Friday- Has it been two weeks already?

I want to thank bzm for not being so harsh on me for forgetting to call my downline member yesterday. I could hear Ginny's voice echo in my head today...so I did not forget. It actually went pretty well and I encouraged her to join in on the daily coaching calls that are starting again on Monday.

I attempted to make a few follow up calls as well today, but Friday nights just do not seem to be a good night to get a hold of people.

So tomorrow can only be better for follow-up!

Sandy W

Whoops...

I thought about skipping blogging tonight so I would not have to admit that I got wrapped up on a project for my day job tonight and the next thing I knew it was way to late to call anyone, including my downline member. So I sent her a quick email, apologizing, and outlining a plan for building her business. I will have to call her tomorrow. Fortunately, tomorrow is Friday and I will have the weekend to make more calls and progress on promoting my video. My video has not had any new views in a few days, but I've not done anything new to promote it. I do find it interesting that my MPM page continutes to grow (up to 347 hits today), even though I have not done anything new to promote it either. It could also be people that I have previously talked to, checking the page out again for another time.

Quick Post

My downline member asked if we could reschedule our appointment for tomorrow night when I called her, so that changed my day slightly. I spent a little bit of time completing a social networking tutorial and otherwise helped my husband with a non MPM project.

I know this is quick, but its late and past my bedtime....tomorrow will be busy...

Sandy W.

Tuesday-Busy, Busy

Today was an extremely busy day at work. Days like these are very tiring. It seems like the phone never stops ringing.

This evening in between everything else I got a chance to talk with my downline and set up a coaching appointment with one of them tomorrow evening and another on Friday. That was really my MPM "actions" today. Our phone service was out for a while so the follow up phone calls to contacts got rescheduled for tomorrow.

I got a few more hits on my MPM page (333) but my video views is still the same. I did not get a chance to "meet" anyone new today, but had someone introduce themselves to me...so its is another baby step toward meeting my goals.

Sandy W

Day 1 of Week 2 "After Boot Camp"

So today is the start of the 2nd week "after boot camp". I made it to the family chat. I was pleased to hear about VISA coming online soon. But more importantly it was good to be reminded of all the actions that I should be taking to build my business but more importantly to be making a difference.

I've been working some more on getting to "meet" others on youtube and have 82 views on my video and have 372 hits on my MPM page. But I need to remember that the gold is in the follow up and I need to continue follow up with my contacts that I have already made. Otherwise I would have wasted my time the first 60 days.

So tomorrow will be a follow up day. I'm pretty sure it won't happen during my lunch break (we're swamped so it will be a working lunch at work) but tomorrow evening I will see who I can talk to. I'm interested in testing Jewel's magic number "17" to see if you call 17 people you will at least one who is at home.

Another day closer to accomplishing our dreams...

Sandy W

I can't believe its the end of Thursday already...

Where did this week go? I guess time flies when you are having fun.

I ended up getting home from work later than I expected so calling the individual leads that I had planned did not really work as I had planned. I have set aside to contact the remaining leads I have from my back office tomorrow. I am planning on purchasing some more for next week so that I can meet my goals within the next 60-days. Leads are pretty "comfortable" for me.

My video is up one view (74) and my MPM page is up a few more hits as well (314). I commented and sent messages to 5 people today. I did not hear back from any of the 5 I contacted yesterday (and they have not accepted my friend requests). Today I tried to look for videos that had been uploaded today (thinking that they would at least be signing in to check on them) rather than the ones that were a few weeks/months old. I also contacted two non-profits in NC (one for cancer research and one for help for the homeless) and let them know about T-day and how they could get free publicity for their projects on the Together We Can Change the World site.

Well, I'm starting to lose steam and its very late...

until tomorrow

-Sandy W

Keeping up the pace...

Well, maybe I'm not moving quite as fast as during boot camp. But I did call 2 leads I had purchased from my back office today (talked to both of their machines) and followed up with an email after I left the message. I had purchased these leads a LONG time ago, and had paused the order when I got busy with boot camp. Evidently you can only pause an order for so long before it automatically un-pauses itself. It works out well though, since I now am more confident and have time to follow up with them.

I also called one of the members of my downline, but got her machine and will call her back tomorrow.

Finally, I spent a short amount of time on Youtube today. My video is at 73 views. My MPM page, 311, so the numbers are slowly going up. I have been trying to do some research on the "right way" to create leads from the internet. One of the tips that I am trying, especially related to the video promotion is to "meet" others through you tube. In english, this means:

• Watch videos posted by others on youtube
• Make a comment on their video
• Subscribe to their channel
• Request them to add you as a friend
• Send them an email introducing yourself

I am going to make a goal to try to meet 10 new people a day. I did not get there today (It's easy to get distracted) but I think it will help get my video shown and allow me to build relationships with others.

