It was as if I just had ice water thrown in my face.  I was guilty on all counts and charges.  I had unwittingly set myself up for looking death straight in the eye and had selfishly placed my friends, family and people I didn’t know in jeopardy too.

Like most of you, I’m always working to save on time and ways to multi-task to get things done.  My car has become a sort of office away from home, allowing me the mobility to speak to clients, colleagues and family.  I have even, at times, responded to a text message while driving.

Pure stupidity.

What I didn’t realize was the frightening statistics of using a cell phone while driving.  After watching a recent recorded show of Oprah Winfrey focusing on “America’s Deadly Obsession”, I took the Oprah pledge and have made it my mission to get everyone I love to take the pledge too.  I’m hoping after you read this article, that it will prompt you to action also.

We all know the devastating results of driving under the influence of alcohol.  Innocent people are killed, maimed, lose their loved ones, and carry unshakable guilt.   A drunk driver is 4 times more likely to be in an accident than someone not drinking.

Here’s the downright terrifying news.   Talking on your cell phone while driving, whether using your handheld, a Bluetooth, or speaker, places you in the same high risk as a drunk driver.  Texting intensifies the statistics to 8 times more likely to get into an accident.

Oprah is using her powerful platform to get this message out and ask for your pledge.  Go to Oprah’s site right now and make the commitment:

“I pledge to make my car a No Phone Zone. Beginning right now, I will do my part to help put an end to distracted driving by not texting or using my phone while I am driving.  I will ask other drivers I know to do the same.  I pledge to make a difference.”

Save a life.  It may be a child, a mother, a spouse, a friend, or a complete stranger.  Or your own. Think about your responsibility to your family, friends, and those you don’t even know.   Don’t wait until it’s too late.  Become a shining example and do not use your phone while driving.  Take the pledge now. I did.

Warm regards,

Alicia Bausley
Empowered Business Entrepreneurs, LLC

P.S. I made my business partner take the pledge too.  No more brainstorming sessions while we’re running errands and rushing off to meetings.  It’s was difficult at first to make the adjustment, but now we are fine.  And most importantly, we are safe.  Please, if you hate drunk drivers on the road, take the pledge now.

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Get more insider details about the Renegade Professional Live Event in Lisa’s article, “Ann Sieg and Mike Klingler are REAL!”

Please share your thoughts (we know you have LOTS!) in the Speak Your Mind section below.

Warm regards,

Alicia Bausley and Lisa Hanfileti

“The Lead Conversion Kit”, formerly titled “Rich Network Marketer, Poor Network Marketer”, has been re-released with a brand new foreword from Sitesell, Inc. founder Ken Evoy.

Why did Ken Evoy decide to throw his enthusiastic support behind the book?  Because for the first time there is a “How To” book for Site Build It! (SBI! 2.0) users who want to build a successful independent network marketing business on the web.  We were so blown away by his support that we decided to rename the book and re-release it with his new words of wisdom!

Learn More Here:  The Lead Conversion Kit

Note: If you already purchased the book as “Rich Network Marketer, Poor Network Marketer” you do NOT need to repurchase the book.  In fact, please don’t! You can find your updated copy HERE.

If you never purchased the previous edition of the book then you can go ahead and purchase it now on our secure order form here:

http://www.empoweredbusinessentrepreneurs.com/tlck

Got any questions?  Post them in the “Speak Your Mind” section below.

Here’s to a Happy and Prosperous New Year!

Alicia Bausley & Lisa Hanfileti

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When you’re finished watching this video, scroll down to the Speak Your Mind box below and let us know what made you gasp!

Here’s what sent us into a tailspin:

• There are over 200 million registered users on MySpace. That’s more people than the population of most counties!
• In 2006 there were 2.7 billion searches per month on Google. Now there are 31 billion searches per month on Google. WHAT?!
• The total number of text messages sent and received everyday exceeds the total population of the planet. I think those are just from my niece!

Out of those 31 billion searches on Google every month, how many of them do you think might be looking for what you have to offer?  Even if one tenth of one percent wanted to buy a product from you, that’s still a whopping 31 million searches every month and well over 300 million searches every year looking for you and your business.

What you need to do is use the same technology Google uses so one tenth of one percent of those 31 billion people searching the Internet every month can find you! 

