What Florida Lawyers Are The Attorneys You Want To Hire
by Markus Skupeika
LAWYERS AND LIFE
People do go often down the memory lane about their life. After couple of hours thinking it gets to the realization that life is eventful, indeed it is.
When people like you meet the life span. You find good aspect of it and the bad one as well. The good aspect consists of joy, happy feelings, and excellent works that you have ever performed and last but not the least bubble- memories. Those things reflect through the gateway of smiles and blushes.
On the contrary, life gets dumb and stops for a while when it comes to meet accidents, pains and grief ness or sorrow.
It will be harsh to talk on accidents in life. When the stipulated accidents like car accidents, motorcycle accidents, boat accidents, truck accidents or things like that spread out its wings over the life, you become blank from your mind and stay as disheartened as if you think the atmosphere and the environment around you has been stopped. People like us measure pain the significance right on that.
WHAT WE DO?
We are the people who put the value of loss and pain for the people who has been hurt or injured during the accidents, as we all know it does not come with the ring at your doorbell. Thus we do stretch out our hand by giving you the proper and adequate suggestions and methods of implementation by which you can come out of this stagnant situation. Being a part of the civilized world "what you do?"
After leaving the bed in the morning and complying with the essential work and then you rush to your office and work destination. On your way to that place you meet the either car's disorder due to break down of the system or ran over of the car on you due to reckless driving by an irresponsible individual. We Florida Lawyers are right behind you at that point of time not only through visibility but also stretched out hand of ours on the Internet browser.
As a victim of the accident you are caught in the dilemma whether to call a lawyer or not. You must to go for the first option. If you are not interested enough to recall a lawyer you surely lose your rights compensation is the more desirable thing from the conductor of the car accident. You cannot demand your compensation through verbal steps. Some legal ways that need to be followed and there lies the significance of the lawyer. In regard to defend your rights you should switch to the lawyer. The Florida Accident Attorney will be able to send a legal notice to the accused party and can draw him to the court. There are some several queries that he will ask to the concerned party and slowly he will lead to that point that mentioned accused person has committed a crime and he will be penalized by the court. The court will go ahead and asked the person to compensate. The entire compensation will come at your way. During this period you will become an idle (if you were working some where). The lawyer will make sure that the proper arrangements have been made to pay you off. The methodology will be set in such a way to reimburse the victim of the accident. You need to know a certain thing that you will not be able to get the reimbursement after winning the case.
For those people Lawyer Car Accident Florida advices you don't need to spare a single penny. All this advices and consultations (wherever is applicable) will be done at free of cost.
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About the Author
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Friday, March 30, 2007
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Frivolous lawsuits: Why are they so prevalent?
Frivolous lawsuits: Why are they so prevalent?
by Rocco Beatrice
ASSET PROTECTION is the concept of protecting and preserving one's assets from frivolous lawsuits designed to primarily destroy your current and future lifestyle.
Let me put it another way, up to now, you've probably worked very hard to get where you are. But my guess is that you've worked too hard, endured too much stress ... and for what? It can all evaporate before your very eyes because of of one or any frivolous lawsuit.
One of the fastest growing businesses in America is an army of contingent-fee lawyers. Did you know that 80% of total world's lawyers are in the United States and 130,000 new students are currently attending law school?
Of one well-known and notable frivolous lawsuit that I can recall is the woman who was awarded $2.3 million in a suit against McDonald's because she spilled hot coffee all over herself. (The Award was later reduced but not eliminated).
Here is an actual account of a frivolous lawsuit: while driving to an appointment, one of the employees remembers he needs to contact a coworker regarding a meeting. He dials the number on his cell phone, and briefly takes his eyes off the road. In that instant, a vehicle in front of him shifts lanes, and he strikes it, seriously injuring a 78-year-old woman. Under exactly this scenario, a jury awarded a $21 million judgment against Dykes Industries of Little Rock, Arkansas.
PREDATOR-PLAINTIFFS FILED 30 MILLION NEW LAWSUITS LAST YEAR
That's over 82,000 lawsuits per day and the number keeps growing! Opportunists make careers out of filing lawsuits, knowing that the expense of defending against these attacks is so high, a settlement will likely be offered.
How Opportunists Find Out You're Worth Suing. Your bank, brokerage and credit card transactions provide a remarkably detailed account of who you are, what you own and even describe or provide insight about your opinions, interests, ideology and religion. These records may be subpoenaed in a lawsuit and used against you. Like or not, your life has become an open book. Literally, you have NO financial privacy. I don't mean to alarm you but the information that is recoverable about you and your family is frightening. The truth is just about everything you might want to keep private - details of your bank accounts, your phone records, medical records, credit reports and even your Social Security number can be viewed by anyone, anytime - for "the right price."
The United States has some of the most relaxed privacy laws in the world. Information about you is bought, sold or shared without your knowledge or consent every day. You can slow down this trade in your data, but you can't stop it.
WHY FRIVOLOUS LAWSUITS ARE SO PREVALENT IN AMERICA TODAY
In 2004, more than nine million Americans had their identity stolen and approximately 1.8 million were sued. For a few dollars, you can perform a search on the Internet to locate your target's home address, work history, and telephone records and even balances in U.S. securities and bank accounts. Most other countries regulate this trade in information much more strictly than the United States. And in countries with bank secrecy laws, it means that this kind of financial information can never be shared, except under stringent conditions. Information about you, your wealth, your home and everything in it is for sale to the highest bidder.
For example: Computers have become valuable digital assistants. But they may also contain sensitive information about your finances, spending habits and personal life. In the wrong hands, these little facts could not only embarrass you but could be used against you in court.
IDENTITY THEFT: CAUSE OF AMERICA'S LAWSUITS?
Identity theft is the fastest-growing crime in America. In 2005, at least 130 reported security breaches exposed more than 55 million Americans to potential ID theft. In 2006, I.D. theft was spiraling out of control. In 2006, more than 30 million Americans have had their personal data potentially exposed to identity thieves.
STATISTICS ON IDENTITY THEFT
May 22, 2006: 26.5 million military identities exposed when a laptop was stolen from a U.S. Veterans' Administration employees' home.
June 1, 2006: 1.3 million customers exposed. The Texas Guaranteed Student Loan company announced that 1.3 million customers were at risk of ID fraud after a contractor lost unspecified "computer equipment."
June 6, 2006: 72,000 identities exposed. Officials with Ohio's Buckeye Community Health Plan notified authorities that four computers were stolen containing 72,000 Medicaid subscribers' personal information.
June 8, 2006: 65,000 identities exposed. The YMCA announced that a laptop stolen from an office in Providence, R.I. held credit card and SSN's, checking account data and names, addresses and medical information.
June 18, 2006: 970,000 identities exposed. Insurance giant AIG announced that it lost personal information of about 970,000 consumers after a burglary in Midwest.
PROTECTION FOR LAW AGAINST FRIVOLOUS LAWSUITS
And forget about the protection of the law. In many cases, the law seems like it's on the side of those who would steal from you!
Did you know these facts?
- If you loan a vehicle to a friend who injures someone or damages his property, you can be sued. - If you lend money to someone to purchase a vehicle, you may be responsible for any damages or injuries that person causes in an accident. - If a guest in your home does something illegal during their stay, your property can be seized. And you're not innocent until proven guilty in such cases; rather, it's up to you to prove your innocence, or lose your property
WHY ARE FRIVOLOUS LAWSUITS SO RAMPANT?
You didn't hang a 'GET LOST' sign around your wealth.
