be apart of that. The self growth and awareness has been amazing. I have a team of family who all have individual hurdles including Cancer Survivor, MS, Heart problems. These people are looking at me to help show them the path to success and that people with challenges can be successful with a chosen business online.I am working a absorbing everything both you and Mike put out so I can help the others. I am up all night thinking and planning. I can hardly wait for the next training or the Professional to out. In my wildest dreams I would like to reach the Regional VP level in my company in the next 3 months and earn the car. No one in my upline thinks it can be done. I do! I know there is much more to learn and i want to learn it all now. As to how many customers do I want as many as I handle then I’ll pass them on to my team. I know the sky is the limit here but in all honesty I have no idea because for the last 3 years I have struggled and watched as my upline drives a Mercedes that I’m keeping her in. Thanks for teaming up. It is so heart warming to know that their is such giving people out there. Bless you for giving hope to so many of use that believe in MLM.

   Comment by Jane Lever — March 23, 2009 @ 1:36 am

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   I think the biggest hurdle I have in my business right now is my personal blog. When matthewneer.com is completed it will put the final puzzle piece in place. For me, it will tie my Twitter account to my blog both interchanging an incredible amount if value. Making them a great source of free traffic and a resource to anyone searching for key words like attraction marketing, mlm, ppc, etc.

   With this hurdle removed and my complete marketing funnel in full bloom I will be as to take my business to new heights. Generate more leads than ever before. Sponsor more reps than I even know right now, and more importantly share what I’ve learned along the way as I’m learning it. Theaching others how they too can reach financial freedom. And finally aquire true freedom to do whatever your heart desires in life.

   Well Ann I hope this answered your questions well enough. I admire your work, have been following you side I was 18. Thanks so much for sharing so much knowledge.

   Matthew Neer

   Comment by Matthew Neer — March 23, 2009 @ 1:38 am

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   1. The biggest hurdle affecting my business now is the entire concept of attraction marketing. this had come as a tsunami at a point i never saw this, coupled with the point that i come from Africa,Nigeria to be precise with very poor internet connectivity, power supply problem and people who have no understanding of attraction marketing. no open door policy that enable one take full advantages of online payment services such as clickbank,paypal,wordpay to mention just a few. Am far crippled compared to the rest of the world. Africa has been left behind but i have refused to be left behind. that is what brings me here and a firm determination to succeed against all known odds.

   2.When I get this hurdle crossed i see multiple geometric explosion in my business. this will open a door if unlimited opportunity as this will shoulder on me the responsibility to mentor and teach people in the Nigeria and Africa continent which i see as a huge emerging market in the coming years.
   Even if i happen to win or not i am going to be at the door knocking till i am allowed to learn these principles and strategies and use them to transform myself…. the transformation has already began in me see..http://redemptionsblog.info i just need positioning.

   Comment by Louis Redemption — March 23, 2009 @ 3:21 am

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   My biggest challenge is choosing a target market and finding my niche to differentiate myself from all the other people who are looking to take their businesses online.
   As I see it, you need a lead generating arm of marketing AND a product information arm, to build your downline and your retail sales. It the lead generation niche I am concerned with (surprise,surprise!)
   And to be duplicatable I need to be able to be able to see my way to helping my team find their own niche.
   I know Mike says “Just be yourself” and I don’t doubt him so I am pressing on with my Professional training, setting up my blog and marketing funnel. But I have a gut concern that I won’t be able to help my downlines with this.
   With this hurdle gone, I would be confident that I had a niche that was big enough to be worthwhile but not so big that it had too many competitors.
   I would be able to picture myself as the ‘answers person’ for that target market and once I got the content out there I would be sponsoring 2 or 3 people a month (in my South African company) and also starting to sponsor internationally.
   I am going to do this by keeping my head down and trusting Mike, all the while applying my mind to achieving more!
   Thanks, Mike and Ann for putting your collective wisdom at my diesposal

   Comment by Alison Beere — March 23, 2009 @ 3:26 am

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   My biggest hurdle is learning how to take the lead-telephone-sell format and throw it out without tossing the business with it. Next make an effective viable web site that replaces the old style the company wants us to use with attraction marketing. It is obvious that value and learning are very superior to the traditional selling methods, but attraction marketing is not what my company practices. They are micro managers and are keeping many of us in the customer non profit sharing position. I have a skimpy down line and it nets me about one starbuck’s coffee per month while I spend a required minimum amount monthly to keep the business. I am a believer in the products but not the methods. I am also a believer in problem solving and that no situation is futile. In order to make an internet business work, get rid of frustration, and have respect for myself and my partners I need help reinventing the marketing approach this company utilizes. It is something I have tried to do for years and am not getting there on my own. So here I am thinking something needs to change and it needs to be me. I will not quit. Working on the internet is really where it is today and will be tomorrow. It is what I want to be able to do and then to be able to help others get there with me. I am believing your direction is what I need.

   Comment by Kim Grossman — March 23, 2009 @ 3:46 am

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   Our main problem is that we find it confusing how we are to tie in our Blog with Twitter and our Company replicated website. Also should we build a personal website that can encompass all of our Interests given that we do not do any direct selling, in place of Replicated sites.

   Comment by Clara Gillanders — March 23, 2009 @ 3:49 am

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   1.) We are involved in Mannatech, S O C, Agel, and Renegade, and have replicated websites for all these. Our major hurdle is how we tie in these sites with our Blog, and our Twitter. Would we be better off to build a fresh site that encompasses all of our activities.?? We are also slightly Technically challenged.
   2.) With this hurdle removed we believe there would be no barriers to our future growth and
   prosperity. We very much look forward to receiving the Click by Click instructions for building a Blog. The interview with yourself and Mike was very instructive and interesting.

   Comment by Clara Gillanders — March 23, 2009 @ 4:00 am

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   Hello Ms. Sieg and Mr. Klingler and thanks for this opportunity. I’m farely new to MLM/Network Marketing(7 mos) & been using Twitter for less than a week. I believe or rather I’m sure my Biggest hurdle in preventing my Business Success(as well as other goals, projects & Life in general) is a combination of Fear/Anxiety. I say this because I know what I need to do and where the opportunity in 5Linx can take me but there’s something that continually keeps me from moving forward. It’s not the family & friends that are not supporting me, it’s not the lack of tremendous ideas I have to implement, it’s not a lack of understanding of all the wonderful information all around me I have yet to use or even the lack of time I often don’t have because I still work a ft job….it’s simply Fear & Anxiety. To be honest I can’t even believe I’m writing this because everyone can read it. I have let these issues hold me back from many things & now a business model that can have me retired by my 35th bday and I will be 34 next month. What would my business look like with this hurdle removed: an International Conglomerate of Renegades helping tens-of-thousands Save Money & Make Money. I realized in the last 2-3yrs I want to be able to help people in times of great financial need to change their lives. I cannot do this with Fear/Anxiety being the 1st concrete wall to go through. I can go to all the trainings, bootcamps, regional & national conventions 5Linx has to offer but Fear/Anxiety of doing presentations, public speaking, making mistakes in the presence of others, meeting new people & being a person of Influence…will hold me back everytime! Thanks for listening(reading)! Twitter user: YoPowell

   Comment by Yolanda Powell — March 23, 2009 @ 4:47 am

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    Ann,
    I think my biggest hurdle right now is getting my blog up and running. I want it to be a place that not only offers skin care and cosmetics tips but someplace women (and men) can come and find a gentle soul that has problems just like they do and is willing to listen. My customers love me because I take time to truly understand their needs. I am not a big talker, but I am a great listener. I hope to convey some of that in my blog and share some of myself with the online world.
    With that hurdle removed, I believe I can begin to develop the business I’ve been hoping for since I started three years ago. Yes, the cars and directorship would be nice, but those are just the byproducts of achieving my dream of working with a team and helping those women to accomplish their goals, as well. “Enriching women’s lives” - that is why I got into this business and I see an online presence as a way to do just that.
    Thanks for listening,
    Jeanne

    Comment by Jeanne — March 23, 2009 @ 4:55 am

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    Hi Ann and Mike,

    Heavy duty! Congratulations on hitting a home run with this offer. Wow! I love it. Thrilling.

    Ok, this is going to be my answer. I’m just going to let it flow because since I know my song well, I’m going to sing it.

    I am going to vigorously read each and everyone one of these submissions; scour them over until I have to run up to Walgreens to get a pair of $12 reading glasses, and then read ‘em closer.

    Why?

    Because my biggest hurdle has always been understanding WHO my target audience is.

    And because everyone who submits a thoughtful response to the Free Renegade Professional Prize contest question(s) will be my target audience.

    And why, you ask, will all the submissions be an example of my target audience?

    Because it has just been in the last month or so that I have finally - finally - really and truly understood my Unique Selling Proposition (USP). To succeed with attraction marketing, I emphatically declare:

    You Must Have A Unique Selling Point. You Must Differentiate Yourself.

    Just as Mike Klingler differentiated himself beginning in late 2007. Just as he differentiated himself after reading The Renegade Network Marketer and took it a step further by creating Renegade University.

    Did he ask what was in it for him? No. He just did what had to be done. Real leadership is identifying the need, and moving steadfast in that direction.

    I feel I now understand what that feels like. I can now relate because it’s been in this last month that I’ve realized my identity on the web. In fact, it feels like a mission. Here’s my mission:

    To make sure no one interested in becoming (or doing their research about) a Renegade Professional, or any current Renegade University student or upgraded Renegade Professional, gets left behind.

    Just like the Federal Government has the No Child Left Behind Act to ensure that all students receive a proper education, I will do my best to make sure no Renegade gets left behind.

    Period. I am a “guide beyond a guide,” a super guide both literally, and metaphorically, and ultimately going to work for every individual’s success implementing the Renegade Professional training for their business.

    Therefore, for every person who submits the biggest hurdle preventing them from business success right now, I know that I must pin point and extract from the correct cocktail of Renegade Professional training, and then supplement it with my own spin and creativity so that the instruction is even more differentiated for their personal needs.

    You see, that’s what a good teacher does; that’s what a good coach does. That’s my business. I’m a teacher. Always have been. Since I was 24 years old, I was teaching 4th and 5th grade, then 8th grade English. Even before then, I coordinated E.Lansing, MI Youth Boys and Girls sports leagues. I understand educational leadership.

    Teaching is at the heart of my business model. I’m a protege of Mike Klingler’s. Learning from him, and with him over the past year has helped me re-discover myself as a teacher (after suffering from burn-out within the public schools).

    But Ann, and Mike… I’m not going to wait to try and win this contest to begin this mission of mine. It’s an urge like gravity that’s already pulled me in this direction, so much so it’s as if the laws of attraction have already long set this in motion.

    Nope. I’ve already begun creating http://www.RenegadeProfessionalGuide.com (and created a capture page for it too - http://www.RenegadeProGuide.com)all geared toward this mission.

    I get it.

    I’ve already decided to bite the expense of Goto Webinar to begin hosting my own webinars, and I’ve already hosted 3 with my fellow Super Guides. My initial implementation is to bring our Super Guides together. Teamwork. Leadership opportunities are abound.

    So to answer the question specifically “What’s the biggest hurdle preventing you from business success right now?”

    It’s the drill down MICRO-focus it takes to stand out and be successful, but as I pointed out, over the last spell of 3 or 4 weeks, I’ve discovered “it.” And I’m proud of that too because I’ve been at this since mid-April 08(almost a year) and I’ve been narrowing and narrowing and narrowing to this MICRO-focus. Quite a process.

    I’m here. Yay!

    Now I have it and now the process of implementation is underway. Nothing can stop me.
    It’s about six figure success - period, no matter how long it takes.

    The question to ask oneself now, is whether or not my skills will bring me closer to accomplishing my goal, and identifying which skills of mine need most practice and sharpening, and exactly where I still need development. Time is irrelevant (although there is a time and place for speed of implementation - I get that too).

    In fact, putting a deadline on this only provides an “out” and something to place blame on, and a way to “go back” and un-do my decision if I weren’t to reach my goal; my mission.

    At some point, something clicked, and I decided to focus on abundance through service rather than on fear of loss or risk. It’s a lot about how you think about it.

    Another hurdle, and I’ll be honest. I pay my bills and that’s it. I have two part-time jobs, and a 7 week old infant at home. We’ve made the family decision to NOT have my fiance, Kaitlin Rose, go back to work. Instead she’s helping me in this mission and continuing the wonderful bond we have inside our home with our new daughter. But money is tight.

    And that is a hurdle because instead of going to my part-time jobs, I’d much rather spend the entire day focused on creating content that serves the Renegade community at-large. This is my passion, and I’m creative, and I can teach, and it’s all I want to do. Therefore, another hurdle of mine is how having to work part-time jobs affects my time. I just know I’m only a dog’s whisker away from matching what I made as a 7th year public school teacher.

    In fact, during the month of January and February, I earned just over and just under $1,000. Nothing to brag about, I know, but mind you, I don’t have a network marketing business and I don’t peddle affiliate garbage.

    I coach. I train. I lead with value. I’ve been scratching and clawing to gain some traction. I assist folks with developing their web of content. If Mike Klingler provides a lot of BIG value, you could say I provide a lot of LITTLE value. I’m on my way.

    With the hurdle of completely understanding my target audience, and having a clearly defined unique selling proposition as it pertains to my aforementioned mission swept out of the way, along with fighting off the obstacle, burden and stress of the time vs. money dilemma, I’d be free.

    Free to do what you might ask? What comes next is what my business would look like if it were barrier free. Uninhibited and unfettered and thus, wide open to grow. Well…it comes in stages.

    Here is my plan:

    For the next year or so I’d be dedicated to serving the requirements of my commitment; my mission to (I re-state) To make sure no one interested in becoming (or doing their own research about) a Renegade Professional or any current Renegade University student or upgraded Renegade Professional gets left behind. Period. I am a “guide beyond a guide,” a super guide both literally, and metaphorically, and ultimately going to work for every individual’s success implementing the Renegade Professional training for their business.

    This includes adding content to the Renegade Professional back office, rising with my fellow Super Guides, and fully developing http://www.RenegadeProfessionalGuide.com to serve the Renegade Community at large. It also means I’d be a part of the coaching platform. I’d be diligently holding weekly webinars on a variety of Renegade University and Professional topics.

    I’d seek to collaborate alliances with anyone and everyone if I knew it was going to serve my mission. My leadership will grow because of this.

    That’s really all I’d do over the next year. I am going to keep my focus on that, but granted, the other things I have up my sleeve would also be served - as if feeding two birds with one seed - when one cog in the machine goes so do the others.

    I will have over 100 Professional affilates, and I will be coaching. I will manage all these things. It will feel liberating.

    That includes my collaboration with Lane Romero-Reiss with our Renegade Referrals concept. We’ll begin seamlessly spreading the word and doing the work.

    That includes the ebook idea that I will be writing (and I rather not mention it here and now). And that ebook will accompany a product I have in mind to create. I already have my outsource support team lined up to meet these goals.

    For, there’s one thing I already understand, and that is there are $10 an hour jobs, $100 an hour jobs and $1,000 an hour jobs. As a growing leader and entrepreneur, my focus will be on the $1,000 an hour jobs, and the others can be outsourced. My strength is creativity, communication, leadership and content development NOT editing my camtasia tutorials.

    This is tangible leadership development.

    As a year or so passes and these aforementioned items have come to pass, and also are concurrently in motion (up and running), I’m going to start an MLM business. I’ll have earned it. I’ll have earned it because I’ll have proven to myself that I can attract business. I’ll have proven to myself that I can lead and teach. And I’ll also have the proper funds in place to invest into the perfect MLM for me. And then (only then) will I have earned to right to go into business for myself.

    That’s just how I feel about that.

    Finally, and lastly, it would feel great to be helping people reach their goals with their network marketing business (or other), and therefore, their financial goals by guiding them with Renegade Professional, and being sure that they OWNED THEIR Renegade Professional. Just as I have owned mine. It has made all the difference for me, and I want to succeed in making it be all the difference for them and their unique position.

    I want to win this Free Renegade Professional Contest and all the bells and whistles that accompany because I know I will follow through and serve the cause that I have outline above. This is where I belong and contest or no contest, this is exactly what I’ll be focused upon week in and week out.

    Eric Walker

    Comment by Eric Walker — March 23, 2009 @ 5:11 am

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    1) Q:What is my biggest hurdle preventing my business success right now?
    A) TIME. I say time is my hurdle because I am already putting what I’ve learned in The Attraction Marketer’s Manifest into practice. The two big Ahaas for me are: TEACHING SELLS and Finding my NICHE. So I’ve created MY OWN CONTENT in the form of a webinar (later to be a published book) and am giving it away FREE. I give good and valuable information which seamlessly leaves my primary MLM product and/or business as a MUST HAVE and obvious choice. Although there is a lot of competition in my niche ‘I can do it better’ +’ I can do it cheaper’ + ‘I can do it with more EDGINESS’ + ‘I can do it more creatively’. As of today I have my capture page (on Oprius). My content rich pages on two (SBI) sites linking to my capture page. PPC campaigns targeting my capture page under heavy testing and tracking as I write. I’m building a new, free WordPress (content rich) Blog targeting my capture page. My first published press release on PRWeb pointing to my capture page. Questions and Answers about my niche subject (and pointing to my capture page) are on Yahoo Answers. Postcard marketing is going out to all old leads promoting my free WebCast and points my capture page. I have YouTube and Vidler videos targeting my website content which in turn links to my capture page. Two free Twitter accounts with a following on both are growing daily, in slightly different niches, smoothly targeting my Free WebCast Capture Page. Free Squidoo and Hub lenses giving valuable content in my niche, link to my capture page. Set time is allocated for daily ongoing study of your Attraction Marketing Tutorials. Each study segment is followed by my putting into action something significant from what I’ve newly learned. New, fresh, highly targeted leads now flow in DAILY. (I will be able to help my whole team with my free webcasts). I have no stress as I choose my WebCast dates and times to suit me and cover the North American, European, and Australasian markets. Multiple and highly targeted income opportunities are lined up in this niche to follow up with the massive double opted-in email list I am now building. You see, now, my biggest hurdle is just a matter of time. By the way, here is my capture page revealing my niche. http://www.magnetitude.com/

    2) Q: What will my business look like when this hurdle is removed?
    A) I will be personally sponsoring 15 new distributors per month, helping my team members, who choose to step up to the plate with me, to grow their personal teams by a dozen a month. I will remain the top distributor in my country and surrounding region, as well as becoming the top distributor with the dominant teams in The UK and Ireland. And I will be a recognized key leader within the USA and Canadian markets. I will pay myself $30,000 per month for everyday living and place the excess into various investment and charitable programs. I will run my organization from a five bedroom penthouse apartment on the beachfront here in Sydney Australia. When I wake up in the mornings I will feel as great as I do now. And I love my life because it is all about genuinely helping others improve their lives. My webcasts, have grown to become ebooks, published books and live seminars, which expand my reach even greater. And, to top it off, the feedback, questions and answers from my regular webcasts/seminars provide me with an ongoing supply of valuable content for my blogs and web pages, which keeps the cycle flowing and fresh. That brings me back to the now, BECAUSE, my own unique content genuinely improves people’s lives right NOW.

    Comment by Ian Parkin — March 23, 2009 @ 5:58 am

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    Hi Ann:

    The biggest hurdle for me is sifting and sorting through all the internet ideas and tools. Finding the right one that is simple and straight forward. I am all over the place and because of this cannot focus on the thing I need the most to be successful.

    We all know that to be good at something you need to be very conisistent and effective. Whether you are recruiting the traditional way or the internet way.

    We all want sucess but with it comes with a price to pay - learning - applying - learning - changing and applying.

    So end the confusion show me the way to success online and help me to help others is the name of my game.

    Sherry

    Comment by Sherry — March 23, 2009 @ 7:11 am

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    Hi Ann,

    Lack of a list seems to be holding me back. I’m on Twitter, FaceBook, Youtube, and finally Squidoo. Still trying to learn the best ways to use all of these, but at least I’m getting out there. Mike’s training has helped a lot and I recommend everyone use it.

    My perfect business will involve a large down line of people who are not only helping me financially, but who are finding their own financial freedom, thanks to me. I want to learn as much as I can and pass it on so other people can benefit from the network marketing explosion! I guess, in summary, I want to be like you! Thank you for all you and Mike do. You have a great team.

    Comment by Liz Bronson — March 23, 2009 @ 7:13 am

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    1)the biggest hurdle is lack of education.

    2)with the right education your businees will continue to go through a growth proces

    Comment by Timothy — March 23, 2009 @ 7:14 am

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    The biggest hurdle for me at this point is simply reaching enough people. I need a way to inform the masses about my business, and the current way of just “talking to everyone” seems to be uneffective.

    If I could learn to apply some of what Ann suggests, I believe that I could create an online presence that would give me more leads than I would even be able to contact in a day! By creating leads that are actually “looking for” what I have to offer, I could abandon the 3-foot rule mentality and begin to work smarter. My vision is that within the next year, I can retire from my software engineer position and focus on my other business full time. I will have over 1,000 leads per day, and need a part time secretary to help field calls and inquiries. I will be known as the “Travel Guru!”

    Comment by Brock — March 23, 2009 @ 7:17 am

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    I’m a mom of 5, one having special needs and physically handicapped, a musician and an excited learner of attraction marketing. 12 years ago I started my mlm business just caring about me and my family. It was not in my mind to help others succeed. It has been a slow and painful learning process to get to the point where I truly care about the needs and success of others. I’ve done some pretty embarrassing things in the past like sticky notes on windshields and baggies of business cards taped on gas pumps. – no more! Last summer was the last straw when I had 3 “no shows” in 1 week. I thought, “Do or die, doggone it, I’m going to learn how to do my business on line.”
    Although I’m a leader to my wonderful mlm team locally, sometimes by default, I am usually a good follower and will do exactly what I’m told if I have clear steps and a person to follow. But , other than those I’ve met on line, I’m the only one I know stepping out in this new realm of online, attraction marketing. (my team is watching me to see if I can do it) . I know I can.

    Biggest hurdle:
    Focus. There are so many exciting ideas swimming around in my head. I have 3 specific target markets . I know what they think, feel and want but I get distracted thinking I can’t really “start” until I know exactly the BEST place to start. Sometimes having a real person in front of me who has already seen success , who is pointing out the way, helping me to narrow it down and stay focused , is the best help. That would also help me with accountability. (like weight loss L )

    What my business would look like:
    If this hurdle was out of the way, I would have a clear path before me and I would move forward in confidence knowing that I could, in turn, help others along the same path to success. I would no longer do embarrassing and unprofessional things to attract people to me . In fact, I refuse to ever do them again! Instead, I would be attracting people to me because they would clearly see, through powerful and free info and content, that what I have to offer is what they are looking for and want. I would not only be attracting people to my primary mlm, those who are looking for and want my specific product and/or opportunity, but I would have a never ending cash flow of multiple streams of income . As far as the amount of money, the sky is the limit but my first goal is $10,000 a month. Of course I want to sponsor a lot of people into my business and gain countless customers, but more importantly, I will be delighted and blessed to see a multitude of people succeed in their businesses and marketing because they had me as their guide. It’s no fun to succeed and “win the trips” alone! It is so much more rewarding to see those who have struggled finally succeed too! How happy I will be when I have a well oiled internet machine that I can put on autopilot when I need to . This would free us up at times to travel whenever and wherever to see our kids and to more aggressively help our son with special needs.
    I plan to do this by having a real human I can follow as my guide, helping me to stay focused as I go through the professional renegade and not be side-tracked by other shiney and glitzy things. I plan to start a blog (or 2) that will specifically help others. I plan to also pick back up my SBI site I’ve been trying to work on for a few months now, but this time with help. I plan to continue learning each day so that I can , in turn, help others do the exact same thing. I also can’t wait to demonstrate to my local team that it can be done and they can do it too!
    I want to say thank you so much to Ann and Mike for all the effort and hours they’ve put into this great training. As a former homeschool mom of 14 years, Ann, I don’t know how on earth you had the time. God bless you both as you continue leading the way!
    Dayna Camp

    Comment by Dayna Camp — March 23, 2009 @ 7:22 am

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    Ann, Let me thank you and Mike for the wonderful work you are both doing. Ann my problem WAS KNOWLEDGE AND HOW TWO. However, you and mike have sloved that for me. I have already won just with the help you are giving me on a daily.

    If I could tell you how much I have spent and how long I’ve beeen looking for somebody who would just show me the how to’s. ONLY YOU & MIKE have taught in a way that ANYBODY can learn. I just put up my Squidoo article and I never thourht I be able to do that.

    As for the second part of your question, I am 68 years old and have been doing mlm for 40 years. I have made money in all the programs I started.
    So if I can just make enough to cover my expense and Reire from my regular job, I would be VERY SUCCESSFUL. And thanks to you this will happen.

    God blesss you, and continued success with every thing you do.

    John Harris

    Comment by John — March 23, 2009 @ 7:22 am

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    Good Morning,

    The biggest hurdle I have in my business is lack of cohesion and guidance. Every since I read the 7 Great lies and the Renegade Network Marketer, I have been applying every piece of knowledge I can on a shoe string budget. I’ve started a website on SBI. I’ve signed up for affiliate programs. I’ve written articles and submitted through article marketer. I’ve joined a bunch of forums to network there. I’ve recently created a Squidoo lens because of Mike’s training. I’ve also recently started my Twitter account and I getting better at it everyday. I figured out how to do a lead capture page because I know it’s a critical piece to the marketing system. I started a blog. I’m write an eBook before I even knew how to create an eBook! Yes I bought an eBook on creating an eBook only after I created the content. Just because I know that I need to start creating my own content and I worry about the specific how-to’s later. I’ve taken advantage of every free training and resource available. I’ve attempted to replicate the Renegade Professional System without actually having it. However, with all these things, I lack specific guidance as to how to make all the pieces fit together effectively so that my business can turn around. There’s so much I need to learn like copywriting, how to create a great sales page that sells. I’ve selected my niche, which is stay at moms and aspiring stay at home moms, but exactly what angle to take to market to them, I struggle to figure out.

    My dream business would be me creating tons of content that provides value to all of my prospects and customers. Ultimately my vision is to be a successful business coach where I help 20-25 new business owners, particularly mommypreneurs, per month to build successful, profitable businesses. As far as sponsoring my own downline, I know that will be a byproduct of all of my marketing efforts. Therefore I don’t worry about it. I want the people I help to have a choice. To be comfortable in whatever business they choose to pursue and to equip them with the proper training and knowledge to be successful. I’ve signed up for many affiliate programs, but eventually I will create my own program that I can leverage not only to create affiliates, but to provide valuable, accessible content to help others get started with business building right away.

    Thanks so much for this incredible opportunity.

    ~Shafondra

    Comment by Shafondra Matthews — March 23, 2009 @ 7:34 am

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    1. Expert status in a niche

    Comment by Jon — March 23, 2009 @ 7:43 am

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    (1) I think the biggest hurdle I have to deal with is me. I don’t know enough about generating leads, or finding the right product to sell. Especially one that will bring in continuous income over a period of years and give me a trusted customer base.

    (2) If I remove the hurdles I have identified I believe my business will become the dream business generating for me and my wife an unbelievable lifestyle. One that we have always dreamed about.
    Plus my business will give my associates an unbelievable opportunity to improve their lives, hopes and dreams. Thus we will all benefit from an improved lifestyle.
    The excitement generated just thinking about it makes me feel good.
    Ian Nicholson

    Comment by Ian Nicholson — March 23, 2009 @ 7:49 am

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    1) What’s the biggest hurdle preventing
    you from business success right now?
    My biggest hurdle is myself. Right, its me - my un-belief, my lack of will power, my lack of knowledge (business building), lack of finances. I am in coaching and consulting business; more specific I offer stress management coaching for women. I love the issue; I know the damaging consequences of unmanaged stress in ones personal and professional life, health. I want to create my business mostly online. I have put together some content, blogs, articles. Signed up as affiliate to appropriate programs (promoting integrated (value adding) massage, 1-2 blog posts daily, but have not made a cent). There is like an invisible glass wall – I know that stress should be managed but I can’t convey this important massage to my target market. This leads to unbelief – is my knowledge and skills necessary to anybody? Do women need what I have to offer? This creates emptiness and freezes me, stops from moving forward and not giving up. It is so pity that I cant find the right massage to bridge the gap between me (knowledge, skills) and my target market.
    2) What would your business look like
    with this hurdle removed?
    I would have a blossoming business: the evidence that I have created something really necessary what helps other women live balanced life and enjoy themselves. I would have a membership page, where I would offer important, life and health changing information for a small prize. Forum, where women for free could exchange their ideas in order encourage others to take good care of them. Private and group coaching. Affiliate marketing creating me passive income streams. I would be trilled that I am making a life of other women much better. How I am going to do this? A good question. In fact something is missing. I need to find the right materials to start building the bridge. I hope to find them in Renegade Professional.

    Comment by Inese Millere — March 23, 2009 @ 7:49 am

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    #1 My biggest hurdle is a twofold problem the first part being that I still have a commissioned sales job and two I need to be better organized to fit my own business into every day top generate the prospects I need. It is also that I am working on your system but the website is not done (tough learning curve for me even with SBI) and so it is not yet generating traffic.
    #2 My ideal business when this hurdle above is removed would go as follows: I would begin each day checking the traffic and prospect leads from my website and other sources. I would then get on the phone for follow up or other type follow up as appropriate. I would check in with my partners, such as this lady named Ann Sieg, and keep up to date and get the help needed. I would spend the rest of my day prospecting through the systems and afilliate

    Comment by Bill Carrawa — March 23, 2009 @ 7:52 am

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    1. Recognized expert status in a niche

    2. Clients in startup businesses would be seeking me out to pay a generous fee for brand positioning advice, plus a small percentage of the payoff they earn when their companies go public or are acquired.

    Comment by Jon — March 23, 2009 @ 7:52 am

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    The biggest hurdle preventing my business from ultimate success right now, and by ultimate success I mean a fully leveraged, completely automated attraction marketing site. One that really educates clients with so much great content, that it endears people to me first, and then to the ideas that I have for them.

    The hurdle is being able to handle and leverage all the people that are coming to me for coaching, I attend live teleseminars to groups of 100’s of people craving for the information I can coach them on, but it gets to a point where I can only coach and reply to so many people in one day.

    Leverage and automation of my business systems coaching is at the top of the list for my largest hurdle. I don’t have time now to outsource all my knowledge to create social media campaigns and information marketing sites and profiles online, and when I find outsourcers they cannot follow, nor understand exactly what I can deliver at the depth that I do, so it must come from me personally. I can’t do this with coaching clients emailing me and booking times for me to coach them personally, therefore I’m “STUCK” between a great income that revolves around me, and the next step of growth and basically “working myself out of a job for myself”!!

    I have websites all over the place online, I have 3 website-buildit.com information marketing sites that are attracting leads online, I have twitter.com profiles, blogs, facebook, myspace, squidoo lenses, youtube videos all online and linked to one another, however… all this information is getting harder and harder to create because more and more people are coming to me for coaching and to learn “how” I do what I do, which is where I “educate them” into Renegade University, Attraction Markeing Manifesto and the learning systems that Mike and Ann teach because put simply “They Work!”…

    So, in regards to the second question, how would I feel if this hurdle was taken away?…

    It would be amazing… I would be able to really crank into top gear by knowing how to leverage highly skilled teams to create a fantastic online social marketign and attraction marketing campaign. I would be able to get out there and present to more teleseminars, live seminars, joint ventures and so on.

    This would bring me 1000’s of new clients, and the beautiful thing about it would be, I could handle them perfectly, as they’d be all taken care of online and with “human touch” systems both online (via live chat & chatwise programs) to help them build trust and have them feel comfortable to be able to talk to my team on the phone in a “low-pressure” way.

    I would be sponsoring so many more people also, because of this, they would understand the “problem” that I solve and I would be a walking, talking example of these problems and how I solved them, this would then feed off itself and create even more buzz online.

    As for paying myself, I could pay myself 10’s, 100’s thousands times more, because of leveraged, automated and outsourced attraction marketing teams, that understand where I’m coming from and they’d understand this from the systems and education that I create for them to follow step-by-step, that’s why Mac Donalds can employ 16 year olds to manage their stores becuse of skilled systems.

    To be able to go throught the day focussed on working “ON” my business and not in it, knowing it will be replicated over and over and over again would be amazing.

    The ability to be able to create these systems that “train others” on how to educate and improve the lives of thousands of others is what I stand for personally, that’s my personal mission in life to be able to “magnify” the message of many 1000’s of experts in my niche to be able to leverage themselves and get their message out through teams and systems, this will make a difference in peoples lives that I’ll never likely meet personally, but that’s the power of systems

    To know that what I have to teach people and be able to help them connect not only online, but offline via skilled conversation based around unlock-the-sales-game.com as it’s no point getting leads online if you cannot talk to them naturally and educate them first so they end up “joining themselves” and not having you need to “close them” as no-one likes to be sold or closed that is so old school.

    So the way I’m planning on doing this is through training people how to use attraction marketing, educaate them and then be able to use the same information based, low-pressure phone conversation to help them come to a conclusion that is natural to them, they join me, I don’t pursuade them at all, becuase if you need to pursuade someone to join you, you’re on the wrong track.

    I’ll be focussing only on solving peoples problems and understanding them so well, that it will be like putting on x-ray goggles, so when they connect with me and my resources online they’ll feel like I’m looking right into their heads and they’ll feel compelled to email or call me direct, becuase they know I won’t “Jump” them about my products or opportunities, I’ll only educate them some more

    If you help people to solve problems, you’ll never need to sell ever again! And by bringing attraction marketing online and introducting it to offline phone and face to face marketing with a very unique twist which is a skillset that’s taken me well over 16 years to master and personal training and working for a particular master (Ari Galper of Unlock-The-Sales-Game.com) of this beautiful mindset that both Ann and Mike teach online… It creates a beautiful marriage of low-pressure, natural offline (and inbound leads) conversation and online attraction marketing that just allows new members to drop into place under their own steam…. It’s truly beautiful

    Hope this is enough information and that you find it ok.

    Warm Regards,
    Adam Price.

    Comment by Adam Price — March 23, 2009 @ 7:53 am

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    My goal is to help our world become green…one household at a time wth green products. The holdup right now is finding people with a vision, and since I have not done this before I am not quite sure how to market it on the internet.

    It is our obligation to help get our world moving back to the way it was before we stopped caring or knowing how much damage we werea all doing.

    I have a passion to help people understand just how important this is and that, yes even just one person can make a huge difference so imagine how much it would change if we could get people to do it world wide.

    I am so ready to do this.. Are you?

    Comment by Jeanne Weight — March 23, 2009 @ 7:55 am

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    1)What’s the biggest hurdle preventing you from business success right now?

    I think I am my own biggest hurdle. Information overload and prioritizing are a challenge for me. I have never had an upline that was still in the trenches with me. I’ve had wonderful mentorship but no one person who knew my business specifically and to whom I could be accountable to.

    2)What would your business look like with this hurdle removed?

    Attraction marketing works. I see my learning curve as a spiral upward. It’s not continous; there are holding patterns that you get into. For years in the old model I spiraled around and around making anywhere from a few dollars to $500/mo. The problem with that is I always ended up spending more on my business, products, tools, tickets and hotels for conferences etc that it cost me money.

    I’ve been in this model for a year now and money is rolling in. Last summer my husband said if I was going to make money he had better do the books. I’ve earned a few thousand dollars now. I have also invested a good percentage back into my education. So I’ve been circling at the break even point and am now moving up. I think breaking even is a big accomplishment which many never achieve. But it’s time to go to the next level.

    People read my content and contact me. Several times people have told me they trust me on our very first call. I now have business in England, Ireland, Australia, all over the US and Canada. In my offline days I was lucky to get business outside of my province let alone outside of my country!

    For the first time I see duplication happening.
    For the first time I have true business builders.

    Leads are coming in but not 10 a day. I understand that I need to get better to be able to handle multiple leads when I spiral up to that next level. I’m keeping busy and love the interaction with people all over the world. Now I need to go to the next level and truly automate the process so that I can handle a flow of leads. It’s time to move to the stage where it’s no longer possible to talk to each person individually.

    I understand that the time it takes to go from A to B on a timeline does not mean that it will take the same amount of time to go from B to C. In fact B to C happens much quicker. Most people are impressed that Ann Sieg earns $250,000 a month. While impressive, what got my attention is that 5 years ago she couldn’t come up with $1000 to purchase John Reese’s traffic secrets.
    For the first time in all the years I’ve been in network marketing $10,000/month seems realistic. Sponsoring 10-20 people per month would become routine. Spiraling up and beyond that would simply be the next level.

    I’ve always been passionate about helping people. In the past I often invested more time in people than they invested in themselves. You meet like-minded people on the internet which is most refreshing. It’s a fantastic feeling to be able to point people in the right direction and shorten their learning curve. What has been really great is the friendships that I have made. That is priceless. What’s really sweet is that I was told that you can’t hug a computer; meaning that you can’t build relationships online. That is blatantly false.