-Sandy W.

Do I get a redo for today?

Well, I was very nervous about my scheduled meet up today with the "Triangle Area Nonprofit Organizers". I had everything ready and printed out to go, including directions on how to get there. My husband had a job interview but was finished in time to stop by my work and switch cars so he could pick up our son from daycare. I left right as my work day was over and rushed off to get to the meeting....but then I could not find the location. I went to the published address...but let's just say that it was not really a "meeting location" and certainly not somewhere where I was comfortable stopping to ask directions when I was by myself.

So I was already a half hour late and had driven up and down the street looking for the Cafe...and just had to give up and come home. I sat in traffic and it took me twice as long to get home.

Come to find out...the published address had "Road" in the street name when it was on a road with the same name but was a "Boulevard"...and in different areas of Durham.

Well, at least I'm ready for the meet-up in March....

Day 1 of "The next 60"

I'm ready for my meeting tomorrow night. I think there will be about 10 people there from various NPOs and other organizations. I know they have a presentation/discussion already planned, so I am coming with 10 copies of the generic proposal and my cards to hand out and exchange information to discuss/follow up with later this week. I'll keep you posted on how that goes.

My video is up to 70 views and my MPM page is up to 302...so I'm up a few more from this weekend. I have sent out some emails and made a few follow up calls but still have not done much else to promote the video. I am still interested in writing a press release, but my taxes took longer this weekend than I expected, so I'll have to work on the press release as my time allows.

Hope everyone is enjoying "life after bootcamp"...

Sandy W

Is it the end of bootcamp or the beginning of something else exciting?

Hello to all of the followers of My Power Mall's World Changer Realty Boot Camp!

I cannot believe that it's been 60 days! I cannot wait for the next 60 days!

You see...I really feel like I have learned so much and have learned so many ways to share my business. One of the most important things I learned though, was to take action and "do what it takes" every day to build your business. I still have a ways to go to meet my goal of $2,000 a month, but I now not only learned the skills needed to build my business but I learned that I must put these skills into action. My goal is to continue to try to spend at least 15 hours each week doing just that...for at least the next 60 days...that's about how long I have left until my baby girl will be born into this world. I hope that you all will continue to follow my journey and I want everyone to know I will always be available to help.

More specifically, my goal is to reach over 500 views of my video (I'm still at 60 today) and over 700 views on my MPM page (It went up to 298 today...that's 6 more than yesterday). In addition to learning more about social networking, I am going to mainly focus on working leads, and following up with the over 150+ contacts I have made, including all the businesses. I am going to try to contact at least one business a day as well. I'm looking forward to an extra hour each day for at least the next two weeks to help jump start my business.

I'll keep you all posted on how things are going. It's really not the end, but rather a beginning. I'm no longer doing this "because I have to" but I because I want to in order to reach my goals.

Thanks to everyone for their support!

-Sandy W

Second to Last Day of Boot Camp

Today was a day where I was struggling to be productive. I did get some phone calls in--another 10 in fact--but I did not really get into a conversation with anyone. It's okay...I know that my opportunity to build this business will not end tomorrow....It's really just beginning.

My video is up to 60 views, my MPM page has 292 hits...that's 4 more hits on the MPM page than yesteray....I did learn something cool about youtube today. They have an "insight" feature where you can not only see how many views that you have, but also how they found your video. For instance, one person watched my video by searching "gasoline" in the youtube toolbar. I sent out another 20 emails today, so we will see if the numbers go up for tomorrow.

I know this is short, but I'm determined to get to bed a little bit earlier today. Six hours of sleep is just not enough for me to get through the day with...

Sandy W

Wednesday- Two Days Left

Now that Wednesday is over...there are two days left during bootcamp...I still have a way to go so I won't be "stopping" once my business is built.

I think the biggest challenge once boot camp is over will be to keep myself doing something every day to build my business. If I take a break, I'll lose the momentum that I have built up. I'll also lose the nerve that I have acquired. Although I do admit, I still spend time giving myself a pep talk before I call or talk to anyone. I know that having my "MPM" family with me will help me to keep it up!

I did some more research tonight. I made some more calls--not quite the "14" that I had hoped for, but still progress. One person asked me to remove him from my list. The others were answering machines. It turned out that my downline member did not answer her phone at our appointment time this evening, so I had some time to make a few more calls while trying to research the NPOs for Tuesday nights' meeting.