It's a justice system run amuck. In the United States, we have a highly unusual judicial system. Contingent-fee lawyers act like predators or armed street gangsters. Judges and juries act like Robin Hoods, determined to redistribute your wealth. Statistics are staggering: you will be sued more times than you will have a hospital stay.
And what's outrageous is that our judicial system helps them by:
(1) making it easy for your predator-plaintiffs to sue. (2) predator-plaintiffs and their lawyers will sue you for just about anything they can dream up; and (3) plaintiffs don't need to pay their lawyers in advance. They will work for a percentage of whatever they can squeeze out of you.
The Trap has been set! Clever gold-digging lawyers have been successful in casting you as the villain. You are the "greedy rich" at the expense of working stiffs. Judge and juries are out to get even.
It's always about "the money!" Lawsuits have become the plaintiffs' number #1 negotiating strategy. Lawyers have learned that for the $175 court filing fee, one of two things will likely happen:
1. Either you give them money to go away. Or else, 2. They'll keep you tied up in court for 2 to 5 years and then the jury will give them your money. In either case, the money comes out of YOUR POCKET.
That's their strategy and it works every time. Sure you may win your case but at what price? You could win yourself all the way into the poor house. To win your case, you could easily pay six figures to your law firm (beginning with $5,000 to $15,000 retainer and $350.00 per hour).
So even if you win, you lose.
For many self-made, hard-working citizens, the "American Dream" can become the "American Nightmare." Exorbitant taxes, lawsuit-friendly courtrooms, persistent predator plaintiffs, and contingent-fee clever lawyers are a constant threat to everything you've worked so hard to accomplish. It could all evaporate before your very eyes.
Common traits shared by plaintiffs' lawyers and armed street gangsters:
They love money. The more they stand to gain, the better they like it.
They love to gamble. They don't mind losing cases now and then, because the winners far more than pay for the losers.
They love to fight. They don't mind wrestling with your lawyers for years in an effort to see who comes out on top.
They love to control. They will gladly spend weeks in depositions asking you tough questions so they can show you who's boss.
WHERE FRIVOLOUS LAWSUITS CAN ARISE?
Who can't wait to sue you? Just about anyone you can name. A partial listing, but not all inclusive:
EMPLOYMENT LAWSUITS ARISING FROM:
- Age discrimination - Racial, Gender - Religious - Pregnancy - Disability - Mental illness - Addiction discrimination - Sexual harassment - Peer harassment - Gossip among employees - Job references (good or bad) - Whistle blowing retaliation - Wrongful termination - Negligent employee retention - Releasing medical information - Unequal mental vs. physical health coverage - Employee injury from chemical exposure and the list goes on
PROFESSIONAL MALPRACTICE LAWSUITS ARISING FROM:
- Medical malpractice - Legal malpractice - Psychological malpractice - Engineering malpractice - Architectural malpractice and much more
BUSINESS LIABILITY LAWSUITS ARISING FROM:
- Environmental cleanup liability - Products liability - Shareholder liability - Securities fraud - Liability of outside directors - Liability from unsatisfied customers - Personal injury when a customer drinks too much and hurts someone - Personal injury when a customer slips and falls and much more
PERSONAL LAWSUITS ARISING FROM:
- Divorce - Lawsuits by children - Lawsuits from business partners - Creditors claims - Accidental injury caused by a family member - Pregnancy (your son gets a girl pregnant) - Personal injury caused by a drinking guest - Personal injury when a guest slips and falls and much more
THE KEY TO AVOIDING FRIVOLOUS LAWSUITS
So the key to preventing and minimizing lawsuits is NOT TO OWN ANYTHING IN YOUR NAME. The key to protecting your assets is to make sure predator-plaintiffs and their gold-digging lawyers can't get their hands on your money. When plaintiffs' lawyers discover they can't get your money, they won't waste any time trying. If they can't get anything, they will get 1/3 of nothing. They can and will find someone else to sue.
Question: Which do we need more -Doctors or Lawyers?
Answer: The American Medical Association lists a total of 650,000 licensed doctors in the U.S. and with approximately 67,000 medical students in school.
Take a look in your own telephone book yellow pages. There are approximately 950,000 lawyers with approximately 130,000 attending law schools. Most of them live on a contingent-fee basis. Don't become a statistic. Learn from other people's mistakes. Learn to become every contingency-fee lawyer's nightmare.
I urge to start planning today and start planning for solid asset protection and wealth preservation strategies. Then implement your plan. I always say it's better to do something than nothing. If you do nothing then you're a bulls-eye target for these lawyers and any frivolous lawsuit they can dream up of.
About the Author
Rocco Beatrice, CPA, MST, MBA, award-winning trust and estate-planning expert. 71 Commercial Street #150 Boston, MA 02109 tel: +1.508.429.0011 fax: +1.508.429.3034
Sign up for a FREE newsletter to learn how you can reduce your taxes legally, protect your assets, secure your privacy & preserve your money for an accelerated, successful financial roadmap.Irrevocable Trust Asset Protection
by Rocco Beatrice
ASSET PROTECTION is the concept of protecting and preserving one's assets from frivolous lawsuits designed to primarily destroy your current and future lifestyle.
Let me put it another way, up to now, you've probably worked very hard to get where you are. But my guess is that you've worked too hard, endured too much stress ... and for what? It can all evaporate before your very eyes because of of one or any frivolous lawsuit.
One of the fastest growing businesses in America is an army of contingent-fee lawyers. Did you know that 80% of total world's lawyers are in the United States and 130,000 new students are currently attending law school?
Of one well-known and notable frivolous lawsuit that I can recall is the woman who was awarded $2.3 million in a suit against McDonald's because she spilled hot coffee all over herself. (The Award was later reduced but not eliminated).
Here is an actual account of a frivolous lawsuit: while driving to an appointment, one of the employees remembers he needs to contact a coworker regarding a meeting. He dials the number on his cell phone, and briefly takes his eyes off the road. In that instant, a vehicle in front of him shifts lanes, and he strikes it, seriously injuring a 78-year-old woman. Under exactly this scenario, a jury awarded a $21 million judgment against Dykes Industries of Little Rock, Arkansas.
PREDATOR-PLAINTIFFS FILED 30 MILLION NEW LAWSUITS LAST YEAR
That's over 82,000 lawsuits per day and the number keeps growing! Opportunists make careers out of filing lawsuits, knowing that the expense of defending against these attacks is so high, a settlement will likely be offered.
How Opportunists Find Out You're Worth Suing. Your bank, brokerage and credit card transactions provide a remarkably detailed account of who you are, what you own and even describe or provide insight about your opinions, interests, ideology and religion. These records may be subpoenaed in a lawsuit and used against you. Like or not, your life has become an open book. Literally, you have NO financial privacy. I don't mean to alarm you but the information that is recoverable about you and your family is frightening. The truth is just about everything you might want to keep private - details of your bank accounts, your phone records, medical records, credit reports and even your Social Security number can be viewed by anyone, anytime - for "the right price."
The United States has some of the most relaxed privacy laws in the world. Information about you is bought, sold or shared without your knowledge or consent every day. You can slow down this trade in your data, but you can't stop it.
WHY FRIVOLOUS LAWSUITS ARE SO PREVALENT IN AMERICA TODAY
In 2004, more than nine million Americans had their identity stolen and approximately 1.8 million were sued. For a few dollars, you can perform a search on the Internet to locate your target's home address, work history, and telephone records and even balances in U.S. securities and bank accounts. Most other countries regulate this trade in information much more strictly than the United States. And in countries with bank secrecy laws, it means that this kind of financial information can never be shared, except under stringent conditions. Information about you, your wealth, your home and everything in it is for sale to the highest bidder.
