Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Are you a good LEADER?

What are the actions and attributes of an excellent leaders?

What is it that makes them different from others?

1. Leaders are always full of praise
2. Leaders learn to say "thank you" and "please" on the way to the top
3. Leaders are always growing
4. Leaders are possessed with dreams
5. Leaders launch forth before success is certain
6. Leaders are not afraid of confrontation
7. Leaders talk about their own mistakes before they talk about someone else’s
8. Leaders are people of honesty and integrity
9. Leaders have a good name
10. Leaders make others better
11. Leaders are quick to praise and encourage the smallest amount of improvement
12. Leaders are genuinely interested in others
13. Leaders look for and praise someone doing something right
14. Leaders take others up with them
15. Leaders respond to their failures before others have to reveal them
16. Leaders never allow murmuring from themselves or others
17. Leaders are specific about what is expected
18. Leaders hold others accountable
19. Leaders do what is right than what is popular
20. Leaders are servants

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

It's all about the CHOICE we made.

Darney Economic Report published a survey of a state of retirement
for 100 men of 25 years old age that worked for 30 years.

Of 100 men..

1 – WEALTHY
4 – FINANCIALLY INDEPENDENT
5 – STILL WORKING
27 – DEAD
63 – DEAD BROKE

ONLY 5% achieved Financial Independence and Personal Freedom (FIPF)

The rest 95% got NOWHERE!

6 Ways to achieve FIPF

1. LOTTERY/GAMBLING - easy money to get, easy to deplete
2. MARRIAGE - are you fit for a millionaire's son or daughter?
3. EMPLOYMENT - how many years to become CEO?
4. INVESTMENT - do you have sufficient capital and skills to invest?
5. BUSINESS - do you have big capital and business savvy to compete?
6. NETWORK DISTRIBUTION -

So what?

Everyone of us has a Freedom of Choice.

We have the priviledge to choose.

Does the choice we make today will make us the top 5% ?

or the bottom 95% ?

Fikir-fikir kan... Think about that..




Friday, December 14, 2007

Will your EGO get you Rich?

A lot of people are looking for opportunity to change their life for a better,
to be financially independent, but when they are presented with it,
they refuse to grab the opportunity because it does not suit their ego.

But if they are really honest, what is the odd that their EGO will get them Rich?

These are some of their inputs.


MLM? Network marketing/distribution? Not for me! This is not a business for me.

For me a true business owner is when you have to take care of your business cash flow
and your company account, advertise, market and promote your products.

For example, business titans like Donald Trump, Mokhtar AlBukhary and KFC founder
who really works hard to grow his business.

To me a true business is when customers come to you and not you are finding customers,
when you promote your products to customers.

What is your role in MLM? Do you do all that?

First, network marketing/distribution is a legal business, recognized by governments
all over the world who issue license as in other form of legal business.

Opening up your own premise and taking care of all things by yourself is the way
of conventional business concept.
Network marketing does not require all those because network marketing utilizes
leverage concept which is off course different than conventional business.

Second, what’s the odd of becoming successful following the wisdom of
conventional business, the way of business titan?

1 in a millions?

As an analogy, there are many ways to cross the river i.e. swimming,
hop in the ferry, drive through the bridge, etc. One is faster, easier and safer than another.

Why do you want to take the hassle swimming across the river when you have better options?

Just for the sake of your EGO?

You may get tired and drown, all for the sake of your EGO.

Or worst still, you may not even try to swim across the river because you know that you are not capable.

Since network marketing is available as a legal mean to do business, utilize it!

Third, time change. The way people do things also changes overtime.

It's not the cleverest or the strongest that will be successful, but..
The one who is willing and ready to change.

Imagine you'd decided to become traders at the time when barter trade had been established and monetary transaction was just being introduced as the way to do business.

What would happen to you and your business if you insisted on the barter way and denounced monetary transaction???

Fourth, if network marketing/distribution concept was introduced much earlier, probably the late Lim Goh Tong, been a savvy businessman with foresight, would have adopted it as well.

Even billionaires like Bill Gates and Donald Trumps and renowned financial independence guru Robert Kiyosaki publicly endorse and recognize network marketing / distribution concept.

Do you think your business mindset is much wiser than them???

Donald Trumps in one of the Jay Leno late night show was asked if he was broke, what kind of business he would do to raise up again.

