Almost all of us played some form of baseball when we were kids….even, if it was just sandlot ball with the neighborhood kids. I don’t know about you, but I was NOT a home run hitter. In fact, I can only remember one boy from our neighborhood who was.

What would the game of baseball be like today if the only way a team could score was for a player to hit a home run? Obviously, it would change dramatically, because most of Hall of Fame players throughout history have NOT been home run hitters. Baseball teams would only be interested in BIG players who were capable of hitting it out of the park.

Thankfully, there are many ways to score in baseball without hitting a home run. This opens the game up to many talented “smaller” players who have tremendous athletic abilities that make the game enjoyable to watch even though they don’t hit it out of the park very often.

Let me demonstrate:

1) You are standing in the batter’s box and the pitcher hits you with the ball, so you get to go to 1st base.
2) The pitcher walks you with poor pitching and you get to go to 1st base
3) You hit a single
4) You hit a double
5) You hit a triple
6) You hit a home run
7) You hit a weak dribbler or pop fly to the infield, but they mishandle the ball and you get on base due to an error

This baseball analogy has a very close connection to owning a successful home business. You will see this very clearly in a moment. In fact, with a few critical enhancements your business will become your very own money tree. Read on and see.

Home Business owners unknowingly choose to operate in a manner that requires them to hit a home run in order to succeed. What if you could completely turn the odds in your favor by structuring your home business so that you can succeed many different ways, without having to hit it out of the park? Well, you can do just that.

DEFINING THE PROBLEM

The vast majority of home business owners make one of two major mistakes. At best, either mistake guarantees they won’t come close to their potential and at worst, it guarantees failure.

Mistake #1 – Having the perception that their “Home Business” is about the network marketing company they represent. In other words, when asked how their business is doing they will answer based on the growth of their network marketing business. This a tragic mistake.

Mistake #2 – Recognizing that they are NOT making adequate income from their network marketing company many will drop the one company and replace it with another…..or, they will add one or more additional network marketing companies. These choices are also tragic mistakes.

Let me return to my baseball analogy so I can tie all of this together for you.

In baseball the batter’s goal is to get on base, because this puts them in position to score a run for the team. In your home business your goal should be to create income – NOT build your network marketing business. In other words, your HOME BUSINESS is bigger than your network marketing distributorship. Your network marketing distributorship should only be seen as merely ONE INCOME SOURCE.

In the baseball analogy, building a successful network marketing business would be like hitting a home run. What every home business owner MUST HAVE is a way to “get on base” (create income) from only hitting a single, or double, or from getting hit with a pitch. When you have created a healthy home business (does NOT NEED you to hit a home run), you are much more likely to hit a home run….however, even if you don’t, it won’t matter. It won’t matter because you will already have plenty of home business income.

WHAT CAN YOU DO TO TRANSFORM YOUR BUSINESS

I have created a website with what many are saying is “the most eye-opening” video they have ever seen about creating home business success. I passionately encourage you to do two things:

1. Go to my website – http://www.BrilliantMLM.com

2. Talk with me (813-929-6295) about how to apply what you see to your own home business. If you will I can help you more than double your income in 2010, and I’ll prove it to you.

In decades of financial consulting for the wealthy and volunteer counseling for financially struggling families there are two differences that stand out more than any other between these two groups. One is HOW THEY USE THEIR MONEY and the other is HOW THEY USE THEIR TIME. Today I want to talk about TIME.

My most successful clients and friends are very wealthy and though they work hard, they only put in a fraction of the time at work as most folks. They all know that BUSY is worthless – PRODUCTIVE is priceless. I have frequently said that my most successful clients will get more done in a week than most people will in an entire month. The exciting thing is – you can too!

My highly successful clients use what I call “Tools of Mass Production”.  At a minimum they all use some form of To-Do-List plus an “Appointment Calendar”.  There are dozens of different ways to use such tools, but the only thing that matters is that you get the job done. Well, “what is the job” that you need to get done?

You need to become a person of “Mass Production”. You need to get much more done in far fewer hours. Understanding what I mean by “get more done” is crucial to becoming highly successful. You have no doubt heard the old expression, “The Main Thing is to Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing”. I use a modified version of that expression. It goes like this:

“The Main Thing is to Discover the Main Thing”

I rarely encounter lazy people who are asking for my help with their business or personal finances. The problem is not the number of hours they are willing to invest for success. The problem is they work on the wrong things. Let me demonstrate my point using the most common recurring mistake made by home business owners.

As the owner of your own business, your time will generally fit into one of three categories.

1. Personal growth – studying, researching, attending seminars, etc.
2. Administrative – tax planning, personnel issues, insurance matters, etc.
3. Income Production – asking someone to buy some product, or to join you in business

Only the third item on the list creates actual income. Highly successful people spend almost all of their time on number three, while the underachievers all stay absorbed with numbers 1 and 2.

Let me take this illustration one step further, because if I stopped right here, many would feel much better about their activities than is healthy.

Please carefully take note of the fact that there are countless “sales related” activities, such as writing ads, working on websites, putting presentations together, etc….. but, ALL OF THOSE ARE ADMINISTRATIVE. You don’t get paid to do administrative tasks- you only get paid when someone actually makes a buying decision.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that ads, websites and presentations don’t ever reject us. They are more “pleasant” tasks to work on than asking someone to make a buying decision - the problem is they don’t pay very well.

I doubt there are many people who hate contacting prospects for the first time as much as I do. However, because I accepted the fact that either I would get better at it, or I would fail, I have been able to achieve some amazing successes.

I still hate ”breaking the ice” with new prospects, but there are ways to get the job done that reduce the misery to a very tolerable level of discomfort.

I have three practical suggestions for you:

1. Click on “Wealth Center” in The “A” List and sign up for free. It includes my highly regarded eBook – “The Art of Achieveing Financial Freedom”, plus all the “Tools of Mass Production”, which includes all my time and money management tools.
2. Join my blog and I will notify you when there is a new posting. I will only post about one new article a week, but they will ALL be practical and will come from my own experiences.
3. Hire me as your income coach.  You can put me to the test for 30 minutes for free. Click on “Your Income Coach” in The “A” List for details. Spending a few hundred dollars onetime could make you many thousands of dollars year after year.

Stay tuned for more helpful suggestions and tips on creating financial independence by creating a successful home business.

Normal everyday men and women have been creating wealth and time freedom with small businesses for many decades. You Can Too – with just a little help!

The Virtual Millionaire Blog is NOT for the faint of heart. If you want to use a home business to create total financial independence then you better strap yourself in. It is easier to do than you might think, but it will be one wild and exciting ride!

The VM blog covers the following four topics. Your reasonable mastery of all four is essential for significant success:

1) ABOUT CUSTOMERS – articles on how to produce real customers, people who are NOT interested in your business, but who are interested in your product. Customers will provide the foundation for your success – just as they do in EVERY successful business.

2) ABOUT INCOME - articles to show you how to increase your spendable income by growing your business income; lowering your taxes and by slashing your expenses.

3) ABOUT YOU - articles about how to brand YOU – not your company. You will learn how to become well-known in your field or niche market by using some simple, but powerful techniques.

4) ABOUT TEAM BUILDING - articles about how to recruit and retain more team members. You will learn how to grow your team without selling.

Postings will be educational in nature and designed for you to instantly benefit. I want you to be able to ”take away” something from every posting that you can put into immediate action within your own home business. 

In the right hand side bar you will notice - The “A” List.  All listed products and services are ones that I personally use. There are a couple of free offerings. All are products and services commonly needed by Home Business Owners.