    My mantra is: It’s not about me, it’s about 1000 people.

    I love the thought of walking the beaches of the world and waking up to a business that has grown while I slept. How many times have I heard that from stage! For the first time I feel its possible for me.

    Thank you Ann & Mike!

    Comment by Irene Kirkman — March 23, 2009 @ 7:56 am

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    I have the desire to learn, then to share, and it will be provided by you and Mike. That to me is the most exciting beginning in learning network marketing.

    I am a senior who intends to utilize brain power before it turns to “mush” lol.

    Comment by Marie — March 23, 2009 @ 7:57 am

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    I have been following Ann for a couple of years and when I started getting the emials from Ann and Mike about affiliate marketing, a bell went off in my head. I have had the absolute worst downlines in the MLM companies I have been with. I signed up for this very last one because I promised myself that if I do not make it in this one, I give up.

    Since I have been listening to all of the information Mike and you have been providing, I now know there is hope. I am computer literate but lack the skill and talent to develope a blog that will interest someone. Maybe I am just a dull person. My biggest interest and challenge in life is teaching people how to select and develope their pets into loving family members. That is what I am best at. The problem is, I don’t think anyone is really that interested. So, I have got to find a niche that is more exciting and interesting to people. In this way, my sight or blog will land at the top of the search engine. I can write a blog but where will it land and who will see it. There is so much stuff out there, that my page will just disappear. I have develope a couple of Squidoo pages that have gotten no hits. I could affilate market the heck out of it but if no one sees it what is the point.

    I believe in MLM and just need a chance to bring it to life. That is my biggest challenge.

    My business would look like a success. I would be making relationships all over the world. I would be speaking to people and making new friends. I want people to know that I can be trusted and help them achieve the same. I am a very independent person who has been working for somebody elso for too many years. It is time I did something for myself. This is not about money so much as it is about my personal success and leaving a legacy of helping others do the same. I want to give people hope.

    Don’t get me wrong, I am not nieve. I know that I need money. But I want to earn it helping others earn money. With the economy the way it is, just knowing that I am helping others to free themselves of debt and economic ruin, will give me the greatest pleasure imagineable. I want to leave a legacy. I want to know that my life was not wasted. I have always wanted to help others. I went to college to become a teacher. That did not work out because they did away with the curriculum. Then I went and got my Master’s and that got me no where because I was working for someone else.

    I want my own dream not someone elses.

    Once I get it moving, I will work day and night to make it and keep it successful.

    The number of customers would be at a minimum of 1 per day. I will be sponsoring at a minimum of 3 per week. I hope to be paying myself a minimum of $3,500 per month. I picked that amount because that is when I can stop working full time. That is my goal.

    Comment by Ellyn Camp — March 23, 2009 @ 8:04 am

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    Hi Ann and Mike,
    Listening to the two of you, I realize that I have been wasting my time and energy, chasing people who aren’t interested in what I have to offer. Reaching my targeted market makes so much sense, I wish I had found you years ago. Now I just need to learn how to use these new tools - there’s still life in the old gal and I intend to be a success in my retirement years! Can’t wait to get started with the Renegade Pro!
    Thanks for developing this for us, Joy

    Comment by Joy Miles — March 23, 2009 @ 8:06 am

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    1. What’s the biggest hurdle preventing you from business success right now?

    Great question Ann. As is normal in most lives, my biggest hurdle is inside my own head. The biggest hurdle I have faced is not fully trusting myself. I have been in network marketing for less then a year now and I have heard a thousand voices all telling me to follow them and to do exactly what they have done regardless of what is true for me.

    Now I celebrate anyone’s success and achievement but when “duplication” means turning off who I am I know that this can never lead to my own success.

    I do not want to just “blurt it out” in grocery lines. I don’t want to silently strategize during every conversation how I can bring up my own business. I don’t want to use people as the means towards my end.

    The vast majority of people cannot continually strive to transform themselves into people they fundamentally are not without eventually failing. Hence the MLM retention rate.

    So now I am beginning to trust myself. I am having to leave my upline behind.
    However, I fully understand that I cannot achieve my success by myself. Crawl, walk, run, fly….Nature’s rules…not mine. I need education and mentorship.

    That is where you come into my story. When I read the “7 Lies” I had a huge experience of “Yes!”. Finally a voice that resonated with me.

    When I heard Mike speak about success involving an authentic personality using proven tools in truthful, helpful, non-manipulative conversations I knew that I had found people of like minds and vision.

    So now I am beginning to tweet and to facebook and to think all the time about the creation of valuable content. I am doing all of this without an ounce of self-repression, denial.

    I am building my vision with my truth.

    2) What would your business look like
    with this hurdle removed?

    Ann, This is what will happen one day….

    I will go through my day vitally aware of the important pieces of data in my life. I will know how many customers I have, I will know how many people I have sponsored. I will see the list of people contacting me. I will also be well aware of the amount of money flowing into my life. I will be aware of these numbers but they will not define me. They will be the outcomes of my actions, my creativity, and my relationships.

    My true oxygen will be the interactions I have with people that will come to me to help them achieve their vision and their truth. People whom I will help in breaking free from their ball and chain existence.

    I will talk to single moms who will tell me what it feels like to work at home with their kids and make more money then they ever have.

    I will talk to people who had lost their jobs and for a time their spirits who now have pride once again in who they are.

    I will talk to young people who had been taught that the only way to succeed was to be a lemming and follow the crowds and stop thinking and feeling.

    I will talk to people who always loved the idea of network marketing but who had years of failure and relatively few friends because of trying so hard to “just talk to people”.

    I will help people find their voice.

    That day will be a good day filled with tweets and creativity. Where I will be lost in thought creating some new value that I can provide to those seeking solutions.

    Thanks Ann
    Rick Pettet

    Comment by Rick Pettet — March 23, 2009 @ 8:12 am

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    Ann,
    The biggest hurdle that’s holding me back is the lack of meeting new prospect in a cold market environment. As a retired soldiers, my circle was great but meeting new people, building relationship take time. I want to speed this process up.

    Comment by Thomas Glover — March 23, 2009 @ 8:12 am

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    Ann,

    My answers follow but I just wanted to say I love your systems and my answers would provide insight into why they are helping yet. My upline only has the usual answers that require full time and still don’t provide enough. Have you learned how to give me more hours per day?

    #1 My biggest hurdle besides myself is still having a full time commissioned sales job. It is a twofold problem that first the job keeps me focused away from my own business and second is myself not getting focused enough to still get my own future into a more dominant position. It is so easy to get caught up working to pay one’s bills than building one’s profit and future. I know you have heard this before but I gathered you wanted honesty in the answers for the contest and ultimately we are all responsible for our own successes and lack thereof.

    #2 is what would my ideal business look like? I would expect that my website would be complete (SBI is great but still a challenge for an old man to learn so the site is not done yet I am probably making it more difficult than it should be) and I would be generating prospects from the site, the affiliate programs and from my other sources. Every day would begin checking these sources and following up withe leads in the appropriate manner. The second part of my day would be to train affiliates and associates to see how I can help them along their path. Then I would schedule one on one meetings with prospects I can get to and through telephone and other means when they are not close by. I have family in MD, FL, CA, OR and NJ that I would always love to visit so trips to prospects in those areas can also be scheduled. Since I can work anywhere my business is totally transferable to my location so I can give back and help others. Being able to recruit using your system and then having a real way to help my recruits get leads will make the difference to my success and to others success. That is the really big reward being successful and then being able to help others succeed. Seeing other reach their goals when I have been able to help them is a reward more valuable than money. Being able to see grandchildren and still being able to build at the same time is a dream come true.

    Comment by Bill Carraway — March 23, 2009 @ 8:15 am

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    Hi Ann, I think the biggest hurdle that I have now is my limited knowledge of internet and I don’t have time for taking any courses as a full time housewife with 2 small kids. If my hurdle removed, I would love to make money for my family and to be out of “rat race”. I actually dream about the better future everyday and hope you guys can help
    Thanks and all the best .

    Comment by Quyen Nguyen — March 23, 2009 @ 8:17 am

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    Ann has been inspiring me to show expert marketing in which the approach to generate SALES is to attract and pull someone who needs by creating a want simply by answering their problem. Attracting need no go the traditonal expensive above the line TV RADIO PRINT advertising, but by simply being found via being referred and easily found surfing on the net. I want to learn more. Don’t stop Ann.

    Comment by Caren Tiangco — March 23, 2009 @ 8:21 am

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    Hello Ann and Mike!To begin, i would only have enough customers to help maintain and support my family.I would not take on so many that they would not get the personal support that they deserve.I would sponsor again as many as myself and eventually my staff could nurture and help succeed.I would pay myself $20,000/month to maintain my business and cover living expenses.This lifestyle in my eyes would be fantastic, because I would be helping those around me to live a better lifestyle and would enable me to contribute greater sums to local charities with whom I already have a affiliation.This would all be a fantastic dream come true!

    Comment by Don — March 23, 2009 @ 8:21 am

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    My dream business will have 10,000 business partner when hurdles is removed. An awsome layout people helping each other to dream and live that dream.

    Comment by Thomas Glover — March 23, 2009 @ 8:23 am

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    1) What’s the biggest hurdle preventing
    you from business success right now?

    A) The learning curve and a lack of focus. In terms of the learning curve, I didn’t realize that I was so far behind it until I read the “Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto” and the “7 Great Lies..”. I just purchased the “Renegade Network Marketer” and now realize that I’d almost become a part of the 97% that do not succeed. Fortunately, I was blessed enough to find your resources within only 3 weeks of starting my business. Thus saving me from wasting a lot of time and money; and the potential for failure and a marred reputation. Also, Renegade is teaching me that I need to commit to a laser focus on marketing my business. One that is strategic and action-based. Otherwise, I will spin my wheels and merely tread water.

    2) What would your dream business look like
    with this hurdle removed?

    A) Ahhhh, my dream business. I’d have the respect, esteem and trust of all whom I encounter, as well as my existing circle of influence. I’d work a few hours per day, investing in my team’s success and my customers’ experience. I’d then spend the balance of my days making a home for my husband and children, volunteering at my daughter’s school, writing poetry, helping my church ministries and every now and then, a massage and a cup of tea on a Thursday afternoon. This is a tiny snippet of my ideal scenario. Of course, I’d have an ample amount of income that would allow me to accomplish this way of life, but that’s stating the obvious…otherwise, it wouldn’t be my dream business.

    Comment by Simone — March 23, 2009 @ 8:25 am

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    1)Biggest Hurdle preventing me from success NOW
    – TOP 3 challenges relating to INCOME? .
    a] finding financing for investment property
    b] not tieing up personal funds
    c] Have money available on short notice when a good deal is present.
    – TOP 3 challenges relating to TIME?
    1. Still working a full time JOB - with commute time 75-80 hours a week
    2. Staying motivate on my time to pursue deals
    3. Having time to meet with Realtors, sellers and buyers since I am only availble at night and weekends

    2) What would your bream business look like with this hurdle removed ?

    I want to move on and up with my life and start giving back more than I am already doing. I want to make a difference in other peoples lives.
    I live by “PAY IT FORWARD’ and “Knowledge is not Power - Sharing it is

    Comment by hugh d albright — March 23, 2009 @ 8:26 am

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    Hi Ann and Mike

    I’m 77 and for the past few years I have been trying to increase my income from the measly $600 a month we get from the State in the UK so that we can live a decent life. I have spent $1000’s on various training courses and programmes but with only minor success. The problem is that while they tell you WHAT to do they fail to tell you HOW to do it.

    That’s why I am so excited about Renegade Professional because learning becomes harder as you get older. A click by click training is something I think even I can do. With my credit cards full and payments to make, winning this training would open up a whole new life for me.

    The Manifesto and the free videos have been an enormous help already and clarified my understanding of some things, such as social networks. Now I can’t wait to find out exactly how to use them properly and then pass on that information, one way or another.

    I have always wanted to help other people if at all possible to get out of a financial rut, so getting an excited and active downline of people whose lives I will have helped change is a dream.

    To have hundreds of people visit my sites and being inspired to join a programme where they will make money to give them and their families financial security would be awesome. Especially with the economic uncertainties we are experiencing. At the moment I can mainly offer advice on what NOT to join, which is too negative.

    Earning even a modest extra income would transform our lives and enable me to devote more time to sponsoring and helping others. At my age I do not need to become a multi millionaire but if it happens I will certainly make to most of it. It would enable me to help my grandchildren and even great grandchildren for their futures.

    Winning the Renegade Professional course would show that age is no barrier to learning or success.

    Comment by Geoffrey Lover — March 23, 2009 @ 8:27 am

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    Q #1 Answer: My biggest block to success is generating leads without going broke. No matter what your business, lead generation is number one. That is the nummber one responsibility of all independent business people whether they admit or not.

    Q #2 Answer: Being able to generate leads and have an opportunity to close them will generate opportinities for work for other people. I am in the real estate business and my goal is to be able to build a successful team. I would like to add 4 people to my staff to successfully help those looking to purchase homes for themselves and their family.

    “A house is shelter …. A home is inspiration”

    Take care.

    Comment by Rory Roemmich — March 23, 2009 @ 8:31 am

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    The biggest hurdle that I have is lack of quality people to talk to on a daily basis. What I need is a cost effective way to generate enough quality leads for both myself and my downline. Leads and generating leads are the life blood of every sales and marketing business….. Having plenty of quality leads would allow me to focus on inviting, qualifying and enrolling new team members. Then I could teach my team to do the same. With plenty of quality people to talk to, there would be no limit to my income potential.

    Comment by Gerry Usselman — March 23, 2009 @ 8:34 am

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    Not contacting or taking very less efforts in calling people - though I know pretty well and seen good results whenever I meet up people and close the deal so successfully ! no proper follow-up is another added fuel into the fire!

    The dream is to have a very good networking with people always around me cheerfully making their share of income!

    Comment by v.ravi — March 23, 2009 @ 8:36 am

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    1) My biggest hurdle right now is just getting started with the basics of internet marketing. I would like to learn Twitter, Facebook, blogging and all of the techinques that you teach at Renegade Professional. I have purchased the Renegade Networker which has helped but would love a step by step tutorial of all the great marketing techniques.
    2) My day would be free to help other people make money because my business would be on autopilot. There is nothing better than helping others when they are in poor financial situations. Learning Renegade Professional would be a revelation for everyone if each person helped another person. My mission would be making others successful.

    Comment by Rosanna — March 23, 2009 @ 8:44 am

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    My biggest hurdle I think would have to be my confidence.

    When I first got started in MLM, it was only because the actual product was the perfect companion to my interest in the (then, very UN-cool “buzzword”) social media marketing side of things.

    Because “web 2.0 marketing” was not “cool” at the time, my sponsor completely blew me, and my ideas, off.

    Because of that, I had to learn everything by myself and I was always a bit unsure of my ability to lead others when it came to things like follow up calls and “closing.”

    I have created a lot of great training for my team as far as social media and free leads generation, but I still lack confidence on the phone and that really keeps me from achieving all that I know I could.

    I still have mixed feelings about MLM because of my bad experience, but I know a good product when I see it so I keep going.

    I also have used my leads that I have generated to get a feel for what other people are having problems with as far as network marketing on the Internet. It seems that the lack of support from sponsors is a big thing. I’m just looking for something that really makes sense.

    Thanks for this opportunity.

    Comment by Sheree Motiska — March 23, 2009 @ 8:46 am

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    Hi Ann and Mike. I am very new to this internet field, but after reading your material after only few days, I am certain that you will my coaches to help me develop my business. I have just joined Lifepath Unlimited. My biggest hurdle is to get prospects going to my website and going through our opportunity. I need help to market my business in different ways and I am sure you can help me. Your professional ways for me to help others achieve more for them, both material and spiritual aspect is what my hurdle is and I am looking forward to get all the help from you. Thank you and your work is awesome. I just have gone through only the tip of the iceberg. Thank you.

    Comment by Azeem Jadavji — March 23, 2009 @ 8:50 am

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    Hi Ann and Mike,

    My biggest hurdle that had been preventing me from business success, up to this point, was trying to get distributors to join me in my business. Until I was introduced to you, I had been going about it all wrong. After reading the Renegade Network Marketer, I began to put into place the means to brand “Me”, instead of any particular company that I am involved in. I’ve begun to build my SBI site and will put into practice the exceptional information that you and Mike have developed to help us be successful in our chosen business.

    My goal in life has become to find ways to help others become successful online but I’ve always thought that I had to be successful first, before I could show someone else how to do it. However, with the invaluable information that you and Mike have put together with the Renegade Professional, others don’t have to wait for me to be successful first. We can become successful online together and I will be here for any guidance my team needs and by actually putting your methods into practice, I can help more people.

    The most exhilarating joy, as you know, is to teach someone how to do something and then watch them take what they have learned from you and strike out on their own and succeed! This is my dream to be able to help as many people, who want to be helped, to finally become successful online.

    With the help and guidance of the Renegade Professional, I can be assured that I can be of benefit to others because I know that by helping others get what they want, which is to be successful online, I will get what I want and that is to finally be successful online.

    We are in business to be successful and just like what you and Mike are doing to really help others, I want to be able to take what is in the Renegade Professional and further what you have started and finally remove my biggest hurdle.

    Thank you both,

    Victoria Leal

    Comment by Victoria Leal — March 23, 2009 @ 8:51 am

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    Ann and Mike first of all Thank you both for all the work you have both put into the university. I find myself totally consumed with thoughts of how to market, what to market, how I am going to be able to show the world why they should want to meet me. I know that they will come simply because of me creating good honest content about myself, about my experiences. Showing them that there is a choice to make. They can chose to be victims of their circumstances or they can chose to go forward in to the lives that they have created. I have read through all the posts and I love hearing all the people that have the same amount of passion that I do. Everyone has the same mission here. To be able to help people achieve their goals and their dreams. I have no support from my family either they do not understand why I would be on line so much, I see the huge potential being on line being you!! Being who I am will help so many I am certain of that I realized that although I have many friends and people in my MLM do see a little bit of the potential in what I am doing. The reward of being able to reach so many people once you get through the fear of being you on line is fantastic. I find that many people that ask me what I am doing even though they are so unhappy with their lives are not willing to do the work. And that is their choice, I do know that there are so many others that are willing to do the work. I am so pleased that one of the women in my downline is doing the work as well and it is so rewarding that she has also started her journey. I know that she wouldn’t have if she had not met me and myself sharing with her what I was doing. I am so pleased to know that I have made the steps to create the life that I want!! Of all the things that I desire to be in my life. I am confident that I will be able to help many create the life they want as well. I find that my biggest hurdle is I have not been patient enough with myself. I do have to realize yet again in my life that all things come at the right time. I am very eager to start my training in the University and waiting for it to open is no doubt the HURDLE! Waiting to learn MORE! I have been going forward I have built my following on Twitter, I have built my lens on Squidoo and am so eager to learn more. I have put my SBI web site on hold for now to go forward with this training, and thankfully so for I have gained lots of experience from doing this. I have lots more ideas for my SBI site. My goal is to be a coach for people all over the world to live their dreams, there are so many people that are conformists. There are many people that are not living the live they were born to live because they are so scared. They have been told they should have no expectations in their lives and to just get a real job! I have lived this way for many years and I have chose to follow my heart and be all that I am. I chose in favor of my passions everyday and I want to help others to be able to do that as well. There is so much hidden talent out in the world! “We must become the change we want to see in the world” Mahatma Gandi. This is my passion.

    Comment by Jaci Pozdzik — March 23, 2009 @ 8:54 am

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    My biggest hurdle is getting traffic to my site and getting my downline to buy. They all sign up, are all gungho, then peter out within months. I have a hard enough time building my own downline, let alone theirs.

    By the time I buy my products and pay for my site, my commissions are so small that I’m in the red.

    If I could get good niche traffic to my site, get the sales I need AND get my downline to buy (esp my distributors), I would be making enough money to call this a real business.

    HELP!

    Comment by Anne — March 23, 2009 @ 8:55 am

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    Ann,

    Thinking about the biggest hurdle that I have caused me to really think about my life. I grew up in the MLM industry with parents that succeeded in their company. Everyone thinks the kids will be great in “the business” when
    they grow up because mom & dad did it, but we are just like everyone else and have to do the same things everyone else does.

    My parents succeeded doing it the “old way” and so I was taught to do it the same way. Well I stayed with my parents’ company for a total of almost 13 years! I wanted to stay loyal but just couldn’t any longer when the company
    did some things to our upline that I didn’t think was right. In those 13 years I never made it big. I never felt comfortable approaching all my friends, family had already been approached by my parents, and strangers just didn’t seem to work for me. I did approach a lot of strangers over the years but I think they saw through me and knew I wasn’t comfortable. I spent money on the weekly meetings, the monthly meetings, the 3-4 major weekend functions a year,
    the books, the cd’s, you name it I bought it and studied it. Lots of money was spent which eventually ended in the trash can.

    I joined another company just recently because of the product and its true value to people and the health benefits I and my wife noticed. My wife quickly stated she wasn’t talking to any of her friends because we lost a lot of friends
    over the years with the last business. I can’t blame her as it was tough losing so many friends. I started back up with what I was told to do and thought was right…going to the weekly meetings, monthly meetings, major functions, buying books, cds and whatever else I was told I needed. Guess what, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results. My upline tells me that I need to break through my fear of talking to people and to just do it. I don’t blame him for his advise because he was a second generation kid and taught the same thing. I just know though that it isn’t a fear of people, I like people and talk to people all the time but I don’t like attacking people and constantly thinking about how I’m going to bring the business up to people. It goes completely against the grain as far as I am concerned. Until now I just thought it was me, now I know thanks to you and Mike that I am normal and the way we have been taught to build MLM’s is not the best or right way to do it.

    In short, my biggest problem is flushing the old habits and doing things the Renegade way. I love the free training that I’ve already taken advantage of with Twitter, Squidoo, and TrafficSwarm. I’m looking forward to Renegade Pro and going full bore in building my business the right way.

    What will my business be like once I work Renegade Pro into the mix and build it correctly? I see 15-20 minimum joining my
    team on a monthly basis. Retail sales will be in the thousands of customers thanks to all of the free info they get before buying.
    The distributors that have been with me through the years will be experiencing success for the first time in their MLM lives because I
    will be able to lead them with Renegade Pro’s help. Duplicating the proper way to build our business will be possible. I see my wife being on board again with the business and helping me to create content for our blogs and websites. I see us being a full time dad and mom to our two kids and not stressing over money and paying
    bills.

    I see being able to live my motto: have fun, make money and make a difference. Making a difference being a hugh part of my life. A difference in my team’s lives and a difference in the world by giving to charities and educating people in health, wealth thinking, and abundance mentality. It won’t mean much if I achieve success and don’t give back. I will start giving back by sharing free content as taught by you and Mike and then I will give back with my money and time to change other people’s lives for the better.

    Thank you for the opportunity to learn from you and Mike and for the awesome opportunity to share our stories, our fears and our
    dreams. If this qualifies to win, then that will be a great bonus to all that you have already provided. Thank you again.

    Comment by Steve Tenerovich — March 23, 2009 @ 8:55 am

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    Hi Ann,

    My biggest hurtle is how to determine what market I should get into. Much of what I see have a lot of promise, and very little substance. This has put the brakes on for me, and leaves my wife very sceptical. When I can determine what it is, I will be wholely committed to it, knowing that your tools will enable me to successfully provide for that market, and make a reasonable living.

    My view of having a successful business would be seeing my wife free to leave her job, soon followed by me, knowing that we will be able to sustain ourselves. Especially in the coming years, as we are quickly approaching retirement. We’d be able to have good health insurance, time to travel, and a legacy to leave to our children.

    Have an awesome day,

    Dave

    Comment by David Vass — March 23, 2009 @ 8:59 am

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    Hi Ann and Mike

    My biggest thing holding me back at the moment is the lack of time I suffer in my life. I am a teacher, homemaker, band manager, Network Marketing business owner/team leader, friend to many,and partner and support system to my lifelong love! I have devoured the Renegade Network Marketer and the Manifesto too - I can see that all the advice and hints and tips you give are very valid and would love to have the time to implement them in my life but I struggle to add 20 mins of content to my own website on a daily basis! My MLM company is doing really well and I am bringing in lots of new people on a monthly basis but by calling leads, which in itself is very time consuming! I would LOVE to have everything in place that you teach us about in your wonderful eproducts! That would make my life much easier - I could then just concentrate on helping others reach their full potential.

    My perfect business would look like a HUGE Tree of life! With much foliage representing the Distributors and the branches of the tree reepresenting the countries in which my teams flourish! The roots of the tree are, of course, the solid training you have delivered so selflessly over the years, I would want these to be the deepest roots ever - going deep into the ground searching for and finding the nourishment and wisdom that lies deep within the earth’s core.

    I would sorely LOVE to win the competition Ann and Mike but - just in case I don’t - ‘Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for all your help and tuition given so freely - I WILL get all my systems in place soon and then I will reap the rewards of your benevolence!

    Many thanks

    Gill

    Comment by Gill Mitchell — March 23, 2009 @ 9:03 am

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    1) My biggest hurdle preventing me from business success - I would have to say getting the attraction marketing down. I’m willing to put in the work, but I feel I lack the ability to attract others.

    2) My dream business with this hurdle removed - People who are looking for a business like ours would contact me and my husband instead of us “hunting them down.” We would become the “hunted” instead of the “hunters.” They would be open to what we have to say and would listen to our counsel. We look forward to freeing ourselves up financially while helping others do the same. We would have 1000 customers who order on a monthly basis. We would be sponsoring 12 new personal couples and individuals per month. My husband could finally quit his 12-hour-a-day job and help me raise our two young sons after over 15 years being “in the business.” We would be making a solid 6-figure income and would be able to purchase our dream property of 10-20 acres in the country with 3500-square-foot house with wrap-around porch. We would wake up to our boys climbing into bed with us and proceed to spend the day working in our garden, milking our goats, collecting eggs, and riding our horses all in the name of “homeschooling.” We would be overwhelmed (in a good way) at the people in our downline who are needing our advice and assistance, which we will gladly provide. These people would share their dreams with us, and we will finally be able to help them achieve them. When we see someone in need, we will be able to help them. Instead of struggling to get our own van fixed, we will be able to anonymously meet the needs of others.

    Comment by Sally — March 23, 2009 @ 9:04 am

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    Biggest hurdle. Don’t know how to do it.
    What would it look like? Yours!

    Comment by Ron Graham — March 23, 2009 @ 9:07 am

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    Ann and Mike,

    Here are the short answers:

    1) What’s the biggest hurdle preventing
    you from business success right now?

    EXECUTION! Just doing it.

    2) What would your business look like
    with this hurdle removed?

    EXPONENTIAL GROWTH! Anyone who understands your philosophy and follows your plan they would have exponential growth in clients, prospects, and sales.

    I cannot wait to get my hands on the Renegade Professional!

    Comment by Paul Nimmo — March 23, 2009 @ 9:09 am

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    Hi Ann & Mike, Thanks for all the great info you have shared. I have learned quite a bit in the last few weeks and am looking forward to the
    R. Pro.
    My biggest hurdle in getting started is a couple reasons, one being myself. I stand in my own way, perhaps fearful of rejection or failure. I also over analyze and wonder if my niche is something that will be of good content.
    If this hurdle was removed I know my business would be fruitful. I enjoy teaching others and am also a firm believer of Paying it forward.
    I would have 1000’s of cutomers, 100s of sponsers, due to showing them what would get them to become a income producing demonstrator. (The MLM I’m involved with no longer has distributors, perhaps I need an additional one..) I would want to make enough to keep my family well, keep investing in my biz, help others who are less fortunate, and have the time and resource to help many others who have been effected by the recession. Showing people that they don’t have to rely on a JOB to live a comfortable life. Learning, sharing, living what a wonderful combination.
    This would be my perfect biz….life!
    I would love to have your help.
    Thanks Again,
    Lauri

    Comment by Lauri Day — March 23, 2009 @ 9:09 am

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    My biggest hurdle is not believing I can do it. I have been in many mlm companies each time with high hope this is going to be the one I’ll breakthrough. Too many failures leaves me fearful. I sincerely wish there is a genuine system that is going to work and duplicable. If I can overcome this hurdle, not only it will give my self esteem a tremendous boost, I would never appear to be the perpetual mlm dreamer in the eyes of friends and loved ones. I’ll pay myself handsomely providing financial security for my family every months. I’ll prove that sponsoring at least over ten downlines monthly is easily doable for people I sponsored. My product is of cutting edge technology and people will use it when they can now trust and see me as a professional and not a salesmen. I can now wake up each day with zest and positive expectations knowing that I am making a difference in the lives of people I share my expertize with.

    Comment by Alan — March 23, 2009 @ 9:11 am

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    The biggest hurdle preventing me from business success is not being able to put myself in front of enough people to build a successful business. I need to be able to attract enough prospects to whom I can offer not only my products & opportunity, but more importantly my help.

    Without this hurdle, or if I had an endless supply of prospects, I think I could easily achieve my mid-range goals of having 1000 buying customers, sponsoring 7-10 new people every month, and earning at least $7500/month. I could wake up whenever I please knowing I control my own time and all I have to do is help other people achieve the same freedom. I would be well on my way to achieving my long-term goal of helping 5000 people, directly or indirectly, escape the 9 to 5 rat-race and gain more quality time with their families. My life would feel so fulfilling knowing that my products, my opportunity, and I have helped so many people live the life they deserve!

    Comment by Alex Valle — March 23, 2009 @ 9:12 am

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    The first question - What’s the biggest hurdle preventing
    you from business success right now?
    So this is the first step to be on the Internet. I am from ISRAEL, my desire to write the content in Hebrew. I wrote an article In SKUIDOO, just under the guidance of Mike, but the site did not accept the article, the title was written in Hebrew, but the text has not been received instead I got ??????????????. I wrote the site, but still have not responded to me, how can I write in Hebrew on their site.
    I want technical training how to use the tools on the Internet without the Hebrew language would be an obstacle.
    Which pools should be used?
    It seems to me in Hebrew, will be easier to write content which will be I.
    The second question about what would your dream business look like with this hurdle removed?
    I am 6 years IN NETWORK MARKETING, trying to make a difference in other people’s lives. But in the last 6 month I did not have even 1 new customer, I’m tired.
    I desire to a breakthrough. To help thousands of people to live a life of quality in these difficulty days when the economy is not stable

    your excellent guidance changed my approach to NETWORK MARKETING. I know that this century the Internet is the place to do business and I believe that thanks to you, I shall know how to magnetize prospects, implement the knowledge you give, and duplicate it, so it’s going to be an amazing breakthrough for me.
    Thank you

    Comment by dvora — March 23, 2009 @ 9:14 am

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    Dear Ann & Mike,

    What an amazing opportunity you are offering to all of us!! I gratefully submit my comments for a chance at receiving much needed help!

    I self financed and run a both an online and brick and mortar business, so motivation and hard work is not an issue. I have also been introduced to an MLM company that I am very excited about. I have struggled with the “old” methods of contacting and showing one on one plans etc. since I decided to join this company. The principles that I have learned from the trainings and books I have received from you so far confirmed what I myself feel is the best way to go about building my business. I have used the same philosophy when I interact with the customers that come into my store. Finally something that aligns with my own beliefs and goals.

    My biggest issue is that I need to build both businesses simultaneously. Having my store and the resource center I run within it had up until now been my biggest dream and goal. Since learning about the freedom that MLM offers and discovering a company that I can truly feel comfortable being a part of I feel that I need to pursue it to realize my own dreams that “self employment” alone cannot offer me.

    Your system will help me to build “both” businesses with the same system which is brilliant. More importantly I can continue to offer value to my customers and potential business partners with out feeling like I am selling. I feel that offering information and help first with a specific need is the first step and the product always follows!! I am at this moment putting things into place at my store so I can work from home more often to implement all of the suggestions and principles that your program offers.

    I am not completely computer savvy so I will look forward to the step by step assistance with setting up and improving my online presence. I am also a teacher within my profession and look forward to the day when I can pass on my skills to help another entrepreneur build their business with confidence and success.

    Many of my store customers are Mothers who desperately want to stay home with their children, but need a stream of income to do so. I hear it almost everyday and I am so excited that I will be able to offer them the opportunity as well as the skills to jump in with both feet and realize that dream. I understand well the need to build a business on your own, without help and the pressure to make it work!! I cannot in good conscious bring them into a business that they will struggle in despite how good the product is. I feel very responsible to offer them skills that will work! Your system I know they can do.

    I plan on continuing to improve my skills on Twitter and am now looking into building lenses on Squidoo. I currently have a website that I will be updating to build contacts and funnel interested people into my upcoming information pages. If am following and reading materials on copy writing so I can improve the content of my newsletter. I am trying to absorb as much of the new media streams as I can, but would love to tie it all together logically and with steps to measure what I am doing.

    Thank you again for hearing me and for the chance to run with my dream!

    Tracey Stolarchuk

    Comment by Tracey Stolarchuk — March 23, 2009 @ 9:16 am

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    1) What’s the biggest hurdle preventing
    you from business success right now?

    There are three main things that will really drive your business. One is knowing what your main purpose is, two is knowing the product information, and three is knowing how to appeal to people in a way that you fullfull a need they have and be willing to do the work. It’s easy to blame the lack of success on someone or something else. Sure, to some degree, there are obsticles (like a lack of money)that you have to work around, but ultimately the lack of success comes down to what you are doing or not doing. It’s not your uplines fault or the economies. I believe that up until recently, what was holding me back was me. I was willing to do the work and I knew the product information and I even knew what my purpose is, but I was holding myself back from my full potential because of fear. Once I acknowledged that, things became much more clear. Granted, there are still things that I haven’t done because of money and time, but they will come.

    2) What would your dream business look like
    with this hurdle removed?

    I always want to have lots of human contact for my business. That being said, I would want enough business being generated from my website that the business would cover all costs and then some. My website would definately look differant and be more efficient and I would utilize many more of the things I have learned to generate business than I do right now. Regardless of if I win this or not, these things will happen. The nice thing about me winning would be that they would happen a lot sooner and alot more knowledge would be gained. Everyone can use more knowledge!

    Comment by Katie — March 23, 2009 @ 9:18 am

62. 

    i like to that!

    do you can help me to make mony?

    im 18 old boy from srilanak!

    plz help me!

    Comment by Krishan — March 23, 2009 @ 9:20 am

63. 

    i like to that!

    im 18 old boy from sri lanka!
    you can help me to make mony?

    youi can give me job?

    Comment by Krishan — March 23, 2009 @ 9:21 am

64. 

    Hi Ann & Mike, My biggest hurdle has 2 parts. First, I’m struggling with the concept for my websight. It seems like it has to be geared towards MLM in order to monetize using some of your products and to best introduce my opportunity. I understand MLM, but I don’t LOVE it. Secondly, my upline thinks I’m being foolish to go against the “tried and true”
    methods they are advocating (zero support). I know the renegade plan will work, it seems like only common sense. Thanks for any advice you can send my way.
    Patrick Boyd

    Comment by Patrick Boyd — March 23, 2009 @ 9:25 am

65. 

    Hi! Boy, just writing this down helps alot. My biggest hurdle is developing my own leads in some other way than “warm”, as they say, i.e., the internet. I’ve talked and sampled myself blue in the face (and my pocketbook!) and still can’t get folks to even TRY the product for an extended period to see if they like it. The “stigma” of network marketing is a reality too making strangers of even family. There’s just a small percentage of people who aren’t leery of even just the concept of being in a MLM situation. On the other hand, I know there’s millions of folks out there who do have a clue. I just haven’t been able to find them…

    I know the company has a very big “WHY” (Global Wellness!)and a terrific product, so I feel great about accomplishing important deeds for the individual and society as a whole and as it should be.

    It’s a very big story to tell in 30 seconds. I need a way to convey all the nuances to a WILLING person. I’ve learned alot already from you guys and am starting to get a feel for what my net coverage needs to entail, but need alot of refinement. Thanks for this opportunity!

    Comment by Mel Borders — March 23, 2009 @ 9:32 am

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    Ann and Mike,

    I’m responding to this contest, because I’ve finally found a system that I’m willing to place above all the other online marketing systems I’ve been exposed to. I believe you when you say it can be done.

    My biggest hurdle to achieving success is finding the program to help me achieve my goals. I have been laid off from my engineering job for 9 months now. Before my last day, I created a new life for myself. My mission was to “never give anyone the opportunity to lay me off again” I’m not winning that game. I have tried many programs that promised to show me how to win with online marketing, and I’ve spent a lot of money. I can’t continue on this path.

    Prior to reading the Renegade Professional and Manifesto I created blogs and websites. I love your concept of creating creditability. I have a lot of friends, but they don’t share the same goals as I. I need to attract new people and create a system that will progressively and systematically explode my business.