He answered with confidence – network marketing - .

The audience booed him. He stood up and told the audience
.

“That’s why you’re down there and I’m up here!”

Got it?

To quit is really EASY

Dear Friends,

This post is intended as an education regarding rejection for my fellow business partners. However, you're welcome to read and post comments.

These are some experience and opinions that I get from someone who already quit. To be fair let me present our viewpoints as business partners. Read through the story then my thoughts follow after that.

Below is the story:

Why I quit?They maybe will tell people I quit because I gave up but actually just before I made decision to refund I managed to warm up 2 friends and I was very sure they will join but I quit before I bring them to the office. I quit because I felt uneasy with their activities and not sure whether the biz is 'halal' or not. I just can't imagine how my downlines will get mad at me if they are not able to get money from the biz which could break our friendship.So I'd better stop. I don't want to ruin my friendship with others.Why I say it is not advisable for muslim to join (a company name not disclosed)? First-they teach people to lie. When we invest, we will get rebate about $ X amount and they taught me to tell people that the $ X amount is my first income. Second- they encourage members to join the tea party usually at night about 9-10 pm. Where in Islam it is not good for women to hang out mixed with guys at night. At the tea party they will talk about the biz and show off that some of them have quitted their job and make much money to influence others who haven't joined. Third- There are other activities which I felt not comfortable with where they encourage the audience to scream, sing and dance to burn the 'semangat' in ourselves and to influence others.Before joining them I searched the internet and found this blog and felt afraid to join, but since I believe in my friend I ignored this blog. When I told them about this blog they said that they are failure people and don't follow them plus the blog owned by other group.People who are engrossed in the biz won't realize something is wrong in that biz because they are happy getting lots of money, but the ones who make decision to refund will understand the deceptions in this business.For those who are thinking to join, it's up to you to join or not, but make sure you think carefully and don't join to follow and believe your friend. Make sure you understand and read the company policy. The members will tell you that you are going to make lots of money if you join them but you have to work very hard. Imagine you come back from work, you are tired then you have to join their training @ tea party. When I joined their activities I usually went back home at about 11-12 midnight and the next day I have to wake up early and go to work again. Usually if I came back home late at night the next day I always got drowsy at office and neglect my job. Just imagine how tired I was. I also had to neglect my time with my baby. I went to work while my baby was still sleeping and when I came back from their activities my baby already slept. You also have to contact your friends just to give them clue that you are doing a good biz and hoping they will join you. I am just sharing my experience, it's up to you to join or not, if you think you will love their activities, pls proceed.


First, Ustaz Zahar didn’t specifically point to any MLM as non-halal, but he did give guidelines. One of them is if it does not involve product, the income source is vague. In this business, every business partners are aware where their income from, that is commision upon product transaction. Every business partners is actually a marketing agent who earns their income through commission from product transaction. The product transaction occurs when a person who is presented with the business opportunity and agrees to run this business buys a Franchise from the company. To become a Franchisee, the person is required to buy product from the company. This is similar to other Franchise system whereby the Franchisee is required to buy products from the parent company. Taking commision as an agent in product transaction is legal like when your broker or car salesman earning their commission.

Second, Nobody is going to get mad to anyone because in this business every business partners are responsible for his/her own business.
We are our own business owner.
All business has risk, when we started this business we are aware of the rewards and also the risk and also what are required in order for us to be successful like others before us.
If we are waiting for our up line to bring us money, this is not businessman mindset, this is employee mentality!!! The team is here to help us succeed together as a team. With great system & group support, it has been proven many times that we can also be successful.

Third, What do we discuss when we meet in tea party? In our group we have straight rules, no hanky panky; we come here for business purpose, plain and straight.

Fourth, In order to be successful, we have to sacrifice certain things and it’s not like forever. In this business we invest +/- 1 year to really give all out and make many sacrifices in order to get better life. If we understand this, then our excuses stand no where. If we quit then our life will be the same like now for the next 5, 10, 15.. etc years. To quit is really easy. Because it’s easy to use our excuses to justify our actions.

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Presevere and Steadfast

In our journey to success, we’re bound to meet obstacles in many forms.

It may make us feel down.

But if understand what we’re doing and we have purpose, we’ll never let this obstacle steal our dreams.

Once we have made decision. Believe in ourselves and our choices. Steadfast in what we do. Insya Allah we will be successful.

