ONLINE MARKETING?

One more piece of exciting news … I get questions all the time about marketing online. STE does have specific rules about what you can and cannot do online, so be sure to read that information in your back office. But you CAN generate leads online, and now I have an exclusive FREE resource for you to learn how. Claim your FREE membership to the Traffic Plan tonight at http://vur.me/s/setraf. At the Traffic Plan you can learn how to market yourself with online tutorials and training. You can also supplement your income with free affiliate marketing plans, earning income without cost or obligation to you. This is an excellent resource for your business, start learning today.

SHOPTOEARN WILL PAY YOU $1,000 IN JULY! DON’T MISS OUT.

Hi everyone.
Wow, am I excited! I hope you were on the STE webinar tonight and heard all the exciting news about the new platform rolling out tomorrow. If you didn’t, here is a brief recap:
First, starting tomorrow, you will find a very enhanced ShopToEarth lineup of products. Over 10,000 new products from 300 retailers will be added to the ShopToEarth store tomorrow, July 1. This is tremendous news! I can hardly wait to dig through the site and see all the new products.
In addition, a whole new web platform will be up and running at 12:01 AM tonight! This is going to bring several enhancements to the site, and make it easier to navigate and find the products you want.
Even better, shipping (for orders under $167) will now be a flat rate of just $10.99 per order. Buying 72 gallons of laundry detergent? Still, just $10.99. Of course, orders over $167 will still receive FR EE shipping.
The new point rollover rules will be in effect tomorrow as well, so in the coming months you will see higher volumes of ShopToEarth purchases being made from your referrals, and their referrals, so this will drive more point generation and profit for everyone. This is great news. And keep in mind that if you score just once every 6 months your monthly ShopToEarth purchases will be paid for (assuming $100 per month purchases on STEarth, a $600 score commission would pay for those purchases).
AND THE WINNER IS …
The best news is that in July YOU CAN QUALIFY FOR ANOTHER QUICK START BONUS! Yes, for anyone who was a broker or business builder prior to June 1, 2009, if you refer just 5 new brokers or website owners to the business you will receive a $500 bonus. Add this to the $500 Training bonuses you will receive ($100 per referral) you have just earned a cool $1,000 to pump up your summer fun! J
So, don’t delay! Everyone needs to set their sights on 5 referrals for July, and Frank and I are here to help you make that happen. Please give us a call right away so that we can help you develop a strategy for building your 5 referrals in July!

New Personal Website Launched

Hi,

I am thrilled to have launched a brand new website at http://www.richardfinnactor.com/. Watch this website for upcoming videos of recent performances, news, and future projects. Thanks for following my blogs.

Richard

EXCITING CHANGES COMING TO SHOPTOEARTH!

Hi, sorry for the delay in communications this last week or so, things have been busy. But there is news that you MUST know, so please read on!

If you did not already see the communication from ShopToEarn, they are making some exciting changes on their ShopToEarth platform. Chiefly, beginning July 1, 2009 they will be adding 300 new retailers and over 10,000 new products to ShopToEarth.

This is a very exciting change since, as many of you know, the ‘Earth’ side has had limited choices for some people.

Along with this change will be a requirement to now be generating $100 per month in ShopToEarth purchases, and be qualified (with 2 referred Owners or Brokers) in order to continue to roll over Score! points that you have previously earned. This will continue to help develop the business and build income for you and all of the people you have referred to ShopToEarn, while saving all of us money on our regular purchases.

The company also announced that all ShopToEarth shipments will be charged a flat rate shipping cost of just $10.99 (free shipping still applies to orders that exceed the minimum). This is another excellent development and exemplifies the company’s commitment to provide the best service at the lowest cost to their members.

For further information and/or clarification regarding these changes, read the full story on the STE Blog, or click the ‘News’ link in your back office; and don’t forget to explore the 10,000 new products beginning July 1.

Happy shopping!