One of the best small business resources to get your business active on the Internet is Renegade Professional.  This exclusive site has an active membership with hundreds of video tutorials to help small businesses get located by Google and other search engines.  There are powerful tutorials to show beginners everything about marketing their business on the Internet, including click-by-click training on:

• Twitter for Business
• Facebook Networking
• Social Marketing
• Email Marketing
• Video Marketing with YouTube
• Blogging with WordPress
• Site Build It for Small Business
• Plus more are being added every day

So when you ask yourself, what do 31 billion searches on Google every month mean to me and my business? , make sure your answer includes visitors to your Internet marketing sites, customers for your business, and cash in your bank account!

Learn more about Renegade Professional now.

Warm regards,

Alicia Bausley and Lisa Hanfileti
Empowered Business Entrepreneurs . com

No matter where you are now, there will always be moments when if feels like you are standing in front of a brick wall.  With a truck barreling toward you.

Every massively successful entrepreneur has a story about how they had to wrestle with their demons in order to breakthrough to a new perspective, approach, or model to get past the obstacles and achieve unprecedented success.

“How do you find help for your unique needs?”

Contrary to what you might believe, everyone has the ability to experience a breakthrough.  All it takes is desire, a willingness to learn, and connecting with the right people at the right time.

“Get off your butt…”  That was Robert Kiyosaki, bestselling author of “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”, said to a Times magazine reporter when asked, can a person with no money or resources still make a fortune? His full response went something like this,

“Get off your butt.  You have to look for teachers.  If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics.  It’s really simple, but it takes determination, discipline, and drive.  You can’t quit.”

~Robert Kiyosaki

If you want to build a successful online business and can supply the determination, discipline, and drive, we can give you the best teachers, coaches, and mentorship programs in the industry.

“Your small business breakthrough is literally a click away!”

We have found that many people are ready to “get off their butt” (as Kiyosaki puts it), but they need guidance to be productive with all their ideas and energy.  You asked for it, and once again, we delivered! Here is a review of the best coaching and mentorship programs for online business entrepreneurs.

It started out just as a way to help our team but this review has turned into something much bigger.  We realize that everyone needs help at some point in their business development.  But not everyone needs the same kind of help.

So look through these different options and see which one best meets your current needs.

Even multi-millionaire Robert Kiyosaki needed teachers, coaches, and mentors to guide him to his success.  Don’t let what you don’t know stop you from achieving your dream of financial freedom.

Renegade Breakthrough Mentoring Program

http://www.empoweredbusinessentrepreneurs.com/ann-siegs-breakthrough-program

This is an in-depth, advanced mentorhsip program.  Ann Sieg joins forces with Mike Klingler to present cutting edge information on how you can ‘breakthrough’ the barriers that are holding you back in your business.  This is THE preeminent small business training course so if you are ready to take your business into the 6 and 7-figure range, then this is the course you need.  As Ann puts it, this is the course to teach you how to create your own “online empire”!

Renegade Breakthrough Mentoring Program consists of 12 sessions (recorded webinars, some lasting as long as two hours!) plus templates, transcripts, swipe files, and numerous support documents.  This program is about much more than online marketing and it is for anyone with the burning desire to develop their small business, regardless of what niche or market.  Be prepared to work hard, access your greatest potential, and excel in every aspect of your business.  CLICK HERE to learn more.

The Works Team

http://www.empoweredbusinessentrepreneurs.com/the-works-team-special

Wendy Mills, Curt Johnson, and Cammy Stubbs are all expert marketers, coaches and mentors.  They are Ann Sieg’s original marketing team and have been offering free weekly information-packed live webinars for the past 4 years.

They put together an amazingly affordable program for online entrepreneurs who are struggling with some of the intermediate and basic aspects of marketing.  They offer small group coaching as well as individualized mentorship to help you in any phase of your business, including niche development, research, and lead generation.  CLICK HERE to learn more.

Site Build It! e-Learning Center

http://www.empoweredbusinessentrepreneurs.com/sitebuildit-learning-center

If you are unsure if you can successfully build your own SBI! site, then look into SBI’s coaching program to help you through each step of the 10-Day Action Guide.  If you want to be accountable, make consistent progress, and receive expert help every step of the way, then this is a great live, group coaching opportunity to keep you moving forward.

Site Build It! has a great track record for teaching beginners how to build their very first website.  So do not let fear of technology be the ‘brick wall’ that stops you from realizing your dream of developing a successful online business.  CLICK HERE to learn more.