Haram or Halal ?

Dear Friends,

This post is intended as education regarding Islamic legality (halal) for my fellow business partners. However, you're welcome to read and comment as well.

Many people quote Ustaz Zaharuddin on matter regarding religious rulings of MLM without actually reading what he wrote. It is easy to know only little or hear from friends or read from another blogs and then jump to a conclusion. However, it's best if we understand the matter before we judge. Below are passage taken from his blog for our reference.

saya sarankan agar pengamal MLM memastikan asas minima Shariah berikut dapat dipatuhi :-

1. Produk MLM ini mestilah dibeli dengan tujuan yang sebenarnya (seperti produk yang benar-benar bermanfaat dan dibangunkan dengan serius seperti ubat-ubatan berkualiti, unik dan lainnya). Justeru, produk MLM yang kabur kualiti dan kegunaannya tidaklah dibenarkan kerana ia hanyalah bertujuan untuk mengabui dalam undang-undang dan hukum Shariah, ia tiadalah halal di sisi Shariah. Justeru, kekuatan MLM itu ialah kepada produknya yang bermutu dan bukan kepada objektif jangka pendek mengumpul dana (modal).


As for the business that we are in, our products had been proven beneficial to mankind as early as during world war I and recently during SARS outbreak. We have been awarded with various established awards and ISO certification. The products are supported with labaratory and clinical reports, hospital testimony and various others. The products had stand the test of time for more than 100 years. What is more important is that our products provide real solutions to the problem that we modern day human face everyday ie air pollution and stress.

2. Produknya bukan emas dan perak yang boleh dijual beli secara tangguh. Ini kerana penjualan barangan emas secara tangguh adalah Riba jenis Nasiah.

Our products does not involve the transaction of gold or silver.

3. Komisyen yang diberikan kepada ahli untuk setiap penjual dan ahli bawahannya mestilah jelas. Tiada komisyen tanpa usaha, ini bermakna orang atas hanya berhak mendapat komisyen dari ahli bawahan yang dibantunya sahaja.

Our marketing plan and Electronic Distributor Card are very transparent to business partners. Our great team are always there helping business partners.

4. Keuntungan dan komisyen bukan berdasarkan ‘kepala' atau ahli yang ditaja, tetapi adalah berdasarkan nilai produk yang berjaya di jualnya. Ini diperlukan bagi membuktikan ia menumpukan kepada perniagaan penjualan produk dan perkhidmatan dan bukannya permainan wang (money game).

We practise product flow as product transaction. Profit and commision are based on product value not on the number of people we sponsor. Otherwise we need thousands of new people to sponsor everytime. Instead, we need very minimum business partners, only 5 for a life time.

5. Tidak diwajibkan bagi si ahli menjual jumlah tertentu bagi memperolehi komsiyen dari orang bawahannya.

We don't impose sales target in order to get commision. Business partners get commission for any transaction done. Those who want to earn more should put up more effort.

6. Setiap ‘upline' atau orang di sebelah atas mestilah menaruh usaha atas jualan orang bawahannya, seperti mengadakan perjumpaan taklimat, motivasi dan teknik berkempen secara terancang seperti sebuah syarikat yang pelbagai ahlinya. Ia perlu bagi melayakkannya menerima komisyen itu dari sudut Shariah, jika tidak adalah dibimbangi ia akan terjerumus kepada keraguan ‘syubhah'. Ini kerana konsep niaga dalam Islam tidak membenarkan suatu keuntungan dari sesuatu perniagaan yang diperolehi tanpa usaha. Justeru, sedikit usaha perlu dicurahkan bagi menjadi sebab haknya ke atas komisyen. Perlu diingat, kebanyakan ahli di kaki yang 10 ke bawah, mungkin tidak mengenalinya lantaran ia dilantik oleh orang bawahannya yang kesembilan. Jika tidak, apakah haknya untuk mendapat komisyen yang demikian berangkai dan begitu jauh ?.

Our team has demonstrated great teamwork at the very beginning. In every functions and table talk, business partners will find senior upline, multiple generation above, still extending their hands to assist them.

7. Tidak menggunakan skim piramid iaitu skim siapa masuk dulu akan untung selamanya. Manakala hak mereka yang masuk kemudian akan berkurangan. Justeru, plan pemasaran mestilah memberikan hak kepada semua, malah orang bawahan mampu mendapat keuntungan lebih dari orang atasannya, apabila ia mampu menjual dengan lebih hebat.