    I want to learn to make money and duplicate myself in others. I have 2 products that are great. One in online marketing and one in the health and wellness arena. I want to stand out in my health business. I want people to improve their health and create a lifestyle of their dreams. I don’t want to sound like my company. I want to create a unique voice.

    Your concept of becoming a distributor of information is what intrigues me. Give useful information and empower people to choose my offer or not, and be satisfied with the process that led to their choice.

    I want 1,000 customers a month. I want to sponsor 200 people a month in both companies. I want a system that will help me stay personally connected with them. I will not stop until I have this for myself.

    I want money to do what I want in life. I want my family and friends to never have to worry about money again. They have been my rock in my present financial dilemma. I want to empower communities to make the differences they want to make. I want to help fund the expansion of my church. I want to be able to help anyone I want!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    This is what life is about. Making a difference and helping others. When I leave this earth, I want to be used up. I want to help others plant seeds in their lives and communities that will continue to grow after they have moved on.

    I can talk about my dreams forever. I hope I’ll get a chance to learn from you. Thank you for your time and attention. It’s yours and you give it so generously. Bless you!

    Comment by Stephanie Hall — March 23, 2009 @ 9:35 am

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    1. The Biggest Hurdle

    The biggest hurdle to my success is the prevailing attitude of scarcity that has taken hold of so many people today. People are drawing inward to protect what they can, at a time when they should be extending themselves to take advantage of the incredible opportunities which are appearing every day.

    I believe people are too focused on the resources that have become scarce, and are missing the resources that are becoming increasingly abundant. When one door closes, another one opens. Some see an alarming unemployment rate and think all hope is lost. I see a growing population of people who need to find a new source of revenue, and are looking to the internet for guidance. I will be one of the people who will offer that guidance, and I will do it with the help of my fellow Renegade Professionals.

    I have recognized that people who come to Renegade Professional are not giving in to the fear and hopelessness. They are being proactive and taking responsibility for their own success, by learning all they can about this new landscape of InterNetwork Marketing. They understand that they are developing the skills necessary to help the ever-increasing number of people who are looking to the internet for salvation. These are the people I want to work with.

    As Eric Walker pointed out above (GREAT post, by the way), he and I are working together on a system which will bring like-minded Renegade Professionals together, providing a resource for lost and frustrated people searching the internet for assistance in finding a network marketing company and upline they can trust. This system is based on a mindset of abundance, and teamwork.

    There is no room for selfishness in today’s marketplace. Greed is OUT. Teamwork and collaboration are IN. Attraction marketing has created opportunities for collaboration which have never been seen before. People from completely different network marketing companies are sharing a common vision and are creating JV (joint venture) partnerships. It’s an exciting time for the industry.

    So, my biggest hurdle is shaking people loose of the media-driven perception of doom and gloom, and show them that opportunities are merely waiting in new places for them. One such place is our developing community right here. I believe another is Renegade Referrals (Sorry if the link is broken. If it is, you can click on my name below to go to the site).

    2. My Dream Business

    My dream is that this concept will continue to draw interest from the community, and more people will choose to participate who share the vision of helping others by using a consultative approach and tapping into their network of like-minded people to offer their prospects the best solutions for them, in a win-win fashion.

    I see my business eventually helping tens of thousands of people, protecting them from the sharks out there who are ready to take advantage of their trust. I see the vision of the company sinking in with new members, so they “get it” at a fundamental level, and apply it to their own businesses, thus achieving new levels of success themselves.

    My vision for Renegade Referrals is that the concept grows beyond me. My dream is that the business concept proves to be so sound that it grows into a movement, and independent chapters develop worldwide. My dream is that this business helps to develop future leaders in the industry, and creates wealth for many more people than I ever meet personally.

    Obviously, if this happens, my personal finances will be taken care of. But there is something more important here, and it underscores what drives me every day to put the 12-16 hour days of work in.

    My dream for my business is that it will outlive me; it will be one which my daughter will someday happily tell her grandchildren about, and they will be proud to know their great-grandfather made such a positive impact on their world.

    Lane Romero-Reiss
    http://renegadereferrals.com

    Comment by Lane Romero-Reiss — March 23, 2009 @ 9:35 am

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    Hi, Ann and Mike,
    1) Several months ago, I called my mentor in my primary business because I was floundering. I wasn’t enrolling anyone, and no matter how many people I talked to, no one seemed interested. I was totally drained and didn’t know what to do next. This woman makes over 100K a year and I know her personally, so I was sure she would provide some concrete steps to help me. What she told me floored me. It wasn’t the business, it wasn’t my belief in the business, it was just my belief in myself. Apparently, all I had to do was believe in myself more, and then all those leads I bought, and all those friends and family that I called (and who never returned my call) would turn into an amazing business for me. Yea, right…,
    So I hung up the phone and thought, “OK, I’m on my own. Now what?” I went to the internet and found Attraction Marketing. Imagine, working my business like a real professional. Identify my target market and develop a business plan. Then work the plan. I read “The Renegade Network Marketer” then found Mike and enrolled in Renegade University, then Renegade Professional. I started building slow. I listened to the tutorials and little by little, developed my online presence. I have a blog (and by the way, I didn’t know what a blog was 6 months ago), I set up a Squidoo lens (ditto on Squidoo), wrote a few articles, set up Twitter and Facebook accounts. I’ve connected to an amazing group of people online who’ve provided more tools for my business than any of my old “business partners” ever did.
    But what I struggle with most is consistency. I’m a single mom with 4 kids ages 8 to 16. My husband died 6 years ago and so I’m responsible for everything – the house, the finances, the insurance (or lack thereof), and, oh yea, the kids. I’m saying this not to complain; it’s just that I’m pulled in a million directions every day and only have a short window to devote completely to my business. Staying focused, on track and advancing my business every day has been quite a challenge for me.

    2) I love this question. Here’s what my dream business would look like: I’d enroll 8-10 business builders into my primary business every month. Maybe that doesn’t sound like much, but with that I could still earn enough money that would allow me to provide for my kids, and give them the kind of life my husband and I had dreamed for them. I’d be able to balance my family and my work life so that I could have the time to devote to each of my new business builders and help them to reach their goals. I’d be able to provide the kind of leadership I always knew I was capable of. These new people in my business would hit the ground running the RIGHT WAY – identifying their target market, building and then implementing their business plan. A REAL duplicatible system. No more 3 foot rule, no more contacting all the people at your wedding. A real, professional business. A business with integrity and something to be proud of.
    I always knew I had a great business opportunity (and one I’m proud to represent). Now I’ll be able to market it the same way. And the best part about network marketing is that while helping yourself, you’re helping others. I want people to have choices. They’ll never get laid off or fired from this job. If they want $500, $5000, or 50,000/mo, the opportunity is there! It’s really true – it’s not about the money, but about the choices the money gives you. How great would it be if I could help others lead the kind of life they always dreamed of?
    And finally, in my dream business, my business partners (maybe even the corporate office!) would ask me to train them on how to build a successful online business. That would be the icing on the cake!
    Thanks Ann and Mike for all you do!

    Comment by Anne Blanton — March 23, 2009 @ 9:35 am

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    Hi Ann and Mike

    The biggest hurdle I’ve had is information overload…it’s deadly. Going all directions at the same time and not sticking with a plan has been killing my dreams for years to have a successful MLM Business, not to mention the “old school methods” that really don’t work.

    I believe in Internet Marketing and the MLM Industry, even though I have faild miserably for years, but somehow I knew I would find a way to make it, it was just a matter of time.

    Since reading The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto I have cancelled my subscription to all the Network Marketing Coaches and Industry Leaders a total of 8, trying to sell programs I was never able to purchase. Now that I have cleaned house my mind is more focused and determined. With this hurdle out of the way my business by faith in the Lord, looks something like this:

    I’m having more clients than I can handle, I’m excited, I can pass clients down to my recruits and help them succeed with their businesses. I’m paying myself a 7 figure income and I’m finally successful because I have a niche market, maybe the company doesn’t allow me a website but I’m marketing my self through my own website with Site Build it.

    I’m easily becoming an expert in my own field and that’s why others want to stick with me and join my business so they themselves can be successful. I’m using Facebook and My Space to market my business. This is my dream business and I’m already working towards that goal.

    This is all true: Since reading the report I have come up with different ideas to market my business through a website with Site Build It. I since started to promote 2 different seminars through my current website and have 3 e-book ideas and have already started on my first one.

    I’m sticking with Ann Sieg and Mike Klinger because their is no other Internet Marketing Coach willing to give me what they have provided me, I’m eager to learn how to twitter and I’m anxious for my site build it website that will go along with a hard cover book, already checking publishers in my home town!!

    You guys have opened a world to me, you have been willing to take me by the hand and guide me with baby steps. I will forever be grateful to you and your team. When you sent me that Christmas card with your family picture I felt that I had known you for years yet had seen you for the first time but my heart felt at ease, you became my mentor right their and then.

    I knew I would succeed beacause that’s what you want for all of us and I some how felt the connection. God Bless you, Ann and Mike, today, tomorrow and forever for this wonderful opportunity. Thank-you!!

    Comment by Thania Rosario — March 23, 2009 @ 9:36 am

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    Ann, you are just an amazingly giving person. I get so excited every time a see a new email from you or Mike. Both of you provide so much energizing material, that it makes me feel so fortunate to have found both of you.

    In the last couple of months, I’ve been going through the renegade professional, spending countless hours learning the techniques Mike has given us. I was one of the lucky ones to have had the opportunity to get in early to his remarkable learning system.

    At one point, some time back, Mike was offering a chance to join his team to teach the concepts he had taught us. But, I didn’t jump on the opportunity, I just didn’t feel I was ready to teach someone else. Now, I wish I did though, because, within the last month I feel more confident about the skills he had taught me in the renegade professional.

    It is just amazing how both of you joined together and now are sharing your ideas as a team. People, such as Di Di are very fortunate to have one on one contact with great mentors as you and Mike. It would be such a great honor to be able to get private mentoring sessions with either one of you. As I said, I’m spending hours of “adrenaline, exciting, and most positive reinforcement learning through Mike’s webinars, video tutorials, etc.. About a month ago Mike had a 3 series of live webinars, well, I live in Pennsylvania, so, his webinar wouldn’t start until 9p.m. for the east coast, and sometimes lasted till 11:30p.m.. Late hours of the night, but I didn’t care, because Mike has the ability just as you do to give me the drive that I never thought was possible. I graduated with a Bachelors of Science degree in 1993 and I never was so interested in anything to this degree, as I am with what you and Mike have been teaching me.

    One of my biggest hurdles I’m facing is… I felt It was necessary for me to teach people what I have learned and experienced in the gardening/landscape industry in the last 20 years, but I wanted to do it in a different way, instead of going to peoples houses and physically installing their gardens, I wanted to use the internet and give people educational material where they could read my articles and follow them step by step to create beautiful gardens on their own.

    To be quite honest with you, I’ve been caught between 2 niches. Choosing the gardening niche or the network marketing niche with I been trying to focus on also. The bottom line is I would like to make a marketing business that is successful, just as both of yours our. At this point, I’m not sure how all of this is going to unfold to get endless numbers of customers and sponsors. Again, my goal is to have the ability to walk the successful path you and Mike worked so hard to create.

    One of Mike’s webinars, he had used gardening on a budget as one of the examples. Well, that’s is what my expertise is in. I can offer great value that would benefit millions of interested gardeners or homeowners who need guidance with their gardens, but how do I make it profitable for network marketing? I don’t have a product to offer, just great content. So, maybe an ebook, I’m just not sure where I should be focusing my efforts on, in order to become successful, and actually some day walk the path you and Mike are on today.

    I also want to be teaching people how to enjoy their lives and to have financial freedom in whatever field of network marketing they choose, just as I’ve been learning how to do, witch is creating content that gives value to others. I want to teach others to do the same, as I learned from both of you.

    That’s pretty much where I’m at today, knowing I have great value to offer to millions of people, I’m just not sure the best way to do it in a sense of network marketing.

    Thanks again for giving more and more learning opportunities.
    Hopefully, I offer enough value to you to give me this wonderful, life changing opportunity.
    Dave Kovach

    Comment by Dave Kovach — March 23, 2009 @ 9:37 am

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    Hi Ann and Mike, My vision of my business with these hurdles removed would be the gratification when my upline start calling me for advice. I would set up a seminar and sell THEM tickets for $1297.I can see at least 20 newly sponsored affilliates each and every month, and then showing them how the renegade network marketer makes it all possible. My wife would quit her job and join me.
    Patrick Boyd

    Comment by Patrick Boyd — March 23, 2009 @ 9:39 am

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    HI MRS SIEG / AND MR MIKE I wish that i had the computor knowledge and Internet Business savey like most of your readers do. And Who are doing nothing with all the info. your giving them . I ‘am going crazy trying to figure out this stuff in my head , i see everything your saying so cristal clear i just CAN’T seem to be able to get it going. i have done the walk through with mike and made a webb sight just not happpy with my results. BUT if i was to win and get you two great minds to help me ,this would be the greatest gift an old 55 year old fart” like me could ever recieve in this life time. Either way thanks both of you . Your teaching is really great .I will not give up because i believe what you both are doing to help us change are lives is just wonderful . So till then i will continue untill i get this Internet Business going on my own . THANKS MARVIN WILLIAMS

    Comment by marvin williams — March 23, 2009 @ 9:42 am

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    KEEP DOING WHAT YOU BOTH ARE DOING AND YOUR LIVES WILL BE MORE RICHER , MORE SO THAN MONEY.

    YOU NO WHAT I’AM SAYING THE HIGHER BEING.
    HE IS WHATCHING . THANKS MARVIN WILLIAMS

    Comment by marvin williams — March 23, 2009 @ 9:47 am

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    Hello Ann, I was happy for you that you have joined your awesome skills and gifts with MikeK. I listened to your interview great job guys.Hey two heads are better then one! It is so awesome to see that givers are in cyberspace.I was blessed to not have but a mite $200 when I started or I could have spent thousands and availed little to nothing. (14 months ago) There are a host of deep pockets in cyberspace as I need not tell you. I being of utter desperation to save my ship from sinking and vulnerable was prey to very wise manipulators. I had to learn a bit about myself along the journey. I have made $7.00 in 14 months. It is ok I know the harvest is coming. I am eternally grateful Ann that you too want others to live a life of thier dreams. God has shown me where he wants me to go with your Renegade and now MikeK as well. I am getting ready to drive traffic. I am putting your principles to work starting today.
    I have the green light. This is not about me but about assisting and helping others in this hurting, starving, hungry world. I need to have massive, sprawling income to do this work.( like my adjectives, tee hee) I need to have seed in my hand to give back and LOTS of it.You were put in my e-mail 10 months ago bydivine intervention.
    I know you understand Ann. Truth is if not for you i would have been long gone.I am grateful and I get stuck with the traffic driving stuff and am living on a shoestring budget but I am willing, eager, excited, teachable, humble, giving, able, and blessed. I know my harvest is coming. You are mentioned with high reguards on my sites. Now the traffic is going to pour in. I am at zero$. I Believe to recieve. Lets see how long it takes me to get to the top. I know it is there for me. I know that I know. If you feel I am the one to help then by all means I am up for it.There are no mistakes we crssed paths for a reason. If this is my season to reap then let it rip, roar open to the floodgates of the world. My Love and very best to you and Mike. Your friend Patti B Colorado I did invest in Renegade 10 months ago and by my thinking thought I would be $$$ free
    I have learned a great deal about myself. Huge I had to do that before it was revealed to me my purpose for network marketing. In a hundred years if someone said,” Patti, you are going to go online and work for a reason, I would have said”you have the wrong Patti, I can sit no longer then 15 minutes”. Funny I knew so litle of myself after hours upon hours on line.
    I gotta laugh at myself. We never do graduate from this journey, but with wonderful individuals as you and Mike it can sure help soften the journey.I am grateful.Our ship is still floating,(barely) now I am expecting full sail to the gates of the world. I am ready to apply your tools and experience to my marketing.Personal help, are you kidding? It would be a blessing beyond my dreamns.
    With Love and Gratitude,
    Patti B

    Comment by Patti Burkhart — March 23, 2009 @ 9:47 am

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    This is just amazing. I couldnot believe in your methods that they can do something in my MLM bussiness but afew days back a freind emailed me and was talking a bout this.
    Ann am so greatful for your hard work and i think i can change Africa into abetter place for those who believe in MLM marketing and buy those cool cars just like my uplines. Thanks.

    Comment by Davie — March 23, 2009 @ 9:49 am

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    Hi Patrick,

    Your reply gave me a nice chuckle this morning while going through the posts. Yes indeed, it is very likely that is exactly what is going to happen: “My vision of my business with these hurdles removed would be the gratification when my upline start calling me for advice. I would set up a seminar and sell THEM tickets for $1297.”

    Patrick, that’s what’s already happened for many of our students including having the mlm company they represent ask them to do training.

    Comment by Ann Sieg — March 23, 2009 @ 9:49 am

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    Dear Ann and Mike,
    My biggest hurdle right now is myself. I am overwhelmed and lack focus. On the advice of somebody I trusted I diversified to create multiple streams of income and started 3 new businesses at the same time. I realize now that this was a mistake. I was promised that they would do the marketing and close the sales (for a monthly fee). While it was never my intention
    to let them “do it all” for me, I figured I would have time to learn about each company. Nobody thas the same interest in the success of my business and in the people I sponsor as I do.
    Each of the three companies have excellent products and I have followed the recommended methods of supplemental advertising. I have spent several thousand dollars and unfortunately
    none of them worked. While I have replicated websites for each business, I know I have to add
    content to “brand” myself. The problen is a lack the “know how”
    I have never done any online advertising. Thanks to you and Mike, I have a twitter account, have set up my squidoo account. I will publish my first lens today. I have a small number of downline members in each of the businesses and I need to learn all I can to help them succeed. I have received very little help from my sponsors and I don’t want to leave my team members adrift.
    With this hurdle removed, my dream business would allow me to help other people suceed. I would make enough income to run my business to cover the expenses and pay myself $2000.00 a month. I would be sponsoring 10-15 people a month and be able to give them the support they need to achieve their goals. I want to make a differnce in other people’s life and be sure that the products and opportunity are best suited to their needs to improve the qualities of their lives. The only way I can accomplish this is to educate myself and acquire the tools necessary to success. With your training and time, I know I can do this. I can’t wait to start with the Renegade Pro.
    Thank you Ann and Mike.
    Helga

    Comment by Helga Maybee — March 23, 2009 @ 9:54 am

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    ann would love to learn from you and mike my biggest problem is i am to busy earning a living from my dead end job to make money and would love to change this with your help and assisstance

    Comment by Graeme Laing — March 23, 2009 @ 9:54 am

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    1) What’s the biggest hurdle preventing
    you from business success right now?

    My darling boyfriend. He’s not into any of this online MLM. I have no support from him right now. He thinks that you all are trying to sell me something, when I tell him I’m learning. He tells me he has yet to meet one person who has made money online .. I want to reach that hurdle and leap it victoriously with a few checks in hand or my PayPal statement

    2) What would your dream business look like
    with this hurdle removed?

    Hey, I don’t want to remove my boyfriend! ha ha! Once his mindset has been removed, I’ll have his full support, I know it, and that love, dedication, and support will get my brain fired on all engines, and I will know that anything is possible. Think Rich, Grow Rich hey?

    Thanks for being there.

    Comment by Claire — March 23, 2009 @ 9:54 am

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    hi ann its so exciting to know that there are diffrent ways to build a network marketing.
    thanks to you now i know that .
    i stop doing the emmberassing calls and im trying to read everything you send me by mail.
    when i get into the bussines i belived that in those hard economy time ill share the busines with other people and help them and myself to build a bussnis that can help many familys.
    thats my dream!!!!!!!
    i wish i could learn more and i wish my uplines would want to help me as i want to help others people.
    i dont like to be agresive by pushing products to people ‘thats not me.
    im sure there are diffrent ways to do the bussines nice and come with open hurt and respect thats my dream!!!!
    and another big dream of mine is to be able to make an income that will make my kids and myself live a good life.
    thank you

    Comment by debbie — March 23, 2009 @ 9:56 am

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    Hi, My biggest hurdle would be that I’ve been a company for along time and my upline is not available to me so that I can learn from. So I have to figure thing out on my own. This business is very different to me than anything I’ve ever done. Don’t get me wrong I get e-mail and call but It’s basically to see what I’ve done, If I called anyone.I had to learn what I know on my own but , I’s not enough to be successful. I’ve stayed with the company because of the love of the products and how they make a difference in my well being. So It would be vital to have the necessary coaching and tools that would help me make nessary changes in order for my business to thrive. I envision that my business is very successful. What is my meaning of sucess, To be able to be dedt free, take my family on a vacation, Give back to my family that have help or supported me when I need them. Sending my kids to college and not worrying how it was going to happen. Helping other be sucessful, paying it forward. Very important to keep the cycle going. So, Yes it would be great to win.

    Comment by Jacquie — March 23, 2009 @ 9:56 am

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    Q:My biggest hurdle?

    Honestly, I have multiple “hurdles” and my problem is prioritizing them. Hurdles such as Learning Curve, Building a List, Lack of Guidance/Support, Lack of Funds, etc…

    Overall figuring out which aspect of my business to concentrate on… breaking down one aspect of my business at a time into easy and achievable steps. I find myself going in one direction and getting side-tracked by a new piece of information (or new angle, etc).

    I attribute it to finding my way, but its quite frustrating when I just need a clear and concise business plan that will create an immediate income.

    Q:Life with a successful business?

    I will be steadily increasing my monthly income, receiving income from multiple sources, my collegiate, credit & car debts will be paid for.

    I will have the time and money to take advantage of more training and personal life enhancement. I will be able to donate more of my time and income to non-profit organizations including the arts, homeless, senior centers, animal shelters, and more.

    Total life enrichment!

    ah, that was refreshing Thank you for enticing that out of me! Was much needed on this day. I’m fortunate to be connected to such a “powerhouse team”

    Comment by Stephanie Michelle Johnson — March 23, 2009 @ 9:56 am

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    Dear Mike and Ann,

    Thank you for offering so much help, and for this contest.

    1) It’s difficult to choose just ONE hurdle, but for me it is probably a combination of understanding internet marketing and time. I just started network marketing 3 months ago and am very excited about my product. However, I soon ran out of “friends and family” to bug and began to feel like all I was doing was “pushing” myself on others.

    I first discovered “internetwork marketing” when I ran across the Renegade Network Marketer six weeks ago and quickly gobbled it up. I am ABSOLUTELY convinced that you both are right and there is a huge potential for me. Obviously the traditional way only saps your self esteem, your finances, and offers nothing to your downline or customers.

    I am trying to keep up with everything and learn as I go. I started an SBI site, Facebook, twitter, and have just purchased the twitter tutorials and am working on the Squidoo (whatever that is…) class today. I want to be as prepared as possible, but am trying to understand exactly how to use those tools to build my business. I definitely need that click by click instruction! This is NOT something they taught in Law School, but they should!

    The information is FABULOUS, but I feel I am running out of time. I have but a few months before I either return to full time work (therefore delaying my internet marketing further) or face financial failure (i.e. lose my house). I feel sometimes like I’m spinning my wheels because I’m not sure where to focus my attention. Consequently, I’m progressing slowly in each area. But I AM TOTALLY COMMITTED TO MAKING THIS WORK! It’s much better than leaving my children everyday for a job that I endure rather than love.

    2)My “dream business” is one that helps me sponsor 5 new people a month. 5 people that I could help understand how to be successful so their business could bless their lives too. Within 6 weeks, I would earn enough to meet my financial needs and feel comfortable about staying home with my children.

    My greatest dream is to be completely out of debt (no house payment would be great!) and have the opportunity to teach this type of cutting edge business (the successful kind) to my family and friends that also struggle so much. What a blessing to help people help themselves to that kind of freedom (you must understand that feeling). I honestly don’t care about expensive cars and big houses. I like simplicity (though a little more travelling would be on my agenda!).

    I also represent a product that has made a huge difference in people’s lives - not people that my upline told me about, but people I really care about. I would love to be able to offer that to people in a way that does not focus so much on ME and how it would help ME!

    I am an attorney. I would also LOVE to become proficient in this business and teach other attorneys (only the decent ones of course!) how to apply it to their businesses - not just network marketing (really, isn’t all business some kind of network marketing?). I also believe we SHOULD teach a course like this in law schools, and other university courses. Students need this kind of practical knowledge.

    These are difficult times, but I know your products and ideas offer a solution. I want to understand it, get myself out of financial straits and then teach others to do the same. That’s a dream come true!

    Sincerely and with Many Thanks!

    Rachel

    Comment by Rachel — March 23, 2009 @ 9:57 am

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    Hi Ann and Matt:

    Yes, I am one of the newbies to the internet marketing system and I do have major information overload! I now have two niches that I am trying to develop a marketing plan for and I am all over the place trying to discover which direction I need to go in. No I have no quality traffic and yes I need to build a list. Yes, I have discovered that I need to be on Twitter and Squidoo and FaceBook and oh yes set up a Blog and I need to compose articles and have everything linked back to my websites, but the actual 1-2-3 instruction that you and Mike have started to provide me with is a breath of fresh air.

    I watched Mike’s Squidoo Lens setup and it was very helpful to a newbie that had not even heard of Squidoo let along know how to set it up. I really liked someone giving instruction in such a hands-on way.

    I have now been out of work for 5 months-3 of which I have been working on setting up an online
    business. I have bought leads from the affiliated company I am associated with, but as you stated the leads were poor and didn’t seem to have a clue why I was contacting them. I have bought books on how to twitter, build traffic-just came back from a seminar put on by Matt Barak that was very informative, but I now have even more information overload. I know I need to settle on one niche and focus on getting involved in only the information that pertains to getting my traffic to my website to build a successful business. I just am getting so frustrated on the implimentation of all this info, as to where to start to make a profit. I have to be honest and I am tried of putting good money out and not seeing any positive RTO. If you two could get me out of neutral and on fire, I would be soooo happy……

    I have many passions in my life- I want a heatlhier lifestyle for myself and my husband,which would include nice vacations from time to time;to live to see my grandchildren have grandchildren; helping the world be a healthier place through its Baby Boomers and children;and work with children to help teach better reading and writing skills; and last but certainly not least make a comfortable retirement for myself and my husband. We both have worked very hard for the last 46 years-I think its time I learn to work smarter!

    Your approach to teaching all of the concepts is very important to me. Your help has left me feeling less intimated by a world that is both foreign and exciting at the same time. Thank you for your continuing support and look forward to learning so much more from both of you.

    Comment by Cathy Leonard — March 23, 2009 @ 9:58 am

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    Hi Ann and Mike

    Thanks for the opportunity to be part of this competition for this wonderful price for the Renegade Professional. I can already see all the wonderful new opportunities waiting for me winning this fantastic price.

    I am almost a year into network marketing using The Renegade System.

    My biggest hurdle at the present is the fact that here in South-Africa, where I live, the infrastructure for the internet is still not up to standard and quite expensive for a large part of the population. Therefor getting to the largest portion of the population, who really can benefit from internet marketing, is challenging. In this lies the biggest hurdle but also the biggest and best opportunity for me.

    I believe that with in the next year, with South-Africa as host to the soccer world cup in 2010, our infrastructure problems will be solved and with it the cost of online marketing will come down and therefor I plan with “Renegade Professional” and your help to position myself to ride the wave of opportunity which will be released within a year from now.

    Thus my dream of a large strong internet business will be realized but not only will I make money for myself but will I position myself as an authority on network marketing and especially on The Renegade System method of network marketing. And so helping those, who are in desperate need for an income, in our beautiful country to realize also there dreams of becoming financially strong and independant.

    Again many thanks for the opportunity to become part of Renegade Professional and working with you - I really am looking forward to it.

    Kind regards.

    Mark

    Comment by Mark — March 23, 2009 @ 10:01 am

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    Hello Ann and Mike,
    The biggest hurdle that had been preventing me from succeeding in this business is to get someone to believe enough to join you. As yet I have’nt read the book I bought from you due to a circumstances that needs my full attention. My feelings tells me that I’m into something that could propel me to success.
    I’m passionate about helping other people making a difference in their live knowing that you have given them that chance to make a better future for themselves. I am well aware that before all this could happend I needed to be guided in the right direction every step of the way. By winning the competetion will ensure that I will get the right training. Thanks for giving me the chance to be in the competetion.

    Comment by Joy Holmlund — March 23, 2009 @ 10:06 am

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    1)ME
    2)YOU!

    Comment by Beth — March 23, 2009 @ 10:08 am

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    Presently, my biggest hurdle is seeing the past MLM I got involved with as a gift rather than a bad decision and a failure because it lead me to Ann’s work. When I realized it was the same outdated model which I was very uncomfortable with, I found “The 7 Great Lies”. I’ve been studying and implementing the Renegade model and training the past several months. I’m reluctant to sign up with a new MLM, that’s a better match for me, even though I’ve found a company and product I feel good about. The vision I have for my business is personal satisfaction in what I’ve created, and being able to help others realize their desired success. It would be wonderful to build an organization around a product that is on the “cutting edge” of health technology and that is known for it’s integrity and putting people first. -Thank you-

    Comment by MaryAnn Russell — March 23, 2009 @ 10:09 am

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    My Biggest Hurdle is Fear of being able to do this on my own and make a living. I am 57 YRS old. I am unemployeed. I have a 7 Year old son who is my whole life and I am desperate to keep my home.
    I can see that Attraction Marketing works.
    Your Program, I fill is best suited for the Baby Boomers.
    There are four companies I have looked at and this is the best for me. I just need some help with getting set up.
    I have enough money to pay my daily expenses and nothing else can I afford to pay for at this time.
    I have been with an MLM Company since 1972
    that is in the Nutrition and Health industry.
    I had little sucess. Attraction Marketing is the way of the future.
    I thank you for what you have proviede for FREE.
    Mike is Great with his Click by Click teaching Methods
    It has lifted my Spirits and given me some hope.

    for the 2nd question. My Dream Business would be (once the Hurdles were removed) a company that offers excellent Products for Health and Home and also offers opportunities to make extra money marketing the products to others.
    I would hope this would bring in a multitude of new customers.
    I would Sponcer and teach as many that would like to make extra money, using the Internet to promote there new business.
    As to how much I would pay my self. I only need to make enough to have a good life.
    Personal wealth is good but my Spiritual Connection with my Creator is something money can not buy. So it is hard to give a direct answer to that question.
    I would like to wake up every day to see my business opportunity was Duplicating by down lines who were having sucess.
    Knowing that I had helped anyone by using the products I market and or the Business Opportunity would make me fill good about my self!
    If I was able to help even one person make a difference in there daily life with using the Methods you teach is something I would consider as a sucess.
    It is hard to imagine what it would fill like to know you have helped many people become sucessful.
    I see from Ann’s E-mails she fills woderful about how she has changed many lives for the good. You can see it in her face.
    I too want to have that filling.
    How do I plan to do this! Well I will do what ever I can to learn how to use the Internet and help others to learn how to use Attraction Marketing so they can stay excited and have an uplifting day so they fill good about them selves knowing that perhaps one day they will not have to fear the loss of there JOB or perhaps be able to leave their JOB for something they were able to do on there own to make an Honest living from Home. Just giving some one a sence of Hope is a reward in its self.

    Well enough of my Bloviating. Even if I don’t win I thank you for giving me Hope for the future
    Best Regards
    Tedman Bauer

    Comment by Tedman Bauer — March 23, 2009 @ 10:10 am

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    The biggest hurdle preventing me from business success right now is that I’m a stay at home mom of a son with Autism. As a mom with a special needs child I have a limited number of friends and acquaintances of which to share my product and business. Most of those acquaintances are other mom’s of special needs children and they are not always the best prospects for my product, because they have tried a multitude of products only to be disappointed. They also tend to have very tight budgets.

    I find my best customers are one’s with health issues, or one’s that are concerned for their health because of family health histories, or simply people that are very health conscious and see the benefit of my product.

    I see the internet as the perfect avenue for marketing my business because I can do this during the day while my children are at school. I also think finding a customer by the internet with the right tools such as the Renegade Professional would save me time in getting customers and distributors for my business.

    My dream business would look like this with the before mentioned hurdles removed.

    I would have more than the necessary 40 customers to get my business qualified, and this would allow me to increase my commission and qualify me for an additional bonus on my downline.

    I would surpass my current goal of becoming a Sales Coordinator which only requires 3 distributors and I believe I would be able to get 5 distributors or more and be able to set a goal for the top position in our company NMD. Reaching the position of NMD would allow me to qualify for very generous benefits package which provides medical, dental, life, disability insurance.

    Within a very short time period I do believe I could get 39 distributors and have them qualify their business as I did using the Professional Renegade system. This in turn would allow me to reach the 39 Club in the company which provides additional benefits and income.

    If I could reach the NMD position in the company income on average is in the six figures and that would allow us to pay off the debt we have accumulated trying to help our son with his Autism.

    I have always looked for a company like the one I found, that was a company with a heart and one that had good people in it’s organization. It’s a career I want to be successful in because with a high school education I never felt like I could get above a certain income level. This position as a network marketer in a helping profession is exactly what I want to do. I want to help people make their dreams come true.

    Sincerely,

    Eileen McManemin

    Comment by Eileen — March 23, 2009 @ 10:13 am

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    The biggest general hurdle for me is to much thinking, processing, reading, etc., and not enough action. Specifically, this would mean setting up an SBI site, putting together some creative content through blogs, videos and the like, and building a list. I still need further instruction on the most effective ways to do these things. I’m super excited about what’s going to happen!

    My dream business would quite simply mean that people are seeking out ME and not my products or company. This has taken a long time to sink in, but I’m seeing it more and more. It’s like the sun coming up over the horizon. I’d like to sponsor at least 10 new business builders every month and 10 new customers every month. This would allow me to continue to have time with my family while building a solid business. At the same time, I would be providing a reasonable model which my downline could easily duplicate or even improve on. With the 2 great mlm businesses I’m currently involved with, it would be an awesome thing to know that I’m helping them be healthier, more financially secure, and having fun with it at the same time. More importantly, I would be able to put more money into the kingdom of God and invest more heavily into the lives of my kids.

    I can’t wait for the upcoming training. Thanks again!

    Comment by Derek Thorp — March 23, 2009 @ 10:16 am

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    Wow…you are asking for the biggest! There are so many and they are all BIG! Vision and concept…I get it. Action…I get it. Philosophy…I get it. Demand…I get it. Infrasturucture and model for implementation…I have it! My biggest obstacle has to be without question, the different software formats from one site to the next. It’s almost as though each time you find success and conquer the formatting of Squarespace or Ezine or Squidoo or Wordpress or Blinkweb or etc, etc….you then have to go back to school to figure out the next one. Unfortunately, I am older and did not grow up with this computer technology. I have great respect for software engineers and their skills. However, I wish there were a more universal program for setting up your blog, website, press releases and landing pages. One can feel the sweet success of accomplishment and the next minute feel that horrifying sense of overwhelmed! All the more reason to have coaching and a systematic approach to creating, which is what your program gives!
    Now, what will my business look like in the future? That’s easy!
    I will have a huge organization that is helping to inspire hundreds of thousands to become entrepreneurs. Creating financial stability and independance from corporate America. Countless families working for themselves instead of someone else, and inspiring courage in others to do the same. It will be a self perpetuating organism that will continue to grow, virally. 90% of MY time will be spent philanthropically with my charitable foundations and helping other success stories set up their own foundations as well.
    A legacy of giving, is far more important to leave behind, than the actual money you leave behind! If you achieve that, the money will NEVER run out!

    Comment by Jeff Nelson — March 23, 2009 @ 10:19 am

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    Hello Ann & Mike
    My hurdle is that having been in MLM for ten years I’ve been shot down and shot up so much I didn’t feel if I had one more effort in me.So getting everything in place for one more effort didn’t seem possible.
    This time I have your system to work with, having step by step instructions and good visuals makes all the difference in the world
    Once I get past the hurdle I’d be able to learn this system in more detail while teaching it to people in my business. Showing them how to funnel people through this system and finding out which stream to put them in ,product ,sponsor into MLM and get them into Renegade Networker and Renegade Professional.This would help everone in the system to replicate sucess.
    It would be nice to build a replicating business so that I could get 50 customers a month ,sponsor 20 into MLM and be able to pay myself $7,000 a month.
    After all these years and failed attempts to finally be able to build a sucessful business ,and help people to do the same,will make it all worth while.
    Thank you for your time.
    George

    Comment by George Paulhus Jr — March 23, 2009 @ 10:21 am

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    Hello Ann & Mike

    Thank you for this opportunity. I expect to gain something just by answering these questions for myself but I’d certainly love to win the contest!

    1) What’s the biggest hurdle preventing you from business success right now?

    It’s me…period. I’ve been in the industry for 3.5 years now and now have two network marketing businesses. I love parts of each and love the personal development I’ve experienced since I started. I’ve had some level of success but as much as I can SEE it for myself, I avoid key activities on a consistent basis.