Steps to Become a Millionaire; Step 2 - Set Your Focus

Continuing in our series, Steps to Become a Millionaire, today we look at focus. Step 1 in the process was to Tune Up Your Millionaire Mindset. Now that you are thinking straight, you also need to see clearly. Read on as we take you through the four steps to fixing your focus.

Your alarm goes off at six am, far too early, but you jump out of bed, already feeling the pressure of the day. You rush to fit in some breakfast as you get the kids' lunches ready and usher them out the door after a quick breakfast, already late for the bus. You pause momentarily to pray that they don't miss it because you don't have time to drive them to school before your eight-thirty meeting.

Traffic against you, your heart rate increases as you think about explaining to your boss why you are tardy for his all-important "re-alignment" meeting. You rush into the office and grab a quick cup of luke-warm coffee, no time to make a new pot. The meeting is fast-paced, and before you really have time to object you have three more projects with looming deadlines. A quick lunch in the building's cafeteria, and then to your desk where you juggle e-mail, catch up on the 3 projects already underway, handle a quick crisis with one of your field crews, and then dial in for your afternoon conference call.

You can't believe it is already four-thirty when one of your co-workers stops by your cubicle to chat about his ex-girlfriend's cousin's party last weekend, and you try not to offend but you don't have time for idle chatter. Your Blackberry is going off furiously as you dash for the car, hoping to have a few minutes to stop at the store before picking the kids up from their after-school activities so there will be something for dinner tonight.

The evening meal is a free-for-all and somehow you are left with the dish duty. You make time to help the kids with their homework, then try to catch up on some personal connections and a little online research for the next den meeting, and then you crash into bed, already worried about how to make it through tomorrow.

This may not be your exact story, but can you relate? If not, maybe you already have this step perfected. But if this resonated with you, read on, what you learn here today can make or break your ability to be successful and achieve your millionaire dreams.

Our problem today is distractions. You see, it is easy to allow yourself to get distracted amid the sea of responsibility that each of us shoulders. And some shoulder more than others! So how do you maintain a focus in this age of instant technology and information overload? How do you keep yourself from getting sucked into the grinder of "other people's priorities" and maintain a healthy balance in life?

Read the rest of this article here ...

Latest Examiner at Examiner.com

Hi,

Blogging tonight to tell you that yours truly has become the latest "Examiner" at Examiner.com. I will be reporting on the Sacramento and surrounding areas start-up business opportunities and developments. You can find my page at http://virl.ws/s/Examiner. Take a look, join, and add me to your favorites. If you like something I have written on please leave a positive comment.

Thanks, I look forward to seeing you there.

Richard

Do you Tweet? Online marketing is a must in today's market.

OK, after reading the title of this blog you may be asking yourself, "Do I what?"

But if you are, you may need to get with the times!

So I am going to be launching a series of blogs that will deal with all aspects of online marketing. And one of these tools is Twitter, if you haven't already heard of it, you likely will because there are millions of people using it. And one thing we know is that if you want to sell a product you need to go where the people are. So, if you have not yet been tweeting, might I suggest you start? Look for a blog coming up soon on tweeting.

There are a number of other good social networking tools out there as well, and all the major corporations are using them as well. Facebook, MySpace, Digg, Squidoo, Press Releases, Banner Marketing, Blogging, You Tube, Free Classifieds ... and the list goes on.

Don't overwhelm yourself with all of these at once ... pick one and master it, then move on to another. After a time you will have many under your belt and you will find that your leads are rolling in.

There is another important aspect to online marketing, and that is branding. So before you begin any of these strategies, you will need to figure out how you want to brand yourself. We will examine this process in the first blog of our series, set to premiere here this week.

Check back to this blog regularly so that you can find out how to take your online marketing to the next level.