See you on the other side!

If you need help then find the right teacher, mentor, and  program that matches your specific needs.  Getting the help you need is how you overcome obstacles and breakthrough the barriers that are holding your business back.

See you on the other side!

Alicia Bausley and Lisa Hanfileti
EmpoweredBusinessEntrepreneurs.com

Copying is NOT copywriting!

In case you do not already know it, copying is not copywriting.

I’ll explain exactly what copywritng is, and how you can get access to David Garfinkel’s Ultimate Copywriting Course in just a moment, but first I want to tell you about  a terrible but true story I read about in a forum.

It was from a woman who bought a website from another person.  That’s not the bad part.  People buy and sell their websites all the time and it can be a great win-win for both the buyer and the seller.

Sadly this was not the case for the woman who purchased the site.  She had great plans to add lots more content and make a bunch of money with Adsense and affiliate programs.  The site was in her niche, had a great domain name, already had about 50 pages of content and looked really good.

Just a few days after her purchase she discovered that the person she bought the site from had copied all of the content from other websites and just uploaded the exact text to the site.

None of the content was original!

Here’s the kicker.  The person who sold her the site did not know it was wrong to copy content from other people’s websites.  This person had already spent the woman’s money and refused to give her a refund.

Don’t worry, the story has a happy ending because after the woman got over her initial anger, she turned lemons into lemonade and replaced all the copied material with keyword focused content.

She told her story to everyone in the forum to make two important points:

1. Buyer beware!  Do your research
2. Don’t copy content!  Just write great copy.

I hope you already know that you cannot copy other people’s website content.  That’s a big no-no, yet many people do it (intentionally and unintentionally).

Instead of copying other people’s work, you need to
write your own original content, also called ‘copy’.

The skill of writing your original material in such a way that it influences your reader to take action (like subscribing to your newsletter, or buying your product) is called copywriting.

Copywriting is not about copying anything.  In fact it is just the opposite!  Expressing yourself and your message in print is how you make connections and build relationships with your website visitors.

“Being a good copywriter is a vital skill for your business!”

In our book, “The Lead Conversion Kit”, we gave you some great resources to help you learn effective copywriting skills.  (See, Chapter 2: “The Not So Little Secrets of Writing Compelling Content That Sells”.)

David Garfinkel - 'The Best Copywriting Teacher In The World!'

And now we want to give you our highest recommendation for an awesome copywriting course that will help you connect with your website visitors, newsletter and email subscribers, among many others.

The Ultimate Copywriting Crash Course by David Garfinkel is a must if you intend to create original content that “gets the click” and generates leads, customers, and income for your online business.

David has been called, “the greatest copywriting teacher in the world” and is responsible for successful online marketers earning millions of dollars in sales. Ann Sieg herself used David Garfinkel’s skills to launch one of her products that generated over 1 million dollars in just 3 days.

It does not matter how great your product, service, or business are if you do not know how to communicate with people so that they want to use it.

Start developing your own ‘million dollar skill’ from the guy who has been labeled “The Best Copywriting Teacher In The World!”

Here is David Garfinkel’s Ultimate Copywriting Crash Course:

http://www.empoweredbusinessentrepreneurs.com/copywriting-course

Enjoy!

Lisa and Alicia

Most likely you fit into one of these 3 categories:

A)    An enthusiastic Site Built It! owner who is investigating the best way to incorporate a MLM into your website’s monetization model.

B)    A Network Marketer who is trying to attract qualified leads and build a global downline using the Internet and you want to how SBI! will provide the answer

C)    A potential SBI!er and a potential network marketer who is wondering how these puzzle pieces fit together to create the perfect home business

Whichever category you are in, we can guarantee your success (and failure) based on one single factor… Your Mindset.

Let us explain.

The SBI! approach and the traditional network marketing mindset are at odds. (Don’t worry, there is a fantastic solution waiting for you up ahead.)  For now, determine which mindset is driving you so you can begin to make any necessary adjustments to ensure your success.

The SBI! Mindset

The mascot of SBI! is the Tortoise for a very good reason. Not because working fast is bad, or because we NEED to be slow.

“Slow and steady wins the race”

The reason is because being methodical and doing proper research simply takes time.