In this business, the income is not dictated by the date a business partner joins the business but by the effort that he/she gives and results that he/she delivers. Even if you join later, but if you put more effort and deliver better result you can earn more than your introducer/upline.

8. Mempersembahkan system komisyen dan bonus yang telus dan boleh difahami dan dipantau oleh ahli dengan jelas. Ia bagi mengelakkan segala jenis penipuan.

Commision and bonus plan is transparent and presented to potential business partners at the very first business opportunity presentation. Business partners can monitor it online.

9. Menstruktur plan pemasaran di anatara ahli dan orang bawahannya secara musyarakah iaitu perkonsgian untung dan rugi berdasarkan modal masing-masing dengan nisbah pembahagian keuntungan yang ditetapkan di peringkat awal lagi.

Company has established the commision and bonus system and we are presented with the marketing plan during table talk.

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Mufti Johor syor kaji isu pelaburan menerusi Internet

Dear Friends,

This post is intended as education regarding Islamic legality (halal) for my fellow business partners. However, you're welcome to read and comment as well.

KUALA LUMPUR: The Johore mufti, Datuk Noh Gadut will propose to National Fatwa Council to study Internet investment issue which is currently widespread before issuing fatwa to avoid more Muslims from being involved in the dubious investment scheme.

He said, a scrutiny is needed due to its vague modus operandi.

“Therefore, we ask those involved in this scheme to come forward to provide detail information or assist us with regard to this matter, they may be able to warn others should they come forward,” he said.

He said, Jabatan Kemajuan Islam (Jakim) can proceed an investigation to determine its’ legitimate.

Noh said, in his opinion, investment through internet is prohibited since there are several elements that can lead to things that are not legitimate (in Islam).

“It has elements of usury, gambling, vague, pyramid and quick-rich scheme as well as deception. We do not know where the profit comes from and if scrutinized the scheme offer business at the expense of other people money.

“There is no effort from oneself, rather, ones depend on other people money whereas in Islam a business must come from one’s effort.” he said.

Sunday Metro yesterday reported many moslems now are eager to become rich by investing in an Internet scheme without knowing that the profits they earned came from illegal source (from Islamic view i.e. haram).

Moreover there are few who quit their jobs due to the lucrative return of investment of 5 digits income which they earned only after few months investing in the Internet.

Prior to this, the Secretary of Syariah Advisory Councill for one of international islamic monetory institution, Zaharuddin Abdul Rahman, advised that the returns from such investment is haram.

Noh also advised those who involved to stop immediately and repent to Allah as well as those who promote and conduct the scheme.

"The earnings from this scheme can't be used and if one has already received it, s/he should surrender it to Baitulmal. If used, it will become one's blood dan bimbang ia membawa mudarat.

He said "It is stated in one of the prohet (pbuh) sayings, sesuatu yang disuburkan daripada benda yang haram, neraka adalah tempat yang paling layak,”.

Courtesy : Harian Metro - 19th March 2007

Monday, December 3, 2007

Success or making more excusses

Dear Friends,

I found the following article from website quite sometime ago and I forgot the source. Anyway, it's a good article to read.

Many people in life want to have more for themselves, whether is it money or more time freedom or a better relationship but they choose not to do anything about it. The chose to give excuses about not being about to do it and soon excuses became a part of their lifestyle.

Being successful in life in any aspect do not go hand in hand with having excuses for not doing so. If you want to achieve success, don’t even think about making excuses.

Here are some of the most common excuses you will hear in your network marketing business:

1) I want to make more sales BUT… I hate to talk to people.
2) I want go to training BUT… I have already meet my friends for a ball game.
3) I want to make more money BUT… I don’t wish to do anything.

I know the last example sounds crappy but it’s true! Almost 99% the time no one will admit that they are like that. They simply don’t want to do anything and still make money. Although they did not say it but their action says it all!

Which ever network marketing company that you are in, the success principle is still the same…

Step 1: MAKE NO EXCUSES

Step 2: TAKE ACTION (You know what actions to take)

Step 3: SUCCEED

So I’ll let you decide on which side of the game you want to be on… success or making more excuses?

To your MLM success,