For example: Computers have become valuable digital assistants. But they may also contain sensitive information about your finances, spending habits and personal life. In the wrong hands, these little facts could not only embarrass you but could be used against you in court.
IDENTITY THEFT: CAUSE OF AMERICA'S LAWSUITS?
Identity theft is the fastest-growing crime in America. In 2005, at least 130 reported security breaches exposed more than 55 million Americans to potential ID theft. In 2006, I.D. theft was spiraling out of control. In 2006, more than 30 million Americans have had their personal data potentially exposed to identity thieves.
STATISTICS ON IDENTITY THEFT
May 22, 2006: 26.5 million military identities exposed when a laptop was stolen from a U.S. Veterans' Administration employees' home.
June 1, 2006: 1.3 million customers exposed. The Texas Guaranteed Student Loan company announced that 1.3 million customers were at risk of ID fraud after a contractor lost unspecified "computer equipment."
June 6, 2006: 72,000 identities exposed. Officials with Ohio's Buckeye Community Health Plan notified authorities that four computers were stolen containing 72,000 Medicaid subscribers' personal information.
June 8, 2006: 65,000 identities exposed. The YMCA announced that a laptop stolen from an office in Providence, R.I. held credit card and SSN's, checking account data and names, addresses and medical information.
June 18, 2006: 970,000 identities exposed. Insurance giant AIG announced that it lost personal information of about 970,000 consumers after a burglary in Midwest.
PROTECTION FOR LAW AGAINST FRIVOLOUS LAWSUITS
And forget about the protection of the law. In many cases, the law seems like it's on the side of those who would steal from you!
Did you know these facts?
- If you loan a vehicle to a friend who injures someone or damages his property, you can be sued. - If you lend money to someone to purchase a vehicle, you may be responsible for any damages or injuries that person causes in an accident. - If a guest in your home does something illegal during their stay, your property can be seized. And you're not innocent until proven guilty in such cases; rather, it's up to you to prove your innocence, or lose your property
WHY ARE FRIVOLOUS LAWSUITS SO RAMPANT?
You didn't hang a 'GET LOST' sign around your wealth.
It's a justice system run amuck. In the United States, we have a highly unusual judicial system. Contingent-fee lawyers act like predators or armed street gangsters. Judges and juries act like Robin Hoods, determined to redistribute your wealth. Statistics are staggering: you will be sued more times than you will have a hospital stay.
And what's outrageous is that our judicial system helps them by:
(1) making it easy for your predator-plaintiffs to sue. (2) predator-plaintiffs and their lawyers will sue you for just about anything they can dream up; and (3) plaintiffs don't need to pay their lawyers in advance. They will work for a percentage of whatever they can squeeze out of you.
The Trap has been set! Clever gold-digging lawyers have been successful in casting you as the villain. You are the "greedy rich" at the expense of working stiffs. Judge and juries are out to get even.
It's always about "the money!" Lawsuits have become the plaintiffs' number #1 negotiating strategy. Lawyers have learned that for the $175 court filing fee, one of two things will likely happen:
1. Either you give them money to go away. Or else, 2. They'll keep you tied up in court for 2 to 5 years and then the jury will give them your money. In either case, the money comes out of YOUR POCKET.
That's their strategy and it works every time. Sure you may win your case but at what price? You could win yourself all the way into the poor house. To win your case, you could easily pay six figures to your law firm (beginning with $5,000 to $15,000 retainer and $350.00 per hour).
So even if you win, you lose.
For many self-made, hard-working citizens, the "American Dream" can become the "American Nightmare." Exorbitant taxes, lawsuit-friendly courtrooms, persistent predator plaintiffs, and contingent-fee clever lawyers are a constant threat to everything you've worked so hard to accomplish. It could all evaporate before your very eyes.
Common traits shared by plaintiffs' lawyers and armed street gangsters:
They love money. The more they stand to gain, the better they like it.
They love to gamble. They don't mind losing cases now and then, because the winners far more than pay for the losers.
They love to fight. They don't mind wrestling with your lawyers for years in an effort to see who comes out on top.
They love to control. They will gladly spend weeks in depositions asking you tough questions so they can show you who's boss.
WHERE FRIVOLOUS LAWSUITS CAN ARISE?
Who can't wait to sue you? Just about anyone you can name. A partial listing, but not all inclusive:
EMPLOYMENT LAWSUITS ARISING FROM:
- Age discrimination - Racial, Gender - Religious - Pregnancy - Disability - Mental illness - Addiction discrimination - Sexual harassment - Peer harassment - Gossip among employees - Job references (good or bad) - Whistle blowing retaliation - Wrongful termination - Negligent employee retention - Releasing medical information - Unequal mental vs. physical health coverage - Employee injury from chemical exposure and the list goes on
PROFESSIONAL MALPRACTICE LAWSUITS ARISING FROM:
- Medical malpractice - Legal malpractice - Psychological malpractice - Engineering malpractice - Architectural malpractice and much more
BUSINESS LIABILITY LAWSUITS ARISING FROM:
- Environmental cleanup liability - Products liability - Shareholder liability - Securities fraud - Liability of outside directors - Liability from unsatisfied customers - Personal injury when a customer drinks too much and hurts someone - Personal injury when a customer slips and falls and much more
PERSONAL LAWSUITS ARISING FROM:
- Divorce - Lawsuits by children - Lawsuits from business partners - Creditors claims - Accidental injury caused by a family member - Pregnancy (your son gets a girl pregnant) - Personal injury caused by a drinking guest - Personal injury when a guest slips and falls and much more
THE KEY TO AVOIDING FRIVOLOUS LAWSUITS
So the key to preventing and minimizing lawsuits is NOT TO OWN ANYTHING IN YOUR NAME. The key to protecting your assets is to make sure predator-plaintiffs and their gold-digging lawyers can't get their hands on your money. When plaintiffs' lawyers discover they can't get your money, they won't waste any time trying. If they can't get anything, they will get 1/3 of nothing. They can and will find someone else to sue.
Question: Which do we need more -Doctors or Lawyers?
Answer: The American Medical Association lists a total of 650,000 licensed doctors in the U.S. and with approximately 67,000 medical students in school.
Take a look in your own telephone book yellow pages. There are approximately 950,000 lawyers with approximately 130,000 attending law schools. Most of them live on a contingent-fee basis. Don't become a statistic. Learn from other people's mistakes. Learn to become every contingency-fee lawyer's nightmare.
I urge to start planning today and start planning for solid asset protection and wealth preservation strategies. Then implement your plan. I always say it's better to do something than nothing. If you do nothing then you're a bulls-eye target for these lawyers and any frivolous lawsuit they can dream up of.
About the Author
Rocco Beatrice, CPA, MST, MBA, award-winning trust and estate-planning expert. 71 Commercial Street #150 Boston, MA 02109 tel: +1.508.429.0011 fax: +1.508.429.3034
Sign up for a FREE newsletter to learn how you can reduce your taxes legally, protect your assets, secure your privacy & preserve your money for an accelerated, successful financial roadmap.Irrevocable Trust Asset Protection
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
How the American Legal System has failed you
How the American Legal System has failed you
by Glyn Norman
How the American Legal System has failed you
We live in an increasingly litigious society. The chances of being sued are now estimated at being 1 in 4, with predators lurking to file spurious lawsuits and victimize anyone they think can afford it. America has most of the world's lawyers with 50,000 being added every year, each one hungry for their piece of the lawsuit pie.