When you try to save time by skipping such steps as researching your niche, planning your site concept, and developing a monetization model, then the result is not the high performing, income-generating website you envisioned, but rather a lonely, desolate website that just sits on the web without attracting visitors or producing income.

The time you spend in the initial stages of planning your website and doing keyword research, pays off (literally and figuratively) down the road.

Site Build It! is unique among website software companies. Most companies will show you the flashy templates and designs first, knowing that is what drives most people to make a purchase.  SBI! won’t even let you look at their hundreds of free design templates until you have developed a site concept that passes the profitability test.

Why would they do that?  Let’s face it, SBI! could sell a lot more sites if they let people see templates first and didn’t bother with a rigorous step-by-step guide.  Why on earth would SBI! force you to plan out your website as if you were starting a business?

It’s simple.  SBI! wants you to succeed in building a profitable business through your website. They are MORE interested in helping you build a sustainable and successful business with your website than they in selling a large volume of sites to people who do not stand a chance of making it on the web.

Building a business takes planning and hard work. SBI! hands you the “10-Day Action Guide” to walk you step-by-step  through the process of researching and planning not only your website, but your entire business.  They teach the proven “Content>Traffic>Presell>Monetize” process.  With the SBI! Mindset, your website IS your business.

Now, let’s compare the SBI! Mindset, where the emphasis is on research, planning, and testing, to the traditional network marketer’s mindset.

The Network Marketer’s Mindset

If the SBI! mascot is the Tortoise, the network marketer’s mascot is the Hare.

“This is too slow! What’s the next best thing?!”

Network marketers lack identity and purpose; they do not know if they are business owners trying to sell, or product-enthusiasts trying to share.

They are driven by trying to meet monthly product volume requirements and trying to desperately get more people interested in their business so they can make enough money to pay for their monthly products.

Sadly, many network marketers jump from one scheme to another trying to get their ‘business’ to take off, without ever sitting down and planning out a marketing strategy.  Most uplines, even if they are successful, do not develop a proven marketing process to teach their downline to help them succeed.  It gets worse for the network marketer when the Internet is added to the mix.   Because the hectic pace and speed on the Internet adds a false sense of time pressure that heightens the frantic Hare Mentality.

All too many network marketers turning to the Internet for help get attracted to one Get Rich Quick scheme after another.  It is a recipe for disaster.

You cannot build a successful SBI! website and online network marketing business with a Hare Mindset!.

There’s hope.

Shift your thinking.

Become a Renegade.

The Renegade Mindset

Thanks to Ann Sieg, author of,  The Renegade Network Marketer, network marketers have another option.  They can rid themselves of the Hare Mentality by adopting the Renegade Mindset.

In a nutshell, the Renegade Mindset is a marketing-centered mindset.  What that means practically speaking is that as a network marketer, you should no longer think of yourself as an employee of your MLM, but rather as an independent business owner.

You are your own boss and as such you must take responsibility for the identity (branding) and marketing of your business.

The Renegade Network Marketer teaches you how to shift your thinking so that you use the power of the Internet, to build YOUR credibility as an independent business owner. In this way you focus on teaching others valuable information, instead of leading with facts about your MLM products or compensation plan.

With this new approach, your MLM becomes one part of a very broad monetization plan.  You are not dependent solely on your MLM for revenue.  The Renegade marketing model expands your income sources to include an unlimited number of proven affiliate programs, joint ventures, and even your own products.

The key is, you are approaching your leads, prospects, customers, and clients as a credible expert and provide valuable information, resources, and leadership.  (Don’t worry, it is not as difficult as it sounds!)

In this marketing-centered approach, if you learn the fundamentals of marketing, you can apply them to building any successful business on the Internet.

The Powerhouse Combination of SBI! and The Renegade

The Renegade approach is very consistent and compatible with SBI!.  When you combine the two and add a dash of a little something we call the consultative selling process, then you have a powerhouse online network marketing business on your hands.

In “The Lead Conversion Kit” we even give you the secret formula in Chapter 12 and it goes like this:

Traffic + Solving Problem Live + Asking for the Sale = Cash Flow

You see, the part of the formula that most online marketers are missing right now is the part that happens after you attract the leads.  It’s called ‘lead conversion’ and if you do not know how to convert a lead into a buying customer, well, we hate to break it to you, but you don’t have a business.

How To Go From the Hare to the SBI!ing Renegade – And Become an Empowered Network Marketer”!