    I really don’t like making dials to leads at all, which is what one business trains, although I know that doing it CAN bring results. It’s just not fun or rewarding. I cannot see doing this day in and day out for the next five years.

    My second company trains working warm market first. I’ve developed a small customer base this way, but have only enrolled one friend into the business, and that was because she loves the results from the product. Recruiting friends is not an enjoyable way to work the business for me and I love working strictly from home.

    The greatest problem for me is when I train someone else to do the same activities and they don’t see results after several months of consistently working, I don’t feel I’m setting them up for success. This bothers me to no end. It’s why I’m very excited about your new program.

    I love the idea of finding people who are serious about this industry. I know I have two great programs to offer, and I’m good at providing mentoring and support, but getting to the right people is the challenge we all experience.

    I have purchased other programs that were all about ‘attraction’ marketing, but often felt like there was not quite enough information to really learn what to do without purchasing more and more expensive programs. You have already provided significant value, even without cost and I’ve shared this with my team. I’m not very tech savvy, so internet marketing has been slow going for me. Still, I’m committed to learning to be effective at it, whatever it takes.

    I currently write blogs, but don’t yet have my own site. My business has to generate the funds for additional marketing at this point. I strive to learn something new each week but find that the time requirement becomes a bit overwhelming.

    2) What would your business look like with this hurdle removed?

    I feel like I’m missing something important. What you’ve provided in the Manifesto makes great sense, but DOING it to produce results feels somewhat daunting. If I can find ways to enjoy the day to day activities of working the business, I’d probably work too much. It’s exciting to see progress when you’ve really made the effort.

    Most importantly, if I can train my team to experience results with a reasonable amount of part time effort, I’d feel that I truly was helping others change the quality of their life. I love the idea of helping people make that happen. I understand their struggles when I’ve struggled myself.

    My business goals are to reach the top levels in both companies without having to work ridiculous hours to achieve it. I spent years and years working 60-80 hours per week in a job, so being able to succeed in less time is as important to me as the dollars.

    I do expect to be able to reach a consistent six figure income, and enrolling even a few people each and every month will bring me to that level. From there, I’ll re-formulate new goals.

    I off to work on setting up my Squidoo profile and look forward to learning more from both of you!

    Michelle Porter

    Comment by Michelle Porter — March 23, 2009 @ 10:27 am

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    Thanks for the chance to compete in an awesome opportunity. I will give it my best shot to win here is why.

    1. What is the biggest hurdle preventing me from success right now?

    When I started with Ann and Mike I had an MLM company and wanted to promote my company by attraction marketing. Along about last fall my MLM started to decline and I became a lad bit fearful to promote my MLM. Now I could have started a new MLM, but rather than that I took a second look at what Mike was teaching.

    Mike always says to apply these techniques to whatever business you are involved with. That is what I like so much about his teaching. He realizes not everyone has an MLM, nor do they want one.

    Anyway, So I started a new website about my previous business which was window treatments. I now have 35 pages up on my website and finally ranking with the search engines.

    My biggest hurdle is just making sure I am doing everything at the right time. Using the right attraction methods, point all the marketing in the right direction.

    I have so many ideas and I want to use my time wisely. I have miles to go and ultimately want this to be my future income for my husband and I, (we are products of downsizing).

    2. What would my dream business look like if this hurdle was removed?

    Having lived 60 years and now finding myself starting over, has been a challenge. I have already realized a few impossibilities, or so I thought impossible. I know what “HTML” is; I know how to build a webpage, I Know how to do more that email. Hurrah!!

    Now if the hurdle of having my marketing plan in place was removed I could accomplish a lot.

    My Motto on my website is: Encourage others to sew seams or sow seeds in order to reap a harvest of friend clients. That being said I want a business that will support my husband and me and also encourage others to build something for themselves.

    I would love a following, not a twitter follow but a genuine group of people all working to help others accomplish their goals. For one thing I have learned in these 60 years we get no where unless we help others. I want to teach, that is my life ambition and help others realize their dreams.

    Now don’t get me wrong a little cash along the way will be nice also.

    Thanks Mike and Ann for the opportunity, I would love to win. Having the opportunity to sit and learn with you and Mike would be an honor.

    Patty
    http://www.create-a-sewing-business.com

    Comment by Patty Jones — March 23, 2009 @ 10:29 am

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    My biggest hurdle? I’m 60 years old and these things didnd’t exist when I was a kid. I live in an area of SC where communications are really poor. My phone disconnects all the time! and - my computer is “tethered” to my cell phone. Geez I’ve got so much to learn: Squidoo, blogs, YouTube, FaceBook, etc Mind boggling———-

    If I put it all together, I’d have a financially successful business. I could have a home of my own, and a satellite dish for the da– computer to make it happy. You do a great job and offer a lot; makes me wish I was younger and this didn’t seem so overwhelming. Pat Hanly

    Comment by Pat — March 23, 2009 @ 10:29 am

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    Hi Ann & Mike! Wow you guys are awesome! I can’t praise you two enough!

    Goodness I tell ya there are just so many hurdles for me right now but I would say the biggest hurdle I have is the “personal branding” hurdle that I am faced with. I am only 18 and it seems hard for me to get all you older folks to believe that I am for real in this industry and that my “why” and my dreams are as big and powerful as yours. Branding myself as a leader, as someone who has value, has been my biggest hurdle in business. Lead generation has been the second biggest hurdle I face, which I believe is somewhat, but not totally related to my “personal branding” issue. I believe in this industry and the people in this industry soo much that I will never ever quit and I know that my day will come. I have been followong you, Ann Sieg, ever since I started in Network Marketing…I straight away purchased The Renegade Network Marketer and it has really sparked an ember in my mind and I am just trying, day by day, to blow that ember in to a huge mind-consuming fire!

    I have already learned soo much from you two and I want to tell you how much I appreciate eveything you do! You know, my heart just skips a beat when I begin to think about how my life WILL BE different when I get the concepts that you teach down pat! I want to be able to give people true and real value, just like you do! I want to be able to help other people instead of having to focus only on myself. I want to go to bed at night and just bounce out of bed in the morning knowing that more leads had came into my funnel during the night and that I would get to contact them or that they would be contacting me! I want to be that top producer in my primary company so I can be an inspiration to all the young network marketers out there that are struggling to find their place in the industry, such as myself! I will truly feel blessed beyond all measure when this all comes to past. Ann and Mike, I want to share with you my most important “why” and the reason why my fingers are shaking right now….I want to be able to take a white, blank, unmarked envelope with x amount of money in it and place it in the mailbox of a family or individual or church that really needs it. That is my biggest “why” to be able to do things such as that, to truly be able to make a difference in the lives of the less fortunate. And because of this “why” and the feelings I have for this dream and the passion I have for what I’m doing and what Network Marketing truly stands for, I will NEVER give up on my dream and I WILL get there even if it takes me 30 years! It’s not about the money, yes it takes money to survive, but it is about the relationships and the help that I want to be able to offer people….money is just a by-product in this industry. I have so much passion and belief in this industry that I know eventually my hard work efforts will pay off, I just need someone to take me by the hand and channel my energy in the right direction and I can do the rest, I just need that little push in the right direction.

    Wow, sorry I got so caught up in this, it’s rather long :/ I hope that the both of you will be seeing more of me in the future, regardless the outcome of this contest, it’s really just gravy on the mashed taters I want to thank you soo much for everything you have done for this industry. You are a blessing and an inspiration for all of us out here! Thank you for everything you both do and I look forward to seeing more of you and your work!

    Take care and God Bless!

    Trevyn

    Comment by Trevyn Wolf — March 23, 2009 @ 10:31 am

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    Hello Ann and Mike,
    My biggest hurdle is helping my downline get started making there videos, they all clam up when I mention it.
    I tell them they do not have be anything fancy, people need to know that any average person can make videos for there online business so making a few mistakes or looking like the average Joe is a good thing, but how do I get people started.
    I know that my first ten videos were hard to do because I am somewhat shy but once I got started then I realized just how much fun it is and now there is no stopping me, you can check me out at my site http://www.criticalmarketingtools.com
    Thanks David

    Comment by David McKinley — March 23, 2009 @ 10:31 am

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    MY BIGGEST HURDLE
    I think my biggest hurdle is myself. Accepting and establishing myself as an expert with an expertise worth sharing that produces results for people. Essentially I need an expertise with a system that works and that I can teach and train others on quickly. If I could establish a proven expertise that actually helps at least 80% of those who are sincere to be successful, I could fulfill my dreams.

    WHAT MY DREAM BUSINESS WOULD LOOK LIKE AND MEAN TO ME.
    With my expertise with a system that works, I would personally work with 3 to 12 people at any given time, to teach the system to within 100 days. Once trained they would have a positive cash flow business and be able to also train 3 to 12 people at any given time. As my personal recruits become self operational, I will select replacements to maintain 12 personal partners at a time. As my reputation attracts more than I can personally train, I will match new recruits with people throughout my organization.

    My pay will increase naturally and incrementally as my organization grows because of the pay structure. My focus will be on training recruits to become financially profitable. The money will naturally come to me as part of the system. My goal is initially to have $10,000 net cash flow per month so I can quit my corporate job, but my focus and main goal is 3000 independent entrepreneurs.

    I cherish the day when I will go to bed each night eager for the energy I will have the next morning after a peaceful night’s rest, to continue my daily quest to LIVE each day to its fullest. To help people find their worth and provide their unique service and products to a grateful population. To awake each day to start by insuring I am healthy and prepared by Learning-Inspiring-Vitalizing-Enjoying for the first 4 hours of the day to insure I maintain my mental, spiritual, physical, and emotional health. Then to spend the rest of the day serving with others to improve our environment and our relationships with family, associates and all mankind. Ever happy and grateful but never satisfied because there is always something more we can do.

    MY PLAN
    I will reach this ultimate condition in life by becoming an internet marketing expert and using the Renegade Professional system to attract and train all those in my organization. There will be some in somewhat traditionally structured businesses and some in MLM businesses, but all will benefit from the attraction marketing principles and concepts applied. I plan to operate early on with partners and friends throughout the USA, but also in China, as I am already involved there and I see a great need and potential for my services and expertice for the masses of people there.

    Comment by Daniel Marshall — March 23, 2009 @ 10:38 am

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     Thank you Ann & Mike for the incredible training you offer. I have been a Renegade Professional for a few months now.

     The biggest hurdle I have is focus and writing content and this leads to a lack of confidence. I tend to be a person of few words and so my articles seem to be short with not much content at all. I believe less is more, but don’t know if that will get the message across. The Writing with Pull classes were very helpful, but I still don’t seem to be getting it right.

     I have a new business hopefully to be up and running early in May, so in the meantime, I am producing a blog and Squidoo lens to promote Renegade Professional, but so many are doing that I wonder if I will ever get found. I also have a Twitter account, but most of the tweets I receive make no sense to me at all. I still don’t totally understand what conversations are happening there - maybe I am missing something. I might just be suffering from information overload. Organization was something I always prided myself on, but that seems to have gone by the wayside as I try to learn everything.

     After overcoming this hurdle, I could see my business skyrocketing as I would also be able to help everyone involved succeed.

     Comment by Sandra Davies — March 23, 2009 @ 10:46 am

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     My biggest hurdle is getting continuous traffic to my blog, and understanding what is needed to convert the traffic that I receive into paying customers.

     I think once that is achieved I will be able to get other marketing ideas and opportunities sold.

     Comment by Serena Brown — March 23, 2009 @ 10:47 am

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     Hi Ann,

     That’s not easy to put into words, but I’m going to try.
     First, I am a complete newcomer to network marketing. I have officially made it through my first year and with pretty pathetic results. I was doing everything that the company recommended. I was doing everything my sponsor recommended. But, I wasn’t making any gains and to be quite honest, I felt like I was doing more damage than good. You know, the old stand by, invite everyone you know to a meeting or party. Talk to everyone within 3 feet of you. You get the idea.
     Well, I just felt there had to be a better way, but unfortunately I did not where to even begin looking. It was then that someone sent me a link for the renegade marketer. I looked into and it began to make sense. The stories were real. The success stories were inspiring.
     The “Aha!” moment was when I invested in Ann’s system.
     So, the first hurdle of properly exposing my opportunity to people and have them interested and want to participate, was none existent. I wanted to sponsor many people, just like all the heroes in my company but couldn’t figure out they did it. I felt very defeated.
     Well, now the playing field has been leveled! I now know what it takes to be successful in network marketing. I now know how to attract the right people to my opportunity. I now know how to use the internet to my advantage. By following the lessons, tips, and techniques taught by Ann and Mike, I know that my chances for success are now completely in my favor.
     I foresee interviewing and qualifying people steadily on a monthly basis. The system is easy to learn and use. The key is action. Put it to use.
     I look forward to becoming the best that I can be i network marketing and in life.
     Thank you so much for giving me a leg up when no one else was willing to share these “secrets”.

     Best regards,

     Paul Camarinha

     Comment by Paul Camarinha — March 23, 2009 @ 10:50 am

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     The biggest hurdle keeping me from success is my full time job. If I had the time to get myself to the point of matching my full time salary, I would quit and work my online business from home full time. I can’t say that lead generation, how to create a landing page, or how to set up blog is holding me back. I feel like I understand all tht pretty well. Its the time taken to get all that up and running and functioning on its own. I’m slowly but surely getting everything set up and backlinked. I believe for me its a matter of time. However, I need the time to come quicker.
     When, not if, I get to that point, my success would not be measured by how many leads or sales I make, but by how many people I can teach to do the same thing I did. I believe it is my job, especially in this economic environment, to help as many people get to the point of financial freedom as possible. I truly believe that the future job market will look a lot different than today’s. There will be thousands more trying to make supplemental and primary income online. Putting a product( physical or informational) on the net and driving traffic to it is the trick. If I could teach people how to do it, I feel like I would be helping families not just people succeed. My ultimate goal is to start a ‘Sylvan Learning Center’ model school to teach young kids how to posper online so that they can break the employee conditioning public school delivers so well on. The business environment is changing but schools are not. I want to take the lead in giving an alternative.
     This is my dream business…
     Thanks for all you do

     Benjamin Bradley

     Comment by Benjamin Bradley — March 23, 2009 @ 10:51 am

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     Hi Ann,
     My biggest hurdle is getting started. I am a great learner but there seems to be a disconnect with the information I am getting and actually doing it.
     I understand the importance of web presence etc.
     but somehow feel intimidated knowing I have to write stuff. What if it is not your strong point? I’ll get over it eventually.
     I am listening to the videos on setting up the Squido account and that is my next step. I know deep in my heart that I would be great at it. Let’s get started.
     My dream business would have 10-15 people per day wanting information on my business. I would like at least 5-10 new business partners a month and because I have all these leads, I will pass them to my team and have them do the same.
     I would see my husband happy that he doesn’t have to do the job he is starting to dislike and actually have him as excited as I am. Then I would love to see my team succeed and be financially free because they had trust in me and I wouldn’t want to let them down. They would have the quality of life they deserve as we are all destined to be rich. Would I like to win? Most certainly. I would love to be the poster Child (Adult) of success in your hands and Mike’s. I wouldn’t let you down and know that I would make a lot of people happy.
     Maybe this could be my 15 mins. of fame. It’s in your hands now. God Bless.

     Comment by Monika — March 23, 2009 @ 10:53 am

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     Hello Ann and Mike, My biggest hurdle is getting targeted traffic to my website. I am actually working with a company and recently was assigned a new trainer, who seems more helpful than the previous one. I also have a couple other websites, but none of them are making any money. I have a blog, I’m on Twitter and Facebook(haven’t done much with this). I am really overwhelmed - too much information that I don’t know how to implement. Too many emails - I think I’m on everybody’s email list who is anybody. I have ebooks galore, some I haven’t had time to read. I am retired, so I don’t have a lot of time to make a difference in my life, and I need to pay my debts - I’d hate to leave them for my daughter to clear up.
     I like to help people, so I would like to have a business earning me at least $5,000.00 per month so that I can have the time and resources to help others.
     I would also like to hae a business where I offer environmentally friendly products to my customers.
     I have a small list, and I created a survey to find out how I can help them, but only one person answered the questions. I was upset so I sent them an email saying that since they were not interested in what I was doing, I would work with my other list. I don’t have another list and now I am sorry I did that. I really would like to be in your program, because I have spent thousands of dollars and have nothing but debts to show for it. Another website of mine is ericasstoreonline.com. Thanks for all the valuable information you have shared so far. Erica

     Comment by Erica Silvera — March 23, 2009 @ 10:58 am

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     To Ann & Mike,
     1. To shed my limiting beliefs that is preventing me from becoming the true person that lives within.
     2. Our inner mind is so powerful because it can create any any situation imaginable. This mind is like an amphitheater or Carnegie Hall, I can see myself on stage giving this empowering speech flawlessly. It is being done with enthusiasim,passion, and a love for my audience.I have rehearsed this speech and many more, so often, that I can deliver it at a moments notice. How many of us live in this prison without living the life we love. I have read your 7 Lies, purchased your Renegade and went through the manifest. It was at this point, 2 days ago, that I realized I was holding in my hands, the key that could open the door letting me out of this prison. We are on this journey only one time, and with people like Ann and Mike helping us to break free of these shackles we can become the person we dream of. Thank You!!!!
     Mel

     Comment by Mel Schobel — March 23, 2009 @ 11:00 am

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     Hello Ann!
     My computer skils are the most i need right now, to show very unique and very much needed products by everyone,specially,baby boomers.My 17 years eperience in home business did not teach me anything accept 6 foot rule approach and ,friends and family attack,also,”prequalified” leads,99% waste of money and time.Thank You for contacting me
     With all respect Kaz Pawlik

     Comment by kaz — March 23, 2009 @ 11:02 am

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     I have been involved in several network marketing companies in the past with very minimal success. I have done the trainings and followed the plan but I live in a very rural community and I always felt guilty trying to get my family and friends to have parties for me with products that none of them wanted. I discovered Ann’s 7 Greatest Lies in Network Marketing and believed what she had to say. I purchased the Renegade System and knew that the potential was there but that is when I hit the road block and gave up. I did not understand all the technical parts of how to set up my domain name; website; e-zines, etc. and became very overwhelmed. I didn’t know where to start. Because I became so overwhelmed and didn’t understand what I was doing I didn’t pursue the potential that I could have had from Attraction Marketing. I LOVED the idea of not going after cold leads but having people actually come to me because they wanted the information that I could provide! Understanding all the avenues of success the internet holds and how to go about setting up those different avenues is still my biggest hurdle. I recognize the vast potential of opportunities available by using the internet but am frustrated and my head spins when I begin to try and figure out how to channel the avenues available to me just a click away at my computer sitting in my kitchen! I would love to be able to leap these hurdles and become the success I know that I am capable of. It is not lack of heart or motivation, but lack of knowledge that holds me back!

     My dream business would be one where people were seeking me out because I had something to offer them that they wanted or needed. It would involve multiple sources of income that I was not dependant on one company or one product to try and sell or push. It would involve training and teaching to others that was valuable in helping them become successful in the endeavors that they were interested in. It would provide opportunities for others to gain valuable knowledge on becoming successful as well as income earning opportunities if they were interested. Most importantly it would not represent a car salesman’s mentality. I want to make a lasting impression on this world and make my mark in a positive manner. I want others to remember me as having been helpful; honest; full of integrity; and instrumental in helping them to succeed in their own endeavors. I plan on focusing in the health and beauty market and offering to help coach people within that field how to set specific realistic goals and how to turn that into success. I plan on using the principles already taught so far in the Renegade trainings on helping to guide people to their goal success by using different avenues of the internet. I want to coach others in a step by step process in how to carry out their goals by helping to direct them to the various internet tools available for their use. I believe that I can do this by individually coaching them on setting up their goals and specifically how they can use each of the tools available to make their business a success. I plan on being able to direct them to the great coaching tools I used within Renegade so far to set up my own Twitter and Squidoo accounts. I plan on using the additional knowledge I learn to help mentor others to becoming successful in their business and how they can in turn train others to become successful. To me it is not all about money. Yes I have as one of my goals to become financially successful so I don’t have to worry about my next paycheck, but just as important to me is being known as someone who was a mentor and a helper in allowing others to also reach their dreams.

     Comment by Val Dehline — March 23, 2009 @ 11:02 am

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     Thanks for this opportunity Ann and Mike.

     1) What’s the biggest hurdle preventing
     you from business success right now?
     I feel my biggest problem is leverage. I am a 20 year old college student trying to do network marketing and make it full time. Right now I do not have much of neither time or money to put into my business. I have tried this for over 2 years doing mlm the wrong way, and digging a $7000 hole of debt along the way. Right now I ma trying to build my business properly and conquer my debt and eventually graduate college making more than my professors. What I need right now are the most effective methods to generate leads for my business in the least amount of time. I try to do my business at school, but I often end up being pre-occupied with school work. Plus working 30 hours a week to support my business and education really cuts into my time.

     2) What would your dream business look like
     with this hurdle removed?
     I have always loved helping others, in fact I am part of Yanik’s MBI program and plan to incorporate those concepts of giving back in my business. My dream business would be generating 500-1000 leads a day. Not because I need them for income, but because I would be able to help that many more people a day reach their goals. As far as sponsoring numbers goes, I would prefer 10-20 a month, because I would like to work closely with everyone. When duplication kicks in, I want to be sure my downline leaders are well trained. I plan to work two businesses, a residual one, and a direct sales one I will be joining later. I would prefer 10 in the direct sales one a month, and 20 in my residual program. I plan to be a millionaire by 25, no matter what it takes. I want to provide a better life for my parents and friends around me. I have seen too many times where my om wakes up at 2am to do notes, then goes to work at 6am, and comes home at 8pm working two jobs as a social worker. My dad’s schedule as a nurse is similarly as hectic, working at a hospital, and two nursing agencies. I want them to slow down and enjoy life. I would love for them to learn from renegade professional and start their own business some day. Duplication is important to me because my success means nothing if I cannot help other people achieve it too. I will thoroughly enjoy those thank you e-mails and testimonials, I may even print some out and put them on a board in my office (of the future :). I recently made one of the best decisions of my life. I plan to become a youth leader/pastor. I am still a youth, but I find I am happiest when I see other young people learning about God and seeing the joy in their hearts. If you have never seen it, I recommend watching a hillsong united concert, it’s beautiful. Of course the job does not pay well, but through an online business, I will have the freedom to not worry about finances. Not to mention my church right now is in desperate need of a building, and I would love to help out more than I am now. Joy, I guess that’s what I am after. The joy seems to be my PDE (thanks kern) or primary driver emotion. The joy of staying home, helping others, seeing my family relax, seeing the faces of the people I help, hearing testimonials, and even meeting those people at some point, that is what I am really after. How do I plan to do this? That’s a bit of what I am here for, I believe Renegade professional will help me on the how. I plan to create my own products this year, and market them to my slowly growing list. Right now I am an affiliate, but soon I will have my own branded educational material. I am busy figuring out my blog, and working on tweaking my ads and capture page. I am trying to master keyword research for my google ads. But maybe I need to slow down and do one thing at a time. Well thank you for your time, and I believe my little rant has helped me become a bit more focused. I am going to review some ppc material right now and work on my campaigns. Thank you Ann and Mike, God Bless and I hope to see you guys at the live conference whether I win this or not.

     Sylvan Noel
     954-254-0116
     sylvannoel@gmail.com

     Comment by Sylvan Noel — March 23, 2009 @ 11:05 am

110. 

     I have confessions to make. The biggest is that I have
     wasted a lot of time and gotten nowhere.

     I am smart and capable but have held too tight to the
     purse strings and then allowed the shiny object syndrome
     to open the purse strings when I shoudn’t have.

     As I’m learning now that Mike has been very successful
     at teaching people how to market properly I am regretful
     for not taking advantage when I have known about the
     University a long while.

     Maybe I’ve been lazy or maybe I have been scared and
     untrusting or maybe I have been led astray by slick talkers.
     Or maybe I am just afraid of success. Or maybe I feel
     safer hiding in the shadows.

     I’ve had too many distractions and lack of focus
     and a lack of strategy based on a proven plan.
     This is my BIGGEST HURDLE!

     Truth is, my lack of success has been a combination
     of all the above because I am all those things and more.

     I go to my day j.o.b. (journey of betrayal) everyday
     and am more unhappy everyday. I have clung to
     the idea of a job for many years to provide for my
     family and have cast my own desires to the side
     and abandoned my own dreams and ambitions
     and therefore never found any personal fulfillment.
     I have betrayed myself.

     When is it my turn?

     I will be 55 this year and cannot fathom how fast
     the years have gone by. I dreamed of retiring from
     the day job at 40 and then again at 45 and then
     at 50 and again at 55 and will have to readjust again.
     My unrequited dream will remain so yet again.

     Kathy and I have tried so many things over the years
     and made some money but only enough to keep us
     afloat but never enough to really get ahead.

     My kids have watched me try and fail and try and fail
     and I am quite embarrased if think too much about it.

     What kind of lesson am I teaching them?

     I believe but need help in my unbelief. I know but I
     do not do. I envision but I do not see. I attempt and
     do not acheive but still, I believe.

     When I do acheive, it will be like the sky has opened and
     a veil has been removed and I have seen for the first time.

     I will smile without effort or awareness, I will give without
     holding back, I will embrace others without fear, I will
     help when it is needed not only when convenient, I will
     finally enjoy life like I haven’t since I was an innocent child.

     My persistence over the years can be summed up in a
     quote by Max Lucado.

     “Even though my life is scarred with mistakes, I refuse to
     rummage through my trash heap of failures. I will admit them.
     I will correct them. I will press on. Victoriously. No failure is
     fatal. It’s OK to stumble…I will get up. It’s OK to fail. I will
     rise again. Today I will make a difference!”

     MY BUSINESS WILL LOOK LIKE a man having a great time
     Enjoying his life and his work because he has freedom and time
     and the ability to empower others to acheive the same. He is not
     arrogant nor is he stingy. He will give and share and teach with
     compassion those who want it. He will finally sleep peacefully
     at night and most importantly, his wife will too.

     Comment by Tony — March 23, 2009 @ 11:09 am

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     I would say the BIGGEST hurdle preventing business success right now is not being able to CLOSE!! I have gotten over a dozen interested prospects who’ve contacted me in the last month and NONE of them have signed. They are basically responding to an ad explaining in great gory detail the business opportunity and/or product with price and EVERYTHING, they opt in for the sign up info, and then don’t sign up! If I had gotten HALF these people to sign up I would be ecstatic!

     I am on twitter, facebook, squidoo, shopwurld’s social network, zenzuu, am using google adwords, and have a 30-page website through SBI. There’s so much more to learn and do but with 2 little kids and working 30 hours a week at my day job, there’s just not enough time in the day.

     My dream business would be a fully systematic, automated, money making machine, that could attract, presell, and close the deal. And I would love to spend the remainder of my time being creative in the development of some new ideas that I have for content, sites, and products.

     I am just DYING for this all to come together and work so that I can make my entire team (which is comprised largely of family and friends) wildly successful, motivated, entrepreneurial-minded individuals who have the time and money freedom to be creative and productive without working 60+ hours a week (like I’m doing between this and my “day” job).

     And thanks to you Ann and Mike for “turning my brain on,” as I always like to say, with every piece of content you create. You guys are the BOMB, and because of you I WILL have success, it’s just a matter of time!

     Comment by Kim — March 23, 2009 @ 11:12 am

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     Hi Ann,
     I believe my biggest hurdle is my need for instant gratification and a fear of success. My dream buisness would be my phone ringing with interested prospects, my e-mail full with interested prospects, my downline duplicating my success and having success of their own. Thanks.
     Kathy

     Comment by Kathy Brooks — March 23, 2009 @ 11:13 am

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     My biggest problem in my network marketing business is my energy level, or, as I call it, my battery life.I have MS with chronic fatigue syndrome, and am legally blind. I’m on long-term disability forever as well as disability insurance from where I used to work. I still want to find something I can still do; I don’t like feeling useless. I was an optical engineer (I know, ironic, losing most of my sight). I went back to school to be a physics teacher, but didn’t have the energy for classes, let alone the job. I tried a shopping website, but didn’t have the foggiest idea about how to drive traffic there, and once I paid, the people I paid disappeared. I’m currently in Xango, where there’s a rule about not having your own web site. I’ve tried buying leads, but even the expensive ones have been low-yield. I can’t drive because of the vision. I still want to do something. The insurance payments and the social security payments cover the essentials, so I’m not in danger of losing my apartment, but I want more. I want to leave the world better than I found it, and I don’t feel like I’m accomplishing that now. I want to help other girls interested in science to realize their potential. I want to donate towards finding a cure for MS. I have made contributions to the world while I was working as an engineer, and I want to continue that, just in another field, as I don’t have the stamina to work as an engineer any more. I don’t know whether I should start with another company or stay with Xango. I just know if I make enough money, my disability payments will be cut off, so I have to get to a high level of income before they notice what I’m doing. I want to get off disability, so anything you would suggest would be helpful. Thanks!

     Comment by Carolyn Almennigen — March 23, 2009 @ 11:16 am

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     Mike and Ann,

     I am beyond retirement age and still working as a Professional Faux Painter. Very hard work and I am trying to understand how to use the internet to promote and grow my MLM business. I have been in other MLMs but have always hit a wall because of the old methods. I have a very hard time with leads who do not know they need network marketing so are not interested in the business end. I am excited about attraction marketing, but am computer illiterate. I have set up my Twitter account and a Facebook account but am still trying to understand how to use them to generate leads. I am reading all your information and watching the video’s, am trying to set up a personal website thru SBI but just coming up with a domain name is mind boggling, let alone writing content for the website. I am not a writer as you can tell by this. I have a lot of good free information on several subjects I’m very interested in. I just need help of all kinds. I have no retirement and social security doesn’t even pay my utilities so I have to be very careful how I spend my money and am looking forward to building a very large MLM organization with my company thru what I am learning from the both of you and anything else I can find on attraction marketing.

     Comment by Joan — March 23, 2009 @ 11:16 am

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     Hello Ann & Mike,
     I have been in many network marketing companies over the past 16 years and everyone seems to say they can help us build our business. Skeptisism is what stops me right now. I have done all the calls, meetings,training and spent thousands of dollars on leads from every lead company there is.. All I can say is would the REAL COMPANY COME FORTH AND REALLY HELP ME BUILD MY BUSINESS !!! If you are that company then lets prove it to everyone else out there. Because I know that with the right company I could have many new customers. I would sponsor 10 people a day and I certainly would be paying myself and that would allow me to help others.

     Comment by carol — March 23, 2009 @ 11:19 am

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     Hi Ann,
     Thanks for this opportunity.
     My biggest hurdle right now is to be able to offer content of value that others would find meaningful enough to want to be associated with me. So getting help to find or create good content to give away then developing an attractive web site which would be rewarding for my followers to visit would launch my on-line business.
     Other major obstacles are procrastination and being a little too scattered. I need to focus better.

     2. Once I perfect the attraction marketing concept, I will be able to offer my followers the absolute best business opportunity available today. This would explode my business and I would be able to help huncreds of people to become financially independent. Once I learn these skills, I will be able to transfer them to all who join me because I have extensive experience as a technical trainer and I have spoken in front of large audiences. Being able to help many people beat this crazy economy will make me very proud. Once this happens, my income could easily exceed 30K per month.

     The traing you and Mike provide is the absolute best to help me become totally successful in helping others also reach their dreams.

     Best regards,
     Roy

     Comment by Roy — March 23, 2009 @ 11:20 am

117. 

     Hi Ann,

     This is a great idea to learn what people really want! You are so creative!

     1)What’s the biggest hurdle preventing you from business success right now?

     I have already jumped over that one 27 years ago.

     It was me!!!!

     When I took control of my belief level, that I could build this business, that is when everything fell into place for me. I then began to focus on what my prospects were saying and needing, instead of what I would say next to them in my presentation.

     I always felt that if there were a way to talk only with the people who were looking to earn more money, my job would be a piece of cake.

     I tried many methods over the years, maybe all that there is. And in every case, it was all based on how many people you could get your message in front of. Without the Internet, this was very hard to do for many people.

     The old saying, “Some will, Some won’t, So what, Someone is waiting”, was getting very old and less and less people were willing to go down that path anymore.

     I had to get stage 4 cancer to get a wake up call one day, and when your back is against the wall,you get very creative.

     That is when I started my personal coaching and had the first taste of earning more than one stream of income. At the time, I had 3 businesses paying me monthly.

     When I came to you a year ago, it was like the lights were turn on again, only this time much more brighter.

     Here you were teaching that yes, you can talk only to the people who were already looking to improve their personal lives in one way or another. This was very exciting to learn and even more exciting when it happened for me over and over again!

     If I had to state my new hurdle now, it would be “Time”.

     I had done a lot this past year with the Renegade System and with Mike as one of his Renegade Pros. It has resulted in almost doubling my income so I need not tell you that I am happy with that result. However, I feel like I could have done so much more if time was on my side.

     Sometimes, when I am writing an Squidoo lens, Hub, or an Ezine article, I wonder if it was the best use of my time at the moment. There are so many things to read, learn, and use, that it leaves little time left to act on them all.

     I put a new Web site up at http://www.Now8020.com and on one page I listed what I call the “5 Steps to Success”. The idea came to me because I was listening to what people were saying.

     Many people felt overwhelmed with so much information and wanted to be shown a simple pathway to follow that would be kind of like a check off list as they accomplished each step.

     This has really helped a lot of people and is why I suggested it to you a while back. (I am hoping this will be more of what is to come from you and Mike).

     2) What would your dream business look like with this hurdle removed?

     That’s an easy question; I would have more free time to help others succeed. I always love to see others succeed with my help. It’s a lot of fun and no money can replace that.

     I would also have more time to create my own products and or services as both you and Mike have done. I see this coming very soon because of what you said in your very first eBook.

     I am almost there already and many people who are connecting with me now are going to benefit from this big time when it launches thanks to you!

     It would be great to win your contest, but that is not the point of why I added my comments to your blog here. The main reason was to in one way or another, give back to you what you have provided for me.

     Hopefully my comment will encourage someone to keep on keeping on. If it were only one person, some would say it did not make much difference. However, if you ask that one person, they will say it made a big difference to them.

     That is what my ideal business would look like, just like what your business looks like and has done for this industry.

     I guess what I have done so far is not so bad for a former car mechanic!

     Thanks again for everything and you can count on me in the future if you ever want my help.

     To everyone’s Success
     Bob Andolina

     Comment by Bob Andolina — March 23, 2009 @ 11:20 am

118. 

     Hello Ann I would love to have the chance to win the contest.
     1.People do not know what a great person I am.
     My biggest hurdle is exposure, getting ME out there instead of the next biggest and greatest opportunity, the company does not matter it is the Leader you want to be. I want to be the Leader people are looking for.I need to learn how to better market my talents to the world and be able to help my team get to their maximum potential.
     2.No day job, get up work for a few hours, teach my people to be the leaders they were meant to be with the talents and skills I have learned and be able to go have lunch at school with my daughter and Sons, be able to relax and spend more time with my wife.That is my dream.

     Comment by Dusty Smith — March 23, 2009 @ 11:21 am

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     Dear Ann and Mike:
     Your offer is great.
     I have Ann’s book, but haven’t quite finished reading it due to not multitasking too well. I am 69.
     Although finances and time - since I’m committed to my church and 2 community orgainizations, all
     play a part, I think my most significant problem is lack of technical competence.

     With PCM program and “C” business - I’ve been led to thing I could do quite well with about 50 customers or which 10 were in business and bringing others on a routine basis.
     If in the OG Coffee branch with 5 in each “leg” ordering , say beginning package,1500 and 4000 packages in their group - could make about $55,450 .
     Just need to get it out there - building leads of value instead of those who fail to click through an just overload my system. My team is working on it as we speak. Bacic website -for which this is my domain name — is http://wowMeWithHelp.com if bandwith in my addraction marketing site is still down.
     I would be especially pleased to know many are getting health benefits from the healthier coffee etc, and an earlier juice product.(I’m a retired nurse.)
     And feel thrilled to be making money from the helps programs such as yours, PCM and building on a budget — and HAVINg a Number Under Me also Making good Money.
     I’m learning about Twitter through my group. Got blocked in accessing Squidoo training last week –had a training program , but couldn’t line up side by side to actively Do things. Will go to your program next.

     I’ve been online without earning from it - for about 10 years. My help - from Purple Cowboy marketers is very good -but I can’t tie up a whole call all the time asking what they’re talking about.
     “just’ upload and download something — or build a site without contemplating all day.May be easy for some. I can’t get started without oodles of coaching.

     Comment by Georgia Jenkins — March 23, 2009 @ 11:22 am

120. 

     1) What’s the biggest hurdle preventing me from success right now?