My video is still sitting at 57 views and my MPM page has one more hit today--it's up to 288. I really have not done anything within the last 24-hours to publicize it, so I'm not surprised that has not gone up. I'd like to try doing some press releases to advertise the video...but that's something that will require me to spend more time than I have right now...so that will be Saturday's task.

--Sandy W

Tuesday February 10

After dinner, when I normally start my follow up calls, my 2-year old son was in our bedroom and called me in. He pointed to the chair by my husband's computer and said "sit". He got up in my lap and said "I want grandpa and nana" and pointed to the computer monitor. It was cute and I couldn't say no. So we "skyped" with his grandparents (using the webcam) and the next thing I knew it was time for evening call without having made a phone call yet for MPM.

My video has been viewed 57 times now but only resulting in two more hits on my MPM page (287). I did not really do "anything" else today to promote. Although I had not really thought about it before (as Jackie described in the call tonight) that my video can be promoting MPM for me when I am tied up with other things and can't.

I think instead of sending out letters this week I will call the business first and then ask them the best way to send them information (email or mail) and then arrange for a time to call them back. This way I keep from getting too many going at once and not have time for the follow up.

I focused this evening on planning a little. I had thought about going to the Raleigh Fundraisers Meetup group this Saturday. Based on the RSVP list, it looks like there is only one person going who has made it clear that he has a fund raising opportunity that will save non-profits. It does not really seem like the audience I am seeking. There is a meeting with the Triangle Nonprofit group on Tuesday night next week that seems to be more of the audience that I am looking for (mostly people involved in non-profits). So I think I will spend my time researching their NPOs and preparing for the Tuesday meeting rather than goign to the one on Saturday and not having time to prep for the Tuesday meeting. So I started researching and introduced myself to several people that are part of the "meet up" community.

Here is to tomorrow and better connections with people than today!

--Sandy W

Update on my video:
Splash Page has been viewed: 204 times
Splash Page was clicked on: 3 times
total video views: 8 times
Total hits on my MPM Website: 285 times

Stay tuned to watch these numbers grow.

Today, I managed to call my downline members. One had a broken computer and was supposed to get it fixed tomorrow. I made an appointment to call him back on Friday evening AND invited him to join on the family chat call tonight. The other had not really done anything since we last talked (which was about a week ago), so I asked her to look at the MPM 101 again and told her I would call her tomorrow night to discuss.

I also changed my video website page (with the embedded "Back to Basics" video from You tube) so that it would play immediately as soon as you logged onto the site (instead of having to start the player). I redirected the traffic exchange to it to see if the video is interesting enough that people will watch the whole thing and go to my website.

Well I did not reach my full number of 14 contacts plus 10 businesses today. But I did manage to call 7 of them in the time that I had. 6 of them were messages. For the other, the person was not home but the person that answered said they would be home within 15 minutes. I made an appointment to call back in an hour. When I called back...it was an answering machine...

It felt good to get back into the swing of things again and to be able to use the time I had set aside for MPM for building my MPM business...even if I did not add anyone to my team today. I know i will soon!

-Sandy W

A restful weekend-ready to start the final week!

It's the end of a restful weekend. I've have figured out that in order to reach my goal of contacting all my contacts at least one this week, I need to call 14 contacts a day and at least 10 businesses a day. That's a lot of follow up for one day, but I am up for the challenge. I have been dealing with increased fatigue as my pregnancy goes along. It seems I can't go-go-go as was accustomed to doing. I am still up for the challenge.

I did want to update everyone on my marketing video. I purchased the "Back to the Basics" video. Since I purchased the video, I have sent it out in an email to all of my contacts. I also downloaded 30 free leads and sent them a link to the video through youtube. I also have made a splash page, with the text of my email that directs readers to the video, which is embeded on my website.
So far, the splash page was shown about 100 times on a traffic exchange. Four of the 100 people clicked on the video page. According to youtube, my video has been watched 7 times (including the times I watched it once it was uploaded). Stay tuned for watching that number increase!

That's all for now...I talk to everyone tomorrow!
-Sandy W

Friday!

I'm glad it's Friday. Today was not much for getting things accomplished but I am looking forward to the weekend and the last week. My goal is to "waste no time". I need to make sure every moment I have available is spent to reaching my goal.

I left messages with both members of my downline tonight. I also called five other contacts and left messages with them.

I hope to call at least twenty people tomorrow and twenty people on Sunday. That should give me a good start to get to everyone by the end of the week.