This is why it is so lucrative: in the USA, if you file a lawsuit against someone, they have to respond to it. Even if it is frivolous and without grounds, you must appear in court and defend yourself. Since this is expensive, many people prefer to settle out of court, and spare themselves the time and expense of legal proceedings, even if they are innocent.
And this is where the system breaks down. Why should it cost you, assuming you are an innocent party, anything? Why should you have to pay to defend yourself from a frivolous, speculative lawsuit? In England, by comparison, if someone brings a lawsuit against you, and they lose, they are responsible for paying not only their own legal costs, but yours too. It's a worthy discouragement, and only those with a genuine case tend to take the risk.
Here however, you have to pay to defend yourself, and even if you are innocent, you are still liable for your own legal costs. In the USA, generally the richest 10% can afford a lawyer, and the poorest 10% will have a lawyer provided for them by the government. That leaves the middle 80% rather vulnerable to such predatory lawsuits.
Ideally, one would wish to have access to professional legal advice, without it costing the earth. One company that provides just such a unique service is PrePaid Legal, Inc. Through providing low-cost prepaid legal plans to over 1 million families in the US, this company is making legal representation affordable for the masses. With plans covering the whole family starting at $16 per month, no longer is legal representation the privilege of the very wealthy, or very poor, but now available to most hard-working American families.
Even though many do not need a lawyer on a regular basis, it provides great peace of mind to know that one is available, just a phone call away, and that cost no longer needs to be a consideration.
The coverage provided is extensive with unlimited phone consultations, a letter or phone call from the lawyer for each issue, contract and document review, will preparation and updates, motor vehicle violation representation, trial representation up to 60 hours the first year, IRS Audit representation and more, all for the flat fee of $16 per month - and this covers the whole family. If a situation arises which is not covered by the plan, the membership gives the person a 25% discount on all other legal services.
Five minutes after signing up for a PrePaid Legal Plan, new subscribers receive the name and telephone number of a top local law firm that will represent them in any matter. It's that quick, and that simple.
It is no surprise that an increasing number of families are subscribing to a PrePaid Legal plan, seeing it as an affordable means of obtaining legal advice, and a fantastic insurance against a ruinous lawsuit. To have the confidence and ability to say, "I'm going to speak to my lawyer about this," is certain to give any potential litigants pause for thought.
About the Author
The author, Glyn Norman, signs up grateful new members every day to PrePaid Legal Plans, and protects himself and his family with one too. Details of the plan coverage are available here: http://getmelegalhelp.info and information on the Business Opportunity marketing such plans, is available here: http://glyn.buildlastingsuccess.com/ . ID Theft Protection plans also available.
by Glyn Norman
How the American Legal System has failed you
We live in an increasingly litigious society. The chances of being sued are now estimated at being 1 in 4, with predators lurking to file spurious lawsuits and victimize anyone they think can afford it. America has most of the world's lawyers with 50,000 being added every year, each one hungry for their piece of the lawsuit pie.
This is why it is so lucrative: in the USA, if you file a lawsuit against someone, they have to respond to it. Even if it is frivolous and without grounds, you must appear in court and defend yourself. Since this is expensive, many people prefer to settle out of court, and spare themselves the time and expense of legal proceedings, even if they are innocent.
And this is where the system breaks down. Why should it cost you, assuming you are an innocent party, anything? Why should you have to pay to defend yourself from a frivolous, speculative lawsuit? In England, by comparison, if someone brings a lawsuit against you, and they lose, they are responsible for paying not only their own legal costs, but yours too. It's a worthy discouragement, and only those with a genuine case tend to take the risk.
Here however, you have to pay to defend yourself, and even if you are innocent, you are still liable for your own legal costs. In the USA, generally the richest 10% can afford a lawyer, and the poorest 10% will have a lawyer provided for them by the government. That leaves the middle 80% rather vulnerable to such predatory lawsuits.
Ideally, one would wish to have access to professional legal advice, without it costing the earth. One company that provides just such a unique service is PrePaid Legal, Inc. Through providing low-cost prepaid legal plans to over 1 million families in the US, this company is making legal representation affordable for the masses. With plans covering the whole family starting at $16 per month, no longer is legal representation the privilege of the very wealthy, or very poor, but now available to most hard-working American families.
Even though many do not need a lawyer on a regular basis, it provides great peace of mind to know that one is available, just a phone call away, and that cost no longer needs to be a consideration.
The coverage provided is extensive with unlimited phone consultations, a letter or phone call from the lawyer for each issue, contract and document review, will preparation and updates, motor vehicle violation representation, trial representation up to 60 hours the first year, IRS Audit representation and more, all for the flat fee of $16 per month - and this covers the whole family. If a situation arises which is not covered by the plan, the membership gives the person a 25% discount on all other legal services.
Five minutes after signing up for a PrePaid Legal Plan, new subscribers receive the name and telephone number of a top local law firm that will represent them in any matter. It's that quick, and that simple.
It is no surprise that an increasing number of families are subscribing to a PrePaid Legal plan, seeing it as an affordable means of obtaining legal advice, and a fantastic insurance against a ruinous lawsuit. To have the confidence and ability to say, "I'm going to speak to my lawyer about this," is certain to give any potential litigants pause for thought.
About the Author
The author, Glyn Norman, signs up grateful new members every day to PrePaid Legal Plans, and protects himself and his family with one too. Details of the plan coverage are available here: http://getmelegalhelp.info and information on the Business Opportunity marketing such plans, is available here: http://glyn.buildlastingsuccess.com/ . ID Theft Protection plans also available.
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Bush is Leading US Into A Deadly Trap
Bush is Leading US Into A Deadly Trap
by Karen Fish
My fellow earthlings. I come in peace. What is peace to one person may be war to another. War, what is it good for? It's especially good for selling newspapers. I read the news today oh boy, 300 people shot in Lancashire. The headline today was "Top aide of Muqtada al-Sadr arrested". The United States captured Sheikh Abdul Hadi al-Darraji. Name one person who ever heard of this guy before today. Here is the inside story of what's really going on with Iraq and Iran straight from the horse in the Godfather's mouth.
The human eye is connected to the human brain. When the eye first sees the headline it appears to read "Muqtada al-Sadr arrested." This is deliberately designed to evoke great feelings of joy in the reader of the propaganda to convince the poor unsuspecting reader that in fact the mission has been accomplished just as President Bush prepares to expand the war into Armageddon so that he can meet Jesus on the Temple Mount and just as he prepares to address the nation in the State of the Union address. The Muslim World is so dying to wipe the smirk off of that simpleton's face that they are strapping suicide bombs to babies in the shopping mall.
Is it doggy style or doggie style? Today my desk lamp burned out. The only light in the room was coming from my monitor. I found this very upsetting. It was very dark. It was too dark. Johnny Depp is going to play Freddy Mercury in the new Queen movie. Biographies are big in Hollywood today. Philip Seymour Hoffman carted off the gold medal for portraying Truman Capote. Now some other unknown is going to cart off the statue and thank everyone she knows for playing Queen Elizabeth. There hasn't been a good movie in 5 years. All of the Hollywood movie legends have died except for Elizabeth Taylor and she's in so much pain that it's hard for her now to stimulate Bubbles.