     The simple answer is “I am the biggest hurdle preventing me from success in my business!” Since the buck begins and stops with me, I have to be the person to develop a sound business plan that will guide me to true success. After the plan is developed then it is up to me to implement, modify and complete the plan to successful goal achievement. The second factor for my success is having the necessary marketing resources to attract customers. I am not up to date with the current marketing resources that will bring success to me. I need to learn and fully implement these marketing resources. As a senior, I want to “run with the young horses” and get to the success line ahead or with them, but not lag behind. I want to demonstrate that seniors are a tremendous resource to business success. In today’s challenging economic conditions, we all need to contribute to our success, and in return, it will contribute to the nation’s and world’s success!

     2) What would my dream business look like with this hurdle removed?

     With this hurdle removed, my dream business would be an inspiration to all that want to be successful in business that it can be done! First of all, after I have learned the requirements and achieved success in my business, as I succeed, so will the people that directly work with me to achieve the success. As I learn, I will teach and guide others to achieve their success as well. I will encourage my teammates to always work with others to make them effective in their individual efforts and for getting the true objective successfully achieved. For every person that I directly work with, we would each strive to directly influence at least 10 others. This would create exponential growth for those in the sphere of our influence. As a successful senior, I would create a vision that all can strive for.

     Comment by George Ward — March 23, 2009 @ 11:24 am

121. 

     You both are to be commended on this awesome program to help people that are struggling right now.

     My biggest hurdle has always been visualizing myself as a wealthy networker withous someone leading me by the hand to show me step by step what to do.

     With your good videos and tutorials, I feel I do have that guiding hand and I’m not alone to do this. Your past personal stories sound exactly like what I am experiencing now. If you can do it —so can I.

     My business will absoulutely take off to the moon now that I finally realize . “If it’s going to be—-it’s up to me”.

     I will be teaching many of my MLM downline these same techniques and to subscribe to your tutorials. This is definitely the best way to network in the 21st century especially for just starting online marketing. So any “one-on-one” coaching from you two will help probably help dozens more that I am mentoring.

     So far, I took the advice about branding myself at all the social network programs and started posting daily on those. I built a lead capture page on water and am already getting hits and sales.

     I am working on my auto-responders and articles to submit for even more exposure. My LIST of contacts is building nicely as I plan now to monetize that list with other streams of income programs that I also work.

     Squidoo is another fun program that I have just discovered through Mike’s last tutorial that looks like it would have incredible potential for leads.

     Every lesson so far has taught me where to put my time and effort instead of wasting it as I have in the past. I AM JAZZED!

     Thanks again for this awesome program and I hope some day to thank you both in person!

     Comment by Marjorie Oberlander — March 23, 2009 @ 11:24 am

122. 

     1) What’s the biggest hurdle preventing you from business success right now?

     My biggest hurdle is myself, plain and simple. I pretty much know what I need to do, yet I spend hours each day plowing through my overflowing inbox containing information from various training sites I’ve subscribed myself to - including yours. The training is great, and I’m sure to benefit from it. But now the rubber has to hit the road.

     A related hurdle is that I am trying to juggle multiple responsibilities at the same time, rather than simply focusing on one item at a time. I am involved in two opportunities: a network marketing company and a direct sales company. I am writing a book on network marketing. And I am scrambling to do whatever I can to bring in money in the interim to pay the bills and keep from going under financially. I know in my heart that I’m on the road to becoming a multimillionaire. I yearn to round that bend in the road, though, and get a solid look at the prize I’m after.

     2) What would your business look like with this hurdle removed?

     I’m a firm believer in multiple streams of income, so it’s not a mistake that I’m involved in several simultaneous activities. (Besides, it keeps things interesting!) The solution, though, involves choosing something to focus on each day and getting that task done. This is the only sure way I’ll make progress.

     Gee, I think I just answered my own question!

     With this hurdle removed (my paralysis by analysis), my businesses are sure to explode. The nice thing is that, while I do have definite financial goals, I’m really not in anything I’m involved in purely for the money. Everything has the potential to benefit many thousands of people. I can’t achieve personal success without facilitating the success of lots of other people.

     My network marketing company is in health & wellness. According to NutriSearch, our products are the best in all of North America. Even people who don’t join the business opportunity benefit perceptibly by simply getting on the products and improving their health. But on top of that, our compensation plan is binary, also rated the best by MLM Insider Magazine. I got in on the recommendation of a celebrity friend of mine (Robert Allen) who claimed it’s the best. Now I know he was right.

     My direct sales opportunity is in the travel industry. We market memberships in a worldwide network of 5-star luxury resort condominiums. The price is amazingly low for what you get, and the income potential is quite large. There is a residual aspect to the compensation plan, so it is better than straight sales, where if I’m not selling I’m not earning commissions.

     My book on network marketing came about because of all the mistakes I’ve made in the six-and-a-half years I’ve been involved in network marketing. If I can help others avoid those same mistakes by simply making them public, then my book will have been a huge success.

     So you see, everything I’m involved in, while it has huge income potential for me, also has huge benefit to others. This is what is currently motivating me to get off my butt and take daily action towards my goals. Focus is the key.

     Thank you for the opportunity to get some of my thoughts down on “paper.” Now I’m off to work on my focus for today.

     Comment by Carl Eric Johnson — March 23, 2009 @ 11:25 am

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     Hi folks.
     So what one hurdle???? I threw them all in a hat and list building came up……Reading your information and others on the subject of list building has made me realize that I have to start over.

     A quality list I “Don’t Got”…..(Paid leads do not a good prospect make).

     So I am biting the bullet and starting from scratch and trusting that the last few years will still amount to something. I’ll think of it as an apprenticeship.
     =======================================

     What would it look like? Well I do believe this industry is going to save a lot of people from ruin but I’m hoping to also help some to see that it’s simply not for them or at least not in the huge way they see advertised.

     I want to build a team of willing and satisfied customers just like I had when I built and designed replica furniture where word of mouth was my only advertising.

     I hope everyone reading this has a heck of a good week.

     BradB.

     Comment by Brad Bylsma — March 23, 2009 @ 11:25 am

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     I live in a small town and I do not want to have to talk to people about the business. I want to just get the website address out and have the computer talk for me.Also to be able to generate enough income that my husband won’t think it’s just another crazy scheme and without depleting everything I have put aside in savings.I have never had much success at any homebusiness I have tried, though my effort has been huge and I have spent alot of money!If my hurdle was removed, I would be enjoying an income from my home business. We would be able to do more activites with our kids that we can’t afford now. If it really worked, then I do have some close friends that I would love to share it with IF I could prove that it’s working and that they wouldn’t lose money with it!

     Comment by Cindy W — March 23, 2009 @ 11:37 am

125. 

     Q - #1
     What’s the biggest hurdle preventing you from business success right now?
     A- Getting my message out to the public that
     doesn’t sound like I am selling my financial product. This is a product that I really believe in and I’m very passionate about. Almost every American in debt needs this product. Its a shame that people look at me like It’s a scam.
     It would be great to win and be taught the right way to implement Renegade Professional
     Q-#2
     What would your dream business look like with this hurdle removed?
     A- My dream business would be getting 2 to 5 phone calls a day that clients would know me and my product and want to be a part of my business, and hopefully that I could create a good income stream .
     Thanks,
     John R

     Comment by John Vacanti — March 23, 2009 @ 11:42 am

126. 

     Hi Ann,

     This is a great idea to learn what people really want and are thinking!

     1)What’s the biggest hurdle preventing you from business success right now?

     I have already jumped over that one 27 years ago.

     It was me

     When I took control of my belief level, that I could build this business, that is when everything fell into place for me.

     I then began to focus on what my prospects were saying and needing instead of what I would say next to them in my presentation.

     I always felt that if there were a way to talk only with the people who were looking to earn more money, my job would be a piece of cake.

     I tried many methods over the years, maybe all that there is. And in every case, it was all based on how many people you could get your message in front of. Without the Internet, this was very hard to do for many people.

     The old saying, “Some will, Some won’t, So what, Someone is waiting”, was getting very old and less and less people were willing to go down that path anymore.

     I had to get stage 4 cancer to get a wake up call one day, and when your back is against the wall, you get very creative.

     That is when I started my personal coaching and had the first taste of earning more than one stream of income. At the time, I had 3 businesses paying me monthly now it is around 50.

     When I came to you a year ago, it was like the lights were turn on again, only this time much more brighter.

     Here you were teaching that yes, you can talk only to the people who were already looking to improve their personal lives in one way or another.

     This was very exciting to learn and even more exciting when it happened for me over and over again!

     If I had to state my new hurdle now, it would be “Time”.

     I had done a lot this past year with the Renegade System and with Mike as one of his Renegade Pros.

     It has resulted in almost doubling my income so I need not tell you that I am happy with that result. However, I feel like I could have done so much more if time was on my side.

     Sometimes, when I am writing an Squidoo lens, Hub, or an Ezine article, I wonder if it was the best use of my time at the moment. There are so many things to read, learn, and use, that it leaves little time left to act on them all.

     I put a new Web site up at http://www.Now8020.com and on one page I listed what I call the “The 5 Step Success Plan”.

     The idea came to me because I was listening to what people were saying. They felt overwhelmed and wanted to be shown a simple pathway to follow that would be kind of like a check off list as they accomplished each step.

     This has really helped a lot of people and is why I suggested it to you a while back. (I am hoping this will be more of what is to come from you and Mike in the near future).

     2) What would your dream business look like with this hurdle removed?

     That’s an easy question; I would have more free time to help others succeed. I always love to see others succeed with my help. No money can ever replace that.

     I would also have more time to create my own products and or services as both you and Mike have done. I need to go back and re-write my business training manual. I see this coming very soon because of what you said in your very first eBook.

     I am almost there already and many people who are connecting with me now are going to benefit from it big time when it launches thanks to you!

     It would be great to win your contest, but that is not the point of why I added my comments to your blog here. The main reason was to in one way, give back to you what you have provided for me.

     Hopefully my comment will encourage someone to keep on keeping on. If it were only one person, some would say it did not make much difference. However, if you ask that one person, they will say it made a big difference to them.

     That is what my ideal business would look like, just like what your business looks like and has has done for this industry and for so many people. I guess what I have done so far is not so bad for a former car mechanic!

     Thanks for everything and you can count on me in the future if you ever want my help.
     Bob Andolina

     Comment by Bob Andolina — March 23, 2009 @ 11:54 am

127. 

     Hi Ann and Mike;

     Like so many other “Newbies” I have found your system to be a breath of fresh air. Ann, I purchased your “Renegade Network Marketer” system and found myself less stressed by just finding someone that understood how frustrating the usual marketing tools were to deal with. Like so many of the other blogs you have received (yes I know I need to learn how to attach a picture), I fully understand the information overload that some individuals are experiencing and the feeling of being completely overwelmed with where your starting point should be. Yes, I think drawing traffic to your website is extremely important, but as I’ve wtnessed, the methods for getting you there require blogs, facebook, squidoo, twitter, writing articles and after doing all that, figure out how to implement and direct all of these features back to a “squeeze page” or your website.

     I love a good challenge and this is a big one for me. I have worked in the “real” world for 46
     years, as has my husband. We are both in our late 50’s. I was “escorted out” of the real world and have decided to work in the Virtual world..I have learned the hard way that traffic doesn’t automatically come to your website. I now realize it is very important to distinquish ones self from everyone else, which is exactly the direction that I need to be heading in a big way.

     Mark, your instruction on how to set up a “Squidoo” was very informative and I really enjoyed the step by step approach you gave in the tutorial; having the ability to stop it when I got stuck and needed to take more time on a subject to complete the task correctly. (I want to grow up to be like you someday!)

     I have more than one passion in my life-my husband,children and grandchildren are the first.
     Making a very comfortable living working from home is a high proirity for me at this point also. I also have a strong desire to mentor children with their reading and writing skills and teach children and Baby boomers alike how to properly maintain their good health by keeping themselves active and well by eating the right foods and developing good activity levels for both age groups and possibly bringing the two together to empower them to “Pay It Forward.” There is also a large part of me that would like to learn how this whole system online works and pay it forward also. Thanks so much for all of your help and I’m looking forward to being a student for as long as I still have the ability to learn and teach!

     Comment by Cathy Leonard — March 23, 2009 @ 11:56 am

128. 

     My biggest hurdle has been my upline feeding me all the wrong information. I found you (Ann) about a year ago. When I mentioned “The Renegade Marketer” to my upline I was told not to waste my money. Just about every idea I came up with was shot down (some mentor huh!)
     Anyway how ironic is it that here we are a year later and now my upline has directed me to you and Mike and he’s gonna make a buck off the deal. Thats all fine and dandy thou because as I’ve believed all along this course will be worth every penny.

     What I learn I am looking forward to sharing with those that choose to allign themselves with me. I am so excited about finally getting started with this program. I only hope I can become a leader as you and Mike are, and help improve the quality of peoples lives.
     Thank you for this invaluable information, it is already everything new it would be.

     Sincerely
     Joe

     Comment by Joe Tromba — March 23, 2009 @ 11:56 am

129. 

     Dear Ann and Mike, before I go any further I would like to say, “thank you” to you both for the work you’re doing. It’s refreshing to finally get the “how” as opposed to the “hype” of Network Marketing.

     I would have to say that the biggest hurdle preventing me from business success has been F.E.A.R., “False Evidence Appearing Real.”

     Like the both of you, I have been involved in MLM for a number of years, and have been exposed to the same types of rallies, seminars, motivational cd’s, house plans, etc.

     After doing everything I was told to do my results have been less than stellar…but I haven’t given up because I believe the concept of Network Marketing is sound, it’s the antiquated execution strategies of the past that are flawed.

     Having gone through your materials and emails dozens of times here is what my dream business would look like with this hurdle removed:

     I would wake up each morning at around 6:00 am and get my teenage daughter up for school, neither she or my wife are morning people so I’m the designated alarm clock.

     I would let my wife sleep in since she wouldn’t have a J.O.B. anymore. This is something I’ve always wanted to do for her ever since we were married 22 years ago because she’s the love of my life and she deserves to be free.

     After my daughter was dressed and had eaten a nutritional breakfast (*including personalized supplements) I’d walk her to her car and make sure she got on the road safely.

     Once back in the house I’d hop on my Mac and check emails, and voicemails from dozens of excited team members and prospects from around the world. I’d probably send out a voice broadcast from my Skype account letting everyone know about a free ebook I’ll be distributing about prostate health.

     After a couple of hours or so of “work” I would shut it down, perhaps work out for half an hour, and my wife and I would have the rest of the day for ourselves.

     The Business Plan

     My short term goal on the retail side is to have a minimum of 300 households within a years time (25 per month) purchasing around $200 worth of merchandise on our autoship program which includes free shipping at that level.

     I also plan to sponsor 25 new business owners monthly, and with the aid of technology ramp up to 50 or more within a years time on a consistent basis.

     By laying out my business infrastructure correctly I could conservatively earn well over one million dollars a year and this is on the low end, as our corporation doles out very large bonuses for top achievers.

     Using this one million dollar net figure as a starting point I would set aside 30% or $300,000 of this for low risk investment vehicles to conserve my families wealth and assets for education, taxes, homes, insurance and nest egg type stuff for our elderly parents care.

     As my income goes up I would increase the set aside figure from 30% to 70% so that eventually I would no longer need to work for money, money would work for me, although I would never stop working in this industry because I enjoy helping others.

     Honestly, just the physical exercise of writing out this “ideal business scenario” is making me feel better already. I can hardly wait to experience what it will really feel like to speak with and meet hundreds of new friends around the world, and share the “good news” of MLM done the right way.

     To be able to wake up in the morning knowing that I have the power to affect someone’s life in a positive manner makes me want to succeed even more.

     It’s been said that when the United States “catches a cold” the rest of the world “catches the flu.” Truer words have never been spoken, especially in light of this so called “financial crisis.”

     I believe that today more than any other time in history a persons PMA (positive mental attitude) is the thing that will help them weather this or any other storm that blows their way.

     In the immortal words of Reverend Ike, “They say there’s a recession going on. Well I REFUSE to participate!”

     Sometimes it’s funny when you look back on how you tried to share your opportunity or products with family members or friends and they rejected them for whatever reason. After a while you begin to realize that throughout history even the greatest of prophets were shunned by the people that were closest to them so they had to travel to “distant lands” in order to be accepted as “experts.” This is what we have to do as Network Marketers today, and with the advent of the Internet our travels will be multiplied exponentially a thousand fold.

     Here’s How I Will Achieve Success In Network Marketing:

     Although I wouldn’t call myself “a Dummy.” I am going to educate myself on a step-by-step basis on existing and new technologies to increase my business rapidly. Like Dotty Scott, every weekend I will add another “marketing arrow” to my quiver so that eventually my marketing arsenal will always be on the prospecting/retail offensive.

     Here are just a few of the tools I learned about from you that I will begin implementing immediately:

     1) vlogging
     2) podcasting
     3) email marketing
     4) autoresponders
     5) target marketing
     6) voice broadcasting
     7) social networking
     blogging
     9) ezine articles
     10) Skype
     11) e-books
     12) webinars
     13) seminars (health awareness - *I’m sure my wife won’t mind loaning me some old pantyhose.)
     14) special reports
     15) newsletters

     Well that should keep me busy and prosperous for the next 3 - 4 months.

     I’ll close by quoting Peter Drucker: “The corporation as we know it is unlikely to survive in the next 25 years.”

     Here’s one prophet we should all be listening to. Thanks again Ann & Mike, I look forward to meeting you.

     Best regards,

     Greg Bryant

     Comment by Greg Bryant — March 23, 2009 @ 11:56 am

130. 

     Ann; My biggest hurdle is Fear!! Having most recently been burned to the tune of $5,000.00 from which I earned $650.00!!.I am afraid to venture into anything as I now have very limited resources; which the cost of living has risen to the point that my head is barely above water. This fear is compounded by an outstanding debt that I do not want to leave to my children, they don’t deserve that. Do I risk my remaining resources or do I stand on the sidelines and whimperJ
     If that fear hurdle were removed and I could proceed without fear that I had been had again,then I believe that I could build a business not for the sake of fancy cars and a lavish lifestyle, but to help someone else out of a humdrum lifestyle and for my children not to cry at my funeral because of what I did to them but because of what I did for them.
     Don Jones

     Comment by Don Jones — March 23, 2009 @ 11:58 am

131. 

     1) What’s the biggest hurdle preventing
     you from business success right now?

     The basis of all my limitations is coming from the belief system that is running my unconscious and sometimes conscious thought. My thoughts create my own reality. So the reality I am experiencing now of a hurdle was created by a past belief pattern of an inability to take action even with already having the knowledge of all that needs to be applied.

     hurdle atm - infiltration of the process

     2) What would your dream business look like
     with this hurdle removed?

     Once I act from a place of knowing and implement all of the teachings into how I automatically respond, by business leads me to financial freedom. By helping other entrepreneurs and small business owners to increase their skill set to succeed, my online networking business is making a residual income of $42,000 per month atm. My personal, financial and relationship wealth is steadily growing daily. The big revenue goal of $100,000 after taxes is now in sight and obtainable. I am now free to spend the time and money toward making an even more significant difference in the world by pursuing my greatest passions.

     I remain in a daily state of gratitude and express my appreciation for all of the masters that have taught me the skills to succeed. I stay connected!

     Comment by Cathy — March 23, 2009 @ 11:58 am

132. 

     The biggest hurdle I face is that of entering a market that is dominated by a monopoly and a cartel rolled into one, viz. the oil business.
     Success will enable me to launch a new global brand from the’dark continent’ of all places.
     I believe that a new global brand is required, so that the end-user of fuel, i.e the motoring Joe Public enjoys real choice.

     Comment by julian vincent peters — March 23, 2009 @ 11:58 am

133. 

     1. To be honest …right know all this is just a pipe dream. In January of this year, I decided to cut everything away from my focus on building my site with SBI.

     I cut out emails from Internet guru’s like John Reese, Jeff Walker, Frank Kern, James Martell, Mike Koenigs, Dan Kennedy …and on and on.

     The only exception that I left open, besides SBI emails is you Ann…

     That should tell you how much I believe in what you are doing!

     I have been an “MLMer” since the 1960’s and have never earned the big money …except for a few bucks and some wonderful trips to places like Japan and Hawaii.

     The biggest hurdle preventing me from business success right now …is finding and applying a system that will get me there!

     2. How would it feel to wake up in the morning to a duplicating down line and a business that is bursting at the seams… It would feel awesome to know that I am helping a lot people achieve their dreams!

     And to know that my products & opportunity are genuinely improving their quality of life.

     I am planning on doing this by purchasing and applying the “Renegade Professional” system to my business

     I can see how the social networking sites like Facebook, UTube, Twitter, and Squidoo can provide quality, targeted leads for any business

     In my past experience with business in general …acquiring quality, targeted leads is one, if not the biggest challenge of doing business on line or off line!!

     Thank you Ann and Mike for all that you do…

     …Warmly norbert montoya

     Comment by Norbert Montoya — March 23, 2009 @ 12:00 pm

134. 

     1) What’s the biggest hurdle preventing
     you from business success right now?

     Ann, I was fortunate in having had the opportunity to read The 7 Great Lies of Network Marketing right before it launched. I knew you were my gal right then and there, so I proceeded to devour The Renegade System and follow you every step. When I look at what I have accomplished, I am absolutely amazed that this is me; kind of like an out of body experience. haha

     My challenge is taking all of the foundational pieces and making them work together to start drawing traffic to me. I have mastered understanding and using the solutions provider and consultative approach when selling my MLM product. Since meeting you, I have a downline of 104 and I provide two team trainings each week for my own small group. I am building my SBI site, taking an e-book writing course, recently set up a blog and just need to start creating content. I have become an Oprius capture page queen. I created 9 YouTube videos that are on the internet. I belong to Twitter, Hub Pages, Squidoo. I am interacting in Facebook, Tagged, etc. I set up an LLC and created my own consulting company and even just had my new business cards printed with my very own logo designed by a sharp graphic artist.

     I attracted somebody through a social forum who bought my MLM product and two other recommendations I made for other products after I consulted with her, and she is very happy with the recommendations and will be joining our team soon. I know this all works, but at this time it’s not generating lead flow at a level I require for steady income and to build my team big and to also be able to gift my team with lead overflow.

     I was recently encouraged that I was absolutely doing the right thing in Attraction Marketing when I was at a big name guru’s training camp, and after doing a very interesting money exercise with the entire group, it turns out I was perceived as the second most influential/helpful/leader-type in the room of 31. Believe me, in the past that would not have happened, but I have been so empowered through your teachings to “own” me, to market me, to give without expecting anything in return, to not be a desperate marketer, to stop pitching and start teaching. It was a very humbling and affirming moment for me that I am so very much on the right track.

     Ann, all the foundations are laid and I feel like I’m missing the nuts and bolts of how everything works “behind the scenes,” like it’s abstract. I’m a good doobie at following directions for setting things up and getting started, but my main challenges are focus to pull it all together. Again, it’s abstract to me. Lack of focus also zaps my time because I tend to wander and listen to a lot of voices in an attempt to figure it all out. It’s almost like I think I have to know everything, but I think I just need to know the right things. That’s where you and Mike will be able to help me immensely.

     2) What would your dream business look like
     with this hurdle removed?

     With this hurdle removed, I will be attracting approximately 10 new team members per month and leveraging my time by being able to train many new people at once. My strength is teaching and encouraging, so I will feed off the energy of always having new people to work with. Business will be so fun and energizing, that I will attract people to partner with me effortlessly.

     As I grow and develop more fully into the leader and trainer I am destined to be, I will be creating more products for my marketing funnel and look forward to teaching large audiences from a stage and through my DVD collections. I would be honored to assist you at your seminars and eventually (soon) train with you AND Mike.

     Thank you so very much for your consideration.

     Comment by Wendy Brennan — March 23, 2009 @ 12:01 pm

135. 

     My biggest hurdle preventing from business success right now is the wide content of information I must research and write for this website. I don’t have enough content to reach the monetizing process. Of course, not enough traffic is the outcome.
     I also have a wide interaction and coaching panel to this website. (forums, chat centres) I must buid the html for this. I am no professional to build this. A world to discover for me!

     My dream is to make this website a therapeutic website for midlifers in stages of crisis.
     I also have a dream: support underdevelopped countries.
     Imagine a link with Unicef where we would build homes, schools, nurseries in Kenia. Unicef would keep us posted on the projects as they develop.

     There are organisations that I would like to promote and work as partners to promote mid-life renewal.

     Comment by Gisele from ON Canada — March 23, 2009 @ 12:03 pm

136. 

     Hi Ann and Mike
     Thanks for all the breakthru information ..I think my biggest challenge is implementing all the Great Ideas…putting a system in place that feeds off the other components of the system…I am a bit challenged when it comes to the computer but am deterined to wade thru the details to get to my destination , which is an effective internet Marketing program that all I need to do is plug my product in the funnel and the components spit out a prospect who is ready to take action or is at least open to what I am offering …I do understand that each componant is designed to attract people of like mind and who are ready to act on the information… I understand the big picture of How the system works more importantly why it works…My Challenge is disecting the action steps which I beleive the tutorials should solve…..You guys are solving the How and the why and Breaking it down so that the computer novice can be up and running an effective business model that has previously been a real challenge for 97% of all networkers….Teaching others HOW to fish will enable them to get past making a living and realy start living there dreams…The playing field is being leveled and you Ann and Mike are mentors that are making a huge impact in this business….What this model will do for me is allow me to teach an uncluttered system that does not clog up or stop because of faulty principles or innefective strategies a system that operates like a fine oiled machine…My Goal is to help create 100 millionares and help disadvantaged children and families to begin an awareness that goes far beyond struggling to make a living…Providing real solutions to those in need..From the doorway to Destiny..Thanks for the value you guys are giving it really is a pleasure to work with such genuine people..

     Comment by Grieg Robertson — March 23, 2009 @ 12:09 pm

137. 

     1) What’s the biggest hurdle preventing
     you from business success right now?

     My four main areas of business are helping people to lose weight, financial education, ie helping people to manage their finances well and prosper, helping people to grow in Jesus Christ and helping people to change the lives of needy children. For each of these four areas I have a lot of highly useful published material, a lot of it available for free. My main barrier to success is that people are just not getting this free material. For example, I am an economist and am one of the few who forecast the present economic crisis - what I published a few years ago could have saved people many millions of dollars in losses yet only a handful of people took advantage of that. Likewise my publication 110 commandments of Jesus Christ is a tool that will help any Christian to grow, yet only a handful of people have received it. In a nutshell, I have the good content you talk about, but am not successful at getting it into the hands of those who will benefit from this content.
     2) What would your dream business look like
     with this hurdle removed?
     Literally millions of people would be benefitting from my insights into finance, dieting, growing in Jesus and helping needy children. I would experience great joy in serving people by helping them successfully in the above four life changing areas. There is nothing more important than your spiritual life. Helping a needy child in an effective manner is one of the most satisfying things you can do. Eliminating fat successfully can transform the way you see and think about yourself - it has great psychological benefits aswell as health benefits. Managing your finances well and prospering is a key for giving your family care and opportunity. I see my company helping millions of people in these areas and your marketing skills and teaching are just what I need now to achieve this success.

     Comment by Anthony Wolseley Wilmsen — March 23, 2009 @ 12:09 pm

138. 

     The most frustrating hurdle I have right now is having gone through all the videos (Twitter and Squidoo are up) and not knowing how to do a blog and not understanding how to drive traffic to my site. I am anxiously awaiting the release of Renegade Professional to solve these things and put me on a road of internet success. When I go on Squidoo nightly and try to learn all the tips, it is overwhelming trying to figure out what direction to go and what should be done next.

     I believe in my product from my MLM that it does promote health and prevent disease. I am seeing result in my personal life and the lives of others. Whether I am in the MLM or not, I will always personally use my products. But I have come to the end of my rope with the costly internet leads and I have always thought that there has to be a way to make this work on the internet, but I have been one of the so called “technically challenged.” This is my last resort before I dump the MLM belief system that there is financial success for everyone.

     My dream business would be to be able to enroll 15-20 new business owners monthly and to be able to teach and train them to do this same thing on the interent. I want my husband to be able to retire and do the mission work he has always desired to do. I want to be able to have a secure retirement and to be financially free to help my family and support our ministry friends.

     I want to be able to see others in this severe economic downturn to really have a business that is recession proof. I want their lives to be changed.

     Comment by Arlene Oliver — March 23, 2009 @ 12:10 pm

139. 

     We here it goes.

     1) What’s the biggest hurdle preventing
     you from business success right now?

     The biggest hurdle preventing me from business success right now is a solid direction to take. I have gone through three different companies where I believe the product works but I have had a hard time showing others that this business would be a good fit. I have gone through gurus such as Tim Sales, Dani Johnson and many others. I have spent thousands of dollars over the years trying to follow what I learned from these gurus to no avail. To this date I have enrolled no-one, I have many customers and I know a business can do well with customers but does better with like minded individuals who are willing to learn and follow my example to success. I just need a direction. SO BADLY I NEED DIRECTION. I have taken a few training sessions with Dani Johnson on prospecting but that way of building my business is just not the way I want ot pursue. Attraction Marketing is a great way to build a business where I provide great information to prospects where they can see a benefit in coming to me for assistance instead of me chasing them and pounding them over the head to make them realize my opportunity is the best out there. I have ordered most of Mike Dillards products. The best one to date is PPC domination, WHY? Because in this program he shows me step by step how to accomplish the best way to setup a good adwords campaign.
     I am currently unemployed and would love to stay that way. I have not had much time to spend with my kids until this time. My wife works hard to keep us above water and I would love to take some of that burden of her shoulders. When she does have a day off we spend out time taking our two little ones to the park, watching my son play with a little remote controlled car that we splurged to get him from walmart. The look on his face was priceless.

     Now for the second part.

     -How many new customers would you have?
     Once I have the direction I would anticipate having between 50-150 new customers, I lost my mother to cancer five years ago and one of the products I share with individuals has done so many maraculous things to others. I was not able to help my mother with this technology but when I placed her in the ground, I made a promise on that day that I would share with as many people who would listen and to this day I have been doing that.

     -How many people would you be sponsoring?
     One of the things that I would love is to sponsor between 10-25 people a month. I think its a number that is feasable. It will give me time to point each of these people in the right direction. I was and still am told to buy leads go out and talk to people. Most people are not comfortable doing this so after about 3 months they quite the business. I know this business works I have no intention of quitting. I will pursue it until I find someone who can help me get to the top.

     -How much more could you pay yourself?
     I have always told many people I dont need alott I know there so many people out there suffering right now. I saw a gentleman a few weeks ago walking the gas station asking if people could spare a few gallons. He wasnt asking for money he had a little 5 gallon gas can that would probably cost about 10bucks to fill and everyone he went to said no. I drove up to him and said you dont know me but I think this money could help you and I gave him some cash. The look on his face was priceless. The feeling I felt in helping out a fellow human being in these hard economic times was the best feeling ever. I would pay myself enought for my family to survive, the rest I would try to help out as many people as I could. I would not be able to help everyone but man I sure would try my best.

     -How would it feel to wake up in the morning
     to a duplicating downline and a business
     that is bursting at the seams?

     If I could wake up to a business such as this “WOW WORDS CANT EXPLAIN” I could lean over to my wife and tell her “honey you dont need to work so far anymore, look for something closer if you need to, but with my business doing so well we can drop the kids off to school and spend the day hanging out with each other. The fact that now the people I bring into my business now have a path to follow is a great thing. They wouldnt be spending hours on the phone trying to convice people to join there business.

     -How would it feel to know you’re making
     a difference in other people’s lives?

     -To know your products & opportunity are
     genuinely improving their quality of life.

     -How are you planning on doing this?

     If I knoew that I was making a big difference in the lives of people would be a great thing. To take the hand of a father who has lost his job and is pounding the pavement looking for a job, dieing inside because he is not able to support his family the way he wants to, would be something that would give me such peace. WHY because some days I feel that way, I was brought up to believe that I should be able to support my family with the economy the way it is, I try to help out around as much as possible.

     I plan to accomplish this my following and doing the renegade way. Please consider me for thes positions.

     Thank you.

     Comment by Randy F — March 23, 2009 @ 12:16 pm

140. 

     Hi Ann,
     I could not have put it any better as to what Roy commented.
     “My biggest hurdle right now is to be able to offer content of value that others would find meaningful enough to want to be associated with me. So getting help to find or create good content to give away then developing an attractive web site which would be rewarding for my followers to visit would launch my on-line business.
     Other major obstacles are procrastination and being a little too scattered. I need to focus better.

     2. Once I perfect the attraction marketing concept, I will be able to offer my followers the absolute best business opportunity available today. This would explode my business and I would be able to help huncreds of people to become financially independent. Once I learn these skills, I will be able to transfer them to all who join me because I have extensive experience as a technical trainer and I have spoken in front of large audiences. Being able to help many people beat this crazy economy will make me very proud. Once this happens, my income could easily exceed 30K per month.

     The traing you and Mike provide is the absolute best to help me become totally successful in helping others also reach their dreams.”

     Best regards,
     Glen

     Comment by Glen — March 23, 2009 @ 12:25 pm

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     The biggest hurdle preventing me from business success right now is not having a system created that easily and continuously helps move prospects along through the sales process so that they get to a point where they trust me enough to buy. A system like that would remove the obstacle of time, miscommunication, and fear so that I can help people attain their dreams while accelerating my own.
     With this hurdle removed my dream business would be an effortless joy that brings abundance and freedom into my life and the lives of those I choose to work with.

     Comment by Benjamin DeVore — March 23, 2009 @ 12:30 pm

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     Hi Ann and Mike,

     1) What is the my biggest hurdle in business?

     I conduct my business like a shy, introverted person, rather than an attraction marketer. I have no credibility.

     In a nutshell, I do not act like the “go-to” person. I am not an attraction marketer because I don’t act like the expert that people come to for their answers. I have no perceived expertise because I don’t act like the expert.

     I have built squidoo pages, webpages, started blogs, dabbled in PPC. I get the technology. I get the attraction part. But at the end of the day, I put on my pretty dress and then act like a wallflower at a party–I simply watch everyone having fun.

     Since being introduced to Mike’s videos, I have been devotedly following his example and I can see how it works. I see how he interacts with people and they contact him. I have collected magazine articles to blog about to leverage the current buzz. I have tried to mimic him (act like the “popular kid”), but in the end I feel like I’m talking to myself.

     What I need is to stop “hugging the wall” at the e-party that’s the internet and get out there and mingle! In real terms, what I need is an overall plan of how to use the great tools that you and Mike have offered. I can build websites, set-up facebook accounts. But how do you USE them? How to do actually attract people to you using these tools? I begin to see the light with Twitter, but I still feel like I’m talking to myself when I make tweets.

     In short, I need a supply of leads coming to me asking me questions, and I need a plan that says “first do this, and then do that.”

     2) My dream business:

     I have 2 SBI sites which feed my soul and in my dream business, I would be getting $1000/month in affiliate sales from them. I believe in the products on those sites and I would have a warm, blessed feeling to know that I had helped people with those products. One site is a composting site (healing the earth) and one site is a site on stress (healing the body and soul). I would love to be attracting like-minded people to those sites.

     The second part of my dream has yet to be realized. I would dearly, passionately, enthusiastically love to help women earn money from home so that they can provide for their families and still have the flexibility to care for them. In the times that someone has asked me for advice about marketing, or the internet, I have lit up–I feel engaged and energetic helping them. My worries dissolve because I feel genuinely helpful.

     In my dream business, I would have 10-20 women/week contacting me for support and advice about building their business from home. I would specialize in advice about affiliate marketing, and time management for WAHM’s. I would offer the tools that Ann and Mike offer as the starting point. Eventually I would develop my own training, geared to the needs of WAHM’s and single moms.

     How would this make me feel? As my marriage was collapsing, I remember looking at my daughter and vowing from my heart that she would never have to be afraid to confront the realities of her relationships because of lack of finances. I would be sure that if she needed money for therapy, money to leave, money for anything which would help her be a better mother, I would make it available to her. And as I looked at her, I realized that my wish is for more than just her–I wish this for every woman. We women should not be asked to choose between caring for our children and living a life of financial entrapment. All women should have the resources to make healthy decisions for their families. Having their own business is the most viable means to that end.

     I would be honored to help women reach that goal.

     So Ann and Mike, I would really love your direction. I could use someone to point the way for me. I have many talents, and many pieces started. I need a visionary to help me put it together and to break through to success.

     Thank you very much for your help. My best to you and everyone else entering this contest!

     Julia

     Comment by Julia Rymut — March 23, 2009 @ 12:30 pm

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     I need to attract quality people to this affiliate and net working opportunity. Obviously, it is difficult to attract people without a significant advertising budget, so to be able to attract people with a small budget while explaining the benefits of working with mewould be most advantageous. to have the capability to attract people with video presentations would put me i the top tier of network marketers, but it appears several months of work to develop proficiency is required. To be able to quickly within a week or so to present video that establishes me as a networking leader would allow me to attract many persons to the opportunity.
     _______________________

     Once dozens of persons are enrolled and i am able to assist the recruits to also prepare video presentations , my business would grow geometricly!

