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AmeriPlan is a medical/dental discount company that offers a great opportunity for anyone that is looking for a home based business that does not want to sell products.

The AmeriPlan® home business opportunity is not just an Income Explosion that will blow the doors off of any other home business opportunity you’ve seen, its also a simultaneous solution for the Healthcare Crisis affecting 70 million (and growing!) Americans who are either uninsured or under-insured.

From July 1, 2008 through July 30, 2008 for a one-time startup fee of only $20 -and a recurring $50 monthly business fee- you’ll become an authorized AmeriPlan® IBO (Independent Business Operator) who is able to market AmeriPlan® health benefits. For just $20, you can get started with your own AmeriPlan home based business for the entire month of July.

The AmeriPlan® home based business offers daily pay, benefits for IBO’s & their families, 5 websites, residual income and excellent training from the company’s national vice presidents.

AmeriPlan® has identified a NICHE and a very real need in the billion-dollar benefits industry, and we have virtually no competition! No other company compares to the benefits of AmeriPlan® or their compensation plan.

Would you like to start making money right away? AmeriPlan® IBOs can actually making money the same day they sign up because AmeriPlan® cuts a commission check for you the same day (Monday - Friday, excluding holidays) you sign-up a new piece of business.

Ameriplan is a home business opportunity that is allowing people to make a six figure income within two to three years from home.

AmeriPlan has enabled so many people to buy the home of their dreams, the new car that always seemed unaffordable or the family vacation that once was too expensive. Whatever your goal in life, AmeriPlan® is the vehicle that will put you in the driver’s seat and enable you to make an unlimited income!

I always get excited to tell people about real home based business opportunities, and AmeriPlan has helped my family as well earn an income every single month for the past several years.

Take a look at http://www.homebaseddream.com and take a look at the movie and info on the AmeriPlan home based business. If you have ever considered AmeriPlan as a home business, take advantage of the $20 sign up special!

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When you hear the word “coach”, what comes first into your mind? Do you picture a basketball team with a man/woman shouting out directions? Or perhaps a football team with a man/woman pacing to and fro and calling out the names of the players?

Coaching is no longer reserved to sports teams; it is now one of the key concepts in leadership and management. Why is coaching popular?

Coaching levels the playing field.

Coaching is one of the six emotional leadership styles proposed by Daniel Goleman. Moreover, it is a behavior or role that leaders enforce in the context of situational leadership. As a leadership style, coaching is used when the members of a group or team are competent and motivated, but do not have an idea of the long-term goals of an organization. This involves two levels of coaching: team and individual. Team coaching makes members work together. In a group of individuals, not everyone may have nor share the same level of competence and commitment to a goal. A group may be a mix of highly competent and moderately competent members with varying levels of commitment. These differences can cause friction among the members. The coaching leader helps the members level their expectations. Also, the coaching leader manages differing perspectives so that the common goal succeeds over personal goals and interests. In a big organization, leaders need to align the staffs’ personal values and goals with that of the organization so that long-term directions can be pursued.

Coaching builds up confidence and competence.

Individual coaching is an example of situational leadership at work. It aims to mentor one-on-one building up the confidence of members by affirming good performance during regular feedbacks; and increase competence by helping the member assess his/her strengths and weaknesses towards career planning and professional development. Depending on the individual’s level of competence and commitment, a leader may exercise more coaching behavior for the less-experienced members. Usually, this happens in the case of new staffs. The direct supervisor gives more defined tasks and holds regular feedbacks for the new staff, and gradually lessens the amount of coaching, directing, and supporting roles to favor delegating as competence and confidence increase.

Coaching promotes individual and team excellence.

Excellence is a product of habitual good practice. The regularity of meetings and constructive feedback is important in establishing habits. Members catch the habit of constantly assessing themselves for their strengths and areas for improvement that they themselves perceive what knowledge, skills, and attitudes they need to acquire to attain team goals. In the process, they attain individually excellence as well. An example is in the case of a musical orchestra: each member plays a different instrument. In order to achieve harmony of music from the different instrument, members will polish their part in the piece, aside from practicing as an ensemble. Consequently, they improve individually as an instrument player.

Coaching develops high commitment to common goals.

A coaching leader balances the attainment of immediate targets with long-term goals towards the vision of an organization. As mentioned earlier, with the alignment of personal goals with organizational or team goals, personal interests are kept in check. By constantly communicating the vision through formal and informal conversations, the members are inspired and motivated. Setting short-term team goals aligned with organizational goals; and making an action plan to attain these goals can help sustain the increased motivation and commitment to common goals of the members.