I also downloaded the video and am waiting to receive it so I can upload it onto several social networks and start promoting it!

-Sandy W.

I have a lot to do....but no energy to get it done today

Today was even more exhausting then yesterday. I had to stop several times on the way home from Richmond just to keep myself from falling asleep. By the time I had returned the car to airport, picked up my car at the office, put AVery to bed and ate dinner, it was 10:00 PM and I am left with no energy and it's really late to be calling anyone on the east coast anyway.

I did not want the day to be a total loss though. I have tried to get caught up on everyone's blogs so i can hear what has been going on and getting ideas for building my business. Right now I feel like my biggest struggle is finding the time to get done everything that I know i need to do. The boot camp has been excellent training and has given me so many ideas on how to build my business and so many different things that I want to try. I know, however, that I need to be more diligent to "do what needs to be done"...I need to make sure I follow up with everyone I have talked to and every business that I make contact with.

I am going to spend the rest of tonight evaluating my plan for the "last week" of boot camp. I want to make sure I am dedicating as much time as possible so I can finish up strong and keep the momentum going.

I think I will purchase a video and try to promote it...now to decide which one...they are all so good!

-Sandy W

Wow...what a day...

It's almost 11 and I'm exhausted. I did not get done with work and dinner and get to hotel until after 9 PM. It's been a very long day of one meeting after another. It also seems really weird to be staying in a hotel when I lived in this town for 7 years and own a house a few miles down the road (it has a tenant in it, so I can't stay there).

I was hoping to get to squeeze in some follow up calls and so forth today. I was too exhausted when I got back. I did stop and have dinner with some former co-workers when I drove for Blacksburg Transit. It was good to catch up and a few of them were interested enough in what I was doing now that they said I could send them some info about My Power Mall. So I've sent them an email and also sent follow up emails to those left on my list.

That was all I had energy for. Hopefully I will be back to Raleigh in time for the 8PM call tomorrow night!

Sandy W

Tuesday...

Welcome to MPM-Barb!

Another member has joined our family, her name is Barb. I met her through a free lead service (yes, the one that I had given up on), but eventually, if you call enough of them, you can get results. She has worked with insurance sales in the past, but most recently has been laid off from Walmart. She was hesistant to start with the World Changer option because she is worried about her fixed income (which is right now just social security). I told her we would start her out as a business starter mall and then upgrade once she had a chance to see everything and be comfortable with the investment and build her team.

That pretty much was my MPM today. It took a while to work through some computer issues, get her signed up and then walk her through the toolbar and how to get to MPM 101.

Tomorrow and Thursday I will be travelling for work. I'll be going to Blacksburg, VA for some business meetings Wednesday and then to Richmond for some more meetings on Thursday. I'm not sure yet if I will be on the road (or in meetings) during the calls, but I will definatley keep up with the blog and make sure I download the podcast. I'll be talking to the people I meet when I get the chance, although right now I'm not in a position to discuss MPM while "on the clock" with my other job. There will still be plenty of opportunities. We used to live in Blacksburg, so maybe I will run into someone I know...

Starting the new week

I thought for sure, after my weekend, I was going to be able to talk about a sign up--a new world changer.

Ironically, this weekend, I was all ready to leave my new script message on everyone's answering machine. I only got to leave 4 messages all weekend. I actually got to talk to people instead (which is much better). It also meant that I did not get through as many calls as I would have liked, but I would rather have a quality conversation with a few people, than leave my new inspiring message with many. There will be time for that :)

Sunday I had a great call with an individual that I had gotten the contact information from a free lead source. I know...the lead source that I had said I wasn't going to waste my time on. But I did want to follow through with the contacts that I had made. Anyway, I had gotten ahold of her, and she was interested in a way to earn income because she was laid off from her job selling insurance earlier this year. Then she had worked at Walmart, but was laid off from there in October. She's interested in helping people and interested in being able to afford the payments on her house without having to use her social security. We were getting to the sign up point, but she wanted to think about the "name" of her mall, and she was hungry (and so were her dogs). It was dinner time (especially for me) so we agreed I would call her back in an hour. Unfortunately, when I called her back, I got her voice mail. I called her back at lunch my time (11AM her time), but still did not get in touch. I wrote her a detailed email about the sign up process. I even accidently signed up myself because I wanted to make sure my directions were correct (sorry Ginny, I cancelled it right away after I realized what I had done).

So tomorrow I will call her again and hopefully be able to get her started. I want to help her reach her goal of buying her house and helping her friends.

-Sandy W