     I would love to haave a growing business, as it enables one to recruit with power, plus you would have more income to continue to invest in developing a team . I would anticipate no less than 100 new customers and no less than 40 peolpe in the team within 6 weeks of having this capability.

     Sincerely,

     laurence Colbert

     ___________________

     Comment by Laurence Colbert — March 23, 2009 @ 12:31 pm

144. 

     Ann and Mike, cheerful greetings and thank you both - not only for what you have done, but also this opportunity and the hope and inspiration for the future.

     I see this exercise as another of your gifts -two fold. One, what better way for us, all of us, to get a clearer focus than to put down on paper (or digitally) the challenges we face. And, two, articulate, describe and envision the benefits of conquering our hurdles.

     Indirectly we also benefit you because the feedback you get here will really help you have a better grasp of how your readers are “getting” what this model is all about. I smile because honestly, the “conpetition” for prizes is inspired by the what’s-in-it-for-me motivation which actually runs counter to the theme “over deliver” quality content - an unselfish trait.

     Nevertheless, I’ll bite. Here goes.

     I sincerely hope that what I have to share will be of benefit to someone - either for inspiration or example or guidance.

     My biggest hurdle is that I am my own worst enemy. I’m fearful, at times timid, offensive, insensitive and at other times overbearing. But for the sake of this effort, all of these are merely expressions of an underlying, ever present, tendancy toward self interest or selfishness.

     Becoming selfless in my service to others, truly seeking their success and genuinely helping all in need would clearly vanquish this hurdle. But it is not a victory that will result from a single triumphant effort. For now at least it is a journey, not a destination.

     I firmly believe that each and every person who ever joined a network marketing company, at some point or other, genuinely felt that he or she had something of value to offer. Unfortunately, the everpresent reality is that as an industry we do not cultivate, strengthen, encourage or even allow, in many cases, those seeds of value to grow.

     The vast majority of tips, tricks and techniques taught to us as network marketers are all motivated by an underlying self interest. In an odd way, as the masses buy into the ideas, those especially successful in the past found ways to cleverly present their ideas and gain a following by so doing, and at the same time line their pockets. Attraction marketing at it’s worst.

     Indeed the concept of attraction marketing as it is being picked up and bastardized by much of the mainstream marketing media is nothing more that cleverly disguised self interest marketing.

     By contrast I read a very well worded bio on twitter the other day that went something like this:

     “I make my living in realestate and help people with weight loss for fun.”

     If this person truly means what he says about the weight loss, that is attractive.

     So how does all this relate to my biggest hurdle? If I can master myself so that I genuinely become the person who puts the best interest of others first, then I will be well on the way to true success in my own business.

     What will that successful business look like?

     First I would ask you and any casual reader of this post to scan the other comments above (or below) and see how many times the expression of gratitude - genuine, heart felt thanks - appears. Surely that alone has to warm your hearts. Helping others achieve and experience success has got to be one of the best ways to experience joy. This to me would be evidence of my successful business - a following of individuals also diligently seeking to help others be successful and experiencing joy in that labor.

     The next hurdle would be trying to find ways to bring personal, caring and dedicated help to each one seeking my assistance. Perhaps the only way to achieve this would be to successfully create a following of others who could do what I was doing and thus expand the influence.

     Comment by Kent Gwilliam — March 23, 2009 @ 12:32 pm

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     I would love to come to your training. It would help me because although I am very literate, I am not computer literate. I have been dealing with a health issue slows my ability to absorb things, so learning how to use this system has been difficult.

     However, I do have a couple of awesome projects I would like to promote, both of them will fund a project to help the families of men in prison. One product helps promote female health, children, and really anyone. Although their first product is a sanitary napkin, I find placing them on my mattress pad helps alleviate pain. The second project is so simple, all you have to do is install their toolbar and use it and it produces revenue. The first is called Winalite and the second GoldBar.

     Thanks for your hard work and for being a pioneer for us.

     Comment by Natalie — March 23, 2009 @ 12:32 pm

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     Hi Anne,

     I want to thank you and Mike for all your work in putting this together. As you know there is an overwhelming amount of information and hype about who has the best program for teaching people how to crack the internet / attraction marketing. I’ve followed you and your work ever since we met by telephone. I’ve made some strides through Site Build It but I’m still far from where I want to be. But each month I make some progress. I want to go faster. I want to leave my job and do what I believe I was meant to do which is educate people on how to slow down the aging process and help them improve their overall health and wellness.

     After reading your Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto, about how you put on wellness demonstrations, it gave me the idea that I could do the same with video demonstrations posted on my website. I’ve enlisted my son and son-in-law to work with me to develop a Wellness Library that will be 90% visual. This Thursday we start developing a series of videos like:

     The Power of ORAC!
     The ORAC Shake!
     The Secret to Weight Loss
     Get Your Vegetables Thru ORAC!

     This is just a small sample of the videos we would like to do. Videos designed to help educate people in a fun and entertaining way while helping them make a significant improvement in their lives.

     In answer to your first question the biggest hurdle for me is the exact step-by-step knowledge of what to do. I work best when shown what to do. For example, you told us to join Twitter which I did. I had some people begin to follow me but after watching Mike’s video I applied his information, and in two weeks I had over 1000 followers. Now I need to learn how to effectively market to these Twitter followers.

     I want to learn all the other steps necessary for Squidoo, landing pages, capture pages, autoresponders, etc. I want to develop a comprehensive program that wholesales the ProArgi-9 Plus product from Synergy WorldWide. And, I want to create an opportunity for people to join with me in building a large networking organization designed to help people improve their health.

     You asked what this dream business would look like if the hurdle was removed. I would be moving 1000 or more units of ProArgi-9 Plus per month. The nutrition industry is filled with a lot of products but none as effective or as unique as the ProArgi-9 Plus. It is completely designed to improve the cardiovascular system by repairing the endothelial cells and helping them to properly produce nitric oxide which is the main signaling molecule of the cardiovascular system.

     When you look the marketplace and the need for this product and the education to go with it, it is staggering. Approximately 33% have high blood pressure, type II diabetes is at epidemic proportions, and over 50% of the male population has some level of erectile dysfunction. These health challenges are even greater in the African American community and no one is really marketing to them or addressing their health needs.

     I and this product can help all of these people. But, I will need a team of people to help me do it. Because Synergy is a binary program I would set up the following system. My son and son-in-law would be on my left and right side. As we attract people to our mission and they decide to join us, than the 1st would go on the right outside, the 2nd would go on the left outside, the 3rd would go on the right inside and the 4th would go on the left inside. This builds two solid lines. Plus, we would repeat this pattern with every 4 people. This would allow us to effectively say to each person who joined us that we will help them build their outside leg and so that they can concentrate on building their inside leg.

     To help them build their organization and create their own unique voice we will use The Renegade Professional. We will take them and show them exactly how we have applied the Renegade Professional to help us build a team. A team that is serving the health needs of our customers while building a strong, residual income stream of their own.

     It’s all about creating win-win-win situations. The customers win with a great product and great educational information that helps them take the proactive steps needed to improve their health. The people who join us win because we will help them build their network organization and acquire customers to move products. We win because we will be able to do this full time. And, use our resources to give back to the general community high quality, entertaining and informative information that will empower people with effective strategies to improve their live.

     I could go on but I’ve already taken up a lot of blogging space.

     Again, thank you for what you and Mike are doing to help us finally break through all the noise. I believe that you and Mike will help me and the people who join me to succeed in this internet marketing jungle.

     Dan
     http://www.Aging-No-More.com

     Comment by Dan Hammer — March 23, 2009 @ 12:35 pm

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     The biggest hurdle preventing me from business success right now is not having built up a list of people to give and send quality information. To have something unique to give that others will find valuable. I have been putting Squidoo lenses together, ezine articles, and videos, but a huge benefit would be having a mentor or guide to talk to one on one. I bought the Renegade Marketer ebook last August. I read it right away and I have listened to it many, many times. Each time I pick up something new. I am excited because I understand it and it resonates with how I feel and how I want to do business. I found out about Renegade University in January 2009 and I joined in January. I did participate in another “bootcamp” in Oct/Nov 2008 and it taught all the old school MLM methods. This “bootcamp” left me feeling unmotivated. I do not want and cannot follow those strategies. So the Renegade University is giving me strategies that I understand, agree with, and can implement. My hurdle is not having earned the exposure yet, being overwhelmed (like a kid in the candy store), and not having someone to talk. I make a plan, get it going and then keeping on track is difficult because there are so many great things to do.
     With enough people in referrals, affiliates, and sponsoring I would be thrilled to keep working with them, building relationships and expanding. My dream business would be working with these people from my home on a time schedule that I set. And having time to exercise, garden, and do whatever I choose.
     I need 200 customers to really see results. And I would need to sponsor 10 people each month into my business. Paying myself $5000.00 per month would free me from my job and give me the time and energy to build my business exponentially.
     I’m already excited as I work my way through the Renegade University tutorials. So waking up each day knowing that I’m actually making my business work and I have a duplicating downline would be thrilling.
     I honestly believe if I can get past my hurdles, if I can align my beliefs and truly see results then I can teach others, show others. I can take anyone who wants to learn and give them quality step by step tools. I’d love to be able to do that.
     I have products that I know make a healthy difference in people’s lives. I’d like to show the people who are already involved in this mlm business, as health practitioners, how to put their knowledge and expertise online. They can continue to consult with people on health issues and I would be happy to coach them to get their businesses going online.

     Comment by Corinne Floyd — March 23, 2009 @ 12:54 pm

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     The biggest hurdle preventing me from business success right now is connecting with the people who are looking for me—looking for what I have to offer that they can use to change their lives. And it’s my learning curve that needs to be accelerated in order to do that, because I know that once I have a firm grasp of what works, I’ll be off and running—and so will my team.

     I hope this doesn’t sound too generic, but I can’t state it any more simply.

     It’s not just that I understand Attraction Marketing more & more every day, understand how to get all the components up, or that it builds on what I was already doing (helping people understand the dynamics in their brick & mortar businesses), or that I have the drive, commitment, independence, integrity, backbone, and growing (!) humility that it takes to succeed, that others can count on & take their cues from. And it’s not just that when I talk about what to do in their business my clients tend to listen to me.

     It’s that I believe I’m here for the people who know that their lives are in their hands, to give them something to work with. It’s that I’m gearing my whole business around giving others a leg up, to get them off & running so I can focus on my business too in turn. If I had you for a day, it would be all about how to better connect with my target audience.

     I understand what Ann faced when her husband’s business was going under. A gas explosion wiped out my husband’s income 2 weeks ago and I am in overdrive plowing through RenPro (I joined after the list building class). I have no time for a learning curve. I am playing ball as hard and as fast as I can, and sometimes it’s scary, but deep down it’s exhilarating. My back’s against the wall but somehow I feel like I was meant to do this. It looks a little silly when I write it down, but what the hey, there it is.

     Where I might be making a mistake is focusing on setting up a training pipeline as well as a marketing pipeline. I want new recruits to avoid being overwhelmed, to have faith in what I’m giving them and get the right pieces at the right time so they can start making decisions & driving forward with confidence. I want them to feel good right from the start about the direction they’re getting in their training, because that more than anything will give them the posture they need to take it to others.

     And it has to be set up first because as soon as I enroll someone, they need to be able to use it too. That’s my version of duplication. Flailing around can’t be avoided, but it can be minimized, and it will allow those that are going to shine to go to it right away.

     This approach takes me away from gathering leads right away, which seems a little dangerous given my financial situation. But it seems to me that if I can get a training system set up, both in my head & with autoresponders, training tools, etc, I’ll keep them moving and myself too. I’ll educate them with what I’ve created & affiliate for first and prep them before working closely with them. They can then start marketing right away and plug their people right away. The training side is just not somewhere that I want to flail around. In essence, I want to get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off, and get the right people the right information.

     I’m not just trying to grow my business. I’m trying to give people a reason to trust me. For those who are willing to put in the work, I want them to know that I know they can do it, that I believe in them, and that I’ve given them every tool they need.

     On March 23, 2010 (one year from today) I’m going to wake up relaxed and bouyant because my business is not only bursting at the seams, but because of all the excited phone calls and emails I’m receiving from my downline about how they’ve grown their business and changed their lives into what they really want. I will have done what I set out to do, because I’ve dug myself out and shown others how to also. And that will give me the most satisfaction. I will have earned what I receive, and it will have been a pleasure.

     I will have 20 new prospects per day based on the marketing assault I’d been able to do, thanks to the system I had in place.

     I will have personally enrolled 100 customers into my business, well on my way to 200, which is the number I need for my business to drive itself, and I continue to provide support to my reps and their teams.

     In the past year, I will have sponsored 8 - 15 new reps a month and put them immediately into my training pipeline, which is tailored to one of three levels that they choose: hobby, 2nd job, entrepreneur, which I did in part to get them in the right mindset.

     I will have watched my monthly income grow from $1000 to $3000 to $5000 to $10000 and know that it will be double within the next year. I will be grateful for the security and abundance I’ve received.

     I will be pregnant with our second child that we can now afford to have, my husband will be doing a ski photography shoot in Alaska, and my son will have exactly the right amount of attention from me. I will make breakfast from scratch and know that I’m living proof that you can have the life you want. And I will laugh.

     I want to go over every aspect of what I’m doing with you and analyze it to make sure it’s speaking to the needs of my target audience & setting them up for success. I want to hone my learning curve and get this out to people as soon and as productively as possible. I mean, I’m doing it anyway but WHAT A DIFFERENCE working with you would make!

     Alicia Andersen

     Comment by Alicia Andersen — March 23, 2009 @ 12:55 pm

149. 

     Hi Ann and Mike.

     My sincere gratitude for you to throw such an empowering contest (and with an impulsive decision =))

     here are my answers…

     1. The biggest hurdle preventing me from business success right now is ‘positioning’. i’ve learned and implemented the concepts of attraction marketing and various traffic and lead generation methods and am seeing consistent growth in the lead generation department as well as prospects contacting me.

     The part that seems to be preventing me from breaking out into top leadership is proper positioning as the leader that people would want to follow in the eyes of the prospects. This seems to be true in any niche that I choose to pursue.

     I have been focusing my efforts lately on social media and content marketing e.g. facebook, twitter, articles, blogging, videos, squidoo, hubpages, press releases… the free and low cost strategies that have been taught in Renegade Professional as well as other trainings that I’ve gone through, delivering whatever value i can possibly provide without any expectation of getting something back.

     This has greatly helped me in ‘branding’ myself to a point where when I call my prospects, they recognize me and kick off our communication with instant rapport. I can sense from the conversation that they have a certain level of trust on me even before our conversation because we’ve connected on social media sites like facebook and twitter and a good number of them even thank me for taking the time to call them
     and answer some of the questions they had.

     But in order for me to really break out into top leadership and business success, the biggest hurdle seems to be ‘proper positioning’ throughout all my marketing pieces as well as in all of my communication with prospects e.g. phone, emails, instant messaging, etc. I need to figure out a way to become the expert and the
     leader in the niche I choose… to become the ‘wizard’ who can solve the problems the chosen niche is struggling with.

     Through reading the Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto, i’ve realized the importance of
     reviewing and re-discovering what my strengths are, what my passions are, what I enjoy doing, etc. and focusing all my energy on those niche that overlaps my strengths/passions with the problems the chosen niche is having that I can help solve.

     2. With this hurdle removed, I would be feeling ecstatic everyday, looking forward to jumping out of bed and making a difference in this world because I would be in a postion to focusing my energy and efforts 100% on purely providing value and seeking ways to increase my value to the world (skills and knowledge that others want) and finding even more ways to pass on the value to the world… truly being in a position of ‘information provider’ and ‘educator’.

     At that point, it would really be not just about the money but more about having a clearer purpose and mission in life… helping as many people as I possibly can in my lifetime utilizing my strengths, talents, skills, passions to make a positive contribution and a meaningful difference in this world.

     Visualizing my business success at that point, I would have sponsored 15 to 20 people in the next year who are in line with my vision and are on their way to becoming true educators and information providers who want to make a difference with their own strengths, talents, skills, passions, etc. My team as well as myself will be experiencing financial freedom with balanced lives and fulfilled in all the areas
     of wealth, health, and wisdom who’s also motivated to do even more to contribute to
     the world and making a difference… all this through the products and opportunity that I represent with my personal spin to it =)

     I am planning to do this by first taking the time to re-discovering my strengths, skills, passions, and aligning them with the target market that I’ve identified as niches that I can serve the best, and tweaking my messages and communication to be targeted and laser-focused to those particular niches, differentiating myself from the crowd and put in place proper ‘positioning’.

     The specific steps I would take would be to improve my personal branding site, to create various landing/squeeze pages with respective messages targeted specifically to the people in those particular niches, creating or using systems and tools that will enable me to have an effective marketing funnel that will help generate leads and cashflow, with a sorting mechanism in place to sort out the tire-kickers,
     continue to utilize social networking sites like facebook and twitter to connect with as many people as I possibly can, and finally learn and master ppc and copywriting to learn the art of target marketing.

     To create the proper positioning and leadership, i would first create a fast start guide for my team separate from what’s provided by my company, create a ‘resources’ site that I will be sharing with my leads and team members, hold conference calls, live webinars to communicate with my team.

     I will also continue to use the niche identification and keyword research techniques that I’ve learned along the way from internet gurus to further my niche marketing and share these techniques with my team members as additional incentive in teaming up with me.

     This, in addition to my financial literacy coming from my professional background as CPA/tax consultant as well as through my own financial education I’ve gone (and spent tens of thousands of dollars) through via various books, seminars and training courses, will be the incentive for people to join me (let alone the professional manner that I conduct my business which comes from 15 years of experience and training in the corporate world.

     Finally, I hope to enhance my resourcefulness and leadership through becoming a Renegade Super Guide, which i truly believe could be a platform where I can make the biggest contribution to the world and make the most difference by becoming a true coach within the Renegade community.

     I’ve looked hard and deep within myself, envisioning what my big picture aspirations are… what am I trying to accomplish in the next 20 years, next 50 years… even did the ‘funeral’ exercise where I imagined who would be in attendance, what they would be talking about me, how they’d remember me after I pass…

     Then I’ve turned to my mid-term goals… the 3, 6, 9, 12 months goals… what i’m trying to achieve in the areas of business goals, personal develpment goals, skillset development goals, physical fitness goals, emotional goals, etc… asking myself ‘where am i trying to go? who’s the new ‘me’ that i’m trying to create for myself… the new ‘reality’ that i’m trying to live into in the future…

     Also did the ‘perfect day’ exercise where i visualized the kind of day that would support creating those ‘bigger picture’ things that I want in my life… what i would do in the morning, what i would do next, and after that… who would the people I want to meet with on a regular basis, new people i would like to meet, etc.

     I’m throwing this process out here in hopes that this would be of value to anyone reading this post rather than seeing what my specifics are because everyone’s different.

     And in doing all this and asking myself this question, “how can I build a successful, million dollar business while helping people and having a great time in the process?”, I’ve concluded that being a Renegade Professional and a Super Guide, being part of the Renegade Community, is an essential component to my BIG PICTURE.

     I really want to express my sincere gratitude to Ann and Mike for providing this opportunity to participate in such a empowering contest. I’ve learned so much thus far from simply following the pre-launch. If I do end up having the honor of being one of the lucky winners of the contest, this will certainly super-charge my mission and focus to making the biggest contribution to the world, and be able to tell the world that if an immigrant with english as his second language can do this… so can you!

     Sincerely,

     Hiro Kaneko

     Comment by Hiro Kaneko — March 23, 2009 @ 1:07 pm

150. 

     1) What’s the biggest hurdle preventing you from business success right now?

     Information overload!! I have just recently joined a MLM business(Resorts360) after many years out of the MLM game. I know marketing is being done online, which is very appealing to me, but the amount of information is mind boggling. After several months of searching I found “The Renegade Network Marketer”, and I am so glad I did. I can’t wait to see Renegade Professional. I can tell that it makes it easy to learn how to market on the internet and the step by step video tutorials make it very simple to take action. So, quite frankly I believe that Renegade Professional will be the thing that helps me clear the hurdle of information overload to have success in my business. Please hurry and get it launched!!

     2) What would your business look like with this hurdle removed?

     Me being able to generate leads that want to talk to me. Signing up new reps at a pace of one or two per month then five plus per month. Eventually sending leads that I generate to my downline. The cool thing is once I learn how to do this I know I can teach others(tell them to get Renegade Professionl), and that makes it totally duplicatable. I also would like to expand out into multiple income steams, ie.. other MLM opportunities and affiliate marketing.

     BTW, if anyone reading wants to check out the Resorts360 business go to myresorts360.com/clubvacation
     it is a replicated site, haven’t got my own site up and running yet, but working toward that goal.

     Thanks Ann and Mike for making this process easy, and fun the way it is supposed to be.

     Mike

     Comment by Mike McMullen — March 23, 2009 @ 1:10 pm

151. 

     Hello Ann & Mike

     Question 1
     What’s the biggest hurdle preventing you from business success right now?

     Our biggest hurdle preventing us from business success right now is getting started. We have been involved in MLM for about 1 year now. Our grand total in sales has been a whopping $87.00. We have been outright lied to by our first up-line when we signed up. After spending a substantial amount of money, we discovered that the business was exactly what we said we were not willing to do. I specifically stated what we were not willing to do and related a story of what happened to my brother in the mid 1980’s when he got involved with a very well known MLM company of the time. I told them that this business turned his family against him, ruined his marriage and was the main cause of his suicide attempt. I also explained that both my spouse and I did not have many friends and we would not bother our families. After hearing the story we were assured that things had changed and that the business was now technology and Internet based. Once we started our so called training with this company we soon discovered that they expected us to make a list of our warm market and get to work on them and keep on them until they sign up. We still have a large inventory of this product in our basement. This led us to seek out help from outside sources, that is when we found The Renegade Network Marketer. After reading the information in this book, we felt this is the way the business needs to go. We started looking for help with implementing the information learned from your book, which lead us to our current opportunity. Even with this opportunity we were thrown some curves. Every time we got geared up something has happened to cause us to have to start over again. Our computer skills are limited at this point, I have a good understanding of the computer but my partner’s skills were not existent. She has learned a lot from the trainings she has done and has worked very hard by going to the various training calls from our up-lines, up-line which she is very grateful for. I have a degree in Business Administration/Accounting and was not comfortable with how I was being told to run my company. It seemed to go against everything I was taught. Everything seemed backwards to us. We were told to buy very expensive leads being offered by what we found out were the people who created our particular system. We were told to memorize scripts and do not let the prospect waiver off the scripts. We kept asking why we were not concentrating on selling our products and letting satisfied customers come to us to see if they could get involved with our opportunity. We kept being told that this is the proven system and the only way it would work for us is to follow what they said and don’t try to reinvent the wheel, this is the only way. We knew there had to be a better way. We knew the Internet was the way to go. We now are starting to understand the concepts and importance of Social Networking that we have learned from Mike’s videos. This program would be a perfect fit for us because my time is limited by the fact that I drive a truck at night and my hours can be quite long and I only have so much time left in the day to learn what I need to learn. My partner finds the way Mike shows us step by step, how to set up the different accounts and lenses in Squidoo were so beneficial to her “because of her lack of technical experience” it has given her the confidence that she needed to be able to work in this business. If we were able to take advantage of your knowledge and experience I know we would finally be able to get our business to take off. The experiences we have encountered since starting in the MLM industry has left somewhat of a bad taste in our mouth so far, but we are confident with the right training and the right people this industry can be transformed into a professional and honorable business that the average person can start and run with dignity and pride.

     Question 2
     What would your dream business look like with this hurdle removed?

     Our business would be among the top producing businesses in the industry. In today’s economy we need pioneering people to teach the world that you do not need to rely on the large multi-national companies to provide the jobs to support our families. We are now able to provide our own jobs. I would rather rely on myself to provide my future security than rely on the greedy CEO’s who would rather let hundreds of workers go than to give up their bonuses to help their company survive. Having the ability to start and run our own business is one of the greatest freedoms that we have. It is time the average person realizes this and gets started learning the proper way to run this type of affordable business. The question of how many new customers would we have is difficult to answer because we don’t have any customers now. I am confident with the training you have to offer, we would be able to ATTRACT more people than we could personally talk to or sponsor. We would then be able to pass these people to our down-line to help get them get started with achieving their dreams also. I firmly believe that now is probably the greatest time since the industrial revolution in our economic history. What it is going to take is the persistence and the quality of the teaching being offered to get this revolution into high gear. The change is happening slowly, people understand the concept of attraction marketing, but they are not going about it the right way. Everyday my email is full of people trying to get me to join their opportunities. I am directed to a website that gives no valuable information that would be of any help to me. Once I give them my information they immediately start with their hard sales pitch instead of providing me with more information to further qualify me or wait for me to approach them. This shows that they are ready for change but have not been shown the right way, which is going to make our job even tougher, but I am confident that these people will be weeded out of the industry when the competent people are making all the money. We are ready for this challenge and look forward to the day when we have learned what we need to know and are able to help others find the way in which to run their own profitable business from home. I am looking forward to the day that I am earning enough money to allow me to quit my full time job and am able to work at home along with my partner where we can develop our websites and create our own training courses based on your teachings. A perfect example of what we are working towards happened to us this weekend. We were at a family get together and my son came to me and said he was disappointed in me, that with my education and business experience, he expected more from me than to get involved in MLM. This hurt me knowing that my son is disappointed in me because of the business that we chose, but it has given me even more of an incentive to change this industries reputation. Nothing will keep me from this goal if only to earn back the respect of my son. I know with your help we can do this. Winning your contest could just be the turning point we need to change it all.

     Comment by Karl Freeman — March 23, 2009 @ 1:11 pm

152. 

     Q.1) What’s the biggest hurdle preventing
     you from business success right now?

     A. Lack of knowledge and thinking too small. I’m reading all I can and implementing it as fast as I can read it. Now it’s just a matter of time! I’d love the opportunity to learn even more and am quivering with the hope of it all. Can you believe my personal business has been featured on TV 4 times already with more appearances to come, but I’ve only captured 50 leads so far? I had no idea how awful my website was. But after reading the Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto, I’m fixing all that. It’s time to teach and not sell. I can’t wait to see what comes from the next TV appearance. I love that the more I learn the greater my vision gets. I used to think that as soon as I reached my goal I’d be done. Now I know that when I reach my goal it’s time to set a new one.

     Q. 2) What would your dream business look like
     with this hurdle removed?
     A. I will be capturing several hundred qualified leads a day that I can teach. My paycheck will be a direct reflection of how many lives I’ve touched. The best part is that I will be able to work my business from anywhere. My husband and I look forward to the day when we can take our 5 children and our homeschool on the road and teach them about the world while they’re looking at it.
     I love that I can give this gift of business knowledge to my children and change our family tree.

     Comment by Angela Coffman — March 23, 2009 @ 1:12 pm

153. 

     Finding the right kind of people that think like me. When I say this I mean people that REALLY want to have a home base business of their own. The people I have come in contact do not want to put out any money of their own to start the business They just want to buy the product and not have to sell it. They do not even want to sign up to buy the product. They just want me to order it for them.

     From listening to you and Mike and watching the twitter video. I can finally feel the ball starting to roll. I didn’t know how to go about getting an account on twitter.com. It just makes me feel how much easier it is going to be. The things you are showing people how to do are exactly what I have been trying to find the answers for. You watch the click by click video tutorials and do what you show me how to do and my business starts growing! Now I just have to make the time. All I have done so far is open my twittercom account because I have to work on getting my business going in between a full time job, my family and helping take care of my mother.

     It would feel wonderful to wake up in the morning and not have to go to work and have more time for my family. My business would be almost on auto pilot when I start applying what you are going to show me how to do. Which is attraction marketing! When I started wanting to have a home based business, I wanted something that would help me to make money but also to help people along the way. The Renegade Proffessional sounds exactly what I have been looking for.

     I hope you will consider me for the position.

     Comment by Cindy Onsurez — March 23, 2009 @ 1:13 pm

154. 

     Ann and Mike …
     I like your concept. When I grow up … I want to be just like you … (Or at least, be able to do what you do)
     My biggest hurdle preventing me from (once again) achieving (financial)success? … Product Focus and Internet Marketing help. My background includes many successes. I have traveled most of the civilized world, I have degrees from prestigious Universities, I was a “world -class” athlete, President of a large corporation, Chamber of Commerce president, and a certified personal trainer.
     I have been exposed to every “new” MLM product and scheme for the past 20 years. The sponsor, the product or the concept was never acceptable.

     I am computer literate, however, I need help creating a full scale internet marketing program.
     What would my business look like with the hurdle removed? I would embark on an all out internet based educational and informational program, a quality product, and the assemblage of a world-class organization emphasizing consumer oriented services.

     New Customers? … They would all be new … I’m starting from scratch. I would expect to have a million within five years. With the “right” product and the marketing concept, why would I expect less?

     I would sponsor everyone that is interested, motivated and either understands, or could be trained to understand the concept.

     I would pay to myself all profits from the venture … At least $500K. I could pay myself more by attracting more customers to my websites.

     When I wake up in the morning to a duplicating downline and a business that is bursting at the seams … It would be a great accomplishment … and I would feel extremely successful knowing that I’m making a difference in other people’s lives by knowing my products & opportunities are
     genuinely improving their quality of life.

     Thanks for doing what you do and for renewing my interest in internet marketing. I look forward to working with you.
     Ed

     Comment by ed cooke — March 23, 2009 @ 1:15 pm

155. 

     1. My biggest hurdle right now is staying focused on one task until it’s completed. I tend to get so many ideas that sometimes I don’t get anything accomplished because I’m trying to act on so many different ideas at once. I am learning to take it 1 step at a time, and keep a notebook handy so I can clear my head of all these ideas and to-dos and focus on 1 at a time.
     2. Once I have overcome this my business will flourish and I will be able to help others do the same. I will teach others to use the skills and tools I have learned – and will keep learning – to create their own wealth. I will also teach them the importance of giving back – and not just by teaching others the skills they learn and providing value to their prospects, but by giving back to their communities and even the world. I believe that by teaching others to share their wealth - both knowledge and cash - we can positively impact the economic future of the world.
     I will generate 20 or more new leads every day and will have 20 new Renegade Professionals and 10 new distributors in my mlm each month. I will generate $20,000 per month. In order to do this I will focus on using social media tools such as facebook, youtube, and squidoo to create quality content primarily targeting women who want to stay at home so they can raise their children and have turned to direct sales only be frustrated by the party plan format that most companies encourage – something I can relate very well to!
     When I begin generating $10,000 per month my husband will be able to quit his job so we can focus our time and efforts into helping the community and spending a lot more quality time with our young daughters – I want to instill in them that they can create their own future and have whatever they want out of life
     One of my passions is being a Girl Scout Leader – I always said that if I could earn a living being a GS Leader, that is what I would do full time. Well, by having a streamlined online business, I will be able to devote more time and more money to the GS organization.
     By the way, I will accomplish this by December of 2010.

     Comment by Debbie Blunt — March 23, 2009 @ 1:22 pm

156. 

     Hi, I am excited about this! Yes I would love all of this including the mercedez benz, It will help me and my children who are striving to have a better life. I do not just want the prizes I also want the opportunity to be able to get my own business so that I can help others and grow and teach them to grow. Ann I have been speaking to a beautiful young lady, name Patrice Walker who has been inspinring me since the beggining about Renegade. I have been trying so hard and she called me a calmed me down. I am going to try Renegade when I get the funds. I have been really struggling here in Syracuse,NY and I donot have furniture, and things that my children want for me to get them its been hard and I am keepin it real. I am not shame becuase We need help. I am willing to do the work. I would love to have the opportunity that you all presented and you won’t be dissapointed. Thanks and God Bless you Ann! Veronica F. Milton.

     Comment by Veronica F Milton — March 23, 2009 @ 1:26 pm

157. 

     My biggest hurdle is traffic and conversion. I now have strong page rankings, my landing page scripts are edited and reedited to the best I can make them, with call to action and all, yet little traffic and no conversions,at all.
     Six years of work no sales not one dollar earned. $30,000 spent in wrong directions ,however I have learned a lot therefore no regrets all part of my learning,and the thought of giving up is just not there .
     My dream business would have things to do ,like show up ,work at delivering customer service like answering questions and concerns in peoples e-mails or calls. Have 12 years experience doing that for employers ,would like to do it for myself for a change.
     As to how many new customers or sponsers that doesn’t have a number yet since I have yet to get one. Greed and fame is not my thing. If one per day or week does the trick then so be it.
     How much I could pay myself is all up from here since I have yet to do so. $1000.00 per month would be 1000 times more then now, and a most historic cork popping moment in my career.
     To have a duplicating down line would be like old age security and life insurance combined since I have little of one and none of the other. Contributing to others willing to work at having
     the same would be plain fulfilling on a real non ego level.Since there is plenty to go around.For us to enjoy health and happiness doing what Buddha calls the right livelihood.
     Web 2.0 is the most powerful media, I feel it to be more powerful then the artistically bankrupt movies,T.V., radio, magazines and newspapers combined. It also belongs to “the people” which is a great empowering energy to use and enjoy.

     Comment by Claude Edwin Theriault — March 23, 2009 @ 1:30 pm

158. 

     Hi Ann,

     Gosh! Where do I begin…………?

     1) The biggest hurdle stopping me from building my business is this whole Internet thing! I have started to build my website having never ever done anything apart from sending emails and surfing the web.
     As Mike would say I am REALLY technically challenged. So it is a VERY long and slow process for me.
     I really struggle in writing stuff for my website and just thinking about Twitter, Squidoo fills me with fear.
     If I could just get to grips with this at a pace I am relaxed at, however keeping up with what is going on in the internet world then I would be VERY VERY HAPPY!

     2) My dream business would look like………
     I have visualised this for 4 years now….so here goes.

     It sounds silly but I have tears in my eyes writing this because I think that maybe after 5 years of doing Network Marketing and very nearly losing my home(not out of the woods yet)things could change for me. I feel I have hope.

     I would have 40 regular customers per month. I would have a great relationship with them and seeing my products giving them health, hope and happiness would be amazing to me.

     I would sponsor 8 – 10 people per month which would be approx 120 per year!
     With approx 25% duplication the team would be well on its way to residual income.

     Helping them to duplicate would be a fantastic and would give us all a real buzz we all need as the team have had no success.
     After 5 years with no duplication it’s seems now that I have a REAL plan to do this.

     I have planned to be earning £10,000 net income per month

     I have wanted to make a difference in people’s lives since I joined my Network Marketing company 5 years ago. Improving their health was and still is important for me. Improving their wealth along with their confidence and self esteem would be truly remarkable. My network marketing company is fantastic so to make a difference in mine and my teams lives is exciting.

     I know already that my products improve people’s health and the opportunity has done so much for millions of distributors worldwide. I have seen it with my own eyes and I have experienced it in 3 European countries. Having said all that the system SUCKS!

     My plan is:-

     Build my website with fantastic content which will blow visitors minds
     Have good content on Squidoo, Twitter, UTube etc

     Be a great teacher and teach my team EVERYTHING I have learnt and am still learning. Lead by example. Showing them what I am doing and did i.e. setting up a website, Renegade Pro, Squidoo etc

     For those who buy my products give them excellent customer service, i.e. monthly newsletters, updating the website & webinars.

     Comment by Christine Gilmartin — March 23, 2009 @ 1:33 pm

159. 

     Hi, Ann the biggest hurdle keeping me from being able to get things going for myself is the finances. If that was removed I would be able to change things. I also know that I need the knowledge also and the trianing. I know that I have dedicated a lot of hours to doing this and still not making a pay check. I have so much to offer others and I want that chance. No I am not going to write my life story, however I know in my heart this opportunity is well needed for me and my children who are depending on me and only me for support and a guidance in their life. I want so bad to be that becuase God choose me to provide that to them and myself. I really do mean this. Even if I donot get this opportunity I will still pray for another and continue to strive for more opportunities. Thanks Ann. God Bless!

     Comment by Veronica F Milton — March 23, 2009 @ 1:33 pm

160. 

     1) What’s the biggest hurdle preventing you from business success right now?
     I guess I am being greedy with this question but here it goes:

     My biggest hurdle has always been understanding WHO my target audience is.

     Being able to teach someone HOW I did the things I have online to get over their hurtles too. - I want to STAND OUT in the crowd not just be one of them.

     I want this business to grow bigger than my minds eyes can see - so I want all hurtles
     to be removed so that growth can set in. I am willing to put in the grunt work and learn
     all it takes to learn and gain a massive following - so that I can work at home and show
     those that are also hungry for that same desire to meet that goal.

     2) What would your dream business look like with this hurdle removed?

     The ability to show others HOW I did it - with Money no longer a hurtle to use, & the best tools it takes to work this business on as close to auto as it can be - working on a powerful team that works together building this dream.