Here’s the deal…

If you bring your old network marketing mindset to SBI! and expect to succeed, you are in for a rude awakening.  Save yourself the anguish and start today with learning the mindset of the Empowered Network Marketer.

Rid yourself of the hare mentality and become a strong and steady tortoise walking the proven path of success.  This is a process and it will take some time to make the ‘shift’.  But you can do it!  Here are some real life practical tips to get you started:

• Get out a calendar. Write down your goals for 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year.  It is very do-able to have your website up and 30-pages of keyword focused content written in 3 months.  Depending on your current knowledge of the web and how much time you have to devote to your SBI! website, you may be able to have your 30 pages up sooner.

• Set a Schedule. Consistent action is the most important component of your schedule.  Working on your website one day a week is not enough.  It is better to work for an hour a day than 7 hours one day a week.  Ideally you can work a couple of hours every day or every other day.  Whatever you decide, schedule the exact days and the hours of the day you will be working on your SBI! website and stick to it.  Example:

• Lisa: When I started, I got up at 5 a.m., worked for 2 hours before work and then limited watching television in the evenings so I could use an hour of that time too.
• Alicia: I took a 10-day chunk of my Christmas vacation time and worked for 4 hours every morning, determined to get the framework of my SBI! site “up”.

• Do not get distracted: Turn off your IM, email alerts, phone.  Unsubscribe from mailing lists, especially affiliate marketing lists.  Any email that says “act now!”, “only 24 hours left”, etc are marketing techniques that are extremely effective at grabbing the “hares”.  These will waste your time and money.  You can always file these emails away and come back to them in a few months.

• Learn effective ways to deal with frustration and overwhelm. Exercise routines, healthy eating, regular breaks, fresh air, and laughter.

• Be accountable: Use the SBI! 10-Day Action Guide checklist, find a study buddy, participate in regular training tutorials, and write out your goals and the timeframe (even the date!) within which you want to accomplish each.

• Make it FUN! This is your business!  Celebrate milestones, Selecting a domain name, putting up your homepage, submitting your sitemap, 10 pages of content, 30 pages of content, adding RSS, each step is getting you closer to your ultimate goal of building a successful business.

To learn more and stay focused on building your successful online network marketing business, be sure to read our introduction in “The Lead Conversion Kit” where we outline the “7 Proven Steps To Turning Online Leads Into Paying Customers And Downline Members”.  We even recommend printing out the graphic and hanging it where you can see it every day.

It is your road map to building a successful independent business on the Internet.  And it is also what separates the desperate network marketer from the empowered network Marketer.

Keep up the great work!

Alicia and Lisa

P.S. Here are the 3 essential tools you need to start building your online business today:

1. Site Built It! (SBI! 2.0) – your internet marketing platform, or home base.  (Yes, you can still apply ALL the techniques we teach you by using a different website or blogging platform.  But if you do not already have a preference or you are new to online business, then we highly recommend SBI! 2.0.
2. The Renegade Network Marketer – your guidebook and resource guide.
3. The Lead Conversion Kit – the marketing, sales, and lead conversion training manual for you and your team.

Go get ‘em!

Alicia Bausley and Lisa Hanfileti

Wouldn’t you have loved to have been a ‘fly on the wall’ during that very first phone consultation between Ann Sieg, the Internet Guru, and Alicia Bausley, the Sales Queen?!

I am sure neither of them knew the deep friendship and strong business bonds that would grow from that very first phone call.

It makes you think, doesn’t it? When you pick up the phone to do consultative selling, you just never know what business friendships and relationships will develop.

And I guarantee neither Ann nor Alicia predicted joining forces with an acupuncturist!  Sometimes even I wonder how I got myself here.  (But just between you and me, I pinch myself every day because I can hardly believe my good fortune!)

The thing is, I am probably not all that different from you.

You see, I was not interested in gurus or queens in October 2007 when I was learning how to use the web to market my acupuncture practice.

I was happily learning how to build my very own Site Build It! website.  I was super proud of myself for actually creating a website that was earning me money!  Especially because I was a total web novice.  I was content to just keep building my acupuncture website.  End of story.

That is, until Ken Evoy of SiteSell, Inc., made an interesting post in the Site Build It! Forums.

If you are an SBI!er, you may remember Ken introducing us to a network marketing expert named Ann Sieg.  According to Ken, Ann had apparently unraveled the puzzle of how to generate an endless amount of qualified leads using the power of the Internet.