The 10 Best Home Based Business Ideas (Online Businesses are Here to Stay)

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Don't Let 'Tomorrow' Ruin Your Business Today

Back in the days when I was employed by a corporation, trading hours for dollars and slaving away my existence, we used to have a phrase around the office. When you think about it, it was the ultimate "employee mentality" in the worst form. In fact, it was evidence of a deadly disease, corroding our very souls, and oozing out of our intellects, infecting everyone we came in contact with. The phrase we proudly (if not ignorantly) spouted was this: "Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow?"

Do you feel it? Did your skin crawl when you read that? Did the hair on the back of your neck stand up? Did your blood boil a little, and did you just want to shout, "NO!" and set me back to task?

If not, you, too, may be infected with this malady.

It is not uncommon. In fact, if you look closely I bet you will see the devastation of this despicable disorder everywhere you look! The indications of this infectious illness are all around us. The neighbor's yard piled high with junk and overgrown with weeds. Your coworker's office with papers everywhere. Your child's incomplete book report, the book only half read. And heaven forbid that I talk about the pot belly I have noticed that you have added in the five years since you last visited the gym. And all of these things crying out to be dealt with and completed ... QUICK!

But our universal condition often gets the best of us. Let's just call it what it is. We PROCRASTINATE. "I don't need to do it now, I can do it later. There is always tomorrow." Besides, we have better things to do, right? We have places to go, people to see, things to do. We're so busy. The kids have practice, the boss has yet another project, the TV has reruns!

And so, we go from day to day managing our lives on the perception that 'someday' we'll get to that. Someday I will learn to play the oboe. Someday I'll take my kids to the park they love to go to. Someday I will start my own business. And most of the time we manage a series of minor crises in our lives because we wait and wait until the last possible minute, and then hurry to complete what we should have started hours, or days, perhaps even weeks or months ago, all the while justifying it to ourselves by saying, "I work better under pressure." (The Zoloft prescription helps a little, too.)

Read the rest of this article here.

Direct Sales is Optimum Business Opportunity

Good Wednesday to you all! If you did not see this on the ShopToEarn Blog, I thought I would share it with you!
Last month USA Today published an article demonstrating the recession-proof nature of the direct sales industry (including ShopToEarn!) and how in this economy more and more people are either turning to home-based direct sales companies, or joining them to supplement their income. The article indicates that several companies it looked at had seen large surges in their sales force over the last several months to a year, and many of them were stepping up their efforts to get the word out to potential members.
In addition to people out of work and those looking to supplement their income, the article goes on to report how many retirees are also joining the ranks of direct sales representatives. Many retirees are finding that pensions and/or Social Security income is simply not enough to meet the expenses of these tough economic conditions, and thus are re-entering the workforce, not as employees, but as entrepreneurs with their own home-based businesses.
You can read the entire article on the USA Today website.
And why do I bother to share this with you today? Only to state that you could not have picked a better time to be involved in the Direct Sales Industry; and, in fact, you could not have chosen a better company than Shop To Earn. While most of the companies covered in the USA Today article require their representatives to peddle a product (such as a vitamin line, skin care products, candles, etc.), and almost all of them require them to also carry (and pay for) an inventory of these products, ShopToEarn does not! There is no inventory, no required product, no paperwork, no hassle, and it is so affordable that almost anyone can easily get started. Simply introduce people to the web portal where they can access now more than 800 popular retailers (such as Target, Toys R Us, Barnes and Noble, and so many more), and where they can shop from the comfort of their own home, save money and get paid a rebate on every purchase!! It could not be easier.

Welcome

Welcome to the Shopping Evolution Blog - this is the first blog ever. This site will be used to post information for all of our network affiliates as well as those who just wish to follow us. Here you will find valuable information regarding our business, and how to better build your own business to attract people to your network. The bottom line is, you have to have something to offer before they will follow you ... but once you become an indespensible asset to them, they will follow. We hope you will find this blog to be an indespensible asset as we bring you the latest news and information to better equip you to earn 6 figures plus on the internet!