Leadership by example is important in coaching. A coaching leader loses credibility when he/she cannot practice what he/she preaches. This means that a coaching leader should be well organized, highly competent is his/her field, communicates openly and encourages feedback, and has a clear idea of the organization’s vision-mission-goals. By vicarious and purposive learning, members catch the same good practices and attitudes from the coaching leader, turning them into coaching leaders themselves. If a member experiences good coaching, he/she is most likely to do the same things when entrusted with formal leadership roles.

Some words of caution though: coaching is just one of the styles of leadership. It can be done in combination with the other five emotional leadership styles depending on the profile of the emerging team. Moreover, coaching as a leadership style requires that you are physically, emotionally, and mentally fit most of the time since it involves two levels of coaching: individual and team. Your members expect you to be the last one to give up or bail out in any situation especially during times of crises. A coaching leader must be conscious that coaching entails investing time on each individual, and on the whole team. Moreover, that the responsibilities are greater since while you are coaching members, you are also developing future coaches as well.

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If you have even been involved in network marketing and failed, there is possibly a good reason why. You may have not had the characteristics of a successful networker. If you are looking at a business that is built around the multi level marketing compensation, you need to realize some qualities someone should have to be successful in MLM.

My husband has been involved with several mlm companies and had great success, but he does posses several qualities that a network marketers needs to have to be successful in MLM.

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I found an article online today by Joe Jacobson, a YTB Travel Network rep that talks about characteristics of a successful networker and wanted to share.

Let’s talk for a moment about what qualities must be either inherent in a person or acquired in order to operate within the arena of the multi-level marketing business model. If you are new to MLMs, you will need to experience some paradigm shifts from what you may have learned in your corporate job environment.

In this article, we are going to touch on eight criteria that every individual must strive to possess or develop if they want to make it to the top of their chosen MLM company. We are going to take the point of view of the representative who has already done their due diligence on the company and has joined. Now, you are beginning your journey to build your team in order to leverage your efforts and achieve whatever goals you have set for yourself. Who is the ideal person to join my team?

Number one, you must consider the COST OF JOINING in relation to your prospect. This is a very simple idea, but one sometimes overlooked. You must consider this because most businesses take some capital to start and maintain. If someone is struggling just to pay bills, they may not be able to stay in the business long enough to make a profit and reach higher levels in the company.

Number two, whatever your product is, you must have or develop a real affinity and PASSION for it. You must believe in it 100%, or you won’t be able to convey the enthusiasm to promote it and elicit believability in the prospect. True passion and excitement is positive energy that is contagious.

Number three, it is best to look for BUSINESS-MINDED individuals, either someone who is or has been in business before. The business owner has a different level of commitment than someone with employee mentality. The business owner must be willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done, even if it means sacrificing some aspects of pleasure and comfort now for financial freedom later. In most ways, your new home based business requires the same skills and business plans as a large corporation.

Number four, an UNDERSTANDING OF TAXES will help you maximize the benefits of owning a business. The tax laws are set up for business owners, and to get financially free or wealthy, you must learn how to maximize your tax benefits under the law. This is one of the criteria that can be easily learned.

Number five, you are looking for a PEOPLE PERSON. Most business is about people at one level or another. Ultimately, a good business person must learn how to communicate well with people and truly connect with others according to their needs. Look for team members who are friendly, outgoing and love to be around people (and people love to be around them, too).

Number six, successful networkers are driven to help others succeed first. This is the universal law: first help others reach their goal and you will by default achieve great heights. In this business model, you can not be the lone ranger striving to hit it big while simultaneously keeping others down. Look for SERVICE-ORIENTED people. (no matter what multi level business you are involved with, you must have good service)

Number seven, to achieve anything great you must have AMBITION. Business is all about becoming larger than the problems that you will face, rather than shrinking away from your problems. The drive that you will need to surmount the inevitable challenges that will come along your path will come from your ambition. Someone will little ambition will not have the fuel to continue when they hit the bumps in the road and the frustrations they face. (You need ambition to be successful in multi level marketing)

Number eight, your ideal prospect has CREDIBILITY. This will be someone who has already been successful in some aspect of their life. They will have influence and leadership skills that can easily draw more people to join them in the venture. They have created a foundation of trust in their friends, business associates and the community. ( This is an excellent quality for anyone in MLM to have)

So if you want to build a solid and fast-growing team, look for potentials partners who have as many of these eight characteristics as possible. Not everyone will rate highly on all eight, but remember to always strive to sponsor up so that you have something to grow toward as you develop in your own leadership skills. To paraphrase John Maxwell, leadership author and guru, you are looking to lead “leaders” and not lead only “followers.”

Joe Jacobson is a travel professional working with YTB Travel Network. His focus is on helping others start their own online travel business, as well as helping nonprofits use travel as a fundraising tool. For more information, visit the websites YTB Home Based Business or YTB Travel Network.

After reading that, do you think you have what it takes to be successful in mlm or network marketing? If so what characteristics do you have? If not, why do you think you could not be successful in MLM?

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