     I want to win this because: To work with this powerful group of people would be such a dream come true to work and learn the skills it takes to grow in massive numbers from the training would be such an honor for me. I have trained under some big teachers in this industry - I have learned and used the most - from the renegade Network Marketer and the people I have come in contact with here.

     I have 3 CEO’s watching me from two companies that I have worked with in the past. They call to “check in” once in a while and see how I am. I want to teach them.

     Even if I don’t win this I want stop … I will succeed … I will learn … and I will be
     at the top one day. I have the skills - they need to be fine tuned and accelerated to the next level. I am not scared - I am ready.

     Comment by Angela Brooks — March 23, 2009 @ 1:40 pm

161. 

     My biggest hurdle: conversion.

     My biggest success: attracting page views. I’ve upped the page views per day, over the past year, from 5506 to 33,768 and going up. Lately I’ve been reading loads on how to get people to convert from browser to opt-in members. Memberships are now … trickling in.

     So now, success needed: conversion. I’ve been doing my homework - reading lots of copywriting stuff - from Making Your Site Sell (from SiteSell, where I have my sites), to Michel Fortin, to Gary Halbert, to Gary Bencivenga, to Paul Myers, to Armand Morin, to Clayton Makepeace. I’m trying to:

     1) learn, and;
     2) find: who will be my best mentor?

     What would my dream business be?
     A huge membership site with 3 big aims:
     - unleashing human thinking power;
     - fostering human creativity;
     - and giving even more of a home to my own works.

     THINKING. Thinking is a major taboo in Western society - not to mention in traditional Middle Eastern society. I’m a college prof - most of my students couldn’t think their way out of a paper bag with a clearly marked exit - at the start of the term. One goal is to have a community of people who value thinking, good thinking. Communities are dynamite for getting things moving at a pace way faster than if there’s just one voice here and another there.

     Re: many people’s being closed to thinking, and the 2 ingredients of good thinking, here are 2 pages:

     http://www.elsas-word-story-image-idea-music-emporium.com/this-is-stupid.html

     http://www.elsas-word-story-image-idea-music-emporium.com/thinking-skills.html

     CREATIVITY. Human creativitY is way underdeveloped in most people. I have a whole slew of fun exercises - plus again there’s the synergistic aspect of community.

     MY OWN WORKS - this has been the aim of PHASE ONE of my site, to give a home to many of my works, and the many sides of my creativity and thinking. But this has not, from the beginning, been the sole aim. In a way, it’s been the foundation. How can I give to others, what I haven’t had? And I hadn’t been able to find a home for my own works until I created one.

     SO, PHASE ONE - THE PRESENT:
     My site - http://elsas-creativity-emporium.com - currently gives space mainly to my own creativity and thinking - a lifetime of both - everything from loads of idea pieces, to spoken word/poetry, to a preteen novel and a creativity blog.

     ON THEIR WAY: PHASE TWO AND PHASE THREE.

     Everything (meaning templates, much content, etc) is in place for phase 2 and phase 3. Needed: more hours in the day. Plus, the right mentor so things go more easily.

     PHASE TWO - WITHIN THE NEXT 2 MONTHS: a full membership site (according to my research, OpenCrypt seems to have the best set of features) so people can become part of an active community.

     PHASE THREE - WITHIN THE NEXT 4 MONTHS: a well-designed section where people can post some of their own creative works and idea pieces, and links to more - also a section for people searching for other people to complete creative works.

     ****

     Here are a few current links:

     * current opening page:
     http://elsas-creativity-emporium.com

     * current opening page for idea part of site:
     http://the-idea-emporium.com

     2 current pages for Zee’s Cafe Cafe, a backbone of the membership site (these are currently no index, no follow, as they have not been keyworded, etc):

     http://www.elsas-word-story-image-idea-music-emporium.com/3-wednesday-ideas.html

     http://www.elsas-word-story-image-idea-music-emporium.com/opinions-are-equal-strategies.html

     3 more pages to give more of an idea PHASE 2 and PHASE 3:

     http://www.elsas-word-story-image-idea-music-emporium.com/the-creativity-emporium.html

     http://www.elsas-word-story-image-idea-music-emporium.com/my-creative-match.html

     http://www.elsas-word-story-image-idea-music-emporium.com/zees-cafe-cafe.html

     My expectation: I will get over my hurdle - finding the best way to up conversion in a huge way, within 30 days.

     Why? I’m really focusing on it, like a year ago, I began my focus on upping page views. The result then: success.

     Comment by Elsa — March 23, 2009 @ 1:42 pm

162. 

     Step by step process on the How To’s.

     1. Engaging (getting started and what to expect)
     2. Tools to be used(how they are used. Testing.
     3 Virtual walk thru.(testing for understanding)
     4. What does a professional do on a daily basis.
     5. Creating online presence(the set up)and Vocab.
     6. Websites, autoresponders, capture pages,
     7. What needs to be said.
     8. Creating Value in your message.
     9. Follow up (what happens here) Role play workshop.
     10.Scripts etc. (someone has to”sponsor someone”
     11.What to expect at this point
     12.Duplication(repeat the process)Workshop testing

     Comment by Barry Papo — March 23, 2009 @ 1:50 pm

163. 

     Thank you for your amazing work and courage to lead!

     The video interview with Mike K hit me like a ton of bricks!! When he was talking about how he didn’t want to be someone else, he wanted to be himself…that’s when it hit me! I have for the last 10 years tried to act my way through network marketing never really being myself. ENOUGH! Why did I get in to MLM in the first place: when I was presented the business plan I was excited about how something so simple that could duplicate could reap such rewards. But there is so much more to it than that which has taken me years to find out. Ann’s description of target marketing and uniqueness was an eye opener. I have long felt that I couldn’t sponsor anyone anymore because I couldn’t give them a way to prospect that didn’t take away their “uniqueness” after a while. They would eventually be duplicating the same regurgitated stuff. This disturbed me while yet I still believed that the business model is fantastic. So when Ann wrote about target market and uniqueness I felt so much more at ease. So I thought “I have 36 years of experience on this planet and I have a unique perspective on those 36 years. On top of that I chose at 26 to build a business. If I could show this uniqueness and the link to why I build a business, there would be people looking for me:-)” I didn’t have to feel a clone anymore and I could sincerely help anyone who crossed my path (if they were looking)

     This made me very excited! Fresh start. Now having followed the run up to Renegade Professional launch and logged into the blog, twitter, squidoo etc. I’m ready!

     So what’s the hurdle? Will this work for little ‘ole me in the woods in Norway…can someone spoon feed me. I have the vision and that’s all very well but I know myself better and better, I can’t see all the details that need to be checked off for the vision to materialise. This is what I’m hoping for in Renegade Professional: STOP PRESS “A 36 year old in the dark woods in Norway turns on his computer and months later is attracting targeted traffic in the droves!”

     So I’ve set up a Twitter account and am updating it quite regularly. I’ve set up a Squidoo lens and am enjoying writing content about nutrition topics that interest me. I have a blog that really is a daily report of my training efforts to reach my 400m track goal.

     What’s fun is looking for targeted content: I’m listening to converations on the bus, tram; reading articles; reading books; watching documentaries; interviewing people…all giving me plenty of ideas to spin some content into my pages. The hurdle now is organising it all into where it should be posted and having the time to post it. It’s fun to be able to have a place to spin off my own ideas on things that I have picked up throughout the day!

     My dream business: I love people and love to see them succeed at whatever they choose to excel at. If I can have some part in their journey and later learn that I have had an influence gives me great joy. It also makes me more certain that I must do what I believe is right for me because then I can be the best of me. If I don’t then then i might be hindering those who cross my path.

     The plan is simple (needs to be for me:-) ) :
     PURCHASE RENEGADE PROFESSIONAL
     1.grow an organisation of 300 people in one geographic market to be financially free.
     2.focus on Health and Beauty trend
     3.Website that drives targeted traffic
     4.Twitter that drives followers
     5.Squidoo that drives targeted traffic
     6.Blog that drives targeted traffic
     7.look into all the buttons that Ann has at the bottom of every blog insertion i.e delicious, delirious, furl etc
     8.Deliver and Over deliver

     When I first saw the business plan I was driving home from Stockholm for 6 hours and my mind was racing. All I could see was me organising an air lift of food , water and equipment to some country that desperately needed it. My team and I had bought the plane, found the crew, collected all the items and flew with it to the country. This is where I believe that Renegade Professional is launching me. All Aboard!!

     Comment by Nils — March 23, 2009 @ 1:55 pm

164. 

     My Biggest Hurdle is: getting the word out to all you wonderful people that there is a win.win that I am highly motivated to share with you.
     You see, it is like this…have you ever seen a little girl born into a world without eyesight? I recently was priviledged to share a weekend with a family in a village in Central America that have 9 children….they have running water, it runs thru a garden hose, they have a shower (the same hose), they have time for each other, and that is rare these days. Thier kitchen has stick walls while they figure out how to put walls under the roof they have started. They have clean white clothes that it is only a work of love by the Mother for her children to go school in.
     you see I have to find medical help for a blind girl in a family without money for health care, and while we are at it how about raising the nutrional level for children that are lacking both in choices in diet and in education.
     THIS IS ALL DOABLE:

     By Mastering the Skills that Ann and Mike are sharing I know a contribution… to the health and well being of everyone on the planet…that will increase the quality of life for all of us and give back to the planet..what better gift is there than to give be part of giving back some of the abundance that is here for sharing?

     Comment by JohnStang — March 23, 2009 @ 1:56 pm

165. 

     Ann, Mike,
     Thank you for this mentoring / training opportunity. I feel like I have found a secret world for success just under the radar that is real, practical, specific and achievable. I am new to the Renegade System, but have been soaking up everyting I can get my hands on. I have finally decided how I will position myself within the system. I have set up a Twitter accouont, a SquiDoo lense yesterday, joined all the social networking sites I have avoided for years, and am now ready to start a blog, and web site. Tomorrow I am buying a webcam to record a couple of lectures I am giving to post on line. I was an English teacher many years ago, so I can put out some Ezines and reports. I am on the low end of the tech and internet food chain, so I look forward to those click by click instructions with anything technical. I will have more to talk about on the sites as I begina setting up my educational system. I have spent a lot of time deciding how to position myself and others for success. I have a valuable and unique skill to offer. I am a Classically trained Feng Shui expert, not the HGTV stuff, the real deal. I have worked with Las Vegas casinios, movie studios, corporations, business owners and network marketers with great success. All of my monthy retainer clients earn over 6 figures or are millionaires. All give me partial credit for their success. I have found the perfect marriage with The Renegade System to reach the greatest number of peope and make the greatest, difference in not only my life but the many people I attract. I am bubbling with ideas, and would love mentoring and strategic coaching to speed and enhance my plan, and the good that I know I can provide. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.
     Karen T. Dallas, TX

     Comment by Karen Ann Tompkins — March 23, 2009 @ 1:56 pm

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     Kudos to Eric on your post…you absolutely deserve to be a super guide and I hope one day I can be there with you. Great stuff. Wish I’d read it before I chimed in, I would have been more specific. It really sets the stage for the contest, and I hope people are reading it & thinking!

     Comment by Alicia Andersen — March 23, 2009 @ 2:01 pm

167. 

     Q 1— What’s the biggest hurdle preventing
     you from business success right now?

     Answer
     Well Ann I’ve started my Network Marketing business in june 2005 after getting the impression that this is a very attractive business method.And with this I myself can achieve great success!I’ve done everything I possibly could.Keeping in mind tight on “SWSWSW..Next” saying.But “Some Will Some Won’t So What…Next” proved to be not working for me!I’ve hardly 10 direct recruit after nearly 4 years of consistent effort!I started feeling shameful & doubting myself!!Nothing is wrong with the business–other people are having success!!The problem must be –ME!!The only reason stopped me from quiting was my incredible passion for Network Marketing Industry as a whole & the products which really worked for me!!Though I had full belief on my products I never could manage to have 5 regular customers in any given month in these nearly 4 years of my Network Marketing career!!

     Q 2– What would your dream business look like
     with this hurdle removed?

     Answer
     Honestly speaking Ann I’ve read your “7 Geart Lies of Network Marketing” & “The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto” just couple of days before.I’ve created leanses on both on Squidoo.It’s not a week yet & I’ve got 110 visiotrs who read my lenses & rated it high!!Now that’s exciting!People are coming to me & looking into my lenses–who personally don’t know me at all!That’s exactly what I want to happen for my business as well!I want to get at least 15 calls a day from the interested people asking me about my business!I want 30 recruits a month.1 recruit a day that’s all I need (for now)!I want to get 90 retail customers a month–means 3 customers a day.

     I have got “The Renegade Network Marketer” & I know the day is very close when I’ll get so many people calling me that I’ve to charge for my time talking to them!!

     Now that’s more Fun!!I won’t be just a Network Marketer,I will be a Network Marketer’s coach!Helping other marketers from different companies to attact more business towards them!!WOW!

     {Ann It’s not about winning the contest to meet you & Mike Klingler (which I’d surely love to)!It’s about persuing my dream to become a Leader & the sure way of that is by being an attractive value provider.}

     Thanking You & MIke Klingler.

     Comment by SANJIDA HASNIN — March 23, 2009 @ 2:04 pm

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     Ann and Mike,
     I made my post earlier in the day and have been touched by many of the other posts I read. The one thing I would have added to the biggest hurdle question is “prioritizing”. Each day I ask myself, “what’s are my priorities today, what should I be working on?” The answer to that question is always questionable for me. In my mind a successful business owner should know exactly what their daily priorities are without question. Thank you again for your consideration.

     Comment by MaryAnn Russell — March 23, 2009 @ 2:16 pm

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     Ann & Mike :
     This would be great! I feel as I am all alone in this. Like Jerry Newmann I myself am a mechanic with limited knowledge of anything more than sending emails Ive been reading and studing hard but there are times that you just need that personal conversation and shown how to do things. Due to the econmic pressures and 20% reduction in pay. I really need education on how to get started with a very limited budget. setting up blogs, videos. I don’t have a clue on setting up landing pages. The best place to start to be seen until things explode. Curently I have multible posting for blog but limited on knowledge to set it up. there is alittle fear there.

     My dream business would be rewarding because down inside I would feel great about seeing the success of others knowing that I made a difference knowing I took responsiblity to better my own life. To be more secure with finances. the aount of people I would love to help in business and just to help others in need would be endless.

     My business would focus on keeping people connected making a difference in others lives. the money is important. But it is much better to help others up. There are many now that need that. Pete Monaghan

     Comment by Pete Monaghan — March 23, 2009 @ 2:21 pm

170. 

     My biggest hurdle is that I have headaches everyday so it makes it hard to think. I’m so glad Ann that you and Mike are helping those of us who want to succeed. You have given me hope. I new there was an answer out here some where, and I thank the Lord every day that I was able to find the answer that I have been looking for for several years. Time is the next big hurtle I have to get a blog or web site up to have a link to bring all the people to my site. Thanks to you and Mike My learning is growing everyday I never knew how ignorant I was. as the Bible says “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” Thanks for wanted to Teach us(me), now I’m on Facebook,Twitter,Squidoo,Myspace leaning how to navagate. If I can bring all the sites together thing will begin to happen.

     I cann’t wait untill all this happens. All the people that are waiting to learn. As I teach them what I have learned from you and Mike. As you know and I been telling all who will listen, I believe the next 5 years we will see the Great Transfer of Wealth. I new it was coming but I didnot know how or where it would take place.

     As I have learned from you an Mike the Internet will be the place to creat 1000’s of new Millionairs. You two I thank you for being so generious with your time, knowledge, compassion, patience, and understanding helping those of us that need the help. For letting us know the place and how to help us succeed. I get so excited because I have found a way to success.

     So I thank you Ann, Mike for not giving up when things got tough. Because of you two and your Vision,and all of us who glean your wisdom thank you.

     How can we fail with Teachers like you, we can not and will not.
     As you and I know when we see our children succeed (we are your children) we feel Blessed in our selves. One thing that I hope is that I can freely give to my people as you have given to me.
     It is exciting to look ahead and see all the 1000s and 1000s of people who will be helped, I thank God that I was one of them.
     May God Bless you and keep you well so you, Ann and Mike may see the Fruit of your labor.

     Comment by Greg Gust — March 23, 2009 @ 2:25 pm

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     Good Afternoon Ann:

     Thank you for the opportunity to share from my heart about my dreams and desires.

     When I was introduced to network marketing, now over 15 years ago, it was the first time I had ever heard of it. It the time I thought it was the best opportunity I had ever been presented with. I now have been in three companies and they all teach the same thing-build your list, call, then go out and meet new “friends” and call them with your opportunity. I have always known there has to be a better way and when I came across your website nearly one year ago, I knew in my heart this was different and I began accessing the information and reading everything I could get my hands on.
     I come from a family of entrepreneurs and always wanted to be a business owner. I choose the corporate world instead and now after a restructuring and a couple of job changes, I know something has to change.

     Network marketing is multi-faceted and one area that has always sustained me is the area of self improvement. I love to read and grow.

     The biggest challenge for me is I have always heard that if it too good to be true, it usually is. My head tells me this is the real deal and I have read, listened, and started to put some of what I have learned into practical application. What is holding me back is that I do not want to disappoint myself or my family again. We have spent thousands of dollars chasing every suggestion our upline fed us with little or no results.

     It is my heart desire to build a business in which I can help my family and countless other families get their lives in control in such a way we can positively change our community, state, and country.

     I know the system you and Mike have put together is the catalyst that will propel myself and others to a level we can only imagine.

     I am getting a clear vision of what I want and know it will take focus, determination, and perserverance.

     I as many others would love to “win” this contest, but I have already won because I am at the right place at the right time with the right people. This is what I have been looking for and if it is to be it is up to me!!!

     I look forward to learning and growing as I apply the training you have provided.

     Best regards,

     Chris Hogue

     Comment by Chris Hogue — March 23, 2009 @ 2:29 pm

172. 

     Thanks Ann and Mike!
     Thanks for creating this contest. I am inspired by reading all of the comments. My biggest hurdle standing in the way of success right now is dealing with the flood of prospects that I am getting from applying the things I have learned in the Renegade Marketing System. It is a problem of focusing on the most productive activities. I am enjoying the success of learning and teaching others how to build lists and downlines. That has become my primary focus. I know that if I won this contest, I would become better at providing information, education, and training to the people on my ever exploding lists and downlines. If I could consistently serve and help the people who are coming to me for help my business would be be bursting at the seams, and more importantly I would see those people walking across the stage trophies in hand, being recognized for their star achievments.
     Thanks again for all that you do. It has greatly improved what I can do for others!!!

     Comment by Ken Wolff — March 23, 2009 @ 2:33 pm

173. 

     The hurdles to my business include:
     a. Lack of money and other resources
     b. Lack of time and knowledge
     c. Using marketing strategies which dont work
     d. Lack of good mentors, especially here in
     Africa

     What I would archive, with hurdles removed

     a. My business would grow very fast
     b. I will make good money and gain finacial
     Freedom
     c. With financial freedom, I would assist
     other people

     Comment by Modiko P Pheto — March 23, 2009 @ 2:40 pm

174. 

     Dear Ann & Mike,

     First, I want to thank you both, and I believe I can speak for all of your members, for your generosity and your willingness to give through this competition. For me I have come to expect this from Ann. Mike you are too new to me but I have been following Ann for a year or two and she so sincerely comes across as someone who genuinely wants people to succeed. For some time Ann knew in her heart that success comes when you stop pitching and you genuinely teach.

     I have wanted for some time now to generate a successful online business and/or use online strategies to grow an offline business. I have invested a good deal of money and many hours of learning and have little to show for it but for a super strong conviction that mastering online strategies and techniques to build a real business is the way to go. Nothing can convince me otherwise. I am currently a student of PPC search marketing and I am particularly intrigued by the concept of attraction/social marketing.

     As I reflect back on my struggles the number one roadblock for me has been the difficulty of implementing (putting into action) what I learned. Having been involved with MLMs before I thought The 7 Great Lies of Network Marketing and The Renegade Network Marketer were right on target. However, I got bogged down trying to build a web site without a clearly defined business or product and I was not able to monetize. Some is just who I am. You see I am an accountant and marketing and creativity do not come to me naturally. I am analytical and I tend to over think things. Fortunately I stayed on Ann’s email list and then came along her next great work The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto where the whole blueprint for successful online marketing is unveiled. We learn about Mike Klingler, who by the way is a great teacher, the concept of social marketing (sales in a conversational way and attracting through a selfless, value-based, solutions-provider mindset), the free videos and right before my eyes is something a kin to Mike Filsaime’s Butterfly Marketing in action. How exciting!

     While listening to and putting into action the Twitter video, thoughts of business playing to my strengths fluttered through my head. I was so excited I called two business owners to discuss how what I was learning would help them grow their off line businesses and develop an online business. Not surprisingly their response was very positive. There is an ocean of small businesses in my community and I think everyone of them is a potential client. I know I can transfer the knowledge from your soon-to-be-released course to these owners to not only grow their businesses but to generate money in ways they have not even dreamed. The result will be a stronger economic business base and job creation. There are so many of us struggling I can easily sense how good it will feel to make a meaningful change in these people’s lives as well as my own. I believe 2009 will be a great year for me. I see my online activities growing to a point where I can employ some people also. Right now I can not think of a better way to help. Thank you in advance for helping many of us to be better online marketers and to enjoy success.

     Best regards,
     Chris

     Comment by Christopher Mendez — March 23, 2009 @ 2:49 pm

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     Question #1. The bigest hurdle preventing me from business success is a fear of the unknown, and how to find a targeted specifict niche. Then getting a marketing message in front of millions of people. Once that’s accomplished, then how to handle all the phone calls and orders.

     As for question #2, I’d be able to replace my full-time job with a business which I would have a passion for. It would provide an opportunity to help others acheive their dreams and goals thus this will help me. I’d be sponsoring 100’s of people a month in to my business. In acheiving this, the sky is unlimited for growth.

     One of the first modest goals would be to pay off my house and other debt. Next, I’d start researching ways to expand the business by finding other markets which have a need for a solution. Possible expanding into multiple products which would help prospects.

     Comment by Greg Stee;e — March 23, 2009 @ 2:51 pm

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     1) - The biggest hurdle - Lack mentality. After struggling and end up with 3 overdue credit cards I am so nervous even to look at my bank statement. Due to this I procrastinate when I have to buy something (I am talking about essential educational material and tools for my business) and waste lot of time and energy “worrying” about it. I know I could do with some additional coaching with great guides pout their but scared to ask because in the back of my mind I am thinking “how much will this cost me?”

     2)What would my business look like when I overcome my main hurdle:
     My content including videos are all over the internet and I am one of the sought after guides in my target audience. I am generating cash whether they buy my product or sign up for the business opportunity or not because I have monitization build into my business. As you mention in your books Ann, I am no longer putting all my eggs in one basket.
     I am building a huge list of people who are interested in learning what I have to share and I will have 20 new customers and upgrades every month and 50 repeat clients.
     I will be sponsoring 10 new people to my business every month and I am plugging them to the Renegade Professional System to get the same training I receive and also that is a great way to leverage the renegade professional system. I provide extra coaching by way of webinars and one-on-one coaching. I can now see my team duplicating what I am doing which never happened to me in the last 5 years.
     It is great to see that I have paid off my debt that I got into trying to get rich and have an extra $5000 that I am paying myself.

     It is great to wake up in the morning for a bunch of “thank you” emails to say how they have changed their health and lifestyle because of the information and products I share with them. I can sleep better now knowing that the people I sponsor will not end up getting into debt, but getting into positive cash flow and duplicating themselves. I am so grateful that I could play a part in changing peoples life for the better.

     How am I planning to do this?
     Have a 90day plan.
     Have a daily method of operation.
     On my DMO
     - Schedule time to do training with renegade professional.
     - Schedule time to take action on the things that I already learned.
     - Schedule time for social networking. (making sure not to waste my time unnecessarily)
     - Schedule time fro checking e-mail.
     - Schedule time for calls with clients/prospects
     Learn one thing and do the action till I am comfortable before jumping on to the another training.
     Sticking to my schedule.
     Focus, Focus and more Focus on my activity and training.

     That’s about it. Thanks Ann and Mike for this great opportunity. I love to win this contest. One thing for sure I know whether I win this contest or not I am a winner because your questions made me to get inside my head to think about things that I never thought.
     I haven’t done a vision statement in years because what ever I did in the past never materialized and I lost faith in myself that I could ever be successful. This give me not only hope but a clear plan and a belief that I could do it.
     Thanks and I am so grateful for everything both of you are doing.
     Damayanthi

     Comment by Damayanthi Jayasinghe — March 23, 2009 @ 2:53 pm

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     The biggest hurdle right now is after 15 years in networking I need to get right up to date with new ideas to connect to more people to let them know of this wonderful opportunity the old ways are to slow and the world is getting smaller with all the technology available also being able to duplicate faster will help so many people make money faster hence changing their lives and in turn they can do the same for others.
     my dream business would look like a perfect garden ever thing in place new seeds being planted ever day and when they bloom i can enjoy the fruits.but the best thing will be other people picking fruits instead of always sowing seeds.

     Comment by Bernadette Allen — March 23, 2009 @ 3:07 pm

178. 

     Greetings Ann and Mike,
     I want to thank you both so much for all that you are providing to the World of Network Marketing and to the many of us who will be successfully following your program. Thanks for presenting this opportunity for us to express our goals and desires.

     The biggest hurdle confronting me right now, even though I understand the concepts of Attraction Marketing, is not having the step by step instructions that The Renegade Pro will provide. I know I need that and having it would make my journey soooo much easier. I know that I need to have the right tools and techniques in place. I understand that I need to have good content to attract prospects who are interested in my niche. I get how free “fishing pools” are helpful for generating traffic to my landing pages or website(s). What I need to know are the specific sequences or the dots to the I’s and crosses to the t’s. Right now I feel that I can do it but there are times when I need more confidence regarding what to do next. I know that I will be successful a lot sooner by using the Renegade Pro.

     Jumping this hump in the road will give me more confidence in what I am doing. I know where I want to go. I see my business helping people on many different levels. I have always wanted to help people. I am in the health industry and generating more customers will help my business and my customers will benefit by improving their health through my products. I also have a Network Marketing Opportunity with the same products. I strongly believe Paul Zane Pilzer when he says that the Wellness Industry is in the mist of becoming extremely profitable. I want to be able to help other people prosper from the Wellness Industry through Network/Attraction Marketing. The marriage of the two will lead to solid success and this is a sure way to be secure during these hard financial times.

     I am just starting. I have no prospects right now. Right now I am working on a website pertaining to my niche, I will have 10 Squidoo lenses up in the next couple of days, continue to build my list and I have a blog. My dream in the next 4 months I see having hundreds of customers going to my website and purchasing my products and my MLMs products. In that time I see sponsoring no less than 40 people for my MLM and at least 100 or more as an affiliate for The Renegade Pro. Another dream is to be an example of success for my MLM and eventually work towards a JV with them.

     After investing my initial profits into more Marketing tools I see having a comfortable residual income within 6 months. In a year I will no longer have to worry about not having an income which will allow me to clear my credit, invest and to secure a future for my 8 year old. I am an older single mother and I am doing all of this for him. I want to show him what hard work and determination can accomplish. I want to teach him that working for others is just as rewarding as working for yourself. I want his values to come from me. He already knows how I help people with eating healthy and now he will see how to take a passion, work it into a lucrative business and how that business helps benefit others in same way. I also homeschool him and as far as I am concerned this is going to be one of the biggest and most valuable lessons that I can ever teach him. This is very important to us right now and I am willing to work as hard as I have to get into the position where I can help others even more. The harder I work the more I can help. My ultimate goal is to create an affordable alternative healing center and I need to be successful with what I am doing now in order for that to happen. There are too many people who are suffering from chronic health conditions because they do not have enough or proper information about the connections between food and their health. I want to make a difference in this world when it comes to this issue.

     Comment by Ntombikhaya — March 23, 2009 @ 3:09 pm

179. 

     My biggest hurdle is setting up a website. My inquiries about SBI to over a dozen other team members that I randomly chose showed a majority advising against it, because of its discouraging complexity and time consumption, while there is a lot more to be done on the other end to set up the business. Doing it myself, finding the right information to put in the site that will entice the audience is not easy, especially finding the right key words and key phrases, without making the site look too congested.
     With my biggest hurdle removed, my business would include many smiling people that would feel great helping others becoming great. I would be able to fund organizations such as the National Domestic Violence Hotline in a way that they would be able to grow significantly and thus help a lot of victims of domestic violence on their end. The number of customers I would have could easily exceed 1500, in a period of a year. I understand virology and how it works. It is easy to get big fast through the Renegade System and implementation of the techniques of Mike Klingler. It would be easy to sponsor 3 to 7 people a week, once the business picks up its momentum and I can already see the need to hire a few people to aide me in moving the business along. It would definitely be quite an experience to get a check in the mail for $1000.00 for this internet business. To dream up a feeling of how it would feel to wake up in the morning to a duplicating down line and a business that is bursting at the seams is yet unimaginable: I never had even $1000.00 in a savings account, and so, such a business, although looking incredible, is hard to dream up.
     Totally different is it to imagine the feeling of making a difference in the lives of others. Through mentoring I have first handedly experienced the greatness of making lasting changes in others lives. That alone is worth going to bed at night with a smile and a pounding heart.
     The Health and Nutrition is the direction I am looking to get into, since I have been very aware of my health since age 12. To feel normal is one thing; to be buzzing due to health, quite another. That is a feeling I would like as many as possible to experience without the aid of any drugs whatsoever. I will be great at teaching the simple skills that are needed to stay on top of your health and enjoy doing it, too. And to have others make such improvements in their lives that they would want to exchange that information with others would be the most satisfying experience of my entire live!! OMG – to live a life, knowing that I served others and brought them to a better level of health and living is likely the only reason I have been on this planet for a little over 50 years.
     A series of YouTube videos about Health and Nutrition, exercise [both physical and breathing exercises] and a website on commonsense nutrition to set the stage while and after I complete the tutorials from the Renegade University. Holding web seminars and staying in touch with my customers by means of e-mail and snail mail. And keeping up to date with whatever Ann and Mike have in store for us, to help us improve our skills.
     Now that the Renegade System exists, I have hope to be able to retire at the age of 65……. IF I want to, at that age. (Chances are, I will so much enjoy doing what I do then, that I won’t quit!!! Oh, the joy of helping others…)

     Alfons Bemmel

     Comment by Alfons — March 23, 2009 @ 3:16 pm

180. 

     just need help from Dear Ann & Mike, to me in my ccpro business i need just to start earning to pay my monthly fee and i need to know how to start Renegade Professional and what is there price? to start.

     Comment by Hilmi — March 23, 2009 @ 3:19 pm

181. 

     Hi Ann & Mike–
     I have been following your information for a while now. I find that I am a natural to attraction marketing and that is something that I have always done without realizing or giving a name to it. I consider myself an educator over a sales consultant any day. I have been the top selling consultant in my company for two years now but my downline stays small. I am not much of a recruiter–I have such strong conviction and passion for my product but as for the business opportunity–I have a hard time beleiving that many people are cut out for MLM and it must show for my lack of recruits. My biggest hurdle seems to be me! I want so badly to get set up on line and create quality leads but each thing I do seems to require two more steps that I don’t know how to do. I signed up for twitter but still not sure of how to use it to my advantage. I view Facebook as more of a social network but am there now too. I need a website and a blog but get frustrated at my lack of knowledge in setting these up and making them work to my advantage–I really feel alone–my upline has never done anything like this and I would like to learn and teach more consultants like myself to network online. I am not even sure I am setting these steps up in the most effective way possible. I am 45 and really just learning in the computer world. I have to say–it’s a little daunting when you start looking into it–it also seems so incredible and exciting. I am positive that this is the way of the future and I don’t want to miss the boat. Mike’s free info on setting up a Squidoo Lens and Tweeter were great but I feel I need so much more to make it all work. Winning a contest or no–I really want more of the Renegade Pro information! It’s the only way I will be able to take my business to a new level. Thank you for all your fabulous information!

     Sandy Skibinski

     Comment by Sandy Skibinski — March 23, 2009 @ 3:22 pm

182. 

     My hurdle is that I am using my time badly right now. In my interest to ensure that women have a great sport to be in and a place to laugh, I have built a women’s hockey league in my town and it requires alot of my time. I have also decided to take contract work to get the quick money, which is just silly, because it will run out and build nothing. I volunteer too much right now and build and work too little.

     So, now I know that the reason so many of us mothers and women and professionals don’t have time to eat right, take care of ourselves and do fun things and build an empire is because of no time - and it is what I wish to lead people out of, but first I have to lead myself. I was going to say training is also a hurdle, but with the Renegade University, I just need to dedicate my time and focus to it and I will be on my way. I have set a date of April 02 to put all other things aside for 2 years (or as long as it takes)and focus and truly help people.

     Once my hurdles are removed, I will be able to build my empire that allows me to live in a beautiful home, save for a sweet retirement, travel with my kids and I will be talking to people all the time to help them create that life too. I will build a community centre and supply the funds so that kids can go there to get food, shelter and have programs for healthy family/community there (with a gym of course and a big garden etc.)

     I’m seeing about 25,000 customers and sponsoring over 18 people each month. I can’t wait to feel the stress of a overgrown business (answering maching blinking away, e-mails pouring in) and the joy of taking vacation from it for a month every year after working hard. I can’t wait to see that look in new friends’ eyes when we see each other at a conference after 10 years of helping each other achieve huge dreams that they never thought possible, and feeling that bond of thankfulness and deep appreciation - almost like one would feel after saving someone’s life.

     I am going to achieve this by staying dedicated every day, by truly caring about people and honing my skills and by truly being myself and finding my niche ( THANK GOODNESS for ANN & MIKE & Attraction Marketing!!!!) This is going to be a fun ride. Thanks for your questions.

     Comment by Shelley Maher — March 23, 2009 @ 3:23 pm

183. 

     My biggest roadblock is that I have been feed soooo much information from every “expert” out there that I have to flush my mind of everything I’ve learned so far and listen to what you too have to say. You seem to be straight forward and speaking on laymans terms.
     I believe my business will grow considerably once I apply your methods. that’s it. No long story. Stright to the point. Nice work guys.

     Comment by Bob Johnson — March 23, 2009 @ 3:27 pm

184. 

     Hi Mike & Anne - I am a retired school teacher and my biggest hurdle is sometimes I feel like I’m just too old for all this new stuff - it’s absolutely mind boggling and thrilling at the same time. Some nights I’m so excited I can hardly sleep. Other times I’m so frustrated I don’t know what to do.

     I’ve been trying to make some money in my wellness industry mlm business for 11 years - the old way - I hated it for all the reasons everyone knows.

     When I first came in contact with attraction marketing ideas through Anne & Mike it gave me such hope. It made total sense to me. Maybe this would work for me. I told my upline about the Renegade Network Marketer. She mentioned it to her upline but no one really took it seriously. My upline continues to teach the 100 Contact name list or pick a niche eg. realtors in these downtimes and offer them the business plan. We’re talking phoning people out of the phone book. Some are succeeding minimally - I just can’t do it. Now working on attraction marketing I feel like I’m totally apart from my upline and colleagues. I’ve stopped attending their regular meetings because everything they’re teaching I no longer believe.

     Sometimes I have doubts I can do it the new way too. I understand the whole concept of attraction marketing but I just don’t know how to put all the pieces together. I’m at present working on an SBI site, creating Squidoo lenses, starting a blog, promoting SBI through a teacher magazine, interacting via Twitter, researching how to create Landing Pages. Every new thing I try takes me a long time to learn and complete. I find the learning curve steep. I’m lucky I have a 19 year old son who often helps me with computer skills but he’s usually pretty busy with his own things.

     What would my ideal business look like? People who are really interested in improving their health or improving their finances would be calling me all the time. This would be the most thrilling experience of my 11 years trying to do this business. I would be signing up a lot of product takers and I would be bringing in 5 or more business builders a month. I would know exactly how to coach them and help them succeed in making money as soon as possible. This would be the first time in my business true duplication would be working. I feel like this is such a key thing. People who are steadily increasing their income are not going to be discouraged and quit which has happened to me over and over.

     By adding just 60 product takers or business people to my downline I would be making $5000 a month. To me this is serious money. I would really feel like finally, I was on my way!

     The big problem: I need a business plan so I know where I’m headed. Right now I feel I’m headed all over the place.

     Comment by Bonnie McClure — March 23, 2009 @ 3:32 pm

185. 

     1) Biggest hurdle?? Myself combined with proper effective time management!! Many thanks go out to Ann & Mike for their knowledge, experience, & relentless efforts to market & teach. I truly feel privileged to have been introduced to this team (thank you Candace Westlake of Tampa, FL and Wendy Brennan and Wendy Mills)& have read, consumed, & digested this valuable information, like food, water, & the air we breathe as 100% vital to our successes.