Who would you say are the best figure skaters ever? So I go shopping for a new desk lamp. I buy two. Hillary Clinton's campaign slogan is "Two for the price of one." This is why Laura Bush has formed an exploratory committee in her run for the Presidency. It is to get around the term limits law. Plus Barbara Bush and Jenna Bush aren't into moving right now. They aren't in the right head space. Tell me why you cry, and why you lie to me? I get home and my previously dead desk lamp is now working perfectly, as though to taunt me, as the executioners of Saddam Hussein chanted "Muqtada, Muqtada, Muqtada" prior to handing Saddam Hussein his head on a platter. Not that it's obvious that Muqtada al-Sadr was hiding under the ski mask, with his pinky ring in the video and his nose fully exposed as he wrapped the rope around Saddam's neck as his pals chanted "Muqtada, Muqtada, Muqtada". Executions in Iraq are so N.F.L. Now America is wildly cheering the capture of Sheikh Abdul Hadi al-Darraji as if Michael Jordan had just sunk a fall away jump shot at the buzzer to beat the Lakers in the seventh game of the NBA finals. Talk about premature celebriation. Watch President Bush trumpet this historic victory Tuesday night in the State of the Union address. 3,200 newspapers had this story as their headline today. The American minds are being molded like German minds in 1939 with baloney as their leader leads his country into the abyss. This is all very Deja Vu.
The world today is filled with freethinkers. A freethinker is a person who forms an opinion about religion, politics and morals independently of tradition, authority or established belief. Tradition, Tradition! Politicians are more fickle than men. The word fickle give me that big pickle baby come on now you know you want to come on come on come on, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, baby! Oh baby yes! And that was just my vibrator. The word fickle is an adjective. It began in the modern English as fikel. Then it changed in the Old English to ficol meaning tricky. It is the base of befician, to deceive, betrayal, deceit. Now fickle means changeable or unstable in affection, interest, loyalty, capricious. If you look it up in the dictionary there is a picture of Monica Lewinsky.
Truman Capote is quite relevant today because only Harry Truman has ever dropped the big one. Truman Capote wrote "In Cold Blood". Frank Capra was an American producer, film director and film writer who lived to be 94. His second film was "A Hole in the Head" starring Barzan al-Tikriti and John the Baptist. Frank Capra's ninth film was called "State of the Union". You may have heard of "It's a Wonderful Life" and "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." In 1928 he did "The Power of the Press". Frank Capra made "War Comes to America" then "Know Your Enemy: Japan". All of the great directors are dead.
The white people of America are having real self esteem issues today. There hasn't been a white heavyweight champion in 72 years so the film industry created Rocky Balboa. Rocky is now coming out of retirement to fight Meyer Lansky. Remember 911? Osama bin Laden sent 19 men with box cutters to topple America like dominoes to its knees. Remember Abu Musab al-Zarqawi? He led al-Qaeda in Iraq until June 2006. America celebrated "Mission Accomplished" when they killed him, like that would be the end of violence in Iraq. Al-Qaeda wasn't even in Iraq until America deposed their former ally against Iran Saddam Hussein. What America has succeeded in doing is turning Saddam Hussein from the most hated man in the Muslim world to the most revered. Now the American propaganda machine is pretending that the recently captured press secretary of Muqtada al-Sadr, Sheikh Abdul Hadi al-Darraji is Osama bin Laden.
Lets make this simple. If America kills Muqtada al-Sadr the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will replace him in 30 seconds. He probably already has 50 successors groomed and waiting and drooling for the job. Even if America kills Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Ayatollah al-Khamenei and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tomorrow right before the State of the Union address the Sunni and Shiite Muslim world will still be seething at the American presence in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Dubai and Iraq. What is going on here is a fight for two thirds of the world's oil in the Persian Gulf and a struggle for World Domination between Christianity and Islam.
We are now moving into the Apocalypse, the extinction of life on earth in Nuclear World War 3 and its aftermath nuclear winter then ultraviolet summer. America does not see that Russia is building the Iranian nuclear reactor in Bushehr Iran or that Russia just delivered to Iran $1 billion worth of surface to air missiles to protect Bushehr. America does not see that China has signed a deal to buy Iran's oil in return for drilling rights in Iran. America forgets that with the aid of China and Russia little North Vietnam defeated the United States. China and Russia are not ever going to allow an alcoholic deserter and a guy who shot his own lawyer in the face to grab two thirds of the world's oil from their own backyard. Are you kidding me? "Get serious or I'll have to whip you you bad little boy!" said Anna Nicole Smith dressed in her hottest leather to her new husband Ayatollah Ali Khameni. Anna Nicole Smith doesn't go with losers. She sees the writing on the wall.
Russia now has 25,000 100 megaton nuclear bombs which split into eight in mid-air. The Hiroshima Bomb "Little Boy" was only 50 kilotons. Think megabytes and kilobytes. China can nuke American satellites out of the air and China has are you listening carefully America a 300 million man army which Nostradamus predicted would now march across Europe and grab it like a bird flu chicken by the throat and rip its head off. So America have fun cheering the capture of the press secretary of Muqtada al-Sadr. It may be a good idea to bring the troops home now and convert to cars which do not need gasoline and bicycles before Russia, China and Islam hand us our heads on a platter. Do you think that George Bush and Harry Reid are going to conquer Russia, China and 1 billion Muslims? George Bush couldn't even rescue Oprah Winfrey from the Louisiana Superdome. The Asians have an incredible infield. They have Ali Khameini on third, Osama bin Laden at short, Vladimir Putin at second and Hu is on first.
About the Author
Karen Fish is a writer currently living in Los Angeles California. The Temple of Love http://www.thetempleoflove.com
by Karen Fish
My fellow earthlings. I come in peace. What is peace to one person may be war to another. War, what is it good for? It's especially good for selling newspapers. I read the news today oh boy, 300 people shot in Lancashire. The headline today was "Top aide of Muqtada al-Sadr arrested". The United States captured Sheikh Abdul Hadi al-Darraji. Name one person who ever heard of this guy before today. Here is the inside story of what's really going on with Iraq and Iran straight from the horse in the Godfather's mouth.
The human eye is connected to the human brain. When the eye first sees the headline it appears to read "Muqtada al-Sadr arrested." This is deliberately designed to evoke great feelings of joy in the reader of the propaganda to convince the poor unsuspecting reader that in fact the mission has been accomplished just as President Bush prepares to expand the war into Armageddon so that he can meet Jesus on the Temple Mount and just as he prepares to address the nation in the State of the Union address. The Muslim World is so dying to wipe the smirk off of that simpleton's face that they are strapping suicide bombs to babies in the shopping mall.
Is it doggy style or doggie style? Today my desk lamp burned out. The only light in the room was coming from my monitor. I found this very upsetting. It was very dark. It was too dark. Johnny Depp is going to play Freddy Mercury in the new Queen movie. Biographies are big in Hollywood today. Philip Seymour Hoffman carted off the gold medal for portraying Truman Capote. Now some other unknown is going to cart off the statue and thank everyone she knows for playing Queen Elizabeth. There hasn't been a good movie in 5 years. All of the Hollywood movie legends have died except for Elizabeth Taylor and she's in so much pain that it's hard for her now to stimulate Bubbles.
Who would you say are the best figure skaters ever? So I go shopping for a new desk lamp. I buy two. Hillary Clinton's campaign slogan is "Two for the price of one." This is why Laura Bush has formed an exploratory committee in her run for the Presidency. It is to get around the term limits law. Plus Barbara Bush and Jenna Bush aren't into moving right now. They aren't in the right head space. Tell me why you cry, and why you lie to me? I get home and my previously dead desk lamp is now working perfectly, as though to taunt me, as the executioners of Saddam Hussein chanted "Muqtada, Muqtada, Muqtada" prior to handing Saddam Hussein his head on a platter. Not that it's obvious that Muqtada al-Sadr was hiding under the ski mask, with his pinky ring in the video and his nose fully exposed as he wrapped the rope around Saddam's neck as his pals chanted "Muqtada, Muqtada, Muqtada". Executions in Iraq are so N.F.L. Now America is wildly cheering the capture of Sheikh Abdul Hadi al-Darraji as if Michael Jordan had just sunk a fall away jump shot at the buzzer to beat the Lakers in the seventh game of the NBA finals. Talk about premature celebriation. Watch President Bush trumpet this historic victory Tuesday night in the State of the Union address. 3,200 newspapers had this story as their headline today. The American minds are being molded like German minds in 1939 with baloney as their leader leads his country into the abyss. This is all very Deja Vu.