Ken does not endorse just anyone. So I paid attention.   He said that Ann Sieg bases her business on over-delivering quality information and offering value to her customers.  Hmm… that was very consistent with SBI!’s approach and it appealed to me.

Moreover, Ann taught network marketers how to shift their thinking from working for their MLM to becoming independent, marketing-focused entrepreneurs.  I liked hearing that too!

I started to wonder if I could actually fulfill my dream of multiple sources of residual income by following Ann Sieg’s system.

I decided that the only way I would know is if I gave it a try!

So I bought The Renegade Network Marketer ebook and attended the two live web classes on “How to Put the Net into Network Marketing” by Ken Evoy and Ann Sieg.

Ann Sieg said something very interesting in those web classes that changed my life.

Little did I know that a few words Ann said during those webinars would be responsible for the Sales Queen (Alicia Bausley) picking up the phone and calling ME!

What was it that Ann said? She talked about developing your business brand by creating your own product.  She stated that product creation can be as simple as taking someone else’s ideas and rephrasing them and adding your own perspective.

In that moment, “The 7 Great Truths of InterNetwork Marketing” was born!  I wrote this short ebook using information from Ken and Ann’s web classes and I added my own experiences.

I actually got up the nerve to send a link to the ebook to Ken and Ann, asking for their permission to use their information.  I also was worried about using the title (since it was a clear play on Ann Sieg’s, “The 7 Great Lies of Network Marketing”).

You’ll never believe what happened.

Ann called me!  And Ken emailed me!  They both gave me their full support to go ahead with the ebook.  I thought I had it made!

I had never written an ebook before and did not know anything about marketing or autoresponders.  I just did the best I could and put it ‘out there’.

Fortunately it landed in the hands of The Sales Queen, Alicia Bausley.  Alicia read my ebook and immediately called to invite me to join her on a “little project”.  That project was to write an ebook called, “How to Build Your MLM Business” with 6 other members of her team.

Alicia and I ‘hit it off’ as they say.  Although we have different backgrounds, we have very similar working styles.  It did not take us long to figure out that we were a good team.

Alicia has exceptional sales training skills, experience, and knowledge.  She really is the Queen of lead conversions!

I have a solid background in building an online business with Site Build It! and have teaching and writing skills that complement Alicia’s.

Joining forces to write “The Lead Conversion Kit” was born out of our desire to help struggling online network marketers and to duplicate the brilliant marketing model that Ann Sieg teaches.

Perhaps you are like many of the new online network marketers we have talked to who have made the transition from calling friends and family to using the Internet, but still remain stuck when it comes to converting website traffic into buying customers.

“The Lead Conversion Kit” is a comprehensive training manual to show you how to take the exact same steps that the big gurus are taking to generate income.

One of these steps is to repackage – or repurpose – content. We cover all of this in Chapter 11: Perceived Value and The Sideways Sales Funnel.

Learning these few tricks will totally change your business.

I want you to know that there isn’t any reason you can’t be just as successful as the Internet Guru and the Sales Queen.

Oh, and the Acupuncturist, too!

Learn more about “The Lead Conversion Kit”, here:

http://tlck.empoweredbusinessentrepreneurs.com

Peace,

Lisa Hanfileti

P.S.  We briefly cover The 7 Great Truths if InterNetwork Marketing in Chapter 1 of “The Lead Conversion Kit”… right after our section entitled, “Ken and Ann, Sitting in a Tree…”

I chuckle when I hear how Ann refers to me in the Foreword she has written for our new soon-to-be-released book, “The Lead Conversion Kit”.  Actually she explains that her own network marketing team fondly calls me the Queen because of my high sales conversion ratio with leads.
What does this mean for you, though, in regards to building a profitable business?  The answer in a moment! First, let me tell you a little story when the Internet guru and the sales conversion queen first met.

A few years ago when Ann was just starting to build an amazing presence on the Internet, I called and left her a message.   She called me back at my home.  I was lucky.  Her status no longer allows her the luxury of calling people back who want to ‘pick her brain’ for help.

Ann and I spent considerable time talking on the phone and I listened intently while she advised me on what I could do to solve my own problem of building a network marketing business.