     2) Dream business with hurdle removed??
     Definitely, The Sky Is Limitless & Opportunity And Value Is Endless!! Healthy & Wealthy in Mind, Body, & Soul and Valuable Relationships Met & Built for 100% Positive Lifestyle for all willing to drink from the cup!!

     Hers’s to all of our Past, Present, & Future Successes that have brought us here & will continue to drive us forward to many other great & valuable experiences…….

     Thanks Again,
     John C. Lima

     Comment by John Lima — March 23, 2009 @ 3:41 pm

186. 

     Simple, how do you pick a business that will go somewhere?

     Comment by Pat — March 23, 2009 @ 3:45 pm

187. 

     Hi Anaa and Mike,
     Sometimes I fee like giving up but I do not know how to quit. So after 3 years I am still hoping to make an income from internet marketing. So my biggest problem is getting constant residual income to sustain my expenses on the internet. Making sales continuous.

     Comment by Emmanuel Mba — March 23, 2009 @ 3:47 pm

188. 

     Wow, this is a good one. I don’t think I have ever seen an easy contest as this one. Not only you identify the challenges you are facing but you also focus and get clarity on the results you will get once the obstacles are clear and at the same time you can win $5,000.00 worth of prizes all of which help you get through those challenges. Pretty sweet. I am sending an email to my community right now, would love to see one of my students winning all of this.

     Partners in Progress,
     DiDi Alcheva

     Comment by Diyana Alcheva - DiDi — March 23, 2009 @ 3:59 pm

189. 

     For a 68 year old the biggest hurdle is putting all that you and mike have taught me together so that I can generate high qualified leads.And to give service too others.Question 2 Knowing that I have done something significant. the answer to the next set of questions would be in direct relation to the service and education that I provided.How do I plan it by getting into Renagade Pro and applying the education that Pro will afford me.

     Comment by Morris Fisher — March 23, 2009 @ 4:00 pm

190. 

     Obstacle: being 54 years old and starting over. Pursing a dream that was meant to be, knowing that I can do it, but needed the tools necessary to succeed.

     My business: would allow me to work when I chose, from where I chose, and to teach thousands of others that a dream life is possible.

     I know that the attraction marketing method is the key to success because it allows a person to work with people who are interested in my information. Theme, Concept, Content, Presale, and Monetize.

     Comment by Steve Wood — March 23, 2009 @ 4:00 pm

191. 

     Hi Ann & Mike,

     First I want to thank you for all the good material you have been providing. You have actually removed many of the hurdles of using the internet effectively for businesses of all types.

     One of the main hurdles I face is working a full time job and also working part-time on my internet passion. Time is a valuable commodity so the specific marketing piece I will implement must work effectively. Secondly, more and more a “professional image” is critical where-ever you present yourself. The internet has been called the “bathroom wall” of society. Using FREE social web sites would appear to be the apitomy of this. I want to always present my business and myself in a professional manner. Third, I am concerned about quiting my job if there is no long term success of the internet marketing on this level. Certainly there are no guarantees in business and the internet will be around for a long time. Would the envirnoment change radicially in the future? Last, I don’t really have an “internet marketing wise” up-line to encourage or assist me. I am flying solo except for you guys.

     My drean business would be an internet based marketing extreme machine! I would develop a monster MLM business and plenty of retail sales. I would develop a powerful training group to help each partner use their passion and talents with effective internet marketing to insure their success. I would have at least five full time assistants to evaluate competition, down-line success, evaluate web portals & marketing strategies, implement and evaluate affiliates, respond to e-mails and send thank you notes in a personal manner. Last, I would have a bunch quality affliates companies clammering to work with our website and team. So we would get the cream of the crop at the highest levels of compensation.

     It felt good just to write that out.

     Thank you again for allowing us to dream.

     Comment by TA lawrence — March 23, 2009 @ 4:03 pm

192. 

     Hi Ann and Mike,

     My biggest hurdle is to learn and apply all of the techniques that Renegade Pro will teach me. I need to learn how to create my own content and provide people with valuable information so that they will want my advice, as well as wanting to learn about my opportunity. I am especially excited about the use of video content.

     Obviously, I expect these methods and activities to generate scores of new customers and individuals who will join my business opportunity. Two things excite me about this. First, the benefits that people will derive from my products. Second, the ability to help others realize heir hopes and dreams through network marketing while at the same time realizing my own hopes and dreams.

     Thanks,

     Gary

     Comment by Gary McKeighen — March 23, 2009 @ 4:07 pm

193. 

     THE OBSTACLES THAT HOLD ME BACK IN MY
     MLM BUSINESS , AND HOW I THINK THE
     RENEGADEPROFESSIONAL TRAINING SYSTEM
     WILL SOLVE MY PROBLEMS.
     — by Mel Butler
     ——————————————————————-
     The only obstacle that really holds me back in the

     MLM busines is “the advertising budget I need in
     order to get leads so that I can find people who are
     interested in my business opportunity and or products.
     Multi - Level - Marketing or (MLM) is marketing and

     selling a company’s product
     or service exclusively with company representatives

     known as distributors.
     Distributors have the exclusive right to market and sell

     the company’s product and
     may also recruit other people to use the product , sell

     the product and also recruit
     other people to do the same thing. This can go on and

     on to many different levels
     under the original distributor . Each distributor earns

     a small percent of the sales
     of the down line distributor that she or he brought into

     the business as well as their
     own sales profits. This is why it is called “Multi - Level

     ” Marketing .The company
     that I presently represent as an independent distributor

     is a very large multi -
     national corporation that is operating in sixty three

     countries. Some of the
     independent distributors have become millionares by

     working this MLM business.
     Many have resilual incomes of $10,000 to $20,000

     dollars per month or more.
     This is income that will continue to come in if they

     stopped working and retired.
     The monetary compensational benifits of my company

     are very good to say the
     least, that is if you can retail the company’s fine line of

     nutritional products
     and outer care products and also recruit other people

     who are really serious
     about having their own independent distributorship

     business. So , as with any
     business there is a cost of advertising and marketing

     the products that is the
     responsiblity of each independent distributor to take

     care of. The way my MLM
     company does this is by what we call “Media leads” ,

     these are people that see
     the company’s TV commerical and decided that they

     will give their contact
     information to learn more or sign up to become a

     distributor. These “media
     leads” are the people who may be interested in the

     business and requested that
     a company representative or independent distributor

     call them back with more
     information about how they can earn money in this

     business and more
     about the business plan and how it works. These

     “Media leads” bring alot
     of people into the business and is effective in getting

     retail customers also,
     but the only problem is that everyone is not financially

     able to spend every month
     $1500 to `$3000 dollars every month for two to four

     years until the business
     becomes self funding where enough profit is made to

     cover all advertising
     expenses without any more out of pocket expense for

     more leads. But, this is the
     reason I am writting this report, if you can get all the

     MLM leads you need for
     free , than you can make this kind of profit and also

     earn resilual incomes that
     keeps coming in even after you stop doing network

     marketing and decide to do
     some thing else you like such as helping other people

     who need a job or who
     may be out of work and can not find a job. This is the

     way to do it, and I believe that the

     “RenegadeProfessional training system ” solves this

     advertising budget obstacle. You can not beat this kind

     of leverage when the leads are free and very abundant!
     So , I will use the Renegade Professional system to

     obtain all the leads I need with out paying $108,000

     dollars to complete my business plan in three years.
     I realize the value here. You see, media leads would

     cost me $3000 dollars a month to work my business

     plan to make the income I desire and have resilual

     income that I desire in three years . This resilual

     income will continue even went I stop working and

     retire. But , under my present MLM company , the

     media leads would cost me $36,000 dollars a year and

     to complete my business plan and advertise every

     month and be consistent in working my leads every day

     for three years , that cost would be 3 times $36,000 or

     $108,000 dollars in advertising cost. That’s a big

     obstacle out of the way of success!

     Mel Butler

     Comment by Mel Butler — March 23, 2009 @ 4:11 pm

194. 

     Biggest hurdle is working full-time then coming home to “market” plus do all the home things. Time in other words. If I can just create enough capital even through monetization to resign the job, I know the floodgates will open. I really believe the give and it shall be given to you teaching you both do.That really impressed me in the new Manifesto. It clicked in a new way, teaching is the way.And I am a teacher by nature but didn’t find this out until recently. I have so many things to share that I know people are hungry for. It will change their lives…not just financially either. People are looking for solid family relationships too. And solid business relationships.Win Win…How many customers? I don’t think I can count that high! My team would be able to sponsor an unlimited # of new people each month…who can count. 100’s. Because, they would know they would be joining a team of educators. That is such a feeling of security. I know because I failed the old way. Like Mike it wasn’t me. My upline said maybe this isn’t for you. But I refused to believe I couldn’t do this. So I prayed for direction that someone could show me how its really done. That’s when I ran into Ann’s material. Wow!
     I would like to start with a blog, then website. I do the social media sites but its disorganized and needs tweaking big time. And consistency.No one can find me either. So that sure needs changing.
     To wake up every day knowing I am touching lives in so many ways…well, it might be hard to get to sleep. LOL. But yes that would be worth everything in the world.

     Comment by Sallie Greenleaf — March 23, 2009 @ 4:15 pm

195. 

     Hi Ann and Mike,

     At this point my biggest hurdle is only Myself and Time! I am on fire with the certainty that with Attraction Marketing, my business will explode in 2009!

     I market Pre Paid Legal, and I finally understand that I can use every feature of Attraction Marketing and NEVER come close to violating the marketing restrictions of my Associates Agreement!

     I have mapped out on a piece of butcher paper my Online Business Universe - with boxes for FaceBook, Squidoo, WordPress blog and many more. Under the boxes I have listed the content I eventually will have at each location as well as a “schedule” of when I will update that content.

     With my new Attraction Marketing Business Plan I will be positioning myself as an expert consultant and I’ve already written the first 7 out of 21 articles and content pieces that I will be using to launch my Online Lead Generating Machine!

     With my Attraction Marketing Business Plan in action I will have the qualified and eager leads necessary to attract talented people to my team! The first phase of my business plan is focused on retail sales of my product and once that is up and running I’ll begin recruiting.

     I am approaching my one year anniversary in MLM and in that time never sponsored one person. It was when I read “The 7 Great Lies” that I understood why!

     I have really been suffering this past year for the lack of success in my MLM business! Bills barely paid from month to month, living on a shoestring budget, counting every penny. . . I certainly haven’t been the Wild Success I imagined I would be! Despite my hard work I have often been demoralized as yet another week went by without a sale. I have had some profound doubts and low points this past year as I struggled to follow the system endorsed by my company. My sponsor abandoned me within my first month!

     With my Attraction Marketing Business Plan my newly renewed hopes do not seem like pipe dreams. I can see myself doing every single action outlined in the plan!

     My goals are to generate enough leads and retail customers that I will make $20,000 a month. I will have at least one Associate in my downline in every state and 4 Canadian Provinces. Most of those Associates will start out receiving fresh leads from my Online Lead Generating Machine and will themselves eventually use the tools of Attraction Marketing to generate their own leads and prospects!

     My ultimate goal is to be able to live outside the country, in Ireland and Canada, for several months each year while my Online Business keeps the money coming in. It is also important to me to be able to spend a lot of quality time with my elderly mother and father in Portland, OR. Time is all I have left with them and I can’t stand losing another minute!

     Thank you Ann and Mike for the great gift of knowledge you have given to all of us! I will keep you up to date on my success and would certainly welcome the opportunity to meet you in person and gratefully shake your hand!

     To Your Continued Success! Gaia

     Comment by Gaia — March 23, 2009 @ 4:17 pm

196. 

     The biggest hurdle to success right now is trying to cut through all the noise! A constant barrage of e-mails with the next best guaranteed lead generation system, expensive miracle tools, and opportunities that make millions, so easy that even your grandmother could do them. After 2 years in the business with no income, the pressure is mounting to start making money,as the expenses are killing my enthusiasm. I constantly jump around from project to project, business to business, hoping to find something that will show some promise. I am at the breaking point.

     A dream business would be something that I could teach others, that would generate at least an income to sustain it, with constant growth potential. I have enjoyed learning this business, and I understand the frustration that other new entrepreneurs will face.I receive pleasure from teaching, and I find network marketing concepts interesting. Money is not the most important factor, as it would have to be something that I would enjoy doing, to sustain it for long term growth. I intend to use Renegade’s marketing methods as a platform for future business success.

     Comment by Gary Canie — March 23, 2009 @ 4:19 pm

197. 

     Hey Ann,
     1) The biggest hurdle preventing me from success in my business is finding motivated people who understand what residual income can do for them. My product is great and so is my compensation plan. My company i going into full blown momentuem and i am sponsored by the founding distributor with a growing business already in my dowline at over 150 levels deep. I want to use attraction marketing to get the word out to the masses about my opportunity and cash in big time. My goal is to bring at least 1000 people into my business by the end of the year. This will make me a big 6 figure earner. If you could help guide me my
     2) Dream business would be giving me the freedom and lifestyle that i want so i can help others do the same. In addition to marketing the worlds first healthy chocolate i also teach yoga. I want to open a yoga studio again. I have been in that business before but it does not pay well. I believe it should and want to open a new studio where the teachers get paid properly for the service they provide. Thanks in advance for all your help.

     Comment by mike — March 23, 2009 @ 4:24 pm

198. 

     1) What’s the biggest hurdle preventing
     you from business success right now?

     I have number of things going on at the same time: I got “stucked” managing(volunteer) local amateur theatre, I´m working almost-no-skills-required dayjobs and… Met SOMEONE(from that theatre, by the way :)) after beeing single for 1 1/2 year. My point is… Studying how to do this and act on it, is easiest NOT to do.

     2) What would your business look like
     with this hurdle removed?

     I would have over hundred new customers and I´d sponsor 10-15 people/month. Because of that I could pay myself 2500-3000$ more every month. It would feel amazing to wake up and to realize that I don´t ever, I mean EVER, again have to go to a job and lower myself to get a living. And I couldn´t wait to see my friends and family for that one single question:” What do you do? - I´m network marketing entrepreneur. :)” And thanks to Ann Sieg and 7GreatLies, I`d be REALLY happy not pitching them after saying it! Confidence as citizen and human being would skyrocket, because of the respect from other influential people. I dreamed of helping people in MLM, after two years of every-month-success-seminars. I felt lonely and terrified, because I didn´t know how to do it, I knew that I have to lead. Now, that it is really happening, I´m exited, to say at least, that Life really goes towards deepest intentions. Wau! :)I´m into healing and… To be in a position to be able to have customers for this cell-nutrition I´m in love with, gives me hope that life as we know it could really remain, and even get better! I´ll do all that is listed above by cutting 90% of my time and energy in theatre after this month and continue to learn how to use Twitter to build my list and later on, same with Youtube. I will receive my first checks in may and thanks for that I´m able to cut hours in my dayjobs and work more for my business. The rest you already know… More time, energy and yes… money to spend with this SOMEONE I met few months ago.

     Comment by Pekka Hannonen — March 23, 2009 @ 4:31 pm

199. 

     I’ll be short and sweet. I’m like a blind man in this and need a teacher that can physically place my hand on the braille so to speak. I was on the “learning treadmill” and have spent over $25,000.00 in learning materials that might as well be written in Greek until I was introduced to your system.
     Getting the chance to one on one with you will help me implement all this Knowledge I have but can’t Chanel.
     My very small downline are failing as a result of my lack of experience in the field. I am a person who gives over-whelming value to those I encounter in my daily life and would like to instill those values to my downline.
     The Riches of the soul are more important to me than the Riches of a “fat wallet”. My business is to make peoples lives better from all prospectives.

     Comment by Ron Diomedes — March 23, 2009 @ 4:32 pm

200. 

     my hurdle.?.hmmmm…i think of it like the mountain i have to climb. i closed my eyes and wished for it to disspear, but nope, still there. The CHALLENGE IS THE CLIMB and i take on the challenge. Because a stumbling block can become your stepping stone, the more you overcome, the higher you go and a stepping stone can turn into a mountain. and what is that mountain? its more emotionally charged and environmentally created from the way i’ve been ‘trained’. The Renegade Network Marketor asks ‘what do YOU want to do, put your brand on it. I’ve been by upline and the company trainings: ‘university tutorials’ webinars, etc. telling EXACTLY how it should be done. The company modo engrained in me has been ‘the best copycat wins’. Stepping out is scary, like entering a new world and learning a new language. My plan is to learn as much as i can from all the click by click trainings offered by mike and still studying the Renegade Network Marketor (taking notes like mad), reading blogs and everyones comments and studying others that are like ‘lighthouses’ our role models. I want to make a difference, be a world changer, while believing in my product and the business of attraction marketing and hope to help others find there way in getting their business online and ‘educate, inform and serve their customers before selling anything. An educated customer is the best to have, because they have caught the vision, believe in the product and are supportive of YOU and the company. One customer at a time, making a difference, using mike and ann’s stradegies and THERE ARE NO LIMITS. the possibilities are endless.

     Comment by Jennifer Robinson — March 23, 2009 @ 4:37 pm

201. 

     My biggest hurdle preventing
     me from business success right now is finding prospects with the true desire to do mlm and make money doing so.
     If found the right prospects, oh man, my business will outweight my and my prospects bank accounts.

     Comment by Miguel — March 23, 2009 @ 4:39 pm

202. 

     My biggest hurdle?

     I’m very business minded, I see and fix lots of problems in other peoples business so when I got your email I just had to answer this question:

     My biggest hurdle Is to find a business that’s right for me so I can get started!

     Comment by Rebekah — March 23, 2009 @ 4:40 pm

203. 

     A. My biggest hurdle to starting a business is ME. my own doubts, fears and negative self talk. I’m not depending on an upline to get me going. They are as supportive as they can be, I’m the one who has to ’see the light’ and get moving! I’m the one who has to know what I believe and believe what I know! When I change the little box of tools in my brain from useless ones to working ones, I’ll be flying high, which brings me to part 2.
     B. No one is an island, my organization will be a team of people who understand the system, the mission and who believe in each other. It’s about working both alone and together towards all of our success. I think you both work like it all depends on your own leadership as well as trust those who commit, to be leaders too. I’d like to recruit 50 a day for an income in six figures each month. Sounds too good to be true but if I shoot for the moon, there’s a good chance I’ll land on a star! The whole thing is about people believing in what works and working the belief. I KNOW dreams come true. LN

     Comment by Lauris — March 23, 2009 @ 4:43 pm

204. 

     ps. silly thing posted before I got the chance to write 2) what would it look like?

     - It would be a friendly business that I loved doing and that other people would love to be a part of!

     Comment by Rebekah — March 23, 2009 @ 4:44 pm

205. 

     Dear Ann and Mike,
     You guys are incredible. You have been giving us so many opportunities to build a successful MLM business. This contest is just the latest. I totally appreciate all your efforts on our behalf.
     I’ve been living my dream for about 50 years–unfortunately it never had much in the way of funding attached to it. Beginning when I was a teenager, I wanted to work in a cross-cultural situation where I could make a positive contribution to the lives of many people. I took my young family to New Guinea in 1958 and began learning the language of the Kunimaipa People. I did linguistic studies, wrote a reading primer, and translated the Book of Genesis. Then without much warning, I was asked to be Director of that very large program doing the same things for other people groups in New Guinea. That lead to other leadership roles. So here we are 50 years later and I’m still doing the same kinds of things.
     Now I’m writing a book summarizing a lot of my experiences over these years. And the problem still is the funds that are needed so that I can be the help I want to be.
     My biggest hurdle is making the time to get everything up and running: websites as landing places, educational marketing materials that will attract, ads that will get people’s attention, ways of linking with people like a consultant that understands their situation, ways of monetizing the process, and Tweets and Twitters.
     What would I do with the extra income? I’d give a lot of it away and I would tell the wonderful people who have been giving to our support for all these years that they can take a rest–or perhaps help someone else.
     I need to be traveling to conduct seminars, I need to publish my book, I need to help younger people with the funds they need to go out and do what we did, and I need to provide scholarships to pastors and leaders in developing countries so that they can get the leadership training they need.
     I would expect to be sponsoring 5-10 people a week and to be helping them to get involved with the Renegade System. I would expect to put together a net income of $300,000 per year using the tools you are making available.
     The person who I report to encouraged me to get into a MLM business and it was as I was searching this out that I ran into an ad for the Renegade System. I was convinced that this could be the help we need to do an MLM business. I had tried before but though I worked hard I made little progress and I spent piles of money for about 10 years.
     You have given me hope that the nightmare is over and day is about to dawn. Thank you!

     Comment by Alan Pence — March 23, 2009 @ 4:49 pm

206. 

     Hi Ann and Mike,
     I would say that my biggest hurdle is getting hits on the articles and blogs that I have written. I have been digesting this information and have been given the hope that I can finally do this because of your efforts to educate people on internet businesses. It has helped me dramatically in understanding the process but my writing could use some improvement. I can’t seem to make it interesting enough to draw attention. I have signed up with Squidoo, Twitter, facebook per your instructions and have been able to easily follow the videos and learned so much that I am anxious to keep learning so much that the first thing I do in the morning is check my e-mail for more from you, needless to say dissapointed when nothing is there but knowing that something will come soon keeps me going. I am still trying to learn the art of inserting links and pics and anxiously awaiting that tutorial.

     My dream business would making people aware today that there is a light during this tough economy. Let’s educate people on the world Of Network marketing and how we can all be a success if more of us understood the concept. Rid the world of the “Pyramid” stigma once and for all. That is the worst question in this business! ” Is this a pyramid?” I am sick of that!! Network marketing works and if more of us felt this way this economy would get better much faster!

     I would have unlimited customers and sponsor 10 people a week placing them under other successful people in my downline helping as many people as I can along the way.

     I would pay myself much more, let’s say enough so that I could help my family through these tough times. My parents are struggling as well as my sisters and my daughter is just going off to college luckily on scholarships because I am one of those people who has lost my home and had to close my brick and mortar store and move in with my parents to get back on my feet. So you see, I am so passionate about making this work, it is my now and my future. I keep telling myself that all this disaster in my life is for a reason and I am feeling that it is because I needed to know that I can be even better than before.

     I already look forward to getting on my computer in the morning and I want to start seeing the benefits soon so I can tell the world I did it and I look forward to the day that I can pay my father back With Interest on money I owe him and help my sisters out with there debt and move in to my own home where my daughter can come back to a home on college break and stay with her mother! Making this kind of a difference is what I live for and helping other people along the way are the perks. I want to be able to teach this so that other people can be a success.

     My plan is to educate myself every day. Not to give up, to keep my goals in mind, to stay strong and confident that I have a future with this and that I deserve this for myself, my family and the people I am going to teach along the way. Those of which there will be lots of!!

     I have 3 sites as of right now, one is under construction, so I am working daily on articles and blogs to get traffic to them but I need more info and help….

     Please consider me for this contest as you will not be disappointed! I will work hard and steadfast but even if not chosen I will not give up. The information you have offered is priceless and I feel blessed to have been receiving that.

     Thank you so much for this opportunity!
     With all sincerity,
     Susan

     Comment by Susan Devito — March 23, 2009 @ 4:54 pm

207. 

     Thank you, Ann and Mike, for your excellent materials and training.

     Since starting my MLM business three years ago, I’ve encountered many hurdles, but the biggest has probably been the lack of a business growth model that actually works and can easily be passed on to others. The old school methods of my upline have just not worked for me; neither have I ever been comfortable with scripts and calling leads who aren’t REALLY interested in my business.

     I downloaded Renegade Network Marketer the very moment I received notice that it was available. When I read it, I KNEW this was the way I wanted to build. Yet, I still haven’t really gotten started. I continued to use the methods taught by my team because that’s what a lot of successful MLM coaches tell you you should do. So, I’ve been floundering.

     Then somehow or other I stumbled across Renegade University recently. As soon as I registered and began watching videos, I knew that this was the system I needed to implement the knowledge I had gained from Renegade Network Marketer. With Renegade University, I would be able to not only begin to build a professional web presence, but I would also be able to train the folks coming on board with me. Unfortunately, Renegade Pro was taken down JUST when I was ready to upgrade!

     Now that I’ve found my way, I can really be confident of achieving my goal of at least 4000 distributors and customers and $4 million in annual volume by my 50th birthday in 2011. That would be about 125 new team members each month. With a 5×5x5 plan, this is feasible. And with a strong web presence and a team that is learning to duplicate, it’s not only feasible but probable.

     These 4000 people are folks whose lives will be changed as radically as mine. My target is Baby Boomer ladies like myself, who are interested in staying young and healthy and who are in desperate need of a secure retirement. Together we will have the synergy to live excellent lives so that we can leave a powerful legacy to our family, friends, and the world.

     Thanks again for all you’re doing to help us succeed. I can hardly wait for Renegade Professional to come back online.

     Comment by Lisa Brown — March 23, 2009 @ 4:56 pm

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     Greetings, Ann & Mike! Thank you so much for this great opportunity & for offering some very valuable prizes that can help me to really grow my network marketing business!

     The biggest hurdle preventing me from business success right now is meeting (attracting) the perfect people who resonate with my network marketing greeting card business - especially because I am a full-time RVer and Baby Boomer who, with my husband, will begin traveling extensively as of May 22, and will continue working on the road - and lovin’ it!

     My dream business is generating at least $10,000 per month income by December 2009, attracting at least 20 new entrepreneurs per month who are very excited and highly motivated to build their own businesses like I am through internet attraction marketing. I love coaching my team members how to build relationships and be so successful that their businesses are growing exponentially; and they, too, are making a difference in people’s lives. My team and I believe in the principle of Infinite Supply, and we live our lives to share from our abundance with those who are less fortunate - and lift them up and teach them “to fish.” We create more peace in the world, a greener planet, and a lasting legacy of kindness, caring, and helping.

     Comment by Lyn Madaghiele — March 23, 2009 @ 5:07 pm

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     Hi Ann,

     This is such a fabulous question. I guess when I started out I had many obstacles in the way. Coming out of a bad situation in MLM, my first obstacle was dealing with my mindset, the FEAR of moving forward again, then my lack of computer knowledge and computer language, changing my entire niche market, and no one to talk to and share ideas with. Fortunately, I came across the Renegade Professional and followed Mike very closely and I can comfortably say that I have crossed these obstacles step by step and have grown beyond my wildest dreams, but I still have a few more.

     So my biggest hurdle now is learning how to narrow my niche market, differentiating myself from others, and learning how to become more attractive to others on the internet.

     At present my niche market has been much to broad and I have found myself sort of throwing whatever I had their way. When I go back to some of my articles, it is very apparent where my passion is and where it is not and I know that my potential customers and partners can tell too. So once I narrow my focus I know that more people will see this and begin to appreciate what it is I have to teach them. Watching people grow and achieve their goals is so exciting and inspiring to me. I have seen this in my children and people who have worked with me, in my brick and mortar business, in the past.

     ‘Attraction marketing works’ and I have attracted a few potential partners and I have sponsored just a few. With the hurdles crossed I vision many, many more potential prospects and sponsoring 15 to 20 per month. That would just be amazing. The money is not the issue. Yes money is nice but right now it isn’t about the money… it is providing people with a foundation and a vision for their own businesses. If I have 15 to 20 or more that I have sponsored, then, yes I will be making money and reinvesting a great portion back into my education and of course paying off the debt from the first MLM experience.

     Just this weekend my husband and I formed our own JV and put together a business plan… our vision of where we are going to take our business. We have already begun implementing the Renegade Professional, The Attraction Marketers Manifesto, several other e-books on writing e-books, and repackaging our content. Having this plan has given us both new direction and excitement.

     Truly if we can help a small business owner survive the economic downturns that come along ( because this will not be the only one) or the internet network marketer a clearer vision of where to take their business without going through what we have gone through, then I will know that we have done our job well.

     Thank you for this forum to share our vision. You and Mike are amazing mentors.

     Comment by Angela James — March 23, 2009 @ 5:12 pm

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     Ann and Mike-
     Sorry, my first link didn’t go through. I wasn’t sure if HTML was allowed or not. I made a video for you. I am very excited about this program and didn’t think my words could do it justice.
     Audrey
     http://www.eyejot.com/mview?g=201B435CAE9F4E000005F6252F

     Comment by Audrey Sires — March 23, 2009 @ 5:14 pm

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     Dear Ann, What a great contest. One that makes you think and do some of the work we should be doing anyway And, as a former college professor, I don’t envy you having to read all the replies!

     1) My biggest hurdle right now is time. Over the past several months, I’ve been drinking from a fire hose learning all aspects of doing this online - figuring out my target market, finding out their issues, using social media, connecting them together, creating free reports and beginning the creation of a larger paid-for series. Learning article marketing, blogging, and the different time management of it all. And, as my Facebook friends and Twitter followers grow, realizing the responsibility that comes with the education that I’m beginning to provide. Exhilarating, and, as I wrote in my blog this morning, downright intimidating. I can speak to a 1000 about almost any topic without fear after 3+ decades of teaching, but being “big” out on the web is a different way of being altogether. As a coach, I am confronting and breaking through new limits of my comfort zone seemingly daily! I’m finding that what I am “stopped by” is simply the time to put it all into practice RIGHT NOW! I’m beginning to learn what and how to do it, but it all takes time and I’m not positive that I’m doing all the steps I see in the most effective and efficient manner that I could be. So it would be fabulous to have your and Mike’s to do it well and quickly!

     2) If those hurdles were taken care of, what I see is being able to help so many others in both network marketing and small business grow and expand their businesses in ways that they never thought possible. I see myself as the person who keeps learning (it’s one of my loves) so my followers can get the distilled version of all I’ve found to know what actually works rather than chasing down blind alleys as I have for so long. As one of the answers I read said, “you never stop learning this.” There is no “there” there. There is no “success” per se. For me, it’s reaching that elusive financial freedom and getting others to the same place. That’s what I’m looking forward to!

     Comment by Janet Ott — March 23, 2009 @ 5:23 pm

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     Hi Ann & Mike,

     I have read about your contest. Me I never even win these things. I am having so much trouble getting started with getting out there to create leads. I seem to be spending so much time reading and reading stuff, and looking and listening to videos. By the time I finish reading emails and stuff it is time to go to bed. I even notice that after I did part3 & 4 of the Twitter training, I posted to this blog, and it appears not to be there. In fact I hope you get this comment. Although your training ideas and work shops all seem great and a new, I am still having problems getting started. For instance with Twitter or my website should I start an auto response? I purchased Online Copywriter’s book and I am reading that, I really feel overwhelm and I am getting nowhere.

     Rubi Thomas (Rubi18)

     Comment by Rubi Thomas — March 23, 2009 @ 5:28 pm

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     Hi Everyone,

     Wow! I am truly humbled and blown away by the outpouring of your responses. It seems many of you felt like TA Lawrence who remarked, “It felt good just to write that out.”

     See I need to share something with you all. I am a very focused goal oriented person. The more clear that goal is the more I can align all my thoughts processes and energy into that goal.

     My ultimate dream was to have time with my dear sweet husband. The “big why” as they say. Here he is off preparing dinner in the kitchen while I read and go through all these posts. And then I get to waltz in and have a fully prepared meal. A few years ago it was me in the kitchen while he was off installing windshields. Now he’s my personal chef. I like that!

     Seriously I can see how much we all have in common and that is the desire to live more full and productive lives. Many of you expressed wanting that time with your family. I hear you. There’s no price to put on that one.

     I’ve heard it said, that no one will look back and think, “Wow, I really should have spent more time in the office.” No, instead it more likely will be, “I sure wish I would have spent more time with my children.”

     Isn’t that the truth.

     But we do have to make money in order to get there. What gets even better is making money and doing what you love at the same time. That’s what Mike and I really big on. Using your time on the planet to pursue what is really important to you. And when you get right down to it the most important thing we can do is bring value to other people’s lives.

     That’s what I’m hearing loud and clear in these posts.

     Want to know what I love about what I’m doing? It’s touching people’s lives in such a profound way they’re not even the same person any more. They’ve literally transformed into a new person. I’ve seen this over and over as I’ve done the one-on-one interviews. A lot of times it leads me to tears of joy.

     Mike and I are in this together to greater benefit and change people’s lives.

     Now you’re going to have to pardon me from not posting any new posts until after dinner with hubby. Can’t wait to see what he’s cooked up. I’m starved!

     Comment by Ann Sieg — March 23, 2009 @ 5:32 pm

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     The biggest hurdle preventing me from business success right now is the fact that i dont have a system that is easy duplicable. Using traditional techniques may work for a few hardworking people but the reality is that not everyone is willing to do it.
     Because of this my business success has been really limited. Prospects drop out because they lose interest in the business and feel that its not worth using all their time to hunt down people that will most likely tell them NO.

     My dream business would be a business that allows average people, who seek better options of making money but may be limited to time restraints because of family or other factors, to implement a system that is easily duplicable and gives them the freedom to bless their family with the income they’ve always dreamed of. I’m a college student studying economics. I feel that i have already been truly blessed just for the chance to learn the things i now know. Alot of people dont get the chance to go to college. They may want to but might have families to support or serious financial problems. With my dream business, I will be providing those ambitious people that are struggling with income to get the education that they want, and allowing them to provide education and good opportunities for their family members.

     My business will encourage misguided college students and other young people to take control of their future by working hard in the present. I will be motivating them to use their mind and to think out of the box instead of just accepting the ineffective norms of our society today. Those who are different and have a different mindset from the crowd are usually the ones that become successful. The best way to fail is to follow the crowd and i want to show that to young & old people. I envision having hundreds and thousands of new prospects each month, sponsoring a few hundred each month, earning an income of a few thousand each month, having more free time to spend with family and motivating others to take action in achieving success, but most importantly i envision my customers being able to do the exact SAME things I just mentioned above. Duplication is the KEY.

     Providing value to people’s lives is the best thing you can do for a person. Its nice to have fun and make people laugh, but giving them true VALUE will take them much further than a good joke can. That is why i commend you guys for developing such a wonderful system for people all over the world. You have added value into our lives and I hope to do the same for everyone else i come into contact with.

     Comment by Earvin Rahming — March 23, 2009 @ 5:33 pm

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     Hi Ann and Mike,

     Thanks for this opportunity. I would say that my biggest hurdle is tying my sites together for meaningful coordination. I’m up on myspace, twitter,squidoo and FB thus far and am still learning daily how to better each one.

     My dream business would be to assist hundreds and thousands of individuals in learning how to put a system in place that will help them to develop residual for theirselves and their families, to allow them to reach their goals and dreams.

     I would sponsor at least 10-20 new customers per month which would give me a yearly boost in new customers on average of 150-180.

     At the end of that year I would expect to make no less than 6-10,000 monthly from that point.

     It would feel unbelievable to wake up to a duplicable downline in place, and also very greatful to see that so many others are benefiting from their duplicating efforts too. The difference that this will make in others lives is the number one concern and makes it all worthwhile. When you really look at it , it’s what we can do to help better someone elses life that gives you true gratification.

     I am planning on moving forward each day by investing in developing my skills so that I can be the leader to pave the way for my group. Through the information I’ve received thus far, The Renegade Network Marketer and the free training from Mike Klinger it has given me a good start that I can build onto. I look forward to the release of the PRO. Again thanks for the opportunity to express. Best of happiness and health to you both.

     Comment by Marco Brown — March 23, 2009 @ 5:36 pm

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     The largest hurdle for me is trying to juggle the business I have now and the business I want to be in, which is my network business. The problem is that my present business still is in the picture. I need to set up my own website to attract quality like minded people to the oppportunity. Time is a factor, but I think having the confidence to make a splash in the market is what is holding me back. I am sick of the people that don’t understand network marketing or just don’t have a interest. I need to find my target market.
     My dream business would consist of leads coming in for me and my team also generating their own leads, so everybody in my organization is having success. my goals for my business is to help as many other people get financial freedom as I can. Financial goals would include 200,000 / month business that would allow me to do more with the chariries that I currently try to support.Helping others is why I originally got involved with this business. I am a high school coach, and it feels good to see someone else succeed and know you had something to do with it. I would like to sponsor 500 people and then help my downline get to the same level of success. I believe in building a great team of people that can then go out and really make a difference in society. thank you for the opportunity and I look forward to more traing.

     Comment by Kent — March 23, 2009 @ 5:37 pm

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     This is really an interesting thing issue as to succeed on the internet.As for me I am a novice yet one thing that as been pulling me back is lack of the initial capital. Yet this might seem so stupid but it is just the truth. I need that however I ALSO need info on what and what I can be engaged doing on the net.
     Of course with more enlightenment I will be productive.
     I really appreciete your concern, thank you.

     Comment by Omodara Damilare — March 23, 2009 @ 5:49 pm

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     Hello Ann,

     First I would like to thank you and Mike for every thing that ya’ll have done and everything that ya’ll are going to do.

     My Biggest Hurdle: This would definitly be trying to market myself. I can not hardly wait any longer for The Renegade Prof