The world today is filled with freethinkers. A freethinker is a person who forms an opinion about religion, politics and morals independently of tradition, authority or established belief. Tradition, Tradition! Politicians are more fickle than men. The word fickle give me that big pickle baby come on now you know you want to come on come on come on, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, baby! Oh baby yes! And that was just my vibrator. The word fickle is an adjective. It began in the modern English as fikel. Then it changed in the Old English to ficol meaning tricky. It is the base of befician, to deceive, betrayal, deceit. Now fickle means changeable or unstable in affection, interest, loyalty, capricious. If you look it up in the dictionary there is a picture of Monica Lewinsky.
Truman Capote is quite relevant today because only Harry Truman has ever dropped the big one. Truman Capote wrote "In Cold Blood". Frank Capra was an American producer, film director and film writer who lived to be 94. His second film was "A Hole in the Head" starring Barzan al-Tikriti and John the Baptist. Frank Capra's ninth film was called "State of the Union". You may have heard of "It's a Wonderful Life" and "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." In 1928 he did "The Power of the Press". Frank Capra made "War Comes to America" then "Know Your Enemy: Japan". All of the great directors are dead.
The white people of America are having real self esteem issues today. There hasn't been a white heavyweight champion in 72 years so the film industry created Rocky Balboa. Rocky is now coming out of retirement to fight Meyer Lansky. Remember 911? Osama bin Laden sent 19 men with box cutters to topple America like dominoes to its knees. Remember Abu Musab al-Zarqawi? He led al-Qaeda in Iraq until June 2006. America celebrated "Mission Accomplished" when they killed him, like that would be the end of violence in Iraq. Al-Qaeda wasn't even in Iraq until America deposed their former ally against Iran Saddam Hussein. What America has succeeded in doing is turning Saddam Hussein from the most hated man in the Muslim world to the most revered. Now the American propaganda machine is pretending that the recently captured press secretary of Muqtada al-Sadr, Sheikh Abdul Hadi al-Darraji is Osama bin Laden.
Lets make this simple. If America kills Muqtada al-Sadr the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will replace him in 30 seconds. He probably already has 50 successors groomed and waiting and drooling for the job. Even if America kills Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Ayatollah al-Khamenei and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tomorrow right before the State of the Union address the Sunni and Shiite Muslim world will still be seething at the American presence in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Dubai and Iraq. What is going on here is a fight for two thirds of the world's oil in the Persian Gulf and a struggle for World Domination between Christianity and Islam.
We are now moving into the Apocalypse, the extinction of life on earth in Nuclear World War 3 and its aftermath nuclear winter then ultraviolet summer. America does not see that Russia is building the Iranian nuclear reactor in Bushehr Iran or that Russia just delivered to Iran $1 billion worth of surface to air missiles to protect Bushehr. America does not see that China has signed a deal to buy Iran's oil in return for drilling rights in Iran. America forgets that with the aid of China and Russia little North Vietnam defeated the United States. China and Russia are not ever going to allow an alcoholic deserter and a guy who shot his own lawyer in the face to grab two thirds of the world's oil from their own backyard. Are you kidding me? "Get serious or I'll have to whip you you bad little boy!" said Anna Nicole Smith dressed in her hottest leather to her new husband Ayatollah Ali Khameni. Anna Nicole Smith doesn't go with losers. She sees the writing on the wall.
Russia now has 25,000 100 megaton nuclear bombs which split into eight in mid-air. The Hiroshima Bomb "Little Boy" was only 50 kilotons. Think megabytes and kilobytes. China can nuke American satellites out of the air and China has are you listening carefully America a 300 million man army which Nostradamus predicted would now march across Europe and grab it like a bird flu chicken by the throat and rip its head off. So America have fun cheering the capture of the press secretary of Muqtada al-Sadr. It may be a good idea to bring the troops home now and convert to cars which do not need gasoline and bicycles before Russia, China and Islam hand us our heads on a platter. Do you think that George Bush and Harry Reid are going to conquer Russia, China and 1 billion Muslims? George Bush couldn't even rescue Oprah Winfrey from the Louisiana Superdome. The Asians have an incredible infield. They have Ali Khameini on third, Osama bin Laden at short, Vladimir Putin at second and Hu is on first.
About the Author
Karen Fish is a writer currently living in Los Angeles California. The Temple of Love http://www.thetempleoflove.com
Friday, March 9, 2007
Six Requirements For Financial Independence
Six Requirements For Financial Independence
by Joe Rispoli
All of us would like to be financially independent, but what can you actually do to become financially independent?
1. Be in business for yourself 2. Sell a product that is in demand 3. Absolutely guarantee the product 4. Give better service than your competitors 5. Reward those who do the work 6. Attain your success by building the success of others.
One way to gain financial independence is through Network Marketing.
Network marketing as predicted by experts, is showing definite signs of going mainstream. More and more people who previously rejected Network Marketing, are now getting involved, and large companies that used traditional methods of marketing in the past, are now adopting the concept.
What is it? Network Marketing, as it is called today, has been around since the 1950s. Network Marketing originally known as Multi Level Marketing (MLM), is probably one of the most misunderstood concepts in America today.
In Network Marketing, companies move products through a group of independent distributors who buy wholesale, sell retail, and sponsor other people to do the same. For your efforts, you can earn overrides on multi levels of people in your organization.
What is so attractive about this business is that there is no prejudice. Anybody over 18 can prosper and succeed. No color, race, gender, age, employment or educational background can stop you. All you have to do is be open minded and follow the simple steps laid out by your company. You have unlimited earning potential. There is no ceiling. Simple, Fun, Money are three words that can be associated with the most powerful marketing method to distribute products in the 1990s and beyond. Personal growth, along with financial freedom is two of the things you can expect from Network Marketing.
Why Am I So Confused About It?
First, ask yourself what the difference is between Network Marketing and Multi Level Marketing. Nothing! They are one in the same. MLM has been around for forty some odd years now and started as a part time business opportunity. By the middle of the eighties many people were earning substantial amounts of money and were beginning to do the business full time. By this time the phrase "Multi Level Marketing" had a pretty tarnished reputation. Well deserved, we might add. Any new industry is going to have its con artists but this had many. Perhaps that is why a lot of people refer to this as a pyramid scheme (which of course is false).
By this time, John Naisbitt had published his well received and highly successful bestseller "Megatrends" and devoted an entire chapter on networking. We had been doing it subconsciously all along and we still do. So the industry came of age: More and more people were using the phrase, "Network Marketing." Companies selling growth patterns astronomical in both the quality and quantity of people and found this marketing concept to be a wonderful way to move products in the nineties and beyond. Network Marketing was born.
In Network Marketing you are not a door to door salesman, so lets dispel that myth up front. You are in business for yourself (as an independent agent), but not by yourself. You can have very little start up costs and you buy wholesale and distribute product at retail. But, unlike other marketing methods, you have the ability to build a group of people under you, all distributing a little bit of product everyday and then collecting an override on the organization you helped to create.