It seems I had the answer already, but was not implementing it into network marketing.  It had to do with picking up a phone, calling people, and addressing their needs with a solution .  Heck, I’d been doing that successfully for years and bringing in an insane income as a result.  Geez!  This was going to be a no-brainer.

Based on Ann’s direction, I started using a sales approach called consultative selling in my network marketing business.  Immediately, I began building a cash flow.  Seriously, I was using some old leads and still converting them rapidly by approaching my prospects and solving their greatest challenge.

Within the first few weeks, I had made nearly $1,000 in commissions. Not a lot of money, but a great start.  And I wasn’t putting any cash OUT.  I was just picking up the phone and bringing cash IN.

Within a few months, I became the top performer on Ann Sieg’s network marketing team.  I still maintain that position today, even though I work two other home businesses, and while I focus on building an information product line for the business community.

I’m getting ready to introduce a new book to our industry with the support and backing of our famed Internet guru, Ann Sieg.   It’s called “The Lead Conversion Kit”.  I had the pleasure of writing it with my business partner, Lisa Hanfileti.  It’s been a labor of love for the last six months.

It’s based on Ann Sieg’s philosophy of attraction marketing, multiples streams of income and my high lead conversion ratio for creating a cash flow fast.  It’s actual hands on sales training from an experienced sales person using a comfortable and easy approach to selling!

What does this mean for you?

It’s a comprehensive training manual for you, your team, and it’s an affiliate program.  It walks you through the process of lead conversion from A to Z.  No college education required.  No special degrees.  All you need is to read the book, follow our direction, scripts, and take some action.  The results?  High lead conversions will provide you substantial cash flow in your business (and with just a small number of leads).

Ann doesn’t place her stamp of approval on just anybody.  You’ve got to earn the status to get her respect and admiration.  I’m grateful for that first day when we spoke on the phone and saw the light, from which I earned the friendship of a very special lady.

This book is so complete, so comprehensive, that Ann Sieg has written a foreword to the “The Lead Conversion Kit”.  And Ken Evoy also contributed his own foreword.

Take a look at just a few paragraphs of Ann’s written Foreword within the book.  Then look for our next email, where we’ll tell you exactly why you need to get your hands on this book as soon as possible.

To be notified of the announcement of the release date (less than a week!), click on this link below:

http://www.empoweredbusinessentrepreneurs.com/early-notification-bonus.html

In Ann Sieg’s own words . . .

Ann Sieg

. . . This book is about learning and implementing attraction marketing and using the entire sales funnel, which of course happens to include working the phone.  This is totally possible when you generate your own leads via attraction marketing.  The good news is that when you develop the right sales skills you don’t need an insane amount of leads to develop a thriving downline.  Lisa and Alicia explain all this in their 7 Proven Steps To Turning Online Leads Into Paying Customers And Downline Members right inside this book!

Alicia and Lisa call it consultative selling.  Selling is what you’re going to be doing and doing it proudly and comfortably knowing that you are genuinely and authentically serving your prospect with a true win/win solution.

While Alicia and Lisa cover an enormous amount of ground including the all important lead conversion process the most important part is that this is about becoming a rich network marketer.   Not a poor network marketer.  Let me explain.

In the spirit of the Renegade Network Marketer and Site Build it! their goal is to systematically help move you out of a state of dependency and increasingly towards a state of independence.  That’s why they chose the powerful symbol of the flag of the United States, along with the title of their book “The Lead Conversion Kit”.

Alicia and Lisa put it this way, “One of the most important lessons we hope you understand now is that sales do not begin and end with your network marketing company.”

Let me share with you why they tell you this. It’s because they care.  You see it’s about being truthful and honest with you so that you can make the most well informed decisions for your business and your future.

It’s great if you’re in love with your network marketing company.   Many distributors are.  But don’t become so starry eyed that you don’t protect yourself.  Through all your hard work you owe it to yourself and your family to develop multiple streams of revenue (not just a network marketing income).

We need to remove the emotional aspects of owning and running a profitable business and look at the hard facts of business management.  It simply is not smart business to put all your eggs in one basket.

I hope you’re as excited and eager to get going as I was when I read this book. . .

That’s just the beginning of where this book will take you in your business. This is not an ordinary book.  This is a comprehensive training manual to expand your mind so you can realize the FULL potential of your business!

Warm regards,

Alicia Bausley

Let us explain… and tell you why this is important to YOU.