Remember, this is a group effort (in business for yourself, but not by yourself) and the big money is in organizational overrides. It is almost like owning a chain of stores, or owning a large marketing distribution company. In traditional business (lets use a corporate sales organization) the sales manager hires by adding new people and assigning territories. If a person gets terminated or resigns, you subtract. If the sales organization has 100 people you will probably have a manager for every 5 people. Traditional business is structured a lot like Network Marketing, but in traditional business you do not collect overrides. How many times have you ever recommended a friend for a job in your company and collected an override for it? But, someone on top did! So, the power lies in the ability for Network Marketers to multiply and duplicate.
You build your organization by going wide and deep. Start by lining five people across. Teach them to line five people across, and have them teach their five people. So everyone is working with five people, just like traditional business. Only now, anybody who has desire and the ability to learn simple concepts has the ability to earn vast sums of money by exposing great products everyday and teaching others to do the same! And in time you will have a bigger sales force, all well managed and trained without the headaches of inventory, paperwork, computers, payroll, and staffing. You are an independent agent, all that is handled by the parent company. Once you have successfully trained five people, you go out and repeat the process again, you will have attrition, but are now multiplying, going wide and deep and just subtracting, not dividing when attrition occurs.
People ask me all the time what I do for a living and my reply is always, "I talk to people, and the more I talk, the more my business grows." It took IBM 40 years to reach One Billion Dollars per year. Some quality MLM organizations will have surpassed that mark in less than 7 years!
Getting Educated, Trained, Going Back To School
Signing an application and sitting back just will not cut it. You must be trained first. We train with our jobs. Or better yet, how about the airline pilot you are going to entrust with the job of flying you to your destination. We guess it would not matter to you if he were trained. Or the doctor, the lawyer, well you get the point. Like any business, you need to be trained. Actors and actresses rehearse, professional sports teams practice, and so should you.
Like a passion, be prepared at all times. Be ready. Like that hobby you are so well informed about. It took a lot of effort for you to learn what you did, right? It probably took quite a while to pick all that information up. Other than pure personal enjoyment, it probably cost you money. But yet some people are not willing to commit time to learn something new or have the patience to see it through, and we are talking your life here! Five, ten fifteen hours a week, that is all it takes. Consistency, every day, week, month. Commitment, just like you have with a job. People helping people. Your sponsor is helping you develop five people. You are doing the same with your five people and have those people do the same.
Simple Business Plan, show, try, tell, do. You need to, 1. Commit to your Network Marketing Business. 2. Use the companies great products. 3. Expose the products and opportunity to others. 4. Duplicate the above three things by teaching others to do the same.
"Help Other People Get What They Want And You Too Will Get What You Want."
Zig Ziglar
Word Of Mouth Advertising
You do it all the time. Now let us get paid for it. Do you ever go to a restaurant, enjoy it, and tell your friends about it? Or how about that movie you saw this past weekend, or the sale at you local store? Yes, you probably mentioned that too. Did you ever wonder how some hit movies make forty million dollars in a single weekend? Pretty amazing numbers when it takes a lot of seven dollars to equal forty million. Did you ever get a commission for doing that? How about a "thank you?" Not even something free? We are still waiting too.
The idea of Network Marketing is to pay you for your work. Any great company has great products that people use and enjoy so much that they tell their friends about it. These are products that are generally superior to that of anything available in the marketplace.
The power of Network Marketing is the multiplication and duplication of you. You earn money recommending people to try a product you are already using. In traditional business, companies spend huge amounts of money to get the work out. In Network Marketing, you are the advertising. The huge amount of money that went to advertising is no longer needed, so it goes to you.
It has been my experience that regardless of the quality of the program you are promoting, regardless of its commission plan, regardless of its free web page offer, regardless if its a "Ground Floor Opportunity" and regardless of anything else that is being promised, if you figure out the best way to duplicate your efforts, chances are you are going to succeed.
About the Author
Through years of research Joe Rispoli has put together the most relevant of free advertising resources for your home business! Visit his website to find out how to advertise your business for free. If you would like more on network marketing then see How Do You Succeed At Network Marketing?
by Joe Rispoli
All of us would like to be financially independent, but what can you actually do to become financially independent?
1. Be in business for yourself 2. Sell a product that is in demand 3. Absolutely guarantee the product 4. Give better service than your competitors 5. Reward those who do the work 6. Attain your success by building the success of others.
One way to gain financial independence is through Network Marketing.
Network marketing as predicted by experts, is showing definite signs of going mainstream. More and more people who previously rejected Network Marketing, are now getting involved, and large companies that used traditional methods of marketing in the past, are now adopting the concept.
What is it? Network Marketing, as it is called today, has been around since the 1950s. Network Marketing originally known as Multi Level Marketing (MLM), is probably one of the most misunderstood concepts in America today.
In Network Marketing, companies move products through a group of independent distributors who buy wholesale, sell retail, and sponsor other people to do the same. For your efforts, you can earn overrides on multi levels of people in your organization.
What is so attractive about this business is that there is no prejudice. Anybody over 18 can prosper and succeed. No color, race, gender, age, employment or educational background can stop you. All you have to do is be open minded and follow the simple steps laid out by your company. You have unlimited earning potential. There is no ceiling. Simple, Fun, Money are three words that can be associated with the most powerful marketing method to distribute products in the 1990s and beyond. Personal growth, along with financial freedom is two of the things you can expect from Network Marketing.
Why Am I So Confused About It?
First, ask yourself what the difference is between Network Marketing and Multi Level Marketing. Nothing! They are one in the same. MLM has been around for forty some odd years now and started as a part time business opportunity. By the middle of the eighties many people were earning substantial amounts of money and were beginning to do the business full time. By this time the phrase "Multi Level Marketing" had a pretty tarnished reputation. Well deserved, we might add. Any new industry is going to have its con artists but this had many. Perhaps that is why a lot of people refer to this as a pyramid scheme (which of course is false).
By this time, John Naisbitt had published his well received and highly successful bestseller "Megatrends" and devoted an entire chapter on networking. We had been doing it subconsciously all along and we still do. So the industry came of age: More and more people were using the phrase, "Network Marketing." Companies selling growth patterns astronomical in both the quality and quantity of people and found this marketing concept to be a wonderful way to move products in the nineties and beyond. Network Marketing was born.
In Network Marketing you are not a door to door salesman, so lets dispel that myth up front. You are in business for yourself (as an independent agent), but not by yourself. You can have very little start up costs and you buy wholesale and distribute product at retail. But, unlike other marketing methods, you have the ability to build a group of people under you, all distributing a little bit of product everyday and then collecting an override on the organization you helped to create.
Remember, this is a group effort (in business for yourself, but not by yourself) and the big money is in organizational overrides. It is almost like owning a chain of stores, or owning a large marketing distribution company. In traditional business (lets use a corporate sales organization) the sales manager hires by adding new people and assigning territories. If a person gets terminated or resigns, you subtract. If the sales organization has 100 people you will probably have a manager for every 5 people. Traditional business is structured a lot like Network Marketing, but in traditional business you do not collect overrides. How many times have you ever recommended a friend for a job in your company and collected an override for it? But, someone on top did! So, the power lies in the ability for Network Marketers to multiply and duplicate.
You build your organization by going wide and deep. Start by lining five people across. Teach them to line five people across, and have them teach their five people. So everyone is working with five people, just like traditional business. Only now, anybody who has desire and the ability to learn simple concepts has the ability to earn vast sums of money by exposing great products everyday and teaching others to do the same! And in time you will have a bigger sales force, all well managed and trained without the headaches of inventory, paperwork, computers, payroll, and staffing. You are an independent agent, all that is handled by the parent company. Once you have successfully trained five people, you go out and repeat the process again, you will have attrition, but are now multiplying, going wide and deep and just subtracting, not dividing when attrition occurs.
People ask me all the time what I do for a living and my reply is always, "I talk to people, and the more I talk, the more my business grows." It took IBM 40 years to reach One Billion Dollars per year. Some quality MLM organizations will have surpassed that mark in less than 7 years!
Getting Educated, Trained, Going Back To School
Signing an application and sitting back just will not cut it. You must be trained first. We train with our jobs. Or better yet, how about the airline pilot you are going to entrust with the job of flying you to your destination. We guess it would not matter to you if he were trained. Or the doctor, the lawyer, well you get the point. Like any business, you need to be trained. Actors and actresses rehearse, professional sports teams practice, and so should you.
Like a passion, be prepared at all times. Be ready. Like that hobby you are so well informed about. It took a lot of effort for you to learn what you did, right? It probably took quite a while to pick all that information up. Other than pure personal enjoyment, it probably cost you money. But yet some people are not willing to commit time to learn something new or have the patience to see it through, and we are talking your life here! Five, ten fifteen hours a week, that is all it takes. Consistency, every day, week, month. Commitment, just like you have with a job. People helping people. Your sponsor is helping you develop five people. You are doing the same with your five people and have those people do the same.
Simple Business Plan, show, try, tell, do. You need to, 1. Commit to your Network Marketing Business. 2. Use the companies great products. 3. Expose the products and opportunity to others. 4. Duplicate the above three things by teaching others to do the same.
"Help Other People Get What They Want And You Too Will Get What You Want."
Zig Ziglar
Word Of Mouth Advertising
You do it all the time. Now let us get paid for it. Do you ever go to a restaurant, enjoy it, and tell your friends about it? Or how about that movie you saw this past weekend, or the sale at you local store? Yes, you probably mentioned that too. Did you ever wonder how some hit movies make forty million dollars in a single weekend? Pretty amazing numbers when it takes a lot of seven dollars to equal forty million. Did you ever get a commission for doing that? How about a "thank you?" Not even something free? We are still waiting too.
The idea of Network Marketing is to pay you for your work. Any great company has great products that people use and enjoy so much that they tell their friends about it. These are products that are generally superior to that of anything available in the marketplace.
The power of Network Marketing is the multiplication and duplication of you. You earn money recommending people to try a product you are already using. In traditional business, companies spend huge amounts of money to get the work out. In Network Marketing, you are the advertising. The huge amount of money that went to advertising is no longer needed, so it goes to you.
It has been my experience that regardless of the quality of the program you are promoting, regardless of its commission plan, regardless of its free web page offer, regardless if its a "Ground Floor Opportunity" and regardless of anything else that is being promised, if you figure out the best way to duplicate your efforts, chances are you are going to succeed.
About the Author
Through years of research Joe Rispoli has put together the most relevant of free advertising resources for your home business! Visit his website to find out how to advertise your business for free. If you would like more on network marketing then see How Do You Succeed At Network Marketing?
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Characteristics of Successful Leading Practitioners
Characteristics of Successful Leading Practitioners
by Munish Dev Rathee
Based on the training and consulting I have done with practitioners across North America and the United Kingdom, I have identified the following three characteristics of successful Leading Practitioners. * Sturdy visibility and reliability amid high influence referral sources * Web sites that are client centered, easily navigate able, and highly noticeable on the internet * Have a status for creating a better client experience. How do you boost your visibility and credibility amongst referral sources so everyone who spends time in front of your target market can confidently and efficiently speak about you and your proficiency? You do this by making sure referral sources know who you are and what your expertise is. This requires that you have a distinctive value proposition and have recognized who the high influence referral sources are. Once you have your memo and know your top referral sources, your next step is to communicate your message to referral sources that could benefit from knowing about your proficiency and service. Your objective is to have referral sources know enough about you and your expertise so they can easily and confidently say to potential clients, "Let me give you the name of a specialist who can help you .... The following are three action steps you can take to increase your visibility and credibility among high influence referral sources: * Conclude your message: Provide transparency about what you do, who you do it for, the value you offer, and how you distinguish your services. * Explain your target market: Know the individuality of your best clients and referral sources so you have matched your core strengths and values with those of an alert market. * Spend time with quality referral sources who are consistently in front of your target market: 1. Set up 2-3 purposeful lunches a week - learn about referral sources' key goals and tell them your core message. 2. Stay in touch with referral sources by sending articles of interest. 3. Invite referral resources to events and trainings. 4. Send letters of introduction about your services; include your brochure or a brochure on collaborative practice. 5. Contact your clients' providers ( i.e., if you are a lawyer, contact clients' mental health professional and let him/her know about Collaborative Practice) 6. Congratulate referral sources who are in the news. 7. Set up interviews to study about referral sources' practice so you can develop your own professional network and refer your clients to the best professionals in your community. 8. Help your referral sources to be successful - bring as much value as you can to your referral sources. By spending the time identifying who your best referral sources are and then consistently doing the activities to strengthen those dealings, you will see a boost in class referrals and you will pull towards you advantageous clients who are a good fit for your services and expertise. The end result is more control over building a practice that you take pleasure in and brings important value to your clients.
About the Author
Munish Rathee working for Ferris consulting, the site provides consultancy for Law Firm Marketing.
by Munish Dev Rathee
Based on the training and consulting I have done with practitioners across North America and the United Kingdom, I have identified the following three characteristics of successful Leading Practitioners. * Sturdy visibility and reliability amid high influence referral sources * Web sites that are client centered, easily navigate able, and highly noticeable on the internet * Have a status for creating a better client experience. How do you boost your visibility and credibility amongst referral sources so everyone who spends time in front of your target market can confidently and efficiently speak about you and your proficiency? You do this by making sure referral sources know who you are and what your expertise is. This requires that you have a distinctive value proposition and have recognized who the high influence referral sources are. Once you have your memo and know your top referral sources, your next step is to communicate your message to referral sources that could benefit from knowing about your proficiency and service. Your objective is to have referral sources know enough about you and your expertise so they can easily and confidently say to potential clients, "Let me give you the name of a specialist who can help you .... The following are three action steps you can take to increase your visibility and credibility among high influence referral sources: * Conclude your message: Provide transparency about what you do, who you do it for, the value you offer, and how you distinguish your services. * Explain your target market: Know the individuality of your best clients and referral sources so you have matched your core strengths and values with those of an alert market. * Spend time with quality referral sources who are consistently in front of your target market: 1. Set up 2-3 purposeful lunches a week - learn about referral sources' key goals and tell them your core message. 2. Stay in touch with referral sources by sending articles of interest. 3. Invite referral resources to events and trainings. 4. Send letters of introduction about your services; include your brochure or a brochure on collaborative practice. 5. Contact your clients' providers ( i.e., if you are a lawyer, contact clients' mental health professional and let him/her know about Collaborative Practice) 6. Congratulate referral sources who are in the news. 7. Set up interviews to study about referral sources' practice so you can develop your own professional network and refer your clients to the best professionals in your community. 8. Help your referral sources to be successful - bring as much value as you can to your referral sources. By spending the time identifying who your best referral sources are and then consistently doing the activities to strengthen those dealings, you will see a boost in class referrals and you will pull towards you advantageous clients who are a good fit for your services and expertise. The end result is more control over building a practice that you take pleasure in and brings important value to your clients.
About the Author
Munish Rathee working for Ferris consulting, the site provides consultancy for Law Firm Marketing.
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