A little over two years ago, neither of us (Alicia Bausley and Lisa Hanfileti) could have told you what an Alexa ranking was, let alone brag about it.  We didn’t even know each other way back then and could not have predicted that we would become sought after trainers for online marketing.

“What’s an Alexa Ranking?”

Here’s what we have learned through Site Build It about the relevance of a website’s Alexa ranking.  An Alexa ranking is simply a way to see how your website or blog compares to the 100 million or so other active sites on the Internet.

In Alexa’s words,

“It’s a measure of a website’s popularity.  The rank is calculated using a combination of average daily visitors and pageviews over the past three months.  The site with the highest combination of visitors and pageviews is ranked #1.”

Take a look at SiteBuildIt’s explanation here and see how you can take the Alexa ranking test to uncover how your website or blog ranks.

Take the Alexa Ranking Test – http://traffic-test.sitesell.com/

Fast forward two years to when we started our Empowered Business Entrepreneurs Site Build It website.  We each had previous experience with Site Build It and hoped we could combine our talents to create something really special.

We had no idea what we were in for!  To give you an idea, let us just tell you that we closely track a number of parameters to determine where we are making progress with our EmpoweredBusinessEntrepreneurs.com website and our EBE blog.  We know the power of SBI and have  jumped in and are making the proper moves to create full time incomes.

Our Site Build It site is our central hub or online marketing platform that we use to attract people from all over the world.  And to make sure that we continue to attract visitors, we remain extremely focused on providing quality content that is so valuable that they keep coming back for more.

We took the Alexa test ourselves and quite honestly do so almost every day (out of pure excitement and thrill about how well we continue to improve!).

Today (June 22, 2009) this is where we (our EmpoweredBusinessEntrepreneurs.com website AND our blog) are ranked out of 100 million active websites in the world:

That places us in the top 2% of all active websites on the web in the whole world.  In less than 4 months!!

We believe we are only weeks away from being in the top 1%.

Go ahead and put some big names of other online marketing trainers in this test and see if they are making the right moves to explode their site in the Alexa rankings!  Come on… brag with us because we wouldn’t be here without YOU!

We wish we could take more credit but quite honestly all we did was implement the strategies taught by  Site Build It.  (Oh, we added in a few little tricks of our own, but that’s another story… and training program!)

This was our Alexa ranking on May 4, 2009 (just 7 weeks ago):

Building a website that attracts leads is the one challenge that almost all new online marketers face.  And getting it to rank within the top 1% of all websites in the world?  Well, now that’s a downright challenge (and quite intimidating to say the least).

What’s our point here?

We are here to help you do the things that will get YOU noticed!  We’re a team that works to help you

• Focus on your own skills and use them to build your credibility
• Take effective action steps in the right sequence to set up your marketing system
• Resist the temptation to jump from one marketing method to another
• Implement the proven strategies taught by Site Build It and our EBE Mentorship Program

To learn more about our Site Build It journey and how YOU can benefit from what we are doing at Empowered Business Entrepreneurs, join us on a special training Webinar that we are opening up to everyone.  We will answer the two biggest questions we hear from attraction marketers and our very own team members:

1. What’s the Big Deal With  Site Build It?
2. Should I Build a Website or Should I Build a Blog?

One of the most important things you can do for your business is to get your central platform.  Nothing else matters at this point.  You need content up on the Internet and a central place to post it.  More importantly, you need a hub to lead all your friends, followers, and admirers from such social media sites, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, among many others.

You are invited to attend our live Site Build It training Webinar on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 6:00 PM PST.

HERE’S THE SITE BUILD IT WEBINAR REGISTRATION LINK:
http://www.empoweredbusinessentrepreneurs.com/sitebuildit-free-webinar

We’re going to spell it out in black and white and give you the information you need to know about how to decide if you should create a website or a blog.  Then we’ll show you the REAL support that we provide to further train, teach, support and help you.

You won’t want to miss our live Webinar.  We attract hundreds of people to our training calls and for good reason.  We give away insane value!

See you there!  Remember, REGISTER FOR THE FREE LIVE WEBINAR NOW:
http://www.empoweredbusinessentrepreneurs.com/sitebuildit-free-webinar

We’ll also be making some incredible announcements.  If you know us, Alicia Bausley and Lisa Hanfileti of Empowered Business Entrepreneurs, then you know we don’t just deliver.  We over-deliver.

Who do you think taught us to do that?